Heading 3005 · Chapter 30

Medicated or medical-use cotton wool, bandages and similar products

This covers cotton wool, bandages, dressings and similar products that are impregnated or coated with pharmaceutical preparations, or are presented in forms or packs for retail sale for medical, surgical, dental or veterinary use. It includes both adhesive products and other products in this category.

For example

A bandage impregnated with a pharmaceutical preparation for medical use
A dressing coated with a pharmaceutical preparation for veterinary use
Cotton wool in a retail pack for dental use

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Wadding, gauze, bandages and the like, e.g. dressings, adhesive plasters, poultices, impregnated or covered with pharmaceutical substances or put up for retail sale for medical, surgical, dental or veterinary purposes

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Step 1 · Section VI Products of the chemical or allied industries
Is it an inorganic or organic chemical; a pharmaceutical product; a fertilizer; a tanning or dye extract, pigment, paint, varnish, filler or printing ink; an essential oil, perfume, cosmetic or toilet product; soap, a surface-active, washing, cleaning, polishing or wax product; a protein, modified starch, glue or enzyme; an explosive, pyrotechnic article, match or other specified combustible material; a photographic or cinematographic product; or another chemical product?
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Step 2 · Chapter 30 Pharmaceutical products 3 of 11 chapters in section VI
What kind of pharmaceutical product is it: an organ or organ extract, blood or immune product, a mixed or unmixed medicine, a medicated dressing or similar medical item, or another specifically listed pharmaceutical product?
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Step 3 · Heading 3005 Wadding, gauze, bandages and the like, e.g. dressin… 5 of 6 headings under chapter 30
Does the product have an adhesive layer, or is it cotton wool, a bandage or a similar product without an adhesive layer?

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3001 Dried glands and other organs for organo-therapeutic uses, whether or not powdered; extracts of glands or other organs or their secretions, for organo-therapeutic uses; heparin and its salts; other human or animal substances prepared for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, n.e.s. 0.0%
3002 Human blood; animal blood prepared for therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic uses; antisera and other blood fractions and immunological products, whether or not modified or obtained by means of biotechnological processes; vaccines, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms (excl. yeasts) and similar products; cell cultures, whether or not modified 0.0%
3003 Medicaments consisting of two or more constituents mixed together for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, not in measured doses or put up for retail sale (excl. goods of heading 3002, 3005 or 3006) 0.0%
3004 Medicaments consisting of mixed or unmixed products for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, put up in measured doses "incl. those for transdermal administration" or in forms or packings for retail sale (excl. goods of heading 3002, 3005 or 3006) 0.0%
3005 Wadding, gauze, bandages and the like, e.g. dressings, adhesive plasters, poultices, impregnated or covered with pharmaceutical substances or put up for retail sale for medical, surgical, dental or veterinary purposes you are here 0.0%
3006 Pharmaceutical preparations and products of subheadings 3006.10.10 to 3006.93.00 0.0%

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