HS code section 9
HS code section 9 is section IX of the schedule, wood and articles of wood, cork, and plaiting materials, spread over chapters 44 to 46; the headings below list all three chapters.
HS section IX: wood, cork and plaiting materials
| Heading | Description | Lines | Duty-free share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4401 | Fuel wood, in logs, in billets, in twigs, in faggots or in similar forms; wood in chips or particles; sawdust and wood waste and scrap, whether or not agglomerated in logs, briquettes, pellets or similar forms: | 13 | 62% |
| 4402 | Wood charcoal (including shell or nut charcoal), whether or not agglomerated: | 3 | 100% |
| 4403 | Wood in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or sap- wood, or roughly squared: | 85 | 6% |
| 4404 | Hoopwood; split poles; piles, pickets and stakes of wood, pointed but not sawn lengthwise; wooden sticks, roughly trimmed but not turned, bent or otherwise worked, suitable for the manufacture of walking-sticks, umbrellas, tool handles or the like; chipwood and the like: | 6 | 0% |
| 4406 | Railway or tramway sleepers (cross-ties) of wood: | 4 | 100% |
| 4407 | Wood sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or end-jointed, of a thickness exceeding 6 mm: | 74 | 15% |
| 4408 | Sheets for veneering (including those obtained by slicing laminated wood), for plywood or for similar laminated wood and other wood, sawn lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded, spliced or end-jointed, of a thickness not exceeding 6 mm: | 27 | 4% |
| 4409 | Wood (including strips and friezes for parquet flooring, not assembled) continuously shaped (tongued, grooved, rebated, chamfered, V-jointed, beaded, molded, rounded or the like) along any of its edges, ends or faces, whether or not planed, sanded or end-jointed: | 47 | 30% |
| 4410 | Particle board, oriented strand board (OSB) and similar board (for example, waferboard) of wood or other ligneous materials, whether or not agglomerated with resins or other organic binding substances: | 11 | 9% |
| 4411 | Fiberboard of wood or other ligneous materials, whether or not bonded with resins or other organic substances: | 36 | 42% |
| 4412 | Plywood, veneered panels and similar laminated wood: | 123 | 11% |
| 4414 | Wooden frames for paintings, photographs, mirrors or similar objects: | 2 | 0% |
| 4415 | Packing cases, boxes, crates, drums and similar packings, of wood; cable-drums, of wood; pallets, box-pallets and other load boards, of wood; pallet collars of wood: | 5 | 60% |
| 4418 | Builders' joinery and carpentry of wood, including cellular wood panels and assembled flooring panels; shingles and shakes: | 45 | 16% |
| 4419 | Tableware and kitchenware, of wood: | 8 | 0% |
| 4420 | Wood marquetry and inlaid wood; caskets and cases for jewelry or cutlery and similar articles, of wood; statuettes and other ornaments, of wood; wooden articles of furniture not falling within chapter 94: | 8 | 25% |
| 4421 | Other articles of wood: | 42 | 26% |
| 4501 | Natural cork, raw or simply prepared; waste cork; crushed, granulated or ground cork: | 3 | 100% |
| 4503 | Articles of natural cork: | 7 | 86% |
| 4504 | Agglomerated cork (with or without a binding substance) and articles of agglomerated cork: | 8 | 100% |
| 4601 | Plaits and similar products of plaiting materials, whether or not assembled into strips; plaiting materials, plaits and similar products of plaiting materials, bound together in parallel strands or woven, in sheet form, whether or not being finished articles (for example, mats, matting, screens): | 20 | 25% |
| 4602 | Basketwork, wickerwork and other articles, made directly to shape from plaiting materials or made up from articles of heading 4601; articles of loofah: | 29 | 28% |
Section IX groups the three plant-fibre chapters that are not paper or textiles. Cork, chapter 45, enters almost entirely free; most lines of wood and of basketware carry a rate, and the largest headings, sawn wood (4407), wood in the rough (4403) and plywood (4412), are the ones to check first.
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Methodology
The headings of chapters 44 to 46 are read from the current schedule with the count of ten-digit lines under each and the share that is duty free.
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- The Harmonized System groups goods into 21 sections and 97 chapters, chapter 77 being reserved for future use. Source (checked 2026-09-05)
- The Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States is published by the United States International Trade Commission and revised through the year; this site reads the current release and re-downloads it every quarter. Source (checked 2026-09-05)