A container of tiles, kitchens and windows from China for your house: duty, anti-dumping and VAT before you order
A container of renovation materials from China is cleared like any commercial import: every line needs a ten-digit EU tariff code, customs duty is charged on the price plus freight and insurance to the point where the goods enter the EU, and 23% VAT is charged on all of that plus the duty. Most of a house's worth of goods is cheap to clear: kitchen units pay 2.7%, aluminium windows and doors 6%, sanitaryware 7%, and most wooden doors and furniture 0%. The line that can wreck the budget is ceramic and porcelain tiles, including large-format "sintered stone" slabs: everything under heading 6907 from China carries EU anti-dumping duty on top of the 5% tariff, at 69.7% of the landed price unless the factory is named in the EU regulation and its invoice carries a signed producer declaration. Check the factory, not just the product, before you pay a deposit.
A container is not a parcel
The flat €3 customs duty per distinct item on packages worth €150 or less (since 1 July 2026) and the €2 Union Handling Fee per distinct item (from 1 November 2026) apply to e-commerce packages sent to consumers from outside the EU. A container does not get them. It needs a full import declaration in Revenue's Automated Import System (AIS), usually lodged by a customs agent as your representative, and the duty, anti-dumping duty and VAT must be paid or secured before customs releases the goods. A private person can be the importer, and no import licence is needed for ordinary building materials. For marketplace orders and small parcels, see our courier and e-commerce customs service.
Need this done? Our customs team classifies every line of a Chinese container before you pay a deposit, checks each tile and slab factory against the anti-dumping regulation and its Annex, and lodges the import declaration in AIS when the ship lands. See import customs clearance, WhatsApp 086 846 1240 or email service@cldeclarations.com. We reply the same working day.
Step one: a code and a duty rate for every line
If you import goods into the EU, you must classify them, and the code decides the duty, the anti-dumping duty and any controls. A factory's "HS code" is international only to six digits. The EU's Combined Nomenclature adds digits seven and eight, and TARIC adds nine and ten; anti-dumping measures hang on those EU digits. Revenue's Classification Unit can advise, but its advice is not legally binding. Only a Binding Tariff Information (BTI) decision is, and it binds throughout the EU.
These are the 2026 rates for goods of Chinese origin, checked line by line in TARIC on 22 October 2026.
Goods (generic) | CN code | Duty | Anti-dumping for China? |
|---|---|---|---|
Porcelain tiles and slabs, water absorption 0.5% or less | 6907 21 00 | 5% | Yes, 13.9% to 69.7% |
Other ceramic tiles and mosaics | 6907 22 00 to 6907 40 00 | 5% | Yes, same measure |
Kitchen units, fitted or loose | 9403 40 10 / 9403 40 90 | 2.7% | None shown |
Other wooden furniture | 9403 60 10 / 9403 60 90 | 0% | None shown |
Engineered quartz worktops, artificial-stone articles | 6810 99 00 | 1.7% | None shown |
Granite worktops, polished, 10 kg or more | 6802 93 10 | 0% | None shown |
Marble worktops | 6802 91 00 | 1.7% | None shown |
Aluminium windows, doors, frames | 7610 10 00 | 6% | None shown |
Loose aluminium profiles, posts, rails | 7610 90 90 | 6% | Yes, 21.2% to 32.1% |
Wooden internal doors, non-tropical wood | 4418 29 00 | 0% | None shown |
Ceramic sanitaryware (WC, basin, cistern) | 6910 10 00 / 6910 90 00 | 7% | None shown |
Acrylic or plastic baths | 3922 10 00 | 6.5% | None shown |
Steel wire fencing, galvanised, not welded (e.g. chain-link) | 7314 41 00 | 0% | None shown |
Welded steel mesh fencing and panels | 7314 20 90 / 7314 31 00 / 7314 39 00 | 0% | Under investigation; imports registered since 12 September 2026 |
Two notes. Wooden doors of tropical wood fall under 4418 21 00 at 3%, so ask for the timber species. A bath sold as "stone" is 1.7% if it is crushed mineral bound in resin (6810 99 00) and 6.5% if it is an acrylic solid surface (3922 10 00), so ask for a composition sheet.
