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Section II
Vegetable Products

Note

1.

In this Section the term "pellets" means products which have been agglomerated either directly by compression or by the addition of a binder in a proportion not exceeding 3 per cent by mass.

Chapter 7
Edible Vegetables and Certain Roots and Tubers

Notes

1.

This Chapter does not cover forage products of heading 12.14.

2.

In headings 07.09, 07.10, 07.11 and 07.12, the word "vegetables" includes edible mushrooms, truffles, olives, capers, marrows, pumpkins, aubergines, sweet corn (ZEA MAYS VAR. SACCHARATA), fruits of the genus CAPSICUM or of the genus PIMENTA, fennel, parsley, chervil, tarragon, cress and sweet marjoram (MARJORANA HORTENSIS or ORIGANUM MAJORANA).

3.

Heading 07.12 covers all dried vegetables of the kinds falling in headings 07.01 to 07.11, excluding the following:

(a)

dried leguminous vegetables, shelled (heading 07.13);

(b)

sweet corn in the forms specified in headings 11.02 to 11.04;

(c)

flour, meal, powder, flakes, granules and pellets of potatoes (heading 11.05);

(d)

flour, meal and powder of dried leguminous vegetables of heading 07.13 (heading 11.06).

4.

However, dried or crushed or ground fruits of the genus CAPSICUM or of the genus PIMENTA are excluded from this Chapter (heading 09.04).

5.

Heading 07.11 applies to vegetables which have been treated solely to ensure their provisional preservation during transport or storage prior to use (for example, by sulphur dioxide gas, in brine, in sulphur water or in other preservative solutions), provided they remain unsuitable for immediate consumption in that state.

Heading CD Description Unit General EU EFTA SADC MERCOSUR AfCFTA
07.12 Dried vegetables, whole, cut, sliced, broken or in powder, but not further prepared:
0712.20 2 - Onions kg 20% free 20% free 20% 20%
0712.3 - Mushrooms, wood ears (Auricularia spp.), jelly fungi (Tremella spp.) and truffles:
0712.31 3 -- Mushrooms of the genus Agaricus kg 20% free 20% free 20% 20%
0712.32 9 -- Wood ears (Auricularia spp.) kg 20% free 20% free 20% 20%
0712.33 6 -- Jelly fungi (Tremella spp.) kg 20% free 20% free 20% 20%
0712.34 2 -- Shiitake (Lentinus edodes) kg 20% free 20% free 20% 20%
0712.39 4 -- Other kg 20% free 20% free 20% 20%
0712.90 - Other vegetables; mixtures of vegetables:
0712.90.15 2 -- Culinary herbs kg 4c/kg free 4c/kg free free 1,6c/kg
0712.90.90 4 -- Other kg 20% free 20% free 20% 8%

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