HS Code Detail
950669 Chapter 95 · Toys & Sports Sports balls, other
Six-digit subheading in Toys & Sports, chapter 95 of the Harmonized System, priced here for 2 destination markets.
Anatomy of 950669
You will declare against a longer local code that begins 950669: ten digits in most national tariffs, eight in the European Union, and the first six the same everywhere. Which trailing digits apply is what the 2 rates below differ on.
What this code covers
Import duty by country
MFN duty rate · 2 countries| Country | Duty | VAT |
|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺Australia | 5% | 10% |
| 🇨🇦Canada | 0% | 5% |
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: 950669 into Australia
An illustrative consignment of 950669 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 5% | AUD 100.00 |
| Australia tax at 10%, charged on the value plus the duty | AUD 225.00 |
| Total, before commercial charges | AUD 2,475.00 |
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 950669 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 950669 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 2,475.00 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 950669 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.
- 🇨🇦CA
- MFN for 950669 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: 9506.69.00 Free
- 🇦🇺AU
- MFN for 950669 AU, read on 2026-09-07 from https://www.abf.gov.au/importing-exporting-and-manufacturing/tariff-classification/current-tariff/schedule-3/section-xx/chapter-95 and again on 2026-09-07 from https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2004A04997/latest/text. Both returned 5%. The two publications are independent of each other and they agree. Retrieved text: 9506.69.00 5%
Markets with no figure recorded
United States: United States splits 9506.69 into 3 tariff lines and they do not carry the same rate: the schedule returned 0 to 5.4%. A single percentage cannot represent that honestly, so no United States figure is recorded and the calculator falls back to its disclosed category average.
United Kingdom: United Kingdom splits 9506.69 into 2 tariff lines and they do not carry the same rate: the schedule returned 0 to 2%. A single percentage cannot represent that honestly, so no United Kingdom figure is recorded and the calculator falls back to its disclosed category average.
Germany: Germany splits 9506.69 into 2 tariff lines and they do not carry the same rate: the schedule returned 0 to 2.7%. A single percentage cannot represent that honestly, so no Germany figure is recorded and the calculator falls back to its disclosed category average.
Portugal: Portugal splits 9506.69 into 2 tariff lines and they do not carry the same rate: the schedule returned 0 to 2.7%. A single percentage cannot represent that honestly, so no Portugal figure is recorded and the calculator falls back to its disclosed category average.
Re-check first: This is the residual ball line: inflatable balls are 9506.62, lawn-tennis balls 9506.61 and golf balls 9506.32, none of them covered here. Canada and Australia each charge one rate across it, while the United States and the United Kingdom both split it.
What falls under 950669
- Balls used in sport that are neither golf balls nor table tennis balls, are not lawn tennis balls and are not inflatable
- Solid, wound and moulded balls such as cricket balls, baseballs, softballs, hockey balls and lacrosse balls
- Bowling balls, boules and other heavy solid balls for sport
What's specifically excluded
These look similar but belong under a different code:
- 950662: Inflatable balls, including footballs, basketballs and volleyballs
- 950661: Lawn tennis balls
- 950632: Golf balls
- 950691: Articles and equipment for general physical exercise, gymnastics or athletics
Commonly confused with
950662: Inflatable balls
Construction rather than sport decides it. A football, basketball, volleyball, rugby ball or beach ball is inflatable and takes the previous subheading, so two balls of similar size for related games can sit in different subheadings on whether there is a bladder and a valve inside.
950691: Medicine balls and exercise balls
A ball for general physical exercise is equipment for physical exercise rather than a sports ball, so medicine balls, slam balls and exercise balls go to the general exercise line. The question is whether the ball is used to play a game or to train the body.
950300: Play balls and novelty balls
A ball sold as a toy stays in the toy heading. Soft play balls, ball pit balls and novelty balls are the usual cases, and the test is what the article is rather than who buys it.
Classification & cost note
This subheading is best read backwards. The group heading excludes golf balls and table tennis balls before it begins, the first line inside it takes lawn tennis balls, the second takes inflatable balls, and what reaches this one is every remaining ball that is not inflated. So the determination is made on construction rather than on the sport: solid, wound or moulded balls come here, and anything with a bladder and a valve does not. Two adjacent lines catch the rest. A ball intended as a toy stays in the toy heading of chapter 95, and a ball used for general physical exercise rather than to play a game, the medicine ball being the clearest case, goes to the exercise equipment line. Materials matter here for reasons that have nothing to do with the code. Leather cased balls raise sanitary and species questions in several markets and can need veterinary documentation, and balls containing cork, natural rubber or animal hair fillings raise the same kind of question. Balls destined for competition also carry federation approval requirements that no customs authority enforces but that make an unapproved consignment commercially worthless.
Typical products: Cricket balls · Baseballs and softballs · Field hockey balls · Lacrosse balls · Squash and racquetball balls · Tenpin bowling balls · Petanque boules · Croquet balls · Hurling sliotars
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 9506
950669 is a subheading of 9506, articles and equipment for general physical exercise, gymnastics, athletics, other sports (including table tennis) or outdoor games, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter; swimming pools and paddling pools , and this site holds one other code under the same heading, which every rule below governs equally.
No numbered note to chapter 95 takes heading 9506 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.
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/9506, 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 950669
Is a football classified in this subheading?
No. Footballs are inflatable and take the inflatable balls line. This subheading is for balls that are not inflated.
Where do medicine balls go?
To the general physical exercise, gymnastics and athletics line rather than here, because they are training equipment rather than balls used to play a game.
Are tennis balls classified here?
Lawn tennis balls have their own line immediately before this one. Other racket sport balls that are not inflatable, squash and racquetball among them, do come here.
Does a leather cased ball need anything extra?
It can. Leather and other animal materials raise sanitary and species conditions in several markets, and those attach to the finished ball rather than to the hide.
Related codes in Chapter 95
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