Dioxazine Violet Lake Pigment from Japan
Dioxazine violet lake offers intense purple pigmentation with excellent fastness, lake-fixed for plastics and coatings applications. HTS 3205.00.50.50 covers this preparation as other color lakes per chapter definitions, used as ingredients in color manufacturing. It provides superior transparency in high-performance formulations.
Duty Rate — Japan → United States
12.5%
Rate breakdown
9903.05.4912.5%Section 301 (forced labor) — Japan (col1 rate < 12.5 percent): MFN < 12.5% → total duty capped at 12.5%
Import Tips
• Provide lightfastness and solvent resistance data to support industrial colorant classification
• Ensure no retail packaging, as consumer packs shift to 3212 per chapter exclusions
• Document manufacturing process showing lake formation to avoid 3204 dye classification