Harmonized System

Notes.

1.‑  Subject to the second part of heading 06.01, 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 06.03 or 06.04 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 include collages or similar decorative plaques of heading 97.01.

Notes.

1.-  This Chapter does not cover forage products of heading 12.14.

2.‑  In headings 07.09, 07.10, 07.11 and 07.12 the word “vegetables” includes edible mushrooms, truffles, olives, capers, marrows, pumpkins, aubergines, sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata), fruits of the genus Capsicum or of the genus Pimenta, fennel, parsley, chervil, tarragon, cress and sweet marjoram (Majorana hortensis orOriganum majorana).

3.‑  Heading 07.12 covers all dried vegetables of the kinds falling in headings 07.01 to 07.11, other than :

(a)  dried leguminous vegetables, shelled (heading 07.13);

(b)  sweet corn in the forms specified in headings 11.02 to 11.04;

(c)  flour, meal, powder, flakes, granules and pellets of potatoes (heading 11.05);

(d)  flour, meal and powder of the dried leguminous vegetables of heading 07.13 (heading 11.06).

4.‑  However, dried or crushed or ground fruits of the genus Capsicum or of the genus Pimenta are excluded from this Chapter (heading 09.04).

5.‑  Heading 07.11 applies to vegetables which have been treated solely to ensure their provisional preservation during transport or storage prior to use (for example, by sulphur dioxide gas, in brine, in sulphur water or in other preservative solutions), provided they remain unsuitable for immediate consumption in that state.

Notes.

1.-  This Chapter does not cover inedible nuts or fruits.

2.-  Chilled fruits and nuts are to be classified in the same headings as the corresponding fresh fruits and nuts.

3.-  Dried fruit or dried nuts of this Chapter may be partially rehydrated, or treated for the following purposes :

       (a)  For additional preservation or stabilisation (for example, by moderate heat treatment, sulphuring, the addition of sorbic acid or potassium sorbate),

       (b)  To improve or maintain their appearance (for example, by the addition of vegetable oil or small quantities of glucose syrup),

       provided that they retain the character of dried fruit or dried nuts.

4.-  Heading 08.12 applies to fruit and nuts which have been treated solely to ensure their provisional preservation during transport or storage prior to use (for example, by sulphur dioxide gas, in brine, in sulphur water or in other preservative solutions), provided they remain unsuitable for immediate consumption in that state.

Notes.

1.-  Mixtures of the products of headings 09.04 to 09.10 are to be classified as follows :

     (a) Mixtures of two or more of the products of the same heading are to be classified in that heading;

    (b) Mixtures of two or more of the products of different headings are to be classified in heading 09.10.

    The addition of other substances to the products of headings 09.04 to 09.10 (or to the mixtures referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) above) shall not affect their classification provided the resulting mixtures retain the essential character of the goods of those headings. Otherwise such mixtures are not classified in this Chapter; those constituting mixed condiments or mixed seasonings are classified in heading 21.03.

2.-  This Chapter does not cover Cubeb pepper (Piper cubeba) or other products of heading 12.11.

Notes.

1.-  (A)     The products specified in the headings of this Chapter are to be classified in those headings only if grains are present, whether or not in the ear or on the stalk.

     (B)     The Chapter does not cover grains which have been hulled or otherwise worked. However, rice, husked, milled, polished, glazed, parboiled or broken remains classified in heading 10.06. Similarly, quinoa from which the pericarp has been wholly or partly removed in order to separate the saponin, but which has not undergone any other processes, remains classified in heading 10.08.

2.-  Heading 10.05 does not cover sweet corn (Chapter 7).

Subheading Note.

1.-  The term “durum wheat” means wheat of the Triticum durum species and the hybrids derived from the inter‑specific crossing of Triticum durum which have the same number (28) of chromosomes as that species.

Notes.

