HS Code Detail
220429 Chapter 22 · Beverages Wine in bulk containers over 10 litres
Six-digit subheading in Beverages, chapter 22 of the Harmonized System, priced here for 5 destination markets.
Anatomy of 220429
You will declare against a longer local code that begins 220429: 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 5 rates below differ on.
What this code covers
Import duty by country
MFN duty rate · 5 countries| Country | Duty | VAT | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇨🇦Canada | 0% | 5% | |
| 🇩🇪Germany | Not a % | 19% | |
| Official duty for Germany
The Germany schedule has 91 national lines under this code and 7 different rate texts; 4 more are not listed here. Read it at the official tariff. | |||
| 🇵🇹Portugal | Not a % | 23% | |
| Official duty for Portugal
The Portugal schedule has 91 national lines under this code and 7 different rate texts; 4 more are not listed here. Read it at the official tariff. | |||
| 🇬🇧United Kingdom | Not a % | 20% | |
| Official duty for United Kingdom
The United Kingdom schedule has 91 national lines under this code and 6 different rate texts; 3 more are 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: 220429 into Canada
An illustrative consignment of 220429 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 220429 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 220429 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 220429 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 220429 US, read on 2026-09-07 from https://hts.usitc.gov/search?query=2204.29 and again on 2026-09-07 from https://hts.usitc.gov/reststop/exportList?from=22&to=23&format=CSV&styles=false. Both returned the official wording "14¢/liter ; 22.4¢/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: 2204.29.61.00 14¢/liter; 2204.29.81.00 22.4¢/liter
- 🇬🇧GB
- Third country duty for 220429 GB, read on 2026-09-07 from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/commodities/2204291000 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 "26.00 GBP / hl ; 8.20 GBP / hl ; 10.00 GBP / hl ; 1.40 GBP / % vol/hl ; 12.00 GBP / hl ; 17.00 GBP / hl". The two publications are independent of each other and they agree. Retrieved text: 2204291000 26.00 GBP / hl; 2204292210 8.20 GBP / hl; 2204292290 10.00 GBP / hl; 2204292310 8.20 GBP / hl; 2204292390 10.00 GBP / hl; 2204292410 8.20 GBP / hl; 2204292490 10.00 GBP / hl; 2204292610 8.20 GBP / hl; 2204292690 10.00 GBP / hl; 2204292710 8.20 GBP / hl; 2204292790 10.00 GBP / hl; 2204292810 8.20 GBP / hl; 2204292890 10.00 GBP / hl; 2204293210 8.20 GBP / hl; 2204293290 10.00 GBP / hl; 22
- 🇨🇦CA
- MFN for 220429 CA, read on 2026-09-07 from https://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/trade-commerce/tariff-tarif/2026/html/00/ch22-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: 2204.29.10 Free; 2204.29.21 Free; 2204.29.22 Free; 2204.29.23 Free; 2204.29.24 Free; 2204.29.25 Free; 2204.29.26 Free; 2204.29.27 Free; 2204.29.28 Free; 2204.29.31 Free; 2204.29.32 Free; 2204.29.41 Free; 2204.29.49 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 220429 DE, read on 2026-09-07 from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/xi/commodities/2204291000 and again on 2026-09-07 from https://trade.ec.europa.eu/access-to-markets/en/results?product=220429&origin=CN&destination=DE. Both returned the official wording "32.00 EUR / hl ; 9.90 EUR / hl ; 12.10 EUR / hl ; 13.10 EUR / hl ; 1.75 EUR / % vol/hl ; 15.40 EUR / hl ; 20.90 EUR / hl". The two publications are independent of each other and they agree. Retrieved text: 2204291000 32.00 EUR / hl; 2204292210 9.90 EUR / hl; 2204292290 12.10 EUR / hl; 2204292310 9.90 EUR / hl; 2204292390 12.10 EUR / hl; 2204292410 9.90 EUR / hl; 2204292490 12.10 EUR / hl; 2204292610 9.90 EUR / hl; 2204292690 12.10 EUR / hl; 2204292710 9.90 EUR / hl; 2204292790 12.10 EUR / hl; 2204292810 9.90 EUR / hl; 2204292890 12.10 EUR / hl; 2204293210 9.90 EUR / hl; 2204293290 12.10 EUR / hl; 22
Markets with no figure recorded
Australia: Two official readings of 2204.29 returned different answers, so no Australia figure is recorded. Averaging them, or preferring one, would publish a number neither reading supports.
