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  "summary": "HS heading 12.09 covers seeds, fruit and spores, of a kind used for sowing. It is in chapter 12 (oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder). It is split into 10 subheadings: 1209.10 (sugar beet seeds), 1209.21 (seeds of forage plants, lucerne (alfalfa) seeds), 1209.22 (seeds of forage plants, clover (Trifolium spp.) seeds), 1209.23 (seeds of forage plants, fescue seeds), 1209.24 (seeds of forage plants, kentucky blue grass (Poa pratensis L.) seeds), 1209.25 (seeds of forage plants, rye grass (Lolium multiflorum Lam., Lolium perenne L.) seeds) and 4 others. National tariff lines under heading 12.09 are live on border.bot for the United States (60 lines, also used by 1 other country).",
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      "value": "Seeds, fruit and spores, of a kind used for sowing",
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      "value": "12: Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder",
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    {
      "question": "What does HS heading 12.09 cover?",
      "answer": "HS heading 12.09 covers seeds, fruit and spores, of a kind used for sowing."
    },
    {
      "question": "Which chapter is HS heading 12.09 in?",
      "answer": "HS heading 12.09 is in chapter 12 (oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder)."
    },
    {
      "question": "How many subheadings does HS heading 12.09 have?",
      "answer": "HS heading 12.09 has 10 subheadings: 1209.10 (sugar beet seeds), 1209.21 (seeds of forage plants, lucerne (alfalfa) seeds), 1209.22 (seeds of forage plants, clover (Trifolium spp.) seeds), 1209.23 (seeds of forage plants, fescue seeds), 1209.24 (seeds of forage plants, kentucky blue grass (Poa pratensis L.) seeds), 1209.25 (seeds of forage plants, rye grass (Lolium multiflorum Lam., Lolium perenne L.) seeds) and 4 others."
    },
    {
      "question": "Which countries’ tariffs list national lines under HS heading 12.09?",
      "answer": "National tariff lines under heading 12.09 are live on border.bot for the United States (60 lines, also used by 1 other country)."
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        "HS heading 12.09 covers seeds, fruit and spores, of a kind used for sowing.",
        "It is split into 10 subheadings: 1209.10 (sugar beet seeds), 1209.21 (seeds of forage plants, lucerne (alfalfa) seeds), 1209.22 (seeds of forage plants, clover (Trifolium spp.) seeds), 1209.23 (seeds of forage plants, fescue seeds), 1209.24 (seeds of forage plants, kentucky blue grass (Poa pratensis L.) seeds), 1209.25 (seeds of forage plants, rye grass (Lolium multiflorum Lam., Lolium perenne L.) seeds) and 4 others."
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      "id": "not-covered",
      "title": "What it doesn’t cover",
      "text": [
        "Other goods of chapter 12 are classified in its other 13 headings, listed below."
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      "title": "How it is structured",
      "text": [
        "Heading 12.09 is one of 14 headings in chapter 12. Its first two digits, 12, are the chapter; the next two, 09, number the heading within it. Its subheadings add two more digits (1209.10, 1209.21, 1209.22)."
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      "id": "other-countries",
      "title": "In other countries",
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        "National tariff lines under heading 12.09 are live on border.bot for the United States (60 lines, also used by 1 other country)."
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      "text": [
        "The Harmonized System legal text comes from border.bot release 2 (edition HS 2022), imported from a file, and has been live since 11 October 2026.",
        "This page was last updated on 11 October 2026.",
        "Guidance from published tariff data, not a binding ruling. For a decision customs must follow, apply to the destination’s customs authority for a binding tariff ruling."
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