Builders' joinery and carpentry of wood, including cellular wood panels, assembled flooring panels, shingles and shakes
HS heading 44.18 covers Builders' joinery and carpentry of wood, including cellular wood panels, assembled flooring panels, shingles and shakes. Within Chapter 44 it splits into 18 six-digit subheadings, each carrying its own customs duty line.
- India exports 2024
- $18.7M
- Share of Chapter 44
- 3.2%
- Rank in its chapter
- #7 of 21
Source: UN Comtrade — India's reported merchandise exports to the world, 2024.
Sourcing this category from India
HS 44.18 covers builders' joinery and carpentry — doors, windows, flooring panels, shingles and cellular wood panels. India's joinery units export wooden doors, window frames and assembled flooring, blending engineered cores with solid-wood and veneered finishes.
How to read this code
44.18 is the four-digit HS heading for builders' joinery and carpentry of wood, including. To clear customs your destination country extends it to a full 8–10 digit code and assigns the duty rate. India's preferential trade agreements (UAE CEPA, Australia ECTA, and others) can reduce or zero out that duty on many wood, cork & basketware lines — check our import guides for your market.
Subheadings under HS 44.18
The Harmonised System breaks Builders' joinery and carpentry of wood, including cellular wood panels, assembled flooring panels, shingles and shakes into these 18 subheadings. Drill down to the exact classification for your goods.
Wood; windows, French-windows and their frames; of tropical wood
Wood; windows, French-windows and their frames; (of other than tropical wood)
Wood; doors and their frames and thresholds, of tropical wood;
Wood; doors and their frames and thresholds, (of other than tropical wood)
wood; posts and beams other than products of subheadings 4418.81 to 4418.89
Wood; shuttering for concrete constructional work
Wood; shingles and shakes
Wood; assembled flooring panels, of bamboo or with at least the top layer (wear layer) of bamboo
Wood; assembled flooring panels, not of bamboo or with at least the top layer (wear layer) of bamboo, for mosaic floors
Wood; assembled flooring panels, not of bamboo or with at least the top layer (wear layer) of bamboo, multilayer
Wood; assembled flooring panels, n.e.c in headings 4418.73, 4418.74 or 4418.75
Wood; engineered structural timber products, glue-laminated timber (glulam)
Wood; engineered structural timber products, cross-laminated timber (CLT or X-lam)
Wood; engineered structural timber products, I beams
Wood; engineered structural timber products, other than glue-laminated timber (glulam), cross-laminated timber (CLT or X-lam), or I beams
Wood; builders' joinery and carpentry of wood n.e.c. in heading no. 4418, of bamboo
Wood; builders' joinery and carpentry of wood n.e.c. in heading no. 4418, cellular wood panels
Wood; builders' joinery and carpentry of wood n.e.c. in heading no. 4418, other than of bamboo or cellular wood panels
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Top destinations for Chapter 44 exports
India's largest buyers of goods in this HS chapter in 2024, ranked by export value.
Chapter-level destination mix — your specific HS line may skew differently. Source: UN Comtrade, 2024.
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