Chapter 21 — Miscellaneous edible preparations 4-digit heading

21.01 Extracts, essences, concentrates of coffee, tea or mate; preparations with a basis of these products or with a basis of coffee, tea or mate; roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes and extracts, essences and concentrates thereof

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

Section IV, Foodstuffs, Beverages & Tobacco — prepared food and drink — sugar, cocoa, beverages, spirits, vinegar and tobacco.

  1. 21 Chapter Miscellaneous edible preparations
  2. 01 Heading Extracts, essences, concentrates of coffee, tea or mate; preparations with a basis of these products or with a basis of coffee, tea or mate; roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes and extracts, essences and concentrates thereof
  3. —— Subheading Pick one of the 4 six-digit codes below

Chapter 21 is a catch-all for miscellaneous edible preparations that don't fit neatly elsewhere: sauces, soups, yeast, food supplements, ice cream and flavoured extracts. It's a common landing spot for newer packaged-food products that blend ingredients from multiple other food chapters. Classification tip: Composite food products (a sauce with meat, a supplement with pharmaceutical-grade ingredients) can straddle this chapter and chapter 16 or chapter 30: classify by the ingredient that gives the product its essential character, not by marketing name.

All of chapter 21

The 4 six-digit codes under 21.01

One of these is the number you declare.

Other headings in chapter 21

21.02 Yeasts (active or inactive); other single-cell micro-organisms, dead (but not including vaccines of heading no. 3002); prepared baking powders 21.03 Sauces and preparations therefor; mixed condiments and mixed seasonings, mustard flour and meal and prepared mustard 21.04 Soups and broths and preparations therefor; homogenised composite food preparations 21.05 Ice cream and other edible ice; whether or not containing cocoa 21.06 Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included

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 21.01? 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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21.01 FAQ

Heading 21.01 covers extracts, essences, concentrates of coffee, tea or mate; preparations with a basis of these products or with a basis of coffee, tea or mate; roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes and extracts, essences and concentrates thereof. It is part of chapter 21 (miscellaneous edible preparations), and it is subdivided into 4 six-digit subheadings — the level you actually declare.

Pick one of the 4 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 IV and to chapter 21. 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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