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Code 1211 90 86 · Subheading 1211 90

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Other plants and plant parts for making perfumes, medicines, insecticides, fungicides or similar products, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, including cut, crushed or powdered forms; excluding ginseng roots, coca leaves, poppy straw, ephedra, tonka beans and African cherry bark

This is a complete 8-digit customs code. There is no further code choice to make below it.

This code covers plants and plant parts, including 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 also be cut, crushed or powdered, but the specifically excluded products do not belong here.

For example

  • Dried lavender flowers for making perfume
  • Fresh chamomile flowers for pharmaceutical products
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Official tariff text

Plants and 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, tonquin beans and bark of African cherry)

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1211 90 86

Other plants and plant parts for making perfumes, medicines, insecticides, fungicides or similar products, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, including cut, crushed or powdered forms; excluding ginseng roots, coca leaves, poppy straw, ephedra, tonka beans and African cherry bark

The spaces only make the code easier to read. Customs declarations normally use the unspaced form, 12119086.

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Classification decides the rate here: from 0.0% to 3.0%.

Trade measures to be aware of

Besides the ordinary duty, the EU records these kinds of measure against this code. They are listed as signals only: whether one applies to your goods can depend on where they come from, who produced them, the exact product and the documents you present. No amounts are worked out here.

  • Lower duty for goods from some countries

    Preferential rates exist for goods originating in San Marino; Economic Partnership Agreements; CARIFORUM except Haiti; Comoros (excluding Mayotte), Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles and dependencies and Zimbabwe; Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Mozambique and Namibia; Western Sahara; OCTs (Overseas Countries and Territories); Andorra; 23 more origins. Whether you can use one depends on the origin rules for the goods and on the documentation you can show.

    Check this code in the official EU TARIC database
  • Restrictions and paperwork

    Import restrictions are recorded for goods originating in North Korea (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea); Ukraine; Japan; any country except Switzerland; any country; India; Viet Nam; Israel; 2 more origins.

    Document or certificate conditions are recorded. Customs may ask for:

    • Invoice declaration or origin declaration made out by any exporter on invoice or any other commercial document
    • Goods not originating from or destined to Crimea or Sevastopol (Articles 2 and 2b.1 of Council Regulation (EU) No 692/2014)
    • Movement certificate EUR.1
    • Goods not originating from or not destined for the non-government controlled areas of Ukraine in the oblasts of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia
    • Declaration for the import into the European Union of feed and food originating in or consigned from Japan (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 322/2014)
    • The products are accompanied by a declaration issued before 1.6.2013 in accordance with the Implementing Regulation (EU) No 996/2012 and stating that the products have left Japan before 1.7.2013
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    • The products left Japan before 30.10.2012 and comply with Implementing Regulation (EU) No 284/2012
    • Products which left Japan before 28 March 2011
    • The products left Japan before 2.6.2013 and comply with Implementing Regulation (EU) No 996/2012
    • The products are accompanied by a declaration issued before 1 November 2012 in accordance with the Implementing Regulation (EU) No 284/2012 and stating that the products have left Japan before 1 December 2012
    • Declaration for the import into the European Union of feed and food originating in or consigned from Japan (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 322/2014); the products left Japan before 9 January 2016
    • Declaration for the import into the European Union of feed and food originating in or consigned from Japan (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 996/2012) which was issued before 1 April 2014; the products left Japan from 1 April 2014 but before 1 May 2014
    • Common Health Entry Document for Feed and Food of Non-Animal Origin (CHED-D) (as set out in Part 2, Section D of Annex II to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1715 (OJ L 261))
    • Exemption for products intended for scientific purposes in accordance with Article 48(1) of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031
    • Exemption from official controls for plants, other than plants for planting, plant products and other objects, which form part of passengers’ personal luggage and are intended for personal consumption or use (Regulation (EU) 2019/2122 Article 7d)
    • Common Health Entry Document for Plants and Plant Products (CHED-PP) (as set out in Part 2, Section C of Annex II to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1715 (OJ L 261))
    • Goods with third country origin coming from Switzerland, according to the relevant EU legislation.
    • Compliance with the REACH restrictions defined in Column 2 of Annex XVII of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006
    • Exemption from REACH restrictions by virtue of Article 67(1) and 67(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006
    • Substance/mixture not subjected to the provisions of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 (Annex XVII)
    • Exemption by virtue paragraph 3 of Article 1 of Regulation (EU) 2019/1793
    • Goods with third country origin coming from Norway, according to the relevant EU legislation.
    • Presentation of the required "CITES" certificate
    • Declared goods do not belong to the Washington Convention (CITES)
    Check this code in the official EU TARIC database

EU tariff measure data version 2026-08-03-tullverket.

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. 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.

  • All 6 UK lines under this code

    They all have the same duty rates shown here.

    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).

Before you use the code

Check the facts that sit outside the code

The code can be right while what you pay still changes, because of where the goods come from, when they arrive, or extra EU measures.

  1. The product and its form Check that your product really matches this description, including what it is made of and the form it arrives in.
  2. Country of origin Trade agreements, sanctions and extra measures can change the treatment of the very same code.
  3. Current tariff measures Check today's rate, any restrictions or licences, and the quantity customs asks for, with SKAT or TARIC.

Worth comparing

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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.