Step two: check anti-dumping by factory, not by product
Anti-dumping duty is an extra import duty, on top of the normal rate, on goods the EU finds are sold here well below their normal value. Revenue says definitive measures normally last five years. The EU can renew them after an expiry review, and the tile measure has been renewed twice. It dates from 2011, was renewed in 2017 and again by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/493 of 12 February 2024, and its Annex of cooperating producers was extended in October 2025. It covers every code under heading 6907, from 6907 21 00 to 6907 40 00, and the product definition sets no size, thickness or format limit.
Who made the tiles | Anti-dumping rate | TARIC additional code |
|---|---|---|
Four producer groups named in Article 1 | 13.9%, 29.3%, 32.0% or 36.5% | B939, B009, B938, B010 |
Cooperating producers listed in the Annex | 30.6% | one code per company |
Every other producer | 69.7% | B999 |
Three things trip people up.
It is charged on the landed price. The rate applies to the net free-at-Union-frontier price before duty. Revenue describes this as the price including cost, insurance and freight up to the point of entry to the EU. VAT is then charged on the lot.
A company rate needs the invoice declaration. The named and Annex rates apply only if the commercial invoice carries a declaration, dated and signed by an official of the company issuing the invoice and naming that official and their function, in the regulation's wording. It certifies which company made the goods and gives its TARIC additional code. Without it, 69.7% applies whoever made the tiles.
The producer matters, not the seller. Your test reports and CE paperwork usually show the real factory. If it is not in the regulation or its Annex, you pay 69.7%. A new exporting producer can ask the Commission to be added to the Annex at 30.6% (one was added in October 2025), but only if it meets the regulation's conditions, and it is a formal Commission procedure that cannot be fixed at the port.
Changing country does not help much: ceramic tiles from India and Türkiye carry their own definitive anti-dumping duty under Regulation (EU) 2023/265.
Is sintered stone a tile?
This is our reading of the tariff, not a Revenue ruling. Heading 6907 covers ceramic flags and tiles and sorts them by water absorption: 0.5% or less is 6907 21 00. "Sintered stone", "porcelain slab" and "ceramic slab" all describe fired ceramic bodies with very low water absorption. Sold as a floor, wall or facade covering, such a slab falls under 6907 21 00 and inside the measure. The word "stone" in a trade name does not make it natural stone of heading 6802 (0% to 1.7%), which covers worked monumental or building stone. Declaring it under 6802 would be exactly the mis-description to a code with a lower or nil anti-dumping rate that Revenue's anti-dumping manual says must be regarded as high risk.
A slab the factory has genuinely fabricated into a finished worktop (cut to template, edge-profiled, with sink and hob cut-outs) is arguably an "other ceramic article" of heading 6914: 3% under 6914 90 00, or 5% under 6914 10 00 if it counts as porcelain in the tariff sense, with no anti-dumping measure shown for China. Revenue can challenge that, so get a BTI before you order and keep the fabrication drawings and photographs. Treat the point as open unless you hold a BTI for your exact product.
Why it matters: under the Union Customs Code, Revenue can notify a customs debt up to three years after it arises, and for five to ten years where the act could lead to criminal proceedings. As the importer you are the debtor. Anyone who supplied information for the declaration that they knew, or ought reasonably to have known, was false can also be a debtor, but a sourcing agent's advice or a factory's code does not take the debt off you.
Aluminium and fencing: which material is it?
