What is an HS- or HTS-Code?
HS or HTS codes are a global tool and used in most international import and export documentation and commercial invoices. The World Customs Organization (WCO) maintains the Harmonized Tariff Description and Coding Schedule (HTS). Over 170 countries participate in WCO’s HTS system. The first six digits of the HTS code identify all items in international trade and are the same for all countries that use the HTS. The last two or four digits are country specific. In many countries these last four digits provide the duty rate and balance of trade statistical reporting suffix for the imported goods.
- I LIVE ANIMALS; ANIMAL PRODUCTS
- II VEGETABLE PRODUCTS
- III ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE FATS AND OILS AND THEIR CLEAVAGE PRODUCTS; PREPARED EDIBLE FATS; ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE WAXES
- IV PREPARED FOODSTUFFS; BEVERAGES, SPIRITS AND VINEGAR; TOBACCO AND MANUFACTURED TOBACCO SUBSTITUTES
- V MINERAL PRODUCTS
- VI PRODUCTS OF THE CHEMICAL OR ALLIED INDUSTRIES
- VII PLASTICS AND ARTICLES THEREOF; RUBBER AND ARTICLES THEREOF
- 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)
- IX WOOD AND ARTICLES OF WOOD; WOOD CHARCOAL; CORK AND ARTICLES OF CORK; MANUFACTURES OF STRAW, OF ESPARTO OR OF OTHER PLAITING MATERIALS; BASKETWARE AND WICKERWORK
- X PULP OF WOOD OR OF OTHER FIBROUS CELLULOSIC MATERIAL; RECOVERED (WASTE AND SCRAP) PAPER OR PAPERBOARD; PAPER AND PAPERBOARD AND ARTICLES THEREOF
- XI TEXTILES AND TEXTILE ARTICLES
- 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
- XIII ARTICLES OF STONE, PLASTER, CEMENT, ASBESTOS, MICA OR SIMILAR MATERIALS; CERAMIC PRODUCTS; GLASS AND GLASSWARE
- XIV NATURAL OR CULTURED PEARLS, PRECIOUS OR SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES, PRECIOUS METALS, METALS CLAD WITH PRECIOUS METAL, AND ARTICLES THEREOF; IMITATION JEWELLERY; COIN
- XV BASE METALS AND ARTICLES OF BASE METAL
- 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
- XVII VEHICLES, AIRCRAFT, VESSELS AND ASSOCIATED TRANSPORT EQUIPMENT
- XVIII OPTICAL, PHOTOGRAPHIC, CINEMATOGRAPHIC, MEASURING, CHECKING, PRECISION, MEDICAL OR SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS AND APPARATUS; CLOCKS AND WATCHES; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; PARTS AND ACCESSORIES THEREOF
- XIX ARMS AND AMMUNITION; PARTS AND ACCESSORIES THEREOF
- XX MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES
- XXI WORKS OF ART, COLLECTORS' PIECES AND ANTIQUES
Chapter: 12 OIL SEEDS AND OLEAGINOUS FRUITS; MISCELLANEOUS GRAINS, SEEDS AND FRUIT; INDUSTRIAL OR MEDICINAL PLANTS; STRAW AND FODDER
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12OIL SEEDS AND OLEAGINOUS FRUITS; MISCELLANEOUS GRAINS, SEEDS AND FRUIT; INDUSTRIAL OR MEDICINAL PLANTS; STRAW AND FODDER
1201Soya beans, whether or not broken120110Soya bean seed, for sowing120190Soya beans, whether or not broken (excl. seed for sowing)1202Groundnuts, whether or not shelled or broken (excl. roasted or otherwise cooked)120230Groundnut seed, for sowing120241Groundnuts, in shell (excl. seed for sowing, roasted or otherwise cooked)120242Groundnuts, shelled, whether or not broken (excl. seed for sowing, roasted or otherwise cooked)1203Copra1204Linseed, whether or not broken1205Rape or colza seeds, whether or not broken120510Low erucic acid rape or colza seeds yielding a fixed oil which has an erucic acid content of < 2% and yielding a solid component of glucosinolates of < 30 micromoles/g120590High erucic rape or colza seeds yielding a fixed oil which has an erucic acid content of >= 2% and yielding a solid component of glucosinolates of >= 30 micromoles/g, whether or not broken1206Sunflower seeds, whether or not broken1207Other oil seeds and oleaginous fruits, whether or not broken (excl. edible nuts, olives, soya beans, groundnuts, copra, linseed, rape or colza seeds and sunflower seeds)120710Palm nuts and kernels120721Cotton seeds for sowing120729Cotton seeds (excl. for sowing)120730Castor oil seeds120740Sesamum seeds, whether or not broken120750Mustard seeds, whether or not broken120760Safflower Carthamus tinctorius seeds120770Melon seeds120791Poppy seeds, whether or not