Goods of vegetable origin

1. The licensing in imports of goods of vegetable origin is regulated by the Government Resolution No. 268 “On the Procedure of Export and Import Regulation in the Republic of Lithuania” of 24 March 1997 and the Government Resolution No. 599 “On Approval of Vegetable Quarantine Regulations for Import and Export of Goods of Vegetable Origin to and from the Republic Lithuania and their Transit through the Territory of the Republic of Lithuania” of 3 August 1993, and is administered by the State Plant Protection Service under the Ministry of Agriculture.

07.01 potatoes, fresh or chilled
07.02 tomatoes, fresh or chilled4
07.03 onions, garlic, shallots, leeks and other alliaceous vegetables, fresh or chilled4
07.04 cabbages, cauliflowers, kohlrabi, kale and similar edible brassicas, fresh or chilled
07.05 lettuce and chicory fresh or chilled
07.06 carrots, turnips, salad beetroot, salsify, celeriac, radishes and similar edible roots, fresh or chilled4
07.07 cucumbers and gherkins, fresh or chilled4
07.08 leguminous vegetables, including unshelled, fresh or chilled4
07.09 other vegetables, fresh or chilled4
07.11 vegetables provisionally preserved (for example, by sulphur dioxide gas, in brine, in sulphur water or in other preservative solutions), but unsuitable in that state for immediate consumption
07.12 dried vegetables, whole, cut, sliced, broken or in powder, but not further prepared
07.13 dried leguminous vegetables, unshelled, whether or not skinned or split4
07.14 manioc, arrowroot, salep, Jerusalem artichokes, sweet potatoes and similar roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, fresh or dried, whether or not sliced or in the form of pellets, sago pith4
08.01 coconuts, Brazil nuts and cashew nuts, fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled4
08.02 other nuts, fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled4
08.03 bananas, including plantains, fresh or dried4
08.04 dates, figs, pineapples, avocados, guavas, mangoes and mangosteens, fresh or dried4
08.05 citrus fruit, fresh or dried4
08.06 grapes, fresh or dried4
08.07 melons (including watermelons) and papaws (papayas), fresh4
08.08 apples, pears and quinces, fresh4
08.09 apricots, cherries, peaches (including nectarines), plums and sloes, fresh4
08.10 other fruit (berries), fresh4
08.13 fruit, dried, other than that of headings Nos. 08.01-08.06; mixtures of nuts or dried fruits of this Chapter
09.01 coffee, whether or not roasted or decaffeinated; coffee husks and skins; coffee substitutes containing coffee in any proportion
09.02 tea, whether or not flavoured
09.03 mate
09.09 seeds of anise, badian, fennel, coriander, cumin, caraway or juniper
09.10 ginger, saffron, turmeric (curcuma), thyme, bay leaves, curry and other spices
10.01 wheat and meslin5
10.02 rye5
10.03 barley5
10.04 oats5
10.05 maize (corn) 5
10.06 rice5
10.07 grain sorghum5
10.08 buckwheat, millet and canary seed; other cereals5
11.01 wheat or meslin flour
11.02 cereal flours other than of wheat or meslin
11.03 cereal groats, meal and pellets
11.04 cereal grains otherwise worked (for example, hulled, rolled, flaked, pearled, sliced or kibbled), except rice of heading No. 10.06; germ of cereals, whole, rolled, flaked or ground
11.06 flour and meal of the dried leguminous vegetables of heading No. 07.13, of sago or of roots of tubers of heading No. 07.14; flour, meal and powder of the products of Chapter 8
11.07 malt, whether or not roasted
12.01 soya beans, whether or not broken5
12.02 ground-nuts, not roasted or otherwise cooked, whether or not shelled or broken5
12.03 copra
12.04 linseed, whether or not broken5
12.05 rape seeds, whether or not broken5
12.06 sunflower seeds, whether or not broken5
12.07 other oil seeds and oleaginous fruits, whether or not broken5
12.08 flours and meals of oil seeds or oleaginous fruits, other than those of mustard
12.09 seeds, fruit and spores, of a kind used for sowing5
12.10 hop cones, fresh or dried, whether or not ground, powdered or in the form of pellets; lupulin
12.11 plants and parts of plants (including seeds and fruits), of a kind used primarily in perfumery, in pharmacy or for insecticidal, fungicidal or similar purpose, fresh or dried, whether or not cut, crushed or powdered
12.12 locust beans, seaweeds and other algae, sugar beet and sugar cane, fresh or dried, whether or not ground; fruit stones and kernels and other vegetable products (including unroasted chicory roots of the variety ) of a kind used primarily for human consumption, not elsewhere specified or included5
