Code 1601 00 · Heading 1601

Sausages and similar products made from meat, offal, blood or insects, and prepared foods based on them

This covers sausages and similar products made from meat, offal, blood or insects, as well as prepared foods based on these products. The correct child depends on whether the product is made from liver, is a dried or spreadable sausage that has not been cooked, fried or similarly prepared, or falls into another category.

For example

Cooked meat sausage
Cooked blood sausage

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Official tariff text

Sausages and similar products, of meat, meat offal, blood or insects; food preparations based on these products

How we got to this code

IV
16
1601
1601 00

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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 16 Preparations of meat, of fish, of crustaceans, moll… 1 of 9 chapters in section IV
Which type of product is it: a sausage or similar product; another prepared or preserved product of meat, meat by-products, blood or insects; a meat, fish, crustacean, mollusc or other aquatic invertebrate extract or juice; prepared or preserved fish or fish roe; or prepared or preserved crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates?
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Step 3 · Heading 1601 Pølser og lignende varer af kød, slagtebiprodukter,… 1 of 5 headings under chapter 16
Is it a sausage or similar product made from meat, offal, blood or insects, or a prepared food based on such a product?
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Step 4 · Subheading 1601 00 Sausages and similar products, of meat, meat offal,… 1 of 1 subheading under heading 1601
Is it a sausage or similar product, or a prepared food based on one, and is it made from liver; a dried sausage or spreadable sausage that has not been cooked, fried or similarly prepared; or something else?

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Import duty on the codes below: 15.4%

3 codes below this one

Selling to Norway, Great Britain and the United States

What they charge on arrival.

Norway, Great Britain and the United States use their own tariff lines under the 6-digit HS code. The rates below are what their customs charge on goods arriving from the EU. Match the goods against each country's own wording before you rely on a rate.

Norway

84,31 NOK per kg

Their lines1 Norwegian line
EU origin84,31 NOK per kg

16.01.0000 Sausages and similar products, of meat, meat offal, blood or insects; food preparations

Norwegian tariff data checked Sept. 13, 2026.

Great Britain

The rate depends on the line.

Their lines13 British lines
EU originDuty free

1601 00 10 11 Waxed sausages of chicken, pork and fresh liver

Northern Ireland follows other rules.

UK tariff data checked Sept. 13, 2026.

United States

0.8¢/kg. Unless this line is exempt, the additional US duty brings its duty to 10.0% of its customs value where

Estimated from published US measures

Their lines7 US lines
Entry dateSept. 17, 2026

1601.00.20.10 Sausages and similar products, of meat, meat offal, blood or insects; food preparations

The US importer of record files the entry.

US tariff data checked Sept. 16, 2026.

See the 1 Norwegian line

Selling to Norway

Norway splits the 6-digit category its own way, so these are Norway's own lines under it, not this EU code. Check your product against their wording; what Norwegian customs charges is shown per line.

16.01.0000

Sausages and similar products, of meat, meat offal, blood or insects; food preparations based on these products.

Ordinary duty

84,31 NOK per kg

Goods of EU origin

84,31 NOK per kg You need documentation of EU origin to use this rate.

Norwegian tariff data version 1.5/1.2, last checked Sept. 13, 2026.

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

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Selling to Great Britain

What UK customs charges when goods like these arrive in Great Britain.

1601 00 10 11

Waxed sausages of chicken, pork and fresh liver

Ordinary duty

14.0%

Goods of EU origin

Duty free You need documentation of EU preferential origin to use this rate.
1601 00 10 15

Other

Ordinary duty

14.0%

Goods of EU origin

Duty free You need documentation of EU preferential origin to use this rate.
1601 00 10 19

Other

Ordinary duty

14.0%

Goods of EU origin

Duty free You need documentation of EU preferential origin to use this rate.
1601 00 10 91

Waxed sausages of chicken, pork and fresh liver

Ordinary duty

14.0%

Goods of EU origin

Duty free You need documentation of EU preferential origin to use this rate.
1601 00 10 95

Other

Ordinary duty

14.0%

Goods of EU origin

Duty free You need documentation of EU preferential origin to use this rate.
1601 00 10 99

Other

Ordinary duty

14.0%

Goods of EU origin

Duty free You need documentation of EU preferential origin to use this rate.
1601 00 91 05

Waxed sausages of chicken, pork and fresh liver

Ordinary duty

125 GBP / 100 kg

Goods of EU origin

Duty free You need documentation of EU preferential origin to use this rate.
1601 00 91 10

Of animals of headings 0101 to 0104, excluding wild boars

Ordinary duty

125 GBP / 100 kg

Goods of EU origin

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

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1601 00 91 90

Other

Ordinary duty

125 GBP / 100 kg

Goods of EU origin

Duty free You need documentation of EU preferential origin to use this rate.
1601 00 99 11

