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Code 1209 99 · Heading 1209

Other seeds, fruits and spores for sowing, excluding legumes, sweetcorn, coffee, tea, maté, spices, cereals, oil seeds and fruits, beets other than swedes, forage-plant seeds, vegetable seeds, forest-tree seeds, and seeds of plants mainly grown for flowers or mainly used for perfumes, medicines, pest control, fungicides or similar products

This covers seeds, fruits and spores intended for sowing that do not belong to the specifically listed groups excluded above. The supplied tree divides this group into forest-tree seeds, certain flower-growing plant seeds, and the remaining seeds, fruits and spores for sowing.

For example

  • Oak seeds for sowing
  • Pine seeds 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, 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)

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

Export to Norway

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

  • 12.09.9900

    Other

    Ordinary duty
    Duty free
    Goods of EU origin
    Duty free You need documentation of EU origin to use this rate.

Norwegian tariff data version 1.5/1.2, last checked Aug. 3, 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.

  • 1209 99 10 00

    Forest-tree seeds

    Ordinary duty
    Duty free
    Goods of EU origin
    Duty free You need documentation of EU preferential origin to use this rate.
  • 1209 99 91 00

    Seeds of plants cultivated principally for their flowers, other than those of subheading|1209|30

    Ordinary duty
    2.0%
    Goods of EU origin
    Duty free You need documentation of EU preferential origin to use this rate.
  • 1209 99 99 10

    Seeds

    Ordinary duty
    4.0%
    Goods of EU origin
    Duty free You need documentation of EU preferential origin to use this rate.
  • 1209 99 99 90

    Other

    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. 3, 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.