Wood and Articles of Wood; Cork; Plaiting Materials

Section IX - Wood and Articles of Wood; Cork; Plaiting Materials - is one of 22 top-level groupings in the US Harmonized Tariff Schedule. It aggregates 3 HTS chapters into a single commercial category, covering a total of 988 individual tariff classifications. Sections are the broadest layer of the HTS hierarchy: they tell an importer which family of products a good belongs to before drilling into a specific chapter, heading, subheading, and tariff line.

The chapters listed below each carry their own average and maximum duty rates, which vary widely depending on whether a product is raw, processed, or finished. Reviewing a section-wide view is useful when scoping a new import program, you can quickly see which chapters within wood and articles of wood; cork; plaiting materials are duty-free, which sit in the moderate 3–10% range, and which carry sensitive high-duty lines that may warrant alternative sourcing or FTA-origin strategies.

Click any chapter in the table to see every tariff line it contains, complete with General (MFN), Special (FTA), and Column 2 rates. For precise classification, work from section to chapter to heading to tariff line, never assume a product's rate based on the section average alone. All data is sourced from the USITC Harmonized Tariff Schedule 2026 Basic Edition, the official US import duty schedule.