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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
07.09 Other vegetables, fresh or chilled:
0709.20 5 - Asparagus kg 15% free 15% free
0709.30 6 - Aubergines (egg-plants) kg free free free free
0709.40 4 - Celery other than celeriac kg free free free free
0709.5 - Mushrooms and truffles:
0709.51 5 -- Mushrooms of the genus Agaricus kg 15% free 15% free
0709.52 1 -- Mushrooms of the genus Boletus kg 15% free 15% free
0709.53 8 -- Mushrooms of the genus Cantharellus kg 15% free 15% free
0709.54 4 -- Shiitake (Lentinus edodes) kg 15% free 15% free
0709.55 0 -- Matsutake (Tricholoma matsutake, Tricholoma magnivelare, Tricholoma anatolicum, Tricholoma dulciolens, Tricholoma caligatum) kg 15% free 15% free
0709.56 7 -- Truffles (Tuber spp.) kg free free free free
0709.59 -- Other:
0709.59.10 3 --- Truffles kg free free free free
0709.59.90 1 --- Other kg 15% free 15% free
0709.60 3 - Fruits of the genus CAPSICUM or of the genus PIMENTA kg 15% free 15% free
0709.70 8 - Spinach, New Zealand spinach and orache spinach (garden spinach) kg free free free free
0709.9 - Other:
0709.91 3 -- Globe artichokes kg free free free free
0709.92 2 -- Olives kg 15% free 15% free
0709.93 6 -- Pumpkins, squash and gourds (Cucurbita spp.) kg 15% free 15% free
0709.99 4 -- Other kg 15% free 15% free

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