Code 1211 90 · Heading 1211

Plants and plant parts mainly used to make perfumes, medicines, pesticides or similar products, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, including tonka beans but excluding specified plants and bark

This code covers plants, plant parts, seeds and fruits mainly used to make perfumes, pharmaceutical products, insecticides, fungicides or similar products. They may be fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, and may be cut, crushed or in powder form; specified ginseng roots, coca leaves, poppy straw, ephedra and African cherry bark are excluded.

For example

Dried tonka beans
Dried lavender flowers mainly used to make perfume

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Official tariff text

Plants, parts of plants, incl. seeds and fruits, 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 (excl. ginseng roots, coca leaf, poppy straw, ephedra and bark of African cherry)

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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 1211 Plants and parts of plants, incl. seeds and fruits,… 11 of 14 headings under chapter 12
Is it ginseng root, coca leaves, poppy straw or stems, an Ephedra plant or plant part, bark of African cherry (Prunus africana), or another qualifying plant or plant part?
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Step 4 · Subheading 1211 90 Plants, parts of plants, incl. seeds and fruits, us… 6 of 6 subheadings under heading 1211
Are the goods tonka beans?

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1211 20 Ginseng roots, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not cut, crushed or powdered 0.0%
1211 30 Coca leaf, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not cut, crushed or powdered 0.0%
1211 40 Poppy straw, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not cut, crushed or powdered 0.0%
1211 50 Ephedra plants and parts thereof, incl. seeds and fruits, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not cut, crushed or powdered 0.0%
1211 60 Bark of African cherry "Prunus africana", fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not cut, crushed or powdered 0.0%
1211 90 Plants, parts of plants, incl. seeds and fruits, 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 (excl. ginseng roots, coca leaf, poppy straw, ephedra and bark of African cherry) you are here 0.0–3.0%

Export to Norway

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

12.11.9000

Other

Ordinary duty

Duty free

Goods of EU origin

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

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.

1211 90 30 00

Tonquin beans

Ordinary duty

2.0%

Goods of EU origin

Duty free You need documentation of EU preferential origin to use this rate.
1211 90 86 10

Curry leaves (Bergera koenigii, Syn.: Murraya koenigii)

Ordinary duty

Duty free

Goods of EU origin

Duty free You need documentation of EU preferential origin to use this rate.
1211 90 86 20

Basil (holy, sweet) (fresh or chilled)

Ordinary duty

Duty free

Goods of EU origin

Duty free You need documentation of EU preferential origin to use this rate.
1211 90 86 30

Mint (fresh or chilled)

Ordinary duty

Duty free

Goods of EU origin

Duty free You need documentation of EU preferential origin to use this rate.
1211 90 86 40

Dried oregano

Ordinary duty

Duty free

Goods of EU origin

Duty free You need documentation of EU preferential origin to use this rate.
1211 90 86 60

Gotukola (Centella asiatica)

Ordinary duty

Duty free

Goods of EU origin

Duty free You need documentation of EU preferential origin to use this rate.
1211 90 86 90

Other

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. 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.