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HS 2022 subheading

HS code 4202.29: Handbags

HS code 4202.29 covers: Cases and containers; handbags (whether or not with shoulder strap and including those without handle), of vulcanised fibre or of paperboard, or wholly or mainly covered with such materials or with paper. It is a subheading of heading 4202, in chapter 42.

Where 4202.29 sits in the tariff

The first six digits are the same in every country that uses the Harmonized System. Countries and regions add their own digits after them.

  1. Chapter

    42 Articles of leather; saddlery and harness; travel goods, handbags and similar containers; articles of animal gut (other than silk-worm gut)

  2. Heading

    4202Trunks, suitcases, vanity cases, executive-cases, briefcases, school satchels, spectacle cases, binocular cases, camera cases, musical instrument cases, gun cases, holsters and similar containers; travelling-bags, insulated food or beverages bags, toilet bags, rucksacks, handbags, shopping-bags, wallets, purses, map-cases, cigarette-cases, tobacco-pouches, tool bags, sports bags, bottle-cases, jewellery boxes, powder boxes, cutlery cases and similar containers, of leather or of composition leather, of sheeting of plastics, of textile materials, of vulcanised fibre or of paperboard, or wholly or mainly covered with such materials or with paper

  3. Subheading

    4202.29 Cases and containers; handbags (whether or not with shoulder strap and including those without handle), of vulcanised fibre or of paperboard, or wholly or mainly covered with such materials or with paper

Other subheadings under heading 4202

  • 4202.11Cases and containers; trunks, suit-cases, vanity-cases, executive-cases, brief-cases, school satchels and similar containers, with outer surface of leather or of composition leather
  • 4202.12Cases and containers; trunks, suit-cases, vanity-cases, executive-cases, brief-cases, school satchels and similar containers, with outer surface of plastics or of textile materials
  • 4202.19Cases and containers; trunks, suit-cases, vanity-cases, executive-cases, brief-cases, school satchels and similar containers, of vulcanised fibre or of paperboard, or wholly or mainly covered with such materials or with paper
  • 4202.21Cases and containers; handbags (whether or not with shoulder strap and including those without handle), with outer surface of leather or of composition leather
  • 4202.22Cases and containers; handbags (whether or not with shoulder strap and including those without handle), with outer surface of sheeting of plastics or of textile materials
  • 4202.29Cases and containers; handbags (whether or not with shoulder strap and including those without handle), of vulcanised fibre or of paperboard, or wholly or mainly covered with such materials or with paperThis page
  • 4202.31Cases and containers; of a kind normally carried in the pocket or in the handbag, with outer surface of leather or of composition leather
  • 4202.32Cases and containers; of a kind normally carried in the pocket or in the handbag, with outer surface of sheeting of plastics or of textile materials
  • 4202.39Cases and containers; of a kind normally carried in the pocket or in the handbag, of vulcanised fibre or of paperboard, or wholly or mainly covered with such materials or with paper
  • 4202.91Cases and containers; n.e.c. in heading 4202, with outer surface of leather or of composition leather
  • 4202.92Cases and containers; n.e.c. in heading 4202, with outer surface of sheeting of plastics or of textile materials
  • 4202.99Cases and containers; n.e.c. in heading 4202, of vulcanised fibre or of paperboard, or wholly or mainly covered with such materials or with paper

How tariffs divide 4202.29 further

National and regional tariffs add digits after the six shared ones, splitting this subheading into more specific lines. The tables list every line we hold for 4202.29 in this language, in each publisher's own wording.

TariffApplies inLines
EU Combined Nomenclature (CN8)European Union1
US Harmonized Tariff ScheduleUnited States4
UK Global Tariff commodity codesUnited Kingdom1
India ITC-HS (8-digit)India1
GCC integrated customs tariff (12-digit)Gulf Cooperation Council, UAE schedule1
EAC Common External TariffEast African Community1
Brazil NCMBrazil and Mercosur1
Turkey GTIPTürkiye1
Egypt customs tariff (10-digit)Egypt2
ECOWAS Common External TariffWest Africa2
Lines in total15

EU Combined Nomenclature (CN8)

European Union — 1 line

CodeDescription
4202 29 00Handbags, whether or not with shoulder strap, including those without handle – Other

US Harmonized Tariff Schedule

United States — 4 lines

CodeDescription
4202 29 10 00Handbags, whether or not with shoulder strap, including those without handle – Other – Of materials (other than leather, composition leather, sheeting of plastics, textile materials, vulcanized fiber or paperboard) wholly or mainly covered with paper – Of plastics
4202 29 20 00Handbags, whether or not with shoulder strap, including those without handle – Other – Of materials (other than leather, composition leather, sheeting of plastics, textile materials, vulcanized fiber or paperboard) wholly or mainly covered with paper – Of wood
4202 29 50 00Handbags, whether or not with shoulder strap, including those without handle – Other – Of materials (other than leather, composition leather, sheeting of plastics, textile materials, vulcanized fiber or paperboard) wholly or mainly covered with paper – Other
4202 29 90 00Handbags, whether or not with shoulder strap, including those without handle – Other – Other

UK Global Tariff commodity codes

United Kingdom — 1 line

CodeDescription
4202 29 00 00Handbags, whether or not with shoulder strap, including those without handle – Other

India ITC-HS (8-digit)

India — 1 line

CodeDescription
4202 29 10Hand bags of other materials excluding – wicker-work or basket work

GCC integrated customs tariff (12-digit)

Gulf Cooperation Council, UAE schedule — 1 line

CodeDescription
4202 29 00 00 00Handbags, including those without handle, with outer surface of materials other than those in subheadings 4202.11 or 4202.12.

EAC Common External Tariff

East African Community — 1 line

CodeDescription
4202 29 00Handbags, whether or not with shoulder strap, including those without handle – Other

Brazil NCM

Brazil and Mercosur — 1 line

Machine translation by Customs Declare, not the publisher's text.

CodeDescription
4202 29 00Handbags, whether or not with shoulder strap, including those without handle: – Other

Turkey GTIP

Türkiye — 1 line

Machine translation by Customs Declare, not the publisher's text.

CodeDescription
4202 29 00 00 00Handbags, whether or not with shoulder strap, including bags without handle: – Other

Egypt customs tariff (10-digit)

Egypt — 2 lines

Machine translation by Customs Declare, not the publisher's text.

CodeDescription
4202 29 00 10Handbags, whether or not with shoulder strap, including handbags without handle, of a mixture of textile materials and leather of all kinds.
4202 29 00 90Handbags, whether or not with shoulder strap, including bags without handle, of plaiting materials, of paperboard or covered entirely or mainly with such materials or with paper.

ECOWAS Common External Tariff

West Africa — 2 lines

Machine translation by Customs Declare, not the publisher's text.

CodeDescription
4202 29 10 00Handbags, whether or not with shoulder strap, including those without handle – Other – Presented entirely disassembled or unassembled, imported for the assembly industry
4202 29 90 00Handbags, whether or not with shoulder strap, including those without handle – Other – Other

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  • Siscomex (Brazil)
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  • Egyptian Customs
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  • EAC
  • World Bank WITS
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