Chapter 12

Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains,

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

 

 

Notes.

 

1.‑ Heading 12.07 applies, inter alia, to palm nuts and kernels, cotton seeds, castor oil seeds, sesamum seeds, mustard seeds, safflower seeds, po py seeds and shea nuts (karite nuts). It does not apply to products of heading 08.01 or 08.02 or o olves (Chapter 7 or Chapter 20).

2.‑ Heading 12.08 a plies not only to non‑defatted flours and meals but also to flours and meals which have been partialy defatted or defatted and wholly or partially refatted with their original oils. It does not, however, apply to residues of headings 23.04 to 23.06.

3.‑ For the purposes of heading 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 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;

(c) Cereals (Chapter 10); or

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

4.- Heading .12.11 applies, inter alia, to the following plants or parts thereof : basil, borage, ginseng, hyssop, liquorice, all species of mint, rosemary, rue, sage and wormwood.

Heading 12.11 does not, however, apply to:

(a) Medicaments of Chapter 30;

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

(c) Insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, disinfectants or similar products of heading 38.08.

5.‑For the purposes of heading 12.12, the term "seaweeds and other algae" does not include:

   (a) Dead single‑cell micro‑organisms of heading 21.02;

   (b) Cultures of micro‑organisms of heading 30.02; or

   (c) Fertilisers of heading 31.01 or 31.05.

 

Subheading Note.

1.‑ For the purposes of subheading 1205.10, the expression "low erucic acid rape or colza seeds" means rape or colza seeds yielding a fixed oil which has an erucic acid content of less than 2 % by weight and yielding a solid component which contains less than 30 micromoles of glucosinolates per gram.

 

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-                       The entry of any seed for planting is subject to the observance of Article 11 of the Plant Protection Law approved in 1967 (1346).

3-                       The importation of items covered by this chapter is subject to the observance of Article 11 of the Plant Protection law adopted in 1967 (1346).