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640411 Chapter 64 · Footwear Sports shoes / trainers, textile upper
Six-digit subheading in Footwear, chapter 64 of the Harmonized System, priced here for 6 destination markets.
Anatomy of 640411
You will declare against a longer local code that begins 640411: 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 | 0% to 5% | 10% | |
| No single rate for Australia Australia splits this subheading into 2 national tariff lines and they do not all carry the same duty. Two official readings agree the schedule runs from 0% to 5%, and neither of them names a single rate for the six digit code, so the cell above shows the range rather than a figure from inside it.
Read them at the official tariff. | |||
| 🇨🇦Canada | 16% to 18% | 5% | |
| No single rate for Canada Canada splits this subheading into 4 national tariff lines and they do not all carry the same duty. Two official readings agree the schedule runs from 16% to 18%, and neither of them names a single rate for the six digit code, so the cell above shows the range rather than a figure from inside it.
Read them at the official tariff. | |||
| 🇩🇪Germany | 16.9% | 19% | |
| 🇵🇹Portugal | 16.9% | 23% | |
| 🇬🇧United Kingdom | 16% | 20% | |
| 🇺🇸United States | Not a % | 0% | |
| Official duty for United States
The United States schedule has 14 national lines under this code and 8 different rate texts; 5 more are not listed here. Read it at the official tariff. | |||
United States charges this code by the hectolitre, the item or the kilogram rather than on its value, sometimes alongside a percentage, which is why the duty column reads Not a % there; a charge of that kind cannot be shown as a single percentage, so none is shown, the calculator does not estimate it, and the official wording is under each of those rows.
Australia and Canada split this six digit code into national lines that do not all carry the same duty, which is why the cell above shows a range; which line your goods take is a classification decision and it is what decides the duty, so this site shows the range rather than choosing a line for you.
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.
Duty figures on this page have not yet been checked against official tariff schedules and should be treated as estimates.
What that costs: 640411 into Germany
An illustrative consignment of 640411 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 16.9% | EUR 363.35 |
| Germany tax at 19%, charged on the value plus the duty | EUR 477.54 |
| Total, before commercial charges | EUR 2,990.89 |
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 2,990.89 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 640411 on your own numbers in the duty calculator.
How these rates were verified
The markets listed below were read from the official tariff database of the market that charges it. Nothing here is copied from another aggregator. The other rows in the table above are not yet traced to a source, which is why no date is shown over them.
- 🇩🇪DE 🇵🇹PT
- One reading covers DE and PT, which are priced from the same schedule: Third country duty (EU, via NI Online Tariff) for 640411 DE, read on 2026-08-31 from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/xi/commodities/6404110000 and again on 2026-09-01 from https://trade.ec.europa.eu/access-to-markets/en/results?product=640411&origin=CN&destination=DE. Both returned 16.9%. The two publications are independent of each other and they agree. Retrieved text: 6404110000 16.90 %
- 🇬🇧GB
- Third country duty for 640411 GB, read on 2026-08-31 from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/commodities/6404110000 and again on 2026-09-01 from https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/reference-document-for-the-customs-tariff-establishment-eu-exit-regulations-2020. Both returned 16%. The two publications are independent of each other and they agree. Retrieved text: 6404110000 16.00 %
- 🇺🇸US
- HTS General for 640411 US, read on 2026-08-31 from https://hts.usitc.gov/search?query=6404.11 and again on 2026-09-01 from https://hts.usitc.gov/reststop/exportList?from=64&to=65&format=CSV&styles=false. Both returned the official wording "10.5% ; 7.5% ; 37.5% ; 48% ; 12.5% ; 90¢/pr. + 37.5% ; 90¢/pr. + 20% ; 20%". 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: 6404.11.20 10.5%; 6404.11.41 7.5%; 6404.11.49.00 37.5%; 6404.11.51 7.5%; 6404.11.59.00 48%; 6404.11.61 7.5%; 6404.11.69 37.5%; 6404.11.71 7.5%; 6404.11.75 12.5%; 6404.11.79 90¢/pr. + 37.5%; 6404.11.81 7.5%; 6404.11.85 12.5%; 6404.11.89 90¢/pr. + 20%; 6404.11.90 20%
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
What the notes to section XII say
Chapter 64 sits in section XII, footwear, headgear, umbrellas, sun umbrellas, walking-sticks, seat-sticks, whips, riding-crops and parts thereof; prepared feathers and articles made therewith; artificial flowers; articles of human hair, and the nomenclature publishes no note to that section at all, so the note to chapter 64 is the highest rule over this code; that is the published position rather than a gap here, and the chapter 64 page says the same, read from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/api/v2/sections/12 on 2026-09-08.
What the nomenclature says about heading 6404
640411 is a subheading of 6404, footwear with outer soles of rubber, plastics, leather or composition leather and uppers of textile materials , and this site holds one other code under the same heading, which every rule below governs equally.
No numbered note to chapter 64 takes heading 6404 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 64 page.
Read from the notes to chapter 64 published in the UK Trade Tariff by HM Revenue and Customs, at https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/api/v2/chapters/64, with the heading title from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/api/v2/headings/6404, on 2026-09-07, with the whole layer and the reason a heading note is a chapter note set out on the chapter 64 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 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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