Finished aluminium windows and doors (7610 10 00) pay 6% with no anti-dumping duty for China. Loose aluminium extrusions are different. Regulation (EU) 2021/546 puts anti-dumping duty of 21.2% to 32.1% on aluminium bars, rods, profiles and tubes, including unassembled profiles prepared for use in structures under 7610 90 90, with 32.1% for producers not listed. Products joined into subassemblies by welding or fasteners (a finished gate or fence panel) and complete finished-goods kits are excluded, but the Commission monitors them. TARIC shows an expiry review opened in March 2026, and the duty stays in force while the review runs.
Galvanised steel wire fencing that is not welded at the intersections, such as chain-link (7314 41 00), pays 0% with no anti-dumping duty for China. Welded mesh fencing and panels (7314 20 90, 7314 31 00 and 7314 39 00) also pay 0% today, but the EU opened an anti-dumping investigation into welded steel mesh from China and Türkiye in June 2026. Under Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/2022, imports from China have been registered since 12 September 2026, so anti-dumping duty could later be charged on them retroactively if the investigation ends with duties and the conditions are met. Steel posts and structures under 7308 90 98 also pay 0%; the only Chinese anti-dumping duty under that code is on utility-scale steel wind towers. So a bundle of loose aluminium posts and rails can cost 6% plus up to 32.1%, while the same fence in steel pays 0% duty for now, with the welded-mesh investigation as the open risk. Tell us the metal and whether the mesh is welded. (And leave e-bikes out: pedal-assist e-bikes from China carry anti-dumping duty of 9.9% to 70.1% under Regulation (EU) 2025/120, plus a separate countervailing duty.)
What the container will cost in tax
Customs value. Under Articles 70 and 71 of the Union Customs Code, the value is the price paid plus transport, insurance, loading and handling up to the place where the goods enter the EU. Revenue's valuation manual says that for a ship delivering direct to an Irish port, that place is the Irish port. If the container is first unloaded in another EU country, or transhipped there with customs certifying the transhipment, it is that port. Unloading at that port is excluded if it is shown separately, and port dues, landing charges and onward haulage after arrival are not included. A FOB price needs ocean freight and insurance added; a CIF Dublin price includes them; a DAP price includes Irish haulage, which is split out. A dollar or yuan invoice is converted at Revenue's customs exchange rate for the month the declaration is accepted (set from the Central Bank rate on the second-last Wednesday of the previous month), even if you paid at a different rate. An estimate made at order time will move by the time the ship docks.
VAT. Section 53 of the VAT Consolidation Act 2010 and Revenue's import VAT page set the VAT base as the customs value plus customs duty, anti-dumping duty and excise, plus any transport, handling and insurance between the EU entry point and Ireland (for example, the feeder leg after transhipment in another EU port), plus onward transport to the final destination in the State if it is known at import. Building materials, kitchens, tiles, windows, sanitaryware and furniture are charged at the 23% standard rate. Budget 2027 (6 October 2026) did not change the standard rate; its VAT changes are for livestock vaccines and the farmers' flat rate. A contractor or retailer registered for VAT and for customs can use postponed accounting, declaring the import VAT on its VAT3 return and reclaiming it on the same return under the usual deductibility rules. A private self-builder pays it before release and cannot reclaim it.
Worked example (illustrative; our arithmetic on the 2026 rates)
Assume €60,000 of goods ex-works and €4,500 of freight and insurance to Dublin on a direct sailing, spread pro rata (7.5%), with no onward haulage declared. Figures are rounded to the nearest euro.
