Online Trade Tariff

Help on using the tariff

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Contents

1. Leave feedback
2. How to classify your goods: what are commodity codes?
3. A background to quotas
4. How to value your goods for import or export
5. What are trade remedies, safeguards and retaliatory duties?
6. What is origin and why is it important for international trade?
7. Getting help from HMRC if you need to find a commodity code
8. Goods that cannot be imported in a single consignment
9. Items packaged as a set
10. Checking what your goods are made of
11. Goods that are difficult to classify
12. Rules of origin
13. Ask a question

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

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

Alternatively, you can use our Digital Assistant (opens in new tab) to get help on classifying your goods.

Goods that cannot be imported in a single consignment

If you have goods (like large machinery) that cannot be transported in a single consignment, you may need to split them up.

Find out if your goods qualify for import in split consignments and what you need to do to import goods in this way.

Items packaged as a set

If your items are packaged in a set to sell and be used together, you should classify them using the most significant item in that set.

If you cannot work out which item is the most significant, use the commodity code that has the largest numerical value.

You must classify the items separately if they’re either:

• not packaged as a set for retail sale
• not to be used together

Checking what your goods are made of

For certain types of goods, you may need precise details of what your goods are made up of. For these you may want to get advice from an independent laboratory.

You can find a list of analysts in the directory of consultants for the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Goods that are difficult to classify

Some goods are more difficult to classify than others. You can read more on how to classify these goods correctly:

• ceramics
• computers and software
• drones and aircraft parts
• edible fruit, vegetables and nuts
• electrical equipment
• electric lamps
• footwear
• herbal medicines, supplements and tonics
• iron and steel
• leather
• organic chemicals
• pharmaceutical products and placebos
• plastics
• rice
• textile apparel
• tobacco
• toys, games and festive articles
• vehicles, bicycles, parts and accessories
• wood

Rules of origin

Find out about the key concepts involved in determining a product's origin.

• Rules of origin glossary
• Duty drawback
  Find out about duty drawback and the Trade Agreements that include it

Ask a question

If you are unable to find the information you need, you can submit a question using our enquiry form.