HTS Chapter 44: Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal
HTS Chapter 44 covers Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal. Browse 17 published headings, then narrow to the active product line that matches the goods.
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Written to help non-specialists understand this page. Rates, dates, and legal facts come from the official records above and on the linked source.
HTS Chapter 44 covers wood and many wood-based products, from fuel wood, charcoal, logs, poles, and sawn timber to veneer, plywood, particle board, fiberboard, flooring, wooden frames, pallets, packaging, and builders’ joinery. The correct classification depends on the product’s material, form, level of processing, dimensions, construction, and sometimes its intended use. Products made from paper, bamboo, cork, or other materials may belong elsewhere, even if they resemble wood products.
The HTS is read hierarchically: a chapter identifies a broad product family; a four-digit heading identifies a main product category, such as 4407 for certain sawn wood; and additional digits identify increasingly specific subheadings. The complete U.S. tariff number is generally a 10-digit code. To find the right code, start with the product’s objective physical facts, then compare the heading text, legal notes, subheading descriptions, and applicable classification rules. Confirm the complete code and any current measures in official HTS data; a customs broker or binding ruling may be appropriate when the product’s construction or processing creates uncertainty.
What to check
- Document the wood species, whether it is solid wood or a composite, and the product’s dimensions, thickness, grain direction, and manufacturing process.
- Distinguish the product’s physical form from its marketing use: sawn timber, veneer, flooring, pallets, furniture parts, and construction components can have different headings.
- Check Chapter 44 notes and exclusions, along with relevant section and chapter notes, before treating a wood-containing product as a Chapter 44 article.
- Verify whether assembly, planing, sanding, end-jointing, molding, lamination, resin bonding, or other processing changes the heading or subheading.
- Check the current HTS for statistical suffixes, country-specific measures, and any applicable Chapter 99 provisions or other additional duties before entry.
How to use this chapter
A chapter is the first classification level, not a duty rate. Choose the heading that describes the product, narrow by material, construction, use, or other legal distinctions, and verify the final line against the official HTS notes.
Heading list
| HTS code | Description | Linked 8-digit entries |
|---|---|---|
| 4401 | Fuel wood, in logs, in billets, in twigs, in faggots or in similar forms; wood in chips or particles; sawdust and wood waste and scrap, whether or not agglomerated in logs, briquettes, pellets or similar forms: | 1 |
| 4402 | Wood charcoal (including shell or nut charcoal), whether or not agglomerated: | 0 |
| 4403 | Wood in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or sap- wood, or roughly squared: | 14 |
| 4404 | Hoopwood; split poles; piles, pickets and stakes of wood, pointed but not sawn lengthwise; wooden sticks, roughly trimmed but not turned, bent or otherwise worked, suitable for the manufacture of walking-sticks, umbrellas, tool handles or the like; chipwood and the like: | 2 |
| 4406 | Railway or tramway sleepers (cross-ties) of wood: | 0 |
| 4407 | Wood sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or end-jointed, of a thickness exceeding 6 mm: | 10 |
| 4408 | 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, whether or not planed, sanded, spliced or end-jointed, of a thickness not exceeding 6 mm: | 2 |
| 4409 | Wood (including strips and friezes for parquet flooring, not assembled) continuously shaped (tongued, grooved, rebated, chamfered, V-jointed, beaded, molded, rounded or the like) along any of its edges, ends or faces, whether or not planed, sanded or end-jointed: | 0 |
| 4410 | Particle board, oriented strand board (OSB) and similar board (for example, waferboard) of wood or other ligneous materials, whether or not agglomerated with resins or other organic binding substances: | 3 |
| 4411 | Fiberboard of wood or other ligneous materials, whether or not bonded with resins or other organic substances: | 1 |
| 4412 | Plywood, veneered panels and similar laminated wood: | 0 |
| 4414 | Wooden frames for paintings, photographs, mirrors or similar objects: | 0 |
| 4415 | 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: | 0 |
| 4418 | Builders' joinery and carpentry of wood, including cellular wood panels and assembled flooring panels; shingles and shakes: | 1 |
| 4419 | Tableware and kitchenware, of wood: | 0 |
| 4420 | Wood marquetry and inlaid wood; caskets and cases for jewelry or cutlery and similar articles, of wood; statuettes and other ornaments, of wood; wooden articles of furniture not falling within chapter 94: | 1 |
| 4421 | Other articles of wood: | 0 |
Linked measures
0 linked measure entries in the current snapshot.
Questions about HTS Chapter 44
What does HTS Chapter 44 cover?
HTS Chapter 44 covers Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal. This page groups the chapter’s 4-digit headings; a shipment still needs the most specific active 8- or 10-digit line supported by the product facts.
Is HTS Chapter 44 a final product classification?
No. A chapter is a broad 2-digit category. Narrow it to the applicable heading and the most specific active statistical line before estimating duty or filing an entry.