Online Trade Tariff

Getting help from HMRC if you need to find a commodity code

Get help from HMRC if you cannot find the right commodity code for your goods, you can contact HMRC for advice or for a decision on your goods.

Informal advice

You can use HMRC's Tariff Classification Service to get non-legally binding classification advice.

HMRC will try to respond to your email within 5 working days.

You should only use this service for quick, basic and informal decisions. You should consider getting a legally binding decision instead, if you want HMRC to do a more in-depth analysis of your goods.

Formal legally binding decision

You can ask HMRC to give you a legally binding decision on your goods. You may want to consider this if your goods are:

• hard to classify and informal advice is not suitable for you or your business
• a new type of product (this will be the first time the product will have ever been classified)

Check what you’ll need to get a legally binding decision.

If you want to check if a decision has already been made on goods that are similar to yours you can search for previous:

• Advance Tariff Rulings for Great Britain (England, Wales and Scotland)
• European Binding Tariff Information decisions for Northern Ireland