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HS code lookup

An HS code has 6 digits, an EU CN code 8 and a TARIC code 10; the first six digits are the HS code, the base of customs tariffs worldwide. Type a code of 2 to 10 digits to see its place in the EU's goods list, from its section down to the line itself, with the text of every line above it. Or type words to find the lines that hold them. A line that matches is a line to read, not a classification (how customs decides between two codes).

Table read

Look up a code

2 digits is a chapter, 4 a heading, 6 an HS subheading, 8 a CN code, 10 a TARIC code. Spaces, dots and dashes are ignored. For example 6109 10 00.

Search by words

What the goods are or what they are made of, in English: cotton t-shirt, lithium battery. Up to 6 words; a plural counts as its singular.

CN code

1604 16 00 is a CN code in the Combined Nomenclature for 2026. Its line, with the lines above it that give it its meaning:

  1. 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
  2. Chapter 16 Preparations of meat, of fish, of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, or of insects
  3. 1604 Prepared or preserved fish; caviar and caviar substitutes prepared from fish eggs heading
  4. – Fish, whole or in pieces, but not minced
  5. 1604 16 00 – – Anchovies HS subheading, CN code

The standard import declaration (H1) takes ten digits, the EUR 150 import declaration (H7) six and the export declaration eight (commodity code). TARIC may split this CN code further in its ninth and tenth digits, where an EU measure needs it (CN Regulation Art. 3(2)). The ten-digit code is in TARIC; see TARIC code.

The duty the CN prints for this code, and the import VAT on it, are worked out in the landed cost calculator.

A code or a word that matches a line does not mean your goods belong under it. Goods are classified under the General Interpretative Rules (CN Part One, Section I A): the terms of the headings and the section and chapter notes decide first, and only where those do not otherwise require do rules 2 to 5 apply (rule 1); rule 6 sets the same order for subheadings, with their subheading notes. The CN adds its own section and chapter notes (CN Regulation Art. 1(2)(c)). The Explanatory Notes to the HS and the Explanatory Notes to the CN (the 2019 edition, and the notes published since in the Official Journal, C series) say how a heading is read; the CN notes do not replace the HS ones. Titles of sections and chapters are for reference only (rule 1).

The decision that binds the customs authorities as against its holder is binding tariff information: only for goods that correspond in every respect to those it describes and are cleared after it takes effect, and for three years (UCC Art. 33(2), (3), (4); Art. 34 on when it ends).

The ten-digit TARIC code and the measures on it are in TARIC.

The lines are those of Annex I to the Combined Nomenclature Regulation, as replaced for 2026 by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1926, which applies from 1 January 2026; text read 5 October 2026. The CN is renewed every 1 January (CN Regulation Art. 12(1)).

HS, CN and TARIC: 6, 8 and 10 digits

The three names are one code read to three lengths. Only the first six digits are shared with other countries; the UK and the US add their own digits after them (HS code).

NameDigitsSet byWhat it carries
HS code6The World Customs Organization, in the Harmonized System, which more than 200 countries and economies use as the base of their customs tariffsThe goods list that national customs tariffs are built on
CN code8The EU, in the Combined Nomenclature: the first six digits are the HS code, the seventh and eighth are the EU's own (CN Regulation Art. 3(1))The customs tariff, with the third-country duty for each code, and the EU's external trade statistics (Art. 1(1), 1(3))
TARIC code10The Commission, which adds the ninth and tenth digits where an EU measure needs a finer split (Art. 2, 3(2))The measures on the goods: duties, preferences, quotas and the other EU measures linked to the code (UCC Art. 56(1), 57(3)). The measures are in TARIC

The lookup holds the 8-digit CN, which carries the 6-digit HS subheading in its first six digits: 21 sections with 96 chapters, 1,228 headings,5,612 HS subheadings and 9,791 CN codes. Chapters 98 and 99 are the CN's own: they belong to no section, are not part of the HS, and hold 9 more CN codes, the special codes of chapter 99. A ten-digit code gets its CN line and a link to TARIC, which holds the ninth and tenth digits.

How a line of the CN reads

The CN is printed as a list in which a line's text depends on the lines above it. Each dash in front of a line means one level down: a line with two dashes is a part of the nearest line above it with one dash, which is a part of the heading. A line such as "– – Of wool or fine animal hair or man-made fibres" says nothing alone; under "– Of other textile materials" under heading 6109, "T-shirts, singlets and other vests, knitted or crocheted", it is code 6109 90 20. So every answer on this page shows the lines above the one you asked about: section, chapter, heading, then each line of lower dash level.

