# HS heading 38.08: Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, anti-sprouting products and plant-growth regulators, disinfectants and similar products, put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles (for example, sulphur-treated bands, wicks and candles, and fly-papers) > HS heading 38.08 covers insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, anti-sprouting products and plant-growth regulators, disinfectants and similar products, put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles (for example, sulphur-treated bands, wicks and candles, and fly-papers). It is in chapter 38 (miscellaneous chemical products). It is split into 10 subheadings: 3808.52 (goods specified in subheading note 1 to this chapter, DDT (ISO) (clofenotane (INN)), in packings of a net weight content not exceeding 300g), 3808.59 (goods specified in subheading note 1 to this chapter, other), 3808.61 (goods specified in subheading note 2 to this chapter, in packings of a net weight content not exceeding 300g), 3808.62 (goods specified in subheading note 2 to this chapter, in packings of a net weight content exceeding 300g but not exceeding 7.5kg), 3808.69 (goods specified in subheading note 2 to this chapter, other), 3808.91 (other, insecticides) and 4 others. National tariff lines under heading 38.08 are live on border.bot for the United States (38 lines, also used by 1 other country). Source: https://border.bot/hs-codes/3808 Last updated: 11 October 2026 [HS codes](https://border.bot/hs-codes) / [Chapter 38](https://border.bot/hs-codes/38) / [38.08](https://border.bot/hs-codes/3808) ## Key facts - Heading: 38.08 - Description: Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, anti-sprouting products and plant-growth regulators, disinfectants and similar products, put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles (for example, sulphur-treated bands, wicks and candles, and fly-papers) - Chapter: 38: Miscellaneous chemical products - Subheadings: 10 - Edition: HS2022 ## What this code covers HS heading 38.08 covers insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, anti-sprouting products and plant-growth regulators, disinfectants and similar products, put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles (for example, sulphur-treated bands, wicks and candles, and fly-papers). It is split into 10 subheadings: 3808.52 (goods specified in subheading note 1 to this chapter, DDT (ISO) (clofenotane (INN)), in packings of a net weight content not exceeding 300g), 3808.59 (goods specified in subheading note 1 to this chapter, other), 3808.61 (goods specified in subheading note 2 to this chapter, in packings of a net weight content not exceeding 300g), 3808.62 (goods specified in subheading note 2 to this chapter, in packings of a net weight content exceeding 300g but not exceeding 7.5kg), 3808.69 (goods specified in subheading note 2 to this chapter, other), 3808.91 (other, insecticides) and 4 others. - [3808.52](https://border.bot/hs-codes/380852) Goods specified in subheading note 1 to this chapter: DDT (ISO) (clofenotane (INN)), in packings of a net weight content not exceeding 300g - [3808.59](https://border.bot/hs-codes/380859) Goods specified in subheading note 1 to this chapter: Other - [3808.61](https://border.bot/hs-codes/380861) Goods specified in subheading note 2 to this chapter: In packings of a net weight content not exceeding 300g - [3808.62](https://border.bot/hs-codes/380862) Goods specified in subheading note 2 to this chapter: In packings of a net weight content exceeding 300g but not exceeding 7.5kg - [3808.69](https://border.bot/hs-codes/380869) Goods specified in subheading note 2 to this chapter: Other - [3808.91](https://border.bot/hs-codes/380891) Other: Insecticides - [3808.92](https://border.bot/hs-codes/380892) Other: Fungicides - [3808.93](https://border.bot/hs-codes/380893) Other: Herbicides, anti-sprouting products and plant-growth regulators - [3808.94](https://border.bot/hs-codes/380894) Other: Disinfectants - [3808.99](https://border.bot/hs-codes/380899) Other: Other ## What it doesn’t cover Other goods of chapter 38 are classified in its other 26 headings, listed below. - [38.01](https://border.bot/hs-codes/3801) Artificial graphite; colloidal or semi-colloidal graphite; preparations based on graphite or other carbon in the form of pastes, blocks, plates or other semi-manufactures - [38.02](https://border.bot/hs-codes/3802) Activated carbon; activated natural mineral products; animal black, including spent animal black - [38.03](https://border.bot/hs-codes/3803) Tall oil, whether or not refined - [38.04](https://border.bot/hs-codes/3804) Residual lyes from the manufacture of wood pulp, whether or not concentrated, desugared or chemically treated, including lignin sulphonates, but excluding tall oil of heading 38.03 - [38.05](https://border.bot/hs-codes/3805) Gum, wood or sulphate turpentine and other terpenic oils produced by the distillation or other treatment of coniferous woods; crude dipentene; sulphite turpentine and other crude para-cymene; pine oil containing alpha-terpineol as the main constituent - [38.06](https://border.bot/hs-codes/3806) Rosin and resin acids, and derivatives thereof; rosin spirit and rosin oils; run gums - [38.07](https://border.bot/hs-codes/3807) Wood tar; wood tar oils; wood creosote; wood naphtha; vegetable pitch; brewers' pitch and similar preparations based on rosin, resin acids or on vegetable pitch - [38.09](https://border.bot/hs-codes/3809) Finishing agents, dye carriers to accelerate the dyeing or fixing of dyestuffs and other products and preparations (for example, dressings and mordants), of a kind used in the textile, paper, leather or like industries, not elsewhere specified or included - [38.10](https://border.bot/hs-codes/3810) Pickling preparations for metal surfaces; fluxes and other auxiliary preparations for soldering, brazing or welding; soldering, brazing or welding powders and pastes consisting of metal and other materials; preparations of a kind used as cores or coatings for