Code 1212 99 · Heading 1212

Fruit stones and kernels, and other vegetable products mainly used for human food, not listed elsewhere

This code covers fruit stones and kernels, and other vegetable products mainly used for human food, when no more specific neighbouring category applies. It does not cover the separately listed algae, sugar beet, carob, sugar cane or chicory roots.

For example

Apricot kernels mainly used for human food
Peach kernels mainly used for human food

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Official tariff text

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.

The path to this code

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Step 4 of 4

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 99 Fruit stones and kernels and other vegetable produc… 7 of 7 subheadings under heading 1212
Is it a fresh or dried carob seed: with its shell and not crushed or ground, or shelled, including when crushed or ground; otherwise, is it a fruit stone or kernel or another vegetable product mainly used for human food?

This is the catch-all under 1212: it covers what the sibling codes below do not.

Within this parent group, it is the category for fruit stones and kernels and other vegetable products mainly used for human food that are not algae, sugar beet, carob, sugar cane or chicory roots.

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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 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. you are here 0.0–5.8%

Export to Norway

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

12.12.9900

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 5 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).

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The codes just before and after this one, in case a nearby group fits better.

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Previous code 1212 94

Chicory roots, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not ground

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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.