Beverages and drink powders

What this category covers

In customs terms this category resolves to 4 headings: 1806.90 — food preparations not elsewhere specified or included; 2009.90 — other chocolate and food preparations containing cocoa; 2106.90 — waters, including mineral and aerated, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or flavoured; 2202.10. The heading, not the category name, decides the duty you pay at destination, so two lines sitting next to each other on this page can clear at different rates. Each heading has its own page with the classification reasoning on it.

How these goods ship

At an average of 7.29 kg to the carton these sit in the middle of the range: whether the container cubes out or weighs out depends on the carton dimensions of the specific lines you combine, which is exactly the case where mixing the load changes the answer. Carton net weights across the category run from 0.75 kg to 12 kg, so the answer shifts depending on which lines you combine.

These figures are the average of the 18 published primary packs in this category and are a guide to which limit binds, not a quotation. Carton dimensions and gross weight are confirmed per shipment, and the container fill calculator works the arithmetic for your own cartons.

Handling and storage

Storage and transport is temperature-controlled throughout, which fixes the equipment and the routing before anything else about the booking.

Brands in this category

Fortuna, Milo, Nesquik, Ovaltine, Rasna, Star, Tang. The 3 that are linked hold enough published lines to have pages of their own, with the packs and label languages we carry for them. We are not the brand owner for any of these and we do not manufacture. Goods are sourced as genuine branded stock for export; pack artwork and language vary by the origin a lot is drawn from.

What we hold

Across these 22 lines: 12 distinct retail pack formats, label languages available in Arabic and English. The smallest consumer pack we carry here is a 200 ml aseptic carton and the largest a 2 kg sachet. Everything is quoted on one full container per order, mixed across products where a single line will not fill it.

Documents that travel with the goods

These are foodstuffs, so the pack that travels with them is the heavier one: a certificate of origin, a health or free-sale certificate from the competent authority, and — where the destination requires it — a halal certificate naming the producing plant rather than the trader. Several markets also want the certificate legalised at their consulate in the UAE before the goods sail, which is days rather than hours and is the item that most often delays a first shipment. The full list, and who issues each one, is on the documentation page. We name the document set for your destination before quoting, not after.

Combining this with other categories

An order is one full container, and few buyers take a whole box of a single category. These average 7.29 kg to the carton, so they run out of volume before they run out of payload. The load balances against denser cargo: canned fruit and vegetables at 17 kg, milk powder and dairy at 15 kg, cereals and oats at 12 kg. Mixing across categories on one bill of lading is normal here and does not change the documentation. The container fill calculator takes your own carton figures and works out where the box stops.

What is not published here

4 of these 22 lines are listed but not yet fully specified — a customs classification still with our classifier, a carton quantity the stock list does not carry, or a production detail the supplier confirms per lot. Those pages say which, and the figure is confirmed with the quotation rather than estimated here.