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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
- Chapter 16 - Preparations of meat, of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates
- 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
- 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 - Fertilizers
- 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
- 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 silk-worm gut)
- Chapter 43 - Furskins and artificial fur; manufactures thereof
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Chapter 68 - Articles of stone, plaster, cement, asbestos, mica or similar materials
- Chapter 69 - Ceramic products
- Chapter 70 - Glass and glassware
Section XV - Base metals and articles of base metal
- Chapter 72 - Iron and steel
- Chapter 73 - Articles of iron or steel
- Chapter 74 - Copper and articles thereof
- Chapter 75 - Nickel and articles thereof
- Chapter 76 - Aluminum and articles thereof
- Chapter 77 - (Reserved for possible future use in the Harmonized System)
- Chapter 78 - Lead and articles thereof
- Chapter 79 - Zinc and articles thereof
- Chapter 80 - Tin and articles thereof
- Chapter 81 - Other base metals; cermets; articles thereof
- Chapter 82 - Tools, implements, cutlery, spoons and forks, of base metal; parts thereof of base metal
- Chapter 83 - Miscellaneous articles of base metal
- 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 electro-mechanical) 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
- 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
Section XX - Miscellaneous manufactured articles
- Chapter 94 - Furniture; bedding, mattresses, mattress supports, cushions and similar stuffed furnishings; lamps and lighting fittings, not elsewhere specified or included; illuminated signs, illuminated name-plates and the like; prefabricated buildings
- Chapter 95 - Toys, games and sports requisites; parts and accessories thereof
- Chapter 96 - Miscellaneous manufactured articles
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