Heading 1803 · Chapter 18

Cocoa mass, including defatted cocoa mass

This covers cocoa mass, whether it is not defatted or is wholly or partly defatted. The deciding condition at the next level is the degree of defatting.

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Cocoa mass
Wholly or partly defatted cocoa mass

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Cocoa paste, whether or not defatted

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Step 1 · Section IV Prepared foodstuffs; beverages, spirits and vinegar…
What kind of product is it: a prepared food product made from meat, fish, crustaceans, molluscs, other aquatic invertebrates or insects; sugar or a sugar product; cocoa or a product made from cocoa; a product made from grain, flour, starch or milk, or baked goods; a product made from vegetables, fruit, nuts or other plants or plant parts; another food-industry product; a beverage, ethanol or vinegar; a food-industry residue or waste product or prepared animal feed; tobacco, a manufactured tobacco substitute, a product with or without nicotine intended for inhalation without combustion, or another nicotine-containing product intended for nicotine absorption in the human body?
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Step 2 · Chapter 18 Cocoa and cocoa preparations 3 of 9 chapters in section IV
What is the product: whole or broken cocoa beans, cocoa shells or other cocoa waste, cocoa mass, cocoa butter, cocoa powder without added sugar or other sweeteners, or chocolate and another prepared food containing cocoa?
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Step 3 · Heading 1803 Cocoa paste, whether or not defatted 3 of 6 headings under chapter 18
Is the cocoa mass not defatted, or is it wholly or partly defatted?

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Classification decides the rate here: from 0.0% to 9.6%.

1801 Kakaobønner, hele eller brækkede, også brændte 0.0%
1802 Kakaoskaller, kakaohinder og andet kakaoaffald 0.0%
1803 Cocoa paste, whether or not defatted you are here 9.6%
1804 Kakaosmør, kakaofedt og kakaoolie 7.7%
1805 Kakaopulver, ikke tilsat sukker eller andre sødemidler 8.0%
1806 Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa 8.0–15.4%

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Kakaosmør, kakaofedt og kakaoolie

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