broken120799Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits, whether or not broken (excl. edible nuts, olives, soya beans, groundnuts, copra, linseed, rape or colza seeds, sunflower seeds, palm nuts and kernels, cotton, castor oil, sesamum, mustard, safflower, melon and poppy seeds)1208Flours and meals of oil seeds or oleaginous fruits (excl. mustard)120810Soya bean flour and meal120890Flours and meal of oil seeds or oleaginous fruit (excl. soya and mustard)1209Seeds, fruits and spores, for sowing (excl. leguminous vegetables and sweetcorn, coffee, tea, maté and spices, cereals, oil seeds and oleaginous fruits, and seeds and fruit used primarily in perfumery, medicaments or for insecticidal, fungicidal or similar purposes)120910Sugar beet seed, for sowing120921Alfalfa seed for sowing120922Clover Trifolium spp seed, for sowing120923Fescue seed for sowing120924Kentucky blue grass Poa pratensis L. seed for sowing120925Ryegrass Lolium multiflorum lam., Lolium perenne L. seed, for sowing120929Seeds of forage plants for sowing (excl. of cereals and of sugar beet, alfalfa, clover Trifolium spp., fescue, Kentucky blue grass Poa pratensis L. and ryegrass Lolium multiflorum lam. and Lolium perenne L.)120930Seeds of herbaceous plants cultivated mainly for flowers, for sowing120991Vegetable seeds, for sowing120999Seeds, fruits and spores, for sowing (excl. leguminous vegetables and sweetcorn, coffee, tea, maté and spices, cereals, oil seeds and oleaginous fruits, beets, forage plants, vegetable seeds, and seeds of herbaceous plants cultivated mainly for flowers or used primarily in perfumery, medicaments or for insecticidal, fungicidal or similar purposes)1210Hop cones, fresh or dried, whether or not ground, powdered or in the form of pellets; lupulin121010Hop cones, fresh or dried (excl. ground, powdered or in the form of pellets)121020Hop cones, ground, powdered or in the form of pellets; lupulin1211Plants and parts of plants, incl. seeds and fruits, of a kind used primarily in perfumery, medicaments or for insecticidal, fungicidal or similar purposes, fresh or dried, whether or not cut, crushed or powdered121120Ginseng roots, fresh or dried, whether or not cut, crushed or powdered121130Coca leaf, fresh or dried, whether or not cut, crushed or powdered121140Poppy straw, fresh or dried, whether or not cut, crushed or powdered121190Plants, parts of plants, incl. seeds and fruits, used primarily in perfumery, in pharmacy or for insecticidal, fungicidal or similar purposes, fresh or dried, whether or not cut, crushed or powdered (excl. ginseng roots, coca leaf and poppy straw)1212Locust beans, seaweeds and other algae, sugar beet and sugar cane, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not ground; fruit stones and kernels and other vegetable products, incl. unroasted chicory roots of the variety Cichorium intybus sativum, of a kind used primarily for human consumption, n.e.s.121221Seaweeds and other algae, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not ground, fit for human consumption121229Seaweeds and other algae, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not ground, unfit for human consumption121291Sugar beet, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not ground121292Locust beans carob, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not ground121293Sugar cane, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not ground121294Chicory roots, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not ground121299Fruit stones and kernels and other vegetable products, incl. unroasted chicory roots of the variety cichorium intybus sativum, of a kind used primarily for human consumption, n.e.s.1213Cereal straw and husks, unprepared, whether or not chopped, ground, pressed or in the form of pellets1214Swedes, mangolds, fodder roots, hay, alfalfa, clover, sainfoin, forage kale, lupines, vetches and similar forage products, whether or not in the form of pellets121410Alfalfa meal and pellets121490Swedes, mangolds, fodder roots, hay, lucerne alfalfa, clover, sainfoin, forage kale, lupines, vetches and similar forage products, whether or not in the form of pellets (excl. lucerne alfalfa meal and pellets)
