Code 1904 90 10 · Subheading 1904 90

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Precooked or otherwise prepared rice, not flour, flakes-based prepared foods, expanded or roasted foods, or the other listed exclusions

This is a complete 8-digit customs code. There is no further code choice to make below it.

This code covers rice that is precooked or otherwise prepared. It does not cover flour, groats or meal, foods made by expanding or roasting, prepared foods made from unroasted cereal flakes or mixtures of unroasted and roasted flakes or expanded cereal.

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Precooked rice kernels, not flour, groats or meal and not an expanded or roasted food

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Rice, pre-cooked or otherwise prepared, n.e.s. (excl. flour, groats and meal, food preparations obtained by swelling or roasting or from unroasted cereal flakes or from mixtures of unroasted cereal flakes and roasted cereal flakes or swelled cereals)

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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 1904 Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting… 4 of 5 headings under chapter 19
Is it made by expanding or roasting grain; made from unroasted grain flakes or a mixture of unroasted and roasted flakes or expanded grain; bulgur made from cooked durum-wheat kernels; or another precooked or otherwise prepared non-maize grain in kernels, flakes or another processed form?
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Step 4 · Subheading 1904 90 Cereals (excl. maize [corn]) in grain or flake form… 4 of 4 subheadings under heading 1904
Is the prepared grain rice, or is it another grain but not maize or bulgur?
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Step 5 · Full code 1904 90 10 Rice, pre-cooked or otherwise prepared, n.e.s. (exc… 1 of 2 codes under subheading 1904 90

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1904 90 10

Precooked or otherwise prepared rice, not flour, flakes-based prepared foods, expanded or roasted foods, or the other listed exclusions

The spaces only make the code easier to read. Customs declarations normally use the unspaced form, 19049010.

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This is the catch-all under 1904 90: it covers what the sibling codes below do not.

Within the parent group, this is the rice remainder: precooked or otherwise prepared rice that is not one of the cereal products named under the other sibling codes.

1904 90 80 Cereals in grain or flake form or other worked grains, pre-cooked or otherwise prepared, n.e.s. (excl. rice, maize [corn], flour, groats and meal, food preparations obtained by swelling or roasting or from unroasted cereal flakes or from mixtures of unroasted cereal flakes and roasted cereal flakes or swelled cereals and bulgur wheat)

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you are here 1904 90 10 Rice, pre-cooked or otherwise prepared, n.e.s. (excl. flour, groats and meal, food preparations obtained by swelling or roasting or from unroasted cereal flakes or from mixtures of unroasted cereal flakes and roasted cereal flakes or swelled cereals) 8.3%
another option 1904 90 80 Cereals in grain or flake form or other worked grains, pre-cooked or otherwise prepared, n.e.s. (excl. rice, maize [corn], flour, groats and meal, food preparations obtained by swelling or roasting or from unroasted cereal flakes or from mixtures of unroasted cereal flakes and roasted cereal flakes or swelled cereals and bulgur wheat) 8.3%

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Besides the ordinary duty, the EU records these kinds of measure against this code. They are listed as signals only: whether one applies to your goods can depend on where they come from, who produced them, the exact product and the documents you present. No amounts are worked out here.

Lower duty for goods from some countries

Preferential rates exist for goods originating in San Marino; European Union; Economic Partnership Agreements; CARIFORUM except Haiti; Comoros (excluding Mayotte), Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles and dependencies and Zimbabwe; Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Mozambique and Namibia; Western Sahara; GSP-EBA (Special arrangement for the least-developed countries - Everything But Arms); 49 more origins. Whether you can use one depends on the origin rules for the goods and on the documentation you can show.
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A limited quantity at a lower rate

A tariff quota is recorded for this code. This does not say whether any of the quota is still available. It covers goods originating in United States.
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Restrictions and paperwork

Import restrictions are recorded for goods originating in any country except Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland; Ukraine; Japan; any country except Andorra, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, San Marino and Switzerland; European Union; Faroe Islands; Greenland; any country except China; 1 more origin.

