Mercosur TradeFlow
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HS chapter 96

Miscellaneous manufactured articles

Chapter 96 has 19 headings with 73 EU tariff lines and 58 Mercosur tariff lines. Duty-free from entry into force: 62 EU and 0 Mercosur lines. Ten years or more, a quota or excluded: 2 EU and 58 Mercosur lines.

Official chapter title: Miscellaneous manufactured articles · Data last updated 18 October 2026

How fast duties fall

Tariff lines of the chapter by staging category, in each schedule.

How fast duties fall
TreatmentEU linesMercosur lines
Duty-free from entry into force (0)620
Phased out over 4 to 8 years90
Phased out over 10 years213
Phased out over 15 years (15, 15V)019
Excluded (E)026

Headings in this chapter

Headings with a product page are linked. For the others, open the calculator. Heading descriptions are the English HS nomenclature.

Headings in this chapter
HeadingDescriptionInto the EUInto BrazilCalculate
9601Ivory, bone, tortoise-shell, horn, antlers, coral, mother-of-pearl and other animal carving material and articles of these materials; worked, (including articles obtained by moulding)Excluded linesbase 0–2.7%base 18%Calculate
9602Vegetable, mineral carving material and articles of these materials, moulded or carved articles of wax, stearin, natural gums, resins or modelling pastes, worked unhardened gelatin (not heading no. 3503)Excluded linesbase 2.2%base 14–18%zero by 2036Calculate
9603Brooms, brushes (including parts of machines), hand operated floor sweepers, mops and feather dusters; knots and tufts for broom or brush making; paint pads and rollers; squeegeesExcluded linesbase 2.7–3.7%base 18%zero by 2041Calculate
9604Hand sieves and hand riddlesExcluded linesbase 3.7%base 18%Calculate
9605Travel sets; for personal toilet, sewing, shoe or clothes cleaningExcluded linesbase 3.7%base 18%Calculate
9606Buttons, press-fasteners, snap-fasteners and press-studs, button moulds and other parts of these articles; button blanksExcluded linesbase 2.7–3.7%base 18%zero by 2036Calculate
9607Slide fasteners and parts thereofExcluded linesbase 6.7–7.7%zero by 2033base 18%zero by 2036Calculate
9608Pens; ball-point, felt tipped, other porous tipped pens; fountain pens, stylograph pens duplicating stylos, propelling or sliding pencils; parts of the foregoing, excluding those of heading no. 9609Excluded linesbase 2.7–3.7%base 18%zero by 2041Calculate
9609Pencils (not of heading no. 9608), crayons, pencil leads, pastels, drawing charcoals, writing or drawing chalks and tailors' chalksbase 1.7–2.7%base 18%zero by 2041Calculate
9610Slates and boards, with writing or drawing surfaces, whether or not framedExcluded linesbase 2.7%base 18%Calculate
9611Stamps; date, numbering, sealing stamps and the like (including devices for printing or embossing labels), designed for operating by hand; hand operated composing sticks and printing setsbase 2.7%base 18%zero by 2041Calculate
9612Typewriter, similar ribbons, inked, otherwise prepared for giving impressions, whether or not on spools or in cartridges; ink pads, whether or not inked, with or without boxesExcluded linesbase 0–2.7%base 18%zero by 2041Calculate
9613Cigarette lighters and other lighters, whether or not mechanical or electrical and parts thereof other than flints and wicksExcluded linesbase 2.7%base 18%zero by 2041Calculate
9614Smoking pipes (including pipe bowls) and cigar or cigarette holders, and parts thereofExcluded linesbase 0–2.7%base 18%Calculate
9615Combs, hair-slides and similar; hairpins, curling pins, curling grips and hair curlers and the like, other than those of heading no. 8516 and parts thereofExcluded linesbase 2.7%base 18%zero by 2041Calculate
9616Scent sprays and similar toilet sprays and mounts and heads therefor; powder-puffs and pads for the application of cosmetics or toilet preparationsbase 2.7%base 18%zero by 2036Calculate
9617Vacuum flasks and other vacuum vessels, complete with cases; parts thereof other than glass innersbase 6.7%zero by 2030base 16–18%zero by 2041Calculate
9618Tailors' dummies and other lay figures; automata and other animated displays used for shop window dressingbase 1.7%base 18%zero by 2036Calculate
9619Sanitary towels (pads) and tampons, napkins (diapers), napkin liners and similar articles, of any materialbase 0–12%zero by 2036base 16%zero by 2041Calculate