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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
07.03 Onions, shallots, garlic, leeks and other alliaceous vegetables, fresh or chilled:
0703.10 9 - Onions and shallots kg 15% free 15% free
0703.20 3 - Garlic kg 325c/kg with a maximum of 37% free 325c/kg with a maximum of 37% free
0703.90 5 - Leeks and other alliaceous vegetables kg 15% free 15% free

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