The largest importer of this subheading (HS 1008.40) is France: US$1.02m in 2025.
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Countries that import this subheading
The largest importers of subheading HS 1008.40: each country's own reported imports, in the latest year it has reported. The largest first.
CountryIts importsQuantityPrice a kilogramFrom Türkiye
1France2025 · As France reports
Its imports
US$1.02m
Quantity
193,252 kgestimated
Price a kilogram
US$5.28estimated
From Türkiye
Not reported
2United States2025 · As United States reports
Its imports
US$374k
Quantity
301,050 kg
Price a kilogram
US$1.24
From Türkiye
Not reported
3Netherlands2025 · As Netherlands reports
Its imports
US$88.6k
Quantity
84,400 kg
Price a kilogram
US$1.05
From Türkiye
Not reported
4United Kingdom2025 · As United Kingdom reports
Its imports
US$57.1k
Quantity
17,263 kg
Price a kilogram
US$3.31
From Türkiye
Not reported
5Qatar2024 · As Qatar reports
Its imports
US$56.4k
Quantity
3,867 kg
Price a kilogram
US$14.60
From Türkiye
Not reported
6Italy2025 · As Italy reports
Its imports
US$49.4k
Quantity
5,403 kg
Price a kilogram
US$9.15
From Türkiye
Not reported
7Canada2025 · As Canada reports
Its imports
US$36.2k
Quantity
10,011 kgestimated
Price a kilogram
US$3.62estimated
From Türkiye
Not reported
8Kuwait2024 · As Kuwait reports
Its imports
US$31.8k
Quantity
Not reported
Price a kilogram
—No price can be worked out
From Türkiye
Not reported
9Switzerland2025 · As Switzerland reports
Its imports
US$22.5k
Quantity
2,913 kg
Price a kilogram
US$7.72
From Türkiye
Not reported
10Belgium2025 · As Belgium reports
Its imports
US$20.1k
Quantity
5,209 kg
Price a kilogram
US$3.85
From Türkiye
Not reported
The Gulf and Iraq
Those outside the first 10, with their place in the ranking.
14Saudi Arabia2025 · As Saudi Arabia reports
Its imports
US$8.83k
Quantity
822 kg
Price a kilogram
US$10.74
From Türkiye
Not reported
26United Arab Emirates2023 · As United Arab Emirates reports
Its imports
US$860
Quantity
Ranked by each country's imports from the world (US dollars, CIF value) in the latest year it has reported. 42 countries have figures for this subheading; 1 of them report imports from Türkiye.
The price a kilogram is the import value divided by the net weight (the year's average, CIF). No price is shown where there is no weight.
A weight marked “estimated” is UN Comtrade's estimate, where the country reported none; the price a kilogram worked out from it is an estimate too.
Packs on shelves prove which brands sell exactly this subheading, 1008.40, or list it among their ingredients. Every count has its database and its dates beside it.
A brand is not a company. The pack proves the brand; the company behind it is shown only where the pack's record states one, as stated. Packs are entered by the public, so each row shows the month its newest pack was last edited.
The code
EU Combined Nomenclature code (8 digits)
GTİP 1008.40.00
Fonio "Digitaria spp."
Official Turkish title: Çatal otu (Fonio) (Digitaria spp.)
Its place in the tariff
Chapter 10Cereals
Heading Buckwheat, millet and canary seeds; other cereals
50% of eligible expenses, up to 75% under the conditions below
On the stand's area in square metres, at most 5 fairs a year (10 for the participants and makers the circular qualifies). 70% in the Ministry's target countries, 75% in its target countries and sectors.
Their packs are filed under this product's category, in the country they are sold in. That proves the brand sells it there; it does not say who packs it or where the brand buys.
We read the database's daily export of every pack. Of each pack we take its brand, the countries it is sold in, its most specific categories and ingredients, and the day its record was last edited. We count each brand's packs by country and by category or ingredient. A category or an ingredient is matched to a customs tariff code by its name: the code the database itself states, else the tariff's own titles; what matches no one code is left out. A brand whose newest pack was last edited more than five years ago is left out, and for each country and code the 300 brands with the most packs are listed. Nothing else is changed or added. (Open Database Licence, section 4.6.)
Saudi Arabia
