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Chapter 12
Oil Seeds and Oleaginous Fruits; Miscellaneous Grains, Seeds and Fruit; Industrial or Medicinal Plants; Straw and Fodder

Notes

1.

Heading 12.07 applies, inter alia, to palm nuts and kernels, cotton seeds, castor oil seeds, sesamum seeds, mustard seeds, safflower seeds, poppy seeds and shea nuts (karite nuts). It does not apply to products of heading 08.01 or 08.02 or to olives (Chapter 7 or Chapter 20).

2.

Heading 12.08 applies not only to non-defatted flours and meals but also to flours and meals which have been partially defatted or defatted and wholly or partially refatted with their original oils. It does not, however, apply to residues of headings 23.04 to 23.06.

3.

For the purposes of heading 12.09, beet seeds, grass and other herbage seeds, of ornamental flowers, vegetable seeds, seeds of forest trees, seeds of fruit trees, seeds of vetches (excluding those of the species VICIA FABA) or of lupines are to be regarded as "seeds of a kind used for sowing".

Heading 12.09 does not, however, apply to the following even if for sowing:

(a)

leguminous vegetables or sweet corn (Chapter 7);

(b)

spices or other products of Chapter 9;

(c)

cereals (Chapter 10); or

(d)

products of headings Nos. 12.01 to 12.07 or 12.11.

4.

Heading 12.11 applies, inter alia, to the following plants or parts thereof; basil, borage, ginseng, hyssop, liquorice, all species of mint, rosemary, rue, sage and wormwood.

Heading 12.11 does not, however, apply to the following:

(a)

medicaments of Chapter 30;

(b)

perfumery to toilet preparations of Chapter 33; or

(c)

insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, disinfectants or similar products of heading 38.08.

5.

For the purposes of heading 12.12, the terms "seaweeds and other algae" does not include:

(a)

dead single-cell micro-organisms of heading 21.02;

(b)

cultures of micro-organisms of heading 30.02; or

(c)

fertilisers of heading 31.01 or 31.05.

Subheading Note

1.

For the purposes of subheading 1205.10, the expression "low erucic acid rape or colza seeds" means rape or colza seeds yielding a fixed oil which has an erucic acid content of less than 2 per cent by mass and yielding a solid component which contains less than 30 micromoles/g of glucosinolates.

Additional Note

1.

For the purposes of subheading 1205.10, seeds of a kind used for sowing, covers only rape or colza seeds regarded by the competent national authorities as being for sowing.

Rates as at
HeadingDescriptionGeneral
12.01Soya beans, whether or not broken:
1201.10Seed8%
1201.90Other8%
12.02Ground-nuts, not roasted or otherwise cooked, whether or not shelled or broken:
1202.30Seed10%
1202.4Other:
1202.41In shell10%
1202.42Shelled, whether or not broken10%
1203.00Coprafree
1204.00Linseed, whether or not broken9,4%
12.05Rape or colza seeds, whether or not broken:
1205.10Low erucic acid rape or colza seeds:
1205.10.20Seeds of a kind used for sowingfree
1205.10.90Other10%
1205.90Other10%
1206.00Sunflower seeds, whether or not broken9,4%
12.07Other oil seeds and oleaginous fruits, whether or not broken:
1207.10Palm nuts and kernels7,4%
1207.2Cotton seeds:
1207.21Seed9,4%
1207.29Other9,4%
1207.30Castor oil seeds7,4%
1207.40Sesamum seeds7,4%
1207.50Mustard seedsfree
1207.60Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius) seeds9,4%
1207.70Melon seeds9,4%
1207.9Other:
1207.91Poppy seed9,4%
1207.99Other9,4%
12.08Flours and meals of oil seeds or oleaginous fruits (excluding those of mustard):
1208.10Of soya beans20%
1208.90Other20%
12.09Seeds, fruits and spores, of a kind used for sowing:
1209.10Sugar beet seedsfree
1209.2Seeds of forage plants:
1209.21Lucerne (alfalfa) seedsfree
1209.22Clover (Trifolium spp.) seedsfree
1209.23Fescue seedsfree
1209.24Kentucky blue grass (Poa pratensis L.) seedsfree
1209.25Rye grass (Lolium multiflorum Lam., Lolium perenne L.) seedsfree
1209.29Otherfree
1209.30Seeds of herbaceous plants cultivated principally for their flowersfree
1209.9Other:
1209.91Vegetable seedsfree
1209.99.10Seedfree
1209.99Other:
12.10Hop cones, fresh or dried, whether or not ground, powdered or in the form of pellets; lupulin:
1209.99.90Otherfree
1210.10Hop cones, neither ground nor powdered nor in the form of pelletsfree
1210.20Hop cones, ground, powdered or in the form of pellets; lupulinfree
12.11Plants and parts of plants (including seeds and fruits), of a kind 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:
1211.20Ginseng roots:
1211.20.10Chilled or frozenfree
1211.20.90Other12%
1211.30.10Chilled or frozenfree
1211.30Coca leaf:
1211.30.90Other15%
1211.40.10Chilled or frozenfree
1211.40Poppy straw:
1211.40.90Other15%
1211.50Ephedra:
1211.50.10Chilled or frozenfree
1211.50.90Other20%
1211.60Bark of African cherry (Prunus africana)20%
1211.90.10Other, pyrethrumfree
1211.90.20Other, basil, borage, hyssop, mint, rosemary, rue and sage, neither ground nor crushed0,45c/kg
1211.90.30Other, basil, borage, hyssop, mint, rosemary, rue and sage, ground or crushed.4c/kg
1211.90.05Chilled or frozenfree
1211.90Other:
1211.90.40Other, liquorice roots12%
1211.90.51Leaves and stems, dried, in immediate packings not exceeding 10 kg20%
1211.90.90Other20%
1211.90.80Other, of a kind used primarily in pharmacy15%
1211.90.59Other20%
1211.90.53Other leaves and stems, dried20%
1211.90.5Aspalathus linearis (Rooibos/Red Bush):
12.12Locust beans, seaweeds and other algae, sugar beet and sugar cane, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not ground; fruit stones and kernels and other vegetable products (including unroasted chicory roots of the variety CICHORIUM INTYBUS SATIVUM) of a kind used primarily for human consumption, not elsewhere specified or included:
1212.2Seaweeds and other algae:
1212.21.10Frozen5%
1212.21Fit for human consumption:
1212.21.90Otherfree
1212.29.10Frozen5%
1212.29Other:
1212.29.90Otherfree
1212.9Other:
1212.91Sugar beet20%
1212.92Locust beans (carob):
1212.92.10Dried, whole, split, crushed or in powder form, not further prepared or processed (excluding seeds for sowing)20%
1212.93Sugar cane20%
1212.92.90Other20%
1212.94Chicory rootsfree
1212.99Other20%
1213.00Cereal straw and husks, unprepared, whether or not chopped, ground, pressed or in the form of pelletsfree
12.14Swedes, mangolds, fodder roots, hay, lucerne (alfalfa), clover, sainfoin, forage kale, lupines, vetches and similar forage products, whether or not in the form of pellets:
1214.10Lucerne (alfalfa) meal and pelletsfree
1214.90Otherfree

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