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HS Code 11
Products of the milling industry; malt; starches; inulin; wheat gluten
- 1. This chapter does not cover:
- (a) Roasted malt put up as coffee substitutes (heading 0901 or 2101);
- (b) Prepared flours, groats, meals or starches of heading 1901;
- (c) Corn flakes or other products of heading 1904;
- (d) Vegetables, prepared or preserved, of heading 2001, 2004 or 2005;
- (e) Pharmaceutical products (chapter 30); or
- (f) Starches having the character of perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations (chapter 33).
- 2.
- (A) Products from the milling of the cereals listed in the table below fall within 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 2302. However, germ of cereals, whole, rolled, flaked or ground is always classified in heading 1104. - (B) Products falling within this chapter under the above provisions shall be classified in heading 1101 or 1102 if the percentage passing through a woven metal wire cloth sieve with the aperture indicated in column (4) or (5) is not less, by weight, than that shown against the cereal concerned.Otherwise, they fall in heading 1103 or 1104.
Cereal Starch content Ash content Rate of passage through a sieve with an aperture of-- (microns) (microns) 315 micrometers 500 micrometers (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Percent Percent Percent Percent Wheat and rye 45 2.5 80 - Barley 45 3 80 - Oats 45 5 80 - Corn (maize) and grain sorghum 45 2 - 90 Rice 45 1.6 80 - Buckwheat 45 4 80 - - (A) Products from the milling of the cereals listed in the table below fall within this chapter if they have, by weight on the dry product:
- 3. For the purposes of heading 1103 the terms "groats" and "meal" mean products obtained by the fragmentation of cereal grains, of which --
- (a) In the case of corn (maize) products, at least 95 percent 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 percent by weight passes through a woven metal wirecloth sieve with an aperture of 1.25 mm.
- 1. Notwithstanding the rates of duty set forth in this subchapter, mixtures of the products classifiable in headings 1101, 1102, 1103 or 1104 (except mixtures classifiable in subheading 1102.90.30) are dutiable as follows:
column 1 (general)- 12.8% column 1 (special)- Free (AU,CL,E,IL,P,SG) column 2- 20%
U.S. Tariff Rates
A/Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) (duty-free treatment).
Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Anguilla, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia-Hercegov, Botswana, Br Virgin Is, Br Indian O Ter, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Cen African Rep, Chad, Christmas Is, Cocos Is, Comoros, Congo (DROC), Congo (ROC), Cook Is, Cote d`Ivoire, Djibouti, Dominica Is, Ecuador, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Is, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Gaza Strip, Georgia, Ghana, Grenada Is, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Heard & McDn Is, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Maldive Is, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat Is, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Norfolk Is, Pakistan, Papua New Guin, Paraguay, Philippines, Pitcairn Is, Rwanda, Samoa, Sao Tome & Prin, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Is, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, St Helena, St Kitts-Nevis, St Lucia Is, St Vinc & Gren, Suriname, Swaziland, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tokelau Is, Tonga, Tunisia, Turkey, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Wallis & Futuna, West Bank, Western Sahara, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe
A+/Only imports from least-developed beneficiary developing countries eligible for GSP under that subheading (duty-free treatment).
Afghanistan, Angola, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cen African Rep, Chad, Comoros, Congo (DROC), Djibouti, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Kiribati, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Nepal, Niger, Rwanda, Samoa, Sao Tome & Prin, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Is, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tuvalu, Uganda, Vanuatu, Yemen, Zambia
AU/Australia Special Rate
Australia
BH/Bahrain Special Rate
Bahrain
CL/Chile Special Rate
Chile
CO/Colombia Special Rate
Colombia
D/Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) (duty-free treatment)
Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chad, Comoros, Congo (ROC), Cote d`Ivoire, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome & Prin, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia
E/Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI)
CBERA
IL/Israel Special Rate (duty-free treatment)
Israel
JO/Jordan Special Rate
Jordan
KR/Korea Special Rate
Korea
MA/Morocco Special Rate
Morocco
OM/Oman Special Rate
Oman
P/Dominican Republic- Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA)
CAFTA + Dom. Rep.
PA/Panama Special Rate
Panama
PE/Peru Special Rate
Peru
SG/Singapore Special Rate
Singapore