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

All 50 six-digit HS codes in this chapter, under 14 headings, with the official descriptions.

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HS codeOfficial description
12.01Soya beans, whether or not broken.
1201.10Seed
1201.90Other
12.02Ground-nuts, not roasted or otherwise cooked, whether or not shelled or broken.
1202.30Seed
1202.41In shellOther
1202.42Shelled, whether or not brokenOther
12.03Copra.
1203.00Copra.
12.04Linseed, whether or not broken.
1204.00Linseed, whether or not broken.
12.05Rape or colza seeds, whether or not broken.
1205.10Low erucic acid rape or colza seeds
1205.90Other
12.06Sunflower seeds, whether or not broken.
1206.00Sunflower seeds, whether or not broken.
12.07Other oil seeds and oleaginous fruits, whether or not broken.
1207.10Palm nuts and kernels
1207.21SeedCotton seeds
1207.29OtherCotton seeds
1207.30Castor oil seeds
1207.40Sesamum seeds
1207.50Mustard seeds
1207.60Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius) seeds
1207.70Melon seeds
1207.91Poppy seedsOther
1207.99OtherOther
12.08Flours and meals of oil seeds or oleaginous fruits, other than those of mustard.
1208.10Of soya beans
1208.90Other
12.09Seeds, fruit and spores, of a kind used for sowing.
1209.10Sugar beet seeds
1209.21Lucerne (alfalfa) seedsSeeds of forage plants
1209.22Clover (Trifolium spp.) seedsSeeds of forage plants
1209.23Fescue seedsSeeds of forage plants
1209.24Kentucky blue grass (Poa pratensis L.) seedsSeeds of forage plants
1209.25Rye grass (Lolium multiflorum Lam., Lolium perenne L.) seedsSeeds of forage plants
1209.29OtherSeeds of forage plants
1209.30Seeds of herbaceous plants cultivated principally for their flowers
1209.91Vegetable seedsOther
1209.99OtherOther
12.10Hop cones, fresh or dried, whether or not ground, powdered or in the form of pellets; lupulin.
1210.10Hop cones, neither ground nor powdered nor in the form of pellets
1210.20Hop cones, ground, powdered or in the form of pellets; lupulin
12.11Plants 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.
1211.20Ginseng roots
1211.30Coca leaf
1211.40Poppy straw
1211.50Ephedra
1211.60Bark of African cherry (Prunus africana)
1211.90Other
12.12Locust 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.
1212.21Fit for human consumptionSeaweeds and other algae
1212.29OtherSeaweeds and other algae
1212.91Sugar beetOther
1212.92Locust beans (carob)Other
1212.93Sugar caneOther
1212.94Chicory rootsOther
1212.99OtherOther
12.13Cereal straw and husks, unprepared, whether or not chopped, ground, pressed or in the form of pellets.
1213.00Cereal straw and husks, unprepared, whether or not chopped, ground, pressed or in the form of pellets.
12.14Swedes, mangolds, fodder roots, hay, lucerne (alfalfa), clover, sainfoin, forage kale, lupines, vetches and similar forage products, whether or not in the form of pellets.
1214.10Lucerne (alfalfa) meal and pellets
1214.90Other

Official descriptions: CBSA Customs Tariff, 2026 (version 2). These are six-digit HS subheadings, shared by Canada, the United States and Mexico. Import entries need the full ten-digit code for the importing country: check the CBSA Customs Tariff for Canada or the U.S. Harmonized Tariff Schedule, and confirm the classification with your customs broker.

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