HS Code Detail
621210 Chapter 62 · Clothing (woven) Bras / brassieres
Six-digit subheading in Clothing (woven), chapter 62 of the Harmonized System, priced here for 5 destination markets.
Anatomy of 621210
You will declare against a longer local code that begins 621210: ten digits in the United Kingdom, eight in the European Union, and the first six the same everywhere. Which trailing digits apply is what the 5 rates below differ on.
What this code covers
Import duty by country
MFN duty rate · 5 countries| Country | Duty | VAT |
|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺Australia | 5% | 10% |
| 🇨🇦Canada | 18% | 5% |
| 🇩🇪Germany | 6.5% | 19% |
| 🇵🇹Portugal | 6.5% | 23% |
| 🇬🇧United Kingdom | 6% | 20% |
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: 621210 into Germany
An illustrative consignment of 621210 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 6.5% | EUR 139.75 |
| Germany tax at 19%, charged on the value plus the duty | EUR 435.05 |
| Total, before commercial charges | EUR 2,724.80 |
And if the consignment were small
Germany 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 2,724.80 is what your buyer in Germany pays to take delivery of this consignment, yours to pay if you quote DDP and theirs if you quote DAP: Exporting to Germany 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 621210 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.
- 🇬🇧GB
- Third country duty for 621210 GB, read on 2026-09-07 from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/commodities/6212101000 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 6%. The two publications are independent of each other and they agree. Retrieved text: 6212101000 6.00 %; 6212109000 6.00 %
- 🇨🇦CA
- MFN for 621210 CA, read on 2026-09-07 from https://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/trade-commerce/tariff-tarif/2026/html/00/ch62-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 18%. 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: 6212.10.00 18%
- 🇦🇺AU
- MFN for 621210 AU, read on 2026-09-07 from https://www.abf.gov.au/importing-exporting-and-manufacturing/tariff-classification/current-tariff/schedule-3/section-xi/chapter-62 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: 6212.10.00 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 621210 DE, read on 2026-09-07 from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/xi/commodities/6212101000 and again on 2026-09-07 from https://trade.ec.europa.eu/access-to-markets/en/results?product=621210&origin=CN&destination=DE. Both returned 6.5%. The two publications are independent of each other and they agree. Retrieved text: 6212101000 6.50 %; 6212109000 6.50 %
Markets with no figure recorded
United States: United States splits 6212.10 into 4 tariff lines and they do not carry the same rate: the schedule returned 2.7 to 16.9%. A single percentage cannot represent that honestly, so no United States figure is recorded and the calculator falls back to its disclosed category average.
Re-check first: The United Kingdom charges a brassiere sold alone and one sold in a retail set at the same rate, and the United States lines under this subheading do not agree, so no United States figure is recorded. Whether the garment is a brassiere rather than a bodice or a swim top is the prior question.
What falls under 621210
- Brassieres, whether or not knitted or crocheted
- Bras of every construction including moulded, wired, soft cup, sports and nursing bras
What's specifically excluded
These look similar but belong under a different code:
Commonly confused with
611241: Bikini tops
A bikini top presented as part of a swim set is swimwear, while a comparable garment sold separately and built as a foundation garment is a brassiere. Underwiring, hook and eye fastening and adjustable straps point to 6212, and a matching brief sold with it points away.
610990: Crop tops and bralettes
A soft bralette can be argued as a knitted top rather than a body supporting garment. The test is whether the article is designed to support, so an unstructured crop top with no shelf, band or fastening is a top, and one with a supportive band is a brassiere.
Classification & cost note
Heading 6212 does something almost nothing else in the apparel chapters does: it covers body supporting garments whether or not they are knitted, which means the construction question that decides nearly every other garment code is simply switched off here. A woven bra and a knitted bra share a heading. That makes this one of the few apparel classifications an importer can settle without asking the mill about fabric structure, and it is worth knowing precisely because the instinct built up everywhere else in Chapters 61 and 62 is the wrong instinct here. What is left to argue is the boundary with ordinary tops, decided by whether the article is designed to support, and the boundary with swimwear, decided by whether the piece belongs to a swim set. Sizing and fit compliance is a commercial matter with no tariff consequence.
Typical products: Moulded cup underwired bras · Soft cup and non wired bras · Sports bras in knitted synthetics · Nursing and maternity bras · Strapless and multiway bras · Bralettes with supportive bands
What the notes to section XI say
Chapter 62 sits in section XI, textiles and textile articles, where a section note governs every chapter in the section and applies before the heading notes below; the 10 reaching chapter 62 name no heading this site holds a code under, and they are quoted whole on the chapter 62 page, read from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/api/v2/sections/11 on 2026-09-08.
What the nomenclature says about heading 6212
621210 is a subheading of 6212, brassières, girdles, corsets, braces, suspenders, garters and similar articles and parts thereof, whether or not knitted or crocheted , and it is the only code this site holds under that heading.
No numbered note to chapter 62 takes heading 6212 as its subject, which is what the published notes say rather than a gap on this page: the heading is defined by its own wording above and by the note to the chapter, quoted in full on the chapter 62 page.
One further note to chapter 62 names heading 6212 from elsewhere in its own text, usually to send goods into it or away from it, and the sentence that names it is quoted below.
Note 1 to chapter 62, which is about something else
This chapter applies only to made-up articles of any textile fabric other than wadding, excluding knitted or crocheted articles (other than those of heading 6212).
Read from the notes to chapter 62 published in the UK Trade Tariff by HM Revenue and Customs, at https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/api/v2/chapters/62, with the heading title from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/api/v2/headings/6212, on 2026-09-07, with the whole layer and the reason a heading note is a chapter note set out on the chapter 62 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 621210
Does knitted or woven construction matter for bras?
No, and this is the unusual part. Heading 6212 covers these garments whether or not knitted or crocheted, so the question that decides nearly every other apparel code is switched off here.
Is a bralette a bra?
It depends on whether it is designed to support. An unstructured crop top with no band, shelf or fastening is a knitted top; one with a supportive band or shelf is a brassiere of heading 6212.
Where does a sports bra sit?
In heading 6212 with other brassieres. Being made for athletic use does not move it into sportswear, because the heading covers body supporting garments by function rather than by end use.
Are bra straps and extenders classified as parts?
Heading 6212 covers these garments and their parts, so detachable straps and extenders supplied as accessories generally fall in the same heading rather than taking a haberdashery code. Hook and eye tape sold by the metre is a different article and does not.
Related codes in Chapter 62
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