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HS chapter 19: Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; pastrycooks' products

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Chapter
19
Description
Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; pastrycooks' products
Headings
5
Subheadings
19
Edition
HS2022

Summary

HS chapter 19 covers preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; pastrycooks' products. It has 5 headings, 19.01 to 19.05, and 19 six-digit subheadings in HS2022. Chapter 18, before it, covers cocoa and cocoa preparations; chapter 20, after it, covers preparations of vegetables, fruit, nuts or other parts of plants.

What this chapter covers

HS chapter 19 covers preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; pastrycooks' products.

It has 5 headings, 19.01 to 19.05, and 19 six-digit subheadings in HS2022.

19.02 Pasta, whether or not cooked or stuffed (with meat or other substances) or otherwise prepared, such as spaghetti, macaroni, noodles, lasagne, gnocchi, ravioli, cannelloni; couscous, whether or not prepared

  • 1902.11Uncooked pasta, not stuffed or otherwise prepared: Containing eggs
  • 1902.19Uncooked pasta, not stuffed or otherwise prepared: Other
  • 1902.20Stuffed pasta, whether or not cooked or otherwise prepared
  • 1902.30Other pasta
  • 1902.40Couscous

19.03 Tapioca and substitutes therefor prepared from starch, in the form of flakes, grains, pearls, siftings or in similar forms

  • 1903.00Tapioca and substitutes therefor prepared from starch, in the form of flakes, grains, pearls, siftings or in similar forms

19.04 Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products (for example, corn flakes); cereals (other than maize (corn)) in grain form or in the form of flakes or other worked grains (except flour, groats and meal), pre-cooked, or otherwise prepared, not elsewhere specified or included

  • 1904.10Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products
  • 1904.20Prepared foods obtained from unroasted cereal flakes or from mixtures of unroasted cereal flakes and roasted cereal flakes or swelled cereals
  • 1904.30Bulgur wheat
  • 1904.90Other

19.05 Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products

  • 1905.10Crispbread
  • 1905.20Gingerbread and the like
  • 1905.31Sweet biscuits; waffles and wafers: Sweet biscuits
  • 1905.32Sweet biscuits; waffles and wafers: Waffles and wafers
  • 1905.40Rusks, toasted bread and similar toasted products
  • 1905.90Other

What it doesn’t cover

Chapter 18, before it, covers cocoa and cocoa preparations; chapter 20, after it, covers preparations of vegetables, fruit, nuts or other parts of plants.

How it is structured

Chapter 19 is the first level of the Harmonized System. Its headings add two digits to the chapter number (19.01), and each heading's subheadings add two more.

In other countries

No national tariff lines in chapter 19 are live on border.bot yet. Tariffs built on the Harmonized System use these headings and subheadings and add their own digits after the first six.

Frequently asked questions

What does HS chapter 19 cover?

HS chapter 19 covers preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; pastrycooks' products.

How many headings and subheadings are in HS chapter 19?

HS chapter 19 has 5 headings and 19 six-digit subheadings in HS2022.

Sources and updates

The Harmonized System legal text comes from border.bot release 1 (edition HS 2022), imported from a file, and has been live since 13 October 2026.

This page was last updated on 13 October 2026.

Guidance from published tariff data, not a binding ruling. For a decision customs must follow, apply to the destination’s customs authority for a binding tariff ruling.

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