HS Code Detail
200911 Chapter 20 · Preserved Food Orange juice, frozen
Six-digit subheading in Preserved Food, chapter 20 of the Harmonized System, priced here for 6 destination markets.
Anatomy of 200911
You will declare against a longer local code that begins 200911: 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 | 5% | 10% | |
| 🇨🇦Canada | 0% | 5% | |
| 🇩🇪Germany | Not a % | 19% | |
| Official duty for Germany
The Germany schedule has 14 national lines under this code and 4 different rate texts; 1 more is not listed here. Read it at the official tariff. | |||
| 🇵🇹Portugal | Not a % | 23% | |
| Official duty for Portugal
The Portugal schedule has 14 national lines under this code and 4 different rate texts; 1 more is not listed here. Read it at the official tariff. | |||
| 🇬🇧United Kingdom | Not a % | 20% | |
| Official duty for United Kingdom
The United Kingdom schedule has 14 national lines under this code and 4 different rate texts; 1 more is not listed here. Read it at the official tariff. | |||
| 🇺🇸United States | Not a % | 0% | |
Germany, Portugal, United Kingdom and United States charge this code by the hectolitre, the item or the kilogram rather than on its value, sometimes alongside a percentage, which is why the duty column reads Not a % there; a charge of that kind cannot be shown as a single percentage, so none is shown, the calculator does not estimate it, and the official wording is under each of those rows.
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: 200911 into Canada
An illustrative consignment of 200911 invoiced at CAD 2,000.00, priced in CAD because a threshold is set in the destination's currency and nothing here is converted.
| Goods value on the invoice | CAD 2,000.00 |
| International freight | CAD 120.00 |
| Cargo insurance | CAD 30.00 |
| Value the duty is charged on, FOB basis | CAD 2,000.00 |
| Duty at 0% | CAD 0.00 |
| Canada tax at 5%, charged on the value plus the duty | CAD 100.00 |
| Total, before commercial charges | CAD 2,250.00 |
And if the consignment were small
Canada relieves customs duties and taxes on consignments at or under CAD 20. The 200911 shipment above is over that, so its duty is charged in full. The same code invoiced at exactly CAD 20 with no freight would be charged CAD 0.00 of duty and CAD 0.00 of tax, a total of CAD 20.00. The rate on the 200911 row has not changed; only the charge is relieved.
Selling rather than buying? CAD 2,250.00 is what your buyer in Canada pays to take delivery of this consignment, yours to pay if you quote DDP and theirs if you quote DAP: Exporting to Canada 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 200911 on your own numbers in the duty calculator.
How these rates were verified
Rates last verified 7 September 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.
- 🇺🇸US
- HTS General for 200911 US, read on 2026-09-07 from https://hts.usitc.gov/search?query=2009.11 and again on 2026-09-07 from https://hts.usitc.gov/reststop/exportList?from=20&to=21&format=CSV&styles=false. Both returned the official wording "7.85¢/liter". 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: 2009.11.00 7.85¢/liter
- 🇬🇧GB
- Third country duty for 200911 GB, read on 2026-09-07 from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/commodities/2009111111 and again on 2026-09-07 from https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/reference-document-for-the-customs-tariff-establishment-eu-exit-regulations-2020. Both returned the official wording "30.00 % + 17.00 GBP / 100 kg ; 30.00 % ; 14.00 % + 17.00 GBP / 100 kg ; 14.00 %". The two publications are independent of each other and they agree. Retrieved text: 2009111111 30.00 % + 17.00 GBP / 100 kg; 2009111119 30.00 % + 17.00 GBP / 100 kg; 2009111191 30.00 % + 17.00 GBP / 100 kg; 2009111199 30.00 % + 17.00 GBP / 100 kg; 2009111910 30.00 %; 2009111990 30.00 %; 2009119110 14.00 % + 17.00 GBP / 100 kg; 2009119190 14.00 % + 17.00 GBP / 100 kg; 2009119911 14.00 %; 2009119919 14.00 %; 2009119992 14.00 %; 2009119994 14.00 %; 2009119996 14.00 %; 2009119998 14.
- 🇨🇦CA
- MFN for 200911 CA, read on 2026-09-07 from https://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/trade-commerce/tariff-tarif/2026/html/00/ch20-eng.html and again on 2026-09-07 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: 2009.11.00 Free
- 🇦🇺AU
- MFN for 200911 AU, read on 2026-09-07 from https://www.abf.gov.au/importing-exporting-and-manufacturing/tariff-classification/current-tariff/schedule-3/section-iv/chapter-20 and again on 2026-09-07 from https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2004A04997/latest/text. Both returned 5%. The two publications are independent of each other and they agree. Retrieved text: 2009.11.00 5%
- 🇩🇪DE 🇵🇹PT
- One reading covers DE and PT, which are priced from the same schedule: Third country duty (EU, via NI Online Tariff) for 200911 DE, read on 2026-09-07 from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/xi/commodities/2009111111 and again on 2026-09-07 from https://trade.ec.europa.eu/access-to-markets/en/results?product=200911&origin=CN&destination=DE. Both returned the official wording "33.60 % + 20.60 EUR / 100 kg ; 33.60 % ; 15.20 % + 20.60 EUR / 100 kg ; 15.20 %". The two publications are independent of each other and they agree. Retrieved text: 2009111111 33.60 % + 20.60 EUR / 100 kg; 2009111119 33.60 % + 20.60 EUR / 100 kg; 2009111191 33.60 % + 20.60 EUR / 100 kg; 2009111199 33.60 % + 20.60 EUR / 100 kg; 2009111910 33.60 %; 2009111990 33.60 %; 2009119110 15.20 % + 20.60 EUR / 100 kg; 2009119190 15.20 % + 20.60 EUR / 100 kg; 2009119911 15.20 %; 2009119919 15.20 %; 2009119992 15.20 %; 2009119994 15.20 %; 2009119996 15.20 %; 2009119998 15.
