Code 2008 20 · Heading 2008

Prepared or preserved pineapple, including with sugar, sweeteners or alcohol, excluding jam, jelly, marmalade, purée and mash

This covers pineapple that has been prepared or preserved, including pineapple with added sugar, other sweeteners or alcohol. It does not cover pineapple prepared with sugar but not placed in a sugar solution, or pineapple made into jam, fruit jelly, marmalade, fruit purée or fruit mash by cooking or other heat treatment.

For example

Canned pineapple pieces in sugar syrup
Pineapple preserved with alcohol

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Official tariff text

Pineapples, prepared or preserved, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or spirit (excl. preserved with sugar but not laid in syrup, jams, fruit jellies, marmalades, fruit purée and pastes, obtained by cooking)

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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 20 Pineapples, prepared or preserved, whether or not c… 3 of 13 subheadings under heading 2008
Is the pineapple prepared or preserved with alcohol or without alcohol; if without alcohol, is sugar added or not; and what is the sugar content and net weight of the package: over 17% or over 19%, over 13% but not over 17% or over 13% but not over 19%, and over 1 kg or not over 1 kg?

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Import duty on the codes below: 17.6–25.6%

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Classification decides the rate here: from 0.0% to 17.6%.

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

Duty free

Their lines1 Norwegian line

20.08.2000 Pineapples

Norwegian tariff data checked Sept. 13, 2026.

Great Britain

The rate depends on the line.

Their lines9 British lines
EU originDuty free

2008 20 11 00 With a sugar content exceeding 17 % by weight

Northern Ireland follows other rules.

UK tariff data checked Sept. 13, 2026.

United States

0.35¢/kg. No additional US duty applies to this line.

Estimated from published US measures

Their lines2 US lines
Entry dateSept. 17, 2026

2008.20.00.10 Fruit, nuts and other edible parts of plants, otherwise prepared or preserved

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.

20.08.2000

Pineapples

Ordinary duty

Duty free

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.

2008 20 11 00

With a sugar content exceeding 17 % by weight

Ordinary duty

25% + 2 GBP / 100 kg

Goods of EU origin

Duty free You need documentation of EU preferential origin to use this rate.
2008 20 19 00

Other

Ordinary duty

25.0%

Goods of EU origin

Duty free You need documentation of EU preferential origin to use this rate.
2008 20 31 00

With a sugar content exceeding 19 % by weight

Ordinary duty

25% + 2 GBP / 100 kg

Goods of EU origin

Duty free You need documentation of EU preferential origin to use this rate.
2008 20 39 00

Other

Ordinary duty

25.0%

Goods of EU origin

Duty free You need documentation of EU preferential origin to use this rate.
2008 20 51 00

With a sugar content exceeding 17 % by weight

Ordinary duty

18.0%

Goods of EU origin

Duty free You need documentation of EU preferential origin to use this rate.
2008 20 59 00

Other

Ordinary duty

16.0%

Goods of EU origin

Duty free You need documentation of EU preferential origin to use this rate.
2008 20 71 00

With a sugar content exceeding 19 % by weight

Ordinary duty

20.0%

Goods of EU origin

Duty free You need documentation of EU preferential origin to use this rate.
2008 20 79 00

Other

Ordinary duty

18.0%

Goods of EU origin

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

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2008 20 90 00

Not containing added sugar

Ordinary duty

18.0%

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.

2008.20.00.10

Fruit, nuts and other edible parts of plants, otherwise prepared or preserved, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or spirit, not elsewhere specified or included, Pineapples, Containing cane and/or beet sugar

General rate

0.35¢/kg

From the EU

No single figure Estimated from published US measures 0.35¢/kg. No additional US duty applies to this line. US headings applied: 9903.05.86 U.S. note 52(b) to subchapter III of chapter 99, 91 FR 47318: as provided in heading 9903.05.86, the duties imposed by headings 9903.05.20 through 9903.05.84 shall not apply to articles classifiable in the listed provisions
2008.20.00.90

Fruit, nuts and other edible parts of plants, otherwise prepared or preserved, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or spirit, not elsewhere specified or included, Pineapples, Other

General rate

0.35¢/kg

From the EU

No single figure Estimated from published US measures 0.35¢/kg. No additional US duty applies to this line. US headings applied: 9903.05.86 U.S. note 52(b) to subchapter III of chapter 99, 91 FR 47318: as provided in heading 9903.05.86, the duties imposed by headings 9903.05.20 through 9903.05.84 shall not apply to articles classifiable in the listed provisions

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.