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090121 Chapter 09 · Coffee & Tea Coffee, roasted, not decaffeinated
Six-digit subheading in Coffee & Tea, chapter 09 of the Harmonized System, priced here for 6 destination markets.
Anatomy of 090121
You will declare against a longer local code that begins 090121: ten digits in the United States and the United Kingdom, eight in the European Union, and the first six the same everywhere. Which trailing digits apply is what the 6 rates below differ on.
What this code covers
Import duty by country
MFN duty rate · 6 countries| Country | Duty | VAT |
|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺Australia | 0% | 10% |
| 🇨🇦Canada | 0% | 5% |
| 🇩🇪Germany | 7.5% | 7% |
| 🇵🇹Portugal | 7.5% | 6% |
| 🇬🇧United Kingdom | 6% | 0% |
| 🇺🇸United States | 0% | 0% |
Rates shown are MFN (Most Favoured Nation), the default for WTO members. Preferential FTA rates may be lower with valid proof of origin. Section 301 / anti-dumping surcharges on Chinese-origin goods are not included.
What that costs: 090121 into Germany
An illustrative consignment of 090121 invoiced at EUR 2,000.00, priced in EUR because a threshold is set in the destination's currency and nothing here is converted.
| Goods value on the invoice | EUR 2,000.00 |
| International freight | EUR 120.00 |
| Cargo insurance | EUR 30.00 |
| Value the duty is charged on, CIF basis | EUR 2,150.00 |
| Duty at 7.5% | EUR 161.25 |
| Germany tax at 7%, charged on the value plus the duty | EUR 161.79 |
| Total, before commercial charges | EUR 2,473.04 |
And if the consignment were small
Germany relieves nothing: the relief was abolished, so the duty above is charged whatever the consignment is worth. A smaller shipment pays less because the value is lower, not because a threshold spared it.
Selling rather than buying? EUR 2,473.04 is what your buyer in Germany pays to take delivery of this consignment, yours to pay if you quote DDP and theirs if you quote DAP: Exporting to Germany sets out who collects it and what your invoice has to say.
An illustration, not a quotation: broker fees, handling and any trade remedy on the origin sit outside it. Price 090121 on your own numbers in the duty calculator.
How these rates were verified
Rates last verified 31 August 2026Every figure in the table above was read from the official tariff database of the market that charges it, on the date shown. Nothing here is copied from another aggregator.
- 🇦🇺AU
- MFN for 090121 AU, read on 2026-09-01 from https://www.abf.gov.au/importing-exporting-and-manufacturing/tariff-classification/current-tariff/schedule-3/section-ii/chapter-9 and again on 2026-09-01 from https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2004A04997/latest/text. Both returned 0%. The two publications are independent of each other and they agree. Retrieved text: 0901.21.00 Free
- 🇨🇦CA
- MFN for 090121 CA, read on 2026-08-31 from https://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/trade-commerce/tariff-tarif/2026/html/00/ch09-eng.html and again on 2026-09-01 from https://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/trade-commerce/tariff-tarif/2026/menu-eng.html. Both returned 0%. The Canada Border Services Agency is the only body that publishes this schedule. The Department of Justice publishes the Act and refers readers to the Agency for the schedule itself, so both readings are the Agency's, taken from two different products. Retrieved text: 0901.21.00 Free
- 🇩🇪DE 🇵🇹PT
- One reading covers DE and PT, which are priced from the same schedule: Third country duty (EU, via NI Online Tariff) for 090121 DE, read on 2026-08-31 from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/xi/commodities/0901210000 and again on 2026-09-01 from https://trade.ec.europa.eu/access-to-markets/en/results?product=090121&origin=CN&destination=DE. Both returned 7.5%. The two publications are independent of each other and they agree. Retrieved text: 0901210000 7.50 %
- 🇬🇧GB
- Third country duty for 090121 GB, read on 2026-08-31 from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/commodities/0901210000 and again on 2026-09-01 from https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/reference-document-for-the-customs-tariff-establishment-eu-exit-regulations-2020. Both returned 6%. The two publications are independent of each other and they agree. Retrieved text: 0901210000 6.00 %
- 🇺🇸US
- HTS General for 090121 US, read on 2026-08-31 from https://hts.usitc.gov/search?query=0901.21 and again on 2026-09-01 from https://hts.usitc.gov/reststop/exportList?from=09&to=10&format=CSV&styles=false. Both returned 0%. The United States International Trade Commission is the only body that publishes this schedule. The second reading was taken in a different format to check the reading, not to corroborate the schedule, because there is no second schedule to corroborate it against. Retrieved text: 0901.21.00 Free
Re-check first: Roasting is what creates the duty. Green beans are free everywhere on this table and roasted beans are not, so the first thing to confirm is that the consignment really is roasted before reading any of these rows.
