Office furniture HS codes: office chairs, desks, workstations and storage

Office chairs with swivel and height adjustment are classified under 9401.31 (wooden) or, far more often, 9401.39 (other); older lists quoting 9401.30 predate HS 2022. Office desks, filing cabinets and storage are 9403.10 if metal, 9403.30 if wooden and 9403.70 if plastic. The six digits are international; confirm the national line and current duty with your broker.

Was ist der HS-Code für einen Bürostuhl?

A typical task chair — swivel base, gas lift for height — is 9401.39; a chair without height adjustment is classified by its frame. HS 2022 split the old 9401.30 by frame material into 9401.31 (wooden) and 9401.39 (other), and most office chairs have metal or plastic structures.

For the rest of the chapter, see our Chapter 94 furniture HS codes guide.

What is the HS code for an office desk?

9403.10 if the desk is metal office furniture, 9403.30 if it is wooden office furniture — decided by the material that gives the desk its character. A steel-leg desk with a melamine-faced chipboard top is a common borderline case.

• Sit-stand desks. Electric height-adjustable desks usually stay in 9403; a steel frame with motors shipped without its top is normally a part (9403.99).
• Benching and workstations. Desk-mounted screens shipped with the desks travel with them; stand-alone acoustic partitions deserve a broker’s opinion.
• “Of a kind used in offices.” Home-office desks may be classified as office or as other furniture depending on design; note the intended use on the spec.

A customs-clearance post on Xiaohongshu lists a “metal-frame office desk” under 9403.30 — the wooden line. Small mistakes like this are why the material belongs on the invoice.

Which rules apply to office chairs beyond the HS code?

Product-safety and flammability rules in the destination, which differ from the tariff and are often set by the buyer’s contract. The same clearance post claims office chairs with castors need “DOT certification”; ordinary office chairs do not carry a transport-department mark. What corporate buyers usually specify instead are recognised test standards for strength and stability, and, for upholstered seating, the flammability rules of the market — California’s labelling rules for upholstered furniture, or UK furniture fire-safety regulations.

Ask the factory for current test reports against the standard named in your contract before production, not after loading. Gas lifts and castors are bought-in components, so the report should cover the parts you will actually receive.

Was fügen die Kommentare hinzu?

The comments are thin, but they show who is buying — and what they are not being told publicly.

• US buyers are asking. Under the office-furniture maker’s post, a commenter located in the US says their company needs a batch of office furniture and asks whether the maker can export to the US; there is no visible reply.
• Everything goes to private message. Other comments are single-digit requests for the catalogue, which the maker offers only by message — so warranty and shipping terms are never public.
• Data posts attract report hunters. Under the export-trends post, every comment is a request for the underlying report, not a question about the figures — treat such numbers as a secondary summary.

How much duty applies to office furniture from China?

It depends on the full national line plus China-specific measures in your market (at the time of writing — confirm with your broker). In the US, several office seating and furniture lines have been affected by Section 301 duties since 2018, and the rules have changed repeatedly. Our explainer on US-Zölle auf Möbel aus China sets out what to check: HTS line, Chapter 99 provisions and exclusions.

Loose hardware and lighting in an office fit-out — cable trays, handles, LED desk lamps — often has its own codes and duties; see furniture parts, hardware and lighting HS codes.

What do buyers get wrong when ordering office furniture from China?

They treat a fit-out as one line, when customs, freight and warranty treat it as dozens. An office-furniture maker on Xiaohongshu advertises complete fit-outs with 20–45 days of sea transit and a 5-year warranty; under the post, a US-based reader asks whether the company can export to the US, and gets no public answer.

Break the order into chairs, desks, storage, soft seating and accessories, with material and HS code per line, before quotes are compared. Then plan the freight as one consolidated shipment through Möbelversand und Konsolidierung aus China, or read our Beschaffung von Büromöbeln page for how projects are run.

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