HS Code Detail
300241 Chapter 30 · Pharmaceuticals Vaccines for human medicine
Six-digit subheading in Pharmaceuticals, chapter 30 of the Harmonized System, priced here for 6 destination markets.
Anatomy of 300241
You will declare against a longer local code that begins 300241: ten digits in the United States and the United Kingdom, eight in the European Union, and the first six the same everywhere. Which trailing digits apply is what a rate can differ on, though on this subheading all 6 destinations below charge the same, 0%.
What this code covers
Import duty by country
MFN duty rate · 6 countries| Country | Duty | VAT |
|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺Australia | 0% | 10% |
| 🇨🇦Canada | 0% | 5% |
| 🇩🇪Germany | 0% | 19% |
| 🇵🇹Portugal | 0% | 23% |
| 🇬🇧United Kingdom | 0% | 20% |
| 🇺🇸United States | 0% | 0% |
Rates shown are MFN (Most Favoured Nation), the default for WTO members. Preferential FTA rates may be lower with valid proof of origin. Section 301 / anti-dumping surcharges on Chinese-origin goods are not included.
What that costs: 300241 into Australia
An illustrative consignment of 300241 invoiced at AUD 2,000.00, priced in AUD because a threshold is set in the destination's currency and nothing here is converted.
| Goods value on the invoice | AUD 2,000.00 |
| International freight | AUD 120.00 |
| Cargo insurance | AUD 30.00 |
| Value the duty is charged on, FOB basis | AUD 2,000.00 |
| Duty at 0% | AUD 0.00 |
| Australia tax at 10%, charged on the value plus the duty | AUD 215.00 |
| Total, before commercial charges | AUD 2,365.00 |
And if the consignment were small
Australia relieves customs duty, GST and the Import Processing Charge on consignments at or under AUD 1,000. The 300241 shipment above is over that, so its duty is charged in full. The same code invoiced at exactly AUD 1,000 with no freight would be charged AUD 0.00 of duty and AUD 0.00 of tax, a total of AUD 1,000.00. The rate on the 300241 row has not changed; only the charge is relieved. The tax is not simply absent at that value: Australia collects it on the sale instead of at the border, so an overseas seller or marketplace above the registration threshold charges it at checkout. What the relief removes is the charge on arrival, not the tax.
Selling rather than buying? AUD 2,365.00 is what your buyer in Australia pays to take delivery of this consignment, yours to pay if you quote DDP and theirs if you quote DAP: Exporting to Australia sets out who collects it and what your invoice has to say.
An illustration, not a quotation: broker fees, handling and any trade remedy on the origin sit outside it. Price 300241 on your own numbers in the duty calculator.
How these rates were verified
Rates last verified 7 September 2026Every figure in the table above was read from the official tariff database of the market that charges it, on the date shown. Nothing here is copied from another aggregator.
- 🇺🇸US
- HTS General for 300241 US, read on 2026-09-07 from https://hts.usitc.gov/search?query=3002.41 and again on 2026-09-07 from https://hts.usitc.gov/reststop/exportList?from=30&to=31&format=CSV&styles=false. Both returned 0%. The United States International Trade Commission is the only body that publishes this schedule. The second reading was taken in a different format to check the reading, not to corroborate the schedule, because there is no second schedule to corroborate it against. Retrieved text: 3002.41.00.00 Free
- 🇬🇧GB
- Third country duty for 300241 GB, read on 2026-09-07 from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/commodities/3002411000 and again on 2026-09-07 from https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/reference-document-for-the-customs-tariff-establishment-eu-exit-regulations-2020. Both returned 0%. The two publications are independent of each other and they agree. Retrieved text: 3002411000 0.00 %; 3002419000 0.00 %
- 🇨🇦CA
- MFN for 300241 CA, read on 2026-09-07 from https://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/trade-commerce/tariff-tarif/2026/html/00/ch30-eng.html and again on 2026-09-07 from https://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/trade-commerce/tariff-tarif/2026/menu-eng.html. Both returned 0%. The Canada Border Services Agency is the only body that publishes this schedule. The Department of Justice publishes the Act and refers readers to the Agency for the schedule itself, so both readings are the Agency's, taken from two different products. Retrieved text: 3002.41.00 Free
- 🇦🇺AU
- MFN for 300241 AU, read on 2026-09-07 from https://www.abf.gov.au/importing-exporting-and-manufacturing/tariff-classification/current-tariff/schedule-3/section-vi/chapter-30 and again on 2026-09-07 from https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2004A04997/latest/text. Both returned 0%. The two publications are independent of each other and they agree. Retrieved text: 3002.41.00 Free
- 🇩🇪DE 🇵🇹PT
- One reading covers DE and PT, which are priced from the same schedule: Third country duty (EU, via NI Online Tariff) for 300241 DE, read on 2026-09-07 from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/xi/commodities/3002411000 and again on 2026-09-07 from https://trade.ec.europa.eu/access-to-markets/en/results?product=300241&origin=CN&destination=DE. Both returned 0%. The two publications are independent of each other and they agree. Retrieved text: 3002411000 0.00 %; 3002419000 0.00 %
Re-check first: Human vaccines enter the United States free, so what decides whether the shipment moves is licensing and cold chain rather than the tariff. Vaccines for veterinary medicine are 3002.42 and are not covered by this figure.
