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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- 1209 99 10 Forest-tree seed for sowing Duty free* Save
- 1209 99 91 Seeds of non-herbaceous plants cultivated mainly for flowers, for sowing 3.0%* Save
- 1209 99 99 Seeds, fruit 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, forest-tree seeds and seeds of plants cultivated mainly for flowers or used primarily in perfumery, medicaments or for insecticidal, fungicidal or similar purposes) 4.0%* Save
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Classification decides the rate here: from 0.0% to 8.3%.
- 1209 10 Sugar beet seed, for sowing 8.3%*
- 1209 21 Alfalfa seed for sowing 2.5%*
- 1209 22 Clover "Trifolium spp" seed, for sowing No rate on file
- 1209 23 Fescue seed for sowing 0.0–2.5%*
- 1209 24 Kentucky blue grass "Poa pratensis L." seed for sowing 0.0%*
- 1209 25 Ryegrass "Lolium multiflorum lam., Lolium perenne L." seed, for sowing No rate on file
- 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%*
- 1209 30 Seeds of herbaceous plants cultivated mainly for flowers, for sowing 3.0%*
- 1209 91 Vegetable seeds, for sowing 3.0–8.3%*
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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) you are here 0.0–4.0%*
Export to Norway
What Norwegian customs charges when goods like these are imported into Norway.
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12.09.9900
Other
- Ordinary duty
- Duty free*
- Goods of EU origin
- Duty free* You need documentation of EU origin to use this rate.
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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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