Chapter 12 — Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit, industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder 4-digit heading

12.07 Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits, n.e.c. in chapter 12; whether or not broken

One level above the number you declare. Pick one of the six-digit codes below.

Section II, Vegetable Products — plants, vegetables, fruit, nuts, coffee, tea, cereals, seeds and flours.

  1. 12 Chapter Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit, industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder
  2. 07 Heading Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits, n.e.c. in chapter 12; whether or not broken
  3. —— Subheading Pick one of the 10 six-digit codes below

Chapter 12 covers oil seeds and oleaginous fruits (soybeans, sunflower seed, rapeseed, groundnuts), plus miscellaneous grains, seeds, industrial or medicinal plants, straw and animal fodder. It's an agricultural-input chapter feeding into vegetable oil (chapter 15) and animal feed supply chains. Classification tip: Whether seed is intended for sowing versus crushing for oil can change both the applicable code and any phytosanitary/GMO documentation required, so confirm end-use before filing.

All of chapter 12

The 10 six-digit codes under 12.07

One of these is the number you declare.

Other headings in chapter 12

12.01 Soya beans, whether or not broken 12.02 Ground-nuts; not roasted or otherwise cooked, whether or not shelled or broken 12.03 Copra 12.04 Oil seeds; linseed, whether or not broken 12.05 Rape or colza seeds; whether or not broken 12.06 Sunflower seeds; whether or not broken 12.08 Flours and meals of oil seeds or oleaginous fruits; other than those of mustard 12.09 Seeds, fruit and spores; of a kind used for sowing 12.10 Hop cones, fresh or dried, whether or not 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 purposes, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not cut, crushed or powdered 12.12 Locust beans, seaweeds and other algae, sugar beet, sugar cane, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not ground; fruit stones, kernels and other vegetable products (including unroasted chicory roots) used primarily for human consumption, n.e.c. 12.13 Cereal straw and husks, unprepared; whether or not chopped, ground, pressed or in the form of pellets 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

The wording above is the Harmonized System nomenclature as published by the World Customs Organization, HS 2022 edition. It is a classification reference, not a tariff: it carries no duty rates, and it stops at six digits — the importing country adds its own beyond that.

Classification is decided by the General Rules of Interpretation and the section and chapter notes, and it is the importing country’s customs authority that makes it binding.

Shipping goods under 12.07? A customs hold shows up as a milestone that stops moving — follow the container or the air waybill from departure to delivery.

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12.07 FAQ

Heading 12.07 covers oil seeds and oleaginous fruits, n.e.c. in chapter 12; whether or not broken. It is part of chapter 12 (oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit, industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder), and it is subdivided into 10 six-digit subheadings — the level you actually declare.

Pick one of the 10 subheadings below. Those six digits are what customs recognises internationally; the importing country may extend them to eight or ten in its own tariff schedule.

The General Rules of Interpretation, read together with the notes to Section II and to chapter 12. A description that reads right is not enough on its own — the notes routinely pull goods out of the chapter they obviously belong to and put them somewhere else. Where duty or licensing turns on the answer, ask the importing country’s customs authority for a binding ruling.

A wrong or missing code is one of the common reasons customs holds a container, and a hold shows up as a milestone that stops moving. Watch for it in the container tracking app, on the air waybill in the air cargo tracker, or through the tracking API.

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