0903 00 000 0 — Maté, or Paraguay tea
Maté, or Paraguay tea
Names come in English where the EU Combined Nomenclature publishes them — chapters, headings and subheadings, whose first six digits are the same Harmonized System; deeper EAEU detail is a machine translation, marked as such. Official texts — tariff notes, measures, lists and classification rulings — are the original: customs and your broker go by that wording. Where we show a machine translation of them, it is marked; where our quality check rejected one, the Russian stays.
Machine translation. The original is the Russian text of the EAEU tariff, and customs goes by it; this translation is for understanding only and has no legal force.
This is the base rate. A tariff quota, a preference for the country of origin and a tariff exemption lower it; anti-dumping and special duties are paid on top of it
EEC Council Decision No. 80 of 14.09.2021
None: russian bans and restrictions, dual use, EAEU non-tariff regulation, trade defence measures — duty on top of the tariff, tariff quota.
Whether a measure applies to your goods depends on their characteristics and the shipping documents
The general import rate in Russia: Tax Code of Russia, Art. 164(3) (Federal Law No. 425-FZ of 28.11.2025). This code is not named on the 10% VAT list (Decree No. 908) or the exemption list (No. 1042). The list of medical goods No. 688 is not checked here.
Where it sits in the nomenclature
Section II. Vegetable products
- 09Coffee, tea, maté and spices
- 0903Mate
- 0903 00Mate
- 0903 00 00Maté, or Paraguay tea
- 0903 00 000 0you are here
Explanatory notes to heading 0903 2 paragraphs
Machine translation from Russian. The original is the EEC explanatory note, and that is what a classification dispute is argued from; the translation is for understanding and has no legal force.
0903 Mate, or Paraguayan tea
Mate is the dried leaves of certain shrubs of the family of hoolith, growing in South America. It is sometimes called Paraguayan tea or Jesuit tea. Mate is used to prepare, by insistence, a drink containing a small amount of caffeine.
Official text adopted by a Recommendation of the EEC Board
Notes to chapter 09 — Coffee, tea, maté and spices 2 items
Notes
English text as published in Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2021/1832 (Combined Nomenclature). The EAEU tariff and the EU nomenclature copy these notes from the same convention. For a Russian declaration the binding version is the Russian one: Annex to Decision No 80 of the EEC Council of 14 September 2021.
1. Mixtures of the products of headings 0904 to 0910 are to be classified as follows:
(a) mixtures of two or more of the products of the same heading are to be classified in that heading;
(b) mixtures of two or more of the products of different headings are to be classified in heading 0910. The addition of other substances to the products of headings 0904 to 0910 (or to the mixtures referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) above) shall not affect their classification, provided that the resulting mixtures retain the essential character of the goods of those headings. Otherwise, such mixtures are not classified in this chapter; those constituting mixed condiments or mixed seasonings are classified in heading 2103.
2. This chapter does not cover cubeb pepper (Piper cubeba) or other products of heading 1211.
What import requires
Veterinary and sanitary control
Goods fall under supervision by their type and characteristics
Sanitary and epidemiological supervision (control)
rule for the whole chapter 09Пищевые продукты (продукты в натуральном или переработанном виде, употребляемые человеком в пищу), в том числе полученные с использованием генно-инженерно-модифицированных (трансгенных) организмов; Иная продукция (товары), в отношении которой одним из государств – членов Евразийского экономического союза введены временные санитарные мерыРешение Коллегии Евразийской экономической комиссии от 17.09.2019 № 154
Conformity assessment
May applyWhether the goods fall under a regulation depends on their name and characteristics. Check them against the list
- Травяные инстантные чаи (на растительной основе), мате или парагвайский чай (представление декларации о соответствии не требуется) — state registration certificate (part of the heading)
Checked: the consolidated list of Government Decree No. 2425 and the lists of 42 technical regulations out of 52 adopted. The others have no list by HS code, so see the full list of regulations.
How it is done in practice
Valid documents in the EAEU unified register for subheading 0903 00: certificates 0, declarations 203.
- By technical regulation
- ТР ТС 021/2011202ТР ТС 022/2011202ТР ТС 029/2012165ТР ТС 005/20111
- Schemes
- 1д1523д51The letter after the scheme number shows the form: certification or declaration of conformity.
