Code 0603 13 · Heading 0603

Fresh cut orchids and orchid buds for bouquets or decoration

This code covers fresh cut orchids and fresh orchid buds intended for bouquets or decoration. The products must be orchids or orchid buds, rather than the other flower types listed separately.

For example

Fresh cut orchid stems for a bouquet
Fresh cut orchid buds for decoration

See the official tariff text

Official tariff text

Fresh cut orchids and buds, of a kind suitable for bouquets or for ornamental purposes

How we got to this code

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The path to this code

Every code is reached through these choices, one level at a time.

Step 4 of 4

Step 1 · Section II Vegetable products
Is the product a living plant or flower; an edible vegetable, root, tuber, fruit or nut; coffee, tea, maté or a spice; cereal; a milling product, malt, starch, inulin or wheat gluten; a seed, plant for industrial or medical use, straw or fodder plant; shellac, a carbohydrate gum, natural resin, plant sap or plant extract; or a vegetable plaiting material or another vegetable product not listed elsewhere?
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Step 2 · Chapter 06 Live trees and other plants; bulbs, roots and the l… 1 of 9 chapters in section II
Is it a bulb, root, stem tuber, rhizome or chicory plant or root; another live plant, live root, cutting, graft or mycelium; a cut flower or flower bud; or a leaf, branch, other plant part, grass, moss or lichen without flowers or flower buds, used for bouquets or decoration?
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Step 3 · Heading 0603 Cut flowers and flower buds of a kind suitable for … 3 of 4 headings under chapter 06
Which child description fits the product: fresh roses, fresh carnations, fresh orchids, fresh chrysanthemums, fresh lilies, other fresh gladioli, or flowers and flower buds that are dried, bleached, dyed, impregnated or prepared in another way?
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Step 4 · Subheading 0603 13 Fresh cut orchids and buds, of a kind suitable for … 3 of 7 subheadings under heading 0603
Are the fresh cut flowers or flower buds roses, carnations, orchids, chrysanthemums, lilies, gladioli, or another listed type or condition such as dried or otherwise treated?

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Import duty on the codes below: 12.0%

Only one code below

0603 13 00

Fresh cut orchids and buds, of a kind suitable for bouquets or for ornamental purposes

12.0%

This subheading has one 8-digit code, so that is the code to use.

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Classification decides the rate here: from 10.0% to 12.0%.

Selling to Norway, Great Britain and the United States

What they charge on arrival.

Norway, Great Britain and the United States use their own tariff lines under the 6-digit HS code. The rates below are what their customs charge on goods arriving from the EU. Match the goods against each country's own wording before you rely on a rate.

Norway

From 0.0% to 249.0%

Their lines2 Norwegian lines

06.03.1310 Orchids, also in mixed bouquets etc.; flowers and flower buds of commodity codes

Norwegian tariff data checked Sept. 13, 2026.

Great Britain

8.0%

Their lines1 British line
EU originDuty free

0603 13 00 00 Orchids

Northern Ireland follows other rules.

UK tariff data checked Sept. 13, 2026.

United States

10.0%

Estimated from published US measures

Their lines2 US lines
Entry dateSept. 17, 2026

0603.13.00.50 Cut flowers and flower buds of a kind suitable for bouquets or for ornamental purposes

The US importer of record files the entry.

US tariff data checked Sept. 16, 2026.

See the 2 Norwegian lines

Selling to Norway

Norway splits the 6-digit category its own way, so these are Norway's own lines under it, not this EU code. Check your product against their wording; what Norwegian customs charges is shown per line.

06.03.1310

Orchids, also in mixed bouquets etc.; flowers and flower buds of commodity codes 06.03.1110, 06.03.1210, 06.03.1410, 06.04.1921, 06.03.1922 and 06.03.1991 when they are a part of mixed bouquets where the orchids give the bouquets their essential character

Ordinary duty

Duty free
06.03.1320

Flower and flower buds of other commodity codes in the heading other than those mentioned in commodity code 06.03.1310 when these are a part of mixed bouquets where the orchids give the bouquets their essential character

Ordinary duty

249.0%

Goods of EU origin

249.0% You need documentation of EU origin to use this rate.

Norwegian tariff data version 1.5/1.2, last checked Sept. 13, 2026.

Contains data from Norwegian Customs (data.toll.no), licensed under CC BY 4.0, adapted for display.

See the 1 British line

Selling to Great Britain

What UK customs charges when goods like these arrive in Great Britain.

0603 13 00 00

Orchids

Ordinary duty

8.0%

Goods of EU origin

Duty free You need documentation of EU preferential origin to use this rate.

These rates apply in Great Britain. Different rules may apply for goods entering Northern Ireland.

UK tariff data version v4.0.1599, last checked Sept. 13, 2026.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Source: UK Department for Business and Trade (data.api.trade.gov.uk).

See the 2 US lines

Selling to the United States

What US customs charges when goods like these arrive from the EU. The US importer of record files the entry and pays the duty.

0603.13.00.50

Cut flowers and flower buds of a kind suitable for bouquets or for ornamental purposes, fresh, dried, dyed, bleached, impregnated or otherwise prepared, Fresh, Orchids, Dendrobium

General rate

6.4%

From the EU

10.0% Estimated from published US measures US headings applied: 9903.05.39 Section 301 forced-labour action, 91 FR 47318 (memorandum 91 FR 47717), U.S. note 52 to subchapter III of chapter 99
0603.13.00.60

Cut flowers and flower buds of a kind suitable for bouquets or for ornamental purposes, fresh, dried, dyed, bleached, impregnated or otherwise prepared, Fresh, Orchids, Other

General rate

6.4%

From the EU

10.0% Estimated from published US measures US headings applied: 9903.05.39 Section 301 forced-labour action, 91 FR 47318 (memorandum 91 FR 47717), U.S. note 52 to subchapter III of chapter 99

Worked out for an entry on Sept. 17, 2026.

US tariff schedule 2026HTSRev19, last checked Sept. 16, 2026.

Last change we recorded: Revision 19 (2026), Sept. 16, 2026.

Anti-dumping and countervailing duties, US import taxes and customs fees are not included.

The descriptions above are the US tariff texts, which the United States publishes in English only.

Source: the US International Trade Commission's Harmonized Tariff Schedule (hts.usitc.gov), public domain, and the measures published in the Federal Register.

This is a planning estimate from the US Harmonized Tariff Schedule (revision shown) and the published Federal Register measures as of the date shown, for a shipment of EU origin. It is not a customs entry, legal advice or a broker's opinion, and tariffs.help is not a US-licensed customs broker. The US importer of record or their broker confirms the classification, origin, value and the duty due before filing.

Duty rates shown here are estimates, read from official EU / Danish, Norwegian and UK tariff data for orientation only. Confirm the current rate with Toldstyrelsen, TARIC, Norwegian Customs or the UK Online Trade Tariff before you file. The rate you pay can also depend on the country of origin. These are base customs duties only: import VAT, excise duties, anti-dumping duties and safeguard or quota measures are not included.