Import duty on sparkling wine from France

Duty on a $10,000 entry of HTS 2204.10.00.75

Priced against measures version 2026-09-03. Estimates for planning only — U.S. Customs and Border Protection determines the final duty on your entry.

How much is the import duty on sparkling wine from France?

A shipment of sparkling wine classified under HTS 2204.10.00 and made in France currently pays a total of 19.8¢/liter + 10.00% in U.S. import duty. That total is built from two lines, not one: the Column 1 general rate of 19.8¢/liter, plus the Section 301 forced-labor action of 10.00% charged under Chapter 99. Customers who look up only the base rate in the tariff schedule and stop there are under-budgeting this shipment by 10.00%.

The schedule also lists a special (preferential) rate for this subheading — Free (A,AU,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL,KR,MA,OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG)8.8¢/liter(JO). A preference applies only if the goods meet the named programme's rules of origin and the claim is made on the entry, and it never waives a Chapter 99 additional duty. Whether your goods qualify is a question for a licensed customs broker.

The duty stack, line by line

U.S. duty on this code is assembled from separate legal instruments, each with its own authority. Here is what each line on the entry is:

The base line is HTS 2204.10.00.75 itself at 19.8¢/liter, the ordinary most-favoured-nation rate that applies to every origin with normal trade relations with the United States.

HTS 9903.05.39 adds 10.00% under the Section 301 forced-labor action — in force since 24 July 2026 across 60 economies including France, charged on the entered value on top of the Column 1 rate and following the origin of the goods rather than the route they travel.

Worked example: a $10,000 shipment

Take one ocean shipment of sparkling wine with an entered value of $10,000 — the customs value of the goods, before freight and insurance. At 19.8¢/liter + 10.00%, the duty is $1,000.20. Of that, $0.00 is the Column 1 duty and $1,000.00 is Chapter 99 additional duty. On top of the duty, the entry attracts a merchandise processing fee of $34.64 and, because it arrives by vessel, a harbor maintenance fee of $12.50. Duty and fees together come to $1,047.34, and the engine puts the landed cost of the goods at $11,047.34.

These are ad valorem rates, so a $100,000 entry of the same goods carries about $10,002 in duty, though MPF is capped per entry. Run your own value, entry date and HTS code through the tariff simulator for the same calculation against the same engine.

What changed, and when

Between those two points sits the Section 122 balance-of-payments surcharge. Priced at 15 May 2026, inside the surcharge window, the same $10,000 entry would have paid 19.8¢/liter + 10.00% ($1,000.20), with the surcharge appearing as HTS 9903.03.01 at 10.00%. Section 122 ran from 24 February to 23 July 2026 and then expired by operation of law, so it does not apply to entries filed now. If you are reconciling a spring-2026 entry summary against a quote from today, that expired line explains most of the gap.

MPF, HMF and what else lands on the entry

Duty is not the whole bill to Customs. The merchandise processing fee is ad valorem with a statutory floor and ceiling per entry — $34.64 on this $10,000 example. The harbor maintenance fee is charged on vessel arrivals only, $12.50 here; the same shipment flown in would pay no HMF.

Not in any of these figures: antidumping and countervailing duties, excise taxes, quota charges, bond costs, and the freight and brokerage that make up the rest of your landed cost. AD/CVD is worth checking before you commit to a supplier — it is assessed on the producer and exporter, not just on the HTS code, and it can dwarf the tariff.

U.S. imports of 2204.10.00 from France

Between March and July 2026 the U.S. imported $646 million under HTS 2204.10.00 from the 55 origins in this dataset; $332 million of it — 51.4% — came from France, making France the dominant supplier on this subheading. The largest were France (51.4%), Italy (42.4%), Spain (4.9%), Argentina (0.3%) and Germany (0.2%).

Census also reports duty actually collected: entries of HTS 2204.10.00.75 from France paid an average effective duty of 9.77% of value over those months. That tracks the 19.8¢/liter + 10.00% priced here closely, a good sign the stack above reflects what importers really pay. Treat it as a sanity check on your own numbers, not a forecast of your entry.

Our Food & Edible Commodities guide covers packing, classification and handling for this cargo type in more depth than a duty page can.

Planning around this number

Classification drives this: the page prices HTS 2204.10.00.75, the largest 10-digit line under 2204.10.00 for France by import value, and a neighbouring line in the same subheading can carry different Chapter 99 exposure. Entry date matters as much as origin — the gap between the dates above is a change in law, not in your goods.

Airlift USA does not hold a U.S. customs broker licence — customs entries are handled through our licensed broker network, and the broker of record makes the classification and origin calls. These figures are estimates for planning, produced by the same engine behind our tariff simulator; U.S. Customs and Border Protection determines the final duty on your entry.

The same shipment, priced on three entry dates

What HTS 2204.10.00.75 actually covers

Wine of fresh grapes, including fortified wines; grape must other than that of heading 2009 > Sparkling wine > Valued over $1.59/liter > Other

Questions importers ask about HTS 2204.10.00 from France