HS Code Detail
910211 Chapter 91 · Watches Wristwatches, battery or quartz, mechanical display
Six-digit subheading in Watches, chapter 91 of the Harmonized System, priced here for 7 destination markets.
Anatomy of 910211
You will declare against a longer local code that begins 910211: 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 7 rates below differ on.
What this code covers
Import duty by country
MFN duty rate · 7 countries| Country | Duty | VAT | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺Australia | 0% | 10% | |
| 🇨🇦Canada | 5% | 5% | |
| 🇩🇪Germany | Not a % | 19% | |
| Official duty for Germany
Read it at the official tariff. | |||
| 🇵🇹Portugal | Not a % | 23% | |
| Official duty for Portugal
Read it at the official tariff. | |||
| 🇬🇧United Kingdom | Not a % | 20% | |
| 🇺🇸United States | Not a % | 0% | |
| Official duty for United States
The United States schedule has 8 national lines under this code and 5 different rate texts; 2 more are not listed here. Read it at the official tariff. | |||
| 🇨🇭Switzerland | 0% | 8.1% | |
Germany, Portugal, United Kingdom and United States charge 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.
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: 910211 into Australia
An illustrative consignment of 910211 invoiced at AUD 2,000.00, priced in AUD because a threshold is set in the destination's currency and nothing here is converted.
| Goods value on the invoice | AUD 2,000.00 |
| International freight | AUD 120.00 |
| Cargo insurance | AUD 30.00 |
| Value the duty is charged on, FOB basis | AUD 2,000.00 |
| Duty at 0% | AUD 0.00 |
| Australia tax at 10%, charged on the value plus the duty | AUD 215.00 |
| Total, before commercial charges | AUD 2,365.00 |
And if the consignment were small
Australia relieves customs duty, GST and the Import Processing Charge on consignments at or under AUD 1,000. The 910211 shipment above is over that, so its duty is charged in full. The same code invoiced at exactly AUD 1,000 with no freight would be charged AUD 0.00 of duty and AUD 0.00 of tax, a total of AUD 1,000.00. The rate on the 910211 row has not changed; only the charge is relieved. The tax is not simply absent at that value: Australia 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? AUD 2,365.00 is what your buyer in Australia pays to take delivery of this consignment, yours to pay if you quote DDP and theirs if you quote DAP: Exporting to Australia 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 910211 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.
- 🇦🇺AU
- MFN for 910211 AU, read on 2026-09-01 from https://www.abf.gov.au/importing-exporting-and-manufacturing/tariff-classification/current-tariff/schedule-3/section-xviii/chapter-91 and again on 2026-09-01 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: 9102.11.00 Free
- 🇨🇦CA
- MFN for 910211 CA, read on 2026-08-31 from https://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/trade-commerce/tariff-tarif/2026/html/00/ch91-eng.html and again on 2026-09-01 from https://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/trade-commerce/tariff-tarif/2026/menu-eng.html. Both returned 5%. 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: 9102.11.00 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 910211 DE, read on 2026-08-31 from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/xi/commodities/9102110000 and again on 2026-09-01 from https://trade.ec.europa.eu/access-to-markets/en/results?product=910211&origin=CN&destination=DE. Both returned the official wording "4.50 % MIN 0.30 EUR / p/st MAX 0.80 EUR / p/st". The two publications are independent of each other and they agree. Retrieved text: 9102110000 4.50 % MIN 0.30 EUR / p/st MAX 0.80 EUR / p/st
- 🇬🇧GB
- Third country duty for 910211 GB, read on 2026-08-31 from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/commodities/9102110000 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 the official wording "0.20 GBP / p/st". The two publications are independent of each other and they agree. Retrieved text: 9102110000 0.20 GBP / p/st
- 🇺🇸US
- HTS General for 910211 US, read on 2026-08-31 from https://hts.usitc.gov/search?query=9102.11 and again on 2026-09-01 from https://hts.usitc.gov/reststop/exportList?from=91&to=92&format=CSV&styles=false. Both returned the official wording "44¢ each + 6% on the case + 14% on the strap, band or bracelet + 5.3% on the battery ; 40¢ each + 8.5% on the case + 14% on the strap, band or bracelet + 5.3% on the battery ; 44¢ each + 6% on the case + 2.8% on the strap, band or bracelet + 5.3% on the battery ; 40¢ each + 8.5% on the case + 2.8% on the strap, band or bracelet + 5.3% on the battery ; 80¢ each + 6% on the case + 14% on the strap, ". 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: 9102.11.10 44¢ each + 6% on the case + 14% on the strap, band or bracelet + 5.3% on the battery; 9102.11.25 40¢ each + 8.5% on the case + 14% on the strap, band or bracelet + 5.3% on the battery; 9102.11.30 44¢ each + 6% on the case + 2.8% on the strap, band or bracelet + 5.3% on the battery; 9102.11.45 40¢ each + 8.5% on the case + 2.8% on the strap, band or bracelet + 5.3% on the battery; 9102.1
