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1803 20 000 0 — Cocoa paste, whether or not defatted: wholly or partly defatted

Cocoa paste, whether or not defatted: wholly or partly defatted

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.

Duty rate
5%

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

Supplementary unit
Not applicable
Requirements and measures
1

None: russian bans and restrictions, mandatory labelling, recycling fee, conformity assessment, export control, 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

VAT
22%

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.

Product reference in Word (in Russian)

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Import into Russia

Import reference

Export from Russia

Export reference

Import into Russia

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.

CCT rate: the EAEU CCT as amended by Решение Совета ЕЭК № 80 от 14.09.2021, from 01.01.2022; our register has no later decisions on the rate for this code.

How the rate for this code has changed
Customs fee scale by customs value, 2026
  • from 0 to 200,000 ₽1,231 ₽
  • from 200,000 to 450,000 ₽2,462 ₽
  • from 450,000 to 1,200,000 ₽4,924 ₽
  • from 1,200,000 to 2,700,000 ₽13,541 ₽
  • from 2,700,000 to 4,200,000 ₽18,465 ₽
  • from 4,200,000 to 5,500,000 ₽21,344 ₽
  • from 5,500,000 to 10,000,000 ₽49,240 ₽
  • over 10,000,000 ₽73,860 ₽

Fee per declaration. Russian Government Resolution No. 1637 of 28.11.2024 as amended by Resolution No. 1638 of 23.10.2025.

Import VAT in EAEU countries

  • Russia22%
  • Kazakhstan16%
  • Belarus20%
  • Armenia20%
  • Kyrgyzstan12%

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

Customs declaration fee

  • Kazakhstan6 MCI per goods declaration, KZT 25,950 in 2026
  • BelarusBYN 50 for goods of chapter 18from Jan 1, 2027: BYN 55
  • ArmeniaAMD 3,500 for clearanceinspection and recording: AMD 1,000 per consignment up to 1 t and AMD 300 per each additional tonne
  • Kyrgyzstan0.4% of the customs valuenot less than 5 and not more than 2,500 calculation units
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Tariff preferences

The code is on the EAEU list of preferential goods: for goods originating in a beneficiary country the duty is lower

Least developed countrieszero rate0%
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.

Documents required

A summary across all the lists we check: the document, its legal basis and whether it covers the whole code. Details are in the sections below.

Goods in customs transit may be tracked with a navigation seal: this depends on the route and procedure, not on the code (EAEU Agreement of 19.04.2022, EEC Board Decision No. 84).

Customs declaration hints

Boxes 33, 36, 44, 47

Which codes go into the boxes of the goods declaration for this product. The codes come from the classifiers of Customs Union Commission Decision No. 378. Reliefs, document types and excise depend on the shipment, so such lines carry a condition.

Box 33 · Commodity code

  • 1803200000
  • Сin the second subdivision, if the goods do not fall under the bans and restrictions that apply to the code
  • Оin the second subdivision, if goods with different names are declared under one code

Box 36 · Preference

  • ОООО-ООFees, duty, excise, VAT: no relief claimed, no excise (dash)
  • ООНН-ООТарифная преференция в отношении товаров, происходящих из наименее развитых стран · if the goods originate in a least developed country and origin is proven

Box 44 · Documents produced

  • 01402Декларация о соответствии требованиям технического регламента Евразийского экономического союза (Таможенного союза) · ТР ТС 021/2011 и ТР ТС 022/2011
  • 06013Сертификат о происхождении товара формы "А" · if the goods are imported under a tariff preference

Box 47 · Calculation of payments

  • 1010Таможенные сборы за совершение таможенных операций (за таможенное оформление товаров, за таможенное декларирование товаров, за таможенные операции)
  • 2010Ввозная таможенная пошлина (иные пошлины, налоги и сборы, имеющие эквивалентное действие), обязанность по уплате которой возникла с 1 сентября 2010 г.
  • 5010Налог на добавленную стоимость

Completion rules and classifiers: Решение Комиссии Таможенного союза от 20.05.2010 № 257; классификаторы — Решение Комиссии Таможенного союза от 20.09.2010 № 378

Each requirement in detailVeterinary, plant quarantine and sanitary control · How it is certified

Veterinary, plant quarantine and sanitary control

Goods fall under supervision by their type and characteristics

  • Sanitary and epidemiological supervision (control)

    rule for the whole chapter 18
    Пищевые 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 меры

    Решение Коллегии Евразийской экономической комиссии от 17.09.2019 № 154

How it is certified

Valid documents in the EAEU unified register for subheading 1803 20: certificates 0, declarations 36.

