The seven commodities, and why the derived products list is the tricky part

Seven commodities sit at the centre of the regulation: cattle, cocoa, coffee, oil palm, rubber, soya and wood. That list is settled and easy to communicate internally.

The complication is everything made from them. Annex I sets out the derived products in scope by customs code, and that list is the part that moves.

What has already changed

The December 2025 revision removed printed products from scope. In May 2026 the Commission issued a draft delegated act refining product scope further, published for feedback. A draft is not law, and treating it as though it were is its own kind of error.

This is why we do not publish a CN code list on this site. Any list we wrote would be a snapshot, and a snapshot of a moving target is worse than no list at all, because people trust it.

What this means for how you work

Treat product scope as versioned reference data rather than knowledge held by a person or frozen in a spreadsheet. When the Annex changes you load a new version, re-evaluate, and keep the old decisions intact so you can still explain what you thought in August.

Products that match nothing should come back as needing review rather than quietly falling out of scope. Silence is the dangerous default here.