HS Code Detail
330410 Chapter 33 · Cosmetics Lip make-up preparations
Six-digit subheading in Cosmetics, chapter 33 of the Harmonized System, priced here for 6 destination markets.
Anatomy of 330410
You will declare against a longer local code that begins 330410: 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 the 6 rates below differ on.
What this code covers
Import duty by country
MFN duty rate · 6 countries| Country | Duty | VAT |
|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺Australia | 5% | 10% |
| 🇨🇦Canada | 6.5% | 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: 330410 into Portugal
An illustrative consignment of 330410 invoiced at EUR 2,000.00, priced in EUR because a threshold is set in the destination's currency and nothing here is converted.
| Goods value on the invoice | EUR 2,000.00 |
| International freight | EUR 120.00 |
| Cargo insurance | EUR 30.00 |
| Value the duty is charged on, CIF basis | EUR 2,150.00 |
| Duty at 0% | EUR 0.00 |
| Portugal tax at 23%, charged on the value plus the duty | EUR 494.50 |
| Total, before commercial charges | EUR 2,644.50 |
And if the consignment were small
Portugal relieves nothing: the relief was abolished, so the duty above is charged whatever the consignment is worth. A smaller shipment pays less because the value is lower, not because a threshold spared it.
Selling rather than buying? EUR 2,644.50 is what your buyer in Portugal pays to take delivery of this consignment, yours to pay if you quote DDP and theirs if you quote DAP: Exporting to Portugal 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 330410 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 330410 US, read on 2026-09-07 from https://hts.usitc.gov/search?query=3304.10 and again on 2026-09-07 from https://hts.usitc.gov/reststop/exportList?from=33&to=34&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: 3304.10.00.00 Free
- 🇬🇧GB
- Third country duty for 330410 GB, read on 2026-09-07 from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/commodities/3304100000 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: 3304100000 0.00 %
- 🇨🇦CA
- MFN for 330410 CA, read on 2026-09-07 from https://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/trade-commerce/tariff-tarif/2026/html/00/ch33-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 6.5%. 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: 3304.10.00 6.5%
- 🇦🇺AU
- MFN for 330410 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-33 and again on 2026-09-07 from https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2004A04997/latest/text. Both returned 5%. The two publications are independent of each other and they agree. Retrieved text: 3304.10.00 5%
- 🇩🇪DE 🇵🇹PT
- One reading covers DE and PT, which are priced from the same schedule: Third country duty (EU, via NI Online Tariff) for 330410 DE, read on 2026-09-07 from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/xi/commodities/3304100000 and again on 2026-09-07 from https://trade.ec.europa.eu/access-to-markets/en/results?product=330410&origin=CN&destination=DE. Both returned 0%. The two publications are independent of each other and they agree. Retrieved text: 3304100000 0.00 %
Re-check first: Lip make-up is free into the United States, which leaves cosmetic notification and ingredient rules as the things that hold these shipments. A medicated lip preparation can fall outside chapter 33 altogether and is not covered here.
What falls under 330410
- Lip make-up preparations
- Lipsticks, lip glosses, lip liners, lip lacquers and tinted lip balms sold as colour cosmetics
What's specifically excluded
These look similar but belong under a different code:
Commonly confused with
330499: Medicated and treatment lip balms
An unpigmented lip balm sold to soothe or protect is a skin care preparation, while a coloured lipstick is lip make-up. A tinted balm sits on the line and is usually decided by whether colour is the reason a buyer picks it up.
300490: Medicaments put up for retail sale
A lip product making a therapeutic claim, such as treating cold sores with an active pharmaceutical ingredient, leaves Chapter 33 for Chapter 30 entirely. The claim on the pack drives this, and cosmetic marketing language does not reach it.
Classification & cost note
Lip make-up has a subheading to itself, and the argument is almost never with other cosmetics. It is with Chapter 30, because the same physical product changes chapter on the claim made for it: a balm that moisturises is cosmetic, and one that treats a diagnosed condition with an active ingredient is a medicament. Importers who run a single brand across both kinds routinely declare them alike. The second thing to know is that lip products are among the most closely regulated cosmetics in every major market, because they are ingested in small quantities. Heavy metal limits, colourant positive lists and, in the European Union, a responsible person established in the market with a product information file, all apply independently of the tariff and are enforced by authorities that never see the customs entry.
Typical products: Bullet lipsticks in retail cases · Liquid matte lip colours · Lip liner pencils · High shine lip glosses · Tinted lip balms sold as colour · Lip palettes with multiple shades
What the notes to section VI say
Chapter 33 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 33 are quoted whole on the chapter 33 page, read from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/api/v2/sections/6 on 2026-09-08, and this is the one that names heading 3304 by number.
Note 2 to section VI
Subject to Note 1 above, goods classifiable in heading 3004, 3005, 3006, 3212, 3303, 3304, 3305, 3306, 3307, 3506, 3707 or 3808 by reason of being put up in measured doses or for retail sale are to be classified in those headings and in no other heading of the nomenclature.
What the nomenclature says about heading 3304
330410 is a subheading of 3304, beauty or make-up preparations and preparations for the care of the skin (other than medicaments), including sunscreen or suntan preparations; manicure or pedicure preparations , and this site holds 2 other codes under the same heading, which every rule below governs equally.
One numbered note to chapter 33 takes heading 3304 as its own subject, and it is quoted below in full, as published.
Note 3 to chapter 33
Headings 3303 to 3307 apply, inter alia, to products, whether or not mixed (other than aqueous distillates and aqueous solutions of essential oils), suitable for use as goods of these headings and put up in packings of a kind sold by retail for such use.
Read from the notes to chapter 33 published in the UK Trade Tariff by HM Revenue and Customs, at https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/api/v2/chapters/33, with the heading title from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/api/v2/headings/3304, on 2026-09-07, with the whole layer and the reason a heading note is a chapter note set out on the chapter 33 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 330410
Is a tinted lip balm lip make-up or skin care?
It depends on which function the product is sold for. Where colour is the point, it is lip make-up. Where the balm is sold to soothe or protect and the tint is incidental, it is a skin care preparation. The packaging and the marketing claim are the practical evidence.
What moves a lip product out of Chapter 33?
A therapeutic claim backed by an active ingredient. A lip treatment for a diagnosed condition is a medicament of Chapter 30, not a cosmetic, and the chapter changes even though the tube looks identical.
Do colourants affect anything besides safety?
Not the classification, but they can stop a shipment. Every major market runs a positive list of permitted cosmetic colourants and limits on heavy metal traces, and lip products are scrutinised hardest because they are ingested. Compliance is assessed separately from the customs entry.
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