Code 1901 90 · Heading 1901

Malt extract and other prepared foods from flour, grains, starch or milk products, excluding infant retail packs and baking mixes or dough

This code covers malt extract and other prepared foods made from flour, grains, coarse meal, starch or malt extract, as well as prepared foods made from milk or similar products. Cocoa must be less than 40% on a completely fat-free basis for the first group and less than 5% on that basis for the milk-product group; infant retail packs and baking mixes or dough are excluded.

For example

Malt extract with dry matter of >= 90%
Malt extract with dry matter of < 90%
Powdered prepared food consisting of skimmed milk and/or whey and vegetable fats or oils, with a fat and oil content of <=30%

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Official tariff text

Malt extract; food preparations of flour, groats, meal, starch or malt extract, not containing cocoa or containing < 40% by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, n.e.s. and food preparations of milk, cream, butter milk, sour milk, sour cream, whey, yogurt, kephir or similar goods of heading 0401 to 0404, not containing cocoa or containing < 5% by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, n.e.s. (excl. for infant use, put up for retail sale, and mixes and doughs for the preparation of bakers' wares of heading 1905)

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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 19 Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; pas… 4 of 9 chapters in section IV
Which named product type is it: malt extract or a prepared food made from flour, meal, starch or milk; pasta or couscous; tapioca or a starch-based tapioca substitute; an expanded, roasted or otherwise prepared grain food; or bread, pastry, cake, biscuit or another baked good?
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Step 3 · Heading 1901 Malt extract; food preparations of flour, groats, m… 1 of 5 headings under chapter 19
Is it for children in retail packs, is it a mixture or dough for making bakery products of heading 1905, or is it another product covered by this heading?
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Step 4 · Subheading 1901 90 Malt extract; food preparations of flour, groats, m… 3 of 3 subheadings under heading 1901
Is it malt extract with dry matter of >= 90% or < 90%; if not, is it a flour-, grain-, starch- or malt-extract food meeting the stated milk-fat, sugar, glucose and starch limits, a powdered skimmed-milk or whey mixture with vegetable fats or oils of <=30%, or another food in this group?

This is the catch-all under 1901: it covers what the sibling codes below do not.

Within the parent group, this is for the named malt extracts and prepared foods that are not infant foods in retail packs and are not mixes or dough for making bakery products.

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Classification decides the rate here: from 5.1% to 7.6%.

1901 10 Food preparations for infant use, put up for retail sale, of flour, groats, meal, starch or malt extract, not containing cocoa or containing < 40% by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, n.e.s. and of milk, sour cream, whey, yogurt, kephir or similar goods of heading 0401 to 0404, not containing cocoa or containing < 5% by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, n.e.s. 7.6%
1901 20 Mixes and doughs of flour, groats, meal, starch or malt extract, not containing cocoa or containing < 40% by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, n.e.s. and of mixes and doughs of milk, cream, butter milk, sour milk, sour cream, whey, yogurt, kephir or similar goods of heading 0401 to 0404, not containing cocoa or containing < 5% by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, n.e.s., for the preparation of bakers' wares of heading 1905 7.6%
1901 90 Malt extract; food preparations of flour, groats, meal, starch or malt extract, not containing cocoa or containing < 40% by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, n.e.s. and food preparations of milk, cream, butter milk, sour milk, sour cream, whey, yogurt, kephir or similar goods of heading 0401 to 0404, not containing cocoa or containing < 5% by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, n.e.s. (excl. for infant use, put up for retail sale, and mixes and doughs for the preparation of bakers' wares of heading 1905) you are here 5.1–12.8%

Export to Norway

What Norwegian customs charges when goods like these are imported into Norway.

19.01.9010

Malt extract

Ordinary duty

0,40 NOK per kg

Goods of EU origin

Duty free You need documentation of EU origin to use this rate.
19.01.9091

Cheese substitutes ("cheese analogue"), e.g. products based on milk where the milk fat wholly or partly is replaced by vegetable fats or oils

Ordinary duty

0,68 NOK per kg

Goods of EU origin

Duty free You need documentation of EU origin to use this rate.
19.01.9098

Other

Ordinary duty

0,68 NOK per kg

Goods of EU origin

Duty free You need documentation of EU origin to use this rate.

Norwegian tariff data version 1.5/1.2, last checked Aug. 3, 2026.

Contains data from Norwegian Customs (data.toll.no), licensed under CC BY 4.0, adapted for display.

Export to the United Kingdom

What UK customs charges when goods like these are imported into the UK.

1901 90 11 00

With a dry extract content of 90 % or more by weight

Ordinary duty

4% + 15 GBP / 100 kg

Goods of EU origin

Duty free You need documentation of EU preferential origin to use this rate.
1901 90 19 00

Other

Ordinary duty

4% + 12 GBP / 100 kg

Goods of EU origin

Duty free You need documentation of EU preferential origin to use this rate.
1901 90 91 00

Containing no milkfats, sucrose, isoglucose, glucose or starch or containing less than 1,5|% milkfat, 5|% sucrose (including invert sugar) or isoglucose, 5|% glucose or starch, excluding food preparations in powder form of goods of headings|0401|to 0404

Ordinary duty

12.0%

Goods of EU origin

Duty free You need documentation of EU preferential origin to use this rate.
1901 90 95 00

Food preparations in powder form, consisting of a blend of skimmed milk and/or whey and vegetable fats/oils, with a content of fats/oils not exceeding 30% by weight

Ordinary duty

6.0%

Goods of EU origin

Duty free You need documentation of EU preferential origin to use this rate.
1901 90 99 33

Containing less than 70 % of sucrose (including invert sugar expessed as sucrose)

Ordinary duty

6.0%

Goods of EU origin

Duty free You need documentation of EU preferential origin to use this rate.
1901 90 99 36

Other

Ordinary duty

6.0%

Goods of EU origin

Duty free You need documentation of EU preferential origin to use this rate.
1901 90 99 90

Other

Ordinary duty

6.0%

Goods of EU origin

Duty free You need documentation of EU preferential origin to use this rate.

These rates apply in Great Britain. Different rules may apply for goods entering Northern Ireland.

UK tariff data version v4.0.1576, last checked Aug. 3, 2026.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Source: UK Department for Business and Trade (data.api.trade.gov.uk).

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