HS Codes and AHECC Codes

The Australian Harmonized Export Commodity Classification (AHECC) is the product classification used to identify goods being exported from Australia. The AHECC is an extension of the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (Harmonized System, or HS). .

How to Read the HS Code / AHECC


Chapter

Heading

HS Code

Export Statistical Item

UQ

Description

Comment

22

BEVERAGES, SPIRITS AND VINEGAR

In this example the chapter is 22 and includes all "BEVERAGES, SPIRITS AND VINEGAR"

2204

WINE OF FRESH GRAPES, INCLUDING FORTIFIED WINES; GRAPE MUST OTHER THAN THAT OF 2009:

In this example the heading is 04 and includes all "WINE OF FRESH GRAPES, INCLUDING FORTIFIED WINES" but not under defined under Chapter 20, heading 09

22042

- Other wine; grape must with fermentation prevented or arrested by the addition of alcohol:

The 2 defines as "grape must with fermentation prevented or arrested by the addition of alcohol"

220421

-- In containers not exceeding 2 L:

The 1 define the container as not exceeding 2L as it how a completed HS Code

22042140

L

--- Fortified wine (including sherry, port and muscat)

2204215

--- Table wines:

The addition AHECC number, 5 defines the item as a Table Wine

22042151

L

--- White

The last digit, 1 defines the table wine as white

22042152

L

--- Red

When selecting an AHECC code you need to be as specific as possible and only using the general case if nothing else describes the goods.

Information is sourced from https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/classifications/australian-harmonized-export-commodity-classification-ahecc/latest-release


SECTION 01 - LIVE ANIMALS; ANIMAL PRODUCTS

SECTION 02 - VEGETABLE PRODUCTS

SECTION 03 - ANIMAL, VEGETABLE OR MICROBIAL FATS AND OILS AND THEIR CLEAVAGE PRODUCTS; PREPARED EDIBLE FATS; ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE WAXES

SECTION 04 - PREPRARED FOODSTUFFS; BEVERAGES, SPIRITS AND VINEGAR; TOBACCO AND MANUFACTURED TOBACCO SUBSTITUTES; PRODUCTS, WHETHER OR NOT CONTAINING NICOTINE, INTENDED FOR INHALATION WITHOUT COMBUSTION; OTHER NICOTINE CONTAINING PRODUCTS INTENDED FOR THE INTAKE OF NICOTINE INTO THE HUMAN BODY

SECTION 05 - MINERAL PRODUCTS

SECTION 06 - PRODUCTS OF CHEMICAL OR ALLIED INDUSTRIES

SECTION 07 - PLASTICS AND ARTICLES THEREOF; RUBBER AND ARTICLES THEREOF

SECTION 08 - RAW HIDES AND SKINS, LEATHER, FURSKINS AND ARTICLES THEREOF; SADDLERY AND HARNESS; TRAVEL GOODS, HANDBAGS AND SIMILAR CONTAINERS; ARTICLES OF ANIMAL GUT (OTHER THAN SILK-WORM GUT)

SECTION 09 - WOOD AND ARTICLES OF WOOD; WOOD CHARCOAL; CORK AND ARTICLES OF CORK; MANUFACTURES OF STRAW, OF ESPARTO OR OF OTHER PLAITING MATERIALS; BASKETWARE AND WICKERWORK

SECTION 10 - PULP OF WOOD OR OF OTHER FIBROUS CELLULOSIC MATERIAL; WASTE AND SCRAP OF PAPER OR PAPERBOARD; PAPER AND PAPERBOARD AND ARTICLES THEREOF

SECTION 11 - TEXTILES AND TEXTILE ARTICLES

SECTION 12 - FOOTWEAR, HEADGEAR, UMBRELLAS, SUN UMBRELLAS, WALKING-STICKS, SEAT-STICKS, WHIPS, RIDING-CROPS AND PARTS THEREOF; PREPARED FEATHERS AND ARTICLES MADE THEREWITH; ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS; ARTICLES OF HUMAN HAIR

SECTION 13 - ARTICLES OF STONE, PLASTER, CEMENT, ASBESTOS, MICA OR SIMILAR MATERIALS; CERAMIC PRODUCTS; GLASS AND GLASSWARE

SECTION 14 - NATURAL OR CULTURED PEARLS, PRECIOUS OR SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES, PRECIOUS METALS, METALS CLAD WITH PRECIOUS METAL, AND ARTICLES THEREOF; IMITATION JEWELLERY; COIN

SECTION 15 - BASE METALS AND ARTICLES OF BASE METAL

SECTION 16 - MACHINERY AND MECHANICAL APPLIANCES; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; PARTS THEREOF; SOUND RECORDERS AND REPRODUCERS, TELEVISION IMGE AND SOUND RECORDERS AND REPRODUCERS, AND PARTS AND ACCESSORIES OF SUCH ARTICLES

SECTION 17 - VEHICLES, AIRCRAFT, VESSELS AND ASSOCIATED TRANSPORT EQUIPMENT

SECTION 18 - OPTICAL, PHOTOGRAPHIC, CINEMATOGRAPHIC, MEASURING, CHECKING, PRECISION, MEDICAL OR SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS AND APPARTUS; CLOCKS AND WATCHES; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; PARTS AND ACCESSORIES THEREOF

SECTION 19 - ARMS AND AMMUNITION; PARTS AND ACCESSORIES THEREOF

SECTION 20 - MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES

SECTION 21 - WORKS OF ART, COLLECTORS' PIECES AND ANTIQUES

HS Codes and AHECC Codes (last edited 2022-05-04 06:05:50 by fmacdonald)