Chapter 20

 

                                                                               Preparations of vegetables, fruit,

                                                                                   nuts or other parts of plants

 

Notes.

 

1.             This Chapter does not cover:

 

(a)           Vegetables, fruit or nuts, prepared or preserved by the processes specified in  Chapter 7, 8 or 11;

 

(b)           Food preparations containing more than 20 per cent by weight of sausage, meat, meat offal, blood, fish or crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, or any combination thereof

(Chapter 16); or

 

(c)           Homogenised composite food preparations of heading 21.04.

 

2.             Headings 20.07 and 20.08 do not apply to fruit jellies, fruit pastes, sugar-coated almonds or the like in the form of sugar confectionery (heading 17.04) or chocolate confectionery (heading 18.06).

 

3.             Headings 20.01, 20.04 and 20.05 cover, as the case may be, only products of Chapter 7 or of heading 11.05 or 11.06 (other than flour, meal and powder of the products of Chapter 8) which have been prepared or preserved by processes other than those referred to in Note 1(a).

 

4.             Tomato juice, the dry weight content of which is 7% or more is to be classified in heading 20.02.

 

5.             For the purposes of heading 20.07, the expression “obtained by cooking” means obtained by heat treatment at atmospheric pressure or under reduced pressure to increase the viscosity of a product through reduction of water content or other means.

 

6.             For the purposes of heading 20.09, the expression "juices, unfermented and not containing added spirit" means juices of an alcoholic strength by volume (see Note 2 to Chapter 22) not exceeding 0.5% vol.

 

Sub-heading Notes.

 

1.             For the purposes of sub-heading 2005.10, the expression  "homogenised vegetables" means preparations of vegetables, finely homogenised, put up for retail sale as infant food 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 vegetables. Sub-heading 2005.10 takes precedence over all other sub-headings of heading 20.05.

 

2.             For the purposes of sub-heading 2007.10, the expression "homogenised preparations" means preparations of fruit, finely homogenised, put up for retail sale as infant food 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 fruit. Sub-heading 2007.10 takes precedence over all other sub-headings of heading 20.07.

 

3.             For the purposes of subheadings 2009.12, 2009.21, 2009.31, 2009.41, 2009.61 and 2009.71, the expression “Brix value” means the direct reading of degrees Brix obtained from a Brix hydrometer or of refractive index expressed in terms of percentage sucrose content obtained from a refractometer, at a temperature of 20 °C or corrected for 20 °C if the reading is made at a different temperature.                               

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

Heading

H.S.Code

Description

Statutory

Rate of

Import Duty

Statistical

Unit

Statutory

Rate of

Export Duty

(1)

(2)

(3)

               (4)

          (5)

       (6)

 

20.01

 

Vegetables, fruit, nuts and other edible parts of plants, prepared

or preserved by vinegar or acetic acid.

 

 

 

 

2001.10.00

-Cucumbers and gherkins

32.5%

kg

Free

 

2001.90.00

-Other

32.5%

kg

Free

20.02

 

Tomatoes prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or

acetic acid.

 

 

 

 

2002.10.00

-Tomatoes, whole or in pieces

32.5%

kg

Free

 

2002.90.00

-Other

32.5%

kg

Free

20.03

 

Mushrooms and truffles, prepared or preserved otherwise than by

vinegar or acetic acid.

 

 

 

 

2003.10.00

-Mushrooms of the genus Agaricus

32.5%

kg

Free

 

2003.20.00

-Truffles

32.5%

kg

Free

 

2003.90.00

-Other

32.5%

kg

Free

20.04

 

Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar

or acetic acid, frozen, other than products of heading  20.06.

 

 

 

 

2004.10.00

-Potatoes

32.5%

kg            

Free

 

2004.90.00

-Other vegetables and mixtures of vegetables

32.5%

kg

Free

20.05

 

Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar

or acetic acid, not frozen, other than products of heading  20.06.

 

 

 

 

2005.10.00

-Homogenised vegetables

32.5%

kg

Free

 

2005.20.00

-Potatoes

32.5%

kg

Free

 

2005.40.00

-Peas (Pisum sativum)

32.5%

kg            

Free

 

 

-Beans (Vigna spp., Phaseolus spp.):

 

 

 

 

2005.51.00

--Beans, shelled     

32.5%

kg            

Free

 

2005.59.00

--Other  

32.5%

kg

Free

 

2005.60.00

-Asparagus

32.5%

kg

Free

 

2005.70.00

-Olives  

32.5%

kg            

Free

 

2005.80.00

-Sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata)

32.5%

kg            

Free

 

2005.90.00

-Other vegetables and mixtures of vegetables

32.5%      

kg            

Free

20.06

2006.00.00

Vegetables, fruit, nuts, fruit‑peel and other parts of plants,

preserved by sugar (drained, glace or crystallised).

32.5%

kg

Free

20.07

 

Jams, fruit jellies, marmalades, fruit or nut puree and fruit or

nut pastes, obtained by cooking, whether or not containing

added sugar or other sweetening matter.

 

 

 

 

2007.10.00

-Homogenised preparations

32.5%

kg

Free

 

 

-Other:

 

 

 

 

2007.91.00

--Citrus fruit

32.5%

kg

Free

 

2007.99.00

--Other

32.5%

kg

Free

20.08

 

Fruit, nuts and  other edible parts of plants, otherwise prepared

or preserved, whether or not containing added sugar or other

sweetening matter or spirit, not elsewhere specified or included.

 

 

 

 

 

-Nuts, ground-nuts and other seeds, whether or not mixed together:

 

 

 

 

2008.11.00

--Ground-nuts

32.5%

kg

Free

 

2008.19.00

--Other, including mixtures

32.5%

kg

Free

 

2008.20.00

-Pineapples

32.5%

kg

Free

 

2008.30.00

-Citrus fruit

32.5%

kg

Free

 

2008.40.00

-Pears

32.5%

kg

Free

 

2008.50.00

-Apricots

32.5%

kg

Free

 

2008.60.00

-Cherries

32.5%

kg

Free

 

2008.70.00

-Peaches, including nectarines

32.5%

kg

Free

 

2008.80.00

-Strawberries

32.5%

kg

Free

 

 

-Other, including mixtures other than those of sub-heading 2008.19:

 

 

 

 

2008.91.00