HS code 1904: Prepared foods obtained by the swelling
Heading 1904 of the EU Combined Nomenclature 2026, in chapter 19, with the official text of every 6-digit subheading and 8-digit CN code below it.
Official description
1904Prepared 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
Place in the nomenclature: 19 Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; pastrycooks' products > 1904
Explanatory note (Eurostat)
Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products, e.g. 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, n.e.s.
- Subheadings (6 digits)
- 4
- CN codes (8 digits)
- 10
Subheadings and CN codes in heading 1904
- 1904 10Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Prepared foods obtained by swelling or roasting cereals or cereal products, e.g. corn flakes
- 1904 10 10 Obtained from maize
- 1904 10 30 Obtained from rice
- 1904 10 90 Other
- 1904 20Prepared foods obtained from unroasted cereal flakes or from mixtures of unroasted cereal flakes and roasted cereal flakes or swelled cereals
- 1904 20 10 Preparation of the Müsli type based on unroasted cereal flakes
- 1904 20 91 Other | Obtained from maize
- 1904 20 95 Other | Obtained from rice
- 1904 20 99 Other | Other
- 1904 30Bulgur wheat
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Bulgur wheat in the form of worked grains, obtained by cooking hard wheat grains
- 1904 30 00 Bulgur wheat
- 1904 90Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Cereals (excl. maize [corn]) in grain or flake form or other worked grains, pre-cooked or otherwise prepared, n.e.s. (excl. flour, groats and meal, food preparations obtained by swelling or roasting or from unroasted cereal flakes or from mixtures of unroasted cereal flakes and roasted cereal flakes or swelled cereals and bulgur wheat)
- 1904 90 10 Obtained from rice
- 1904 90 80 Other
The first 6 digits are the Harmonized System, shared worldwide: a US HTS code that starts with the same 6 digits sits under the same subheading. The last 2 digits are the EU's own CN split.
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Source
Source: EU Combined Nomenclature 2026 (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1926), © European Union, https://eur-lex.europa.eu/. Reformatted by WISEPIM: indent dashes removed and parent lines joined. Only the Official Journal is authentic.