HS 1209: Seeds, fruit and spores, of a kind used for sowing

Notes 1. 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 0801 or 0802 or to olives (Chapter 7 or Chapter 20). 2. 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 2304.00.00 to 2306. 3. For the purposes of 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". 1209 does not, however, apply to the following even if for sowing: a. Leguminous vegetables or sweet corn (Chapter 7); b. Spices or other products of Chapter 9; c. Cereals (Chapter 10); or d. Products of 1201 to 1207 or 1211. 4. 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. 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 3808. 5. For the purposes of 1212, "seaweeds and other algae" does not include: a. Dead single-cell micro-organisms of 2102; b. Cultures of micro-organisms of 3002; or c. Fertilisers of 3101.00.00 or 3105.