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Vegetable products
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11
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Chapter notes
Chapter 11 - NOTES
1. This Chapter does not cover:
(a) Roasted malt put up as coffee substitutes (heading
No. 09.01 or 21.01);
(b) Prepared flours, meals or starches of heading No.
19.01;
(c) Corn flakes and other products of heading No. 19.04;
(d) Vegetables, prepared or preserved, of heading No
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 within 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 No. 23.02.
(B) Products falling within this Chapter under the above
provisions shall be classified in heading No. 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 No. 11.03. or 11.04.
| Rate of passage through a sieve
| with an aperture of
| Cereal Starch content Ash content
| 315 500
| micrometres micrometres
| (microns) (microns)
| (1) (2) (3) (4) (5)
| |
|Wheat & rye 45 % 2.5 % 80 % -
|Barley 45 % 3 % 80 % -
|Oats 45 % 5 % 80 % -
|Maize (corn) & 45 % 2 % - 90 %
|grain sorghum
|Rice 45 % 1.6 % 80 % -
|Buckwheat 45 % 4 % 80 % -
3. For the purposes of heading No 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.