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Updated September 17, 2026

What is the HTS code for a stoneware plate used for breaking in rage rooms?

HTS code

6912.00.4890

CBP classified a round white ceramic stoneware plate, used in rage rooms where customers break plates to relieve stress, under HTS 6912.00.4890 in ruling N345030. That line covers ceramic tableware and kitchenware that isn't porcelain, and CBP found the plate belongs there rather than with festive articles.

  • Made in China
  • CBP ruling N345030
  • January 23, 2025
  • Current
Today's duty from China

The Product

  • Round white ceramic stoneware plate, about 5 inches in diameter.
  • Unsafe for food contact, according to the requester.
  • Used in rage rooms, where customers break the plates to relieve stress.

CBP's Ruling

ItemHTS codeCBP's description of the line
Ceramic stoneware plate, CPZ-01HTS 6912.00.4890Ceramic tableware, kitchenware, other household articles and toilet articles, other than of porcelain or china: Tableware and kitchenware: Other: Other: Other: Other

Explanation

CBP treats heading 6912 as a use provision and applied Additional U.S. Rule of Interpretation 1(a). Under that rule, a classification controlled by use (other than actual use) turns on the use in the United States of goods of the class or kind the imported goods belong to, and the controlling use is the principal use. On that basis CBP placed the plate in heading 6912, ceramic tableware, kitchenware and other household articles other than of porcelain or china.

Within the heading, CBP put the plate on the line whose words are tableware and kitchenware, other. The plate is stoneware, and the requester says it is unsafe for food contact.

Headings CBP ruled out

  • 9505.90.6000, festive articles: The requester proposed this line. CBP found Chapter 95 note 1(x), which excludes utilitarian items, keeps the plate out of Chapter 95, and the principal use rule precludes it too.

Does this apply to your product?

It likely does if you can answer yes to each of these:

  • Is it a plate made of stoneware rather than porcelain?
  • Is it unsafe for food contact?
  • Is it meant to be broken by customers, as in a rage room?

A no to any of them can mean a different code. A licensed broker can classify your product.

The code today

HTS codeIn today's scheduleWhere it sitsToday's duty
6912.00.4890✓ Still in the scheduleHeading 6912Today's duty from China 

Checked against today's tariff schedule. The duty calculator opens with the code and country filled in.

Related rulings

L80880 placed another ceramic plate on the same line; C89662, C89663 and L84112 classify other ceramic plates. N326579, N327015, N300410 and N335905 cover stoneware cups and bowls.

  • N326579June 10, 2022Ceramic stoneware cup from China6912.00.4500
  • N327015July 15, 2022Ceramic stoneware cup from China6912.00.4500
  • N335905October 30, 2023Stoneware ceramic bowls from China6912.00.4810
  • N300410September 26, 2018Stoneware ceramic bowl from China6912.00.4500
  • C89663July 21, 1998Ceramic plate from China6912.00.4500
  • C89662July 13, 1998Ceramic plate from China6912.00.4500
  • L80880December 3, 2004Ceramic plate from China6912.00.4890
  • L84112May 9, 2005Ceramic plate from China6911.10.8010, 6912.00.4810
Read CBP's full ruling N345030 The letter as CBP published it, on rulings.cbp.gov

Borderless, a licensed U.S. customs brokerage, summarized CBP ruling N345030 in plain English and checked its codes against the letter and today's tariff schedule. A ruling applies only to goods that match its facts; our terms explain the rest. Terms