12.13 cereal straw and husks, unprepared, whether or not chopped, ground, pressed or in the form of pellets
12.14 swedes, mangolds, fodder roots, fodder swedes, hay, lucerne (alfalfa), clover, sainfoin, forage kale, lupines, vetches and similar forage products, whether or not in the form of pellets5
14.01 vegetable materials of a kind used primarily for plaiting (for example, bamboos, rattans, reeds, rushes, osier, raffia, cleaned, bleached or dyed cereal straw, and lime bark)
14.02 vegetable materials of a kind used primarily as stuffing or as padding (for example, kapok, vegetable hair and eelgrass), whether or not put up as a layer with or without supporting material
14.03 vegetable materials of a kind used primarily in brooms or in brushes (for example, broomcorn, piassava, couchgrass and istle), whether or not in hanks or bundles
18.01 cocoa beans, whole or broken, raw or roasted
18.02 cocoa shells, husks, skins and other cocoa waste
20.03 mushrooms and truffles, prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid
23.02 bran, sharps and other residues, whether or not in the form of pellets, derived from the sifting, milling or other working of cereals or of leguminous plants
24.01 unmanufactured tobacco; tobacco refuse
27.03 peat (including peat litter), whether or not agglomerated
44.01 fuel wood, in logs, in billets, in twigs, in faggots or in similar forms; wood in chips or particles; sawdust and wood waste and scrap, whether or not agglomerated in logs, briquettes, pellets or similar forms
44.03 wood in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or sapwood, or roughly squared6
44.04 hoopwood; split poles; piles, pickets and stakes of wood, pointed but not sawn lengthwise; wooden sticks, roughly trimmed but not turned, bent or otherwise worked, suitable for the manufacture of walking-sticks, umbrellas, tool handles or the like; chipwood and the like
44.06 railway or tramway sleepers (cross-ties) of wood
44.07 wood sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or finger-jointed, of a thickness exceeding 6 mm
44.09 wood (including strips and friezes for parquet flooring, not assembled) continuously shaped (tongued, grooved, rebated, chamfered, V-jointed, beaded, moulded, rounded or the like) along any of its edges or faces, whether or not planed, sanded or finger-jointed
44.13 densified wood, in blocks, plates, strips or profile shapes
44.15 packing cases, boxes, crates, drums and similar packings, of wood; cable-drums of wood; pallets, box pallets and other load boards, of wood
45.01 natural cork, raw or simply prepared; waste cork; crushed, granulated or ground cork
46.01 plaits and similar products of plaiting materials, whether or not assembled into strips; plaiting materials, plaits and similar products of plaiting materials, bound together in parallel strands or woven, in sheet form, whether or not being finished articles (for example, mats, matting, screens)
53.01 flax, raw or processed but not spun; flax tow and waste (including yarn waste and garneted stock)
53.02 true hemp, raw or processed but not spun; tow and waste of true hemp (including yarn waste and garnetted stock)
97.05 collections and collectors' pieces of zoological, botanical, mineralogical, anatomical, historical, archaeological, paleontological, ethnographic or numismatic interest

4 All these products are imported to the Republic of Lithuania in line with the Article 5 of the Government Resolution No. 599 “On Approval of Vegetable Quarantine Regulations for Import and Export of Goods of Vegetable Origin to and from the Republic Lithuania and their Transit through the Territory of the Republic of Lithuania” of 3 August 1993.
5 All these products are imported to the Republic of Lithuania in line with the Article 5 of the Government Resolution No. 599 “On Approval of Vegetable Quarantine Regulations for Import and Export of Goods of Vegetable Origin to and from the Republic Lithuania and their Transit through the Territory of the Republic of Lithuania” of 3 August 1993.
6 All these products are imported to the Republic of Lithuania in line with the Article 5 of the Government Resolution No. 599 “On Approval of Vegetable Quarantine Regulations for Import and Export of Goods of Vegetable Origin to and from the Republic Lithuania and their Transit through the Territory of the Republic of Lithuania” of 3 August 1993.

The purpose of the licensing and quarantine checking is to avoid the spreading of agricultural pests, vegetable diseases and weeds.

No quantitative or value restrictions.

The system applies to products originating in and coming from all countries.