HS code 3209: Paints and varnishes (including enamels and lacquers) based on…
Paints and varnishes (including enamels and lacquers) based on synthetic or chemically modified natural polymers, dispersed or dissolved in an aqueous medium — heading 3209 of the Harmonized System (HS 2022).
Chapter 32: Tanning or dyeing extracts; tannins and their derivatives; dyes, pigments and other colouring matter; paints, varnishes; putty, other mastics; inks
Subheadings of 3209 (6 digits)
- Paints and varnishes; based on acrylic or vinyl polymers, dispersed or dissolved in an aqueous medium
- Paints and varnishes; (based on polymers other than acrylic or vinyl), dispersed or dissolved in an aqueous medium
Pick the subheading that describes your product. A subheading marked “n.e.c.” (not elsewhere classified) or “other” covers only what the subheadings before it do not. Click a code to copy it.
Common products under 3209
Confirm the full code and the duty rate
The first 6 digits are the same in every country that uses HS 2022. Each country adds 2–4 more digits and sets the duty in its own tariff, and the section and chapter notes can include or exclude products, so check the destination’s official tariff before you put the code on the invoice.
Other headings in chapter 32
- 3201 Tanning extracts of vegetable origin; tannins and their salts, ethers, esters and other derivatives
- 3202 Tanning substances; synthetic organic or inorganic tanning substances; tanning preparations, whether or not…
- 3203 Colouring matter of vegetable or animal origin (including dyeing extracts, not animal black); whether or not…
- 3204 Synthetic organic colouring matter and preparations based thereon; synthetic organic products used as…
- 3205 Colour lakes; preparations based on colour lakes as specified in note 3 to this chapter
- 3206 Colouring matter and preparations thereof n.e.c. in heading no. 3203, 3204, 3205; inorganic products, kind…
- 3207 Pigments, prepared; opacifiers, colours, vitrifiable enamels, glazes, engobes (slips), liquid lustres etc as…
- 3208 Paints, varnishes; (enamels and lacquers) based on synthetic polymers or chemically modified natural…
- 3210 Paints and varnishes (including enamels, lacquers and distempers), excluding those of heading no. 3209…
- 3211 Driers; prepared
- 3212 Pigments (metallic powders and flakes) dispersed in non-aqueous media in liquid or paste form, as used in…
- 3213 Colours; artists, students, or signboard painters, modifying tints, amusement colours and the like; in…
- 3214 Glaziers' putty, grafting putty, resin cements, caulking compounds and other mastics; painters' fillings…
- 3215 Ink; printing, writing or drawing ink and other inks; whether or not concentrated or solid
Source: HS 2022 nomenclature, 6-digit level (UN Comtrade). Descriptions are in English, as in the official nomenclature. Digits after the 6th differ by country.
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Common questions
What is HS code 3209?
3209 is the HS 2022 heading for Paints and varnishes (including enamels and lacquers) based on synthetic or chemically modified natural polymers, dispersed or dissolved in an aqueous medium. It is in chapter 32 (Tanning or dyeing extracts; tannins and their derivatives; dyes, pigments and other colouring matter; paints, varnishes; putty, other mastics; inks), section VI, and has 2 six-digit subheadings, from 3209.10 to 3209.90.
Can I write 3209 on a commercial invoice?
Customs usually need at least the 6-digit subheading (for example 3209.10), and the import declaration uses the destination country’s full code of 8 to 10 digits. Use the subheading that matches your product, and confirm the national digits with the buyer, the customs broker or the official tariff.
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