Code 1212 21 · Heading 1212

Fresh, chilled, frozen or dried seaweed and other algae, including ground products, suitable for human consumption

This covers seaweed and other algae that are fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, including ground products, when they are suitable for human consumption.

For example

Dried nori seaweed suitable for human consumption
Fresh edible kelp suitable for human consumption

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Official tariff text

Seaweeds and other algae, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not ground, fit for human consumption

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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 1212 Locust beans, seaweeds and other algae, sugar beet … 12 of 14 headings under chapter 12
Is it edible seaweed or algae, non-edible seaweed or algae, sugar beet, carob, sugar cane, chicory roots, or fruit stones, kernels or another plant product mainly used for human food and not elsewhere specified?
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Step 4 · Subheading 1212 21 Seaweeds and other algae, fresh, chilled, frozen or… 1 of 7 subheadings under heading 1212
Is the seaweed or other algae suitable for human consumption?

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1212 21 00 Seaweeds and other algae, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not ground, fit for human consumption Duty free Save

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Classification decides the rate here: from 0.0% to 5.1%.

1212 21 Seaweeds and other algae, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not ground, fit for human consumption you are here 0.0%
1212 29 Seaweeds and other algae, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not ground, unfit for human consumption 0.0%
1212 91 Sugar beet, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not ground No rate on file
1212 92 Locust beans "carob", fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not ground 5.1%
1212 93 Sugar cane, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not ground No rate on file
1212 94 Chicory roots, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not ground 0.0%
1212 99 Fruit stones and kernels and other vegetable products, incl. unroasted chicory roots of the variety cichorium intybus sativum, of a kind used primarily for human consumption, n.e.s. 0.0–5.8%

Export to Norway

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

12.12.2110

For feed purpose

Ordinary duty

1,34 NOK per kg

Goods of EU origin

The ordinary rate applies. Norway lists no separate rate for goods from the EU.
12.12.2190

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.

1212 21 00 00

Fit for human consumption

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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