Customs Tariff Schedules of Japan · statistical code · HS 1404.90
1404.90.200: Other vegetable products: Gampi; nuts (including their shells, whether or not ground), and hard seeds and pips
Other vegetable products
✓ Can be used in a customs declaration Data: Customs Tariff Schedules of Japan, in force from 8 August 2026 · checked on 24 October 2026
- 1404 Vegetable products not elsewhere specified or included
- 1404.90 Other
- 1404.90.200 Gampi; nuts (including their shells, whether or not ground), and hard seeds and pips
What you pay
Importing into Japan
Customs duty only: import VAT, other taxes and trade defence duties of this country are not covered here, and the duty calculator works only with the EU, Türkiye, US and UK tariffs.
Same subheading in other tariffs
1404.90 Vegetable products not elsewhere specified or included: other
Japan lines: 1404.90
- 1404.90.110Vegetable materials of a kind used primarily as stuffing or as padding (for example, kapok, vegetable hair and eel-grass), whether or not put up as a layer with or without supporting material
- 1404.90.120Vegetable materials of a kind used primarily in brooms or in brushes (for example, broom-corn, piassava, couch-grass and istle), whether or not in hanks or bundles
- 1404.90.130Raw vegetable materials of a kind used primarily in dyeing or tanning
- 1404.90.140Residues resulting from extraction of pyrethrum extract
- 1404.90.200Gampi; nuts (including their shells, whether or not ground), and hard seeds and pips
- 1404.90.3002 Of Machilus thunbergii or of loofah
- 1404.90.4103 Mizugoke (Sphagnum moss)
- 1404.90.491Leaves of Kashiwa (Quercus dentata)
- 1404.90.492Leaves of Sarutori Ibara (Smilax China L.)
- 1404.90.499Vegetable products not elsewhere specified or included: other
Binding rulings for similar goods
Decisions of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CROSS) and HMRC (Advance Tariff Rulings) on goods classified here. A ruling binds only its holder, but shows how the authorities classify similar goods. The descriptions are the authorities’ own, in English.
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Classification of Dried Hemp Flowers (Cannabis sativa L.)
- N341906 U.S. CBP
The tariff classification of Tree Pollen from Japan
- N339899 U.S. CBP
The tariff classification of Hemp Biomass from Australia
- 600010751 HMRC
A garden mulch made from straw with added minerals. The straw is milled, chopped and processed with water and minerals. The minerals react with the natural tannins in straw to turn it brown and preserve it making it a long-lasting barrier. Straw mulch sits on the surface of the soil to prevent…
- 600010091 HMRC
A 100g bag of moss (Thuidium assimile). The moss has been dried, once water is added it will expand to up to 4.5 litres. The moss is used to increase and maintain the humidity in terrariums, it is also suitable as a nutritious base for plants. It is packaged within a plastic bag for retail sale.
- 600010093 HMRC
A 200g bag of moss, contains either sheet or rag moss, however, may also be a mixture of both. The moss has been dried, it will need to be laid in water prior to placing in the vivarium. The moss is used to increase and maintain the humidity in terrariums. It is particularly suitable for animals…
39 rulings in total for this code
Legal notes
Notes
1. This chapter does not cover the following products which are to be classified in Section XI: vegetable materials or fibres 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 non-inflammable, 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).
Statistical code 1404.90.200 is a line of the Customs Tariff Schedules of Japan under HS subheading 1404.90 (vegetable products not elsewhere specified or included: other).
The applied rate is free, and quantities are declared in KG.
For the same subheading, the UK duty is free, the EU duty is free, the Türkiye duty is free, the US duty is 0%–2.3%, the Canada duty is free, the Mexico duty is 10%, the Brazil duty is 5.4%, the Argentina duty is 5.4%, the Peru duty is free, the New Zealand duty is free, the Taiwan duty is 0%–20%, the GCC duty is 5%, the Switzerland duty is free, the Norway duty is free, the North Macedonia duty is free and the Nigeria duty is 5%.
Japan imported goods of subheading 1404.90 worth US$595m in 2024; the largest supplier was Indonesia.
Questions and answers
What is the Japan import duty for statistical code 1404.90.200?
The applied rate in the Customs Tariff Schedules of Japan is free; the supplementary unit is KG. This page shows the rate as published by the national source and, where the source publishes them, preferential rates: choose the country of origin to see them. Trade defence duties and VAT are not covered.
Where does Japan import these goods from?
For subheading 1404.90 as a whole, the largest supplier in 2024 was Indonesia (US$431m), followed by Malaysia.
Typical products
- coconut shells
- couch-grass
- dom palm seeds
- gall nuts
- gomuti (gumati) fibre
- henna
- loofahs
- myrobalans
- piassava
- quillaia bark
- seeds, for carving
- vine tie grass
Everyday names, not part of the legal text.