HS Section II — Vegetable products

Section II at a glance

HS section: II — Vegetable products
Chapters: 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
Tariff headings: 77 (317 subheadings)
General customs duty: 0% – 15% (plus 3 lines charged per kg or unit)
Import VAT: 15% on the added tax value (ATV)
Duty pages published: 12

As at 2026-08-06. Source: SARS Tariff Book, Schedule 1 Part 1.

Section II of the Harmonised System covers vegetable products, spread across 9 chapters and 77 tariff headings. Pick the chapter your product falls in to see every heading and subheading, or jump straight to one of the duty pages below.

Chapters in this section

06 Live trees, plants, bulbs & cut flowers
4 headings 07 Edible vegetables, roots & tubers
14 headings 2 08 Edible fruit & nuts; citrus & melon peel
14 headings 3 09 Coffee, tea, maté & spices
10 headings 4 10 Cereals
8 headings 3 11 Milling products; malt, starches & gluten
9 headings 12 Oil seeds, grains, seeds & fruit
14 headings 13 Lac; gums, resins & vegetable extracts
2 headings 14 Vegetable plaiting materials
2 headings

Duty pages in Section II

0703.20 Garlic (fresh or chilled) 325c/kg with a maximum of 37% duty + 15% VAT 0713.31 Dried beans (vigna / phaseolus) 15% duty + 15% VAT 0801.32 Cashew nuts (shelled) 0% duty + 15% VAT 0802.12 Almonds (shelled) 0% duty + 15% VAT 0803.90 Bananas (fresh) 5% duty + 15% VAT 0901.11 Coffee, not roasted (green beans) 0% duty + 15% VAT 0901.21 Roasted coffee (not decaffeinated) 6c/kg duty + 15% VAT 0902.30 Black tea (in packs ≤3 kg) 400c/kg duty + 15% VAT 0904.11 Pepper (whole or ground spice) 0% duty + 15% VAT 1001.99 Wheat (other than durum & seed) 0% duty + 15% VAT 1005.90 Maize / corn (other than seed) 0% duty + 15% VAT 1006.30 Rice (semi- or wholly milled) 0% duty + 15% VAT

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