1209

Analysis

Heading 1209 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule covers seeds, fruits and spores of a kind used for sowing. It divides into 10 six-digit subheadings and 18 eight-digit tariff lines, with 60 ten-digit statistical suffixes below them.

Every one of its 18 tariff lines is duty-free at the general rate, so classification within the heading affects statistics and Chapter 99 measures rather than the base duty.

9 of the lines carry specific or compound rates (per kilogram, per dozen and so on) rather than a percentage, so their burden depends on the unit value of the goods.

The largest subheadings are 1209.91 (vegetable seeds, 6 lines), 1209.22 (clover (Trifolium spp.) seeds, 2 lines), 1209.29 (other, 2 lines) and 1209.99 (other, 2 lines).

Its median rate of duty-free sits at the 39th percentile of the headings in chapter 12.

By Census's concordance, most of its statistical lines are made by All Other Miscellaneous Crop Farming (111998), Other Vegetable (except Potato) and Melon Farming (111219) and Floriculture Production (111422). Those are the NAICS industries a US producer of these goods would report under.