Code 1905 31 · Heading 1905

Sweet biscuits, biscuits and cookies, including with cocoa

This category covers sweet biscuits, biscuits and cookies, including versions with cocoa. The specific child category depends on whether they are fully or partly coated with chocolate or another cocoa-containing preparation, their milk-fat content, whether they are sandwich biscuits with a filling layer, and, for coated products, whether the pack weighs <= 85 g.

For example

Sweet biscuits partly coated with chocolate
Cocoa-containing cookies without a chocolate coating

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Official tariff text

Sweet biscuits

How we got to this code

IV
19
1905
1905 31

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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 31 Sweet biscuits 3 of 6 subheadings under heading 1905
Which child description applies: fully or partly coated with chocolate or another cocoa-containing preparation, with a pack net weight <= 85 g or not; with milk-fat content of >= 8 weight percent; double biscuits or biscuits with a filling layer and milk-fat content of < 8 weight percent; or other sweet biscuits, biscuits and cookies with milk-fat content of < 8 weight percent?

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Import duty on the codes below: 9.0%

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Classification decides the rate here: from 3.8% to 9.7%.

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

1,35 NOK per kg

Their lines1 Norwegian line
EU originDuty free

19.05.3100 Sweet biscuits

Norwegian tariff data checked Sept. 13, 2026.

Great Britain

8.0%

Their lines5 British lines
EU originDuty free

1905 31 11 00 In immediate packings of a net content not exceeding 85|g

Northern Ireland follows other rules.

UK tariff data checked Sept. 13, 2026.

United States

10.0%

Estimated from published US measures

Their lines5 US lines
Entry dateSept. 17, 2026

1905.31.00.21 Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa

The US importer of record files the entry.

US tariff data checked Sept. 16, 2026.

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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.

19.05.3100

Sweet biscuits

Ordinary duty

1,35 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 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.

All 5 UK lines under this code

They all have the same duty rates shown here.

Ordinary duty

8.0%

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.

1905.31.00.21

Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty capsules of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products, Sweet biscuits; waffles and wafers, Sweet biscuits, Frozen, Containing peanuts or peanut products

General rate

Free

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
1905.31.00.29

Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty capsules of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products, Sweet biscuits; waffles and wafers, Sweet biscuits, Frozen, Other

General rate

Free

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
1905.31.00.41

Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty capsules of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products, Sweet biscuits; waffles and wafers, Sweet biscuits, Other, Containing peanuts or peanut products

General rate

Free

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
1905.31.00.42

Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty capsules of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products, Sweet biscuits; waffles and wafers, Sweet biscuits, Other, Certified organic

General rate

Free

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
1905.31.00.45

Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty capsules of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products, Sweet biscuits; waffles and wafers, Sweet biscuits, Other

General rate

Free

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.