Section II - Chapter 11
Products of the Milling Industry; Malt; Starches; Inulin; Wheat Gluten
Classification of Exports
Chapter 11 - Page 1
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Notes
1. This chapter does not cover:
(a). Roasted malt put up as coffee substitutes (heading 0901 or 2101);
(b). Prepared flours, groats, meals or starches of heading 1901;
(c).
Corn flakes or other products of heading 1904;
(d). Vegetables, prepared or preserved, of heading 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 within 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 2302. However, germ of cereals, whole, rolled, flaked
or ground, is always classified in heading 1104.
(B). Products falling within this chapter under the above provisions shall be classified in
heading 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 1103 or 1104.
Section II - Chapter 11
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Classification of Exports
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Rate of passage through a
sieve with an aperture of
Cereal
Starch
Ash
315
500
content
content
micrometers
micrometers
(microns)
(microns)
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
Percent
Percent
Percent
Percent
Wheat and Rye.............
45
2.5
80
--
Barley.........................
45
3
80
--
Oats............................
45
5
80
--
Corn (maize) &
Grain sorghum.......
45
2
--
90
Rice............................
45
1.6
80
--
Buckwheat...................
45
4
80
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3. For the purposes of heading 1103 the terms "groa