3401

Analysis

Heading 3401 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule covers soap; organic surface-active products and preparations for use as soap, in the form of bars, cakes, molded pieces or shapes, whether or not containing soap; organic surface-active products and preparations for washing…. It divides into 4 six-digit subheadings and 6 eight-digit tariff lines, with 6 ten-digit statistical suffixes below them.

5 of its 6 lines with a percentage rate are duty-free at the general rate (83%) and 1 are dutiable, from duty-free up to 4%. The median line pays duty-free.

Its median rate of duty-free sits at the 21st percentile of the headings in chapter 34.

The largest subheadings are 3401.11 (for toilet use (including medicated products), 2 lines), 3401.30 (organic surface-active products and preparations…, 2 lines), 3401.19 (unnamed, 1 line) and 3401.20 (unnamed, 1 line).

By Census's concordance, most of its statistical lines are made by Soap and Other Detergent Manufacturing (325611) and Surface Active Agent Manufacturing (325613). Those are the NAICS industries a US producer of these goods would report under.