Document or certificate conditions are recorded. Customs may ask for:
- Certificate of inspection for organic products
- Goods not concerned by Regulation (EU) 2018/848 (organic products)
- Goods not originating from or destined to Crimea or Sevastopol (Articles 2 and 2b.1 of Council Regulation (EU) No 692/2014)
- Movement certificate EUR.1
- Invoice declaration or origin declaration made out by any exporter on invoice or any other commercial document
- Goods not originating from or not destined for the non-government controlled areas of Ukraine in the oblasts of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia
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- The products left Japan before 2.6.2013 and comply with Implementing Regulation (EU) No 996/2012
- The products are accompanied by a declaration issued before 1.6.2013 in accordance with the Implementing Regulation (EU) No 996/2012 and stating that the products have left Japan before 1.7.2013
- Products which left Japan before 28 March 2011
- Declaration for the import into the European Union of feed and food originating in or consigned from Japan (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 322/2014)
- The products are accompanied by a declaration issued before 1 November 2012 in accordance with the Implementing Regulation (EU) No 284/2012 and stating that the products have left Japan before 1 December 2012
- The products left Japan before 30.10.2012 and comply with Implementing Regulation (EU) No 284/2012
- Goods with third country origin coming from Liechtenstein, according to the relevant EU legislation.
- Exemption by virtue of Articles 3 and 4 of regulation 2019/2122 (animals intended for scientific purposes, research and diagnostic samples, and samples for product analysis and quality testing).
- Goods with third country origin coming from Norway, according to the relevant EU legislation.
- Goods with third country origin coming from San Marino, according to the relevant EU legislation.
- Goods benefitting from derogation to veterinary controls according to Article 3 of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/630
- Goods with third country origin coming from Andorra, according to the relevant EU legislation.
- Goods with third country origin coming from Switzerland, according to the relevant EU legislation.
- Common Health Entry Document for Products (CHED-P) (as set out in Part 2, Section B of Annex II to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1715 (OJ L 261))
- Goods with third country origin coming from Iceland, according to the relevant EU legislation.
- Exemption by virtue of Article 7 of Commission Delegated Regulation 2019/2122 (Goods which form part of passengers' personal luggage and are intended for personal consumption or use) or Article 10 (small consignments of goods sent to natural persons which are not intended to be placed on the market) of Commission Delegated Regulation 2019/2122
- The declared goods are not concerned by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/632
- Goods with EU origin coming from outermost regions, according to the relevant EU legislation
- Goods with EU origin returning from Norway, according to the relevant EU legislation
- Goods with EU origin returning from San Marino, according to the relevant EU legislation
- Goods with EU origin returning from Iceland, according to the relevant EU legislation
- Goods with EU origin returning from Lichtenstein, according to the relevant EU legislation
- Goods with EU origin returning from Andorra, according to the relevant EU legislation
- Goods with EU origin returning from Switzerland, according to the relevant EU legislation
- Goods not consigned from China
- Common Health Entry Document for Feed and Food of Non-Animal Origin (CHED-D) (as set out in Part 2, Section D of Annex II to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1715 (OJ L 261))
- Declaration for the import into the European Union of feed and food originating in or consigned from Japan (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 996/2012) which was issued before 1 April 2014; the products left Japan from 1 April 2014 but before 1 May 2014
- Declaration for the import into the European Union of feed and food originating in or consigned from Japan (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 322/2014); the products left Japan before 9 January 2016
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EU tariff measure data version 2026-08-03-tullverket.

Export to Norway

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

19.04.9010

For feed purpose

Ordinary duty

1,74 NOK per kg

Goods of EU origin

1,11 NOK per kg You need documentation of EU origin to use this rate.
19.04.9020

Other

Ordinary duty

9.0%

Goods of EU origin

Duty free You need documentation of EU origin to use this rate.
19.04.9090

Other

Ordinary duty

3,86 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. 9, 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.

1904 90 10 00

Obtained from rice

Ordinary duty

8% + 38 GBP / 100 kg

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. 9, 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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1904 90 80 Cereals in grain or flake form or other worked grains, pre-cooked or otherwise prepared, n.e.s. (excl. rice, maize [corn], flour, groats and meal, food preparations obtained by swelling or roasting or from unroasted cereal flakes or from mixtures of unroasted cereal flakes and roasted cereal flakes or swelled cereals and bulgur wheat) 8.3%
That code covers other cereals and specifically excludes rice; this code names rice.

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Precooked or otherwise prepared rice, not flour, flakes-based prepared foods, expanded or roasted foods, or the other listed exclusions

Precooked or otherwise prepared rice, not flour, flakes-based prepared foods, expanded or roasted foods, or the other listed exclusions

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Trade measures to be aware of

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A limited quantity at a lower rate

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