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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 16
Preparations of Meat, of Fish, of Crustaceans, Molluscs or Other Aquatic Invertebrates, or of Insects

Notes

1.

This Chapter does not cover meat, meat offal, fish, crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, as well as insects, prepared or preserved by the processes specified in Chapter 2 or 3, Note 6 to Chapter 4 or in heading 05.04.

2.

Food preparations fall in this Chapter provided that they contain 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. In cases where the preparation contains two or more of the products mentioned above, it is classified in the heading of Chapter 16 corresponding to the component or components which predominate by weight. These provisions do not apply to the stuffed products of heading 19.02 or to the preparations of heading 21.03 or 21.04.

Subheading Notes

1.

For the purposes of subheading 1602.10, the expression "homogenised preparations" means preparations of meat, meat offal, blood or insects, finely homogenised, put up for retail sale as food suitable for infants or young children or for dietetic purposes, in containers of a net mass content not exceeding 250 g. For the application of this definition no account is to be taken of small quantities of any ingredients which may have been added to the preparation for seasoning, preservation or other purposes. These preparations may contain a small quantity of visible pieces of meat, meat offal or insects. This subheading takes precedence over all other subheadings of heading 16.02.

2.

The fish, crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates specified in the subheadings of heading 16.04 or 16.05 under their common names only, are of the same species as those mentioned in Chapter 3 under the same name.

Additional Note

1.

For the purpose of subheading 1602.49.30 the expression "rib" shall be limited to rib portions having on one side a maximum meat thickness of 5 mm covering the bone while the opposite side of the bone is clearly visible.

Heading CD Description Unit General EU EFTA SADC MERCOSUR AfCFTA
16.04 Prepared or preserved fish; caviar and caviar substitutes prepared from fish eggs:
1604.20 - Other prepared or preserved fish:
1604.20.10 0 -- Fish paste kg 16,5c/kg with a maximum of 25% free free free 16,5c/kg with a maximum of 25% 16,5c/kg with a maximum of 25%
1604.20.20 8 -- Homogenised composite food preparations kg free free free free free free
1604.20.3 -- Other anchovies:
1604.20.31 3 --- Canned, minced anchovies kg 6c/kg free free free 6c/kg 2,4c/kg
1604.20.39 9 --- Other kg 25% free free free 25% 10%
1604.20.40 2 -- Other sardines (pilchards) (Sardinops spp.), mackerel and horsemackerel (Trachurus trachurus), in airtight metal containers kg 6c/kg free free free 6c/kg 2,4c/kg
1604.20.45 3 -- Other sardines (pilchards) (Sardinops spp.) and sardinella (Sardinella spp.), minced, in airtight containers for human consumption kg 6c/kg free free free 6c/kg 2,4c/kg
1604.20.80 1 -- Other, frozen kg 25% or 200c/kg 5% or 40c/kg free free 25% or 200c/kg 10% or 80c/kg
1604.20.90 9 -- Other kg 6c/kg free free free 6c/kg 2,4c/kg

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