1214 90 90 — Hay, lucerne, clover, sainfoin, forage kale, lupines, vetches and similar forage products (excl. swedes, mangolds and other fodder roots and lucerne meal)

1214 Pieces, beets of leaf (mangold), root vegetables of fodder, hay, alfalfa, clover, esparcet, fodder cabbage, lupin, vica and similar forage products, granulated or ungranulated: 1214 10 - coarse grinding flour and alfalfa pellets 1214 90 - other

This heading covers (1) Brassica napobrassica, chard, forage turnip, forage carrots (white or pale yellow) and other forage root vegetables. These root vegetables are classified in this heading even if some of them are fit for human consumption. (2) Hay, alfalfa, clover, esparcet, stern cabbage, lupin, vica and ana logical feeds, fresh or dried, whole, sliced, milled or pressed. They fall in this heading whether or not they have been salted or otherwise siloed to prevent fermentation or decay. The term “similar feed products” means only plants specially grown for livestock feed. It does not mean vegetable waste which may be used for the same purpose (heading 2308).

Feed products of this heading may also be in the form of pellets, that is, agglomerated or direct pressing, or with the addition of a binder in an amount not exceeding 3 wt.%. This heading also excludes: (a) carrots (reddish-yellow) of heading 0706; (b) straw and cereal chaff (heading 1213); (c) plant products which, although used for animal feed, are not specially grown for this purpose, such as carrots or beets, maize leaves (heading 2308); (d) products used for animal feed (for example, sweetened feed) (heading 2309).

Notes

English text as published in Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2021/1832 (Combined Nomenclature). The EAEU tariff and the EU nomenclature copy these notes from the same convention. For a Russian declaration the binding version is the Russian one: Annex to Decision No 80 of the EEC Council of 14 September 2021.

1. Heading 1207 applies, inter alia, to palm nuts and kernels, cotton seeds, castor oil seeds, sesamum seeds, mustard seeds, safflower seeds, poppy seeds and shea nuts (karite nuts). It does not apply to products of heading 0801 or 0802 or to olives (Chapter 7 or 20).

2. Heading 1208 applies not only to non-defatted flours and meals but also to flours and meals which have been partially defatted or defatted and wholly or partially refatted with their original oils. It does not, however, apply to residues of headings 2304 to 2306.

3. For the purposes of heading 1209, beet seeds, grass and other herbage seeds, seeds of ornamental flowers, vegetable seeds, seeds of forest trees, seeds of fruit trees, seeds of vetches (other than those of the species Vicia faba) or of lupines are to be regarded as ‘seeds of a kind used for sowing’. Heading 1209 does not, however, apply to the following, even if for sowing:

(a) leguminous vegetables or sweetcorn (Chapter 7);

(b) spices or other products of Chapter 9;

(c) cereals (Chapter 10); or

(d) products of headings 1201 to 1207 or 1211.

4. Heading 1211 applies, inter alia, to the following plants or parts thereof: basil, borage, ginseng, hyssop, liquorice, all species of mint, rosemary, rue, sage and wormwood. Heading 1211 does not, however, apply to:

(a) medicaments of Chapter 30;

(b) perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations of Chapter 33; or

(c) insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, disinfectants or similar products of heading 3808.

5. For the purposes of heading 1212, the term ‘seaweeds and other algae’ does not include:

(a) dead single-cell micro-organisms of heading 2102;

(b) cultures of micro-organisms of heading 3002; or

(c) fertilisers of heading 3101 or 3105.

Subheading note

Machine translation. The original is the Russian text of the EAEU tariff, and customs goes by it; this translation is for understanding only and has no legal force.

1. В субпозиции 1205 10 термин «семена рапса, или кользы, с низким содержанием эруковой кислоты» означает семена рапса, или кользы, дающие нелетучее масло, содержащее менее 2 мас.% эруковой кислоты, и твердый компонент, содержащий менее 30 мкмоль/г глюкозинолатов.