1401.20
Rattans
Vegetable materials of a kind used primarily for plaiting (for example, bamboos, rattans, reeds, rushes, osier, raffia, cleaned, bleached or dyed cereal straw, and lime bark)
Where this code sits
- Section II · Chapter14 — VEGETABLE PLAITING MATERIALS; VEGETABLE PRODUCTS NOT ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED OR INCLUDEDVEGETABLE PRODUCTS
- Heading1401 — Vegetable materials of a kind used primarily for plaiting (for example, bamboos, rattans, reeds, rushes, osier, raffia, cleaned, bleached or dyed cereal straw, and lime bark)
- Subheading1401.20 — Rattans
Six digits is as far as the international nomenclature goes, and it is the same six digits in every country that applies the Harmonized System. Your destination adds further digits of its own, and the rate lives on that national line — which is why the US lines below run to eight and ten digits, and why the lookups go to each authority's own tariff.
Duty rate
This subheading splits into national lines with different duties. Which one applies is a classification decision about your specific goods, and picking one for you would be making that decision on your behalf. The national lines are listed below — choose the one that describes what you are importing.
Look it up in the authority's own tariff — the only place it is legally meaningful — then bring it back to the calculator, which will do the valuation basis, VAT treatment and statutory fees for you.
Paste 1401.20 into the lookup and follow it down to your national line.
US national lines under 1401.20
The United States subdivides this subheading into 4 lines. They do not all carry the same duty, so which one your goods fall in changes what you pay.
| Line | Description | General | Preferential |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1401.20.20 | In the rough or cut transversely into sections | Free | — |
| 1401.20.20.10 | In the rough, 4 meters or more in length | Free stated on 14012020 | — |
| 1401.20.20.90 | Other | Free stated on 14012020 | — |
| 1401.20.40.00 | Other | 2% | Free (A,AU,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL,JO,KR,MA,OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG) |
A blank General cell means the line states no rate of its own and takes the one above it — the line it is stated on is named, so the figure can be checked where it actually appears. Preferential rates are listed with the programme codes that grant them; the schedule offering a rate is not the same as your goods qualifying for it.
Preferential rates for 1401.20
The US lines under this subheading offer a reduced or free rate under 17 programmes. Each is named from General Note 3(c)(i) — the schedule prints only the letter.
Generalized System of Preferences
Normally supported by: GSP claim
United States-Australia Free Trade Agreement
Normally supported by: Certification / claim under a US free trade agreement
United States-Bahrain Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act
Normally supported by: Certification / claim under a US free trade agreement
United States-Chile Free Trade Agreement
Normally supported by: Certification / claim under a US free trade agreement
United States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement Implementation Act
Normally supported by: Certification / claim under a US free trade agreement
African Growth and Opportunity Act
Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act
United States-Israel Free Trade Area
Normally supported by: Certification / claim under a US free trade agreement
United States-Jordan Free Trade Area Implementation Act
Normally supported by: Certification / claim under a US free trade agreement
United States-Korea Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act
Normally supported by: Certification / claim under a US free trade agreement
United States-Morocco Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act
Normally supported by: Certification / claim under a US free trade agreement
United States-Oman Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act
Normally supported by: Certification / claim under a US free trade agreement
Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act
Normally supported by: Certification / claim under a US free trade agreement
United States-Panama Trade Promotion Agreement Implementation Act
Normally supported by: Certification / claim under a US free trade agreement
United States-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement Implementation Act
Normally supported by: Certification / claim under a US free trade agreement
United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement
Normally supported by: USMCA certification of origin
United States-Singapore Free Trade Agreement
Normally supported by: Certification / claim under a US free trade agreement
Origin is determined by the agreement’s product-specific rules applied to your bill of materials. We hold the tariff schedule and the programme legend, not your inputs — nothing here determines that goods qualify.
What chapter 14 excludes
A subheading's wording does not decide a classification — the legal notes do. These are the notes that push goods out of this chapter even when the description seems to fit.
1. This chapter does not cover the following products which are to be classified in section XI: vegetable materials or fibers of vegetable materials of a kind used primarily in the manufacture of textiles, however prepared, or other vegetable materials which have undergone treatment so as to render them suitable for use only as textile materials.
2. Heading 1401 applies, inter alia, to bamboos (whether or not split, sawn lengthwise, cut to length, rounded at the ends, bleached, rendered nonflammable, polished or dyed), split osier, reeds and the like, to rattan cores and to drawn or split rattans. The heading does not apply to chipwood (heading 4404).
3. Heading 1404 does not apply to wood wool (heading 4405) and prepared knots or tufts for broom or brush making (heading 9603).
Legal notes that govern this code
Reproduced from the published tariff schedule. Section and chapter notes are binding and are part of the nomenclature itself; statistical notes are US reporting rules and are not classification law.
Section II notes VEGETABLE PRODUCTS
1. In this section the term "pellets" means products which have been agglomerated either directly by compression or by the addition of a binder in a proportion not exceeding 3 percent by weight.
Chapter 14 — Notes
Legal Notes of the Harmonized System. Binding, and part of the international nomenclature.
1. This chapter does not cover the following products which are to be classified in section XI: vegetable materials or fibers of vegetable materials of a kind used primarily in the manufacture of textiles, however prepared, or other vegetable materials which have undergone treatment so as to render them suitable for use only as textile materials.
2. Heading 1401 applies, inter alia, to bamboos (whether or not split, sawn lengthwise, cut to length, rounded at the ends, bleached, rendered nonflammable, polished or dyed), split osier, reeds and the like, to rattan cores and to drawn or split rattans. The heading does not apply to chipwood (heading 4404).
3. Heading 1404 does not apply to wood wool (heading 4405) and prepared knots or tufts for broom or brush making (heading 9603).
Notes are reproduced from the published tariff schedule. They govern classification, but reading them is not the same as applying them to your goods — that is what a broker or a binding ruling is for.
Other chapters that mention heading 1401
An exclusion pointing into this heading from another chapter is as decisive as one in your own, and it is the one nobody finds by reading their own chapter.
2. Heading 1401 applies, inter alia, to bamboos (whether or not split, sawn lengthwise, cut to length, rounded at the ends, bleached, rendered nonflammable, polished or dyed), split osier, reeds and the like, to rattan cores and to drawn or split rattans. The heading does not apply to chipwood (heading 4404).
(b) Bamboo or other materials of a woody nature of a kind used primarily for plaiting, in the rough, whether or not split, sawn lengthwise or cut to length (heading 1401);
Other subheadings under 1401
Importing 1401.20 into
Each guide covers how duty and tax are assessed there, the authority with jurisdiction, and what catches importers out.
Common questions
What is HS code 1401.20?
1401.20 covers Rattans. It sits under heading 1401 (Vegetable materials of a kind used primarily for plaiting (for example, bamboos, rattans, reeds, rushes, osier, raffia, cleaned, bleached or dyed cereal straw, and lime bark)) in chapter 14, vegetable plaiting materials; vegetable products not elsewhere specified or included.
What is the US duty rate for 1401.20?
There is no single rate: this subheading splits into 4 US national lines with 2 different duty rates. Which one applies is a classification decision about your specific goods — the lines are listed on this page.
What is excluded from chapter 14?
1. This chapter does not cover the following products which are to be classified in section XI: vegetable materials or fibers of vegetable materials of a kind used primarily in the manufacture of textiles, however prepared, or other vegetable materials which have undergone treatment so as to render them suitable for use only as textile materials.