With soil attached to roots

HTS code 0602.90.60 covers live plants, cuttings, and slips—including those with soil attached to the roots—commonly supplied by nursery gardeners or florists. Use this code for importing these plants, keeping in mind a general duty rate of 1.9% applies, with potential free trade agreement benefits for eligible countries.

Detailed information for HTS Code 0602.90.60

This tariff code falls within Chapter 6, which covers live trees, plants, bulbs, and other horticultural products, and specifically addresses live plants with soil attached to their roots. The 0602.90.60 code covers other live plants with soil, not elsewhere specified, and is used for plants commonly supplied by nursery gardeners or florists. This code has further statistical reporting subdivisions based on plant type: 0602.90.60.10 for trees and shrubs, 0602.90.60.20 for poinsettias, and 0602.90.60.90 for all other plants with soil, so choose the suffix that best describes the specific plant being classified.

Chapter	Chapter 6 - Live trees and other plants; bulbs, roots and the like; cut flowers and ornamental foliage
Section	Section II - Vegetable Products

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General Duty

1.90%

Standard trade partners (NTR)

Special Duty

Free (A*,AU,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL,JO,JP,KR,MA,OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG)

Eligible FTA or preference programs

The general duty rate for HTS code 0602.90.60 and its subdivisions (0602.90.60.10, 0602.90.60.20, and 0602.90.60.90) is 1.90%, applying to imports from countries without a preferential trade agreement. Special duty rates are Free for imports originating from specific countries including Australia (AU), Japan (JP), and others listed as eligible for FTA or preference programs. No report units are specified, meaning quantity and value should be reported as per standard import procedures. These rates apply consistently to all subdivisions within 0602.90.60, contingent on meeting the rules of origin for the respective preferential trade agreements.

Rate of Duty (Column 2): 25%

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Code subdivisions

0602.90.60.10

Other live plants (including their roots), cuttings and slips; mushroom spawn: > Other: > Other: > Other: > With soil attached to roots > Trees and shrubs

0602.90.60.20

Other live plants (including their roots), cuttings and slips; mushroom spawn: > Other: > Other: > Other: > With soil attached to roots > Poinsettias

0602.90.60.90

Other live plants (including their roots), cuttings and slips; mushroom spawn: > Other: > Other: > Other: > With soil attached to roots > Other

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Chapter & section notes

Chapter notes

Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States Revision 29 (2025) Annotated for Statistical Reporting Purposes CHAPTER 6 LIVE TREES AND OTHER PLANTS; BULBS, ROOTS AND THE LIKE; CUT FLOWERS AND ORNAMENTAL FOLIAGE II 6-1 Notes 1. Subject to the second part of heading 0601, this chapter covers only live trees and goods (including seedling vegetables) of a kind commonly supplied by nursery gardeners or florists for planting or for ornamental use; nevertheless it does not include potatoes, onions, shallots, garlic or other products of chapter 7. 2. Any reference in heading 0603 or 0604 to goods of any kind shall be construed as including a reference to bouquets, floral baskets, wreaths and similar articles made wholly or partly of goods of that kind, account not being taken of accessories of other materials. However, these headings do not apply to collages or similar decorative plaques of heading 9701. Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States Revision 29 (2025) Annotated for Statistical Reporting Purposes II 6-2

Section notes

SECTION II VEGETABLE PRODUCTS II-1 Note 1. In this section the term "pellets" means products which have been agglomerated either directly by compression or by the addition of a binder in a proportion not exceeding 3 percent by weight. Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States Revision 29 (2025) Annotated for Statistical Reporting Purposes II-2 Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States Revision 29 (2025) Annotated for Statistical Reporting Purposes

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