Chapter 08 — Fruit and nuts, edible; peel of citrus fruit or melons 4-digit heading

08.02 Nuts (excluding coconuts, Brazils and cashew nuts); fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled

One level above the number you declare. Pick one of the six-digit codes below.

Section II, Vegetable Products — plants, vegetables, fruit, nuts, coffee, tea, cereals, seeds and flours.

  1. 08 Chapter Fruit and nuts, edible; peel of citrus fruit or melons
  2. 02 Heading Nuts (excluding coconuts, Brazils and cashew nuts); fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled
  3. —— Subheading Pick one of the 17 six-digit codes below

Chapter 8 covers edible fruit and nuts, fresh, dried or otherwise simply preserved, plus the peel of citrus fruit or melons. Like vegetables, once fruit is cooked, candied or turned into jam or juice concentrate, it moves to chapter 20 or chapter 22 instead. Classification tip: Fresh versus dried state is the main classification fork here, and fresh fruit shipments are usually subject to the tightest phytosanitary and pest-inspection scrutiny of any chapter in Section II.

All of chapter 08

The 17 six-digit codes under 08.02

One of these is the number you declare.

Other headings in chapter 08

08.01 Nuts, edible; coconuts, Brazil nuts and cashew nuts, fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled 08.03 Bananas, including plantains; fresh or dried 08.04 Dates, figs, pineapples, avocados, guavas, mangoes and mangosteens; fresh or dried 08.05 Citrus fruit; fresh or dried 08.06 Grapes; fresh or dried 08.07 Melons (including watermelons) and papaws (papayas); fresh 08.08 Apples, pears and quinces; fresh 08.09 Apricots, cherries, peaches (including nectarines), plums and sloes, fresh 08.10 Fruit, fresh; n.e.c. in chapter 08 08.11 Fruit and nuts; uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water, frozen, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter 08.12 Fruit and nuts provisionally preserved, but unsuitable in that state for immediate consumption 08.13 Fruit, dried, other than that of heading no. 0801 to 0806; mixtures of nuts or dried fruits of this chapter 08.14 Peel of citrus fruit or melons (including watermelons); fresh, frozen dried or provisionally preserved in brine, in sulphur water or in other preservative solutions

The wording above is the Harmonized System nomenclature as published by the World Customs Organization, HS 2022 edition. It is a classification reference, not a tariff: it carries no duty rates, and it stops at six digits — the importing country adds its own beyond that.

Classification is decided by the General Rules of Interpretation and the section and chapter notes, and it is the importing country’s customs authority that makes it binding.

Shipping goods under 08.02? A customs hold shows up as a milestone that stops moving — follow the container or the air waybill from departure to delivery.

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08.02 FAQ

Heading 08.02 covers nuts (excluding coconuts, brazils and cashew nuts); fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled. It is part of chapter 08 (fruit and nuts, edible; peel of citrus fruit or melons), and it is subdivided into 17 six-digit subheadings — the level you actually declare.

Pick one of the 17 subheadings below. Those six digits are what customs recognises internationally; the importing country may extend them to eight or ten in its own tariff schedule.

The General Rules of Interpretation, read together with the notes to Section II and to chapter 08. A description that reads right is not enough on its own — the notes routinely pull goods out of the chapter they obviously belong to and put them somewhere else. Where duty or licensing turns on the answer, ask the importing country’s customs authority for a binding ruling.

A wrong or missing code is one of the common reasons customs holds a container, and a hold shows up as a milestone that stops moving. Watch for it in the container tracking app, on the air waybill in the air cargo tracker, or through the tracking API.

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