EU Combined Nomenclature · CN code · HS 1005.10
1005 10 18: Maize (corn), seed, hybrid, other
Maize (corn) seed for sowing
✓ Can be used in a customs declaration Data: EU Combined Nomenclature, in force from 1 January 2026 · checked on 24 October 2026
- 1005 Maize (corn):
- 1005 10 Seed:
- Hybrid:
- 1005 10 18 Other
What you pay
Importing into EU
Additional duties and import rules
Charges on top of the customs duty, and rules the goods must meet at the border.
Additional duties and charges 3
- Duty on low-value parcelsLow-value consignment customs duty 3 EUR
- Applies to goods from
- all countries
- In force
- until 31 October 2026
- Legal act
- Regulation 0382/26
- Duty on low-value parcelsLow-value consignment customs duty 3 EUR
- Applies to goods from
- all countries
- In force
- from 1 November 2026
- Legal act
- Regulation 0382/26
- Handling feeUnion handling fee 2 EUR
- Applies to goods from
- all countries
- In force
- from 1 November 2026
- Legal act
- Regulation 2108/26
- Documents
- Y126 Goods sold in distance sales
Import requirements 5
- Import controlOfficial control - plants
- Applies to goods from
- all countries except Switzerland
- Legal act
- Regulation 2072/19
- Documents
- C085 Common Health Entry Document for Plants and Plant Products (CHED-PP) (as set out in Part 2, Section C of Annex II to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1715 (OJ L 261))
- Y146 Exemption for products intended for scientific purposes in accordance with Article 48(1) of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031
- Y171 Goods with third country origin coming from Switzerland, according to the relevant EU legislation.
- Import controlOfficial control - plants
- Applies to goods from
- Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, New Zealand, Uruguay
- Legal act
- Regulation 2072/19
- Documents
- C085 Common Health Entry Document for Plants and Plant Products (CHED-PP) (as set out in Part 2, Section C of Annex II to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1715 (OJ L 261))
- Y146 Exemption for products intended for scientific purposes in accordance with Article 48(1) of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031
- Y979 Exemption from official controls for plants, other than plants for planting, plant products and other objects, which form part of passengers’ personal luggage and are intended for personal consumption or use (Regulation (EU) 2019/2122 Article 7d)
- Y171 Goods with third country origin coming from Switzerland, according to the relevant EU legislation.
- Import controlImport control of organic products
- Applies to goods from
- all countries except Switzerland, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway
- Legal act
- Regulation 2306/21
- Import control
- Applies to goods from
- Ukraine
- Legal act
- Regulation 0692/14
- Import control
- Applies to goods from
- Ukraine
- Legal act
- Regulation 0263/22
- Documents
- Y984 Goods not originating from or not destined for the non-government controlled areas of Ukraine in the oblasts of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia
- N954 Movement certificate EUR.1
- N864 Invoice declaration or origin declaration made out by any exporter on invoice or any other commercial document
Import VAT in the EU member states
The rate each member state applies to goods of this code, from the Commission’s Taxes in Europe Database. A reduced rate can cover only part of the goods under a code: check the national VAT law.
