# HS codes

> The Harmonized System (HS2022) has 96 chapters, 1,228 headings and 5,612 six-digit subheadings. Countries build their customs tariffs on these codes and add their own digits after the first six. National tariff lines are live on border.bot for the United States (19,665 lines).

Source: https://border.bot/hs-codes
Last updated: 11 October 2026

[HS codes](https://border.bot/hs-codes)

## Key facts

- Edition: HS2022
- Chapters: 96
- Headings: 1,228
- Subheadings: 5,612

## Chapters

Each chapter has a two-digit code. Its headings add two more digits, and their subheadings two more again, for six digits in all.

- [01](https://border.bot/hs-codes/01) Live animals (6 headings, 34 subheadings)
- [02](https://border.bot/hs-codes/02) Meat and edible meat offal (10 headings, 66 subheadings)
- [03](https://border.bot/hs-codes/03) Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates (9 headings, 225 subheadings)
- [04](https://border.bot/hs-codes/04) Dairy produce; birds' eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included (10 headings, 33 subheadings)
- [05](https://border.bot/hs-codes/05) Products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included (9 headings, 15 subheadings)
- [06](https://border.bot/hs-codes/06) Live trees and other plants; bulbs, roots and the like; cut flowers and ornamental foliage (4 headings, 16 subheadings)
- [07](https://border.bot/hs-codes/07) Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers (14 headings, 73 subheadings)
- [08](https://border.bot/hs-codes/08) Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons (14 headings, 70 subheadings)
- [09](https://border.bot/hs-codes/09) Coffee, tea, maté and spices (10 headings, 39 subheadings)
- [10](https://border.bot/hs-codes/10) Cereals (8 headings, 26 subheadings)
- [11](https://border.bot/hs-codes/11) Products of the milling industry; malt; starches; inulin; wheat gluten (9 headings, 27 subheadings)
- [12](https://border.bot/hs-codes/12) Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder (14 headings, 50 subheadings)
- [13](https://border.bot/hs-codes/13) Lac; gums, resins and other vegetable saps and extracts (2 headings, 11 subheadings)
- [14](https://border.bot/hs-codes/14) Vegetable plaiting materials; vegetable products not elsewhere specified or included (2 headings, 5 subheadings)
- [15](https://border.bot/hs-codes/15) Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes (21 headings, 53 subheadings)
- [16](https://border.bot/hs-codes/16) Preparations of meat, of fish, of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, or of insects (5 headings, 42 subheadings)
- [17](https://border.bot/hs-codes/17) Sugars and sugar confectionery (4 headings, 17 subheadings)
- [18](https://border.bot/hs-codes/18) Cocoa and cocoa preparations (6 headings, 11 subheadings)
- [19](https://border.bot/hs-codes/19) Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; pastrycooks' products (5 headings, 19 subheadings)
- [20](https://border.bot/hs-codes/20) Preparations of vegetables, fruit, nuts or other parts of plants (9 headings, 52 subheadings)
- [21](https://border.bot/hs-codes/21) Miscellaneous edible preparations (6 headings, 16 subheadings)
- [22](https://border.bot/hs-codes/22) Beverages, spirits and vinegar (9 headings, 24 subheadings)
- [23](https://border.bot/hs-codes/23) Residues and waste from the food industries; prepared animal fodder (9 headings, 23 subheadings)
- [24](https://border.bot/hs-codes/24) 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 (4 headings, 16 subheadings)
- [25](https://border.bot/hs-codes/25) Salt; sulphur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement (29 headings, 67 subheadings)
- [26](https://border.bot/hs-codes/26) Ores, slag and ash (21 headings, 37 subheadings)
- [27](https://border.bot/hs-codes/27) Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes (16 headings, 43 subheadings)
- [28](https://border.bot/hs-codes/28) Inorganic chemicals; organic or inorganic compounds of precious metals, of rare-earth metals, of radioactive elements or of isotopes (50 headings, 180 subheadings)
- [29](https://border.bot/hs-codes/29) Organic chemicals (42 headings, 410 subheadings)
- [30](https://border.bot/hs-codes/30) Pharmaceutical products (6 headings, 45 subheadings)
- [31](https://border.bot/hs-codes/31) Fertilisers (5 headings, 24 subheadings)
- [32](https://border.bot/hs-codes/32) Tanning or dyeing extracts; tannins and their derivatives; dyes, pigments and other colouring matter; paints and varnishes; putty and other mastics; inks (15 headings, 45 subheadings)
