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Information for ruling 600014281

This section is Advance Tariff Ruling

Start date
16 Dec 2025
Expiry date
15 Dec 2028
Description
A confectionery item containing cocoa. The product is predominantly made of white chocolate but it is combined with crunchy chocolate cookie pieces which includes cocoa powder Ingredients: Sugar Cocoa butter Skimmed milk powder Corn syrup solids Wheat flour Lactose (milk) Milk fat Vegetable oil (palm oil and/or shea oil and/or sunflower oil) Cocoa powder Emulsifier, soy lecithin (e322) Whole milk powder Raising agent, baking soda (e500ii) Emulsifier: polyglycerol polyricinoleate [e476] Artificial flavour, vanillin Cocoa mass
Keywords
  • COCOA BUTTER
  • AS BARS
  • FOOD PREPARATION
  • PUT UP FOR RETAIL SALE
  • COCOA
Justification
Classification has been determined in accordance with the following: For the purposes of determining the commodity codes within which goods most appropriately fall, reg 3 (1) of The Customs Tariff (Establishment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 sets out that the rules of interpretation contained in the following have effect – a. Part Two (Goods Classification Table Rules of Interpretation) of the Tariff of the United Kingdom (Reg 3(1)(a)); and b. Notes to a section or chapter of the Goods Classification Table (Reg 3(1)(b)) Classification has been determined in accordance with the following: General Interpretative Rules (GIR)s: GIR 1 has been used to classify this product by the terms of heading 1806:Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa GIR 5b has been used to identify the packaging GIR 6 has been used to classify this product by the terms of heading 180690: Other than Cocoa powder, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter,other than other preparations in blocks, slabs or bars weighing more than 2 kg or in liquid, paste, powder, granular or other bulk form in containers or immediate packings, of a content exceeding 2 kg,other than in blocks, slabs or bars 8 Digit code 18069050: Sugar confectionery and substitutes therefor made from sugar substi-tution products, containing cocoa 10 Digit code 1806905090: Other than halva Also classified in accordance with: General note 2 to chapter 18 Harmonised System Explanatory Notes to heading 1806