- Most active certification bodies
- ТОО «Центр сертификации продукции, услуг»ООО «КОНЦЕПТ»ООО «Надежные документы»
- Manufacturers outside the EAEU
- Argentina52Paraguay13Brazil12China7Germany3France3
Manufacturers of these goods →Check a supplier’s document by its number →
Tariff preferences
The code is on the EAEU list of preferential goods: for goods originating in a beneficiary country the duty is lower
33 countries
Algeria, Egypt, Venezuela, São Tomé & Príncipe, Sri Lanka, Jordan, Iran, Pakistan, North Korea, Bhutan, Morocco, Eswatini, Lebanon, Bolivia, Mongolia, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Vanuatu, Ghana, Honduras, Zimbabwe, Cape Verde, Cameroon, Kenya, Congo - Brazzaville, Côte d’Ivoire, Cuba, Namibia, Nicaragua, Philippines, Tunisia, Nigeria, Micronesia
46 countries
Burkina Faso, Guinea, Eritrea, Congo - Kinshasa, Timor-Leste, Afghanistan, Mauritania, Yemen, Cambodia, Lesotho, Laos, Bangladesh, Nepal, Tanzania, Palestinian Territories, Angola, Benin, Burundi, Haiti, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Djibouti, Zambia, Kiribati, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Myanmar (Burma), Sudan, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Chad, South Sudan, Syria, Solomon Islands, Comoros, Togo, Tuvalu, Ethiopia, Somalia, Central African Republic
The preference requires a document of origin and compliance with the direct consignment rule; customs checks the right to it at declaration.
Payments on import
Duty for this code: 5%. On top of the duty, on import into Russia you pay VAT of 22% of the customs value including the duty (Article 160 of the Tax Code) and the customs processing fee — a fixed amount by value band. Customs value: the price of the goods, delivery to the border, local costs.
Import VAT in EAEU countries
- Russia22%Tax Code of Russia, Art. 164(3) (Federal Law No. 425-FZ of 28.11.2025)
- Kazakhstan16%Tax Code of Kazakhstan, Art. 503(1), from 01.01.2026
- Belarus20%Tax Code of Belarus, Art. 122
- Armenia20%Tax Code of the Republic of Armenia
- Kyrgyzstan12%Tax Code of the Kyrgyz Republic
Standard rate; each country has reduced rates and exemptions for some goods. The duty for the code above is the union one, the same for all
OKPD2 code
The match is set for the whole subheading, by the first six digits of the code
- 01.27.13 — Листья мате
Correspondence keys of the Russian Ministry of Economic Development, edition of 20.07.2023. The ministry’s caveat: Ключи отражают возможные соответствия между кодами на уровне первых шести знаков ТН ВЭД ЕАЭС (основанной на ГС) и кодами ОКПД 2 (основанного на КПЕС) по состоянию на 1 января 2022 года. Предлагаемые соответствия не являются исчерпывающими и предназначены для использования в качестве вспомогательного материала для облегчения работы по установлению возможных вариантов корреляции кодов классификаторов в отношении соответствующих категорий товаров.
Настоящие переходные ключи (сопоставительные таблицы) разработаны на основе данных агентства Евростат Комиссии Европейского союза по корреляции кодов Гармонизированной системы описания и кодирования товаров (ГС) 2022 года и Статистической классификации продукции по видам экономической деятельности в Европейском союзе (КПЕС) 2008 года. Ключи отражают возможные соответствия между кодами на уровне первых шести знаков ТН ВЭД ЕАЭС (основанной на ГС) и кодами ОКПД 2 (основанного на КПЕС) по состоянию на 1 января 2022 года. Предлагаемые соответствия не являются исчерпывающими и предназначены для использования в качестве вспомогательного материала для облегчения работы по установлению возможных вариантов корреляции кодов классификаторов в отношении соответствующих категорий товаров. Услуги не являются объектом классификации в ТН ВЭД ЕАЭС и не включены в переходные ключи. По мере внесения изменений в ОКПД 2 и ТН ВЭД ЕАЭС переходные ключи при необходимости подлежат актуализации.
The right code is in the HS code search.