Chapter 42 — Articles of leather; saddlery and harness; travel goods, handbags and similar containers; articles of animal gut (other than silk-worm gut) 4-digit heading

42.02 Trunks; suit, camera, jewellery, cutlery cases; travel, tool, similar bags; wholly or mainly covered by leather, composition leather, plastic sheeting, textile materials, vulcanised fibre, paperboard

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

Section VIII, Hides, Skins & Leather — raw hides, leather, furskins, saddlery, handbags and travel goods.

  1. 42 Chapter Articles of leather; saddlery and harness; travel goods, handbags and similar containers; articles of animal gut (other than silk-worm gut)
  2. 02 Heading Trunks; suit, camera, jewellery, cutlery cases; travel, tool, similar bags; wholly or mainly covered by leather, composition leather, plastic sheeting, textile materials, vulcanised fibre, paperboard
  3. —— Subheading Pick one of the 12 six-digit codes below

Chapter 42 covers articles of leather; saddlery and harness; travel goods, handbags and similar containers; articles of animal gut (other than silk-worm gut): the finished-goods chapter downstream of the raw and tanned leather in chapter 41. Classification tip: A handbag or travel good made mostly of leather but trimmed with textile or plastic is classified by whichever material gives the item its essential character, usually the outer surface area, not by weight.

All of chapter 42

The 12 six-digit codes under 42.02

One of these is the number you declare.

Other headings in chapter 42

42.01 Saddlery and harness for any animal (including traces, leads, knee pads, muzzles, saddle cloths, saddle bags, dog coats and the like) of any material 42.03 Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, of leather or of composition leather 42.05 Leather or composition leather articles n.e.c. in chapter 42 42.06 Articles of gut (other than silk-worm gut), of goldbeater's skin, of bladders or of tendons

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 42.02? 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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42.02 FAQ

Heading 42.02 covers trunks; suit, camera, jewellery, cutlery cases; travel, tool, similar bags; wholly or mainly covered by leather, composition leather, plastic sheeting, textile materials, vulcanised fibre, paperboard. It is part of chapter 42 (articles of leather; saddlery and harness; travel goods, handbags and similar containers; articles of animal gut (other than silk-worm gut)), and it is subdivided into 12 six-digit subheadings — the level you actually declare.

Pick one of the 12 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 VIII and to chapter 42. 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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