Code 1209 10 · Heading 1209

Sugar beet seeds for sowing

This code covers sugar beet seeds intended for sowing.

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Official tariff text

Sugar beet seed, for sowing

How we got to this code

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1209 10

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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 12 Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grai… 7 of 9 chapters in section II
Which named product group is it: soybeans; unroasted or otherwise unheated peanuts; copra; flax seeds; rapeseed or turnip-rape seeds; sunflower seeds; other oilseeds or oil fruits; flour from oilseeds or oil fruits; seeds, fruits or spores for sowing; hops; plants or plant parts mainly used for perfumes, pharmaceutical products, pest control or similar uses; carob, seaweed, sugar beet, sugar cane or other specified plant products for human food; unprocessed cereal straw or chaff; or fodder roots, hay and other named fodder products?
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Step 3 · Heading 1209 Seeds, fruits and spores, for sowing (excl. legumin… 9 of 14 headings under chapter 12
Which named type is it: sugar beet, lucerne, clover of the Trifolium species, fescue, meadow grass, ryegrass, another forage-plant seed, a seed of an herbaceous flowering plant, a vegetable seed, or another seed, fruit or spore for sowing?
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Step 4 · Subheading 1209 10 Sugar beet seed, for sowing 1 of 10 subheadings under heading 1209
Is it sugar beet seed for sowing?

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Import duty on the codes below: 8.3%

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1209 10 00

Sugar beet seed, for sowing

8.3%

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

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Classification decides the rate here: from 0.0% to 8.3%.

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

Duty free

Their lines1 Norwegian line

12.09.1000 Sugar beet seeds

Norwegian tariff data checked Sept. 13, 2026.

Great Britain

Duty free

Their lines1 British line

1209 10 00 00 Sugar beet seeds

Northern Ireland follows other rules.

UK tariff data checked Sept. 13, 2026.

United States

0.0%

Estimated from published US measures

Their lines1 US line
Entry dateSept. 17, 2026

1209.10.00.00 Seeds, fruits and spores of a kind used for sowing, Sugar beet seeds

The US importer of record files the entry.

US tariff data checked Sept. 16, 2026.

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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.

12.09.1000

Sugar beet seeds

Ordinary duty

Duty free

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.

1209 10 00 00

Sugar beet seeds

Ordinary duty

Duty free

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 1 US line

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.

1209.10.00.00

Seeds, fruits and spores of a kind used for sowing, Sugar beet seeds

General rate

Free

From the EU

0.0% Estimated from published US measures US headings applied: 9903.05.86 U.S. note 52(b) to subchapter III of chapter 99, 91 FR 47318: as provided in heading 9903.05.86, the duties imposed by headings 9903.05.20 through 9903.05.84 shall not apply to articles classifiable in the listed provisions

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.