1. This Chapter does not cover:
Roasted malt put up as coffee substitutes (headings 0901 or 2101);
Prepared flours, groats, meals or starches of heading 1901;
Corn flakes or other products of heading 1904;
Vegetables, prepared or preserved, or headings 2001, 2004 or 2005;
Pharmaceutical products (Chapter 30); or
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 starch content (determined by the modified Ewers polarimetric method)
exceeding that indicated in Column (2); and
- an ash content (after deduction of any added minerals) not exceeding that
indicated in Column (3). Otherwise, they fall in heading 2302.
However, germ of cereals, whole, rolled, flaked or ground, is always classified
in heading 1104.
(B) Products falling in this Chapter under the above provisions shall be
classified in heading 1101 or 1102 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 1103 or 1104
Cereal Starch Ash Rate of passage through a sieve with an content content
aperture of |
micrometers micrometers
(microns) (microns) |
315 500
|
(1) (2) (3) (4) ( 5) |
Wheat and rye 45% 2.5% 80% --- |
Barley 45% 3% 80% --- |
Oats 45% 5% 80% --- |
Maize (corn) 45% 2% --- 90% 90% |
and grain soghum |
Rice 45% 1.6% 80% --- |
Buckwheat 45% 4% 80% --- |