Cooking, sauces and baking

What this category covers

In customs terms this category resolves to 10 headings: 0910.99 — food preparations not elsewhere specified or included; 1517.90 — mixes and doughs for the preparation of bakers' wares of heading 19.05; 1901.20 — mustard flour and meal and prepared mustard; 1901.90 — other bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares; 1905.90 — other edible mixtures or preparations of animal, vegetable or microbial fats or oils; 2103.30 — other food preparations of flour, groats, meal, starch or malt extract; 2103.90 — other sauces and preparations therefor; mixed condiments and mixed seasonings; 2104.10 — other spices; mixtures of spices; 2106.90 — soups and broths and preparations therefor; 2209.00 — vinegar and substitutes for vinegar obtained from acetic acid. 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 10 kg to the carton these are dense goods: a 20' GP reaches its 26-tonne payload with volume to spare, so the container weighs out and a 40' high cube buys nothing on this cargo alone. They are the lines to combine with light ones to make a full load work. Carton net weights across the category run from 4.32 kg to 14 kg, so the answer shifts depending on which lines you combine.

These figures are the average of the 8 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 ambient, not exceeding 25 °C, dry. No temperature-controlled equipment is required, which keeps these among the cheaper categories to move.

Brands in this category

Aseel, Betty Crocker, Bragg, Foster Clarks, French's, Generic / Unbranded, Gold Medal, Heinz, Kraft, Maggi, Nando's, Nature Choice, Pam, Tabasco, Zahara. 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 20 lines: 17 distinct retail pack formats, label languages available in Arabic and English. The smallest consumer pack we carry here is a 20 g carton and the largest a 1.15 L tin or bottle. 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 10 kg to the carton, so they reach the payload with volume left over. The load balances against lighter cargo: instant noodles and ramen at 0.54 kg, coffee at 2.22 kg, snacks and chips at 2.62 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

3 of these 20 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.