Chapter 09 · Section II

Coffee, tea, mate and spices

This category covers coffee, tea, mate and the specified spices, including products such as vanilla, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, cardamom, ginger, saffron and curry.

For example

Roasted coffee
Flavoured tea
Mate
Vanilla

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COFFEE, TEA, MATÉ AND SPICES

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Step 1 · Section II Vegetable products
Is the product a living plant or flower; an edible vegetable, root, tuber, fruit or nut; coffee, tea, maté or a spice; cereal; a milling product, malt, starch, inulin or wheat gluten; a seed, plant for industrial or medical use, straw or fodder plant; shellac, a carbohydrate gum, natural resin, plant sap or plant extract; or a vegetable plaiting material or another vegetable product not listed elsewhere?
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Step 2 · Chapter 09 Coffee, tea, maté and spices 4 of 9 chapters in section II
Is the product coffee; tea; mate; pepper of the genus Piper; a dried, crushed or ground spice of the genera Capsicum or Pimenta; vanilla; cinnamon or cinnamon flowers; cloves, whole fruits, clove stems or clove stalks; nutmeg, mace or cardamom; anise, star anise, fennel, coriander, cumin, caraway or juniper; or ginger, saffron, turmeric, thyme, bay leaves, curry or another spice?

Codes in this chapter

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Where the rate changes most

In these groups, the exact code you land on decides the duty rate.

0.0–12.5% 0910 91 Mixtures of different types of spices 0.0–12.5% 0910 99 Spices (excl. pepper of the genus Piper, fruit of the genus Capsicum or of the genus Pimenta, vanilla, cinnamon, cinnamontree flowers, clove "wholefruit", clove stems, nutmeg, mace, cardamoms, seeds of anise, badian, fennel, coriander, cumin and caraway, and juniper berries, ginger, saffron, turmeric "curcuma" and mixtures of various types of spices) 0.0–11.5% 0901 90 Coffee husks and skins; coffee substitutes containing coffee in any proportion

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Classification decides the rate here: from 0.0% to 8.3%.

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Duty rates shown here are estimates, read from official EU / Danish, Norwegian and UK tariff data for orientation only. Confirm the current rate with SKAT, TARIC, Norwegian Customs or the UK Online Trade Tariff before you file. The rate you pay can also depend on the country of origin. These are base customs duties only: import VAT, excise duties, anti-dumping duties and safeguard or quota measures are not included.