1.-  Heading 12.07 applies, inter alia, to palm nuts and kernels, cotton seeds, castor oil seeds, sesamum seeds, mustard seeds, safflower seeds, poppy seeds and shea nuts (karite nuts). It does not apply to products of heading 08.01 or 08.02 or to olives (Chapter 7 or Chapter 20).

2.-  Heading 12.08 applies not only to non‑defatted flours and meals but also to flours and meals which have been partially defatted or defatted and wholly or partially refatted with their original oils. It does not, however, apply to residues of headings 23.04 to 23.06.

3.-  For the purposes of heading 12.09, beet seeds, grass and other herbage seeds, seeds of ornamental flowers, vegetable seeds, seeds of forest trees, seeds of fruit trees, seeds of vetches (other than those of the species Vicia faba) or of lupines are to be regarded as “seeds of a kind used for sowing”.

Heading 12.09 does not, however, apply to the following even if for sowing :

       (a) Leguminous vegetables or sweet corn (Chapter 7);

       (b) Spices or other products of Chapter 9;

       (c)  Cereals (Chapter 10); or

       (d) Products of headings 12.01 to 12.07 or 12.11.

4.-  Heading 12.11 applies, inter alia, to the following plants or parts thereof : basil, borage, ginseng, hyssop, liquorice, all species of mint, rosemary, rue, sage and wormwood.

Heading 12.11 does not, however, apply to :

       (a) Medicaments of Chapter 30;

       (b) Perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations of Chapter 33; or

       (c)  Insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, disinfectants or similar products of heading 38.08.

5.-  For the purposes of heading 12.12, the term “seaweeds and other algae” does not include :

       (a) Dead single‑cell micro‑organisms of heading 21.02;

       (b) Cultures of micro‑organisms of heading 30.02; or

       (c)  Fertilisers of heading 31.01 or 31.05.

Subheading Note.

1.-  For the purposes of subheading 1205.10, the expression “low erucic acid rape or colza seeds” means rape or colza seeds yielding a fixed oil which has an erucic acid content of less than 2 % by weight and yielding a solid component which contains less than 30 micromoles of glucosinolates per gram.

Note.

1.-  Heading 13.02 applies, inter alia, to liquorice extract and extract of pyrethrum, extract of hops, extract of aloes and opium.

       The heading does not apply to :

       (a)  Liquorice extract containing more than 10 % by weight of sucrose or put up as confectionery (heading 17.04);

       (b)  Malt extract (heading 19.01);

       (c)  Extracts of coffee, tea or maté (heading 21.01);

       (d)  Vegetable saps or extracts constituting alcoholic beverages (Chapter 22);

       (e)  Camphor, glycyrrhizin or other products of heading 29.14 or 29.38;

       (f)  Concentrates of poppy straw containing not less than 50 % by weight of alkaloids (heading 29.39);

       (g)  Medicaments of heading 30.03 or 30.04 or blood‑grouping reagents (heading 38.22);

       (h)  Tanning or dyeing extracts (heading 32.01 or 32.03);

       (ij)  Essential oils, concretes, absolutes, resinoids, extracted oleoresins, aqueous distillates or aqueous solutions of essential oils or preparations based on odoriferous substances of a kind used for the manufacture of beverages (Chapter 33); or

       (k)  Natural rubber, balata, gutta‑percha, guayule, chicle or similar natural gums (heading 40.01).

Notes.

1.- This Chapter does not cover the following products which are to be classified in Section XI : vegetable materials or fibres of vegetable materials of a kind used primarily in the manufacture of textiles, however prepared, or other vegetable materials which have undergone treatment so as to render them suitable for use only as textile materials.

2.- Heading 14.01 applies, inter alia, to bamboos (whether or not split, sawn lengthwise, cut to length, rounded at the ends, bleached, rendered non‑inflammable, polished or dyed), split osier, reeds and the like, to rattan cores and to drawn or split rattans. The heading does not apply to chipwood (heading 44.04).

3.- Heading 14.04 does not apply to wood wool (heading 44.05) and prepared knots or tufts for broom or brush making (heading 96.03).