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711590 Chapter 71 · Jewellery Articles of precious metal, other
Six-digit subheading in Jewellery, chapter 71 of the Harmonized System, priced here for 5 destination markets.
Anatomy of 711590
You will declare against a longer local code that begins 711590: 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 | 0% | 10% |
| 🇨🇦Canada | 0% | 5% |
| 🇩🇪Germany | 3% | 19% |
| 🇵🇹Portugal | 3% | 23% |
| 🇬🇧United Kingdom | 2% | 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: 711590 into United Kingdom
An illustrative consignment of 711590 invoiced at GBP 2,000.00, priced in GBP because a threshold is set in the destination's currency and nothing here is converted.
| Goods value on the invoice | GBP 2,000.00 |
| International freight | GBP 120.00 |
| Cargo insurance | GBP 30.00 |
| Value the duty is charged on, CIF basis | GBP 2,150.00 |
| Duty at 2% | GBP 43.00 |
| United Kingdom tax at 20%, charged on the value plus the duty | GBP 438.60 |
| Total, before commercial charges | GBP 2,631.60 |
And if the consignment were small
United Kingdom relieves customs duty on consignments at or under GBP 135. The 711590 shipment above is over that, so its duty is charged in full. The same code invoiced at exactly GBP 135 with no freight would be charged GBP 0.00 of duty and GBP 27.00 of tax, a total of GBP 162.00. The rate on the 711590 row has not changed; only the charge is relieved. The tax is not simply absent at that value: United Kingdom collects it on the sale instead of at the border, so an overseas seller or marketplace above the registration threshold charges it at checkout. What the relief removes is the charge on arrival, not the tax.
Selling rather than buying? GBP 2,631.60 is what your buyer in United Kingdom pays to take delivery of this consignment, yours to pay if you quote DDP and theirs if you quote DAP: Exporting to United Kingdom 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 711590 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 711590 GB, read on 2026-09-07 from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/commodities/7115900000 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 2%. The two publications are independent of each other and they agree. Retrieved text: 7115900000 2.00 %
- 🇨🇦CA
- MFN for 711590 CA, read on 2026-09-07 from https://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/trade-commerce/tariff-tarif/2026/html/00/ch71-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 0%. 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: 7115.90.00 Free
- 🇦🇺AU
- MFN for 711590 AU, read on 2026-09-07 from https://www.abf.gov.au/importing-exporting-and-manufacturing/tariff-classification/current-tariff/schedule-3/section-xiv/chapter-71 and again on 2026-09-07 from https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2004A04997/latest/text. Both returned 0%. The two publications are independent of each other and they agree. Retrieved text: 7115.90.00 Free
- 🇩🇪DE 🇵🇹PT
- One reading covers DE and PT, which are priced from the same schedule: Third country duty (EU, via NI Online Tariff) for 711590 DE, read on 2026-09-07 from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/xi/commodities/7115900000 and again on 2026-09-07 from https://trade.ec.europa.eu/access-to-markets/en/results?product=711590&origin=CN&destination=DE. Both returned 3%. The two publications are independent of each other and they agree. Retrieved text: 7115900000 3.00 %
Markets with no figure recorded
United States: United States splits 7115.90 into 4 tariff lines and they do not carry the same rate: the schedule returned 0 to 4%. 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 residual subheading of its heading, so an article answering to any earlier subheading belongs there rather than here. The United Kingdom charges one rate across it, while the United States lines under the same six digits do not agree.
What falls under 711590
- Articles of precious metal, or of metal clad with precious metal, that are neither jewellery nor goldsmiths' or silversmiths' wares and are not the platinum catalysts of the previous subheading
- Industrial, laboratory and scientific articles made of platinum, gold, silver or their alloys
- Precious metal articles that no other heading of chapter 71 describes
What's specifically excluded
These look similar but belong under a different code:
Commonly confused with
711319: Precious metal jewellery
Chapter 71 asks what the article is before it asks what it is made of. An object of personal adornment is jewellery whatever it costs; an object made of the same metal for an industrial or scientific purpose is not, and comes here. Presentation pieces and trophies are the cases that get argued.
711510: Platinum catalyst gauze
The one specific article the heading names ahead of the residual line is a platinum catalyst in the form of wire cloth or grill. A platinum article that catalyses something but is not wire cloth or grill falls to this subheading, so the form of the article settles it rather than its function.
Classification & cost note
This is the residual of a chapter that is otherwise organised by what an article is, and it picks up the industrial and scientific uses of precious metal, a trade with almost nothing in common with the jewellery business the chapter is known for. Two boundaries define it. Below it sit unwrought and semi manufactured metals, so a bar, a grain, a sheet, a foil or a plain wire is not an article however pure it is and does not come here: something has to have been made into a shape for a purpose. Above it sits coin, which takes legal tender pieces even where they are bought purely as bullion, so an investment coin is not a precious metal article. The commercial question on a shipment under this code is rarely the rate and almost always the value, because the metal content dominates the invoice and its price moves daily, so the value declared on the entry has to reconcile to the commercial invoice on a stated pricing date and basis. Precious metal used industrially also tends to travel in circles rather than in lines, going out for refining or reclamation and coming back, and the right instrument for that is a temporary export or processing procedure rather than paying duty on the full metal value in both directions.
Typical products: Platinum laboratory crucibles and evaporating dishes · Platinum spinnerets for fibre production · Silver electrical contacts and contact rivets · Platinum thermocouple assemblies · Gold and platinum components for medical implants · Silver anodes for electroplating · Precious metal labware and stirrers
What the notes to section XIV say
Chapter 71 sits in section XIV, natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewellery; coins, and the nomenclature publishes no note to that section at all, so the note to chapter 71 is the highest rule over this code; that is the published position rather than a gap here, and the chapter 71 page says the same, read from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/api/v2/sections/14 on 2026-09-08.
What the nomenclature says about heading 7115
711590 is a subheading of 7115, other articles of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal , and it is the only code this site holds under that heading.
One numbered note to chapter 71 takes heading 7115 as its own subject, and it is quoted below in full, as published.
Note 2 to chapter 71
(A) Headings 7113, 7114 and 7115 do not cover articles in which precious metal or metal clad with precious metal is present as minor constituents only, such as minor fittings or minor ornamentation (for example, monograms, ferrules and rims), and paragraph (b) of the foregoing note does not apply to such articles.
(B) Heading 7116 does not cover articles containing precious metal or metal clad with precious metal (other than as minor constituents).
Read from the notes to chapter 71 published in the UK Trade Tariff by HM Revenue and Customs, at https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/api/v2/chapters/71, with the heading title from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/api/v2/headings/7115, on 2026-09-07, with the whole layer and the reason a heading note is a chapter note set out on the chapter 71 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 711590
Is a gold bar classified in this subheading?
No. Unwrought and semi manufactured precious metal has its own headings earlier in chapter 71. This subheading needs an article, meaning something made into a shape for a purpose.
Where do gold investment coins go?
To the coin heading, 7118, even where they are bought as bullion rather than as currency. Legal tender status decides it, not the buyer's intention.
Why is valuation the main risk here?
Because the metal content usually dominates the invoice and its market price moves daily. The entry value and the commercial invoice have to reconcile on a stated pricing date and basis, or the declared value invites a query.
What about platinum sent abroad for reclamation?
That is normally handled under a temporary export or outward processing procedure rather than as two ordinary imports, so the metal value is not charged twice on the round trip.
Codes in nearby chapters
Chapter 71 holds 3 subheadings on this site, so these are the closest chapters by number rather than codes for similar goods.
Related codes in Chapter 71
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