What falls under 090121
- Roasted coffee beans, whole or ground, still containing caffeine
- Retail bags of single-origin and blended roast, and bulk roast for repacking
What's specifically excluded
These look similar but belong under a different code:
Commonly confused with
090111: Green coffee
The roast is the whole distinction, and it is the reason large importers ship green and roast in-market. Green beans move at zero duty almost everywhere; roasted coffee is the value-added form and several tariff schedules treat it less generously.
210111: Instant coffee
Once coffee has been brewed and dried into a soluble powder it leaves Chapter 9 for Chapter 21. Freeze-dried instant, coffee concentrate and liquid extracts are all 2101, not 0901, and the duty treatment is different in the EU.
Classification & cost note
Roasted coffee enters the EU, UK, US, Canada and Australia at zero MFN duty, so the tariff is rarely what costs you. The two things that actually delay a coffee shipment are food-contact labelling and, for green beans arriving in the same consignment, phytosanitary control. The other trap is decaffeination: it is a separate subheading at both the green and roasted level, and a mixed pallet of regular and decaf needs both codes on the entry rather than one.
Typical products: Retail 250 g and 1 kg bags of roast beans · Ground coffee for filter and espresso · Bulk roasted coffee in 30 kg sacks for repacking
What the notes to section II say
Chapter 09 sits in section II, vegetable products, where a section note governs every chapter in the section and applies before the heading notes below; the one reaching chapter 09 names no heading this site holds a code under, and it is quoted whole on the chapter 09 page, read from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/api/v2/sections/2 on 2026-09-08.
What the nomenclature says about heading 0901
090121 is a subheading of 0901, coffee, whether or not roasted or decaffeinated; coffee husks and skins; coffee substitutes containing coffee in any proportion , and this site holds 2 other codes under the same heading, which every rule below governs equally.
No numbered note to chapter 09 takes heading 0901 as its subject, which is what the published notes say rather than a gap on this page: the heading is defined by its own wording above and by the note to the chapter, quoted in full on the chapter 09 page.
Read from the notes to chapter 09 published in the UK Trade Tariff by HM Revenue and Customs, at https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/api/v2/chapters/09, with the heading title from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/api/v2/headings/0901, on 2026-09-07, with the whole layer and the reason a heading note is a chapter note set out on the chapter 09 page. These notes are part of the international text of the Harmonized System, so the rule is the same whichever destination a shipment is going to, and it decides classification and never a rate.
Questions about 090121
Is there import duty on roasted coffee?
In the EU, UK, US, Canada and Australia the MFN rate on roasted coffee is zero. What you pay is import VAT or GST, which is often at the reduced food rate, plus any local food-labelling compliance cost.
Why do roasters import green beans instead of roasted?
Freshness mostly, since roast coffee has a short window at its best, but tariff treatment reinforces it. Green coffee is duty-free in effectively every major market, so roasting in-market carries no tariff penalty and preserves shelf life.
Which code covers decaffeinated roasted coffee?
Not this one. Roasted decaffeinated coffee has its own subheading, 0901.22, and green decaffeinated is 0901.12. Declare regular and decaf separately even when they ship together.
Codes in nearby chapters
Chapter 09 holds 4 subheadings on this site, so these are the closest chapters by number rather than codes for similar goods.
Related codes in Chapter 09
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