Appendix II — Preferential import tariff

PREPARED FOODSTUFFS; BEVERAGES, SPIRITS AND VINEGAR; TOBACCO AND MANUFACTURED TOBACCO SUBSTITUTES; PRODUCTS, WHETHER OR NOT CONTAINING NICOTINE, INTENDED FOR INHALATION WITHOUT COMBUSTION;

OTHER NICOTINE CONTAINING PRODUCTS INTENDED FOR

THE INTAKE OF NICOTINE INTO THE HUMAN BODY

Notes.

1. In this Section the term "pellets" means products which have been agglomerated either directly by compression or by the addition of a binder in a proportion not exceeding 3% by weight.

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

Notes.

1. This Chapter does not cover meat, meat offal, fish, crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, or insects, prepared or preserved by the processes specified in Chapter 2 or 3, Note 6 to Chapter 4 or heading 05.04.

2. Food preparations fall in this Chapter provided that they contain more than 20% by weight of sausage, meat, meat offal, blood, insects, fish or crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, or any combination thereof. In cases where the preparation contains two or more of the products referred to 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 stuffed products of heading 19.02 or to the preparations of heading 21.03 or 21.04.

Subheading Notes.

1. For the purposes of subheading 1602.10, the expression "homogenised preparations" means preparations of meat, meat offal or blood or of insects, finely homogenised, put up for retail sale as food suitable for infants or young children 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 of insects. This subheading takes precedence over all other subheadings of heading 16.02.

2. Fish, crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates referred to by name in the subheadings of heading 16.04 or 16.05 relate to the species specified in Chapter 3 under the same names.