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

Nepal Customs Tariff 2026/27 import duty rates and 50 HS code lines for Tanning or dyeing extracts; tannins and their derivatives; dyes, pigments and other colouring matter; paints and varnishes; putty and other mastics; inks (Section VI — Products of the chemical or allied industries). Each code shows the general and SAARC customs duty; tap a code to open the full breakdown and landed-cost estimate.

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32.01 — Tanning extracts of vegetable origin; tannins and their salts, ethers, esters and other derivatives

HS code	Description	Unit	General duty	SAARC duty
3201.10.00	Quebracho extract	kg	5%	5%
3201.20.00	Wattle extract	kg	5%	5%
3201.90.10	Gambier	kg	10%	6%
3201.90.90	Other	kg	5%	5%

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

HS code	Description	Unit	General duty	SAARC duty
3202.10.00	Synthetic organic tanning substances	kg	5%	5%
3202.90.00	Other	kg	5%	5%

32.03 — Colouring 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 colouring matter of vegetable or animal origin

HS code	Description	Unit	General duty	SAARC duty
3203.00.10	Cutch(catechu) extracts	kg	15%	7.25%
3203.00.20	Food colors other than synthetic	kg	15%	7.25%
3203.00.90	Other	kg	15%	7.25%

32.04 — Synthetic organic colouring matter, whether or not chemically defined; preparations as specified in Note 3 to this Chapter based on synthetic organic colouring matter; synthetic organic products of a kind used as fluorescent brightening agents or as luminophores, whether or not chemically defined

HS code	Description	Unit	General duty	SAARC duty
3204.11.00	Dispers dyes and preparations based thereon	kg	10%	5%
3204.12.00	Acid dyes, whether or not premetallised, and preparations based thereon; mordant dyes and preparations based thereon	kg	10%	5%
3204.13.00	Basic dyes and preparations based thereon	kg	10%	5%
3204.14.00	Direct dyes and preparations based thereon	kg	10%	5%
3204.15.00	Vat dyes (including those usable in that state as pigments) and preparation based thereon	kg	10%	5%
3204.16.00	Reactive dyes and preparations based thereon	kg	10%	5%
3204.17.00	Pigments and preparations based thereon	kg	10%	5%
3204.18.00	Carotenoid colouring matters and preparations based thereon	kg	10%	5%
3204.19.00	Synthetic organic colouring matter and preparations based thereon as specified in Note 3 to this Chapter — Other, including mixtures of colouring matter of two or more of the Sub-headings 3204.11 to 3204.19	kg	10%	5%
3204.20.00	Synthetic organic products of a kind used as fluorescent brightening agents	kg	10%	5%
3204.90.00	Other	kg	10%	5%

32.05 — Colour lakes; preparations as specified in Note 3 to this Chapter based on colour lakes

HS code	Description	Unit	General duty	SAARC duty
3205.00.00	Colour lakes; preparations as specified in Note 3 to this Chapter based on colour lakes.	kg	15%	7.25%

32.06 — Other colouring matter; preparations as specified in Note 3 to this Chapter, other than those of Heading 32.03, 32.04 or 32.05; inorganic products of a kind used as luminophores, whether or not chemically defined

HS code	Description	Unit	General duty	SAARC duty
3206.11.00	Containing 80% or more by weight of titanium dioxide calculated on the dry matter	kg	15%	15%
3206.19.00	Pigments and preparations based on titanium dioxide — Other	kg	15%	15%
3206.20.00	Pigments and preparations based on chromium compounds	kg	15%	15%
3206.41.00	Ultramarine and preparations based thereon	kg	15%	15%
3206.42.00	Lithopone and other pigments and preparation based on zinc sulphide	kg	15%	15%
3206.49.00	Other colouring matter and other preparations — Other	kg	15%	15%
3206.50.00	Inorganic products of a kind used as luminophores	kg	15%	15%

32.07 — Prepared pigments, prepared opacifiers and prepared colours, 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

HS code	Description	Unit	General duty	SAARC duty
3207.10.00	Prepared pigments, prepared opacifiers, prepared colours and similar preparations	kg	15%	7.25%
3207.20.00	Vitrifiable enamels and glazes, engobes (slips) and similar preparations	kg	15%	7.25%
3207.30.00	Liquid lustres and similar preparations	kg	15%	7.25%
3207.40.00	Glass frit and other glass, in the form of powder granules or flakes	kg	15%	7.25%

32.08 — Paints and varnishes (including enamels and lacquers) based on synthetic polymers or chemically modified natrual polymers, dispersed or dissolved in a non-aqueous medium; solutions as defined in Note 4 to this Chapter

