Subheading · Chapter 07 · Heading 0714

0714.20

0714.20: Manioc, arrowroot, salep, Jerusalem artichokes, sweet: sweet potatoes

Official description Sweet potatoes

Subheading 0714.20 belongs to heading 0714 (manioc, arrowroot, salep, Jerusalem artichokes, sweet potatoes and similar…) in chapter 07.

What you pay

Importing into UK from Barbados

Customs duty Free preferential rate · CARIFORUM · across 2 national lines + Additional duty 105.17 GBP / 100 kg
Additional duties and charges 2 additional measures Import requirements: 2
VAT 0.00 % import VAT
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Rates by national line · UK Global Tariff

UK lines →
  1. 0714 20 00 00 Sweet potatoes
  2. 0714 20 10 00 Fresh, whole, intended for human consumption Free+ 105.17 GBP / 100 kg2%
  3. 0714 20 90 00 Other Free5.3 GBP / 100 kg

Additional duties and import rulesBarbados

Charges on top of the customs duty, and rules the goods must meet at the border.

Additional duties and charges 2

  • Additional dutyUnit price 105.17 GBP / 100 kg
    Applies to goods from
    all countries
    In force
    until 22 October 2026
    Legal act
    The Customs (Import Duty) (EU Exit) Regulations
    Tariff lines
    on 1 of 2 lines
  • Tariff quotaNon preferential tariff quota Free
    Applies to goods from
    all countries except Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Cyprus, Czechia, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Spain, Finland, France, Greece, Croatia, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, Slovenia, Slovakia
    Legal act
    S.I. 2020/1432
    Tariff lines
    on 1 of 2 lines

Import requirements 2

  • Import controlPhytosanitary Certificate (import)
    Applies to goods from
    Afghanistan, Åland Islands, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antarctica, Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Botswana, Bouvet Island, Brazil, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, Brunei, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Caribbean Netherlands, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Colombia, Comoros, Congo - Brazzaville, Congo - Kinshasa, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Cuba, Curaçao, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands, Faroe Islands, Fiji, French Guiana, French Polynesia, French Southern Territories, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guernsey, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Heard & McDonald Islands, Honduras, Hong Kong SAR China, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Isle of Man, Israel, Jamaica, Japan, Jersey, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Macao SAR China, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar (Burma), Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Norfolk Island, North Korea, North Macedonia, Northern Mariana Islands, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Palestinian Territories, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Pitcairn Islands, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Réunion, Russia, Rwanda, Samoa, San Marino, São Tomé & Príncipe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Sint Maarten, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands, South Korea, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, St Barthélemy, St Helena, St Kitts & Nevis, St Lucia, St Martin, St Pierre & Miquelon, St Vincent & the Grenadines, Sudan, Suriname, Svalbard & Jan Mayen, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tokelau, Tonga, Trinidad & Tobago, Tunisia, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Turks & Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, US Outlying Islands, US Virgin Islands, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City, Venezuela, Vietnam, Wallis & Futuna, Western Sahara, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe
    Legal act
    2020 No. 1527
    Documents
    • N851
    • 901Y
    • C085 Common Health Entry Document for Plants and Plant Products (CHED-PP) (as set out in Part 2, Section C of Annex II to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1715 (OJ L 261))
  • Import controlImport control of organic products
    Applies to goods from
    all countries except Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Cyprus, Czechia, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Spain, Finland, France, United Kingdom, Greece, Croatia, Hungary, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, Slovenia, Slovakia
    Legal act
    S.I. 2019/693
    Documents
    • C644 Certificate of inspection for organic products
    • Y929 Goods not concerned by Regulation (EU) 2018/848 (organic products)

UK: imports by month

last 12 months£106.6m+19.1% · previous 12 months
Average import price£0.60 per kg
Jan 2024: £5.6mFeb 2024: £6.7mMar 2024: £6.5mApr 2024: £7.9mMay 2024: £6.2mJun 2024: £6.8mJul 2024: £5mAug 2024: £7mSept 2024: £5.2mOct 2024: £7.1mNov 2024: £7.2mDec 2024: £6.7mJan 2025: £7.9mFeb 2025: £7.3mMar 2025: £9.4mApr 2025: £8.7mMay 2025: £7mJun 2025: £8.3mJul 2025: £6.8mAug 2025: £7.8mSept 2025: £9.6mOct 2025: £7mNov 2025: £8.5mDec 2025: £8.2mJan 2026: £8mFeb 2026: £9.1mMar 2026: £8.8mApr 2026: £9mMay 2026: £11.4mJun 2026: £10.3mJul 2026: £8.4mAug 2026: £8.2m 202420252026
Data up to August 2026 (provisional) · Monthly data: Eurostat Comext (CC BY 4.0), HMRC (OGL v3.0)

Main suppliers, last 12 months

CountryValueShareChange
Egypt £44.4m 41.6% +38%
United States £34.7m 32.5% +14.9%
China £8.6m 8.1% -19.6%
South Africa £5.2m 4.9% +18.2%
Spain £4m 3.7% +3.1%
Brazil £2.4m 2.2% +16.4%
Uganda £2m 1.9% +29%
Argentina £1.7m 1.6% +81%

Same subheading in other tariffs

World trade in 2024

0714.20 · US$864.3m

Trade value (US$) no reported trade < US$190.5kUS$190.5k+US$1.4m+US$10.2m+> US$92.6m

