1001.91 Cereals; wheat and meslin, other than durum wheat, seed
A full HS code. These six digits are what goes on a customs declaration, and they mean the same thing in every country that uses the Harmonized System.
Section II, Vegetable Products — plants, vegetables, fruit, nuts, coffee, tea, cereals, seeds and flours.
- 10 Chapter Cereals
- 01 Heading Wheat and meslin
- 91 Subheading Cereals; wheat and meslin, other than durum wheat, seed
Chapter 10 covers cereals in their raw grain form: wheat, rice, maize (corn), barley, oats, rye, sorghum and other grains. Milled or processed cereal products (flour, malt, starch) move to chapter 11, and prepared cereal foods (breakfast cereal, pasta) move to chapter 19. Classification tip: Rice classification splits by husked, milled, broken and parboiled state, each with different duty treatment in many markets: the six-digit code is very specific here.
All of chapter 10Other codes under 10.01
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 1001.91? A customs hold shows up as a milestone that stops moving — follow the container or the air waybill from departure to delivery.
Track a shipment1001.91 FAQ
1001.91 covers cereals; wheat and meslin, other than durum wheat, seed. It sits under heading 10.01 (wheat and meslin) in chapter 10, Section II of the Harmonized System.
It is the international part of it. Six digits are the same in every country that applies the Harmonized System; the importing country then extends them to eight or ten for its own tariff and statistics. Declare 1001.91 plus whatever national digits the destination’s tariff schedule adds to it.
The General Rules of Interpretation, read together with the notes to Section II and to chapter 10. 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.