Code 2008 97 16 · Subheading 2008 97

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Prepared or preserved alcoholic mix of specified tropical fruits, with sugar over 9% and actual alcohol over 11.85% mas

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

This code covers prepared or preserved mixes of guavas, mangoes, mangosteens, papayas, tamarinds, cashew apples, lychees, jackfruits, sapodillas, passion fruits, carambolas or pitahayas, including mixes containing at least 50% by weight of these fruits together with coconuts or specified nuts. The mix must contain added alcohol, sugar over 9% by weight and actual alcohol over 11.85% mas.

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Prepared alcoholic mango, lychee and coconut fruit mix with sugar over 9% by weight and actual alcohol over 11.85% mas
Preserved passion-fruit, papaya and cashew-apple mix with sugar over 9% by weight and actual alcohol over 11.85% mas

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Mixtures of guavas, mangoes, mangosteens, papaws "papayas", tamarinds, cashew apples, lychees, jackfruit, sapodillo plums, passion fruit, carambola and pitahaya, incl. mixtures containing >= 50% by weight of these fruits and coconuts, cashew nuts, brazil nuts, areca "betel" nuts, cola nuts and macadamia nuts, prepared or preserved, containing added spirit, with sugar content of > 9% by weight and of an actual alcoholic strength of > 11,85% mas

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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 20 Preparations of vegetables, fruit, nuts or other pa… 5 of 9 chapters in section IV
How has the vegetable, fruit, nut or other edible plant part been prepared or preserved: with vinegar or acetic acid; as tomatoes, mushrooms or truffles prepared in another way; as frozen or non-frozen vegetables; with sugar as drained, glazed or candied pieces; as jam, fruit jelly, marmalade, fruit or nut purée or fruit or nut paste made by cooking; as other prepared or preserved fruit, nuts or edible plant parts; or as unfermented fruit or vegetable juice without added alcohol?
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Step 3 · Heading 2008 Fruits, nuts and other edible parts of plants, prep… 8 of 9 headings under chapter 20
Which product group is it: peanuts; nuts, other kernels or seeds; pineapple; citrus fruits; pears; apricots; cherries; peaches or nectarines; strawberries; palm hearts; cranberries or lingonberries; a mixture of fruits, nuts or other edible plant parts; or another fruit or edible plant part?
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Step 4 · Subheading 2008 97 Mixtures of fruits, nuts and other edible parts of … 12 of 13 subheadings under heading 2008
Which child description matches the mixture: tropical nuts and fruits at >= 50 weight%; alcohol added or not added; if alcohol is added, is the sugar content > 9 weight% and is the actual alcohol content <= 11,85% mas or > 11,85% mas; if alcohol is not added, is sugar added or not; does the package weigh > 1 kg, <= 1 kg, >= 5 kg, >= 4,5 kg but <= 5 kg, >= 4,5 kg but < 5 kg, or < 4,5 kg; and, where stated, is any single fruit <= 50 weight%?
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Step 5 · Full code 2008 97 16 Mixtures of guavas, mangoes, mangosteens, papaws "p… 5 of 22 codes under subheading 2008 97

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2008 97 16

Prepared or preserved alcoholic mix of specified tropical fruits, with sugar over 9% and actual alcohol over 11.85% mas

The spaces only make the code easier to read. Customs declarations normally use the unspaced form, 20089716.

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Classification decides the rate here: from 7.0% to 25.6%.

Trade measures to be aware of

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 Economic Partnership Agreements; CARIFORUM except Haiti; Comoros (excluding Mayotte), Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles and dependencies and Zimbabwe; Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Mozambique and Namibia; GSP-EBA (Special arrangement for the least-developed countries - Everything But Arms); Ivory Coast; Cameroon; Fiji; 29 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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Restrictions and paperwork

Import restrictions are recorded for goods originating in Japan; any country except Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland; Ukraine; any country; Türkiye; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Iran, Islamic Republic of; 1 more origin.

Document or certificate conditions are recorded. Customs may ask for:
- 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
- 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
- The products left Japan before 2.6.2013 and comply with Implementing Regulation (EU) No 996/2012
- 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)
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- Goods not concerned by Regulation (EU) 2018/848 (organic products)
- Certificate of inspection for organic products
- Invoice declaration or origin declaration made out by any exporter on invoice or any other commercial document
- 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
- Goods not originating from or not destined for the non-government controlled areas of Ukraine in the oblasts of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia
- 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))
- The declared goods are not concerned by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/175
- 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
- Exemption by virtue paragraph 3 of Article 1 of Regulation (EU) 2019/1793
- Goods with third country origin coming from Norway, according to the relevant EU legislation.
- The declared goods are not concerned by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1793
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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.

20.08.9701

Entirely containing products of Chapter 8

Ordinary duty

1,00 NOK per kg

Goods of EU origin

Duty free You need documentation of EU origin to use this rate.
20.08.9709

Other mixtures

Ordinary duty

34,92 NOK per kg

Goods of EU origin

The ordinary rate applies. Norway lists no separate rate for goods from the EU.

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.

All 4 UK lines under this code

They all have the same duty rates shown here.

Ordinary duty

16% + 2.1 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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Often confused with

2008 97 12 Mixtures of guavas, mangoes, mangosteens, papaws "papayas", tamarinds, cashew apples, lychees, jackfruit, sapodillo plums, passion fruit, carambola and pitahaya, incl. mixtures containing >= 50% by weight of these fruits and coconuts, cashew nuts, brazil nuts, areca "betel" nuts, cola nuts and macadamia nuts, prepared or preserved, containing added spirit, with a sugar content of > 9% by weight and of an actual alcoholic strength of <= 11,85% mas 16.0%
This code is for the same specified fruit mixes with sugar over 9% by weight, but actual alcohol is at most 11.85% mas.
2008 97 18 Mixtures of fruit or other edible parts of plants, prepared or preserved, containing added spirit, with sugar content > 9% by weight and of an actual alcoholic strength > 11,85% mas (excl. mixtures of nuts, tropical fruit and tropical fruit/nuts of a type specified in Additional Notes 7 and 8 to chapter 20 with a net content of >= 50% by weight, groundnuts and other seeds) 25.6%
This code covers alcoholic mixes of fruit and other edible plant parts with sugar over 9% by weight and actual alcohol over 11.85% mas, rather than the specified fruit mix described here.
2008 97 36 Mixtures of guavas, mangoes, mangosteens, papaws "papayas", tamarinds, cashew apples, lychees, jackfruit, sapodillo plums, passion fruit, carambola and pitahaya, incl. mixtures containing >= 50% by weight of these fruits and coconuts, cashew nuts, brazil nuts, areca "betel" nuts, cola nuts and macadamia nuts, prepared or preserved, containing added spirit, of an actual alcoholic strength of > 11,85% mas (excl. with sugar content of > 9% by weight) 16.0%
This code is for the same specified fruit mixes with actual alcohol over 11.85% mas, but excludes mixes with sugar over 9% by weight.

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.

Prepared or preserved alcoholic mix of specified tropical fruits, with sugar over 9% and actual alcohol over 11.85% mas

Prepared or preserved alcoholic mix of specified tropical fruits, with sugar over 9% and actual alcohol over 11.85% mas

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