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Corn Starch Ingredient: export from Canada to Southeast Asia

As a manufacturing input rather than a retail product, corn starch is bought purely on functional behaviour: gelatinisation temperature, viscosity development and hold, clarity, and texture in the finished system.

Native and modified starches are different products. Modification delivers freeze-thaw stability, acid tolerance and shear resistance that native starch cannot, and each modification has to be declared and permitted in the destination. Confirm that permission before locking a formulation, because a modified starch that is standard in Canada may not be approved where you are shipping.

Food grade and industrial grade are separate trades with separate specifications and separate price bases; state which you need at enquiry.

Canadian wet milling sits close to the Ontario and Quebec corn crop. As with every functional ingredient, qualify in your own matrix: starch behaviour is highly system-dependent and datasheets generalise.

Native and modified corn starch frequently classify under different lines, and the modification carries its own additive-approval requirement at the destination. Confirm both before locking a formulation.

Canadian export requirements

HS classification
1108.12: Maize (corn) starch
CFIA certificates
Available on request: send your specification and destination and we'll confirm within five working days.

Six-market position

MarketMFN dutyPreferentialRegistration category
VietnamOn requestOn requestOn request
ThailandOn requestOn requestOn request
PhilippinesOn requestOn requestOn request
IndonesiaOn requestOn requestOn request
MalaysiaOn requestOn requestOn request
SingaporeOn requestOn requestOn 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
Seasonality
Manufactured year-round
Pack formats
25 kg bags, 1 MT totes
Container configuration
On request
Indicative MOQ
On request

Common questions

What is the HS code for corn starch ingredient?
1108.12: Maize (corn) starch. 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

Last reviewed: September 1, 2026