Exporting dairy products to the European Union

Exporting dairy products from Argentina to the European Union covers 161 lines of the Combined Nomenclature 2026. Under the EU-Mercosur Agreement, 3 enter duty-free today, 41 are being phased out (the last ones reach zero on 1 January 2036), 55 have a reduction only within a quota and 62 get no reduction. It has 2 tariff-rate quotas under the agreement (milk powder tariff-rate quota; cheese tariff-rate quota). Data as of 31 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, 161 lines in all. Each one has its own sheet.

• 0401 · Milk and cream, not concentrated nor containing added sugar or other sweetening matter · 14 lines
• 0402 · Milk and cream, concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter · 24 lines
• 0403 · Yogurt; buttermilk, curdled milk and cream, kephir and other fermented or acidified milk and cream, whether or not concentrated or containing added… · 32 lines
• 0404 · Whey, whether or not concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter; products consisting of natural milk constituents, whether… · 30 lines
• 0405 · Butter and other fats and oils derived from milk; dairy spreads · 10 lines
• 0406 · Cheese and curd · 43 lines
• 3501 · Casein, caseinates and other casein derivatives; casein glues · 5 lines
• 3502 20 · Albumins › Milk albumin, including concentrates of two or more whey proteins · 3 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.

• 2lines enter duty-free with or without the agreement
• 1line enters duty-free thanks to the agreement
• 38lines pay less and go down year by year
• 3lines have a reduction, but the figure depends on composition or entry price
• 55lines have a reduction only within a quota
• 62lines 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 · 3 lines
• 1 January 2033 · 2 lines
• 1 January 2036 · 19 lines
• 17 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

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.

• No line of this sector is listed in the EU plant health regulation. Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072 · plant health

What Access2Markets lists in the EU

The requirements the European Commission's Access2Markets database assigns to the 161 lines checked.

Source Access2Markets

What the European Union imports

In 2025 the European Union imported €3,018 million from outside the Union in 159 lines of this sector. From Argentina, €4,003 (less than 0.1% of the total). That is less than 0.1% 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