Chapter · Section II
Chapter 11: Products of the milling industry; malt; starches; inulin; wheat gluten
- 0%–18%UK
- 7.7%–19.2%EU
- 25%–114%Türkiye
- 0%–12.8%USA
- US$27.2bnWorld trade in 2024
Chapter 11 of the Harmonized System has 9 headings and belongs to section II (vegetable products).
The UK Global Tariff divides chapter 11 into 79 tariff lines; the duty is between 0% and 18% (average 7.4%). 2 of them are duty-free. 68 lines have a specific or compound duty.
In the EU Combined Nomenclature, chapter 11 covers 71 tariff lines and the duty is between 7.7% and 19.2%. 65 lines have a specific or compound duty.
The Turkish Customs Tariff Schedule divides chapter 11 into 90 tariff lines; the statutory rate is between 25% and 114% (average 53.5%).
In 2024, countries exported chapter 11 goods worth US$27.2bn (−9.6% year on year).
The largest exporter was Germany (US$2.4bn), followed by Thailand.
The biggest buyer was the United States, with imports of US$2.6bn.
Duty rates compared
The Turkish schedule prints the statutory rate set under Customs Law 474. The rate applied at import is laid down in the Import Regime Decision and can be lower, or different by country of origin.
Headings 9
- 1101Wheat or meslin flour
- 1102Cereal flours other than of wheat or meslin
- 1103Cereal groats, meal and pellets
- 1104Cereal grains otherwise worked (for example, hulled, rolled, flaked, pearled, sliced or kibbled), except rice of heading 1006; germ of cereals, whole, rolled, flaked or ground
- 1105Flour, meal, powder, flakes, granules and pellets of potatoes
- 1106Flour, meal and powder of the dried leguminous vegetables of heading 0713, of sago or of roots or tubers of heading 0714 or of the products of Chapter 8
- 1107Malt, whether or not roasted
- 1108Starches; inulin
- 1109Wheat gluten, whether or not dried
World trade in 2024
Trade value (US$) no reported trade < US$6.4mUS$6.4m+US$78.6m+US$468.4m+> US$1.3bn
Exports: 192
- Germany: US$2.4bn
- Thailand: US$1.9bn
- Belgium: US$1.7bn
- Türkiye: US$1.5bn
- France: US$1.5bn
- Netherlands: US$1.3bn
- Canada: US$1.3bn
- United States: US$1.2bn
- Vietnam: US$965.6m
- China: US$915.6m
- Australia: US$829.4m
- Italy: US$725.3m
- Argentina: US$678.6m
- India: US$660.6m
- Denmark: US$560.9m
- Kazakhstan: US$548.2m
- Egypt: US$533m
- Poland: US$482.3m
- United Kingdom: US$468.4m
- Spain: US$408.3m
- Austria: US$389m
- Mexico: US$361.7m
- Russia: US$344.3m
- Uzbekistan: US$323.9m
- South Africa: US$323.7m
- Uruguay: US$296.3m
- Laos: US$288.7m
- Hungary: US$247.4m
- Chile: US$246.5m
- Slovakia: US$207.5m
- Czechia: US$205m
- Lithuania: US$204.3m
- Sweden: US$164.1m
- Ukraine: US$142.4m
- Uganda: US$142.3m
- Romania: US$122.7m
- Brazil: US$118.8m
- Japan: US$112.5m
- Malaysia: US$103.3m
- Serbia: US$101.3m
- Bulgaria: US$97.2m
- Portugal: US$93.8m
- United Arab Emirates: US$92.8m
- Indonesia: US$90.6m
- Finland: US$90.2m
- Latvia: US$84.8m
- Colombia: US$78.6m
- El Salvador: US$78.6m
- Dominican Republic: US$77.3m
- Singapore: US$72.8m
- Pakistan: US$66.8m
- Ireland: US$55.4m
- Luxembourg: US$54.4m
- South Korea: US$52.5m
- Tanzania: US$49.3m
- Sri Lanka: US$48m
- Kuwait: US$41.9m
- Greece: US$36.9m
- Paraguay: US$36.3m
- Taiwan: US$36.2m
Trade value (US$) no reported trade < US$27.3mUS$27.3m+US$90.3m+US$313.2m+> US$860.8m
Imports: 223
- United States: US$2.6bn
- China: US$2.3bn
- Netherlands: US$1.1bn
- Germany: US$1bn
- Brazil: US$990.9m
- France: US$919.7m
- Mexico: US$860.8m
- United Kingdom: US$686.3m
- Afghanistan: US$661m
- Japan: US$651.5m
- Belgium: US$640.3m
- Malaysia: US$529.4m
- Italy: US$525.5m
- Poland: US$524.5m
- Iraq: US$507.4m
- Spain: US$460.8m
- Indonesia: US$436.8m
- Canada: US$425.6m
- Norway: US$418.5m
- Thailand: US$376.9m
- Taiwan: US$359.7m
- South Korea: US$343.7m
- Congo - Kinshasa: US$313.2m
- Philippines: US$300.6m
- Vietnam: US$298.1m
- Sudan: US$257.4m
- Ireland: US$239m
- Türkiye: US$237.6m
- Austria: US$227.8m
- Saudi Arabia: US$224.2m
- Czechia: US$209.8m
- Uzbekistan: US$196.9m
- Australia: US$187.3m
- Chile: US$184.1m
- Nigeria: US$180.1m
- Romania: US$175m
- Singapore: US$174.4m
- South Africa: US$173.1m
- Hong Kong SAR China: US$168.4m
- Denmark: US$162.9m
- Portugal: US$149.8m
- Guatemala: US$144.1m
- Switzerland: US$143.7m
- Hungary: US$131.5m
- Israel: US$125.2m
- Cambodia: US$125.1m
- Syria: US$124m
- Somalia: US$123m
- Greece: US$120.5m
- Peru: US$108.8m
- Venezuela: US$107.3m
- Sweden: US$106.3m
- United Arab Emirates: US$102.2m
- India: US$94.2m
- Cameroon: US$93.6m
- South Sudan: US$90.3m
- Honduras: US$89.8m
- Madagascar: US$85.4m
- Haiti: US$85m
- Bolivia: US$80.8m
Top exporters
| Rank | Country | Value | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | US$2.4bn | 8.9% | |
| 2 | US$1.9bn | 7% | |
| 3 | US$1.7bn | 6.3% | |
