How to export sunflower seeds to the United Kingdom? GTİP code, documents, customs duty and buyers

£3.31m+14.2% on the 12 months before

The 12 months before: £2.9m

Reported by the United Kingdom, from its own import statistics.

Imports from the world, 12 months

£51.7m+1.5% on the 12 months before

Türkiye's share

6.4%5.7% in the 12 months before

The largest suppliers

The largest suppliers

Origin	12 months	Share
Bulgaria	£31.9m	61.6%
Ukraine	£4.18m	8.1%
Türkiye	£3.31m	6.4%
France	£2.78m	5.4%
Netherlands	£2.69m	5.2%

36 months and every origin: the customs watch

0%on the CIF value

The rate set for HS 1206.00checked on 31 October 2026Official source(opens in a new tab)

1. G/SPS/N/GBR/135Food safety, animal and plant health (SPS)Emergency measure

   Declaration of special measures: importation of certain products from certain third countries and territories (England) - The Trade in Animals and Related Products Regulations 2011 (SI 2011/1197);Declaration of special measures: importation of certain products from certain third countries and territories (Scotland) - The Trade in Animals and Related Products (Scotland) Regulations 2012; Declaration of special measures: importation of certain products from certain third countries and territories (Wales) - The Trade in Animals and Related Products (Wales) Regulations 2011 (SI 2011/2379 (w. 252))

   Products: Hay and straw and certain animal by-products of animals susceptible to foot-and-mouth disease that fall within the relevant subsections of the following HS codes:HS 04 – Dairy produce: milk, milk-based products and milk-derived products; HS 05 – Products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included:0502 (pigs’, hogs’ or boars’ bristles and hair, and waste thereof); 0506 (bones and horn-cores, including powder and waste); 0507 (horns, antlers, hooves, nails, claws and related products, including powder and waste); and 0511 (other animal products not elsewhere specified or included, including relevant blood products); HS 12 – Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder:1213 (cereal straw and husks) and 1214 (hay and other forage products); HS 15 – Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes:1501 (pig fat); 1502 (fats of bovine animals, sheep or goats); 1506 (other animal fats and oils and their fractions); and 1518 (chemically modified animal fats and oils, and relevant inedible mixtures or preparations);HS 23 – Residues and waste from the food industries; prepared animal fodder:2309 (preparations of a kind used in animal feeding, including relevant dog chews and processed pet food); HS 30 – Pharmaceutical products:3002 12 00 (antisera and other blood fractions) and 3002 90 30 (animal blood prepared for therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic uses); HS 31 – Fertilisers:3101 (animal or vegetable fertilisers) and 3105 10 00 (goods of Chapter 31 in tablets or similar forms, or in packages of a gross weight not exceeding 10 kg), where comprising or containing relevant manure; HS 35 – Albuminoidal substances; modified starches; glues; enzymes:3501 (casein, caseinates and other casein derivatives; casein glues) and 3502 (albumins, albuminates and other albumin derivatives);HS 41 – Raw hides and skins (other than furskins) and leather: relevant products under 4101 (raw hides and skins of bovine or equine animals), 4102 (raw skins of sheep or lambs) and 4103 (other raw hides and skins); HS 51 – Wool, fine or coarse animal hair; horsehair yarn and woven fabric:5101 (wool, not carded or combed), 5102 (fine or coarse animal hair, not carded or combed) and 5103 (waste of wool or of fine or coarse animal hair); and HS 97 – Works of art, collectors’ pieces and antiques:9705 (collections and collectors’ pieces of zoological or anatomical interest), where comprising relevant game trophies or other preparations.

   Notified on 27 October 2026Proposed entry into force: 27 October 2026

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HS subheading (6 digits), the same in every country

GTİP 1206.00

Oil seeds; sunflower seeds, whether or not broken

Official Turkish title: Ayçiçeği tohumu

Heading 1206Sunflower seeds; whether or not broken

Its page in the codes guideTÜİK Sınıflama Sunucusu: GTİP 2026(opens in a new tab)UN Statistics Division: HS 2022 (H6)(opens in a new tab)