Système harmonisé

Notes.

1.-  This Chapter does not cover :

       (a)    Roasted malt put up as coffee substitutes (heading 09.01 or 21.01);

       (b)    Prepared flours, groats, meals or starches of heading 19.01;

       (c)    Corn flakes or other products of heading 19.04;

       (d)    Vegetables, prepared or preserved, of heading 20.01, 20.04 or 20.05;

       (e)    Pharmaceutical products (Chapter 30); or

       (f)    Starches having the character of perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations (Chapter 33).

2.-  (A)   Products from the milling of the cereals listed in the table below fall in this Chapter if they have, by weight on the dry product :

                (a)     a starch content (determined by the modified Ewers polarimetric method) exceeding that indicated in Column (2); and

                (b)     an ash content (after deduction of any added minerals) not  exceeding  that indicated in Column (3).

     Otherwise, they fall in heading 23.02. However, germ of cereals, whole, rolled, flaked or ground is always classified in heading 11.04.

    (B)   Products falling in this Chapter under the above provisions shall be classified in heading 11.01 or 11.02 if the percentage passing through a woven metal wire cloth sieve with the aperture indicated in Column (4) or (5) is not less, by weight, than that shown against the cereal concerned.

                Otherwise, they fall in heading 11.03 or 11.04.

3.-  For the purposes of heading 11.03, the terms “groats” and “meal” mean products obtained by the fragmentation of cereal grains, of which :

       (a)    in the case of maize (corn) products, at least 95 % by weight passes through a woven metal wire cloth sieve with an aperture of 2 mm;

       (b)    in the case of other cereal products, at least 95 % by weight passes through a woven metal wire cloth sieve with an aperture of 1.25 mm.