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Code 3809 91 · Heading 3809

Non-starch textile finishing, dyeing or fixing preparations

This covers finishing agents, dyeing or dye-fixing accelerators, prepared sizing or mordant preparations, and similar products used in the textile industry or related industries. They must not be based on starch or starch products and must not be products for the paper or leather industries.

For example

  • A non-starch-based textile finishing preparation
  • A non-starch-based accelerator for dyeing textiles
  • A non-starch-based accelerator for fixing dyes in textiles
  • A non-starch-based prepared mordant for the textile industry
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Official tariff text

Finishing agents, dye carriers to accelerate the dyeing or fixing of dyestuffs, and other products and preparations, e.g. dressings and mordants of a kind used in the textile or similar industries, n.e.s. (excl. those with a basis of amylaceous substances)

This is the catch-all under 3809: it covers what the sibling codes below do not.

Within this parent group, this is where non-starch-based products for the textile industry or related industries belong when they are not the starch-based products or the paper- or leather-industry products named by the other codes.

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Classification decides the rate here: from 6.3% to 8.3%.

Export to Norway

What Norwegian customs charges when goods like these are imported into Norway.

  • 38.09.9101

    Textile softening agents, also for domestic use

    Ordinary duty
    Duty free
    Goods of EU origin
    Duty free You need documentation of EU origin to use this rate.

  • 38.09.9109

    Other

    Ordinary duty
    Duty free
    Goods of EU origin
    Duty free You need documentation of EU origin to use this rate.

Norwegian tariff data version 1.5/1.2, last checked Aug. 3, 2026.

Contains data from Norwegian Customs (data.toll.no), licensed under CC BY 4.0, adapted for display.

Export to the United Kingdom

What UK customs charges when goods like these are imported into the UK.

  • All 2 UK lines under this code

    They all have the same duty rates shown here.

    Ordinary duty
    6.0%
    Goods of EU origin
    Duty free You need documentation of EU preferential origin to use this rate.

These rates apply in Great Britain. Different rules may apply for goods entering Northern Ireland.

UK tariff data version v4.0.1576, last checked Aug. 3, 2026.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Source: UK Department for Business and Trade (data.api.trade.gov.uk).

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Duty rates shown here are estimates, read from official EU / Danish, Norwegian and UK tariff data for orientation only. Confirm the current rate with SKAT, TARIC, Norwegian Customs or the UK Online Trade Tariff before you file. The rate you pay can also depend on the country of origin. These are base customs duties only: import VAT, excise duties, anti-dumping duties and safeguard or quota measures are not included.