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HS code for gouges
In the UK Trade Tariff’s list of everyday names, “gouges” points to heading 8205: hand tools (including glaziers' diamonds), not elsewhere specified or included; blowlamps; vices, clamps and the like, other than accessories for and parts of machine-tools or water-jet cutting machines; anvils; portable forges; hand- or pedal-operated grinding wheels with frameworks. Check the description and the notes of the chapter before declaring: the right code depends on what the goods are made of and how they are used.
In the UK Global Tariff, 8205 covers 11 tariff lines and the duty is between 0% and 2%. 1 of them is duty-free.
The EU Combined Nomenclature divides 8205 into 11 tariff lines; the duty is between 1.7% and 3.7% (average 3.3%).
In the Turkish Customs Tariff Schedule, 8205 covers 16 tariff lines and the statutory rate is 50%.
Duty rates compared
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EU
Türkiye
USASee also
- anvils
- clamps
- hammer
- mallets
- crowbars
- staplers
- tool kits
- blow lamps
- shave hooks
- stapler set
- tyre-levers
- planes, hand
- screwdrivers
- spoke shaves
- chisels, cold
- chisels, wood
- screw drivers
- sledgehammers
- vices, clamps
- wrenches, tap
- drawing knives
- engineer clamp
- forges, portable
- braces, carpenters
- screwdrivers, hand
- glassblowers' pipes
- drills, non-electric
- elbow juice squeezer
- shoe horns, of metal
- scrapers (hand tools)
- butt welded lath tools
- tyre repair kit (cars)
- wallpaper scraper tool
- hand - drills, non-electric
- nut crackers, of base metal
- bottle opener, not mechanical
- knife sharpeners non-mechanical
- multi purpose shovel, 4 in 1 tool
- kitchen tools, base metal non-electric
Questions and answers
What is the HS code for gouges?
Gouges are classified under 8205 (Hand tools (including glaziers' diamonds), not elsewhere specified or included…) in the Harmonized System. National tariffs add more digits; see the lines on this page.