Code 0904 12 · Heading 0904

Crushed or ground Piper pepper

This code covers pepper of the Piper genus when it is crushed or ground. It does not cover Piper pepper that is whole, uncrushed or unground.

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Pepper of the genus Piper, crushed or ground

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Step 4 of 4

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 09 Coffee, tea, maté and spices 4 of 9 chapters in section II
Is the product coffee; tea; mate; pepper of the genus Piper; a dried, crushed or ground spice of the genera Capsicum or Pimenta; vanilla; cinnamon or cinnamon flowers; cloves, whole fruits, clove stems or clove stalks; nutmeg, mace or cardamom; anise, star anise, fennel, coriander, cumin, caraway or juniper; or ginger, saffron, turmeric, thyme, bay leaves, curry or another spice?
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Step 3 · Heading 0904 Pepper of the genus Piper; dried or crushed or grou… 4 of 10 headings under chapter 09
Is it Piper pepper or a Capsicum/Pimenta spice, and is it uncrushed or crushed or ground?
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Step 4 · Subheading 0904 12 Pepper of the genus Piper, crushed or ground 2 of 4 subheadings under heading 0904
Is it pepper of the Piper genus that is crushed or ground?

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0904 12 00 Pepper of the genus Piper, crushed or ground 4.0% Save

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Classification decides the rate here: from 0.0% to 5.0%.

0904 11 Pepper of the genus Piper, neither crushed nor ground 0.0%
0904 12 Pepper of the genus Piper, crushed or ground you are here 4.0%
0904 21 Fruits of the genus Capsicum or of the genus Pimenta, dried, neither crushed nor ground 0.0–9.6%
0904 22 Fruits of the genus Capsicum or of the genus Pimenta, crushed or ground 5.0%

Export to Norway

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

09.04.1200

Crushed or ground

Ordinary duty

Duty free

Goods of EU origin

The ordinary rate applies. Norway lists no separate rate for goods from the EU.

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.

0904 12 00 00

Crushed or ground

Ordinary duty

4.0%

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.