What does HTS Chapter 32 cover?

Chapter 32 of the U.S. Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTSUS) covers Tanning or dyeing extracts; tannins and their derivatives; dyes, pigments and other coloring matter; paints and varnishes; putty and other mastics; inks. It sits within Section VI: Products of the Chemical or Allied Industries. Tandom's catalog lists all 168 10-digit statistical lines and 11 4-digit headings in this chapter.

What is the typical U.S. duty rate for Chapter 32 imports?

General (Column 1) duty rates for ad-valorem lines range from 1.3% to 6.5% (median 6.5%); roughly 13% of lines enter duty-free. Use the calculator linked from each code page to build a date- and origin-specific import-duty estimate, including applicable Chapter 99 layers and customs fees. Potential AD/CVD exposure is flagged separately and is not included in the estimate.

How are Section 301 and Section 232 measures represented in the HTSUS?

Section 301 and Section 232 measures are represented by Chapter 99 provisions. A catalog link between a provision and a 10-digit line is a screening flag, not a claim that the measure applies; origin, product and material facts, claims, and entry date control the result.

How do I screen for antidumping or countervailing duty (AD/CVD) when using Chapter 32?

AD/CVD orders are issued at the case level by the Department of Commerce against specific products from specific countries. Use the product's base HTS code to find potentially relevant AD/CVD order flags, then read the written order scope; an HTS match alone does not determine coverage.

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Section VI: Products of the Chemical or Allied Industries

Chapter 32: Tanning or dyeing extracts; tannins and their derivatives; dyes, pigments and other coloring matter; paints and varnishes; putty and other mastics; inks

Chapter 32 of the U.S. Harmonized Tariff Schedule covers Tanning or dyeing extracts; tannins and their derivatives; dyes, pigments and other coloring matter; paints and varnishes; putty and other mastics; inks and sits within Section VI: Products of the Chemical or Allied Industries.

About Chapter 32

Chapter 32 contains 168 10-digit statistical lines grouped under 11 4-digit headings. Brokers, importers, and customs counsel use these codes to declare tanning or dyeing extracts; tannins and their derivatives; dyes, pigments and other coloring matter; paints and varnishes; putty and other mastics; inks on entry summaries (CBP Form 7501) and to look up the published Column 1, Special, and Column 2 rate notation.

General (Column 1) duty rates for ad-valorem lines in Chapter 32 range from 1.3% to 6.5%, with a median of 6.5%. About 13% of the chapter's lines (22 of 168) enter duty-free under the general rate. Special-rate notation (including USMCA, KORUS, AGOA, and GSP when authorized) and Chapter 99 measures can modify these base rates for qualifying shipments.

Product-code pages link into the Tandom Tariff Calculator with the base HTS code prefilled. Chapter 99 provision pages instead show mapped base codes and send you to a dated calculator scenario, which determines whether a measure applies from the entry facts. Tandom's data refreshes daily from USITC HTSUS, CBP CSMS, the Federal Register, and the Department of Commerce — the same authoritative sources the trade community files against.

Code	Description	General	Column 2	Special	Units
3201.10.00.00	Quebracho extract	Free	Free	—	kg
3201.20.00.00	Wattle extract	Free	Free	—	kg
3201.90	Other:	—	—	—	—
3201.90.10.00	·Tannic acid, containing by weight 50 percent or more of tannic acid	1.5%	8%	Free (A,AU,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL,JO,KR,MA,OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG)	kg
3201.90.25.00	·Extracts of canaigre, chestnut, curupay, divi-divi, eucalyptus, gambier, hemlock, larch, mangrove, myrobalan, oak, sumac, tara, urunday or valonia	Free	Free	—	kg
3201.90.50.00	·Other	3.1%	15%	Free (A,AU,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL,JO,KR,MA,OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG)	kg

Code	Description	General	Column 2	Special	Units
3206.11.00.00	·Containing 80 percent or more by weight of titanium dioxide calculated on the dry matter	6%	30%	Free (A,AU,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL,JO,KR,MA,OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG)	kg
3206.19.00.00	Other

Code	Description	General	Column 2	Special	Units
3207.10.00.00	Prepared pigments, prepared opacifiers, prepared colors and similar preparations	3.1%	25%	Free (A,AU,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL,JO,KR,MA,OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG)	kg
3207.20.00.00

Code	Description	General	Column 2	Special	Units
3208.10.00.00	Based on polyesters	3.7%	15.4¢/kg +46%	Free (A,AU,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL,JO,KR,MA,OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG)	liters, kg
3208.20.00.00	Based on acrylic or vinyl polymers

Code	Description	General	Column 2	Special	Units
3209.10.00.00	Based on acrylic or vinyl polymers	5.1%	25%	Free (A,AU,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL,JO,KR,MA,OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG)	liters, kg
3209.90.00.00	Other	5.9%

Chapter 32: Tanning or dyeing extracts; tannins and their derivatives; dyes, pigments and other coloring matter; paints and varnishes; putty and other mastics; inks

