Chapter 96 — Miscellaneous manufactured articles 4-digit heading

96.11 Stamps; date, numbering, sealing stamps and the like (including devices for printing or embossing labels), designed for operating by hand; hand operated composing sticks and printing sets

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

Section XX, Miscellaneous Manufactures — furniture, lighting, toys, games, sports equipment and other manufactured articles.

  1. 96 Chapter Miscellaneous manufactured articles
  2. 11 Heading Stamps; date, numbering, sealing stamps and the like (including devices for printing or embossing labels), designed for operating by hand; hand operated composing sticks and printing sets
  3. —— Subheading Pick one of the 1 six-digit codes below

Chapter 96 covers miscellaneous manufactured articles that don't fit any other chapter: buttons, pens, lighters, brushes, combs and similar everyday manufactured goods. Classification tip: Lighters and matches-adjacent products sometimes attract child-resistant packaging or fire-safety compliance requirements in destination markets beyond the base HS classification.

All of chapter 96

The 1 six-digit code under 96.11

One of these is the number you declare.

Other headings in chapter 96

96.01 Ivory, bone, tortoise-shell, horn, antlers, coral, mother-of-pearl and other animal carving material and articles of these materials; worked, (including articles obtained by moulding) 96.02 Vegetable, mineral carving material and articles of these materials, moulded or carved articles of wax, stearin, natural gums, resins or modelling pastes, worked unhardened gelatin (not heading no. 3503) 96.03 Brooms, brushes (including parts of machines), hand operated floor sweepers, mops and feather dusters; knots and tufts for broom or brush making; paint pads and rollers; squeegees 96.04 Hand sieves and hand riddles 96.05 Travel sets; for personal toilet, sewing, shoe or clothes cleaning 96.06 Buttons, press-fasteners, snap-fasteners and press-studs, button moulds and other parts of these articles; button blanks 96.07 Slide fasteners and parts thereof 96.08 Pens; ball-point, felt tipped, other porous tipped pens; fountain pens, stylograph pens duplicating stylos, propelling or sliding pencils; parts of the foregoing, excluding those of heading no. 9609 96.09 Pencils (not of heading no. 9608), crayons, pencil leads, pastels, drawing charcoals, writing or drawing chalks and tailors' chalks 96.10 Slates and boards, with writing or drawing surfaces, whether or not framed 96.12 Typewriter, similar ribbons, inked, otherwise prepared for giving impressions, whether or not on spools or in cartridges; ink pads, whether or not inked, with or without boxes 96.13 Cigarette lighters and other lighters, whether or not mechanical or electrical and parts thereof other than flints and wicks 96.14 Smoking pipes (including pipe bowls) and cigar or cigarette holders, and parts thereof 96.15 Combs, hair-slides and similar; hairpins, curling pins, curling grips and hair curlers and the like, other than those of heading no. 8516 and parts thereof 96.16 Scent sprays and similar toilet sprays and mounts and heads therefor; powder-puffs and pads for the application of cosmetics or toilet preparations 96.17 Vacuum flasks and other vacuum vessels, complete with cases; parts thereof other than glass inners 96.18 Tailors' dummies and other lay figures; automata and other animated displays used for shop window dressing 96.19 Sanitary towels (pads) and tampons, napkins (diapers), napkin liners and similar articles, of any material 96.20 Monopods, bipods, tripods and similar articles

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 96.11? 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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96.11 FAQ

Heading 96.11 covers stamps; date, numbering, sealing stamps and the like (including devices for printing or embossing labels), designed for operating by hand; hand operated composing sticks and printing sets. It is part of chapter 96 (miscellaneous manufactured articles), and it is subdivided into 1 six-digit subheadings — the level you actually declare.

Pick one of the 1 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 XX and to chapter 96. 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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