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Heading 1103

Cereal groats, meal and pellets.

4 subheadings

Subheadings

Explanatory Notes

Cereal groats, meal and pellets

Source: eu_cn_en (EUR-Lex 02019XC0329(02)-20250113)

Groats and meal 1.  See notes 2 and 3 to this chapter. 2.  See the HS Explanatory Note to heading 1103 , first six paragraphs. 3. — Products which do not comply with the sieving criteria laid down in note 3 to this chapter are classified in heading 1104 . — Products which comply with the sieving criteria laid down in note 3 to this chapter but which, having been pearled, are in the form of...

Source: eu_cn_en (EUR-Lex 02019XC0329(02)-20250113)

Of maize (corn) For the determination of the fat content, see the explanatory note to subheadings 1102 20 10 and 1102 20 90 . These subheadings include groats and meal of maize described as ‘masa flour’ which is obtained by the ‘nixtamalisation’ method that is characterised by the cooking and soaking of maize grains in a calcium hydroxide solution and subsequent drying and grinding. Any...

Source: eu_cn_en (EUR-Lex 02019XC0329(02)-20250113)

Pellets See the HS Explanatory Note to heading 1103 , last paragraph.

Source: eu_cn_en (EUR-Lex 02019XC0329(02)-20250113)

Chapter 11 Notes (3)
1. 1. This Chapter does not cover: • (a) Roasted malt put up as coffee substitutes (heading 09.01 or 21.01); • (b) Prepared flours, groats meals or starches of heading 19.01; • (c) Corn flakes or other products of heading 19.04; • (d) Vegetables, prepared or preserved, of heading 20.01, 20.04 or 20.05; • (e) Pharmaceutical products (Chapter 30); or • (f) Starches having the character of perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations (Chapter 33).
2. 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 23.02. However, germ of cereals, whole, rolled, flaked or ground, is always classified in...
3. 3.  For the purpose of heading 11.03, 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% 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% by weight passes through a woven metal wire cloth sieve with an aperture of 1.25 mm.

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