Wood Tar oils, wood creosote, wood naphtha
Wood tar oils, wood creosote, and wood naphtha
HSN 3807 00 20 (wood tar oils, wood creosote, and wood naphtha) is not covered by a Bureau of Indian Standards Quality Control Order and carries no Partner Government Agency clearance requirement at the tariff-line level. Import follows the standard customs procedure: Importer-Exporter Code, bill of entry, commercial invoice, packing list. Other products within Chapter 38 — particularly biocidal preparations or wood-preservative formulations derived from creosote — may attract separate compliance obligations depending on intended use and formulation.
Wood creosote used as a wood preservative or biocide in a formulated product may be regulated differently from the raw distillate; end-use declarations and labelling obligations under Chapter 38 preparations regimes can apply even where the base distillate is free of import clearance requirements. Re-classification on customs examination — for instance, from a raw distillate to a formulated preservative — triggers retrospective compliance, including detention pending any applicable licence. Verify purity, physical form, and declared end-use against the customs tariff before shipment.