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Heading 4016 - Other articles of vulcanised rubber other than hard rubber

• Heading: 4016
• Classification: Other articles of vulcanised rubber other than hard rubber
• Date of trade: 2 June 2026
• Date of trade: Change

There are 19 commodities in this category. Choose the commodity code that best matches your goods to see more information. If your item is not listed by name, it may be shown under what it's used for, what it's made from or 'Other'.

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The number following each commodity's description is its commodity code. Description

VAT Third country duty Supplementary unit Commodity code

• Of cellular rubber
  401610
  • For technical uses, for use in civil aircraft
    20% or 0%

    0.00 %

     

    4016100010
  • Other
    20%

    2.00 %

     

    4016100090
• Other
  • Floor coverings and mats
    20%

    2.00 %

     

    4016910000
  • Erasers
    20%

    2.00 %

     

    4016920000
  • Gaskets, washers and other seals
    401693
    • For technical uses, for use in civil aircraft
      20% or 0%

      0.00 %

       

      4016930010
    • Rectangular ethylene-propylene-diene rubber gasket, with:
      -a length of 72 mm or more but not more than 825 mm,
      -a width of 18 mm or more but not more than 155 mm,
      -a peak temperature of 150°c or more but not more than 240°c,
      -a permissible material outflow at the place of the mold split of not more than 0.3 mm
      
      20%

      2.00 %

       

      4016930030
    • Other
      20%

      2.00 %

       

      4016930090
  • Boat or dock fenders, whether or not inflatable
    20%

    2.00 %

     

    4016940000
  • Other inflatable articles
    20%

    2.00 %

     

    4016950000
  • Other
    401699
    • For motor vehicles of headings 8701 to 8705
      • Rubber-to-metal bonded parts
        40169952
        • Hanger of the exhaust muffler consisting of:
          -a steel bracket with at least one mounting hole and
          -silent block,
          for use in the manufacture of goods of chapter 87​
          20%

          2.00 %

           

          4016995210
        • Other
          20%

          2.00 %

           

          4016995290
      • Other
        40169957
        • Air intake hose for air supply to the combustion part of the engine comprising at least:
          - one flexible rubber hose,
          - one plastic hose, and
          - metal clips,
          - whether or not a resonator
          for use in the manufacture of goods of chapter 87
          20%

          2.00 %

          p/st

          4016995710
        • Wiper rubber used in the manufacture of windshield wipers,
          -made of a mixture of natural rubber and chloroprene rubber
          -with a shore hardness of 60a
          
          20%

          2.00 %

           

          4016995740
        • Other
          20%

          2.00 %

           

          4016995790
    • Other
      • Rubber-to-metal bonded parts
        40169991
        • For technical uses, for use in civil aircraft
          20% or 0%

          0.00 %

           

          4016999110
        • Other
          20%

          2.00 %

           

          4016999190
      • Other
        40169997
        • For technical uses, for use in civil aircraft
          20% or 0%

          0.00 %

           

          4016999710
        • Tyre moulding bladder
          20%

          2.00 %

           

          4016999730
        • Other
          20%

          2.00 %

           

          4016999790

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Footnotes

Code

Description

TN701

According to the Council Regulation (EU) No 692/2014 (OJ L183, p. 9), as retained in UK Law, it shall be prohibited to import into European Union goods originating in Crimea or Sevastopol. The prohibition shall not apply in respect of: (a) the execution until 26 September 2014, of trade contracts concluded before 25 June 2014, or of ancillary contracts necessary for the execution of such contracts, provided that the natural or legal persons, entity or body seeking to perform the contract have notified, at least 10 working days in advance, the activity or transaction to the competent authority of the Member State in which they are established. (b) goods originating in Crimea or Sevastopol which have been made available to the Ukrainian authorities for examination, for which compliance with the conditions conferring entitlement to preferential origin has been verified and for which a certificate of origin has been issued in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 978/2012 and Regulation (EU) No 374/2014, as retained in UK Law, or in accordance with the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement

Chapter notes

1. Except where the context otherwise requires, throughout the nomenclature the expression ‘rubber’ means the following products, whether or not vulcanised or hard: natural rubber, balata, gutta-percha, guayule, chicle and similar natural gums, synthetic rubber, factice derived from oils, and such substances reclaimed.

