Chapter 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.
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 1101.00 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.
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| | | |RATE OF PASSAGE THROUGH A
| | | |SIEVE WITH AN APPERTURE OF
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| CEREAL |STARCH | ASH | 315 | 500 |
| |CONTENT|CONTENT|MICROMETERS |MICROMETERS |
| | | | (MICRONS) | (MICRONS) |
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) |
|==============|=======|=======|============|============|
|Wheat and rye.| 45% | 2.5% | 80% | - |
|Barley........| 45% | 3% | 80% | - |
|Oats..........| 45% | 5% | 80% | - |
|Maize (corn) | | | | |
|and grain | | | | |
|sorghum.......| 45% | 2% | - | 90% |
|Rice..........| 45% | 1.6% | 80% | - |
|Buckwheat.....| 45% | 4% | 80% | - |
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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 97%
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 m