Line | Ex-works | CIF value | Duty | Anti-dumping | VAT at 23% | Tax total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Porcelain tiles and slabs, unlisted factory (69.7%) | €10,000 | €10,750 | €538 | €7,493 | €4,319 | €12,350 |
Kitchen units (2.7%) | €15,000 | €16,125 | €435 | none | €3,809 | €4,244 |
Aluminium windows and doors (6%) | €12,000 | €12,900 | €774 | none | €3,145 | €3,919 |
Quartz worktops (1.7%) | €5,000 | €5,375 | €91 | none | €1,257 | €1,349 |
Wooden internal doors (0%) | €4,000 | €4,300 | €0 | none | €989 | €989 |
Sanitaryware (7%) | €4,000 | €4,300 | €301 | none | €1,058 | €1,359 |
Wooden furniture (0%) | €10,000 | €10,750 | €0 | none | €2,473 | €2,473 |
Container | €60,000 | €64,500 | €2,139 | €7,493 | €17,050 | €26,682 |
The €10,000 of tiles cost more in tax (about €12,350) than the €15,000 kitchen and the €12,000 of windows together (about €8,160). The same tiles from an Annex factory at 30.6% would cost about €7,180 in tax; from the lowest-rated named producer at 13.9%, about €4,970. A VAT-registered business buying for its taxable business can generally recover the €17,050; a self-builder cannot. Port, shipping-line and haulage charges come on top.
What to ask the factory for before you pay a deposit
The producer's legal name and address for every tile and slab line, so we can check it against Regulation 2024/493 and its Annex before you commit.
A commercial invoice with one line per product, material and value (never "building materials" as one line), carrying the signed anti-dumping declaration if a company rate is claimed.
A packing list with weights, square metres for tiles and piece counts for doors and windows.
Composition sheets for anything called stone: water absorption and body type for slabs, resin-and-mineral or acrylic for baths, and the metal for fencing (and whether wire mesh is welded).
Declarations of performance and CE marking for tiles, windows, doors and sanitaryware. The Construction Products Regulation requires an importer placing these products on the market to make sure they carry CE marking and come with that declaration. The new regulation, (EU) 2024/3110, has applied since 8 January 2026, with older rules continuing for some product families during a transition. In our reading, a private person importing for their own house is not placing products on the market, but the paperwork still matters for building control, insurance and any resale.
A formaldehyde test report for MDF or particleboard kitchens and doors. Under REACH, furniture and wood-based articles cannot be placed on the market after 6 August 2026 if they release more than 0.062 mg/m3 of formaldehyde under the set test conditions.
The timber species for wooden doors and furniture. A business placing imported wooden doors or furniture on the market already has due-diligence duties under the EU Timber Regulation. From 30 December 2026 the EU Deforestation Regulation replaces it, and because these products were covered by the Timber Regulation, the later 30 June 2027 start for micro and small firms does not apply to them. In our reading, these duties fall on businesses, not on a private person importing for their own home.
Photographs of the ISPM 15 stamp on every pallet and crate. EU plant-health law requires wood packaging from outside the EU to be treated and marked. Regulation (EU) 2024/288 also requires plant-health checks on the wood packaging of at least 15% of consignments of tiles (6907), worked stone (6802) and other listed goods originating in China, Belarus or India; that regulation applies until 31 December 2026. In Ireland, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine is the plant-health authority for wood packaging. Non-compliant wood packaging is ordered to be destroyed, sent back or treated, which means delay and extra charges.
The Incoterm in writing: FOB, CIF Dublin or DAP.
At Dublin Port: who charges what
The shipping line (and, for a groupage or house bill, the forwarder) files the ICS2 entry summary declaration; for a deep-sea container it must be lodged at least 24 hours before the box is loaded in China. What you must get right is the bill of lading: you as consignee, your customs agent as notify party, and the line told who your customs agent is before sailing, or the arrival notice reaches nobody.
The line releases a container only to the party on the bill, after the original bill is surrendered or a telex release is recorded, and after its destination charges are paid: terminal handling, documentation and release fees, and sometimes cleaning or inspection fees. Cheap freight quotes are often port-to-port, so ask whether Irish handling is included. Storage and demurrage run from the end of the line's free time until the empty box is returned. Goods can stay in temporary storage under customs supervision for up to 90 days, but the storage charges do not wait. If Revenue routes the declaration orange (document check) or red (physical examination), or yellow for a Department of Agriculture check, the terminal moves the box to the examination area and charges for it. None of these amounts is set by Revenue, and no broker can quote them exactly in advance. Haulage, deconsolidation of a part-load and storage are arranged through our logistics partners: see freight forwarding and warehouse storage.