2. This chapter does not cover:

   a. goods of Section XI (textiles and textile articles);

   b. footwear or parts thereof of Chapter 64;

   c. headgear or parts thereof (including bathing caps) of Chapter 65;

   d. mechanical or electrical appliances or parts thereof of Section XVI (including electrical goods of all kinds), of hard rubber;

   e. articles of Chapter 90, Chapter 92, Chapter 94 or Chapter 96; or

   f. articles of Chapter 95 (other than sports gloves, mittens and mitts and articles of heading 4011 to 4013).

3. In heading 4001 to 4003 and 4005, the expression ‘primary forms’ applies only to the following forms:

   a. liquids and pastes (including latex, whether or not pre-vulcanised, and other dispersions and solutions);

   b. blocks of irregular shape, lumps, bales, powders, granules, crumbs and similar bulk forms.

4. In Note 1 to this chapter and in heading 4002, the expression ‘synthetic rubber’ applies to:

   a. unsaturated synthetic substances which can be irreversibly transformed by vulcanisation with sulphur into non-thermoplastic substances which, at a temperature between 18°C and 29°C, will not break on being extended to three times their original length and will return, after being extended to twice their original length, within a period of five minutes, to a length not greater than one and a half times their original length. For the purposes of this test, substances necessary for the cross-linking, such as vulcanising activators or accelerators, may be added; the presence of substances as provided for by Note 5 (b) (2) and (3) is also permitted. However, the presence of any substances not necessary for the crosslinking, such as extenders, plasticisers and fillers, is not permitted;

   b. thioplasts (TM); and

   c. natural rubber modified by grafting or mixing with plastics, depolymerised natural rubber, mixtures of unsaturated synthetic substances with saturated synthetic high polymers provided that all the abovementioned products comply with the requirements concerning vulcanisation, elongation and recovery in (a) above.

5. (A) Headings 4001 and 4002 do not apply to any rubber or mixture of rubbers which has been compounded, before or after coagulation, with:

   (1) vulcanising agents, accelerators, retarders or activators (other than those added for the preparation of prevulcanised rubber latex);

   (2) pigments or other colouring matter, other than those added solely for the purpose of identification;

   (3) plasticisers or extenders (except mineral oil in the case of oil-extended rubber), fillers, reinforcing agents, organic solvents or any other substances, except those permitted under (B);

   (B) The presence of the following substances in any rubber or mixture of rubbers shall not affect its classification in heading 4001 or 4002, as the case may be, provided that such rubber or mixture of rubbers retains its essential character as a raw material:

   (1) emulsifiers or anti-tack agents;

   (2) small amounts of breakdown products of emulsifiers;

   (3) very small amounts of the following: heat-sensitive agents (generally, for obtaining thermosensitive rubber latexes), cationic surface-active agents (generally, for obtaining electropositive rubber latexes), antioxidants, coagulants, crumbling agents, freeze-resisting agents, peptisers, preservatives, stabilisers, viscosity-control agents, or similar special-purpose additives.

6. For the purposes of heading 4004, the expression ‘waste, parings and scrap’ means rubber waste, parings and scrap from the manufacture or working of rubber and rubber goods definitely not usable as such because of cutting-up, wear or other reasons.

7. Thread wholly of vulcanised rubber, of which any cross-sectional dimension exceeds 5mm, is to be classified as strip, rods or profile shapes, of heading 4008.

8. Heading 4010 includes conveyor or transmission belts or belting of textile fabric impregnated, coated, covered or laminated with rubber or made from textile yarn or cord impregnated, coated, covered or sheathed with rubber.

9. In heading 4001, 4002, 4003, 4005 and 4008, the expression ‘plates’, ‘sheets’ and ‘strip’ apply only to plates, sheets and strip and to blocks of regular geometric shape, uncut or simply cut to rectangular (including square) shape, whether or not having the character of articles and whether or not printed or otherwise surface worked, but not otherwise cut to shape or further worked.

   In heading 4008 the expressions ‘rods’ and ‘profile shapes’ apply only to such products, whether or not cut to length or surface-worked but not otherwise worked.