The titles of sections and chapters are for reference only. The terms of the headings and the notes of the section and chapter decide first, and only where those do not otherwise require do the other rules apply (rule 1 of the General Interpretative Rules, CN Part One, Section I A), which is why a section or chapter title is shown here and never used to match a word.

  • A CN code line is listed when it holds every word you typed, in its own text or in the lines above it up to its heading. A plural counts as its singular. A hyphenated word such as t-shirt is read whole; only when no line holds it whole are its parts read as separate words. Section and chapter titles are not searched.
  • Lines are ranked, and the order is plain: first the lines that hold more of your words in their own text rather than only in the lines above them; then the lines that hold your words as you typed them, before the lines that hold them only through the regulation's own wording (below); then code order. At most 20 lines are shown, grouped under their heading.
  • When no line holds every word, each word is listed alone, 5 lines for each. A word that is in no line is named.
  • A few everyday words are also searched as the words the regulation uses: phone as telephone; battery as accumulator; tv as television; sweater as pullover; jumper as pullover; hoodie as pullover; jeans as trousers; sneaker as footwear; trainer as footwear; backpack as rucksack; speaker as loudspeaker; drone as unmanned; laptop as portable and data-processing.
  • The first line is first because of its words. The ranking does not say which line fits your goods, and no answer here calls any line "your code".

A worked example

You sell T-shirts made of knitted cotton. Type cotton t-shirt in the word search and on 5 October 2026 this is the answer:

Lines of the CN that hold your words

Words searched: cotton, t-shirt.

1 CN code line holds every word, in the line itself or in the lines above it. A line that holds your words is a line to read with the lines above it, not an answer for your goods.

  1. Section XI Textiles and textile articles
  2. Chapter 61 Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, knitted or crocheted
  3. 6109 T-shirts, singlets and other vests, knitted or crocheted heading
  4. 6109 10 00 – Of cotton HS subheading, CN code

A code or a word that matches a line does not mean your goods belong under it. Goods are classified under the General Interpretative Rules (CN Part One, Section I A): the terms of the headings and the section and chapter notes decide first, and only where those do not otherwise require do rules 2 to 5 apply (rule 1); rule 6 sets the same order for subheadings, with their subheading notes. The CN adds its own section and chapter notes (CN Regulation Art. 1(2)(c)). The Explanatory Notes to the HS and the Explanatory Notes to the CN (the 2019 edition, and the notes published since in the Official Journal, C series) say how a heading is read; the CN notes do not replace the HS ones. Titles of sections and chapters are for reference only (rule 1).

The decision that binds the customs authorities as against its holder is binding tariff information: only for goods that correspond in every respect to those it describes and are cleared after it takes effect, and for three years (UCC Art. 33(2), (3), (4); Art. 34 on when it ends).

The ten-digit TARIC code and the measures on it are in TARIC.

The lines are those of Annex I to the Combined Nomenclature Regulation, as replaced for 2026 by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1926, which applies from 1 January 2026; text read 5 October 2026. The CN is renewed every 1 January (CN Regulation Art. 12(1)).

Heading 6109 names T-shirts, and the line "– Of cotton" under it is the CN code 6109 10 00. Whether your goods belong under that line is decided by the terms of the heading and the notes to chapter 61, with the rules in how customs decides between two codes; the lookup shows the line, not the decision. The standard import declaration (H1) takes ten digits, the EUR 150 import declaration (H7) six and the export declaration eight (commodity code). Type 6109 10 00 10 in the code field, and the answer shows the CN code the ten digits start with and links TARIC for the whole:

CN code

6109 10 00 is a CN code in the Combined Nomenclature for 2026. Its line, with the lines above it that give it its meaning:

  1. Section XI Textiles and textile articles
  2. Chapter 61 Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, knitted or crocheted
  3. 6109 T-shirts, singlets and other vests, knitted or crocheted heading
  4. 6109 10 00 – Of cotton HS subheading, CN code

You typed ten digits. The first eight, 6109 10 00, are the CN code shown above; the last two, 10, are the TARIC subheading digits, which the Commission adds where an EU measure needs a finer split (CN Regulation Art. 3(1), (2)). This table holds the CN, not the TARIC subheadings, so it cannot say whether TARIC lists that subheading. TARIC lists the measures for every origin that apply to 6109 10 00 10 on a date: TARIC measures for 6109 10 00 10.

The duty the CN prints for this code, and the import VAT on it, are worked out in the landed cost calculator.

