1401.90 Vegetable materials of a kind used primarily for plaiting; n.e.c. in heading no. 1401
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.
- 14 Chapter Vegetable plaiting materials; vegetable products not elsewhere specified or included
- 01 Heading Vegetable materials of a kind used primarily for plaiting; (e.g. bamboos, rattans, reeds, rushes, osier, raffia, cleaned, bleached or dyed cereal straw and lime bark)
- 90 Subheading Vegetable materials of a kind used primarily for plaiting; n.e.c. in heading no. 1401
Chapter 14 covers vegetable plaiting materials (bamboo, rattan, reed used in basketware) and other vegetable products not classified elsewhere: a small, mostly craft-material chapter. Classification tip: Raw plaiting material stays in chapter 14, but once it's woven into a finished basket or piece of furniture it reclassifies under chapter 46 (basketware) or chapter 94 (furniture) instead.
All of chapter 14Other codes under 14.01
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 1401.90? 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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1401.90 covers vegetable materials of a kind used primarily for plaiting; n.e.c. in heading no. 1401. It sits under heading 14.01 (vegetable materials of a kind used primarily for plaiting; (e.g. bamboos, rattans, reeds, rushes, osier, raffia, cleaned, bleached or dyed cereal straw and lime bark)) in chapter 14, 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 1401.90 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 14. 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.