Additional chapter note

Where the woven, knitted or crocheted fabrics, felt or nonwovens are present merely for reinforcing purposes, gloves, mittens or mitts impregnated, coated or covered with cellular rubber belong to Chapter 40, even if they are:

• made up from woven, knitted or crocheted fabrics (other than those of heading 5906), felt or nonwovens impregnated, coated or covered with cellular rubber, or

• made up from unimpregnated, uncoated or uncovered woven, knitted or crocheted fabrics, felt or nonwovens and subsequently impregnated, coated or covered with cellular rubber.

(Note 3(c) to Chapter 56 and note 5, last paragraph, to Chapter 59).

Section notes

1. Goods put up in sets consisting of two or more separate constituents, some or all of which fall in this section and are intended to be mixed together to obtain a product of Section VI or VII, are to be classified in the heading appropriate to that product, provided that the constituents are:

   a. having regard to the manner in which they are put up, clearly identifiable as being intended to be used together without first being repacked;

   b. presented together; and

   c. identifiable, whether by their nature or by the relative proportions in which they are present, as being complementary one to another.

2. Except for the goods of heading 3918 or 3919, plastics, rubber, and articles thereof, printed with motifs, characters or pictorial representations, which are not merely subsidiary to the primary use of the goods, fall in Chapter 49.

General Rules for the Interpretation of goods

Classification of goods in the Tariff shall be governed by the following principles:

Rule 1

The titles of sections, chapters and sub-chapters are provided for ease of reference only. For legal purposes, classification shall be determined according to the terms of the headings and any relative section or chapter notes and, provided such headings or notes do not otherwise require, according to the following provisions.

Rule 2

1. Any reference in a heading to an article shall be taken to include a reference to that article incomplete or unfinished, provided that, as presented, the incomplete or unfinished article has the essential character of the complete or finished article. It shall also be taken to include a reference to that article complete or finished (or falling to be classified as complete or finished by virtue of this rule), presented unassembled or disassembled.
2. Any reference in a heading to a material or substance shall be taken to include a reference to mixtures or combinations of that material or substance with other materials or substances. Any reference to goods of a given material or substance shall be taken to include a reference to goods consisting wholly or partly of such material or substance. The classification of goods consisting of more than one material or substance shall be according to the principles of rule 3.

Rule 3

When, by application of rule 2(b) or for any other reason, goods are prima facie classifiable under two or more headings, classification shall be effected as follows:

1. the heading which provides the most specific description shall be preferred to headings providing a more general description. However, when two or more headings each refer to part only of the materials or substances contained in mixed or composite goods or to part only of the items in a set put up for retail sale, those headings are to be regarded as equally specific in relation to those goods, even if one of them gives a more complete or precise description of the goods;
2. mixtures, composite goods consisting of different materials or made up of different components, and goods put up in sets for retail sale, which cannot be classified by reference to 3(a), shall be classified as if they consisted of the material or component which gives them their essential character, insofar as this criterion is applicable;
3. when goods cannot be classified by reference to 3(a) or (b), they shall be classified under the heading which occurs last in numerical order among those which equally merit consideration.

Rule 4

Goods which cannot be classified in accordance with the above rules shall be classified under the heading appropriate to the goods to which they are most akin.

Rule 5

In addition to the foregoing provisions, the following rules shall apply in respect of the goods referred to therein:

1. camera cases, musical instrument cases, gun cases, drawing-instrument cases, necklace cases and similar containers, specially shaped or fitted to contain a specific article or set of articles, suitable for long-term use and presented with the articles for which they are intended, shall be classified with such articles when of a kind normally sold therewith. This rule does not, however, apply to containers which give the whole its essential character;
2. subject to the provisions of rule 5(a), packing materials and packing containers ( 1 ) presented with the goods therein shall be classified with the goods if they are of a kind normally used for packing such goods. However, this provision is not binding when such packing materials or packing containers are clearly suitable for repetitive use.

Rule 6

For legal purposes, the classification of goods in the subheadings of a heading shall be determined according to the terms of those subheadings and any related subheading notes and, mutatis mutandis, to the above rules, on the understanding that only subheadings at the same level are comparable. For the purposes of this rule, the relative section and chapter notes also apply, unless the context requires otherwise.

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