Exporting lemons and citrus fruit to the European Union

Exporting lemons and citrus fruit from Argentina to the European Union covers 49 lines of the Combined Nomenclature 2026. Under the EU-Mercosur Agreement, 8 enter duty-free today and 41 are being phased out (the last ones reach zero on 1 January 2036). 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, 49 lines in all. Each one has its own sheet.

• 0805 · Citrus fruit, fresh or dried · 12 lines
• 0814 · Peel of citrus fruit or melons, fresh, frozen, dried or provisionally preserved in brine, in sulphur water or in other preservative solutions · 1 line
• 2009 11 · Fruit or nut juices and vegetable juices › Frozen · 4 lines
• 2009 12 · Fruit or nut juices and vegetable juices › Not frozen, of a Brix value not exceeding 20 · 1 line
• 2009 19 · Fruit or nut juices and vegetable juices › Orange juice › Other · 4 lines
• 2009 21 · Fruit or nut juices and vegetable juices › Of a Brix value not exceeding 20 · 1 line
• 2009 29 · Fruit or nut juices and vegetable juices › Grapefruit juice; pomelo juice › Other · 4 lines
• 2009 31 · Fruit or nut juices and vegetable juices › Of a Brix value not exceeding 20 · 6 lines
• 2009 39 · Juice of any other single citrus fruit › Other · 10 lines
• 3301 12 · Essential oils › Of orange · 2 lines
• 3301 13 · Essential oils › Of lemon · 2 lines
• 3301 19 · Essential oils of citrus fruit › Other · 2 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.

• 8lines enter duty-free thanks to the agreement
• 40lines pay less and go down year by year
• 1line has a reduction, but the figure depends on composition or entry price

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 2033 · 13 lines
• 1 January 2036 · 21 lines
• 7 lines with a reduction the schedule does not take to zero.

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

No line of this sector has a quota of the agreement for Argentina. Each reduction applies to any quantity.

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 12 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 49 lines checked.

Source Access2Markets

What the European Union imports

In 2025 the European Union imported €4,656 million from outside the Union in 46 lines of this sector. From Argentina, €302.5 million (6.5% of the total). That is 3.8% 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