HS Code 12 Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit;industrial or medicinal plants;straw and fodder

The HS Code 12 is described as
Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit;industrial or medicinal plants;straw and fodder

Description
1. Heading 1207 applies, inter alia, to palm nuts and kernels,
cotton seeds, castor oil seeds, sesame seeds, mustard seeds,
safflower seeds, poppy seeds and shea nuts (karite nuts).
It does not apply to products of heading 0801 or 0802 or to
olives (chapter 7 or chapter 20).

2. Heading 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 headings 2304 to 2306.

3. For the purposes of heading 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".

Heading 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 headings 1201 to 1207 or of heading 1211.

4. Heading 1211 applies, inter alia, to the following plants
or parts thereof: basil, borage, ginseng, hyssop, licorice,
all species of mint, rosemary, rue, sage and wormwood.

Heading 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 heading 3808.

5. For the purposes of heading 1212, the term "seaweeds and
other algae" does not include:

(a). Dead single-cell microorganisms of heading 2102;

(b). Cultures of microorganisms of heading 3002; or

(c). Fertilizers of heading 3101 or 3105.

Subheading Note

1. For the purpose of subheading 1205.10, the expression "low
erucic acid or colza seeds" means rape of colza seeds
yielding a fixed oil which has an erucic acid content of
less than 2 percent by weight and yielding a solid
component which contains less than 30 micromoles of
glucosinolates per gram.

Statistical Note

1. Certain plants or parts of plants (including seeds or
fruits) of heading 1211 may be put up as herbal infusions
or herbal "teas". Such products consisting of plants or
parts of plants of a single species, not mixed with other
substances remain classified in this heading. Heading 1211
does not, however, apply to herbal "teas" or herbal
infusions of heading 2106.

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It belongs to the code group
HS code

To this Code "12" belongs the sub codes

HS Code 1201: Soya Beans, Whether Or Not Broken.
HS Code 1202: Ground-Nuts, Not Roasted Or Otherwise Cooked, Whether Or Not Shelled Or Broken
HS Code 1203: Copra.
HS Code 1204: Linseed, Whether Or Not Broken.
HS Code 1205: Rape Or Colza Seeds, Whether Or Not Broken.
HS Code 1206: Sunflower Seeds, Whether Or Not Broken.
HS Code 1207: Other Oil Seeds And Oeaginous Fruits, Whether Or Not Broken.
HS Code 1208: Flours And Meals Of Oil Seeds Or Oleaginous Fruits, Other Than Those Of Mustard.
HS Code 1209: Seeds, Fruit And Spores, Of A Kind Used For Sowing.
HS Code 1210: Hop Cones, Fresh Or Dried, Whether Or Not Ground, Powdered Or In The Form Of Pellets; Lupulin.
HS Code 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.
HS Code 1212: 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 Cichorium intybus sativum) of a kind used primarily for human consumption, not elsewhere specified or included.
HS Code 1213: Cereal Straw And Husks, Unprepared, Whether Or Not Chopped, Ground, Pressed Or In The Form Of Pellets
HS Code 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

The equivalent CPC Code (Rev. 1.1) is

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The equivalent ISIC Code (Rev. 3.1) is

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	Pas de Code

The equivalent NAICS Code (Rev. 2002) is

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Translation of the Code description

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

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Alternative Spellings (synonyms): oilers, Seed, Seeder, Seeders, Fruit, oils, Seeds, Fruits, grain, Ore, Plant, Straws

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