HS Code Detail
630260 Chapter 63 · Textile Articles Towels and kitchen linen, terry cotton
Six-digit subheading in Textile Articles, chapter 63 of the Harmonized System, priced here for 6 destination markets.
Anatomy of 630260
You will declare against a longer local code that begins 630260: 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 | 17% | 5% |
| 🇩🇪Germany | 12% | 19% |
| 🇵🇹Portugal | 12% | 23% |
| 🇬🇧United Kingdom | 12% | 20% |
| 🇺🇸United States | 9.1% | 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: 630260 into Portugal
An illustrative consignment of 630260 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 12% | EUR 258.00 |
| Portugal tax at 23%, charged on the value plus the duty | EUR 553.84 |
| Total, before commercial charges | EUR 2,961.84 |
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 2,961.84 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 630260 on your own numbers in the duty calculator.
How these rates were verified
Rates last verified 30 August 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.
- 🇦🇺AU
- Australian Border Force Schedule 3 working tariff, general rate for 6302.60.00, read from abf.gov.au.
- 🇨🇦CA
- CBSA Customs Tariff 2026, MFN rate for 6302.60.00, read from cbsa-asfc.gc.ca.
- 🇩🇪DE
- EU Access2Markets, third country duty for CN 6302600090 and the German VAT rate, read from trade.ec.europa.eu.
- 🇬🇧GB
- UK Trade Tariff, third country duty for commodity 6302600090, read from trade-tariff.service.gov.uk.
- 🇵🇹PT
- EU Access2Markets, third country duty for CN 6302600090 and the Portuguese IVA rate, read from trade.ec.europa.eu.
- 🇺🇸US
- USITC Harmonized Tariff Schedule, general rate for HTS 6302.60.00, read from hts.usitc.gov.
Re-check first: The subheading requires both terry towelling and cotton. A microfibre or bamboo towel falls to 6302.93 or 6302.99 and carries different rates, so re-check the fibre content first.
What falls under 630260
- Toilet linen and kitchen linen of terry towelling or similar terry fabrics, of cotton
- Bath towels, bath sheets, hand towels, face cloths and terry kitchen cloths
What's specifically excluded
These look similar but belong under a different code:
- 630291: Toilet and kitchen linen of cotton that is not terry
- 630231: Bed linen of cotton
- 580110: Woven pile fabric in the piece, before it is made up
Commonly confused with
630291: Non terry cotton towels
Heading 6302 splits toilet and kitchen linen on fabric before anything else. Terry towelling of cotton is 6302.60, while a flat woven or waffle cotton tea towel is not terry and falls to 6302.91. The loop pile is the test and it is visible to the naked eye.
620920: Babies' cotton garments
A hooded baby bath towel shaped and finished as a garment can be argued into babies' clothing rather than toilet linen. Where it is simply a square of towelling with a hood sewn to one corner, it stays linen.
Classification & cost note
Household textiles are classified by what the article is for and then by what it is made of, and terry towelling earns its own subheading because the pile construction is both distinctive and simple to verify at inspection. Two things catch importers. The first is assuming that all cotton towels share one code, when the terry and non terry split sends otherwise identical products to different rates. The second is that commercial grading and tariff grading measure different things: a hotel buyer specifies in grams per square metre and the tariff has no interest in that figure, so GSM dominates the paperwork while the fabric construction goes unstated. Ask the mill to write terry or non terry in words. Cotton household linen has also been a recurring subject of trade remedy investigations in several markets, so origin evidence deserves the same care as the classification.
Typical products: Cotton terry bath sheets · Hotel weight hand towels · Terry face cloths in retail packs · Terry kitchen and roller towels
What the notes to section XI say
Chapter 63 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 9 reaching chapter 63 name no heading this site holds a code under, and they are quoted whole on the chapter 63 page, read from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/api/v2/sections/11 on 2026-09-08.
What the nomenclature says about heading 6302
630260 is a subheading of 6302, bed linen, table linen, toilet linen and kitchen linen , and it is the only code this site holds under that heading.
No numbered note to chapter 63 takes heading 6302 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 63 page.
Read from the notes to chapter 63 published in the UK Trade Tariff by HM Revenue and Customs, at https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/api/v2/chapters/63, with the heading title from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/api/v2/headings/6302, on 2026-09-07, with the whole layer and the reason a heading note is a chapter note set out on the chapter 63 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 630260
Are all cotton towels classified the same way?
No. Terry towelling of cotton has its own subheading at 6302.60. A flat woven or waffle weave cotton towel is not terry and is classified elsewhere in heading 6302, commonly at a different rate.
Does the weight of a towel affect its code?
No. Grams per square metre is a commercial quality measure with no bearing on the six digit code. Fabric construction and fibre decide it.
Codes in nearby chapters
Chapter 63 holds 1 subheadings on this site, so these are the closest chapters by number rather than codes for similar goods.
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