By technical regulation
ТР ТС 021/201136ТР ТС 022/201136ТР ТС 029/201213
Schemes
1д163д142д6The letter after the scheme number shows the form: certification or declaration of conformity.
Most active certification bodies
РУП «Гродненский центр стандартизации, метрологии и сертификации»
Manufacturers outside the EAEU
Côte d’Ivoire9Netherlands3Lithuania2Peru2Azerbaijan1Belgium1

Manufacturers of these goods →Check a supplier’s document by its number →

Export from Russia

Documents required

A summary across all the lists we check: the document, its legal basis and whether it covers the whole code. Details are in the sections below.

Our lists contain no bans, permits or special documents for exporting this code.

Customs declaration hints

Boxes 33, 47

Which codes go into the boxes of the goods declaration for this product. The codes come from the classifiers of Customs Union Commission Decision No. 378. Reliefs, document types and excise depend on the shipment, so such lines carry a condition.

Box 33 · Commodity code

  • 1803200000
  • Оin the second subdivision, if goods with different names are declared under one code

Box 47 · Calculation of payments

  • 1010Таможенные сборы за совершение таможенных операций (за таможенное оформление товаров, за таможенное декларирование товаров, за таможенные операции)

Completion rules and classifiers: Решение Комиссии Таможенного союза от 20.05.2010 № 257; классификаторы — Решение Комиссии Таможенного союза от 20.09.2010 № 378

Classification

Where it sits in the nomenclature

Section IV. Prepared foodstuffs; beverages, spirits and vinegar; tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes

  1. 18Cocoa and cocoa preparations
  2. 1803Cocoa paste, whether or not defatted
  3. 1803 20Cocoa paste, wholly or partly defatted
  4. 1803 20 00Wholly or partly defatted
  5. 1803 20 000 0you are here

Explanatory notes to heading 1803 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.

1803 Cocoa paste, low-fat or low-fat: 1803 10 – unfat 1803 20 – partially or completely low-fat

Cocoa paste is produced by grinding roasted cocoa beans (cleaned of shells, husks, skins and germs) between heated millstones or disc-like other plates. When hardening, the resulting product is washed in the form of tablets, lumps or briquettes. In this state, pasta can be used in the confectionery industry, but it is usually used to produce cocoa butter, cocoa powder and chocolate. This heading also includes cocoa paste which is wholly or partly defatted (cocoa cake); it is used for the production of cocoa powder or chocolate, or in some cases for the production of theobromine. This heading does not cover cocoa paste with added sugar or other sweeteners (heading 1806).

Official text adopted by a Recommendation of the EEC Board

Notes to chapter 18 — Cocoa and cocoa preparations 3 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. This chapter does not cover:

(a) food preparations containing more than 20 % by weight of sausage, meat, meat offal, blood, insects, fish or crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, or any combination thereof (Chapter 16);

(b) preparations of headings 0403, 1901, 1902, 1904, 1905, 2105, 2202, 2208, 3003 or 3004.

2. Heading 1806 includes sugar confectionery containing cocoa and, subject to note 1 to this chapter, other food preparations containing cocoa.

Additional note

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.

1. Подсубпозиции 1806 90 110 0 и 1806 90 190 0 не включают шоколадные конфеты, изготовленные целиком из шоколада одного типа.

EEC decisions on this code

Rates, trade defence measures, licensing and classification: decisions since 2016 whose text names code 1803200000.

Titles of acts are given in Russian as published: this is how they are cited in customs documents.

  • Duties and rates

    Решение Коллегии ЕЭК № 113

    О применении ставок ввозных таможенных пошлин в отношении товаров, происходящих из Объединенных Арабских Эмиратов и ввозимых на таможенную территорию Евразийского экономического союза

    adopted Aug 25, 2026 · published Aug 28, 2026 · entered into force Oct 6, 2026

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