10.03 Barley
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.
- 10 Chapter Cereals
- 03 Heading Barley
- —— Subheading Pick one of the 2 six-digit codes below
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 10The 2 six-digit codes under 10.03
One of these is the number you declare.
Other headings in chapter 10
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 10.03? A customs hold shows up as a milestone that stops moving — follow the container or the air waybill from departure to delivery.
Track a shipment10.03 FAQ
Heading 10.03 covers barley. It is part of chapter 10 (cereals), and it is subdivided into 2 six-digit subheadings — the level you actually declare.
Pick one of the 2 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 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.