HS code	Description	Unit	General duty	SAARC duty
3208.10.00	Based on polyesters	kg/ltr	30%	30%
3208.20.00	Based on acrylic or vinyl polymers	kg/ltr	30%	30%
3208.90.00	Other	kg/ltr	30%	30%

32.09 — Paints and varnishes (including enamels and lacquers) based on synthetic polymers or chemically modified natrual polymers, dispersed or dissolved in an aqueous medium

HS code	Description	Unit	General duty	SAARC duty
3209.10.10	Acrylic Emulsion	kg/ltr	30%	30%
3209.10.90	Based on acrylic or vinyl polymers — Other	kg/ltr	30%	30%
3209.90.00	Other	kg/ltr	30%	30%

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

HS code	Description	Unit	General duty	SAARC duty
3210.00.10	Thermoplastic road marking material	kg	30%	30%
3210.00.90	Other	kg/ltr	30%	30%

32.11 — Prepared driers

HS code	Description	Unit	General duty	SAARC duty
3211.00.00	Prepared driers.	kg	15%	7.25%

32.12 — Pigments (including metallic powders and flakes) dispersed in non-aqueous media, in liquid or paste form, of a kind used in the manufacture of paints (including enamels); stamping foils; dyes and other colouring matter put up in forms or packings for retail sale

HS code	Description	Unit	General duty	SAARC duty
3212.10.00	Stamping foils	kg	10%	6%
3212.90.00	Other	kg	10%	6%

32.13 — Artists', students' or signboard painters' colours, modifying tints, amusement colours and the like, in tablets, tubes, jars, bottles, pans or in similar forms or packings

HS code	Description	Unit	General duty	SAARC duty
3213.10.00	Colours in sets	kg	10%	7.25%
3213.90.00	Other	kg	10%	7.25%

32.14 — Glaziers' putty, grafting putty, resin cements, caulking compounds and other mastics; painters' fillings; non-refractory surfacing preparation for facades, indoor walls, floors, ceilings or the like

HS code	Description	Unit	General duty	SAARC duty
3214.10.00	Glaziers' putty, grafting putty, resin cements, caulking compounds and other mastics; painters' fillings	kg	10%	6%
3214.90.00	Other	kg	10%	6%

32.15 — Printing ink, writing or drawing ink and other inks, whether or not concentrated or solid

HS code	Description	Unit	General duty	SAARC duty
3215.11.00	Black	kg	10%	6%
3215.19.00	Printing ink — Other	kg	10%	6%
3215.90.00	Other	kg	10%	6%

Chapter 32 legal notes

Notes. 1.- This Chapter does not cover : (a) Separate chemically defined elements or compounds (except those of heading 32.03 or 32.04, inorganic products of a kind used as luminophores (heading 32.06), glass obtained from fused quartz or other fused silica in the forms provided for in heading 32.07, and also dyes and other colouring matter put up in forms or packings for retail sale, of heading 32.12); (b) Tannates or other tannin derivatives of products of headings 29.36 to 29.39, 29.41 or 35.01 to 35.04; or (c) Mastics of asphalt or other bituminous mastics (heading 27.15). 2.- Heading 32.04 includes mixtures of stabilised diazonium salts and couplers for the production of azo dyes. 3.- Headings 32.03, 32.04, 32.05 and 32.06 apply also to preparations based on colouring matter (including, in the case of heading 32.06, colouring pigments of heading 25.30 or Chapter 28, metal flakes and metal powders), of a kind used for colouring any material or used as ingredients in the manufacture of colouring preparations. The headings do not apply, however, to pigments dispersed in non-aqueous media, in liquid or paste form, of a kind used in the manufacture of paints, including enamels (heading 32.12), or to other preparations of heading 32.07, 32.08, 32.09, 32.10, 32.12, 32.13 or 32.15. 4.- Heading 32.08 includes solutions (other than collodions) consisting of any of the products specified in headings 39.01 to 39.13 in volatile organic solvents when the weight of the solvent exceeds 50 % of the weight of the solution. 5.- The expression “colouring matter” in this Chapter does not include products of a kind used as extenders in oil paints, whether or not they are also suitable for colouring distempers. 6.- The expression “stamping foils” in heading 32.12 applies only to thin sheets of a kind used for printing, for example, book covers or hat bands, and consisting of : (a) Metallic powder (including powder of precious metal) or pigment, agglomerated with glue, gelatin or other binder; or (b) Metal (including precious metal) or pigment, deposited on a supporting sheet of any material.

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