Aluminium windows and doors (7610) and steel structures (7308) are CBAM goods. Under Regulation (EU) 2025/2083, an importer whose CBAM goods (iron and steel, aluminium, fertiliser and cement goods added together) do not exceed 50 tonnes net in a calendar year is exempt, and declares that exemption in the customs declaration. A house's worth of windows is normally well under that, so tell your agent the net weights.
Can a private person import a container, and do I need an EORI?
Yes, a private person can import a container. The Union Customs Code requires economic operators to register for an EORI number; other persons register only where the rules require it. Revenue's own guidance is written for traders. Its import procedures manual says an individual who files their own declaration needs ROS and Customs and Excise registration and an EORI number, and that Revenue's eCustoms team registers individuals on request. Every EORI registration must include an Eircode, and Revenue warns that declarations can be rejected without it. If we file for you, our team will confirm which identifier your declaration needs before the ship arrives. Duty, anti-dumping duty and VAT must be paid or secured before release, either into a customs (TAN) account or through an approved deferred-payment account. That can be your own account or, by arrangement, your agent's account with the funds sent in advance.
From our own files
A self-builder recently asked our team to check a mixed container of renovation materials from China before it shipped: kitchen units, quartz and sintered-stone worktops, porcelain tiles and large slabs, aluminium windows and doors, wooden internal doors, sanitaryware, a bath, some furniture and fencing.
Most of it was cheap to clear. The tiles turned the plan upside down. The factories on the test reports were not in the regulation or its Annex, so the tiles and slabs faced 69.7% on the landed price, with 23% VAT on top. The sourcing agent had suggested calling the sintered slabs "natural stone" to land on a lower code. We explained that this would be a mis-description, that the importer would carry the debt for at least three years, and that only pieces genuinely fabricated into worktops before shipping could even be argued into a different ceramic heading, and that would need a BTI. Two more lines needed homework: a "stone" bath whose rate depended on whether it was crushed mineral in resin or acrylic, and fencing whose metal nobody had confirmed, because loose aluminium profiles carry their own anti-dumping duty and steel fencing currently does not. The customer re-planned the order with the numbers in front of them instead of discovering them at the quay.
On another job, a container that customs had already cleared sat at the terminal because the consignee and notify-party details on the bill of lading did not match the line's records, so no arrival notice reached anyone while storage charges ran. One line on a bill of lading, checked before sailing, costs less than a week of storage.
What to send us, step by step
Before you pay a deposit: the pro-forma invoice, the product list with materials, and the producer names on the tile test reports. We classify every line, check TARIC for anti-dumping by producer, and give you a per-line duty and VAT table on the CIF basis.
Decide the hard lines: apply for a BTI on any slab or worktop you want outside 6907, get composition sheets for baths and fencing, and confirm timber species.
Before loading: the final invoice with the anti-dumping declaration if a company rate is claimed, a packing list with square metres and weights, declarations of performance, the formaldehyde report, ISPM 15 photographs and the Incoterm confirmed.
At sailing: the bill of lading with you as consignee and your customs agent as notify party, freight and insurance invoices, your EORI number (or details for registering one) and your VAT treatment (postponed accounting or pay).
Before arrival: we lodge the import declaration in AIS, you fund the duty, anti-dumping duty and VAT, and we chase the line's release once customs has released the goods.
After release: haulage to the house or storage through our logistics partners. Keep the full file for at least three years, the period the Union Customs Code sets for keeping customs records.
Frequently asked questions
How do I find out if my goods have anti-dumping duty? Classify them to the ten-digit TARIC code and read the TARIC measures for origin China. Anti-dumping shows as a separate measure, with an additional code for each listed producer and one for "all other" producers. Our team does this for every line before you order.
