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950490 Chapter 95 · Toys & Sports Board games, table games and other games
Six-digit subheading in Toys & Sports, chapter 95 of the Harmonized System, priced here for 5 destination markets.
Anatomy of 950490
You will declare against a longer local code that begins 950490: 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 a rate can differ on, though on this subheading all 5 destinations below charge the same, 0%.
What this code covers
Import duty by country
MFN duty rate · 5 countries| Country | Duty | VAT |
|---|---|---|
| 🇨🇦Canada | 0% | 5% |
| 🇩🇪Germany | 0% | 19% |
| 🇵🇹Portugal | 0% | 23% |
| 🇬🇧United Kingdom | 0% | 20% |
| 🇺🇸United States | 0% | 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: 950490 into Canada
An illustrative consignment of 950490 invoiced at CAD 2,000.00, priced in CAD because a threshold is set in the destination's currency and nothing here is converted.
| Goods value on the invoice | CAD 2,000.00 |
| International freight | CAD 120.00 |
| Cargo insurance | CAD 30.00 |
| Value the duty is charged on, FOB basis | CAD 2,000.00 |
| Duty at 0% | CAD 0.00 |
| Canada tax at 5%, charged on the value plus the duty | CAD 100.00 |
| Total, before commercial charges | CAD 2,250.00 |
And if the consignment were small
Canada relieves customs duties and taxes on consignments at or under CAD 20. The 950490 shipment above is over that, so its duty is charged in full. The same code invoiced at exactly CAD 20 with no freight would be charged CAD 0.00 of duty and CAD 0.00 of tax, a total of CAD 20.00. The rate on the 950490 row has not changed; only the charge is relieved.
Selling rather than buying? CAD 2,250.00 is what your buyer in Canada pays to take delivery of this consignment, yours to pay if you quote DDP and theirs if you quote DAP: Exporting to Canada 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 950490 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.
- 🇺🇸US
- HTS General for 950490 US, read on 2026-09-07 from https://hts.usitc.gov/search?query=9504.90 and again on 2026-09-07 from https://hts.usitc.gov/reststop/exportList?from=95&to=96&format=CSV&styles=false. Both returned 0%. 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: 9504.90.40.00 Free; 9504.90.60.00 Free; 9504.90.90 Free
- 🇬🇧GB
- Third country duty for 950490 GB, read on 2026-09-07 from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/commodities/9504901000 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 0%. The two publications are independent of each other and they agree. Retrieved text: 9504901000 0.00 %; 9504908000 0.00 %
- 🇨🇦CA
- MFN for 950490 CA, read on 2026-09-07 from https://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/trade-commerce/tariff-tarif/2026/html/00/ch95-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: 9504.90.00 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 950490 DE, read on 2026-09-07 from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/xi/commodities/9504901000 and again on 2026-09-07 from https://trade.ec.europa.eu/access-to-markets/en/results?product=950490&origin=CN&destination=DE. Both returned 0%. The two publications are independent of each other and they agree. Retrieved text: 9504901000 0.00 %; 9504908000 0.00 %
Markets with no figure recorded
Australia: Australia splits 9504.90 into 2 tariff lines and they do not carry the same rate: the schedule returned 0 to 5%. A single percentage cannot represent that honestly, so no Australia figure is recorded and the calculator falls back to its disclosed category average.
Re-check first: This is the residual games line and it is free into the United States on all three of its national lines. What needs settling first is whether the goods belong at 950430 as coin-operated or at 950450 as a console instead.
What falls under 950490
- Articles for funfair, table or parlour games not covered by the earlier subheadings of 9504
- Board games, card games, dominoes, chess and other table games
What's specifically excluded
These look similar but belong under a different code:
Commonly confused with
490199: Printed books and activity books
A puzzle or activity book is printed matter of Chapter 49 even though it is bought to be played with, because it is a book that is written in. A boxed game with a board, cards and pieces is a game of heading 9504, and the presence of printed components does not carry it into Chapter 49.
880622: Unmanned aircraft and flying toys
Remote controlled flying models were routinely declared in Chapter 95 before the 2022 edition created heading 8806 for unmanned aircraft. A camera carrying multirotor is now an aircraft rather than a game or a toy, and product data written before that change is still circulating.
Classification & cost note
Heading 9504 divides on how the game is operated before it divides on anything else, which puts coin operated machines and video game consoles in their own subheadings and leaves conventional table games here. The recurring difficulty is the boundary with printed matter, and the useful test is whether the article is played or read. A boxed game with a board and components is a game even where most of its mass is printed card; a puzzle book is printed matter even where its entire purpose is play. The second boundary, against toys of heading 9503, turns on whether the article has rules and an outcome: a jigsaw is a puzzle rather than a table game, while chess is a game. Safety compliance follows the toy regime for anything aimed at children, and that obligation is assessed independently of the customs entry.
Typical products: Boxed board games with printed boards and pieces · Playing cards and card game sets · Chess, draughts and backgammon sets · Dominoes and traditional parlour games · Trivia quiz compendiums · Mahjong tile sets
What the notes to section XX say
Chapter 95 sits in section XX, miscellaneous manufactured articles, and the nomenclature publishes no note to that section at all, so the note to chapter 95 is the highest rule over this code; that is the published position rather than a gap here, and the chapter 95 page says the same, read from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/api/v2/sections/20 on 2026-09-08.
What the nomenclature says about heading 9504
950490 is a subheading of 9504, video game consoles and machines, table or parlour games, including pintables, billiards, special tables for casino games and automatic bowling equipment, amusement machines operated by coins, banknotes, bank cards, tokens or by any other means of payment , and this site holds 2 other codes under the same heading, which every rule below governs equally.
No numbered note to chapter 95 takes heading 9504 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 95 page.
One further note to chapter 95 names heading 9504 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 6 to chapter 95, which is about something else
Fairground amusements do not include equipment of heading 9504.
Read from the notes to chapter 95 published in the UK Trade Tariff by HM Revenue and Customs, at https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/api/v2/chapters/95, with the heading title from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/api/v2/headings/9504, on 2026-09-07, with the whole layer and the reason a heading note is a chapter note set out on the chapter 95 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 950490
Is a puzzle book classified as a game?
No. A book of puzzles or activities is printed matter in Chapter 49, because it is read and written in rather than played as a game with components. A boxed game with a board and pieces is a game of heading 9504.
Where do remote controlled flying models belong now?
In heading 8806, which the 2022 edition created for unmanned aircraft. They were commonly declared in Chapter 95 before that, so older supplier data and internal product files frequently still show the wrong chapter.
Is a jigsaw puzzle a table game?
No. A jigsaw is a puzzle and belongs with toys and puzzles rather than with table games, because it has no rules, no opponents and no outcome to win. The test that separates them is whether the article is played to a result or simply assembled.
Related codes in Chapter 95
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