Customs Tariff
CHAPTER 12
Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit;
industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder
Notes:
1. Heading No. 12.07 applies, inter alia, to
palm nuts and kernels, cotton seeds, caster oil seeds, sesamum seeds, mustard
seeds, safflower seeds, poppy seeds and shea nuts (karite nuts). It does not
apply to products of Heading No. 08.01 or 08.02 or to olives (Chapter 7 or
Chapter 20).
2. Heading No. 12.08 applies not only to non-defatted flours and meals but also to flours and meals which have been partially defatted or defatted and wholly or partially refatted with their original oils. It does not, however, apply to residues of Heading Nos. 23.04 to 23.06.
3. For the purposes of Heading No. 12.09, beet
seeds, grass and other herbage seeds, seeds of ornamental flowers, vegetable
seeds, seeds of forest trees, seeds of fruit trees, seeds of vetches (other than
those of the species Vicia faba) or of lupines are to be regarded as
"seeds of a kind used for sowing".
Heading No. 12.09 does not, however, apply to the
following even if for sowing:
4. Heading No. 12.11 applies, inter alia, to the following plants or parts thereof: basil, borage, ginseng, hyssop, liquorice, all species of mint, rosemary, rue, sage and wormwood.(a) Leguminous vegetables or sweet corn (Chapter 7);(b) Spices or other products of Chapter 9;
(c) Cereals (Chapter 10); or
(d) Products of Heading Nos. 12.01 to 12.07 or 12.11.
Heading No. 12.11 does not, however, apply to:
5. For the purposes of Heading No. 12.12, the term "seaweeds and other algae" does not include:(a) Medicaments of Chapter 30;(b) Perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations of Chapter 33; or
(c) Insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, disinfectants or similar products of Heading No. 38.08.
(a) Dead single-cell micro-organisms of Heading No. 21,02;(b) Cultures of micro-organisms of Heading No. 30.02; or
(c) Fertilizers of Heading No. 31.01 or 31.05.
SUB-HEADING NOTE
For the purpose of sub-heading 1205 10, the expression "low erucic acid rape or colza seeds" means rape or colza seeds yielding a fixed oil which has an erucic acid content of less than 2% by weight and yielding a solid component which contains less than 30 micromoles of glucosinolates per gram.
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