Exports: 130
  1. United States: US$205.7m
  2. Egypt: US$196.4m
  3. Netherlands: US$98.3m
  4. China: US$92.6m
  5. Spain: US$32m
  6. Vietnam: US$31.6m
  7. Portugal: US$28.2m
  8. Japan: US$23.7m
  9. Germany: US$13.4m
  10. Brazil: US$12.9m
  11. Canada: US$12.2m
  12. Indonesia: US$10.7m
  13. South Africa: US$10.2m
  14. France: US$9.9m
  15. Dominican Republic: US$8.7m
  16. Peru: US$8.4m
  17. Belgium: US$7.2m
  18. Honduras: US$7.1m
  19. United Kingdom: US$4.6m
  20. Uganda: US$4.5m
  21. Argentina: US$4.2m
  22. Thailand: US$3.3m
  23. Poland: US$2.8m
  24. Italy: US$2.4m
  25. Australia: US$2.2m
  26. Denmark: US$2.1m
  27. Jamaica: US$2.1m
  28. Pakistan: US$1.9m
  29. Costa Rica: US$1.8m
  30. Taiwan: US$1.7m
  31. Malaysia: US$1.7m
  32. Czechia: US$1.4m
  33. Singapore: US$1.3m
  34. South Korea: US$1.3m
  35. India: US$1.2m
  36. Jordan: US$1.1m
  37. Laos: US$1.1m
  38. Slovenia: US$821.5k
  39. Hungary: US$780.2k
  40. Greece: US$729k
  41. Croatia: US$621.9k
  42. Aruba: US$564.5k
  43. Austria: US$551.2k
  44. Lebanon: US$478.8k
  45. Cambodia: US$476.8k
  46. Mali: US$427.3k
  47. Ireland: US$420.7k
  48. Yemen: US$413.3k
  49. Sri Lanka: US$412.1k
  50. Morocco: US$389.6k
  51. Bulgaria: US$384.2k
  52. Cameroon: US$379k
  53. Türkiye: US$314.4k
  54. Sweden: US$310.8k
  55. Lithuania: US$306.9k
  56. Iran: US$291.8k
  57. Latvia: US$260.2k
  58. Tonga: US$238.6k
  59. Ecuador: US$234.2k
  60. Madagascar: US$222.3k

Top exporters

RankCountryValueShare
1 United States US$205.7m 23.8%
2 Egypt US$196.4m 22.7%
3 Netherlands US$98.3m 11.4%
4 China US$92.6m 10.7%
5 Spain US$32m 3.7%
6 Vietnam US$31.6m 3.7%
7 Portugal US$28.2m 3.3%
8 Japan US$23.7m 2.7%
9 Germany US$13.4m 1.5%
10 Brazil US$12.9m 1.5%

Top importers

RankCountryValueShare
1 Netherlands US$156.4m 18.1%
2 United Kingdom US$100.1m 11.6%
3 Canada US$68.5m 7.9%
4 Germany US$61.2m 7.1%
5 France US$57.7m 6.7%
6 Belgium US$51.3m 5.9%
7 United States US$50.2m 5.8%
8 Spain US$20.6m 2.4%
9 Saudi Arabia US$20.5m 2.4%
10 Japan US$19m 2.2%

The UK Global Tariff divides subheading 0714.20 into 2 tariff lines; the duty is 2%. 1 line has a specific or compound duty.

In the EU Combined Nomenclature, subheading 0714.20 covers 2 tariff lines and the duty is 3.8%. 1 line has a specific or compound duty.

167 countries pay no duty in the UK thanks to trade agreements and preference schemes such as DCTS Comprehensive and European Union, against a standard rate of 2%.

Imports of these goods into the UK came to £106.6m between September 2025 and August 2026 (up 19% on the year before); Egypt supplied 42%, followed by United States.

In 2024, countries exported these goods worth US$864.3m (+7.8% year on year).

The largest exporter was the United States (US$205.7m), followed by Egypt.

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Questions and answers

What is the HS code for manioc, arrowroot, salep, Jerusalem artichokes, sweet: sweet potatoes?

Manioc, arrowroot, salep, Jerusalem artichokes, sweet: sweet potatoes fall under HS subheading 0714.20, part of heading 0714, in section II of the Harmonized System.

What is the import duty on manioc, arrowroot, salep, Jerusalem artichokes… in the UK?

Under the UK Global Tariff, imports under 0714.20 from countries without a preferential agreement are charged at 2%. Preferential rates, anti-dumping duties and VAT are not included.

What is the import duty on manioc, arrowroot, salep, Jerusalem artichokes… in the EU?

Under the EU Combined Nomenclature, imports under 0714.20 from countries without a preferential agreement are charged at 3.8%. Preferential rates, anti-dumping duties and VAT are not included.

Which country exports the most manioc, arrowroot, salep, Jerusalem artichokes…?

The United States, with US$205.7m in 2024 (23.8% of world exports).

Which countries can export these goods to the UK duty-free?

167 countries pay no duty under a trade agreement or preference scheme, among them partners under DCTS Comprehensive, European Union, DCTS Enhanced. The goods must meet the agreement’s rules of origin and the importer needs proof of origin; otherwise the standard rate of 2% applies. Pick a country above to see its rate.

Where does the UK import these goods from?

In the 12 months to August 2026, the largest suppliers were Egypt (42%), United States (33%) and China (8%), out of total imports of £106.6m.