Code 1905 20 · Heading 1905

Honey cakes and similar baked goods, with or without cocoa

This covers honey cakes and similar baked goods, whether or not cocoa has been added. The next classification depends on the saccharose content, including invert sugar calculated as saccharose.

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Honey cake
Gingerbread cake

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Gingerbread and the like, whether or not containing cocoa

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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 1905 Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wa… 5 of 5 headings under chapter 19
Is it crispbread; gingerbread or similar, including cocoa-containing products; sweet biscuits, biscuits or cookies; wafers; rusks, toasted bread or similar toasted products; or other baked goods, communion wafers, medicinal wafer capsules, seal wafers or similar flour or starch products, excluding wafers with a water content of <= 10 weight percent?
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Step 4 · Subheading 1905 20 Gingerbread and the like, whether or not containing… 2 of 6 subheadings under heading 1905
What is the saccharose content, including invert sugar calculated as saccharose: < 30 weight%, >= 30 weight% but < 50 weight%, or >= 50 weight%?

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Classification decides the rate here: from 3.8% to 9.4%.

1905 10 Crispbread 5.8%
1905 20 Gingerbread and the like, whether or not containing cocoa you are here 9.4–10.1%
1905 31 Sweet biscuits 9.0%
1905 32 Waffles and wafers 9.0%
1905 40 Rusks, toasted bread and similar toasted products No rate on file
1905 90 Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products (excl. crispbread, gingerbread and the like, sweet biscuits, waffles, wafers not mentioned, rusks, toasted bread and similar toasted products) 3.8–9.7%

Export to Norway

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

19.05.2000

Gingerbread and the like

Ordinary duty

2,42 NOK per kg

Goods of EU origin

0,75 NOK per kg 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.

1905 20 10 00

Containing by weight less than 30|% of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose)

Ordinary duty

8% + 15 GBP / 100 kg

Goods of EU origin

Duty free You need documentation of EU preferential origin to use this rate.
1905 20 30 00

Containing by weight 30|% or more but less than 50|% of sucrose (including invert sugar expessed as sucrose)

Ordinary duty

8% + 20 GBP / 100 kg

Goods of EU origin

Duty free You need documentation of EU preferential origin to use this rate.
1905 20 90 00

Containing by weight 50|% or more of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed as sucrose)

Ordinary duty

10% + 26 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. 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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Sweet biscuits

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.