HS chapter 23: Residues and waste from the food industries
Chapter 23 of the EU Combined Nomenclature 2026, with the official text of every heading in it and their 6-digit subheadings.
Official description
23RESIDUES AND WASTE FROM THE FOOD INDUSTRIES; PREPARED ANIMAL FODDER
- Headings (4 digits)
- 9
- Subheadings (6 digits)
- 23
- CN codes (8 digits)
- 64
Headings in chapter 23
- 2301 10 Flours, meals and pellets, of meat or meat offal; greaves
- 2301 20 Flours, meals and pellets, of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates
- 2302 10 Of maize (corn)
- 2302 30 Of wheat
- 2302 40 Of other cereals
- 2302 50 Of leguminous plants
- 2303 10 Residues of starch manufacture and similar residues
- 2303 20 Beet-pulp, bagasse and other waste of sugar manufacture
- 2303 30 Brewing or distilling dregs and waste
- 2304 00 Oilcake and other solid residues, whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of soya-bean oil
- 2305 00 Oilcake and other solid residues, whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of groundnut oil
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Oilcake and other solid residues, whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of vegetable or microbial fats or oils (excl. from soya-bean oil and groundnut oil)
- 2306 10 Of cotton seeds
- 2306 20 Of linseed
- 2306 30 Of sunflower seeds
- 2306 41 Of rape or colza seeds | Of low erucic acid rape or colza seeds
- 2306 49 Of rape or colza seeds | Other
- 2306 50 Of coconut or copra
- 2306 60 Of palm nuts or kernels
- 2306 90 Other
- 2307Wine lees; argol
- 2307 00 Wine lees; argol
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Acorns, horse-chestnuts, marc and other vegetable materials and vegetable waste, vegetable residues and by-products of a kind used in animal feeding, whether or not in the form of pellets, n.e.s.
- 2308 00 Vegetable materials and vegetable waste, vegetable residues and by-products, whether or not in the form of pellets, of a kind used in animal feeding, not elsewhere specified or included
- 2309 10 Dog or cat food, put up for retail sale
- 2309 90 Other
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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.