Re-check first: The bulk subheading begins above 10 litres per container, and the United States charges it per litre with the rate stepping at 14 percent alcohol by volume. Container size and strength decide this one; value does not enter into it.
What falls under 220429
- Wine of fresh grapes in containers holding more than 10 litres
- Bulk wine shipped in flexitanks, ISO tanks and large containers for bottling at destination
What's specifically excluded
These look similar but belong under a different code:
Commonly confused with
220422: Bag in box formats
The boundary is 10 litres and it is exact. A catering format at or below it is 2204.22 and anything larger is here, so a description saying large format is not enough and the container volume has to be stated.
220421: Bottled wine
Bulk wine bottled at destination is imported under this subheading and sold in bottles that would have been 2204.21 had they crossed the border filled. The trade route changes the code even though the consumer product is identical.
Classification & cost note
Bulk wine is a large and largely invisible trade: a great deal of wine sold in bottles somewhere crossed a border in a flexitank holding tens of thousands of litres, because shipping liquid without glass is dramatically cheaper per litre. That routing has consequences beyond the code. Where wine is bottled at destination, the origin, the labelling responsibility and often the excise point all sit differently from an imported bottled product, and the party bottling it takes obligations the importer of a finished bottle does not. Bulk shipments also raise a documentation question that bottled ones rarely do: analysis certificates covering alcoholic strength, sulphur dioxide and other parameters are commonly required at import, and they are checked by a food or wine authority rather than by customs.
Typical products: Flexitank shipments of bulk wine · ISO tank containers of wine · Bulk wine for bottling at destination · Twenty four litre bulk containers · Wine shipped for blending · Bulk wine moved between wineries
What the notes to section IV say
Chapter 22 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 22 names no heading this site holds a code under, and it is quoted whole on the chapter 22 page, read from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/api/v2/sections/4 on 2026-09-08.
What the nomenclature says about heading 2204
220429 is a subheading of 2204, wine of fresh grapes, including fortified wines; grape must other than that of heading 2009 , and this site holds 2 other codes under the same heading, which every rule below governs equally.
No numbered note to chapter 22 takes heading 2204 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 22 page.
Read from the notes to chapter 22 published in the UK Trade Tariff by HM Revenue and Customs, at https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/api/v2/chapters/22, with the heading title from https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/api/v2/headings/2204, on 2026-09-07, with the whole layer and the reason a heading note is a chapter note set out on the chapter 22 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 220429
Why is wine shipped in bulk?
Cost. Moving wine without glass is far cheaper per litre, so a great deal of wine sold in bottles was imported in a flexitank and bottled at destination. The container size puts those shipments in this subheading.
Does bottling at destination change the origin?
Not the origin of the wine itself, but it moves labelling responsibility and often the excise point to the bottler. Those obligations sit differently from those on an imported finished bottle.
What extra paperwork does bulk wine need?
Analysis certificates covering alcoholic strength and parameters such as sulphur dioxide are commonly required, and they are assessed by a food or wine authority separately from the customs entry.
Does bulk wine need temperature control in transit?
Commercially yes, though nothing in the tariff requires it. Flexitank shipments crossing the tropics are routinely fitted with insulation or moved in reefer equipment, because heat damage and ullage loss are the main risks to a cargo that cannot be inspected until it is discharged.
Related codes in Chapter 22
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