welding electrodes or rods - [38.11](https://border.bot/hs-codes/3811) Anti-knock preparations, oxidation inhibitors, gum inhibitors, viscosity improvers, anti-corrosive preparations and other prepared additives, for mineral oils (including gasoline) or for other liquids used for the same purposes as mineral oils - [38.12](https://border.bot/hs-codes/3812) Prepared rubber accelerators; compound plasticisers for rubber or plastics, not elsewhere specified or included; anti-oxidising preparations and other compound stabilisers for rubber or plastics - [38.13](https://border.bot/hs-codes/3813) Preparations and charges for fire-extinguishers; charged fire- extinguishing grenades - [38.14](https://border.bot/hs-codes/3814) Organic composite solvents and thinners, not elsewhere specified or included; prepared paint or varnish removers - [38.15](https://border.bot/hs-codes/3815) Reaction initiators, reaction accelerators and catalytic preparations, not elsewhere specified or included - [38.16](https://border.bot/hs-codes/3816) Refractory cements, mortars, concretes and similar compositions, including dolomite ramming mix, other than products of heading 38.01 - [38.17](https://border.bot/hs-codes/3817) Mixed alkylbenzenes and mixed alkylnaphthalenes, other than those of heading 27.07 or 29.02 - [38.18](https://border.bot/hs-codes/3818) Chemical elements doped for use in electronics, in the form of discs, wafers or similar forms; chemical compounds doped for use in electronics - [38.19](https://border.bot/hs-codes/3819) Hydraulic brake fluids and other prepared liquids for hydraulic transmission, not containing or containing less than 70 % by weight of petroleum oils or oils obtained from bituminous minerals - [38.20](https://border.bot/hs-codes/3820) Anti-freezing preparations and prepared de-icing fluids - [38.21](https://border.bot/hs-codes/3821) Prepared culture media for the development or maintenance of micro-organisms (including viruses and the like) or of plant, human or animal cells - [38.22](https://border.bot/hs-codes/3822) Diagnostic or laboratory reagents on a backing, prepared diagnostic or laboratory reagents whether or not on a backing, whether or not put up in the form of kits, other than those of heading 30.06; certified reference materials - [38.23](https://border.bot/hs-codes/3823) Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids; acid oils from refining; industrial fatty alcohols - [38.24](https://border.bot/hs-codes/3824) Prepared binders for foundry moulds or cores; chemical products and preparations of the chemical or allied industries (including those consisting of mixtures of natural products), not elsewhere specified or included - [38.25](https://border.bot/hs-codes/3825) Residual products of the chemical or allied industries, not elsewhere specified or included; municipal waste; sewage sludge; other wastes specified in Note 6 to this Chapter - [38.26](https://border.bot/hs-codes/3826) Biodiesel and mixtures thereof, not containing or containing less than 70 % by weight of petroleum oils or oils obtained from bituminous minerals - [38.27](https://border.bot/hs-codes/3827) Mixtures containing halogenated derivatives of methane, ethane or propane, not elsewhere specified or included ## How it is structured Heading 38.08 is one of 27 headings in chapter 38. Its first two digits, 38, are the chapter; the next two, 08, number the heading within it. Its subheadings add two more digits (3808.52, 3808.59, 3808.61). ## In other countries National tariff lines under heading 38.08 are live on border.bot for the United States (38 lines, also used by 1 other country). - [United States](https://border.bot/countries/united-states/hs-codes/38): 38 lines, used by 1 other country - Previous heading: [38.07](https://border.bot/hs-codes/3807) Wood tar; wood tar oils; wood creosote; wood naphtha; vegetable pitch; brewers' pitch and similar preparations based on rosin, resin acids or on vegetable pitch - Next heading: [38.09](https://border.bot/hs-codes/3809) Finishing agents, dye carriers to accelerate the dyeing or fixing of dyestuffs and other products and preparations (for example, dressings and mordants), of a kind used in the textile, paper, leather or like industries, not elsewhere specified or included ## Frequently asked questions ### What does HS heading 38.08 cover? HS heading 38.08 covers insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, anti-sprouting products and plant-growth regulators, disinfectants and similar products, put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles (for example, sulphur-treated bands, wicks and candles, and fly-papers). ### Which chapter is HS heading 38.08 in? HS heading 38.08 is in chapter 38 (miscellaneous chemical products). ### How many subheadings does HS heading 38.08 have? HS heading 38.08 has 10 subheadings: 3808.52 (goods specified in subheading note 1 to this chapter, DDT (ISO) (clofenotane (INN)), in packings of a net weight content not exceeding 300g), 3808.59 (goods specified in subheading note 1 to this chapter, other), 3808.61 (goods specified in subheading note 2 to this chapter, in packings of a net weight content not exceeding 300g), 3808.62 (goods specified in subheading note 2 to this chapter, in packings of a net weight content exceeding 300g but not exceeding 7.5kg), 3808.69 (goods specified in subheading note 2 to this chapter, other), 3808.91 (other, insecticides) and 4 others. ### Which countries’ tariffs list national lines under HS heading 38.08? National tariff lines under heading 38.08 are live on border.bot for the United States (38 lines, also used by 1 other country). ## Sources and updates The Harmonized System legal text comes from border.bot release 2 (edition HS 2022), imported from a file, and has been live since 11 October 2026. This page was last updated on 11 October 2026. Guidance from published tariff data, not a binding ruling. For a decision customs must follow, apply to the destination’s customs authority for a binding tariff ruling. Machine-readable: https://border.bot/hs-codes/3808.json