A code or a word that matches a line does not mean your goods belong under it. Goods are classified under the General Interpretative Rules (CN Part One, Section I A): the terms of the headings and the section and chapter notes decide first, and only where those do not otherwise require do rules 2 to 5 apply (rule 1); rule 6 sets the same order for subheadings, with their subheading notes. The CN adds its own section and chapter notes (CN Regulation Art. 1(2)(c)). The Explanatory Notes to the HS and the Explanatory Notes to the CN (the 2019 edition, and the notes published since in the Official Journal, C series) say how a heading is read; the CN notes do not replace the HS ones. Titles of sections and chapters are for reference only (rule 1).

The decision that binds the customs authorities as against its holder is binding tariff information: only for goods that correspond in every respect to those it describes and are cleared after it takes effect, and for three years (UCC Art. 33(2), (3), (4); Art. 34 on when it ends).

The ten-digit TARIC code and the measures on it are in TARIC.

The lines are those of Annex I to the Combined Nomenclature Regulation, as replaced for 2026 by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1926, which applies from 1 January 2026; text read 5 October 2026. The CN is renewed every 1 January (CN Regulation Art. 12(1)).

Run the word search or run the ten-digit lookup to see them on the page with the field filled in.

What a match is

  • A line, not a classification. Goods are classified under the General Interpretative Rules in CN Part One, Section I A: the terms of the headings and the section and chapter notes decide first, and only where those do not otherwise require do rules 2 to 5 apply (rule 1); rule 6 sets the same order for subheadings, with their subheading notes. The CN adds its own section and chapter notes (CN Regulation Art. 1(2)(c)). The Explanatory Notes to the HS and the Explanatory Notes to the CN(the 2019 edition, and the notes published since in the Official Journal, C series) say how a heading is read; the CN notes do not replace the HS ones. The Commission's notes are not legally binding, but customs revoke a binding tariff information decision that is no longer compatible with one, from the day the note is published (UCC Art. 34(7)(a)(i)): CN explanatory notes.
  • The decision that binds customs. Binding tariff information is a decision that binds the customs authorities as against its holder: only for goods that correspond in every respect to those it describes and are cleared after it takes effect, and for three years (UCC Art. 33(2), (3), (4); Art. 34 on when it ends): binding tariff information.
  • The declarant answers for the code. The declarant owes any duty a wrong code left unpaid, and customs can claim it for three years after the debt was incurred, five to ten where criminal proceedings could follow (UCC Art. 15(2), 77(3), 103(1), 103(2)): what a wrong code costs.
  • The ten-digit code and its measures are in TARIC. The duty the CN prints for an 8-digit code, and the import VAT on it, are worked out in the landed cost calculator.

Every section and chapter

Open a section to see its chapters; each chapter lists its headings. The section and chapter titles are the regulation's, printed there in capitals.

