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: 50 SILK
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Subheading: ––
HS code:50––––
Choose a heading or subheading:
50SILK
5001Silkworm cocoons suitable for reeling5002Raw silk non-thrown5003Silk waste, incl. cocoons unsuitable for reeling, yarn waste and garnetted stock5004Silk yarn (excl. that spun from silk waste and that put up for retail sale)5005Yarn spun from silk waste (excl. that put up for retail sale)5006Silk yarn and yarn spun from silk waste, put up for retail sale; silkworm gut5007Woven fabrics of silk or of silk waste500710Woven fabrics of noil silk500720Woven fabrics containing >= 85% silk or schappe by weight500790Woven fabrics containing predominantly, but < 85% silk or silk waste by weight
