Chapter 44 — Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal 4-digit heading

44.12 Plywood, veneered panels and similar laminated wood

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

Section IX, Wood & Wood Products — wood, charcoal, cork and articles of straw or basketware.

  1. 44 Chapter Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal
  2. 12 Heading Plywood, veneered panels and similar laminated wood
  3. —— Subheading Pick one of the 14 six-digit codes below

Chapter 44 covers wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal: raw lumber, sawn timber, plywood, particleboard, and finished wood products like frames and tools. It is one of the largest manufacturing chapters, spanning everything from raw logs to finished wooden goods, with treatment method (sawn, planed, veneered) driving much of the subheading structure. Classification tip: Wood packaging material (pallets, crates) usually needs ISPM 15 heat-treatment or fumigation certification stamped on the item itself, separate from and in addition to the HS code on the invoice.

All of chapter 44

The 14 six-digit codes under 44.12

One of these is the number you declare.

Other headings in chapter 44

44.01 Fuel wood, in logs, billets, twigs, faggots or similar forms; wood in chip or particles; sawdust and wood waste and scrap, whether or not agglomerated in logs, briquettes, pellets or similar forms 44.02 Wood charcoal (including shell or nut charcoal), whether or not agglomerated 44.03 Wood in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or sapwood, or roughly squared 44.04 Hoopwood; split poles; piles, pickets, stakes of wood, pointed, not sawn lengthwise; wooden sticks, roughly trimmed, not turned, bent, etc., suitable for walking sticks, umbrellas, tool handles, etc. 44.05 Wood wool; wood flour 44.06 Railway or tramway sleepers (cross-ties) of wood 44.07 Wood sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or finger-jointed, of a thickness exceeding 6mm 44.08 Sheets for veneering (including those obtained by slicing laminated wood), for plywood or for similar laminated wood and other wood, sawn lengthwise, sliced or peeled, planed or not, sanded, spliced or end-jointed, of a thickness not exceeding 6 mm 44.09 Wood (including strips, friezes for parquet flooring, not assembled), continuously shaped (tongued, grooved, v-jointed, beaded or the like) along any edges, ends or faces, whether or not planed, sanded or end-jointed 44.10 Particle board, oriented strand board (OSB) and similar board (e.g. waferboard) of wood or other ligneous materials, whether or not agglomerated with resins or other organic binding substances 44.11 Fibreboard of wood or other ligneous materials, whether or not bonded with resins or other organic substances 44.13 Densified wood, in blocks, plates, strips or profile shapes 44.14 Wooden frames; for paintings, photographs, mirrors or similar objects 44.15 Packing cases, boxes, crates, drums and similar packings, of wood; cable-drums of wood; pallets, box pallets and other load boards, of wood; pallet collars of wood 44.16 Casks, barrels, vats, tubs and other coopers' products and parts thereof, of wood, including staves 44.17 Tools, tool bodies, tool handles, broom or brush bodies and handles, of wood; boot or shoe lasts and trees, of wood 44.18 Builders' joinery and carpentry of wood, including cellular wood panels, assembled flooring panels, shingles and shakes 44.19 Tableware and kitchenware, of wood 44.20 Wood marquetry and inlaid wood; caskets and cases for jewellery or cutlery, and similar articles of wood; statuettes and other ornaments of wood; wooden articles of furniture not falling in chapter 94 44.21 Wooden articles n.e.c. in heading no. 4414 to 4420

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 44.12? 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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44.12 FAQ

Heading 44.12 covers plywood, veneered panels and similar laminated wood. It is part of chapter 44 (wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal), and it is subdivided into 14 six-digit subheadings — the level you actually declare.

Pick one of the 14 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 IX and to chapter 44. 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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