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This code covers a wide range of organic pigments, dyes, coloring matter, and preparations used to color various materials, as well as paints and varnishes. It’s essential for classifying these products for import/export purposes, determining the correct duty rates, and ensuring proper placement within the Harmonized System's tariff schedule.

Detailed information for HTS Code 3204.17.90

This section of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule covers tanning, dyeing extracts, dyes, pigments, paints, and related products. Code 3204 specifically addresses synthetic organic coloring matter, whether or not containing an inorganic pigment, and preparations based on it. Numerous subdivisions exist within 3204, each detailing a specific colorant or pigment preparation, often distinguishing between the pure substance and preparations—statistical suffixes further specify the precise chemical composition, so select the suffix that most accurately reflects the product's constituents. These detailed codes enable accurate tracking of imports and exports within the diverse realm of coloring materials.

Chapter	Chapter 32 - Tanning or dyeing extracts; dyes, pigments, paints, varnishes, putty and mastics
Section	Section VI - Products of the Chemical or Allied Industries

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General Duty

6.50%

Standard trade partners (NTR)

Special Duty

Free (A+,AU,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL,JO,KR,L,MA,OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG)

Eligible FTA or preference programs

The general duty rate for heading 3204 is 6.6% ad valorem. No specific Free Trade Agreement (FTA) rates are listed for this heading or its subdivisions. This means the 6.6% duty applies to all goods falling under 3204 and its detailed subdivisions (like 3204.11.10, 3204.12.20, etc.). Quantities are generally specified in kilograms (kg) or liters (L) depending on the form of the coloring matter or preparation, though this is not explicitly stated at the heading level, and would be determined by specific statistical reporting requirements for each subdivision. It is not specified if there are any other duties, taxes, or fees associated with these goods.

Rate of Duty (Column 2): 72%

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Code subdivisions

3204.17.90.02

Synthetic organic coloring matter, whether or not chemically defined; preparations as specified in note 3 to this chapter based on synthetic organic coloring matter; synthetic organic products of a kind used as fluorescent brightening agents or as luminophores, whether or not chemically defined: > Synthetic organic coloring matter and preparations based thereon as specified in note 3 to this chapter: > Pigments and preparations based thereon: > Other: > Other > Pigment blue 15:3, dry, presscake or aqueous slurry

3204.17.90.03

3204.17.90.06

3204.17.90.10

3204.17.90.15

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3204.17.90.19

3204.17.90.21

3204.17.90.25

3204.17.90.30

3204.17.90.35

3204.17.90.40

3204.17.90.46

3204.17.90.47

3204.17.90.50

3204.17.90.55

3204.17.90.60

3204.17.90.86

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Chapter & section notes

Chapter notes

Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States Revision 29 (2025) Annotated for Statistical Reporting Purposes CHAPTER 32 TANNING OR DYEING EXTRACTS; TANNINS AND THEIR DERIVATIVES; DYES, PIGMENTS AND OTHER COLORING MATTER; PAINTS AND VARNISHES; PUTTY AND OTHER MASTICS; INKS VI 32-1 Notes 1. This chapter does not cover: (a) Separate chemically defined elements or compounds (except those of heading 3203 or 3204, inorganic products of a kind used as luminophores (heading 3206), glass obtained from fused quartz or other fused silica in the forms provided for in heading 3207, and also dyes and other coloring matter put up in forms or packings for retail sale, of heading 3212); (b) Tannates or other tannin derivatives of products of headings 2936 to 2939, 2941 or 3501 to 3504; or (c) Mastics of asphalt or other bituminous mastics (heading 2715). 2. Heading 3204 includes mixtures of stabilized diazonium salts and couplers for the production of azo dyes. 3. Headings 3203, 3204, 3205 and 3206 apply also to preparations based on coloring matter (including, in the case of heading 3206, coloring pigments of heading 2530 or chapter 28, metal flakes and metal powders), of a kind used for coloring any material or used as ingredients in the manufacture of coloring preparations.The headings do not apply, however, to pigments dispersed in nonaqueous media, in liquid or paste form, of a kind used in the manufacture of paints, including enamels (heading 3212), or to other preparations of heading 3207, 3208, 3209, 3210, 3212, 3213 or 3215. 4. Heading 3208 includes solutions (other than collodions) consisting of any of the products specified in headings 3901 to 3913 in volatile organic solvents when the weight of the solvent exceeds 50 percent of the weight of the solution. 5. The expression "coloring matter" in this chapter does not include products of a kind used as extenders in oil paints, whether or not they are also suitable for coloring distempers. 6. The expression "stamping foils" in heading 3212 applies only to thin sheets of a kind used for printing, for example, book covers or hat bands, and consisting of-- (a) Metallic powder (including powder of precious metal) or pigment, agglomerated with glue, gelatin or other binder; or (b) Metal (including precious metal) or pigment, deposited on a supporting sheet of any material. Additional U.S. Note 1. For the purposes of subheadings 3204.11.10, 3204.12.20 and 3204.16.20, the term "dyes containing, by weight" means those products which contain as the only dye components, the specified components listed therewith, each of which must be present in the product. A tolerance of plus or minus two percentage points from the named percentages is allowable. Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States Revision 29 (2025) Annotated for Statistical Reporting Purposes VI 32-2

Section notes

SECTION VI PRODUCTS OF THE CHEMICAL OR ALLIED INDUSTRIES VI-1 Notes 1. (a) Goods (other than radioactive ores) answering to a description in heading 2844 or 2845 are to be classified in those headings and in no other heading of the tariff schedule. (b) Subject to paragraph (a) above, goods answering to a description in heading 2843, 2846 or 2852 are to be classified in those headings and in no other heading of this section. 2. Subject to note 1 above, goods classifiable in heading 3004, 3005, 3006, 3212, 3303, 3304, 3305, 3306, 3307, 3506, 3707 or 3808 by reason of being put up in measured doses or for retail sale are to be classified in those headings and in no other heading of the tariff schedule. 3. Goods put up in sets consisting of two or more separate constituents, some or all of which fall in this section and are intended to be mixed together to obtain a product of section VI or VII, are to be classified in the heading appropriate to that product, provided that the constituents are: (a) Having regard to the manner in which they are put up, clearly identifiable as being intended to be used together without first being repacked; (b) Entered together; and (c) Identifiable, whether by their nature or by the relative proportions in which they are present, as being complementary one to another. 4. Where a product answers to a description in one or more of the headings in section VI by virtue of being described by name or function and also to heading 3827, then it is classifiable in a heading that references the product by name or function and not under heading 3827. Additional U.S. Notes 1. In determining the amount of duty applicable to a solution of a single compound in water subject to duty in this section at a specific rate, an allowance in weight or volume, as the case may be, shall be made for the water in excess of any water of crystallization which may be present in the undissolved compound. 2. For the purposes of the tariff schedule: (a) The term "aromatic" as applied to any chemical compound refers to such compound containing one or more fused or unfused benzene rings; (b) The term "modified aromatic" describes a molecular structure having at least one six-membered heterocyclic ring which contains at least four carbon atoms and having an arrangement of molecular bonds as in the benzene ring or in the quinone ring, but does not include any such molecular structure in which one or more pyrimidine rings are the only modified aromatic rings present; (c) For the purposes of headings 2902, 2907 and 3817, the term "alkyl" describes any saturated acyclic hydrocarbon group having six or more carbon atoms or, subject to note 1 to

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