Chapter 11 — Products of the milling industry; malt, starches, inulin, wheat gluten 4-digit heading

11.08 Starches; inulin

One level above the number you declare. Pick one of the six-digit codes below.

Section II, Vegetable Products — plants, vegetables, fruit, nuts, coffee, tea, cereals, seeds and flours.

  1. 11 Chapter Products of the milling industry; malt, starches, inulin, wheat gluten
  2. 08 Heading Starches; inulin
  3. —— Subheading Pick one of the 6 six-digit codes below

Chapter 11 covers products of the milling industry: wheat and other cereal flours, groats, meal, pellets, malt, starches, inulin and wheat gluten. It sits between raw grain (chapter 10) and finished baked or pasta products (chapter 19) in the processing chain. Classification tip: Starch classification depends on the plant source (maize, potato, wheat, cassava), and each source usually maps to its own subheading rather than one generic 'starch' code.

All of chapter 11

The 6 six-digit codes under 11.08

One of these is the number you declare.

Other headings in chapter 11

11.01 Wheat or meslin flour 11.02 Cereal flours; other than of wheat or meslin 11.03 Cereal groats; meal and pellets 11.04 Cereal grains otherwise worked (e.g. hulled, rolled, flaked, pearled, sliced or kibbled) except rice of heading no. 1006; germ of cereals whole, rolled, flaked or ground 11.05 Flour, meal, powder, flakes, granules and pellets of potatoes 11.06 Flour, meal and powder; of the dried leguminous vegetables of heading no. 0713, of sago or of roots or tubers of heading no. 0714 or of the products of chapter 8 11.07 Malt; whether or not roasted 11.09 Wheat gluten; whether or not dried

The wording above is the Harmonized System nomenclature as published by the World Customs Organization, HS 2022 edition. It is a classification reference, not a tariff: it carries no duty rates, and it stops at six digits — the importing country adds its own beyond that.

Classification is decided by the General Rules of Interpretation and the section and chapter notes, and it is the importing country’s customs authority that makes it binding.

Shipping goods under 11.08? A customs hold shows up as a milestone that stops moving — follow the container or the air waybill from departure to delivery.

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11.08 FAQ

Heading 11.08 covers starches; inulin. It is part of chapter 11 (products of the milling industry; malt, starches, inulin, wheat gluten), and it is subdivided into 6 six-digit subheadings — the level you actually declare.

Pick one of the 6 subheadings below. Those six digits are what customs recognises internationally; the importing country may extend them to eight or ten in its own tariff schedule.

The General Rules of Interpretation, read together with the notes to Section II and to chapter 11. A description that reads right is not enough on its own — the notes routinely pull goods out of the chapter they obviously belong to and put them somewhere else. Where duty or licensing turns on the answer, ask the importing country’s customs authority for a binding ruling.

A wrong or missing code is one of the common reasons customs holds a container, and a hold shows up as a milestone that stops moving. Watch for it in the container tracking app, on the air waybill in the air cargo tracker, or through the tracking API.

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