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Chapter 6
Live Trees and Other Plants; Bulbs, Roots and the Like; Cut Flowers and Ornamental Foliage

Notes

1.

Subject to the second part of heading 06.01, this Chapter covers only live trees and goods (including seedling vegetables) of a kind commonly supplied by nursery gardeners or florists for planting or for ornamental use; nevertheless it does not include potatoes, onions, shallots, garlic or other products of Chapter 7.

2.

Any reference in heading 06.03 or 06.04 to goods of any kind shall be construed as including a reference to bouquets, floral baskets, wreaths and similar articles made wholly or partly of goods of that kind, account not being taken of accessories of other materials. However, these headings do not include collages or similar decorative plaques of heading 97.01.

Rates as at
HeadingDescriptionGeneral
06.01Bulbs, tubers, tuberous roots, corms, crowns and rhizomes, dormant, in growth or in flower; chicory plants and roots (excluding roots of heading 12.12):
0601.10Bulbs, tubers, tuberous roots, corms, crowns and rhizomes, dormantfree
0601.20Bulbs, tubers, tuberous roots, corms, crowns and rhizomes, in growth or in flower; chicory plants and rootsfree
06.02Other live plants (including their roots), cuttings and slips; mushroom spawn:
0602.10Unrooted cuttings and slipsfree
0602.20Trees, shrubs and bushes, grafted or not, of kinds which bear edible fruit or nutsfree
0602.30Rhododendrons and azaleas, grafted or notfree
0602.40Roses, grafted or notfree
0602.90Otherfree
06.03Cut flowers and flower buds of a kind suitable for bouquets or for ornamental purposes, fresh, dried, dyed, bleached, impregnated or otherwise prepared:
0603.1Fresh:
0603.11Roses20%
0603.12Carnations20%
0603.13Orchids20%
0603.14Chrysanthemums20%
0603.15Lilies (Lilium spp.)20%
0603.19Other20%
0603.90Other20%
06.04Foliage, branches and other parts of plants, without flowers or flower buds, and grasses, mosses and lichens being goods of a kind suitable for bouquets or for ornamental purposes, fresh, dried, dyed, bleached, impregnated or otherwise prepared:
0604.20Fresh:
0604.20.10Mosses and lichens20%
0604.20.90Other20%
0604.90Other:
0604.90.10Mosses and lichens20%
0604.90.90Other20%

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