`3201`Tanning extracts of vegetable origin; tannins and their salts, ethers, esters and other derivatives:

`3202`Synthetic organic tanning substances; inorganic tanning substances; tanning preparations, whether or not containing natural tanning substances; enzymatic preparations for pre-tanning:

`3203`

`3205`

`3206`Other coloring matter; preparations as specified in note 3 to this chapter, other than those of heading 3203, 3204 or 3205; inorganic products of a kind used as luminophores, whether or not chemically defined:

`3207`Prepared pigments, prepared opacifiers and prepared colors, vitrifiable enamels and glazes, engobes (slips), liquid lustres and similar preparations, of a kind used in the ceramic, enamelling or glass industry; glass frit and other glass, in the form of powder, granules or flakes:

`3208`Paints and varnishes (including enamels and lacquers) based on synthetic polymers or chemically modified natural polymers, dispersed or dissolved in a nonaqueous medium; solutions as defined in note 4 to this chapter:

`3209`Paints and varnishes (including enamels and lacquers) based on synthetic polymers or chemically modified natural polymers, dispersed or dissolved in an aqueous medium:

`3210`Other paints and varnishes (including enamels, lacquers and distempers); prepared water pigments of a kind used for finishing leather

`3211`Prepared driers

`3212`Pigments (including metallic powders and flakes) dispersed in nonaqueous media, in liquid or paste form, of a kind used in the manufacture of paints (including enamels); stamping foils; dyes and other coloring matter put up in forms or packings for retail sale:

`3213`Artists', students' or signboard painters' colors, modifying tints, amusement colors and the like, in tablets, tubes, jars, bottles, pans or in similar forms or packings:

`3214`Glaziers' putty, grafting putty, resin cements, caulking compounds and other mastics; painters' fillings; nonrefractory surfacing preparations for facades, indoor walls, floors, ceilings or the like:

`3215`Printing ink, writing or drawing ink and other inks, whether or not concentrated or solid:

Frequently asked questions

What does HTS Chapter 32 cover?

What is the typical U.S. duty rate for Chapter 32 imports?

How are Section 301 and Section 232 measures represented in the HTSUS?

How do I screen for antidumping or countervailing duty (AD/CVD) when using Chapter 32?

Code	Description	General	Column 2	Special	Units
3202.10	Synthetic organic tanning substances:	—	—	—	—
3202.10.10.00	·Aromatic or modified aromatic	6.5%

Code	Description	General	Column 2	Special	Units
3203.00	Coloring matter of vegetable or animal origin (including dyeing extracts but excluding animal black), whether or not chemically defined; preparations as specified in note 3 to this chapter based on coloring matter of vegetable or animal origin:	—	—	—	—
3203.00.10.00	Annato, archil, cochineal, cudbear, litmus, logwood and marigold meal

Code	Description	General	Column 2	Special	Units
3204.11	·Disperse dyes and preparations based thereon:	—	—	—	—
3204.11.10.00	Disperse blue 19, 26, 26:1, 35, 55, 56, 58, 72, 73, 79, 83, 84, 93, 95, 122, 125, 126, 128, 148, 154, 165, 180, 183, 185, 200, 284, 285, 288, 289, 295, 296; Disperse brown 19; Disperse green 9; Disperse orange 7, 13, 20, 31, 32, 42, 47, 48, 54, 56, 60, 63, 70, 80, 96, 127, 137, 139; Disperse red 44, 46, 72, 73, 90, 93, 107, 118, 121, 122, 131, 133, 134,151, 169, 184, 185, 202, 203, 224, 277, 278, 279, 282, 288, 303, 310; Disperse violet 23, 33, 35, 48, 57, 63; Disperse yellow 13, 44, 58, 63, 65, 82, 85, 91, 107, 119, 122, 124, 126, 139, 182, 183, 184, 202, 204; Dyes containing, by weight-- 12.7 percent Disperse Yellow 1, 32.3 percent Disperse Orange 1, 19.8 percent Disperse Blue 35, and 35.2 percent Disperse Blue 3; Dyes containing, by weight-- 39.0 percent Disperse Yellow 39, 28.0 percent Disperse Orange 25, and 33.0 percent Disperse Violet 27; Dyes containing, by weight-- 89.4 percent Disperse Violet 27, and 10.6 percent Disperse Green 9; Dyes containing, by weight-- 67.7 percent Disperse Blue 35, 14.2 percent Disperse Yellow 1, and 18.1 percent Disperse Orange 1; Dyes containing, by weight-- 74.3 percent Disperse Blue 285, 18.0 percent Disperse Brown 19, and 7.7 percent Disperse Yellow 126

Code	Description	General	Column 2	Special	Units
3205.00	Color lakes; preparations as specified in note 3 to this chapter based on color lakes:	—	—	—	—
3205.00.05.00	·Food coloring solutions, containing cochineal carmine lake and paprika oleo resins, but not including any synthetic organic coloring matter

