diff --git a/src/header/common/te.rs b/src/header/common/te.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..11b7bd6711
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/header/common/te.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+use header::{Encoding, QualityItem};
+
+header! {
+    /// `TE` header, defined in
+    /// [RFC7230](http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7230#section-4.3)
+    ///
+    /// As RFC7230 states, "The "TE" header field in a request indicates what transfer codings,
+    /// besides chunked, the client is willing to accept in response, and
+    /// whether or not the client is willing to accept trailer fields in a
+    /// chunked transfer coding."
+    ///
+    /// For HTTP/1.1 compliant clients `chunked` transfer codings are assumed to be acceptable and
+    /// so should never appear in this header.
+    ///
+    /// # ABNF
+    /// ```plain
+    /// TE        = "TE" ":" #( t-codings )
+    /// t-codings = "trailers" | ( transfer-extension [ accept-params ] )
+    /// ```
+    ///
+    /// # Example values
+    /// * `trailers`
+    /// * `trailers, deflate;q=0.5`
+    /// * ``
+    ///
+    /// # Examples
+    /// ```
+    /// use hyper::header::{Headers, TE, Encoding, qitem};
+    ///
+    /// let mut headers = Headers::new();
+    /// headers.set(
+    ///     TE(vec![qitem(Encoding::Trailers)])
+    /// );
+    /// ```
+    /// ```
+    /// use hyper::header::{Headers, TE, Encoding, qitem};
+    ///
+    /// let mut headers = Headers::new();
+    /// headers.set(
+    ///     TE(vec![
+    ///         qitem(Encoding::Trailers),
+    ///         qitem(Encoding::Gzip),
+    ///         qitem(Encoding::Deflate),
+    ///     ])
+    /// );
+    /// ```
+    /// ```
+    /// use hyper::header::{Headers, TE, Encoding, QualityItem, Quality, qitem};
+    ///
+    /// let mut headers = Headers::new();
+    /// headers.set(
+    ///     TE(vec![
+    ///         qitem(Encoding::Trailers),
+    ///         QualityItem::new(Encoding::Gzip, Quality(600)),
+    ///         QualityItem::new(Encoding::EncodingExt("*".to_owned()), Quality(0)),
+    ///     ])
+    /// );
+    /// ```
+    (TE, "TE") => (QualityItem<Encoding>)*
+
+    test_te {
+        // From the RFC
+        test_header!(test1, vec![b"trailers"]);
+        test_header!(test2, vec![b"trailers, deflate;q=0.5"]);
+        test_header!(test3, vec![b""]);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/header/shared/encoding.rs b/src/header/shared/encoding.rs
index 32087c0409..fc972dd3c7 100644
--- a/src/header/shared/encoding.rs
+++ b/src/header/shared/encoding.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 use std::fmt;
 use std::str;
 
-pub use self::Encoding::{Chunked, Brotli, Gzip, Deflate, Compress, Identity, EncodingExt};
+pub use self::Encoding::{Chunked, Brotli, Gzip, Deflate, Compress, Identity, EncodingExt, Trailers};
 
 /// A value to represent an encoding used in `Transfer-Encoding`
 /// or `Accept-Encoding` header.
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ pub enum Encoding {
     Compress,
     /// The `identity` encoding.
     Identity,
+    /// The `trailers` encoding.
+    Trailers,
     /// Some other encoding that is less common, can be any String.
     EncodingExt(String)
 }
@@ -32,6 +34,7 @@ impl fmt::Display for Encoding {
             Deflate => "deflate",
             Compress => "compress",
             Identity => "identity",
+            Trailers => "trailers",
             EncodingExt(ref s) => s.as_ref()
         })
     }
@@ -47,6 +50,7 @@ impl str::FromStr for Encoding {
             "gzip" => Ok(Gzip),
             "compress" => Ok(Compress),
             "identity" => Ok(Identity),
+            "trailers" => Ok(Trailers),
             _ => Ok(EncodingExt(s.to_owned()))
         }
     }