- [33](https://border.bot/hs-codes/33) Essential oils and resinoids; perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations (7 headings, 29 subheadings)
- [34](https://border.bot/hs-codes/34) Soap, organic surface-active agents, washing preparations, lubricating preparations, artificial waxes, prepared waxes, polishing or scouring preparations, candles and similar articles, modelling pastes, “dental waxes” and dental preparations with a basis of plaster (7 headings, 24 subheadings)
- [35](https://border.bot/hs-codes/35) Albuminoidal substances; modified starches; glues; enzymes (7 headings, 15 subheadings)
- [36](https://border.bot/hs-codes/36) Explosives; pyrotechnic products; matches; pyrophoric alloys; certain combustible preparations (6 headings, 13 subheadings)
- [37](https://border.bot/hs-codes/37) Photographic or cinematographic goods (7 headings, 30 subheadings)
- [38](https://border.bot/hs-codes/38) Miscellaneous chemical products (27 headings, 108 subheadings)
- [39](https://border.bot/hs-codes/39) Plastics and articles thereof (26 headings, 131 subheadings)
- [40](https://border.bot/hs-codes/40) Rubber and articles thereof (17 headings, 80 subheadings)
- [41](https://border.bot/hs-codes/41) Raw hides and skins (other than furskins) and leather (11 headings, 37 subheadings)
- [42](https://border.bot/hs-codes/42) Articles of leather; saddlery and harness; travel goods, handbags and similar containers; articles of animal gut (other than silk-worm gut) (5 headings, 20 subheadings)
- [43](https://border.bot/hs-codes/43) Furskins and artificial fur; manufactures thereof (4 headings, 12 subheadings)
- [44](https://border.bot/hs-codes/44) Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal (21 headings, 128 subheadings)
- [45](https://border.bot/hs-codes/45) Cork and articles of cork (4 headings, 7 subheadings)
- [46](https://border.bot/hs-codes/46) Manufactures of straw, of esparto or of other plaiting materials; basketware and wickerwork (2 headings, 11 subheadings)
- [47](https://border.bot/hs-codes/47) Pulp of wood or of other fibrous cellulosic material; recovered (waste and scrap) paper or paperboard (7 headings, 21 subheadings)
- [48](https://border.bot/hs-codes/48) Paper and paperboard; articles of paper pulp, of paper or of paperboard (22 headings, 101 subheadings)
- [49](https://border.bot/hs-codes/49) Printed books, newspapers, pictures and other products of the printing industry; manuscripts, typescripts and plans (11 headings, 18 subheadings)
- [50](https://border.bot/hs-codes/50) Silk (7 headings, 9 subheadings)
- [51](https://border.bot/hs-codes/51) Wool, fine or coarse animal hair; horsehair yarn and woven fabric (13 headings, 38 subheadings)
- [52](https://border.bot/hs-codes/52) Cotton (12 headings, 124 subheadings)
- [53](https://border.bot/hs-codes/53) Other vegetable textile fibres; paper yarn and woven fabrics of paper yarn (10 headings, 23 subheadings)
- [54](https://border.bot/hs-codes/54) Man-made filaments; strip and the like of man-made textile materials (8 headings, 72 subheadings)
- [55](https://border.bot/hs-codes/55) Man-made staple fibres (16 headings, 110 subheadings)
- [56](https://border.bot/hs-codes/56) Wadding, felt and nonwovens; special yarns; twine, cordage, ropes and cables and articles thereof (9 headings, 30 subheadings)
- [57](https://border.bot/hs-codes/57) Carpets and other textile floor coverings (5 headings, 24 subheadings)
- [58](https://border.bot/hs-codes/58) Special woven fabrics; tufted textile fabrics; lace; tapestries; trimmings; embroidery (11 headings, 37 subheadings)
- [59](https://border.bot/hs-codes/59) Impregnated, coated, covered or laminated textile fabrics; textile articles of a kind suitable for industrial use (11 headings, 24 subheadings)
- [60](https://border.bot/hs-codes/60) Knitted or crocheted fabrics (6 headings, 44 subheadings)
- [61](https://border.bot/hs-codes/61) Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, knitted or crocheted (17 headings, 106 subheadings)
- [62](https://border.bot/hs-codes/62) Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, not knitted or crocheted (17 headings, 104 subheadings)
- [63](https://border.bot/hs-codes/63) Other made up textile articles; sets; worn clothing and worn textile articles; rags (10 headings, 52 subheadings)
- [64](https://border.bot/hs-codes/64) Footwear, gaiters and the like; parts of such articles (6 headings, 25 subheadings)
- [65](https://border.bot/hs-codes/65) Headgear and parts thereof (6 headings, 8 subheadings)
- [66](https://border.bot/hs-codes/66) Umbrellas, sun umbrellas, walking-sticks, seat-sticks, whips, riding-crops and parts thereof (3 headings, 6 subheadings)