What falls under 910211
- Battery and quartz wrist-watches with a mechanical (hands) display, cased in base metal, steel, titanium, ceramic or plastic
- Quartz movements sold fitted in a wrist-watch case rather than loose
What's specifically excluded
These look similar but belong under a different code:
Commonly confused with
910221: Automatic wrist-watches
Chapter 91 splits first on how the watch is powered. 9102.11 is electrically operated with a hands display; 9102.21 is mechanical with automatic winding. Importers routinely file a self-winding mechanical watch under the quartz code because the dial looks identical, and the movement is the only thing customs is asking about.
910111: Precious-metal-cased watch
Case material overrides everything else. A gold or platinum case, or a case clad with precious metal, moves the watch out of 9102 entirely and into heading 9101, regardless of movement.
Classification & cost note
Three questions decide a wrist-watch code, in this order: is the case precious metal (9101 if yes), is the movement electric or mechanical, and does it display the time with hands or a digital readout. Get the order wrong and the classification falls apart, because case material outranks movement. Smartwatches sit outside this scheme entirely and remain genuinely unsettled: a device whose principal function is notifications, payments and health data has been treated in several jurisdictions as Chapter 85 apparatus rather than as a watch, and the duty difference is real, so a binding ruling is worth the paperwork before a first commercial shipment.
Typical products: Quartz analogue dress watches in a steel case · Battery-powered fashion and diver watches · Solar-charged quartz watches with hands
What the notes to section XVIII say
Chapter 91 sits in section XVIII, optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; clocks and watches; musical instruments; parts and accessories thereof, and the nomenclature publishes no note to that section at all, so the note to chapter 91 is the highest rule over this code; that is the published position rather than a gap here, and the chapter 91 page says the same, read from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/api/v2/sections/18 on 2026-09-08.
What the nomenclature says about heading 9102
910211 is a subheading of 9102, wristwatches, pocket-watches and other watches, including stopwatches, other than those of heading 9101 , and this site holds one other code under the same heading, which every rule below governs equally.
No numbered note to chapter 91 takes heading 9102 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 91 page.
One further note to chapter 91 names heading 9102 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 2 to chapter 91, which is about something else
Watches with case of base metal inlaid with precious metal fall in heading 9102.
Read from the notes to chapter 91 published in the UK Trade Tariff by HM Revenue and Customs, at https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/api/v2/chapters/91, with the heading title from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/api/v2/headings/9102, on 2026-09-07, with the whole layer and the reason a heading note is a chapter note set out on the chapter 91 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 910211
What is the HS code for a quartz watch?
A battery or quartz wrist-watch with hands and a non-precious case is 9102.11. If the same watch has a precious-metal case it becomes 9101.11 instead, and if the movement is mechanical self-winding it becomes 9102.21.
Does the strap affect the classification?
Not for the six-digit code. The watch is classified on its case and movement, and a strap presented with the watch goes with it. Straps imported separately have their own codes under heading 9113.
How is a smartwatch classified?
It depends on principal function, and practice varies by country. A smartwatch built around communication, payments and health tracking is frequently classified under Chapter 85 rather than as a watch under 9102, so confirm your destination's ruling practice before shipping.
Codes in nearby chapters
Chapter 91 holds 3 subheadings on this site, so these are the closest chapters by number rather than codes for similar goods.
Related codes in Chapter 91
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