Code 0603 12 · Heading 0603

Fresh cut carnations and carnation buds for bouquets or decoration

This covers fresh cut carnations and carnation buds intended for use in bouquets or for decoration.

For example

Fresh cut carnations for bouquets
Fresh carnation buds for decoration

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Official tariff text

Fresh cut carnations and buds, of a kind suitable for bouquets or for ornamental purposes

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Step 1 · Section II Vegetable products
Is the product a living plant or flower; an edible vegetable, root, tuber, fruit or nut; coffee, tea, maté or a spice; cereal; a milling product, malt, starch, inulin or wheat gluten; a seed, plant for industrial or medical use, straw or fodder plant; shellac, a carbohydrate gum, natural resin, plant sap or plant extract; or a vegetable plaiting material or another vegetable product not listed elsewhere?
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Step 2 · Chapter 06 Live trees and other plants; bulbs, roots and the l… 1 of 9 chapters in section II
Is it a bulb, root, stem tuber, rhizome or chicory plant or root; another live plant, live root, cutting, graft or mycelium; a cut flower or flower bud; or a leaf, branch, other plant part, grass, moss or lichen without flowers or flower buds, used for bouquets or decoration?
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Step 3 · Heading 0603 Cut flowers and flower buds of a kind suitable for … 3 of 4 headings under chapter 06
Which child description fits the product: fresh roses, fresh carnations, fresh orchids, fresh chrysanthemums, fresh lilies, other fresh gladioli, or flowers and flower buds that are dried, bleached, dyed, impregnated or prepared in another way?
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Step 4 · Subheading 0603 12 Fresh cut carnations and buds, of a kind suitable f… 2 of 7 subheadings under heading 0603
Are these fresh cut carnations or carnation buds intended for bouquets or decoration?

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0603 12 00 Fresh cut carnations and buds, of a kind suitable for bouquets or for ornamental purposes 12.0% Save

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Classification decides the rate here: from 10.0% to 12.0%.

Export to Norway

What Norwegian customs charges when goods like these are imported into Norway.

06.03.1210

Carnations, also in mixed bouquets etc.; flowers and flower buds of commodity codes 06.03.1110, 06.03.1310, 06.03.1410, 06.03.1921, 06.03.1922 and 06.03.1991 when they are a part of mixed bouquets where the carnations give the bouquets their essential character

Ordinary duty

Duty free

Goods of EU origin

Duty free You need documentation of EU origin to use this rate.
06.03.1290

Flowers and flower buds, other than those specified in commodity code 06.03.1210, when they are imported as parts of mixed bouquets where the carnations give the bouquets their essential character

Ordinary duty

249.0%

Goods of EU origin

249.0% You need documentation of EU origin to use this rate.

Norwegian tariff data version 1.5/1.2, last checked Aug. 9, 2026.

Contains data from Norwegian Customs (data.toll.no), licensed under CC BY 4.0, adapted for display.

Export to the United Kingdom

What UK customs charges when goods like these are imported into the UK.

0603 12 00 00

Carnations

Ordinary duty

8.0%

Goods of EU origin

Duty free You need documentation of EU preferential origin to use this rate.

These rates apply in Great Britain. Different rules may apply for goods entering Northern Ireland.

UK tariff data version v4.0.1576, last checked Aug. 9, 2026.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Source: UK Department for Business and Trade (data.api.trade.gov.uk).

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Duty rates shown here are estimates, read from official EU / Danish, Norwegian and UK tariff data for orientation only. Confirm the current rate with SKAT, TARIC, Norwegian Customs or the UK Online Trade Tariff before you file. The rate you pay can also depend on the country of origin. These are base customs duties only: import VAT, excise duties, anti-dumping duties and safeguard or quota measures are not included.