Trade and compliance
Importing hair foil raises five questions: how it is classified, what duty it attracts, which documents travel with it, what must be printed on the box, and which product-safety rules apply where it is sold. Hair foil is aluminium foil under HS heading 7607. Each page here is reviewed by our export compliance team and dated.
Pages in this section
- HS code
How hair foil is classified under HS heading 7607: rolled vs further worked, rolls vs sheets, embossed and printed foil, with national tariff lines to check.
- Landed cost
How the landed cost of a hair foil order is built, step by step: goods value, freight, duty, import tax and local charges, and what to send for a quote.
- Documents
The documents that should come with a hair foil shipment — invoice, packing list, bill of lading, certificate of origin, MSDS — and what each is for.
- Labelling
What to print on hair foil boxes for the US, UK, EU, Canada and Australia: country of origin, contents, sheet count, importer details and warnings.
- EU GPSR
How the EU General Product Safety Regulation applies to hair foil sold to consumers, including on Amazon: responsible person, labelling and documentation.
- Amazon FBA prep
How we prep hair foil for Amazon FBA: FNSKU labels, cartons packed to Amazon's current limits, poly bag rules and shipping direct from the factory.
Measures by market
Aluminium foil from China is subject to trade measures in several markets. We do not publish duty rates or lists of measures here: they change, they differ by product and exporter, and a customs broker confirms them for a given product on the date of import.
A measure applies to goods that fall inside its written scope. For hair foil the deciding details are usually the form, roll or sheet, and the width, thickness and weight. The market pages take each market in turn: USA, UK, EU, Australia and New Zealand and Canada.
How to use these pages
These pages are guidance from a supplier, reviewed by our export compliance team. They are not customs advice for your shipment. Three rules follow from that.
- The importer is responsible. Classification and the duty declared are the importer’s responsibility in law, whatever a supplier writes on an invoice.
- Rates change. Each page shows when it was last verified. Check the date, and confirm the current rate before you order.
- Get it in writing where it matters. A binding ruling from customs settles classification for your product. It costs time once and removes the doubt from every later shipment.
Start with the HS code for hair foil, because classification decides most of what follows, and then work through landed cost with your own figures.