UK Trade Tariff — Commodity Codes & Duty Rates

Look up UK commodity codes and what it costs to import: the third-country duty rate, VAT, trade preferences, quotas, and the import controls that apply before the goods can move at all.

What it does

Give it a commodity code. It returns what the goods are, where the code sits in the tariff hierarchy, and the numbers that determine the landed cost. One row per code, 26 fields on every row.

What you get

26 fields per row, including commodity_code, description, chapter, third_country_duty, vat_rate, preferences_count, preference_areas, controls_count, quotas_count, quotas_apply, measures_count and declarable.

The table view shows 11 of them; all 26 are in the JSON, CSV and Excel downloads.

Input

Field	Meaning
commodityCodes	Ten-digit UK commodity codes.
codesText	A pasted list instead, one per line.
maxCommodities	Stop after this many. 0 removes the cap.

{
  "codesText": "0901110000\n8703231900\n6109100010",
  "maxCommodities": 50
}

Sample output

One complete record:

{
  "query": "0901110000",
  "commodity_code": "0901110000",
  "description": "Not decaffeinated",
  "chapter": "COFFEE, TEA, MATÉ AND SPICES",
  "third_country_duty": "0.00 %",
  "vat_rate": "0.00 %",
  "preferences_count": 54,
  "controls_count": 2,
  "quotas_count": 0,
  "measures_count": 61,
  "issues": "import_controls_apply"
}

Pricing

Event	Per 1,000	Notes
Commodity resolved	$4.00	Codes that find nothing are not charged

There is no start fee and no per-row dataset fee.

What it does not do

It does not tell you whether you qualify for a preference. preference_areas lists which trade agreements reduce the rate. Whether a particular shipment qualifies depends on rules of origin, which no code lookup can answer.

It does not classify goods. Choosing the right commodity code for a product is a judgement with legal consequences. This Actor tells you what a code means, not which code to use.

Quota rates depend on timing. quotas_apply means a reduced rate exists until the quota is exhausted. Whether it is still open when the goods arrive is not in this data.

Headings are not declarable. not_declarable_on_its_own means the code is a branch of the hierarchy, not a leaf. A more specific code is needed to declare.

Notes

Check controls_count before third_country_duty. A licence you do not hold costs more than a duty you do pay.

issues reports import_controls_apply whenever controls exist. That flag is the one to read first on any code you have not imported before.

The UK Trade Tariff changes as measures are added and withdrawn. Every run queries the service directly; nothing is cached between runs.

Support

Open the Issues tab with the specific commodity code and the issues value from the row.

Licence and attribution

Tariff data from the UK Trade Tariff service, operated by HM Revenue & Customs. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. HMRC does not endorse this Actor.