- [67](https://border.bot/hs-codes/67) Prepared feathers and down and articles made of feathers or of down; artificial flowers; articles of human hair (4 headings, 8 subheadings)
- [68](https://border.bot/hs-codes/68) Articles of stone, plaster, cement, asbestos, mica or similar materials (15 headings, 50 subheadings)
- [69](https://border.bot/hs-codes/69) Ceramic products (13 headings, 30 subheadings)
- [70](https://border.bot/hs-codes/70) Glass and glassware (19 headings, 71 subheadings)
- [71](https://border.bot/hs-codes/71) Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal, and articles thereof; imitation jewellery; coin (18 headings, 55 subheadings)
- [72](https://border.bot/hs-codes/72) Iron and steel (29 headings, 167 subheadings)
- [73](https://border.bot/hs-codes/73) Articles of iron or steel (26 headings, 124 subheadings)
- [74](https://border.bot/hs-codes/74) Copper and articles thereof (16 headings, 49 subheadings)
- [75](https://border.bot/hs-codes/75) Nickel and articles thereof (8 headings, 17 subheadings)
- [76](https://border.bot/hs-codes/76) Aluminium and articles thereof (16 headings, 35 subheadings)
- [78](https://border.bot/hs-codes/78) Lead and articles thereof (4 headings, 8 subheadings)
- [79](https://border.bot/hs-codes/79) Zinc and articles thereof (6 headings, 9 subheadings)
- [80](https://border.bot/hs-codes/80) Tin and articles thereof (4 headings, 5 subheadings)
- [81](https://border.bot/hs-codes/81) Other base metals; cermets; articles thereof (12 headings, 56 subheadings)
- [82](https://border.bot/hs-codes/82) Tools, implements, cutlery, spoons and forks, of base metal; parts thereof of base metal (15 headings, 64 subheadings)
- [83](https://border.bot/hs-codes/83) Miscellaneous articles of base metal (11 headings, 36 subheadings)
- [84](https://border.bot/hs-codes/84) Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof (86 headings, 538 subheadings)
- [85](https://border.bot/hs-codes/85) Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles (48 headings, 296 subheadings)
- [86](https://border.bot/hs-codes/86) Railway or tramway locomotives, rolling-stock and parts thereof; railway or tramway track fixtures and fittings and parts thereof; mechanical (including electro-mechanical) traffic signalling equipment of all kinds (9 headings, 23 subheadings)
- [87](https://border.bot/hs-codes/87) Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling-stock, and parts and accessories thereof (16 headings, 98 subheadings)
- [88](https://border.bot/hs-codes/88) Aircraft, spacecraft, and parts thereof (6 headings, 26 subheadings)
- [89](https://border.bot/hs-codes/89) Ships, boats and floating structures (8 headings, 25 subheadings)
- [90](https://border.bot/hs-codes/90) Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof (32 headings, 143 subheadings)
- [91](https://border.bot/hs-codes/91) Clocks and watches and parts thereof (14 headings, 48 subheadings)
- [92](https://border.bot/hs-codes/92) Musical instruments; parts and accessories of such articles (7 headings, 17 subheadings)
- [93](https://border.bot/hs-codes/93) Arms and ammunition; parts and accessories thereof (7 headings, 18 subheadings)
- [94](https://border.bot/hs-codes/94) Furniture; bedding, mattresses, mattress supports, cushions and similar stuffed furnishings; luminaires and lighting fittings, not elsewhere specified or included; illuminated signs, illuminated name-plates and the like; prefabricated buildings (6 headings, 54 subheadings)
- [95](https://border.bot/hs-codes/95) Toys, games and sports requisites; parts and accessories thereof (6 headings, 39 subheadings)
- [96](https://border.bot/hs-codes/96) Miscellaneous manufactured articles (20 headings, 49 subheadings)
- [97](https://border.bot/hs-codes/97) Works of art, collectors' pieces and antiques (6 headings, 19 subheadings)

## National tariffs

National tariff lines are live on border.bot for the United States (19,665 lines).

- [United States](https://border.bot/countries/united-states): 19,665 lines

## Frequently asked questions

### How many chapters, headings and subheadings does the Harmonized System have?

The Harmonized System (HS2022) has 96 chapters, 1,228 headings and 5,612 six-digit subheadings.

## Sources and updates

The Harmonized System legal text comes from border.bot release 2 (edition HS 2022), imported from a file, and has been live since 11 October 2026.

This page was last updated on 11 October 2026.

Guidance from published tariff data, not a binding ruling. For a decision customs must follow, apply to the destination’s customs authority for a binding tariff ruling.

Machine-readable: https://border.bot/hs-codes.json