Vegetables provisionally preserved, but unsuitable in that state for immediate consumption. - Other vegetables; mixtures of vegetables

1. 1. This Chapter does not cover forage products of heading 12.14.

2. 2. In headings 07.09, 07.10, 07.11 and 07.12 the word "vegetables" includes edible mushrooms, truffles, olives, capers, marrows, pumpkins, aubergines, sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata), fruits of the genus Capsicum or of the genus Pimenta, fennel, parsley, chervil, tarragon, cress and sweet marjoram (Majorana hortensis or Origanum majorana).

3. 3. Heading 07.12 covers all dried vegetables of the kinds falling in headings 07.01 to 07.11, other than: • (a) dried leguminous vegetables, shelled (heading 07.13); • (b) sweet corn in the forms specified in headings 11.02 to 11.04; • (c) flour, meal, powder, flakes, granules and pellets of potatoes (heading 11.05); • (d) flour, meal and powder of the dried leguminous vegetables of heading 07.13 (heading 11.06).

4. 4. However, dried or crushed or ground fruits of the genus Capsicum or of the genus Pimenta are excluded from this Chapter (heading 09.04).

5. 5. Heading 07.11 applies to vegetables which have been treated solely to ensure their provisional preservation during transport or storage prior to use (for example, by sulphur dioxide gas, in brine, in sulphur water or in other preservative solutions), provided they remain unsuitable for immediate consumption in that state.