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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 11
Products of the Milling Industry; Malt; Starches; Insulin; Wheat Gluten

Notes

1.

This Chapter does not cover the following:

(a)

roasted malt put up as coffee substitutes (heading 09.01 or 21.01);

(b)

prepared flours, groats, meals or starches of heading 19.01;

(c)

corn flakes or other products of heading 19.04;

(d)

vegetables, prepared or preserved, of heading 20.01, 20.04 or 20.05;

(e)

pharmaceutical products (Chapter 30); or

(f)

starches having the character of perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations (Chapter 33).

2.

(A)

Products from the milling of the cereals listed in the table below fall in this Chapter if they have, by mass on the dry product:

(a)

a starch content (determined by the modified Ewers polarimetric method) exceeding that indicated in Column (2);and

(b)

an ash content (after deduction of any added minerals) not exceeding that indicated in Column (3). Otherwise, they fall in heading 23.02. However, germ of cereals, whole, rolled, flaked or ground, is always classified in heading 11.04.

(B)

Products falling in this Chapter under the above provisions shall be classified in heading 11.01 or 11.02 if the percentage passing through a woven metal wire cloth sieve with the aperture indicated in Column (4) or (5) is not less, by mass, than that shown against the cereal concerned. Otherwise they fall in heading 11.03 or 11.04.

Cereal Starch content Ash content Rate of passage through a sieve with an aperture of 315 micrometers (microns) Rate of passage through a sieve with an aperture of 500 micrometers (microns)
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5)
Wheat and rye 45% 2,5% 80% -
Barley 45% 3% 80% -
Oats 45% 5% 80% -
Maize (corn) and grain sorghum 45% 2% - 90%
Rice 45% 1,6% 80% -
Buckwheat 45% 4% 80% -

3.

For the purposes of heading 11.03, the terms "groats" and "meal" mean products obtained by the fragmentation of cereal grains, of which:

(a)

in the case of maize (corn) products, at least 95 per cent by mass passes through a woven metal wire cloth sieve with an aperture of 2 mm;

(b)

in the case of other cereal products, at least 95 per cent by mass passes through a woven metal wire cloth sieve with an aperture of 1,25 mm.

Additional Notes

1.

For the purposes of tariff subheadings 1101.00.20 and 1101.00.30 -

(a)

Cake wheat flour and white bread wheat flour means such flours as defined in the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development Regulations, published by Government Notice No. 405 of 5 May 2017, relating to the grading, packing and marking of wheat products, imported into the Republic of South Africa.

(b)

Cake wheat flour or white bread wheat flour as defined in the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development Regulations, published by Government Notice No. R. 405 of 5 May 2017, must be classified in tariff subheading 1101.00.90 unless it complies with the grading, packing and marking requirements applicable in terms of those Regulations to such classes of wheat products intended for sale in the Republic of South Africa.

2.

For the purposes of tariff subheading 1102.20.10, super fine maize meal as referred to in the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development Regulations, published by Government Notice No. 63 of 29 January 2016, with a fineness or granulation by mass of at least 80% that shall pass through a 0.3 mm sieve.

Heading CD Description Unit General EU EFTA SADC
11.03 Cereal groats, meal and pellets:
1103.1 - Groats and meal:
1103.11 2 -- Of wheat kg 20% 20% 20% free
1103.13 -- Of maize (corn):
1103.13.10 2 --- Maize meal not further processed other than by the addition of minerals and vitamins not exceeding 1 per cent by mass of the final product, solely for the purpose of increasing the nutritional value kg 5% 5% 5% free
1103.13.90 0 --- Other kg 5% 5% 5% free
1103.19 -- Of other cereals:
1103.19.10 0 --- Of oats kg 2,75c/kg free 2,75c/kg free
1103.19.20 8 --- Of rice kg 20% free 20% free
1103.19.90 9 --- Other kg 0,65c/kg free 0,65c/kg free

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