Section I. Live animals; animal products
  • Chapter 1: Live animals
  • Chapter 2: Meat and edible meat offal
  • Chapter 3: Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates
  • Chapter 4: Dairy produce; birds' eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included
  • Chapter 5: Products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included
Section II. Vegetable products
  • Chapter 6: Live trees and other plants; bulbs, roots and the like; cut flowers and ornamental foliage
  • Chapter 7: Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers
  • Chapter 8: Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons
  • Chapter 9: Coffee, tea, maté and spices
  • Chapter 10: Cereals
  • Chapter 11: Products of the milling industry; malt; starches; inulin; wheat gluten
  • Chapter 12: Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder
  • Chapter 13: Lac; gums, resins and other vegetable saps and extracts
  • Chapter 14: Vegetable plaiting materials; vegetable products not elsewhere specified or included
Section III. Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
  • Chapter 15: 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
  • Chapter 16: Preparations of meat, of fish, of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, or of insects
  • Chapter 17: Sugars and sugar confectionery
  • Chapter 18: Cocoa and cocoa preparations
  • Chapter 19: Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; pastrycooks' products
  • Chapter 20: Preparations of vegetables, fruit, nuts or other parts of plants
  • Chapter 21: Miscellaneous edible preparations
  • Chapter 22: Beverages, spirits and vinegar
  • Chapter 23: Residues and waste from the food industries; prepared animal fodder
  • Chapter 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
Section V. Mineral products
  • Chapter 25: Salt; sulphur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement
  • Chapter 26: Ores, slag and ash
  • Chapter 27: Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
Section VI. Products of the chemical or allied industries
  • Chapter 28: Inorganic chemicals; organic or inorganic compounds of precious metals, of rare-earth metals, of radioactive elements or of isotopes
  • Chapter 29: Organic chemicals
  • Chapter 30: Pharmaceutical products
  • Chapter 31: Fertilisers
  • Chapter 32: Tanning or dyeing extracts; tannins and their derivatives; dyes, pigments and other colouring matter; paints and varnishes; putty and other mastics; inks
  • Chapter 33: Essential oils and resinoids; perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations
  • Chapter 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
  • Chapter 35: Albuminoidal substances; modified starches; glues; enzymes
  • Chapter 36: Explosives; pyrotechnic products; matches; pyrophoric alloys; certain combustible preparations
  • Chapter 37: Photographic or cinematographic goods
  • Chapter 38: Miscellaneous chemical products
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)
  • Chapter 41: Raw hides and skins (other than furskins) and leather
  • Chapter 42: Articles of leather; saddlery and harness; travel goods, handbags and similar containers; articles of animal gut (other than silkworm gut)
  • Chapter 43: Furskins and artificial fur; manufactures thereof
Section 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
  • Chapter 44: Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal
  • Chapter 45: Cork and articles of cork
  • Chapter 46: Manufactures of straw, of esparto or of other plaiting materials; basketware 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
  • Chapter 47: Pulp of wood or of other fibrous cellulosic material; recovered (waste and scrap) paper or paperboard
  • Chapter 48: Paper and paperboard; articles of paper pulp, of paper or of paperboard
  • Chapter 49: Printed books, newspapers, pictures and other products of the printing industry; manuscripts, typescripts and plans
Section XI. Textiles and textile articles
  • Chapter 50: Silk
  • Chapter 51: Wool, fine or coarse animal hair; horsehair yarn and woven fabric
  • Chapter 52: Cotton
  • Chapter 53: Other vegetable textile fibres; paper yarn and woven fabrics of paper yarn
  • Chapter 54: Man-made filaments; strip and the like of man-made textile materials
  • Chapter 55: Man-made staple fibres
  • Chapter 56: Wadding, felt and nonwovens; special yarns; twine, cordage, ropes and cables and articles thereof
  • Chapter 57: Carpets and other textile floor coverings
  • Chapter 58: Special woven fabrics; tufted textile fabrics; lace; tapestries; trimmings; embroidery
  • Chapter 59: Impregnated, coated, covered or laminated textile fabrics; textile articles of a kind suitable for industrial use
  • Chapter 60: Knitted or crocheted fabrics
  • Chapter 61: Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, knitted or crocheted
  • Chapter 62: Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, not knitted or crocheted
  • Chapter 63: Other made-up textile articles; sets; worn clothing and worn textile articles; rags
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
  • Chapter 64: Footwear, gaiters and the like; parts of such articles
  • Chapter 65: Headgear and parts thereof
  • Chapter 66: Umbrellas, sun umbrellas, walking sticks, seat-sticks, whips, riding-crops and parts thereof
  • Chapter 67: Prepared feathers and down and articles made of feathers or of down; 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; coin
  • Chapter 71: Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal, and articles thereof; imitation jewellery; coin
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
  • Chapter 84: Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
  • Chapter 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
Section XVII. Vehicles, aircraft, vessels and associated transport equipment
  • Chapter 86: Railway or tramway locomotives, rolling stock and parts thereof; railway or tramway track fixtures and fittings and parts thereof; mechanical (including electromechanical) traffic signalling equipment of all kinds
  • Chapter 87: Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
  • Chapter 88: Aircraft, spacecraft, and parts thereof
  • Chapter 89: Ships, boats and floating structures
Section XVIII. Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; clocks and watches; musical instruments; parts and accessories thereof
  • Chapter 90: Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
  • Chapter 91: Clocks and watches and parts thereof
  • Chapter 92: Musical instruments; parts and accessories of such articles
Section XIX. Arms and ammunition; parts and accessories thereof
  • Chapter 93: Arms and ammunition; parts and accessories thereof
Section XX. Miscellaneous manufactured articles
  • Chapter 94: Furniture; bedding, mattresses, mattress supports, cushions and similar stuffed furnishings; luminaires and lighting fittings, not elsewhere specified or included; illuminated signs, illuminated nameplates and the like; prefabricated buildings
  • Chapter 95: Toys, games and sports requisites; parts and accessories thereof
  • Chapter 96: Miscellaneous manufactured articles
Section XXI. Works of art, collectors' pieces and antiques
  • Chapter 97: Works of art, collectors' pieces and antiques
Chapters 98 and 99. The CN's own, in no section

Where the table comes from

The lines are Part Two of Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 as replaced for 2026 by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1926, which applies from 1 January 2026 to31 December 2026, read 5 October 2026. The Commission publishes the next one by 31 October each year (Art. 12(1)). A line is shown with the text the regulation prints, without its footnote markers; where a footnote is printed in a line's description, or in the note column of chapter 99, the answer shows its text. The notes of each section and chapter are printed in the regulation before the table of that chapter, in Annex I, Part Two.