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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 No. 12.07 applies, inter alia, to palm nuts and kernels, cotton seeds, caster oil seeds, sesamum seeds, mustard seeds, 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 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 Heading 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) Leguminous vegetables or sweet corn (Chapter 7);

(b) Spices or other products of Chapter 9;

(c) Cereals (Chapter 10); or

(d) Products of Heading 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.

Heading No. 12.11 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 Heading No. 38.08.
 

5. For the purposes 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) Fertilizers of Heading No. 31.01 or 31.05.


  
Heading No. 
Sub-Heading 
No. 
Description of article 
Rate of duty 
     
Standard
Preferential 
Areas
(1) 
(2) 
(3) 
(4) 
(5) 
12.01  1201.00  Soya beans, whether or not broken 
30% 
20% 
12.02    Ground-nuts, not roasted or otherwise cooked, whether or not shelled or broken     
  1202.10  -In shell 
30% 
20% 
  1202.20  - Shelled, whether or not broken 
30% 
20% 
12.03  1203.00  Copra 
70% 
60% 
12.04  1204.00  Linseed, whether or not broken 
30% 
20% 
12.05  1205.00  Rape or colza seeds, whether or not broken 
30% 
20% 
12.06  1206.00  Sunflower seeds, whether or not broken 
30% 
20% 
12.07   Other oil seeds and oleaginous fruits, whether or not broken     
  1207.10  - Palm nuts and kernels 
30% 
20% 
  1207.20  - Cotton seeds 
30% 
20% 
  1207.30  - Caster oil seeds 
30% 
20% 
  1207.40  - Sesamum seeds 
30% 
20% 
  1207.50  - Mustard seeds 
30% 
20% 
  1207.60  - Safflower seeds 
30% 
20% 
    -Other:    
  1207.91  -- Poppy seeds 
70% 
60% 
  1207.92  -- Shea nuts (Karite nuts) 
30% 
20% 
   1207.99  --Other
 30% 
 20%
12.08   Flours and meals of oil seeds or oleaginous fruits, other than those of mustard     
  1208.10  - Of soya beans 
30% 
... 
  1208.90  - Others 
30% 
... 
12.09   Seeds, fruit and spores, of a kind used for sowing     
    - Beet seeds:    
  1209.11  -- Sugar beet seed 
30% 
... 
  1209.19  -- Other 
30% 
... 
    - Seeds of forage plants, other than beet seed:    
  1209.21  -- Lucerne (alfalfa) seed 
30% 
... 
  1209.22  -- Clover (Trifolium spp.) seed 
30% 
... 
  1209.23  -- Fescue seed 
30% 
... 
  1209.24  -- Kentucky blue grass (Poa pratensis L.) seed 
30% 
... 
  1209.25  -- Rye grass (Lolium multiflorum Lam., Lolium perenne L.) seed 
30% 
... 
  1209.26  -- Timothy grass seed 
30% 
... 
  1209.29  -- Other 
30% 
... 
  1209.30  - Seeds of herbaceous plants cultivated principally for their flowers 
30% 
... 
    - Other:    
  1209.91  -- Vegetable seeds 
10% 
... 
  1209.99  -- Other 
10% 
... 
12.10   Hop cones, fresh or dried, whether or not ground, powdered or in the form of pellets; lupulin     
  1210.10  - Hop cones, neither ground nor powdered nor in the form of pellets 
30% 
... 
  1210.20  - Hop cones, ground, powdered or in the form of pellets; lupulin 
30% 
... 
12.11   Plants and parts of plants (including seeds and fruits) of a kind used primarily in perfumery, in pharmacy or for insecti-cidal, fungicidal or similar purposes, fresh or dried, whether or not cut, crushed or powdered     
  1211.10  - Liquorice roots 
30% 
... 
  1211.20  - Ginseng roots 
30% 
... 
  1211.90  - Other 
30% 
... 
12.12   Locust 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 ci-chorium intybus sativum) of a kind used primarily for human consumption, not elsewhere specified or included     
  1212.10  - Locust beans, including locust bean seeds 
30% 
... 
  1212.20  - Seaweeds and other algae 
30% 
... 
  1212.30  - Apricot, peach or plum stones and kernels 
30% 
... 
    - Other :  
 
  1212.91  -- Sugar beet 
30% 
... 
  1212.92  -- Sugar cane 
30% 
... 
  1212.99  --Other 
30% 
... 
12.13 1213.00  Cereal straw and husks, unprepared, whether or not chopped, ground, pressed or in the form of pellets
30% 
... 
12.14   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  - Lucerne (alfalfa) meal and pellets 
30% 
... 
  1214.90  - Other 
30% 
...