Cream Powder: export from Canada to Southeast Asia
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; the specification sheet will not qualify it.
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, not 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
- 0402.21 (Milk and cream in powder, granules or other solid forms, fat content exceeding 1.5%) not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter (sweetened falls in 0402.29)
- CFIA certificates
- Health certificate for the export of dairy products and dairy based products for human consumption (CFIA/ACIA 5813)
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
Common questions
- What is the HS code for cream powder?
- 0402.21 (Milk and cream in powder, granules or other solid forms, fat content exceeding 1.5%) not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter (sweetened falls in 0402.29). This was read from Canada Border Services Agency on 2026-09-18. The first six digits are the same in every country that uses the Harmonised System; digits beyond that are set by the destination.
Sources
- Customs Tariff (T2026), Chapter 4 · Canada Border Services Agency, retrieved September 18, 2026
- Vietnam: export requirements for milk and dairy products · Canadian Food Inspection Agency, retrieved September 19, 2026
- Thailand: export requirements for milk and dairy products · Canadian Food Inspection Agency, retrieved September 19, 2026
- the Philippines: export requirements for milk and dairy products · Canadian Food Inspection Agency, retrieved September 19, 2026
- Indonesia: export requirements for milk and dairy products · Canadian Food Inspection Agency, retrieved September 19, 2026
- Malaysia: export requirements for milk and dairy products · Canadian Food Inspection Agency, retrieved September 19, 2026
- Singapore: export requirements for milk and dairy products · Canadian Food Inspection Agency, retrieved September 19, 2026
Last reviewed: September 1, 2026