HS chapter 53: Other vegetable textile fibres
Chapter 53 of the EU Combined Nomenclature 2026, with the official text of every heading in it and their 6-digit subheadings.
Official description
53OTHER VEGETABLE TEXTILE FIBRES; PAPER YARN AND WOVEN FABRICS OF PAPER YARN
- Headings (4 digits)
- 10
- Subheadings (6 digits)
- 23
- CN codes (8 digits)
- 34
Headings in chapter 53
- 5301Flax, raw or processed but not spun; flax tow and waste (including yarn waste and garnetted stock)
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Flax, raw or processed, but not spun; flax tow and waste, incl. yarn waste and garnetted stock
- 5301 10 Flax, raw or retted
- 5301 21 Flax, broken, scutched, hackled or otherwise processed, but not spun | Broken or scutched
- 5301 29 Flax, broken, scutched, hackled or otherwise processed, but not spun | Other
- 5301 30 Flax tow and waste
Explanatory note (Eurostat): True hemp "Cannabis sativa L.", raw or processed, but not spun; tow and waste of true hemp, incl. yarn waste and garnetted stock
- 5302 10 True hemp, raw or retted
- 5302 90 Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Jute and other textile bast fibres, raw or processed, but not spun; tow and waste of such fibres, incl. yarn waste and garnetted stock (excl. flax, true hemp and ramie)
- 5303 10 Jute and other textile bast fibres, raw or retted
- 5303 90 Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Coconut, abaca "Manila hemp or Musa textilis Nee", ramie, agave and other vegetable textile fibres, n.e.s., raw or processed, but not spun; tow, noils and waste of such fibres, incl. yarn waste and garnetted stock
- 5305 00 Coconut, abaca (Manila hemp or Musa textilis Nee), ramie and other vegetable textile fibres, not elsewhere specified or included, raw or processed but not spun; tow, noils and waste of these fibres (including yarn waste and garnetted stock)
- 5306Flax yarn
- 5306 10 Single
- 5306 20 Multiple (folded) or cabled
- 5307 10 Single
- 5307 20 Multiple (folded) or cabled
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Yarn of vegetable textile fibres; paper yarn (excl. flax yarn, yarn of jute or of other textile bast fibres of heading 5303 and cotton yarn)
- 5308 10 Coir yarn
- 5308 20 True hemp yarn
- 5308 90 Other
- 5309 11 Containing 85 % or more by weight of flax | Unbleached or bleached
- 5309 19 Containing 85 % or more by weight of flax | Other
- 5309 21 Containing less than 85 % by weight of flax | Unbleached or bleached
- 5309 29 Containing less than 85 % by weight of flax | Other
- 5310 10 Unbleached
- 5310 90 Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Woven fabrics of other vegetable textile fibres; woven fabrics of paper yarn (excl. those of flax, jute, other textile bast fibres of heading 5303 and cotton yarn)
- 5311 00 Woven fabrics of other vegetable textile fibres; woven fabrics of paper yarn
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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.