Customs Tariff  

CHAPTER 11

Products of the milling industry; malt; starches; inulin; wheat gluten

Notes:

1. This Chapter does not cover:

(a) Roasted malt put up as coffee substitutes (Heading No. 0901 or 2101);

(b) Prepared flours, groats, meals or starches of Heading No. 1901;

(c) Corn flakes or other products of Heading No. 1904;

(d) Vegetables prepared or preserved, of Heading No. 2001, 2004 or 2005;

(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 weight 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 No. 2302. However, germ of cereals, whole, rolled, flaked or ground is always classified in heading No. 1104.

(B) Products falling in this Chapter under the above provisions shall be classified in Heading No. 1101 or 1102 if the percentage passing through a woven metal wire cloth sieve with the aperture indicated in Column (4) or (5) is not less, by weight, than that shown against the cereal concerned.

 Otherwise, they fall in heading No. 1103 or 1104.

cereal Starch Content Ash Content Rate of passage through a sieve with an         aperture of
             315         micrometres (microns)                500          micrometres (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 soghum           45%              2%                 -                  90%
Rice           45%           1.6%              80%                  -
Buckwheat           45%             4%              80%                  -


  

3. For the purposes of heading No. 1103 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 weight 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 weight passes through a woven metal wire cloth sieve with an aperture of 1.25 mm.