Sausages

Ordinary duty

84 GBP / 100 kg

Goods of EU origin

Duty free You need documentation of EU preferential origin to use this rate.
1601 00 99 19

Other

Ordinary duty

84 GBP / 100 kg

Goods of EU origin

Duty free You need documentation of EU preferential origin to use this rate.
1601 00 99 91

Sausages

Ordinary duty

84 GBP / 100 kg

Goods of EU origin

Duty free You need documentation of EU preferential origin to use this rate.
1601 00 99 99

Other

Ordinary duty

84 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 v4.0.1599, last checked Sept. 13, 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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Selling to the United States

What US customs charges when goods like these arrive from the EU. The US importer of record files the entry and pays the duty.

1601.00.20.10

Sausages and similar products, of meat, meat offal, blood or insects; food preparations based on these products, Pork, Canned

General rate

0.8¢/kg

From the EU

No single figure Estimated from published US measures 0.8¢/kg. Unless this line is exempt, the additional US duty brings its duty to 10.0% of its customs value where the ordinary duty is lower. The amount depends on the quantity and the customs value, so we do not turn it into a percentage. US headings applied: 9903.05.39 Section 301 forced-labour action, 91 FR 47318 (memorandum 91 FR 47717), U.S. note 52 to subchapter III of chapter 99
1601.00.20.90

Sausages and similar products, of meat, meat offal, blood or insects; food preparations based on these products, Pork, Other

General rate

0.8¢/kg

From the EU

No single figure Estimated from published US measures 0.8¢/kg. Unless this line is exempt, the additional US duty brings its duty to 10.0% of its customs value where the ordinary duty is lower. The amount depends on the quantity and the customs value, so we do not turn it into a percentage. US headings applied: 9903.05.39 Section 301 forced-labour action, 91 FR 47318 (memorandum 91 FR 47717), U.S. note 52 to subchapter III of chapter 99
1601.00.40.10

Sausages and similar products, of meat, meat offal, blood or insects; food preparations based on these products, Other, Beef in airtight containers, Canned

General rate

3.4%

From the EU

10.0% Estimated from published US measures US headings applied: 9903.05.39 Section 301 forced-labour action, 91 FR 47318 (memorandum 91 FR 47717), U.S. note 52 to subchapter III of chapter 99
1601.00.40.90

Sausages and similar products, of meat, meat offal, blood or insects; food preparations based on these products, Other, Beef in airtight containers, Other

General rate

3.4%

From the EU

10.0% Estimated from published US measures US headings applied: 9903.05.39 Section 301 forced-labour action, 91 FR 47318 (memorandum 91 FR 47717), U.S. note 52 to subchapter III of chapter 99
1601.00.60.20

Sausages and similar products, of meat, meat offal, blood or insects; food preparations based on these products, Other, Beef

General rate

3.2%

From the EU

10.0% Estimated from published US measures US headings applied: 9903.05.39 Section 301 forced-labour action, 91 FR 47318 (memorandum 91 FR 47717), U.S. note 52 to subchapter III of chapter 99
1601.00.60.60

Sausages and similar products, of meat, meat offal, blood or insects; food preparations based on these products, Other, Canned

General rate

3.2%

From the EU

10.0% Estimated from published US measures US headings applied: 9903.05.39 Section 301 forced-labour action, 91 FR 47318 (memorandum 91 FR 47717), U.S. note 52 to subchapter III of chapter 99
1601.00.60.80

Sausages and similar products, of meat, meat offal, blood or insects; food preparations based on these products, Other

General rate

3.2%

From the EU

10.0% Estimated from published US measures US headings applied: 9903.05.39 Section 301 forced-labour action, 91 FR 47318 (memorandum 91 FR 47717), U.S. note 52 to subchapter III of chapter 99

Worked out for an entry on Sept. 17, 2026.

US tariff schedule 2026HTSRev19, last checked Sept. 16, 2026.

Last change we recorded: Revision 19 (2026), Sept. 16, 2026.

Anti-dumping and countervailing duties, US import taxes and customs fees are not included.

The descriptions above are the US tariff texts, which the United States publishes in English only.

Source: the US International Trade Commission's Harmonized Tariff Schedule (hts.usitc.gov), public domain, and the measures published in the Federal Register.

This is a planning estimate from the US Harmonized Tariff Schedule (revision shown) and the published Federal Register measures as of the date shown, for a shipment of EU origin. It is not a customs entry, legal advice or a broker's opinion, and tariffs.help is not a US-licensed customs broker. The US importer of record or their broker confirms the classification, origin, value and the duty due before filing.

Duty rates shown here are estimates, read from official EU / Danish, Norwegian and UK tariff data for orientation only. Confirm the current rate with Toldstyrelsen, 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.