What falls under 300241
- Vaccines for human medicine, in bulk or put up in measured doses
- Multi dose vials, ampoules and prefilled syringes of human vaccines
- Combination vaccines and adjuvanted vaccine presentations for human use
What's specifically excluded
These look similar but belong under a different code:
- 300242: Vaccines for veterinary medicine
- 300215: Immunological products put up in measured doses or for retail sale
- 300249: Toxins, cultures of micro-organisms and similar products other than vaccines
- 300490: Medicaments put up in measured doses, which vaccines are not
Commonly confused with
300490: Medicaments in measured doses
A vaccine and a medicament can arrive in the same vial, in the same carton, from the same manufacturer, and they are not the same code. Heading 3004 covers medicaments and vaccines are dealt with in heading 3002, so a product that works by provoking an immune response is classified there however therapeutic its purpose looks on the packaging.
300215: Other immunological products
Not everything immunological is a vaccine. Monoclonal antibodies, antisera, allergenic extracts and diagnostic immunological preparations sit in the immunological product lines, and the distinction is whether the product provokes an immune response in the recipient or supplies one ready made.
Classification & cost note
Heading 3002 was restructured in the 2022 edition of the Harmonized System and the vaccine lines were renumbered, so an older six digit code copied from a supplier master file or from a previous entry will not match this subheading and will fail validation at the border. That is the classification risk on a vaccine shipment and it is largely a records risk rather than an argument about the goods, because almost nothing else is classified as a vaccine for human medicine. The cost and clearance risk lies somewhere else entirely. What holds a vaccine consignment is the regulatory file: a marketing or emergency authorisation valid in the destination, an importer of record licensed to handle medicinal products, official batch release where the destination requires it, and an unbroken cold chain with recorded temperatures from the factory door. Customs will detain a shipment that arrives without those whatever the tariff says, and the temperature record is the document most often missing. Controlled temperature shipments also constrain the customs procedure itself, because a consignment that cannot wait is a poor candidate for a channel that involves physical examination.
Typical products: Human vaccine multi dose vials · Prefilled single dose vaccine syringes · Combination paediatric vaccines · Seasonal influenza vaccine consignments · Adjuvanted vaccine presentations for human use · Bulk vaccine substance shipped for fill and finish
What the notes to section VI say
Chapter 30 sits in section VI, products of the chemical or allied industries, where a section note governs every chapter in the section and applies before the heading notes below; the 4 reaching chapter 30 name no heading this site holds a code under, and they are quoted whole on the chapter 30 page, read from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/api/v2/sections/6 on 2026-09-08.
What the nomenclature says about heading 3002
300241 is a subheading of 3002, human blood; animal blood prepared for therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic uses; antisera, other blood fractions and immunological products, whether or not modified or obtained by means of biotechnological processes; vaccines, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms (excluding yeasts) and similar products; cell cultures, whether or not modified , and it is the only code this site holds under that heading.
One numbered note to chapter 30 takes heading 3002 as its own subject, and it is quoted below in full, as published.
Note 2 to chapter 30
For the purposes of heading 3002, the expression ‘immunological products’ applies to peptides and proteins (other than goods of heading 2937) which are directly involved in the regulation of immunological processes, such as monoclonal antibodies (MAB), antibody fragments, antibody conjugates and antibody fragment conjugates, interleukins, interferons (IFN), chemokines and certain tumour-necrosis factors (TNF), growth factors (GF), hematopoietins and colony-stimulating factors (CSF).
Read from the notes to chapter 30 published in the UK Trade Tariff by HM Revenue and Customs, at https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/api/v2/chapters/30, with the heading title from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/api/v2/headings/3002, on 2026-09-07, with the whole layer and the reason a heading note is a chapter note set out on the chapter 30 page. These notes are part of the international text of the Harmonized System, so the rule is the same whichever destination a shipment is going to, and it decides classification and never a rate.
Questions about 300241
What duty applies to a vaccine import?
Read the rate from the destination's own tariff schedule, and expect the regulatory conditions rather than the duty to be the binding constraint.
Is a veterinary vaccine the same code?
No. Vaccines for veterinary medicine have their own subheading, 3002.42, and the distinction is the species the vaccine is authorised for rather than where it is administered.
Where do monoclonal antibodies and antisera go?
To the immunological product lines of heading 3002 rather than to the vaccine lines. They supply an immune response rather than provoking one, and the tariff separates those two ideas.
Does the presentation change the code?
No. Bulk substance, multi dose vials and prefilled syringes are all vaccines for human medicine. Presentation affects the national line in some tariffs and the regulatory paperwork in all of them, not the six digit subheading.
Codes in nearby chapters
Chapter 30 holds 2 subheadings on this site, so these are the closest chapters by number rather than codes for similar goods.
Related codes in Chapter 30
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