HS Code 1201Soya beans, whether or not broken

What HS code 1201 covers

Customs offices use this number for customs tariff classification. Every product that crosses a border gets a code, and this one is for soya beans. Soybeans and soya beans are the same crop. The two spellings are just used in different places.

So the whole bean fits here, and so does the bean that is cracked or split. A broken bean does not move to another heading.

Soya beans sit among the oil seeds and oleaginous fruits. Oleaginous means the seed or fruit holds oil. That is why the bean shares a chapter with groundnuts, rapeseed and sunflower seeds.

Traders in India often say HSN code instead of HS code. For soya beans the number is the same. You will see it written as HS heading 1201 or HSN code 1201.

Difference between HS 120110 and 120190

The heading splits on one point only: what the beans are for. One code is for seed. The other is for everything that is not seed.

Use 120110 when the beans are seed. The official text reads: soya beans; seed, whether or not broken. Think of beans that a farmer will plant.

Think of beans bought to be crushed, processed or eaten.

A quick test helps. Ask why the buyer wants the beans. If the answer is planting, go with 120110. If the answer is anything else, go with 120190. If you still doubt it, try the HS code classifier.

• 120110: soya bean seed
• 120190: soya beans other than seed

Related oil seed headings in Chapter 12

Oil seeds can look alike on a shipping document. A wrong pick can send your goods to the wrong code. If your goods are not soya beans, check these neighbours.

• Ground-nuts that are not roasted or cooked: heading 1202
• Rape or colza seeds: heading 1205
• Sunflower seeds: heading 1206
• Other oil seeds and oleaginous fruits not named elsewhere: heading 1207
• Flours and meals made from oil seeds: heading 1208
• Seeds, fruit and spores of a kind used for sowing: heading 1209

Who imports soya beans under heading 1201?

Once you know your code, you can look at the trade behind it. EximDataX shows shipment-level import and export records from official customs sources. You can search by HS code to see who imports and exports a product.

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