Exporting cereals to the European Union

Exporting cereals from Argentina to the European Union covers 65 lines of the Combined Nomenclature 2026. Under the EU-Mercosur Agreement, 6 enter duty-free today, 17 are being phased out (the last ones reach zero on 1 January 2036), 32 have a reduction only within a quota and 10 get no reduction. It has 2 tariff-rate quotas under the agreement (contingente arancelario de maíz y sorgo; rice tariff-rate quota). Data as of 30 October 2026, from the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement and the Combined Nomenclature 2026.

Lines covered

The guide takes every line of the Combined Nomenclature in force that starts with these codes, 65 lines in all. Each one has its own sheet.

• Chapter 10 · The whole of chapter 10 · 65 lines

Source Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1926, Annex I (Combined Nomenclature 2026)

The duty under the agreement

What each line pays today to enter the European Union from Argentina under the agreement, counted line by line with the same calculation as its sheet.

• 6lines enter duty-free with or without the agreement
• 17lines pay less and go down year by year
• 32lines have a reduction only within a quota
• 10lines get no reduction for Argentina

When they reach zero

The lines that do not enter duty-free in every case (they pay something, the figure depends on composition or the entry price, or the reduction applies only within a quota), by the year the schedule takes the duty under the agreement to zero.

• 1 January 2030 · 5 lines
• 1 January 2033 · 11 lines
• 1 January 2036 · 1 line

Line by line

Grouped by heading. The code opens the sheet, with the year-by-year schedule and the source of every figure.

Sources EU-Mercosur Agreement, Appendix 2-A-1 (EU schedule) · Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1926, Annex I (Combined Nomenclature 2026)

Tariff-rate quotas

What the sheet says about each quota that covers lines of this sector, with its balance and its source.

Requirements

The requirements loaded for the lines of the sector, with how many each one covers. Each sheet has the detail for its line.

• The EU plant health regulation requires a phytosanitary certificate for 22 lines. Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072 · plant health

What Access2Markets lists in the EU

The requirements the European Commission's Access2Markets database assigns to the 65 lines checked.

Source Access2Markets

What the European Union imports

In 2025 the European Union imported €8,465 million from outside the Union in 65 lines of this sector. From Argentina, €132.4 million (1.6% of the total). That is 1.7% of everything the European Union bought from Argentina in 2025.

The lines where Argentina sells the most

The totals leave out the trade Eurostat publishes as confidential.

Source Eurostat · Comext (DS-045409), 2025