VEGETABLE PRODUCT
 
Chapter 12
Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder

 

Notes.
1. -Heading No.12.07 applies, inter alia, to plam nuts and kernels, cotton seeds, castor oil seeds, sesamum seeds, mustard seds, safflower seeds, poppy seeds and shea nuts (karite nuts). It does not apply to products of heading No.08.01 or 08.02 or to olives (Chapter 7 or Chapter 20).
2. -Heading No. 12.08 aplies not only to non-defatted flours and meals but also to flours and meals which have been defatted or partially defatted and wholly or partially refatted with their original oils. It does not, however, apply to residues of headings Nos.23.04 to 23.06.
3. -For the purposes of heading No.12.09, beet seeds, grass and other herbage seeds, seeds of ornamental flowers, vegetable seeds, seeds of forest trees, seeds of fruit trees, seeds of vetches (other than those of the species vicia faba) or of lupines are to be regarded as "seeds of a kind used for sowing".
Heading No.12.09 does not, however, apply to the following even if for sowing:
(a) Laguminous 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 No.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.
Headign No.12.11 does not, however, apply to:
(a) Medicaments of Chapte 30;
(b) Perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparationsof Chapter 33, or 
(c) Insecticides, fungicides, herbicids, disinfectants or similar prodcucts of heading No.38.08.
5. -For the pruposes of heading No.12.12, the term "seaweeds and other algae" does not include:
(a) Dead single-cell micro-organisms of heading No.21.02;
(b) Cultures of micro-organisms of heading No.30.02 or 
(c) Fertillizers of heading No.31.01 or 31.05.
Tariff No. Base Rate (%) Import Duty Rate (%) Article Description
M.F.N. Gen. M.F.N. Gen.
12.01         Soya beans, whether or not broken:
1201.0010 150 180 *114 180 --Seed
          ---Other:
1201.0091 150 180 *114 180 ----Yellow soya beans
1201.0092 150 180 *114 180 ----Black soya beans
1201.0093 150 180 *114 180 ----Green soya beans
1201.0099 150 180 *114 180 ----Other
12.02         Ground-nuts, not roasted or otherwise cooked, whether or not shelled or broken:
         
          -In shell:
1202.1010 50 70 0 0 ---Seed
1202.1090 50 70 15 70 ---Other
1202.2000 50 70 15 70 -Shelled, whether or not broken
12.03         Copra:
1203.000 20 30 15 30 Copra
12.04         Linseed, whether or not broken:
1204.0000 50 70 15 70 Linseed, whether or not broken
12.05         Rape or colza seeds, whether or not broken:
1205.0010 50 80 *40 80 ---Seed
1205.0090 50 80 *40 80 ---Other
12.06         Sunflower seeds, whether or not broken:
1206.0010 50 70 0 0 ---Seed
1206.0090 50 70 15 70 ---Other
12.07         Other oil seeds and oleaginous fruits, whether or not broken:
         
          -Palm nuts and kernels:
1207.1010 50 70 0 0 ---Seeds for cultivation
1207.1090 50 70 10 70 ---Other
          -Cotton seeds:
1207.2010 50 70 0 0 ---Seeds for cultivation
1207.2090 50 70 15 70 ---Other
          -Castor seeds:
1207.3010 50 70 0 0 ---Seed for cultivation
1207.3090 50 70 15 70 ---Other
          -Sesamum seeds:
1207.4010 50 70 0 0 ---Seeds for cultivation
1207.4090 50 70 14 70 ---Other
          -Mustard seeds:
1207.5010 50 70 0 0 ---Seeds for cultivation
1207.5090 50 70 15 70 ---Other
          -Safflower seeds:
1207.6010 50 70 0 0 ---Seeds for cultivation
1207.6090 50 70 20 70 ---Other
          -Other
1207.9100 50 70 36 70 --Poppy seeds
1207.9200 50 70 20 70 --Shea nuts (karite nuts)
          --Other:
1207.9910 50 70 0 0 ---Seed
1207.9990 50 70 10 70 ---Other
12.08         Flours and meals of oil seeds or oleaginous fruits, other than those of mustard:
         
1208.1000 40 70 *40 70 -Of soya beans
1208.9000 60 80 19 80 -Other
12.09         Seeds, fruit and spores, of a kind used for sowing:
         
          -Beet seed:
1209.1100 0 0 0 0 --Sugar beet seed
1209.1900 0 0 0 0 --Other
          -Seeds of forage plants, other than beet seed:
1209.2100 0 0 0 0 --Lucerne (alfalfa) seed
1209.2200 0 0 0 0 --Clover (Trifolium spp.) seed
1209.2300 0 0 0 0 --Fescue seed
1209.2400 0 0 0 0 --Kentucky blue grass (Poa pratensis L.) seed
1209.2500 0 0 0 0 --Rye grass (Lolium multiflorum Lam., Lolium perenne L.) seed
         
