HS code 4803: Toilet or facial tissue stock, towel
Heading 4803 of the EU Combined Nomenclature 2026, in chapter 48, with the official text of every 6-digit subheading and 8-digit CN code below it.
Official description
4803Toilet or facial tissue stock, towel or napkin stock and similar paper of a kind used for household or sanitary purposes, cellulose wadding and webs of cellulose fibres, whether or not creped, crinkled, embossed, perforated, surface-coloured, surface-decorated or printed, in rolls or sheets
Place in the nomenclature: 48 Paper and paperboard; articles of paper pulp, of paper or of paperboard > 4803
Explanatory note (Eurostat)
Toilet or facial tissue stock, towel or napkin stock and similar paper for household or sanitary purposes, cellulose wadding and webs of cellulose fibres, whether or not creped, crinkled, embossed, perforated, surface-coloured, surface-decorated or printed, in rolls of a width > 36 cm or in square or rectangular sheets with one side > 36 cm and the other side > 15 cm in the unfolded state
- Subheadings (6 digits)
- 1
- CN codes (8 digits)
- 4
Subheadings and CN codes in heading 4803
- 4803 00Toilet or facial tissue stock, towel or napkin stock and similar paper of a kind used for household or sanitary purposes, cellulose wadding and webs of cellulose fibres, whether or not creped, crinkled, embossed, perforated, surface-coloured, surface-decorated or printed, in rolls or sheets
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Toilet or facial tissue stock, towel or napkin stock and similar paper for household or sanitary purposes, cellulose wadding and webs of cellulose fibres, whether or not creped, crinkled, embossed, perforated, surface-coloured, surface-decorated or printed, in rolls of a width > 36 cm or in square or rectangular sheets with one side > 36 cm and the other side > 15 cm in the unfolded state
- 4803 00 10 Cellulose wadding
- 4803 00 31 Creped paper and webs of cellulose fibres (tissues), weighing, per ply | Not more than 25 g/m2
- 4803 00 39 Creped paper and webs of cellulose fibres (tissues), weighing, per ply | More than 25 g/m2
- 4803 00 90 Other
The first 6 digits are the Harmonized System, shared worldwide: a US HTS code that starts with the same 6 digits sits under the same subheading. The last 2 digits are the EU's own CN split.
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Source
Source: EU Combined Nomenclature 2026 (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1926), © European Union, https://eur-lex.europa.eu/. Reformatted by WISEPIM: indent dashes removed and parent lines joined. Only the Official Journal is authentic.