Code 1209 22 · Heading 1209

Clover seeds of Trifolium species, for sowing

This covers seeds of clover species in the Trifolium genus when they are intended for sowing. It includes red clover and other Trifolium species.

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Red clover seeds (Trifolium pratense L.), for sowing
White clover seeds (Trifolium repens), for sowing

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Clover "Trifolium spp" seed, for sowing

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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 12 Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grai… 7 of 9 chapters in section II
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?
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Step 3 · Heading 1209 Seeds, fruits and spores, for sowing (excl. legumin… 9 of 14 headings under chapter 12
Which named type is it: sugar beet, lucerne, clover of the Trifolium species, fescue, meadow grass, ryegrass, another forage-plant seed, a seed of an herbaceous flowering plant, a vegetable seed, or another seed, fruit or spore for sowing?
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Step 4 · Subheading 1209 22 Clover "Trifolium spp" seed, for sowing 3 of 10 subheadings under heading 1209
Are the seeds red clover (Trifolium pratense L.) or another Trifolium species?

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Export to Norway

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12.09.2201

Red clover seeds

Ordinary duty

29,06 NOK per kg

Goods of EU origin

The ordinary rate applies. Norway lists no separate rate for goods from the EU.
12.09.2209

Other

Ordinary duty

29,06 NOK per kg

Goods of EU origin

28,66 NOK per kg 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.

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Ordinary duty

Duty free

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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