HS Code 7602Aluminium; waste and scrap

HS code 7602 at a glance

Aluminium waste and scrap is aluminium that is no longer used as a finished product. It is usually collected, sorted and sold to be melted down again. Customs offices give this kind of material its own code, so it is not mixed up with new metal or finished goods.

The code sits inside the Harmonized System, the shared language customs offices use to name goods. Because the language is shared, a buyer in one country and a seller in another can point to the same description when they talk about aluminium scrap.

How the 7602 code is built, and what HSN and HTS add

An HS code is read from left to right. The first two digits, 76, name the chapter. The first four digits, 7602, name the heading. All six digits, 760200, name the subheading.

The World Customs Organization stops at six digits. Each country may then add its own digits for local tariff and statistics needs. That is why you may see an HSN code 7602 in India or an HTS code 7602 in the United States followed by extra digits. The first six digits stay the same, but the longer number can differ from one country to the next.

So the answer to whether the aluminium scrap code is the same everywhere is: yes up to six digits, and not always after that. If you are unsure which national extension fits your goods, try the HS code classifier.

7602 vs 7601 and 7603: choosing the right aluminium code

Chapter 76 splits aluminium by form. The form of the goods at the time of shipping decides the heading, so look at what is in the container, not what it was before.

Use these short rules as a starting point. Always check the official notes for your case.

• 7601 is unwrought aluminium. This is new metal in raw form.
• 7602 is aluminium waste and scrap. This is used or leftover metal.
• 7603 is aluminium powders and flakes. These are fine particles, not lumps of scrap.
• 7604 to 7616 are articles made from aluminium, such as bars, sheets, foil, tubes and household items.

Aluminium scrap import and export data under 760200

Customs data is the record each shipment leaves when it crosses a border. When those records are grouped by HS code, you can study one product at a time. For this page, that product is aluminium scrap.

Shipment records filed under 760200 are the place to look for real trade in this product. You can read the import side on the import data page and the export side on the export data page. The sections below show what EximDataX offers for this code.

Find aluminium scrap buyers and suppliers

If you want an importers list for aluminium scrap, or a list of sellers, start from the HS code. Searching by code finds companies by what they actually ship, not by what they say about themselves.

• EximDataX shows shipment-level import and export records from official customs sources.
• Coverage: 43 direct customs feeds plus 184 mirror-derived countries.
• Named buyers and named suppliers are available in 38 of the 43 direct markets.
• Most markets refresh weekly and some refresh daily.
• You can search by HS code to see who imports and exports a product, and book a free demo.

Other headings in Chapter 76

Not sure 7602 is the right fit? You can also go back to all HS code chapters.