Customs Tariff  

CHAPTER 16

Preparations of meat, of fish, crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates or of insects

    old[Preparations of meat, of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates]

Notes:

1. This Chapter does not cover meat, meat offal, fish, crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, as well as insects, prepared or preserved by the processes specified in Chapter 2 or 3, Note 6 to Chapter 4 or in heading 0504

old[1. This Chapter does not cover meat, meat offal, fish, crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates, prepared or preserved by the processes specified in Chapter 2 or 3 or heading No. 0504. ]

2.     Food preparations fall in this Chapter provided that they contain more than 20% by weight of sausage, meat, meat offal, blood, insect, fish old[blood, fish] or crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, or any combination thereof. In cases where the preparation contains two or more of the products mentioned above, it is classified in the heading of Chapter 16 corresponding to the component or components which predominate by weight. These provisions do not apply to the stuffed products of heading No. 1902 or to the preparations of heading No. 2103 or 2104.

Sub-heading Notes:

1.     For the purposes of sub-heading 160210, the expression "homogenised preparations" means preparations of meat, meat offal, blood or insects old[preparations of meat, meat offal or blood], finely homogenised, put up for retail sale as infant food or for dietetic purposes, in containers of a net weight content not exceeding 250 g. For the application of this definition no account is to be taken of small quantities of any ingredients which may have been added to the preparation for seasoning, preservation or other purposes. These preparations may contain a small quantity of visible pieces of meat or meat offal or insects. old[visible pieces of meat or meat offal]. This sub-heading takes precedence over all other sub-headings of heading No. 1602.

2.     The fish and crustaceans specified in the sub-headings of heading No. 1604 or 1605 under their common names only, are of the same species as those mentioned in Chapter 3 under the same name.