HS code 1212: Locust beans, seaweeds and other algae, sugar
Heading 1212 of the EU Combined Nomenclature 2026, in chapter 12, with the official text of every 6-digit subheading and 8-digit CN code below it.
Official description
1212Locust 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
Place in the nomenclature: 12 Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder > 1212
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.
- Subheadings (6 digits)
- 7
- CN codes (8 digits)
- 10
Subheadings and CN codes in heading 1212
- 1212 21Seaweeds and other algae | Fit for human consumption
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Seaweeds and other algae, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not ground, fit for human consumption
- 1212 21 00 Fit for human consumption
- 1212 29Seaweeds and other algae | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Seaweeds and other algae, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not ground, unfit for human consumption
- 1212 29 00 Other
- 1212 91Other | Sugar beet
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Sugar beet, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not ground
- 1212 91 20 Dried, whether or not ground
- 1212 91 80 Other
- 1212 92Other | Locust beans (carob)
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Locust beans "carob", fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not ground
- 1212 92 00 Locust beans (carob)
- 1212 93Other | Sugar cane
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Sugar cane, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not ground
- 1212 93 00 Sugar cane
- 1212 94Other | Chicory roots
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Chicory roots, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not ground
- 1212 94 00 Chicory roots
- 1212 99Other | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): 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 99 41 Locust bean seeds | Not decorticated, crushed or ground
- 1212 99 49 Locust bean seeds | Other
- 1212 99 95 Other
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.