Why is the tile rate nearly 70%? The EU measure on Chinese ceramic tiles, in force since 2011 and renewed in 2017 and 2024, gives named and cooperating factories 13.9% to 36.5% and every other factory 69.7%. If your factory is not named in Article 1 or the Annex, or the invoice lacks the signed declaration, you pay 69.7%.
Can my sourcing agent's "HS code" go on the Irish declaration? Only its first six digits are international. The EU code is ten digits, and the anti-dumping measure hangs on the EU part. A wrong code is the importer's problem for at least three years.
Do I pay VAT on the anti-dumping duty? Yes. Import VAT at 23% is calculated on the customs value plus customs duty plus anti-dumping duty, plus onward transport in Ireland if it is known at import.
Does it matter that I am a private person, not a business? Not for the duty or the anti-dumping rate. It matters for VAT, which a private importer pays and cannot reclaim, and for registration, where Revenue's guidance points individuals to an EORI number.
Get it cleared
Send us the pro-forma invoice, the product list and the tile factory names before you pay a deposit. Our customs team will classify every line, check anti-dumping by producer and lodge the import declaration when the container lands, with haulage and storage arranged through our logistics partners. WhatsApp 086 846 1240 or email service@cldeclarations.com; we reply the same working day.
Related guides
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Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2125, Article 6 (measures for non-compliant wood packaging): https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32019R2125 (fetched 22 October 2026)
Regulation (EU) 2023/956 (CBAM), Annex I (headings 7308 and 7610): https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32023R0956 (fetched 22 October 2026)
Regulation (EU) 2025/2083 of 8 October 2025 (CBAM single mass-based threshold of 50 tonnes, Article 2a and Annex VII): https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32025R2083 (fetched 22 October 2026)
Regulation (EU) 2024/3110 of 27 November 2024, Construction Products Regulation (Article 24 importer obligations; Article 96 application from 8 January 2026; Article 94 partial repeal of Regulation (EU) No 305/2011 and Article 95 transitional provisions): https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32024R3110 (fetched 22 October 2026)
Commission Regulation (EU) 2023/1464 of 14 July 2023 (REACH Annex XVII entry 77, formaldehyde): https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32023R1464 (fetched 22 October 2026)
Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 (EU Deforestation Regulation), Article 2 and Annex I: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32023R1115 (fetched 13 October 2026)
Regulation (EU) 2025/2650 of 19 December 2025 (EUDR application from 30 December 2026; 30 June 2027 for micro and small operators except products covered by the EU Timber Regulation): https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32025R2650 (fetched 22 October 2026)
Regulation (EU) No 995/2010 (EU Timber Regulation), Annex (4418 builders' joinery; 9403 wooden furniture): https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32010R0995 (fetched 22 October 2026)
European Commission, Import Control System 2 (ICS2): https://taxation-customs.ec.europa.eu/customs-4/customs-security/import-control-system-2-ics2-0_en (fetched 22 October 2026)
Revenue, Removal of De Minimis Relief for Low Value Consignments, published 11 June 2026: https://www.revenue.ie/en/customs/individuals/relief-low-value-consignments/index.aspx (fetched 22 October 2026)
Revenue, Union Handling Fee, published 30 September 2026: https://www.revenue.ie/en/customs/individuals/union-handling-fee/index.aspx (fetched 22 October 2026)
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/2022 of 10 September 2026, making imports of welded steel mesh originating in China and Türkiye subject to registration (CN 7314 20 90, 7314 31 00, 7314 39 00; proceeding initiated 3 June 2026; registration for nine months from entry into force): https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32026R2022 (fetched 22 October 2026)
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Wood Packaging Material and ISPM 15, last updated 14 March 2025 (DAFM is Ireland's National Plant Protection Organisation): https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-agriculture-food-and-the-marine/publications/wood-packaging-material-and-ispm-15/ (fetched 22 October 2026)
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