Code	Description	General	Column 2	Special	Units
3212.10.00.00	Stamping foils	4.7%	20%	Free (A,AU,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL,JO,KR,MA,OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG)	m2
3212.90.00	Other	3.1%

Code	Description	General	Column 2	Special	Units
3213.10.00.00	Colors in sets	6.5% on the entire set	70% on the entire set	Free (A,AU,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL,JO,KR,MA,OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG)	pcs
3213.90.00.00	Other	3.4%

Code	Description	General	Column 2	Special	Units
3214.10.00	Glazier's putty, grafting putty, resin cements, caulking compounds and other mastics; painters' fillings	3.7%	20%	Free (A,AU,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL,JO,KR,MA,OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG)	—
3214.10.00.10	Caulking compounds

Code	Description	General	Column 2	Special	Units
3215.11	·Black:	—	—	—	—
3215.11.10.00	···In engineered shapes, for insertion into apparatus of subheadings 8443.31, 8443.32 or 8443.39	Free

3201Tanning extracts of vegetable origin; tannins and their salts, ethers, esters and other derivatives:

3202Synthetic organic tanning substances; inorganic tanning substances; tanning preparations, whether or not containing natural tanning substances; enzymatic preparations for pre-tanning:

3203

3205

3206Other coloring matter; preparations as specified in note 3 to this chapter, other than those of heading 3203, 3204 or 3205; inorganic products of a kind used as luminophores, whether or not chemically defined:

3207Prepared pigments, prepared opacifiers and prepared colors, vitrifiable enamels and glazes, engobes (slips), liquid lustres and similar preparations, of a kind used in the ceramic, enamelling or glass industry; glass frit and other glass, in the form of powder, granules or flakes:

3208Paints and varnishes (including enamels and lacquers) based on synthetic polymers or chemically modified natural polymers, dispersed or dissolved in a nonaqueous medium; solutions as defined in note 4 to this chapter:

3209Paints and varnishes (including enamels and lacquers) based on synthetic polymers or chemically modified natural polymers, dispersed or dissolved in an aqueous medium:

3210Other paints and varnishes (including enamels, lacquers and distempers); prepared water pigments of a kind used for finishing leather

3211Prepared driers

3212Pigments (including metallic powders and flakes) dispersed in nonaqueous media, in liquid or paste form, of a kind used in the manufacture of paints (including enamels); stamping foils; dyes and other coloring matter put up in forms or packings for retail sale:

3213Artists', students' or signboard painters' colors, modifying tints, amusement colors and the like, in tablets, tubes, jars, bottles, pans or in similar forms or packings:

3214Glaziers' putty, grafting putty, resin cements, caulking compounds and other mastics; painters' fillings; nonrefractory surfacing preparations for facades, indoor walls, floors, ceilings or the like:

3215Printing ink, writing or drawing ink and other inks, whether or not concentrated or solid:

Frequently asked questions

What does HTS Chapter 32 cover?

What is the typical U.S. duty rate for Chapter 32 imports?

How are Section 301 and Section 232 measures represented in the HTSUS?

How do I screen for antidumping or countervailing duty (AD/CVD) when using Chapter 32?

`3201`Tanning extracts of vegetable origin; tannins and their salts, ethers, esters and other derivatives:

`3202`Synthetic organic tanning substances; inorganic tanning substances; tanning preparations, whether or not containing natural tanning substances; enzymatic preparations for pre-tanning:

`3203`

`3205`

`3206`Other coloring matter; preparations as specified in note 3 to this chapter, other than those of heading 3203, 3204 or 3205; inorganic products of a kind used as luminophores, whether or not chemically defined:

`3207`Prepared pigments, prepared opacifiers and prepared colors, vitrifiable enamels and glazes, engobes (slips), liquid lustres and similar preparations, of a kind used in the ceramic, enamelling or glass industry; glass frit and other glass, in the form of powder, granules or flakes:

`3208`Paints and varnishes (including enamels and lacquers) based on synthetic polymers or chemically modified natural polymers, dispersed or dissolved in a nonaqueous medium; solutions as defined in note 4 to this chapter:

`3209`Paints and varnishes (including enamels and lacquers) based on synthetic polymers or chemically modified natural polymers, dispersed or dissolved in an aqueous medium:

`3210`Other paints and varnishes (including enamels, lacquers and distempers); prepared water pigments of a kind used for finishing leather

`3211`Prepared driers

`3212`Pigments (including metallic powders and flakes) dispersed in nonaqueous media, in liquid or paste form, of a kind used in the manufacture of paints (including enamels); stamping foils; dyes and other coloring matter put up in forms or packings for retail sale:

`3213`Artists', students' or signboard painters' colors, modifying tints, amusement colors and the like, in tablets, tubes, jars, bottles, pans or in similar forms or packings:

`3214`Glaziers' putty, grafting putty, resin cements, caulking compounds and other mastics; painters' fillings; nonrefractory surfacing preparations for facades, indoor walls, floors, ceilings or the like:

`3215`Printing ink, writing or drawing ink and other inks, whether or not concentrated or solid: