3405.10 - Polishes creams and similar preparations for footwear or leather

3405.20 - Polishes creams and similar preparations for the maintenance of wooden furniture floors or other woodwork

3405.30 - Polishes and similar preparations for coachwork other than metal polishes

3405.40 - Scouring pastes and powders and other scouring preparations

3405.90 - Other

This heading covers polishes and creams for footwear furniture floors coachwork glass or metal (silverware copper etc.) and prepared pastes or powders for scouring cooking utensils sinks tiles stoves etc. and similar preparations such as polishes and creams for leather. The heading also includes polishing preparations with preservative properties.

These preparations may have a basis of wax abrasives or other substances.

Examples of such preparations are :

(1) Waxes and polishes consisting of waxes impregnated with spirits of turpentine or emulsified in an aqueous medium and frequently containing added colouring matter.

(2) Metal polishes and polishes for glass consisting of very soft polishing materials such as chalk or kieselguhr in suspension in an emulsion of white spirit and liquid soap.

(3) Metal etc. polishing finishing or fine-grinding products containing diamond powder or dust.

(4) Scouring powders consisting of mixtures of very finely ground sand with sodium carbonate and soap. Scouring pastes are obtained by binding these powders with for example a solution of waxes in a lubricating mineral oil.

These preparations which are often put up for retail sale and are usually in the form of liquids pastes powders tablets sticks etc. may be used for household or industrial purposes.

The heading also covers paper wadding felt nonwovens cellular plastics or cellular rubber impregnated coated or covered with such preparations but textile dusters and metal pot scourers similarly impregnated coated or covered are excluded (Sections XI and XV respectively).

The heading also excludes :

(a)Abrasive powders when not mixed (generally CHAPTER25 or 28).

(b)Whitenings for footwear in tablets and prepared liquid dyes for chamois-leather footwear (heading 32.10).

(c)Degras and artificial degras (heading 15.22); other oils and greases for leather dressing (CHAPTER15 headings 27.10 34.03 38.24 etc.).

(d)Dry-cleaning fluids and stain removers for cleaning clothing which are classified according to their composition (usually as petroleum spirit heading 27.10 or as products of heading 38.14 or 38.24).