UK Harmonised System

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Describe a product in plain English and TariffFlow will recommend a specific 10-digit UK commodity code with reasoning and live HMRC duty data. Or browse all 21 sections, 98 chapters, and the headings inside each below.

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What is the difference between an HS code and a commodity code?

The Harmonised System (HS) provides the first six digits shared internationally. UK commodity codes add more detail for customs declarations. An overseas supplier's code still needs checking against the UK tariff: the full code and treatment can differ by country.

Your commodity code helps identify Customs Duty, import VAT and measures that may apply to your goods. Read HMRC's guidance on finding commodity codes for the official explanation.

How to find a commodity code for your product

Gather the product's materials, purpose, manufacturing details and packaging. These are among the details requested by the official Trade Tariff service. A product name alone may leave several possible classifications.

Browse the tariff chapters below, open a relevant chapter and compare its notes and headings with your product. For a product-specific recommendation, see how TariffFlow classification works, including the reasoning and evidence kept in your Case Pack.

Section I — Live animals; animal products

5 chapters

Section II — Vegetable products

9 chapters

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Find a UK commodity code, or browse every tariff chapter.

What is the difference between an HS code and a commodity code?

How to find a commodity code for your product

Section I — Live animals; animal products

Section II — Vegetable products

Section III — Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes

Section IV — Prepared foodstuffs; beverages, spirits and vinegar; tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes; Products, whether or not containing nicotine, intended for inhalation without combustion; Other nicotine containing products intended for the intake of nicotine into the human body

Section V — Mineral products

Section VI — Products of the chemical or allied industries

Section VII — Plastics and articles thereof; rubber and articles thereof

Section VIII — Raw hides and skins, leather, furskins and articles thereof; saddlery and harness; travel goods, handbags and similar containers; articles of animal gut (other than silkworm gut)

Section IX — Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal; cork and articles of cork; manufactures of straw, of esparto or of other plaiting materials; basket-ware and wickerwork

Section X — Pulp of wood or of other fibrous cellulosic material; recovered (waste and scrap) paper or paperboard; paper and paperboard and articles thereof

Section XI — Textiles and textile articles

Section XII — Footwear, headgear, umbrellas, sun umbrellas, walking-sticks, seat-sticks, whips, riding-crops and parts thereof; prepared feathers and articles made therewith; artificial flowers; articles of human hair

Section XIII — Articles of stone, plaster, cement, asbestos, mica or similar materials; ceramic products; glass and glassware

Section XIV — Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewellery; coins

Section XV — Base metals and articles of base metal

Section XVI — Machinery and mechanical appliances; electrical equipment; parts thereof, sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles

Section XVII — Vehicles, aircraft, vessels and associated transport equipment

Section XVIII — Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; clocks and watches; musical instruments; parts and accessories thereof

Section XIX — Arms and ammunition; parts and accessories thereof

Section XX — Miscellaneous manufactured articles

Section XXI — Works of art, collectors' pieces and antiques