HS code 1008: Buckwheat, millet and canary seed; other cereals
Heading 1008 of the EU Combined Nomenclature 2026, in chapter 10, with the official text of every 6-digit subheading and 8-digit CN code below it.
Official description
1008Buckwheat, millet and canary seed; other cereals
Place in the nomenclature: 10 Cereals > 1008
Explanatory note (Eurostat)
Buckwheat, millet, canary seed and other cereals (excl. wheat and meslin, rye, barley, oats, maize, rice and grain sorghum)
- Subheadings (6 digits)
- 8
- CN codes (8 digits)
- 8
Subheadings and CN codes in heading 1008
- 1008 10Buckwheat
- 1008 10 00 Buckwheat
- 1008 21Millet | Seed
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Millet seed for sowing (excl. grain sorghum)
- 1008 21 00 Seed
- 1008 29Millet | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Millet (excl. grain sorghum, and seed for sowing)
- 1008 29 00 Other
- 1008 30Canary seed
- 1008 30 00 Canary seed
- 1008 40Fonio (Digitaria spp.)
- 1008 40 00 Fonio (Digitaria spp.)
- 1008 50Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa)
- 1008 50 00 Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa)
- 1008 60Triticale
- 1008 60 00 Triticale
- 1008 90Other cereals
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Cereals (excl. wheat and meslin, rye, barley, oats, maize, rice, grain sorghum, buckwheat, millet, canary seeds, fonio, quinoa and triticale)
- 1008 90 00 Other cereals
The first 6 digits are the Harmonized System, shared worldwide: a US HTS code that starts with the same 6 digits sits under the same subheading. The last 2 digits are the EU's own CN split.
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Source
Source: EU Combined Nomenclature 2026 (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1926), © European Union, https://eur-lex.europa.eu/. Reformatted by WISEPIM: indent dashes removed and parent lines joined. Only the Official Journal is authentic.