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Chapter 18
Cocoa and Cocoa Preparations

Cocoa and Cocoa Preparations

Notes

1.

This Chapter does not cover:

(a)

Food preparations containing more than 20 per cent by mass of sausage, meat, meat offal, blood, insects, fish or crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, or any combination thereof (Chapter 16);

(b)

Preparations of headings 04.03, 19.01, 19.02, 19.04, 19.05, 21.05, 22.02, 22.08, 30.03 or 30.04.

2.

Heading 18.06 includes sugar confectionery containing cocoa and, subject to Note 1 to this Chapter, other food preparations containing cocoa.

Rates as at 15 September 2026
HeadingCDDescriptionUnitGeneralEUEFTASADCMERCOSURAfCFTA
1801.007Cocoa beans, whole or broken, raw or roastedkgfreefreefreefreefreefree
1802.000Cocoa shells, husks, skins and other cocoa wastekgfreefreefreefreefreefree
18.03Cocoa paste, whether or not defatted:
1803.109Not defattedkgfreefreefreefreefreefree
1803.203Wholly or partly defattedkgfreefreefreefreefreefree
1804.008Cocoa butter, fat and oilkgfreefreefreefreefreefree
1805.001Cocoa powder, not containing added sugar or other sweetening matterkgfreefreefreefreefreefree
18.06Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa:
1806.10.050Preparations for making beverageskg17%free17%free17%6,8%
1806.10Cocoa powder, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter:
1806.10.905Otherkg17%free17%free17%6,8%
1806.20.101Chocolate and sugar confectionery containing cocoakg21%free21%free21%21%
1806.20Other preparations in blocks, slabs or bars of a mass exceeding 2 kg or in liquid, paste, powder, granular or other bulk form in containers or immediate packings, of a content exceeding 2 kg:
1806.20.905Otherkg17%free17%free17%6,8%
1806.3Other, in blocks, slabs or bars:
1806.315Filledkg20%free20%free20%8%
1806.321Not filledkg20%free20%free20%8%
1806.906Otherkg17%free17%free17%6,8%

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