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Section IV
Prepared Foodstuffs; Beverages, Spirits and Vinegar; Tobacco and Manufactured Tobacco Substitutes; Products, Whether or Not Containing Nicotine, Intended for Inhalation Without Combustion; Other Nicotine Containing Products Intended for the Intake of…

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 19
Preparations of Cereals, Flour, Starch or Milk; Pastrycooks Products

Notes

1.

This Chapter does not cover the following:

(a)

Except in the case of stuffed products of heading 19.02, food preparations containing more than 20 per cent by mass of sausage, meat, meat offal, blood, insects, fish or crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, or any combination thereof (Chapter 16);

(b)

biscuits or other articles made from flour or from starch, specially prepared for use in animal feeding (heading 23.09); or

(c)

medicaments or other products of Chapter 30.

2.

For the purposes of heading 19.01:

(a)

the term "groats" means cereal groats of Chapter 11;

(b)

the terms "flour" and "meal" mean:

(1)

cereal flour and meal of Chapter 11, and

(2)

flour, meal and powder of vegetable origin of any Chapter (excluding flour, meal or powder of dried vegetables (heading 07.12), of potatoes (heading 11.05) or of dried leguminous vegetables (heading 11.06).

3.

Heading 19.04 does not cover preparations containing more than 6% by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis or completely coated with chocolate or other food preparations containing cocoa of heading 18.06 (heading 18.06).

4.

For the purposes of heading 19.04, the expression "otherwise prepared" means prepared or processed to an extent beyond that provided for in the headings of or Notes to Chapter 10 or 11.

Additional Notes

1.

Traditional African Beer Powder: For the purposes of heading 19.01 "traditional African beer powder" means any dry product, whether or not containing active dried yeast as a processing aid, consisting of milled sorghum or maize malt and one or more of the following ingredients:

(a)

milled, precooked sorghum, unmalted grain or meal; or

(b)

milled, precooked maize, unmalted grain or meal, in the proportions of not more than three parts by mass of milled sorghum or maize malt to seven parts by mass of such unmalted grain or meal, without added sugar of any kind and which does not contain or is not flavoured with hops or products derived from hops.

2.

For the purposes of tariff subheading 1901.90.13, "preparations for making alcoholic beverages" means preparations put up for retail sale as beer powder or ginger beer powder, which, when mixed with water and left to ferment will produce an alcoholic beverage with an alcoholic strength by volume exceeding 0,5 per cent vol.

Heading CD Description Unit General EU EFTA SADC
19.05 Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products:
1905.3 - Sweet biscuits; waffles and wafers:
1905.31 3 -- Sweet biscuits kg 21% free free free
1905.32 6 -- Waffles and wafers kg 21% free free free

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