Chapter 11

 

Products of the milling industry; malt; starches;

inulin; wheat gluten

 

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 or 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 (Chapter30); 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 strach content (determined by the modified Ewers polarimetric method) exceedomg tjat omdocated om Cp;I,m (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. However, germ of cereals, whole, rolled,  flaked or ground, is always classified in heading No. 11.04.

 

(B) Products falling in 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.

 

 

Cereal

(1)

 

Starch

Content

(2)

 

Ash

Content

(3)

Rate of passage through a sieve with an aperture of

315Micrometres (microns) (4)

500Micrometres (microns) (5)

Wheat and rye

 Barley

Oats

Maize (corn) and grain

Sorghum

 Rice

Buckwheat

45%

45%

45%

 

45%

45%

45%

2.5%

3%

5%

 

2%

1.6%

4%

80%

80%

80%

 

-

80%

80%

-

-

-

 

90%

-

-

 

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 apeture 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.

 

Explanatory remarks to chapter 11

1-     Importaton and clearance shall be subject to the observance of Article 16 of the law on foodstuffs and beverages adopted in the year 1967 (1346).

2-     The exportation of  all the goods covered by this chapter is subject to the approval of the Ministry of Commerce.

 

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