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. It sits within Chapter 44 and breaks down into 18 six-digit subheadings at the border.
Sourcing this category from India
Products classified under HS 44.18 can be sourced from India across a range of clusters and price points. Use this page to understand where Builders' joinery and carpentry of wood, including cellular wood panels, assembled flooring panels, shingles and shakes sits in the tariff schedule, then explore the Indian sectors and products that supply it.
How to read this code
44.18 is the four-digit HS heading. Your destination country extends it to 8–10 digits and assigns the duty rate. India's preferential trade agreements (UAE CEPA, Australia ECTA, and others) can reduce or zero out that duty for many goods — 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
Turn this code into a sourcing plan
HS 44.18 maps to live sourcing categories — jump straight to the sector and products we ship under it.
Related codes in Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal
Fuel wood, in logs, billets, twigs, faggots or similar forms; wood in chip or particles; sawdust and wood waste and scrap, whether or not agglomerated in logs, briquettes, pellets or similar forms
44.02Wood charcoal (including shell or nut charcoal), whether or not agglomerated
44.03Wood in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or sapwood, or roughly squared
44.04Hoopwood; split poles; piles, pickets, stakes of wood, pointed, not sawn lengthwise; wooden sticks, roughly trimmed, not turned, bent, etc., suitable for walking sticks, umbrellas, tool handles, etc.
44.05Wood wool; wood flour
44.06Railway or tramway sleepers (cross-ties) of wood
44.07Wood sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or finger-jointed, of a thickness exceeding 6mm
44.08Sheets for veneering (including those obtained by slicing laminated wood), for plywood or for similar laminated wood and other wood, sawn lengthwise, sliced or peeled, planed or not, sanded, spliced or end-jointed, of a thickness not exceeding 6 mm
44.09Wood (including strips, friezes for parquet flooring, not assembled), continuously shaped (tongued, grooved, v-jointed, beaded or the like) along any edges, ends or faces, whether or not planed, sanded or end-jointed
44.10Particle board, oriented strand board (OSB) and similar board (e.g. waferboard) of wood or other ligneous materials, whether or not agglomerated with resins or other organic binding substances
44.11Fibreboard of wood or other ligneous materials, whether or not bonded with resins or other organic substances
44.12Plywood, veneered panels and similar laminated wood
Import duty guides by destination
See full duty context and India-vs-rivals comparisons in our India comparison guides and export resource hub.
Source goods under HS 44.18 directly from India.
We handle sourcing, QC, freight and documentation end-to-end. You stay focused on growing the brand.