Preparation of meat, of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic in vertebrates
Notes:
- 1.
- This Chapter does not cover meat, meat offal, fish crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, prepared or preserved by the processes specified in
Chapter 2 or 3 or heading No.05.04.
- 2.
- Food preparations fall in this Chapter provided that they contain more than 20% by weight of sausage, meat, meat offal, blood, fish or crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, or any combination thereof. In case where the preparation contains two or more of the products mentioned 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 the stuffed products of heading No. 19.02 or to the preparations of heading No. 21.03 or 21.04.
Sub-heading Notes
- 1.
- For the purposes of sub-heading No.1602.10, the expression "homogenised preparations" means preparations of meat, meat offal or blood, finely homogenised, put up for retail sale as infant food or for dietic purposes, in containers of a net weight content not exceeding 250g. For the application of this definition no account is to be taken of
small quantities of any ingredients which may have been added to preparation for seasoning, preservation of other purposes. These preparations may contain a small quantity of visible pieces of meat or meat offal. This sub-heading taken precedence over all other sub-headings of heading No.16.02.
- 2.
- The fish and crustaceans specified in the sub-headings of heading No.16.04 or 16.05 under their common names only, are of the same species as those mentioned in Chapter 3 under the same name.