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210111 Chapter 21 · Food Misc Instant coffee and coffee extracts
Six-digit subheading in Food Misc, chapter 21 of the Harmonized System, priced here for 6 destination markets.
Anatomy of 210111
You will declare against a longer local code that begins 210111: 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 | 9% | 19% |
| 🇵🇹Portugal | 9% | 23% |
| 🇬🇧United Kingdom | 8% | 20% |
| 🇺🇸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: 210111 into Germany
An illustrative consignment of 210111 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 9% | EUR 193.50 |
| Germany tax at 19%, charged on the value plus the duty | EUR 445.27 |
| Total, before commercial charges | EUR 2,788.77 |
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 2,788.77 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 210111 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 210111 US, read on 2026-09-07 from https://hts.usitc.gov/search?query=2101.11 and again on 2026-09-07 from https://hts.usitc.gov/reststop/exportList?from=21&to=22&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: 2101.11.21 Free; 2101.11.29 Free
- 🇬🇧GB
- Third country duty for 210111 GB, read on 2026-09-07 from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/commodities/2101110000 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 8%. The two publications are independent of each other and they agree. Retrieved text: 2101110000 8.00 %
- 🇨🇦CA
- MFN for 210111 CA, read on 2026-09-07 from https://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/trade-commerce/tariff-tarif/2026/html/00/ch21-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: 2101.11.10 Free; 2101.11.90 Free
- 🇦🇺AU
- MFN for 210111 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-21 and again on 2026-09-07 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: 2101.11.00 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 210111 DE, read on 2026-09-07 from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/xi/commodities/2101110000 and again on 2026-09-07 from https://trade.ec.europa.eu/access-to-markets/en/results?product=210111&origin=CN&destination=DE. Both returned 9%. The two publications are independent of each other and they agree. Retrieved text: 2101110000 9.00 %
Re-check first: Both United States lines are free and they separate flavoured instant coffee from unflavoured, so the question worth asking here is not the rate but whether the goods are an extract at all. A preparation with a basis of coffee extract is 2101.12 and is not covered by this figure.
What falls under 210111
- Extracts, essences and concentrates of coffee
- Instant and freeze dried coffee, spray dried coffee powder and liquid coffee concentrates
What's specifically excluded
These look similar but belong under a different code:
Commonly confused with
090121: Roasted coffee beans and grounds
Chapter 9 covers coffee as a commodity and Chapter 21 covers what is made from it by extraction. Ground roasted coffee is still coffee of 0901; instant coffee has been brewed and dried and is an extract of 2101, and the processing step rather than the appearance decides it.
210690: Coffee based drink preparations
A preparation containing coffee alongside milk powder and sugar, such as a three in one sachet, is often a food preparation of 2106 rather than a coffee extract, because it is no longer only coffee. The other ingredients are what move it.
Classification & cost note
The dividing line between Chapter 9 and Chapter 21 is extraction, and it is worth stating plainly because it surprises people: grinding coffee does not move it, but brewing and drying it does. Ground roasted coffee remains coffee, while instant coffee has been through a process that makes it an extract, and the two attract different treatment in most tariffs. The commercial reason this matters is that many origins face different rates on raw, roasted and soluble coffee, which is a deliberate policy of tariff escalation that taxes processing rather than the commodity, and it is the reason a great deal of coffee is shipped green and processed in the consuming market. Where instant coffee is blended with milk powder and sugar into a sachet, the product usually leaves this subheading for a general food preparation.
Typical products: Freeze dried instant coffee · Spray dried soluble coffee powder · Liquid coffee concentrates · Instant coffee in bulk for repacking · Decaffeinated instant coffee · Coffee extract for beverage manufacture · Agglomerated soluble coffee granules · Micro ground instant blends
What the notes to section IV say
Chapter 21 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 21 names no heading this site holds a code under, and it is quoted whole on the chapter 21 page, read from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/api/v2/sections/4 on 2026-09-08.
What the nomenclature says about heading 2101
210111 is a subheading of 2101, extracts, essences and concentrates, of coffee, tea or maté and preparations with a basis of these products or with a basis of coffee, tea or maté; roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes, and extracts, essences and concentrates thereof , and it is the only code this site holds under that heading.
One numbered note to chapter 21 takes heading 2101 as its own subject, and it is quoted below in full, as published.
Note 2 to chapter 21
Extracts of the substitutes referred to in note 1 (b) are to be classified in heading 2101.
Read from the notes to chapter 21 published in the UK Trade Tariff by HM Revenue and Customs, at https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/api/v2/chapters/21, with the heading title from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/api/v2/headings/2101, on 2026-09-07, with the whole layer and the reason a heading note is a chapter note set out on the chapter 21 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 210111
Is instant coffee classified with coffee beans?
No. Grinding does not move coffee out of Chapter 9, but extraction does. Instant coffee has been brewed and dried, making it an extract of heading 2101 rather than coffee of heading 0901.
Where does a three in one coffee sachet sit?
Usually in the general food preparations heading rather than here, because milk powder and sugar make the product more than a coffee extract. The added ingredients are what move it.
Why do green, roasted and instant coffee attract different rates?
Tariff escalation. Many markets set higher rates on more processed forms to protect domestic processing, which is why a great deal of coffee is shipped green and roasted or extracted in the consuming market.
Do single serve sachets change the code?
Not on their own. Pure instant coffee remains a coffee extract whatever the pack size. A sachet becomes a different classification only when other ingredients such as milk powder and sugar are blended in, which makes it a food preparation.
Codes in nearby chapters
Chapter 21 holds 2 subheadings on this site, so these are the closest chapters by number rather than codes for similar goods.
Related codes in Chapter 21
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