Heading 1209 · Chapter 12
Seeds, fruits and spores for sowing—excluding legumes, sugar maize, coffee, tea, mate, spices, cereals, oil seeds and fruits, and plants mainly used for perfumes, medicines, pesticides, fungicides and similar products
This heading covers seeds, fruits and spores intended for sowing. It does not cover the specifically excluded legumes, sugar maize, coffee, tea, mate, spices, cereals, oil seeds and fruits, or plants mainly used for perfumes, medicines, pesticides, fungicides and similar products.
For example
- Fescue seed for sowing
- Vegetable seed for sowing
- Seeds of herbaceous plants mainly grown for their flowers, for sowing
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Official tariff text
Seeds, fruits and spores, for sowing (excl. leguminous vegetables and sweetcorn, coffee, tea, maté and spices, cereals, oil seeds and oleaginous fruits, and seeds and fruit used primarily in perfumery, medicaments or for insecticidal, fungicidal or similar purposes)
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- 1209 10 Sugar beet seed, for sowing 8.3%* Save
- 1209 21 Alfalfa seed for sowing 2.5%* Save
- 1209 22 Clover "Trifolium spp" seed, for sowing No rate on file Save
- 1209 23 Fescue seed for sowing 0.0–2.5%* Save
- 1209 24 Kentucky blue grass "Poa pratensis L." seed for sowing 0.0%* Save
- 1209 25 Ryegrass "Lolium multiflorum lam., Lolium perenne L." seed, for sowing No rate on file Save
- 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.") 0.0–8.3%* Save
- 1209 30 Seeds of herbaceous plants cultivated mainly for flowers, for sowing 3.0%* Save
- 1209 91 Vegetable seeds, for sowing 3.0–8.3%* Save
- 1209 99 Seeds, fruits and spores, for sowing (excl. leguminous vegetables and sweetcorn, coffee, tea, maté and spices, cereals, oil seeds and oleaginous fruits, beets, forage plants, vegetable seeds, and seeds of herbaceous plants cultivated mainly for flowers or used primarily in perfumery, medicaments or for insecticidal, fungicidal or similar purposes) 0.0–4.0%* Save
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Classification decides the rate here: from 0.0% to 5.8%.
- 1201 Soya beans, whether or not broken No rate on file
- 1202 Groundnuts, whether or not shelled or broken (excl. roasted or otherwise cooked) No rate on file
- 1203 Kopra No rate on file
- 1204 Hørfrø, også knuste No rate on file
- 1205 Rape or colza seeds, whether or not broken No rate on file
- 1206 Solsikkefrø, også knuste No rate on file
- 1207 Other oil seeds and oleaginous fruits, whether or not broken (excl. edible nuts, olives, soya beans, groundnuts, copra, linseed, rape or colza seeds and sunflower seeds) No rate on file
- 1208 Flours and meals of oil seeds or oleaginous fruits (excl. mustard) No rate on file
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1209 Seeds, fruits and spores, for sowing (excl. leguminous vegetables and sweetcorn, coffee, tea, maté and spices, cereals, oil seeds and oleaginous fruits, and seeds and fruit used primarily in perfumery, medicaments or for insecticidal, fungicidal or similar purposes) you are here 0.0–8.3%*
- 1210 Hop cones, fresh or dried, whether or not ground, powdered or in the form of pellets; lupulin 5.8%*
- 1211 Plants and parts of plants, incl. seeds and fruits, of a kind used primarily in perfumery, in pharmacy or for insecticidal, fungicidal or similar purposes, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not cut, crushed or powdered 0.0–3.0%*
- 1212 Locust beans, seaweeds and other algae, sugar beet and sugar cane, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not ground; 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%*
- 1213 Halm og avner af korn, ubearbejdet, også hakket, formalet, presset eller som pellets 0.0%*
- 1214 Swedes, mangolds, fodder roots, hay, alfalfa, clover, sainfoin, forage kale, lupines, vetches and similar forage products, whether or not in the form of pellets 0.0–5.8%*
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