EU Combined Nomenclature · CN code · HS 1212.93
1212 93 00: Locust beans, seaweeds and other algae, sugar beet: other, sugar cane
✓ Can be used in a customs declaration Data: EU Combined Nomenclature, in force from 1 January 2026 · checked on 24 October 2026
- 1212 Locust beans, seaweeds and other algae, sugar beet and sugar cane, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not ground; fruit stones and kernels and other vegetable products (including unroasted chicory roots of the variety Cichorium intybus sativum) of a kind used primarily for human consumption, not elsewhere specified or included:
- Other:
- 1212 93 00 Sugar cane
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 5
- Additional dutyAdditional duties 50% with document Y-155 (Products exported directly or indirectly from the Russian Federation or Belarus) · otherwise free
- Applies to goods from
- all countries except Belarus, Russia
- Legal act
- Regulation 1227/25
- Documents
- Y155 Products exported directly or indirectly from the Russian Federation or Belarus
- Additional dutyAdditional duties 50%
- Applies to goods from
- Belarus, Russia
- Legal act
- Regulation 1227/25
- 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 4
- Prohibition or restrictionImport prohibition
- Applies to goods from
- North Korea
- Legal act
- Regulation 0285/18
- 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 20%
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Belgium 6% reduced rate
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Bulgaria 20%
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Croatia 25%
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Cyprus 5% reduced rate
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Czechia 12% reduced rate
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Denmark 25%
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Estonia 24%
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Finland 13.5% reduced rate
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France 5.5% reduced rate
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Germany 7% reduced rate
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Greece 13% reduced rate
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Hungary 27%
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Ireland 23%
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Italy 22%
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Latvia 12% reduced rate
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Lithuania 21%
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Luxembourg 3% reduced rate
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Malta 0% reduced rate
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Netherlands 9% reduced rate
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Poland 5% / 8% reduced rate
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Portugal 23%
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Romania 11% reduced rate
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Slovakia 19% reduced rate
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Slovenia 22%
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Spain 10% reduced rate
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Sweden 25%
TEDB · 9 November 2026
Preferential rates by country
| Agreement or scheme | Countries | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| standard rate (no agreement) | — | 4,6 €/100 kg/net |
| GSP-EBA (Special arrangement for the least-developed countries - Everything But Arms) | Afghanistan, Angola, Bangladesh, Benin and 41 moreAfghanistan, Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Burundi, 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–Albania agreement | Albania | Free |
| EU–Bosnia & Herzegovina agreement | Bosnia & Herzegovina | Free |
| EU–Canada agreement | Canada | Free |
| EU–Côte d’Ivoire agreement | Côte d’Ivoire | Free |
| EU–Cameroon agreement | Cameroon | Free |
| EU–Colombia agreement | Colombia | Free |
| EU–Ecuador agreement | Ecuador | 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–Georgia agreement | Georgia | Free |
| EU–Ghana agreement | Ghana | Free |
| EU–Israel agreement | Israel | Free |
| EU–Iceland agreement | Iceland | Free |
| EU–Jordan agreement | Jordan | Free |
| EU–Japan agreement | Japan | Free |
| EU–Kenya agreement | Kenya | Free |
| EU–South Korea agreement | South Korea | Free |
| EU–Lebanon agreement | Lebanon | Free |
| EU–Morocco agreement | Morocco | Free |
| EU–Moldova agreement | Moldova | Free |
| EU–Montenegro agreement | Montenegro | Free |
| EU–North Macedonia agreement | North Macedonia | Free |
| EU–Mexico agreement | Mexico | Free |
| EU–New Zealand agreement | New Zealand | Free |
| EU–Peru agreement | Peru | Free |
| EU–Papua New Guinea agreement | Papua New Guinea | Free |
| EU–Palestinian Territories agreement | Palestinian Territories | Free |
| EU–Serbia agreement | Serbia | Free |
| EU–Singapore agreement | Singapore | Free |
| EU–San Marino customs union | San Marino | Free |
| EU–Ukraine agreement | Ukraine | Free |
| EU–Vietnam agreement | Vietnam | Free |
| EU–Samoa agreement | Samoa | Free |
| EU–Kosovo agreement | Kosovo | Free |
| EU–South Africa agreement | South Africa | Free |
| Central America | Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama | 0 EUR / 100 kg |
| Mercosur | Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay | 4.18 EUR / 100 kg |
| EU–Chile agreement | Chile | 3.06 EUR / 100 kg |
EU: imports by month · HS 1212.93
Main suppliers, last 12 months
| Country | Value | Share | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| €410k | 43.7% | +9.6% | |
| €123k | 13.1% | +118.1% | |
| €104k | 11.1% | +44.9% | |
| €97k | 10.4% | +9.2% | |
| €53k | 5.6% | -24% | |
| €41k | 4.3% | +145% | |
| €23k | 2.4% | +100.2% | |
| €20k | 2.2% | +31.8% |
Same subheading in other tariffs
1212.93 Locust beans, seaweeds and other algae, sugar beet: other, sugar cane
Legal notes
Notes
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
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:
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 | Sugar cane | 4,6 €/100 kg/net | — |
| 2025 | unchanged | 4,6 €/100 kg/net | — |
| 2024 | unchanged | 4,6 €/100 kg/net | — |
| 2023 | unchanged | 4,6 €/100 kg/net | — |
| 2022 | unchanged | 4,6 €/100 kg/net | — |
| 2021 | unchanged | 4,6 €/100 kg/net | — |
| 2020 | unchanged | 4,6 €/100 kg/net | — |
| 2019 | Sugar cane | 4,6 €/100 kg/net | — |
CN code 1212 93 00 is a line of the EU Combined Nomenclature under HS subheading 1212.93 (locust beans, seaweeds and other algae, sugar beet: other, sugar cane).
The third-country duty is a specific or compound duty: 4,6 €/100 kg/net.
115 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 4,6 €/100 kg/net.
In the EU, additional duty of 50% applies on top of the customs duty to goods from Belarus and Russia.
Imports of goods of subheading 1212.93 into the EU came to €937.8k between September 2025 and August 2026 (up 22% on the year before); Uganda supplied 44%, followed by Vietnam.
For the same subheading, the Türkiye duty is 19.3%, the Canada duty is free, the Mexico duty is 36%, the Brazil duty is 7.2%, the Argentina duty is 7.2%, the Peru duty is 6%, the New Zealand duty is free, the Japan duty is free, the Taiwan duty is 10%, the GCC duty is 5%, the Switzerland duty is free, the Norway duty is free, the North Macedonia duty is 5% and the Nigeria duty is 5%.
EU member states imported goods of subheading 1212.93 worth US$1m in 2024; the largest supplier from outside the EU was Uganda.
Questions and answers
What is the EU import duty for CN code 1212 93 00?
The third-country duty in the EU Combined Nomenclature is 4,6 €/100 kg/net; 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 1212 93 00?
126 countries have a preferential rate on this line, 115 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.
Do anti-dumping or other extra duties apply to 1212 93 00?
Additional duty of 50% on goods from Belarus and Russia. These are charged on top of the customs duty.
Where does the EU import these goods from?
For subheading 1212.93 as a whole, the largest supplier from outside the EU in 2024 was Uganda (US$247k), followed by Costa Rica.
Typical products
Everyday names, not part of the legal text.