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Austria 10% reduced rate -
Belgium 6% reduced rate -
Bulgaria 20% -
Croatia 5% reduced rate -
Cyprus 5% reduced rate -
Czechia 12% reduced rate -
Denmark 25% -
Estonia 24% -
Finland 13.5% reduced rate -
France 5.5% reduced rate -
Germany 7% reduced rate -
Greece 6% / 13% reduced rate -
Hungary 27% -
Ireland 23% -
Italy 22% -
Latvia 21% -
Lithuania 21% -
Luxembourg 3% reduced rate -
Malta 0% reduced rate -
Netherlands 21% -
Poland 5% reduced rate -
Portugal 6% reduced rate -
Romania 11% reduced rate -
Slovakia 19% reduced rate -
Slovenia 9.5% reduced rate -
Spain 21% -
Sweden 6% reduced rate
TEDB · 26 October 2026
Preferential rates by country
| Agreement or scheme | Countries | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| standard rate (no agreement) | — | Free |
| GSP-EBA (Special arrangement for the least-developed countries - Everything But Arms) | Afghanistan, Angola, Bangladesh, Benin and 42 moreAfghanistan, Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo - Kinshasa, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Kiribati, Laos, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Myanmar (Burma), Nepal, Niger, Rwanda, São Tomé & Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tuvalu, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia | Free |
| CARIFORUM | Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize and 10 moreAntigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St Kitts & Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent & the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago | Free |
| OCTs (Overseas Countries and Territories) | Antarctica, Aruba, Caribbean Netherlands, Curaçao and 8 moreAntarctica, Aruba, Caribbean Netherlands, Curaçao, French Polynesia, French Southern Territories, Greenland, New Caledonia, Sint Maarten, St Barthélemy, St Pierre & Miquelon, Wallis & Futuna | Free |
| SADC EPA | Botswana, Eswatini, Namibia | Free |
| Eastern and Southern Africa States | Mauritius, Seychelles, Zimbabwe | Free |
| EU–Andorra agreement | Andorra | Free |
| EU–Côte d’Ivoire agreement | Côte d’Ivoire | Free |
| EU–Cameroon agreement | Cameroon | Free |
| EU–Egypt agreement | Egypt | Free |
| Preferential origin in accordance with the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Union and the Kingdom of Morocco on the amendment of Protocols 1 and 4 to the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement establishing an association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Kingdom of Morocco, of the other part. | Western Sahara | Free |
| EU–Fiji agreement | Fiji | Free |
| EU–United Kingdom agreement | United Kingdom | Free |
| EU–Ghana agreement | Ghana | Free |
| EU–Israel agreement | Israel | Free |
| EU–Iceland agreement | Iceland | Free |
| EU–Jordan agreement | Jordan | Free |
| EU–Kenya agreement | Kenya | Free |
| EU–South Korea agreement | South Korea | Free |
| EU–Lebanon agreement | Lebanon | Free |
| EU–Morocco agreement | Morocco | Free |
| EU–Papua New Guinea agreement | Papua New Guinea | Free |
| EU–San Marino customs union | San Marino | Free |
| EU–Vietnam agreement | Vietnam | Free |
| EU–Samoa agreement | Samoa | Free |
Footnotes
Entry under this subheading is subject to the conditions laid down in section II, paragraph F, of the preliminary provisions.
Duty applicable, except for products originating in or exported directly or indirectly from the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus, where a duty of 95 €/t applies.
EU: imports by month · HS 1005.10
Main suppliers, last 12 months
| Country | Value | Share | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
 Türkiye | €35.4m | 29.7% | -8.9% |
 Ukraine | €32.4m | 27.2% | -51.6% |
 Serbia | €16.3m | 13.7% | -12.4% |
 Chile | €11.5m | 9.6% | -2.4% |
 United Kingdom | €9.7m | 8.2% | +58.7% |
 United States | €4m | 3.3% | -26.5% |
 Mexico | €2.8m | 2.3% | -17.8% |
 Iran | €1.4m | 1.2% | — |
Same subheading in other tariffs
UK Free Third-country duty 4 tariff lines Türkiye Free Third-country duty 4 tariff lines USA Free General (MFN) 1 tariff line 
Canada Free Third-country duty 2 tariff lines Mexico Free Third-country duty 1 tariff line 
Brazil Free Third-country duty 1 tariff line 
Argentina Free Third-country duty 1 tariff line 
Peru Free Third-country duty 1 tariff line 
New Zealand Free Third-country duty 1 tariff line 
Japan Free Third-country duty 2 tariff lines · 1× specific or compound duty 
Taiwan Free Third-country duty 1 tariff line 
GCC Free Third-country duty 1 tariff line 
Switzerland specific or compound duty Third-country duty 1 tariff line 
Norway Free Third-country duty 1 tariff line 
North Macedonia Free Third-country duty 4 tariff lines 
Nigeria 5% Third-country duty 1 tariff line EU lines: 1005.10
Legal notes
Notes
1.