Re-check first: The United States charges this per litre rather than on value, so a cheap consignment attracts the same duty as a dear one and only the volume moves it. Frozen is what puts the juice in this subheading; unfrozen orange juice of a Brix value not exceeding 20 is 2009.12.
What falls under 200911
- Orange juice, unfermented and not containing added spirit, presented frozen
- Frozen concentrated orange juice, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter
- Frozen single strength orange juice, including not from concentrate juice frozen for shipment
What's specifically excluded
These look similar but belong under a different code:
- 200912: Orange juice, not frozen, of a Brix value not exceeding 20
- 200919: Orange juice, not frozen, other
- 200990: Mixtures of juices
- 210690: Food preparations not elsewhere specified, where the juice has become an ingredient in something else
Commonly confused with
200912: Chilled or ambient orange juice
Brix value is the famous test in heading 2009 and it does not apply here. The heading asks whether the juice is frozen before it asks anything about concentration, so a frozen concentrate at high Brix and a frozen single strength juice at low Brix are the same subheading, while the identical two products shipped chilled are split by Brix.
210690: Compound preparations for making beverages
Juice stops being juice when something other than sweetening matter is added to it. A frozen base containing flavourings, acidulants, colours or added vitamins beyond a permitted fortification is a food preparation, and the invoice description rarely makes that clear on its own.
Classification & cost note
Heading 2009 is one of the few places in the tariff where the physical state of the goods, rather than what they are made of, decides the subheading. For orange juice the first question is frozen or not frozen, and only the not frozen half is then split by Brix value. That inversion is what catches people, because the trade talks about concentrate and single strength constantly and about the freezer almost never, and a buyer who reaches for the Brix table first will pick a code that does not apply to a frozen consignment at all. Two other boundaries are worth holding in mind. Added sugar or other sweetening matter keeps the goods in heading 2009 but frequently changes the national line beneath the six digits, so the six digit answer is not the end of the exercise. And fermentation or added spirit takes the goods out of chapter 20 altogether and into chapter 22. Juice concentrates are also among the goods most often charged on a specific or compound basis rather than as a straight percentage, and where a tariff does that the percentage on its own is not the whole charge.
Typical products: Frozen concentrated orange juice in drums · Frozen concentrate in aseptic totes for reconstitution · Frozen not from concentrate orange juice · Retail cans of frozen orange concentrate · Frozen orange juice in bulk tanker liners · Frozen concentrate blended from several origins
What the notes to section IV say
Chapter 20 sits in section IV, prepared foodstuffs; beverages, spirits and vinegar; tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes; Products, whether or not containing nicotine, intended for inhalation without combustion; Other nicotine containing products intended for the intake of nicotine into the human body, where a section note governs every chapter in the section and applies before the heading notes below; the one reaching chapter 20 names no heading this site holds a code under, and it is quoted whole on the chapter 20 page, read from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/api/v2/sections/4 on 2026-09-08.
What the nomenclature says about heading 2009
200911 is a subheading of 2009, fruit or nut juices (including grape must and coconut water) and vegetable juices, unfermented and not containing added spirit, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter , and it is the only code this site holds under that heading.
One numbered note to chapter 20 takes heading 2009 as its own subject, and it is quoted below in full, as published.
Note 6 to chapter 20
For the purposes of heading 2009, the expression ‘juices, unfermented and not containing added spirit’ means juices of an alcoholic strength by volume (see note 2 to Chapter 22) not exceeding 0.5 % vol.
This note sends goods to chapter 22.
Read from the notes to chapter 20 published in the UK Trade Tariff by HM Revenue and Customs, at https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/api/v2/chapters/20, with the heading title from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/api/v2/headings/2009, on 2026-09-07, with the whole layer and the reason a heading note is a chapter note set out on the chapter 20 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 200911
Does the Brix value decide the code for frozen orange juice?
No. Brix splits the not frozen subheadings only. A frozen juice is 2009.11 whatever its concentration.
Is frozen concentrate the same subheading as frozen single strength juice?
Yes. Both are frozen orange juice for tariff purposes, and the concentration affects the commercial value rather than the six digit code.
Does added sugar move the goods out of heading 2009?
No. The heading text covers juice whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter, though the national line and the charge below the six digits often change.
What happens if the juice has fermented or has spirit added?
It leaves chapter 20. Fermented juice and juice containing added spirit are beverages of chapter 22, which is a different heading, a different rate structure and usually an excise question as well.
Codes in nearby chapters
Chapter 20 holds 1 subheadings on this site, so these are the closest chapters by number rather than codes for similar goods.
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