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Customs Tariff Act 1987
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Chapter 12
Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder
1.- 1207 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 0801 or 0802 or to olives (Chapter 7 or Chapter 20).
2\- 1208 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 2304.00.00 to 2306.
3.-For the purposes of 1209, 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”.
1209 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 1201.00.00 to 1207 or 1211.
4.- 1211 applies, inter alia, to the following plants or parts thereof: basil, borage, ginseng, hyssop, liquorice, all species of mint, rosemary, rue, sage and wormwood.
1211 does not, however, apply to:
(a) Medicaments of Chapter 30;
(b) Perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations of Chapter 33; or
(c) Insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, disinfectants or similar products of 3808.
5.- For the purposes of 1212, “seaweeds and other algae” does not include:
(a) Dead single-cell micro-organisms of 2102;
(b) Cultures of micro-organisms of 3002; or
(c) Fertilisers of 3101.00.00 or 3105.
| 1201.00.00 | SOYA BEANS, WHETHER OR NOT BROKEN | 2% |
| ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------- |
| 1202 | GROUND-NUTS, NOT ROASTED OR OTHERWISE COOKED, WHETHER OR NOT SHELLED OR BROKEN: | |
| 1202.10.00 | - In shell | 10% DC:5% |
| 1202.20.00 | - Shelled, whether or not broken | 10% DC:5% |
| 1203.00.00 | COPRA | 2% |
| 1204.00.00 | LINSEED, WHETHER OR NOT BROKEN | 2% |
| 1205.00.00 | RAPE OR COLZA SEEDS, WHETHER OR NOT BROKEN | 2% |
| 1206.00.00 | SUNFLOWER SEEDS, WHETHER OR NOT BROKEN | 2% |
| 1207 | OTHER OIL SEEDS AND OLEAGINOUS FRUITS, WHETHER OR NOT BROKEN. | |
| 1207.10.00 | - Palm nuts and kernels | 2% |
| 1207.20.00 | - Cotton seeds | 2% |
| 1207.30.00 | - Castor oil seeds | 2% |
| 1207.40.00 | - Sesamum seeds | 2% |
| 1207.50.00 | - Mustard seeds | 2% |
| 1207.60.00 | - Safflower seeds | 2% |
| 1207.9 | - Other: | |
| 1207.91.00 | - - Poppy seeds | 2% |
| 1207.92.00 | - - Shea nuts (karite nuts) | 2% |
| 1207.99.00 | - - Other | 2% |
| 1208 | FLOURS AND MEALS OF OIL SEEDS OR OLEAGINOUS FRUITS, OTHER THAN THOSE OF MUSTARD: | |
| ---------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------- |
| 1208.10.00 | - Of soya beans | 2% |
| 1208.90.00 | - Other | 2% |
| 1209 | SEEDS, FRUIT AND SPORES, OF A KIND USED FOR SOWING: | |
| 1209.1 | - Beet seed: | |
| 1209.11.00 | - - Sugar beet seed | 2% |
| 1209.19.00 | - - Other | 2% |
| 1209.2 | - Seeds of forage plants, other than beet seed: | |
| 1209.21.00 | - - Lucerne (alfalfa) seed | 2% |
| 1209.22.00 | - - Clover (Trifolium spp.) seed | 2% |
| 1209.23.00 | - - Fescue seed | 2% |
| 1209.24.00 | - - Kentucky blue grass (Poa prantensis L.) seed | 2% |
| 1209.25.00 | - - Rye grass (Lolium multiflorum Lam., Lolium perenne L.) seed | 2% |
| 1209.26.00 | - - Timothy grass seed | 2% |
| 1209.29.00 | - - Other | Free |
| 1209.30.00 | - Seeds of herbaceous plants cultivated principally for their flowers | 2% |
| 1209.9 | - Other: | |
| 1209.91.00 | - - Vegetable seeds | Free |
| 1209.99.00 | - - Other | 2% |
| 1210 | HOP CONES, FRESH OR DRIED, WHETHER OR NOT GROUND, POWDERED OR IN THE FORM OF PELLETS; LUPULIN: | |
| 1210.10.00 | - Hop cones, neither ground nor powdered nor in the form of pellets | 10% DC:5% |
| 1210.20.00 | - Hop cones, ground, powdered or in the form of pellets; lupulin | 10% DC:5% |
| 1211 | PLANTS 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 OR DRIED, WHETHER OR NOT CUT, CRUSHED OR POWDERED: | |
| 1211.10.00 | - Liquorice roots | Free |
| 1211.20.00 | - Ginseng roots | Free |
| 1211.90.00 | - Other | Free |
| 1212 | LOCUST BEANS, SEAWEEDS AND OTHER ALGAE, SUGAR BEET AND SUGAR CANE, FRESH 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: | |
| 1212.10.00 | - Locust beans, including locust bean seeds | 2% |
| ---------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---- |
| 1212.20.00 | - Seaweeds and other algae | Free |
| 1212.30.00 | - Apricot, peach or plum stones and kernels | 2% |
| 1212.9 | - Other: | |
| 1212.91.00 | - - Sugar beet | 2% |
| 1212.92.00 | - - Sugar cane | 2% |
| 1212.99.00 | - - Other | 2% |
| 1213.00.00 | CEREAL STRAW AND HUSKS, UNPREPARED, WHETHER OR NOT CHOPPED, GROUND, PRESSED OR IN THE FORM OF PELLETS | 2% |
| 1214 | SWEDES, MANGOLDS, FODDER ROOTS, HAY, LUCERNE (ALFALFA), CLOVER, SAINFOIN, FORAGE KALE, LUPINES, VETCHES AND SIMILAR FORAGE PRODUCTS, WHETHER OR NOT IN THE FORM OF PELLETS: | |
| 1214.10.00 | - Lucerne (alfalfa) meal and pellets | 2% |
| 1214.90.00 | - Other | 2% |