(A) The products specified in the headings of this chapter are to be classified in those headings only if grains are present, whether or not in the ear or on the stalk.
(B) The Chapter does not cover grains which have been hulled or otherwise worked. However, rice, husked, milled, polished, glazed, parboiled or broken remains classified in heading 1006. Similarly, quinoa from which the pericarp has been wholly or partly removed in order to separate the saponin, but which has not undergone any other processes, remains classified in heading 1008.
2. Heading 1005 does not cover sweetcorn (Chapter 7).
CN Explanatory Notes
The European Commission's explanatory notes on how to classify goods in these CN codes. They are not legally binding but customs authorities follow them; they complement the HS Explanatory Notes of the World Customs Organization.
General notes to the chapter
CEREALS
General
Dried ears of cereal (for example, maize) which have been bleached, dyed, impregnated or otherwise treated for ornamental purposes are classified in subheading 0604 90 99.
Cereals remain classified in this chapter although they have undergone heat treatment for preservation purposes which may cause the grains to partially gelatinise and sometimes burst. The partial gelatinisation (pregelatinisation) occurs in the drying process and concerns only a small quantity of the grains. This transformation of the starch is not the aim of the heat treatment, but only a side effect. That treatment is not to be considered as ‘otherwise worked’ within the meaning of note 1(B) to Chapter 10.
Explanatory Notes to the Combined Nomenclature of the European Union, Official Journal C (consolidated text and later amendments) · © European Union
This line in earlier years
The Combined Nomenclature of each year, as published in the Official Journal: description, third-country duty and supplementary unit.
| Year | Description | Third-country duty | Supplementary unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Other | Free | — |
| 2025 | unchanged | Free | — |
| 2024 | unchanged | Free | — |
| 2023 | unchanged | Free | — |
| 2022 | unchanged | Free | — |
| 2021 | unchanged | Free | — |
| 2020 | unchanged | Free | — |
| 2019 | Other | Free | — |
CN code 1005 10 18 is a line of the EU Combined Nomenclature under HS subheading 1005.10 (maize (corn), seed).
The third-country duty is free, and quantities are declared in —.
97 countries pay no duty in the EU thanks to trade agreements and preference schemes such as GSP-EBA and CARIFORUM, against a standard rate of Free.
Imports of maize (corn) seed for sowing (HS 1005.10) into the EU came to €119.1m between September 2025 and August 2026 (down 29% on the year before); Türkiye supplied 30%, followed by Ukraine.
For the same subheading, the UK duty is free, the Türkiye duty is free, the US duty is free, the Canada duty is free, the Mexico duty is free, the Brazil duty is free, the Argentina duty is free, the Peru duty is free, the New Zealand duty is free, the Japan duty is free, the Taiwan duty is free, the GCC duty is free, the Norway duty is free, the North Macedonia duty is free and the Nigeria duty is 5%.
EU member states imported goods of subheading 1005.10 worth US$2bn in 2024; the largest supplier from outside the EU was Ukraine.
Questions and answers
What is the EU import duty for CN code 1005 10 18?
The third-country duty in the EU Combined Nomenclature is free; the supplementary unit is —. Preferential rates for goods from agreement countries, anti-dumping duties and VAT are not included.
Which countries get a lower rate on 1005 10 18?
97 countries have a preferential rate on this line, 97 of them at 0%, under GSP-EBA, CARIFORUM and OCTs and other arrangements. The rate applies only to goods that meet the rules of origin of the agreement, with proof of origin. Choose the country of origin on this page to see its rate.
Where does the EU import these goods from?
For subheading 1005.10 as a whole, the largest supplier from outside the EU in 2024 was Ukraine (US$120m), followed by Serbia.