UK Harmonised System · 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
Chapter 45 — Cork and articles of cork
4 headingssit inside this chapter. HMRC's official chapter notes below govern how goods are assigned to it under the WCO General Rules of Interpretation. To classify a specific product in this chapter, use the TariffFlow classify workspace — it walks the tree, cites binding rulings, and produces a signed audit Case Pack.
Official chapter notes
Verbatim text published by HMRC. These are the legal basis for classification decisions in this chapter; the "General Rules of Interpretation" point at them directly.
Headings in Chapter 45
Each 4-digit heading below groups a family of related products. The full 10-digit commodity code is chosen further down the tree based on the product's material, form, and intended use.
- 4501Natural cork, raw or simply prepared; waste cork; crushed, granulated or ground cork
- 4502Natural cork, debacked or roughly squared, or in rectangular (including square) blocks, plates, sheets or strip (including sharp-edged blanks for corks or stoppers)
- 4503Articles of natural cork
- 4504Agglomerated cork (with or without a binding substance) and articles of agglomerated cork
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