HS Code Detail
950720 Chapter 95 · Toys & Sports Fish hooks, whether or not snelled
Six-digit subheading in Toys & Sports, chapter 95 of the Harmonized System, priced here for 2 destination markets.
Anatomy of 950720
You will declare against a longer local code that begins 950720: ten digits in most national tariffs, 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 2 destinations below charge the same, 0%.
What this code covers
Import duty by country
MFN duty rate · 2 countries| Country | Duty | VAT |
|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺Australia | 0% | 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: 950720 into Australia
An illustrative consignment of 950720 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 950720 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 950720 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 950720 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 950720 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: 9507.20.00 Free
- 🇦🇺AU
- MFN for 950720 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 0%. The two publications are independent of each other and they agree. Retrieved text: 9507.20.00 Free
Markets with no figure recorded
United States: United States splits 9507.20 into 2 tariff lines and they do not carry the same rate: the schedule returned 4 to 4.8%. 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 9507.20 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 9507.20 into 2 tariff lines and they do not carry the same rate: the schedule returned 1.7 to 3.7%. 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 9507.20 into 2 tariff lines and they do not carry the same rate: the schedule returned 1.7 to 3.7%. 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: The subheading covers fish hooks whether or not snelled, which means whether or not already attached to a leader; fishing rods are 9507.10 and reels 9507.30. Canada and Australia charge nothing, and the United States and the United Kingdom both split the subheading, the United States between snelled hooks and the rest.
What falls under 950720
- Fish hooks of every size and pattern, whether or not snelled, meaning attached to a length of line
- Barbed, barbless, single, double and treble hooks
- Hooks supplied loose, in retail packets or made up on traces
What's specifically excluded
These look similar but belong under a different code:
- 950710: Fishing rods and parts and accessories for them
- 950730: Fishing reels and parts and accessories for them
- 950790: Other line fishing tackle, landing nets, butterfly nets and decoys
- 950300: Toy fishing sets, which are playthings rather than tackle
Commonly confused with
950710: Fishing rods
Rods and hooks are two different subheadings and this site's own directory blurred them until it was corrected. Fishing rods and their parts are 9507.10 and hooks are here. A rod supplied with terminal tackle attached is classified as a set on the article that gives the set its essential character, which is the rod.
950790: Floats, swivels, artificial baits and landing nets
Everything else in line fishing falls to the residual line, so a trace without a hook, a box of swivels or a set of floats is 9507.90. A trace that carries a hook is snelled and stays here, which is the distinction the words whether or not snelled exist to make.
Classification & cost note
The correction on this page is worth stating plainly, because this site itself carried the wrong description until it was fixed: 9507.20 is fish hooks, not fishing rods. Rods and their parts are 9507.10, reels are 9507.30, and everything else in line fishing is the residual 9507.90. The useful part of the tariff text is the phrase whether or not snelled. A hook tied to a short length of line, which anglers buy ready made and which the trade calls a snelled hook or a hook to nylon, does not stop being a hook, so a packet of made up traces stays in this subheading rather than moving to the residual line. Where a hook arrives as part of a made up rig or a boxed set, classification follows the article giving the set its essential character, and where the set is a rod with terminal tackle that is the rod. Nothing in the text turns on quantity or on who the buyer is: commercial long line hooks bought by the hundred thousand and a packet of six from a tackle shop are the same subheading. Two things outside the tariff are worth a look on a fishing consignment. Lead in weights and some jig heads is restricted or banned in several markets, and barbed hooks are prohibited on some inland fisheries, which is a marketing restriction rather than an import one but reaches the same commercial outcome.
Typical products: Single eyed hooks in bulk · Treble hooks for lures · Barbless fly hooks · Circle hooks for sea angling · Snelled hook traces in retail packets · Long line hooks for commercial fisheries · Jig hooks and worm hooks · Carp hooks in coarse fishing packets
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 9507
950720 is a subheading of 9507, fishing rods, fish-hooks and other line fishing tackle; fish landing nets, butterfly nets and similar nets; decoy 'birds' (other than those of heading 9208 or 9705) and similar hunting or shooting requisites , and it is the only code this site holds under that heading.
No numbered note to chapter 95 takes heading 9507 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/9507, 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 950720
Are fishing rods classified in this subheading?
No, and this is the error the page exists to correct. Fishing rods and their parts and accessories are 9507.10. This subheading is fish hooks.
What does snelled mean?
Attached to a length of line, which is how ready made hook traces are sold. The tariff text covers hooks whether or not snelled, so a made up trace carrying a hook is still classified here.
Where do floats, swivels and artificial baits go?
To the residual line for other line fishing tackle. Only hooks, snelled or otherwise, come to this subheading.
How is a boxed rod and tackle set classified?
On the article that gives the set its essential character, which for a rod supplied with terminal tackle is the rod. The hooks in the box do not take their own code in that case.
Related codes in Chapter 95
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