Chapter 12

Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains,

Seeds and fruit; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder

Notes.

1- Heading No. 12.07 applies, inter alia, to palm nuts and kernels, cotton seeds, castor oil seeds, sesamum seeds, mustard seeds, safflower seeds, poppy seeds and shea nuts (karite nuts). It does not apply to Products of Heading No. 08.01 or 08.02 or to olives (Chapter 7 or Chapter 20).

2- Heading No. 12.08 applies not only to non-defatted flours and meals but also to flours and meals which have been partially defatted or defatted and wholly or partially refatted with their original oils. It does not, however, apply to residues fo headings Nos. 23.04 to 23.06.

3- For the purposes of heading No. 12.09, beet seeds, grass and other herbage seeds, seeds of ornamental flowers, vegetable seeds, seeds of forest trees, seeds of fruit trees, seeds of vetches (other than those of the species Vicia faba) or of lupines are to be regarded as “ seeds of a kind used for sowing”.

Heading No. 12.09 does not, however, apply to the following even if for sowing:

(a) Leguminous vegetables or sweet corn (Chapter 7);

(b) Spices or other products of Chapter 9;

(d) Products of headings Nos. 12.01 to 12.07 or 12.11

4- Heading No. 12.11 applies, inter alia, to the following plants or parts thereof: borage, ginseng, hyssop, liquorice, all species of mint, rosemary, rue, sage and wormwood.

Heading No. 12.11 does not, however, apply to:

(a) Medicaments of Chapter 30;

(b) Perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations of Chapter 33; or

5- For the purposes of heading No. 12.12, the term “seaweeds and other algae” does not include:

(a) Dead single – cell micro-organisms of heading No. 21.02;

(b) Cultures of micro-organisms of heading No. 03.02; or

Explanatory remarks to chapter 12

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

2- Exportation is subject to the approval of the Ministry of Commerce.

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