Chapter 12 · Section II

Oilseeds, other seeds and fruits, industrial or medicinal plants, straw and fodder plants

This group covers oil-bearing seeds and fruits, other specified seeds and fruits, plants mainly used for industrial or medicinal purposes, and straw and fodder plants. The exact product group is determined by which of these named types the product belongs to.

For example

Soybeans
Flax seeds
Hops
Hay

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OIL SEEDS AND OLEAGINOUS FRUITS; MISCELLANEOUS GRAINS, SEEDS AND FRUIT; INDUSTRIAL OR MEDICINAL PLANTS; STRAW AND FODDER

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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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Which named product group is it: soybeans; unroasted or otherwise unheated peanuts; copra; flax seeds; rapeseed or turnip-rape seeds; sunflower seeds; other oilseeds or oil fruits; flour from oilseeds or oil fruits; seeds, fruits or spores for sowing; hops; plants or plant parts mainly used for perfumes, pharmaceutical products, pest control or similar uses; carob, seaweed, sugar beet, sugar cane or other specified plant products for human food; unprocessed cereal straw or chaff; or fodder roots, hay and other named fodder products?

Codes in this chapter

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Where the rate changes most

In these groups, the exact code you land on decides the duty rate.

0.0–8.3% 1209 29 Seeds of forage plants for sowing (excl. of cereals and of sugar beet, alfalfa, clover "Trifolium spp.", fescue, Kentucky blue grass "Poa pratensis L." and ryegrass "Lolium multiflorum lam. and Lolium perenne L.") 0.0–5.8% 1212 99 Fruit stones and kernels and other vegetable products, incl. unroasted chicory roots of the variety cichorium intybus sativum, of a kind used primarily for human consumption, n.e.s. 0.0–5.8% 1214 90 Swedes, mangolds, fodder roots, hay, lucerne "alfalfa", clover, sainfoin, forage kale, lupines, vetches and similar forage products, whether or not in the form of pellets (excl. lucerne "alfalfa" meal and pellets)

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Classification decides the rate here: from 0.0% to 8.3%.

06 LIVE TREES AND OTHER PLANTS; BULBS, ROOTS AND THE LIKE; CUT FLOWERS AND ORNAMENTAL FOLIAGE 0.0–12.0%
07 EDIBLE VEGETABLES AND CERTAIN ROOTS AND TUBERS 0.0–15.2%
08 EDIBLE FRUIT AND NUTS; PEEL OF CITRUS FRUIT OR MELONS 0.0–20.8%
09 COFFEE, TEA, MATÉ AND SPICES 0.0–12.5%
10 CEREALS 7.7%
11 PRODUCTS OF THE MILLING INDUSTRY; MALT; STARCHES; INULIN; WHEAT GLUTEN 8.3–19.2%
12 OIL SEEDS AND OLEAGINOUS FRUITS; MISCELLANEOUS GRAINS, SEEDS AND FRUIT; INDUSTRIAL OR MEDICINAL PLANTS; STRAW AND FODDER you are here 0.0–8.3%
13 LAC; GUMS, RESINS AND OTHER VEGETABLE SAPS AND EXTRACTS 0.0–19.2%
14 VEGETABLE PLAITING MATERIALS; VEGETABLE PRODUCTS NOT ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED OR INCLUDED 0.0%

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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.