1209.2600 0 0 0 0 --Timothy grass seed
1209.2900 0 0 0 0 --Other
1209.3000 0 0 0 0 -Seeds of herbaceous plants cultivated principally for their flowers 
         
          -Other
1209.9100 0 0 0 0 --Vegetable seeds
1209.9900 0 0 0 0 --Other
12.10         Hop cones, fresh or dried, whethr or not ground, powderd or in the form of pellets; lupulin:
         
1210.1000 40 50 28 50 -Hop cones, neither ground nor powdered nor in the form of pellets 
         
1210.2000 40 50 26 50 -Hop cones, ground, powdered or in the form of pellets; lupulin
         
12.11         Plants and parts of plants (including seeds and fruits), of a kind used primarily in perfumery, in pharmacy or for insecticidal, fungicidal or similar purposs, fresh or dried, whether or not cut, crushed or powdered:
         
         
         
         
          -Liquorice roots:
1211.1010 20 30 9.2 30 ---Zhang Guo licorice (Glycyrrhiza uralenisis)
1211.1090 20 30 7 30 ---Other
          -Ginseng roots:
1211.2010 50 70 36 70 ---American ginseng
1211.2020 70 90 28 90 ---Wild ginseng (other than American ginseng)
          ---Other:
1211.2091 40 50 28 50 ----fresh
1211.2099 40 50 28 50 ----Other
          -Other:
          ---Of a kind used primarily in pharmacy:
1211.9011 20 30 9.2 30 ----Radix angelicae sinensis
1211.9012 15 20 9.2 20 ----Radix pseudoginseng
1211.9013 15 20 9.2 20 ----Radix codonopsitis
1211.9014 15 20 7.6 20 ----Rhizoma coptidis
1211.9015 15 20 7.6 20 ----Flos chrysanthemi
1211.9016 15 20 7.6 20 ----Cordyceps sinensis
1211.9017 15 20 7.6 20 ----Bulbs fritillariae thunbergii
1211.9018 15 20 7.6 20 ----Rhizoma ligustici
1211.9019 15 20 7.6 20 ----Rhizoma pinelliae
1211.9021 15 20 7.6 20 ----Radix paeoniae lactiflorae
1211.9022 15 20 7.6 20 ----Rhizoma gastrodiae
1211.9023 20 30 7.6 30 ----Radix astragali
1211.9024 15 20 7.6 20 ----Rhubarb
1211.9025 15 20 7.6 20 ----Rhizoma atractylodis macrocephalae
1211.9026 15 20 7.6 20 ----Radix rehmanniae
1211.9027 15 20 7.6 20 ----Flos sophorae
1211.9028 15 20 7.6 20 ----Cortex eucommiae
1211.9029 15 20 7.6 20 ----Poria
1211.9031 20 30 7.6 30 ----Fructus lycii
1211.9032 15 20 7.6 20 ----Bantaroi seeds
1211.9033 15 20 3 20 ----Aloes wood
1211.9034 15 20 7.6 20 ----Adenophora axilliflora
1211.9039 15 20 7.6 20 ----Other
1211.9050 40 50 8 50 ---Of a kind used primarily in perfumery
          ---Other
1211.9091 6 11 5.4 11 ----Derris roots and pyrethrum
1211.9099 20 30 9.8 30 ----Other
12.12         Locust beans, seaweds 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:
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
1212.1000 50 70 20 70 -Locust beans, including locust bean seeds
          -Seaweeds and other algae:
1212.2010 50 70 24 70 ---Sea tangle
1212.2020 50 70 24 70 ---Black moss
1212.2030 50 70 24 70 ---Pinnatifida
1212.2040 50 70 24 70 ---Laver
1212.2050 50 70 24 70 ---Sagarsso weed
1212.2090 50 70 24 70 ---Other
          -Apricot, peach or plum stones and kernels:
          ---Apricot kernels:
1212.3011 60 80 28 80 ----Bitter
1212.3012 60 80 28 80 ----Sweet
1212.3090 60 80 28 80 ---Other
          -Other:
          --Sugar beet
1212.9110 50 70 0 0 ---Seed
1212.9190 50 70 20 70 ---Other
          --Sugar cane:
1212.9210 50 70 0 0 ---Seed
1212.9290 50 70 20 70 ---Other
          --Other:
          ---Seeds for cultivation:
1212.9951 60 80 0 0 ----Seeds of water melons
1212.9952 50 70 0 0 ----Seeds of melons
1212.9959 60 80 0 0 ----Other
          ---Other:
1212.9991 60 80 30 80 ----Black watermelon seeds
1212.9992 60 80 30 80 ----Red watermelon seeds
1212.9993 60 80 30 80 ----Pumpkin seeds
1212.9994 60 80 30 80 ----Lotus seeds (Semen Nelumbinis)
1212.9999 50 70 30 70 ----Other
12.13         Cereal straw and husks, unprepared, whether or not chopped, ground, pressed or in the form of pellets: