Code 1214 10 · Heading 1214

Lucerne flour and pellets

This code covers flour and pellets made from lucerne. It is the specific lucerne flour and pellet group within the wider group of forage products.

For example

Lucerne flour
Lucerne pellets

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Official tariff text

Alfalfa meal and pellets

How we got to this code

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12
1214
1214 10

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The path to this code

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

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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 1214 Swedes, mangolds, fodder roots, hay, alfalfa, clove… 14 of 14 headings under chapter 12
Is the product lucerne flour or lucerne pellets?
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Step 4 · Subheading 1214 10 Alfalfa meal and pellets 1 of 2 subheadings under heading 1214
Is the product lucerne flour or lucerne pellets?

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Import duty on the codes below: 0.0%

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1214 10 00

Alfalfa meal and pellets

Duty free

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

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1214 10 Alfalfa meal and pellets you are here 0.0%
1214 90 Swedes, mangolds, fodder roots, hay, lucerne "alfalfa", clover, sainfoin, forage kale, lupines, vetches and similar forage products, whether or not in the form of pellets (excl. lucerne "alfalfa" meal and pellets) 0.0–5.8%

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

1,39 NOK per kg

Their lines1 Norwegian line

12.14.1000 Lucerne (alfalfa) meal and pellets

Norwegian tariff data checked Sept. 13, 2026.

Great Britain

Duty free

Their lines1 British line

1214 10 00 00 Lucerne (alfalfa) meal and pellets

Northern Ireland follows other rules.

UK tariff data checked Sept. 13, 2026.

United States

10.0%

Estimated from published US measures

Their lines5 US lines
Entry dateSept. 17, 2026

1214.10.00.10 Rutabagas (swedes), mangolds, fodder roots, hay, alfalfa (lucerne), clover, sainfoin

The US importer of record files the entry.

US tariff data checked Sept. 16, 2026.

See the 1 Norwegian line

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.

12.14.1000

Lucerne (alfalfa) meal and pellets

Ordinary duty

1,39 NOK per kg

Goods of EU origin

The ordinary rate applies. Norway lists no separate rate for goods from the EU.

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.

1214 10 00 00

Lucerne (alfalfa) meal and pellets

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 5 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.

1214.10.00.10

Rutabagas (swedes), mangolds, fodder roots, hay, alfalfa (lucerne), clover, sainfoin, forage kale, lupines, vetches and similar forage products, whether or not in the form of pellets, Alfalfa (lucerne) meal and pellets, Dehydrated, Cubes

General rate

1.4%

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
1214.10.00.15

Rutabagas (swedes), mangolds, fodder roots, hay, alfalfa (lucerne), clover, sainfoin, forage kale, lupines, vetches and similar forage products, whether or not in the form of pellets, Alfalfa (lucerne) meal and pellets, Dehydrated, Other

General rate

1.4%

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
1214.10.00.30

Rutabagas (swedes), mangolds, fodder roots, hay, alfalfa (lucerne), clover, sainfoin, forage kale, lupines, vetches and similar forage products, whether or not in the form of pellets, Alfalfa (lucerne) meal and pellets, Other, Sun-cured, Cubes

General rate

1.4%

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
1214.10.00.50

Rutabagas (swedes), mangolds, fodder roots, hay, alfalfa (lucerne), clover, sainfoin, forage kale, lupines, vetches and similar forage products, whether or not in the form of pellets, Alfalfa (lucerne) meal and pellets, Other, Sun-cured, Other

General rate

1.4%

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
1214.10.00.60

Rutabagas (swedes), mangolds, fodder roots, hay, alfalfa (lucerne), clover, sainfoin, forage kale, lupines, vetches and similar forage products, whether or not in the form of pellets, Alfalfa (lucerne) meal and pellets, Other

General rate

1.4%

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.