HS chapter 12: Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits
Chapter 12 of the EU Combined Nomenclature 2026, with the official text of every heading in it and their 6-digit subheadings.
Official description
12OIL SEEDS AND OLEAGINOUS FRUITS; MISCELLANEOUS GRAINS, SEEDS AND FRUIT; INDUSTRIAL OR MEDICINAL PLANTS; STRAW AND FODDER
- Headings (4 digits)
- 14
- Subheadings (6 digits)
- 50
- CN codes (8 digits)
- 75
Headings in chapter 12
- 1201 10 Seed
- 1201 90 Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Groundnuts, whether or not shelled or broken (excl. roasted or otherwise cooked)
- 1202 30 Seed
- 1202 41 Other | In shell
- 1202 42 Other | Shelled, whether or not broken
- 1203Copra
- 1203 00 Copra
- 1204 00 Linseed, whether or not broken
- 1205 10 Low erucic acid rape or colza seeds
- 1205 90 Other
- 1206 00 Sunflower seeds, whether or not broken
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Other oil seeds and oleaginous fruits, whether or not broken (excl. edible nuts, olives, soya beans, groundnuts, copra, linseed, rape or colza seeds and sunflower seeds)
- 1207 10 Palm nuts and kernels
- 1207 21 Cotton seeds | Seed
- 1207 29 Cotton seeds | Other
- 1207 30 Castor oil seeds
- 1207 40 Sesamum seeds
- 1207 50 Mustard seeds
- 1207 60 Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius) seeds
- 1207 70 Melon seeds
- 1207 91 Other | Poppy seeds
- 1207 99 Other | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Flours and meals of oil seeds or oleaginous fruits (excl. mustard)
- 1208 10 Of soya beans
- 1208 90 Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Seeds, fruits and spores, for sowing (excl. leguminous vegetables and sweetcorn, coffee, tea, maté and spices, cereals, oil seeds and oleaginous fruits, and seeds and fruit used primarily in perfumery, medicaments or for insecticidal, fungicidal or similar purposes)
- 1209 10 Sugar beet seeds
- 1209 21 Seeds of forage plants | Lucerne (alfalfa) seeds
- 1209 22 Seeds of forage plants | Clover (Trifolium spp.) seeds
- 1209 23 Seeds of forage plants | Fescue seeds
- 1209 24 Seeds of forage plants | Kentucky blue grass (Poa pratensis L.) seeds
- 1209 25 Seeds of forage plants | Ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam., Lolium perenne L.) seeds
- 1209 29 Seeds of forage plants | Other
- 1209 30 Seeds of herbaceous plants cultivated principally for their flowers
- 1209 91 Other | Vegetable seeds
- 1209 99 Other | Other
- 1210 10 Hop cones, neither ground nor powdered nor in the form of pellets
- 1210 20 Hop cones, ground, powdered or in the form of pellets; lupulin
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Plants and parts of plants, incl. 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 20 Ginseng roots
- 1211 30 Coca leaf
- 1211 40 Poppy straw
- 1211 50 Ephedra
- 1211 60 Bark of African cherry (Prunus africana)
- 1211 90 Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): 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, incl. unroasted chicory roots of the variety Cichorium intybus sativum, of a kind used primarily for human consumption, n.e.s.
- 1212 21 Seaweeds and other algae | Fit for human consumption
- 1212 29 Seaweeds and other algae | Other
- 1212 91 Other | Sugar beet
- 1212 92 Other | Locust beans (carob)
- 1212 93 Other | Sugar cane
- 1212 94 Other | Chicory roots
- 1212 99 Other | Other
- 1213 00 Cereal straw and husks, unprepared, whether or not chopped, ground, pressed or in the form of pellets
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Swedes, mangolds, fodder roots, hay, 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
- 1214 90 Other
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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.