Cereal straw and husks, unprepared, whether or not chopped, ground, pressed or in the form of pellets.

1. 1. Heading 12.07 applies, inter alia, to palm nuts and kernels, cotton seeds, castor oil seeds, sesamum seeds, mustard seeds, safflower seeds, poppy seeds and shea nuts (karite nuts). It does not apply to products of heading 08.01 or 08.02 or to olives (Chapter 7 or Chapter 20).

2. 2. Heading 12.08 applies not only to non defatted flours and meals but also to flours and meals which have been partially defatted or defatted and wholly or partially refatted with their original oils. It does not, however, apply to residues of headings 23.04 to 23.06.

3. 3. For the purpose of heading 12.09, beet seeds, grass and other herbage seeds, seeds of ornamental flowers, vegetable seeds, seeds of forest trees, seeds of fruit trees, seeds of vetches (other than those of the species Vicia faba) or of lupines are to be regarded as "seeds of a kind used for sowing". Heading 12.09 does not, however, apply to the following even if for sowing: • (a) Leguminous vegetables or sweet corn (Chapter 7); • (b) Spices or other products of Chapter 9; • (c) Cereals...

4. 4. Heading 12.11 applies, inter alia, to the following plants or parts thereof: basil, borage, ginseng, hyssop, liquorice, all species of mint, rosemary, rue, sage and wormwood. Heading 12.11 does not, however, apply to: • (a) Medicaments of Chapter 30; • (b) Perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations of Chapter 33; or • (c) Insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, disinfectants or similar products of heading 38.08.

5. 5. For the purpose of heading 12.12, the term "seaweeds and other algae" does not include: • (a) Dead single cell micro organisms of heading 21.02; • (b) Cultures of micro organisms of heading 30.02; or • (c) Fertilizers of heading 31.01 or 31.05.