Cream Powder: export from Canada to ASEAN
Cream powder is spray-dried cream, bought where liquid cream handling is impractical, which describes most import situations into warm markets. It serves bakery, confectionery, beverage and prepared-food applications.
The specification points are fat content, which varies substantially between grades and is the main price driver, plus moisture, solubility and the carrier or anti-caking system used. That carrier requires destination clearance and should be confirmed before formulating.
Reconstitution behaviour is what the buyer is actually purchasing, and it does not follow reliably from fat content alone. Sample against your own process rather than qualifying on the specification sheet.
As with whole milk powder, the fat content that makes the product useful also makes it prone to oxidation, so packaging barrier and realistic shelf life in destination storage are worth agreeing explicitly rather than accepting the nominal figure.
Cream powder classifies by fat content and sits apart from milk powders in most schedules. The carrier or anti-caking system may raise a separate additive-approval question at the destination: confirm both.
Canadian export requirements
- HS classification
- Available on request: send your specification and destination and we'll confirm within five working days.
- CFIA certificates
- Available on request: send your specification and destination and we'll confirm within five working days.
Six-market position
| Market | MFN duty | Preferential | Registration category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vietnam | On request | On request | On request |
| Thailand | On request | On request | On request |
| Philippines | On request | On request | On request |
| Indonesia | On request | On request | On request |
| Malaysia | On request | On request | On request |
| Singapore | On request | On request | On request |
MFN duty is the destination's applied general rate for this tariff line. Preferential is the rate under an agreement in force between Canada and that market. Both are customs duty only: destination excise, value-added tax and local levies are additional and are not shown here. Available on request: send your specification and destination and we'll confirm within five working days.
Commercial terms
- Producing provinces
- Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, Manitoba
- Seasonality
- Year-round production
- Pack formats
- 25 kg bags, 1 MT totes
- Container configuration
- On request
- Indicative MOQ
- On request
Sources
No values on this page have completed source verification yet. Figures are shown as available on request rather than estimated.
Last reviewed: September 1, 2026