| 4 | US$1.5bn | 5.7% | |
| 5 | US$1.5bn | 5.6% | |
| 6 | US$1.3bn | 4.9% | |
| 7 | US$1.3bn | 4.7% | |
| 8 | US$1.2bn | 4.5% | |
| 9 | US$965.6m | 3.6% | |
| 10 | US$915.6m | 3.4% |
Top importers
| Rank | Country | Value | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | US$2.6bn | 9.6% | |
| 2 | US$2.3bn | 8.4% | |
| 3 | US$1.1bn | 4% | |
| 4 | US$1bn | 3.8% | |
| 5 | US$990.9m | 3.6% | |
| 6 | US$919.7m | 3.4% | |
| 7 | US$860.8m | 3.2% | |
| 8 | US$686.3m | 2.5% | |
| 9 | US$661m | 2.4% | |
| 10 | US$651.5m | 2.4% |
Chapter notes
Notes
1. This chapter does not cover:
(a) roasted malt put up as coffee substitutes (heading 0901 or 2101);
(b) prepared flours, groats, meals or starches of heading 1901;
(c) corn flakes and other products of heading 1904;
(d) vegetables, prepared or preserved, of heading 2001, 2004 or 2005;
(e) pharmaceutical products (Chapter 30); or
(f) starches having the character of perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations (Chapter 33).
2.
(A) Products from the milling of the cereals listed in the table below fall in this chapter if they have, by weight on the dry product:
(a) a starch content (determined by the modified Ewers polarimetric method) exceeding that indicated in column 2; and
(b) an ash content (after deduction of any added minerals) not exceeding that indicated in column 3.
Otherwise, they fall in heading 2302. However, germ of cereals, whole, rolled, flaked or ground, is always classified in heading 1104.
(B) Products falling in this chapter under the above provisions shall be classified in heading 1101 or 1102 if the percentage passing through a woven metal wire cloth sieve with the aperture indicated in column 4 or 5 is not less, by weight, than that shown against the cereal concerned.
Otherwise, they fall in heading 1103 or 1104.
| Cereal | Starch content | Ash content | Rate of passage through a sieve with an aperture of | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 315 micrometres (microns) | 500 micrometres (microns) | |||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) |
| Wheat and rye | 45 % | 2,5 % | 80 % | — |
| Barley | 45 % | 3 % | 80 % | — |
| Oats | 45 % | 5 % | 80 % | — |
| Maize (corn) and grain sorghum | 45 % | 2 % | — | 90 % |
| Rice | 45 % | 1,6 % | 80 % | — |
| Buckwheat | 45 % | 4 % | 80 % | — |
| Other cereals | 45 % | 2 % | 50 % | — |
3. For the purposes of heading 1103, the terms ‘groats’ and ‘meal’ mean products obtained by the fragmentation of cereal grains, of which:
(a) in the case of maize (corn) products, at least 95 % by weight passes through a woven metal wire cloth sieve with an aperture of 2 mm;
(b) in the case of other cereal products, at least 95 % by weight passes through a woven metal wire cloth sieve with an aperture of 1,25 mm.
Additional notes
1. The duty-rate applicable to mixtures of this chapter shall be as follows:
(a) in mixtures where one of the components represents at least 90 % by weight, the rate applicable to that component applies;
(b) in other mixtures, the rate applicable shall be that of the component which results in the highest amount of import duty.
2. For the purposes of heading 1106, the terms ‘flour’, ‘meal’ and ‘powder’ mean products (other than shredded desiccated coconut), obtained by milling or some other fragmentation process from dried leguminous vegetables of heading 0713, from sago or roots or tubers of heading 0714 or from products of Chapter 8, of which:
(a) in the case of dried leguminous vegetables, sago, roots, tubers and products of Chapter 8 (excluding nuts of headings 0801 and 0802), at least 95 % by weight passes through a woven metal wire cloth sieve with an aperture of 2 mm;
(b) in the case of nuts of headings 0801 and 0802, at least 50 % by weight passes through a woven metal wire cloth sieve with an aperture of 2,5 mm.
Questions and answers
What is the HS code for products of the milling industry; malt; starches; inulin; wheat gluten?
Products of the milling industry; malt; starches; inulin; wheat gluten make up HS chapter 11, in section II of the Harmonized System.
What is the import duty on products of the milling industry in the UK?
Under the UK Global Tariff, imports under 11 from countries without a preferential agreement are charged at 0% to 18%, depending on the line. Preferential rates, anti-dumping duties and VAT are not included.
What is the import duty on products of the milling industry in the EU?
Under the EU Combined Nomenclature, imports under 11 from countries without a preferential agreement are charged at 7.7% to 19.2%, depending on the line. Preferential rates, anti-dumping duties and VAT are not included.
Which country exports the most products of the milling industry?
Germany, with US$2.4bn in 2024 (8.9% of world exports).