HS Code Detail
640411 Chapter 64 · Footwear Sports shoes / trainers, textile upper
Six-digit Harmonized System subheading. Used by 200+ customs authorities worldwide as the universal starting point for tariff classification.
Anatomy of 640411
For a real customs declaration you'll extend this 6-digit code to the destination's full local format: 10 digits for US HTS / UK Trade Tariff, 8 digits for the EU Combined Nomenclature. The first six digits stay the same — only the trailing detail differs.
What this code covers
What falls under 640411
- Sports footwear (trainers/athletic shoes) with outer soles of rubber/plastics and uppers of textile materials
What's specifically excluded
These look similar but belong under a different code:
Commonly confused with
640419 — Non-sports textile footwear
Casual canvas shoes that look like trainers but lack athletic construction fall under 640419, not the sports subheading 640411. The 'sports footwear' definition is technical, not marketing-based.
640319 — Leather-upper trainers
Upper material flips the chapter heading — leather uppers are 6403, textile uppers are 6404.
Classification & cost note
Footwear duties are notoriously high (often the highest in a country's consumer schedule) and turn on two axes: upper material and sole material. The split between 6403 (leather upper) and 6404 (textile upper) — and within that, whether a shoe meets the technical 'sports footwear' definition — can swing the rate substantially, so footwear is one of the most frequently reclassified categories at the border.
Typical products: Running and training shoes with mesh uppers · Tennis and court shoes · Textile-upper basketball shoes
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Questions about 640411
Why are import duties on trainers so high?
Footwear carries some of the steepest MFN rates in most schedules. The exact rate depends on upper material (leather vs textile) and whether the shoe qualifies technically as sports footwear.
Do mesh trainers count as 'textile upper'?
Generally yes — synthetic mesh is a textile material, placing the shoe in heading 6404 (e.g. 640411 for sports construction) rather than the leather-upper heading 6403.
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