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CHAPTER 11
Products of the milling industry; malt; starches; inulin;wheat gluten

Notes:

1. This Chapter does not cover:

(a) Roasted malt put up as coffee substitutes (Heading No. 09.01 or 21.01);

(b) Prepared flours, meals or starches of Heading No. 19.01;

(c) Corn flakes or other products of Heading No. 19.04;

(d) Vegetables prepared or preserved, of Heading No. 20.01, 20.04 or 20.05;

(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 in 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 No. 23.02. However, germ of cereals, whole, rolled, flaked or ground is always classified in heading No. 11.04.

(B) Products falling in this Chapter under the above provisions shall be classified in Heading No. 11.01 or 11.02 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 No. 11.03 or 11.04.
  

Cereal 
Starch content 
Ash content 
Rate of passage through a sieve with an aperture of
     
315 micrometers (microns)
500 micrometers (microns)
(1) 
(2) 
(3) 
(4) 
(5) 
Wheat and rye  45% 2.5%  80%  — 
Barley  45%  3%  80%  — 
Oats  45%  5%  80%  — 
Maize (corn)  45%  2%  —  90% 
and grain soghum         
Rice  45%  1.6%  80%  — 
Buckwheat  45%  4%  80%  — 
3. For the purposes of heading No. 11.03 the terms "groats" and "meal" mean products obtained by the fragmentation of cereal grains of which :

(a) in the case of maize (corn) products at least 95 per cent 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 per cent by weight passes through a woven metal wire cloth sieve with an aperture of 1.25 mm. 

Heading 
No. 
Sub-heading
No. 
Description of article 
Rate of duty
     
Standard
Preferential 
 Areas 
(1) 
(2) 
(3) 
(4) 
(5) 
11.01 1101.00 Wheat or meslin flour 
30% 
 ... 
11.02   Cereal flours other than of wheat or meslin     
  1102.10  - Rye flour 
30% 
... 
  1102.20  - Maize (corn) flour 
30% 
... 
  1102.30  - Rice flour 
30% 
... 
  1102.90  - Other 
30% 
... 
11.03   Cereal groats, meal and pellets    
    -- Groats and meal:    
  1103.11  -- Of Wheat 
30% 
... 
  1103.12  -- Of Oats 
30% 
... 
  1103.13 -- Of maize (corn) 
30% 
... 
  1103.14  -- Of rice 
30% 
... 
  1103.19  -- Of other cereals 
30% 
... 
    - Pellets:    
  1103.21  --Of wheat 
30% 
... 
  1103.29 -- Of other cereals
30%
... 
11.04   Cereal grains otherwise worked (for example, hulled, rolled, flaked, pearled, sliced or kibbled), except rice of heading No. 10.06; germ of cereals, whole, rolled, flaked or ground     
    - Rolled or flaked grains :    
  1104.11  --Of barley 
30% 
... 
  1104.12  --Of Oats 
30% 
... 
  1104.19  -- Of other cereals 
30% 
... 
    - Other worked grains (for example, hulled, pearled, sliced or kibbled):    
  1104.21  --Of barley 
30% 
... 
  1104.22  --Of oats 
30% 
... 
  1104.23  --Of maize (corn) 
30% 
... 
  1104.29  -- Of other cereals 
30% 
... 
  1104.30  - Germ of cereals, whole, rolled, flaked or ground 
30% 
... 
11.05   Flour, meal, powder, flakes, granules and pellets of potatoes     
  1105.10  - Flour, meal and powder 
30% 
... 
  1105.20  - Flakes; granules and pellets 
30% 
... 
11.06   Flour, meal and powder of the dried leguminous vegetables of heading No. 07.13, of sago or of roots or tubers of heading No. 07.14 or of the products of Chapter 8     
  1106.10  - Of the dried leguminous vegetables of heading No. 07.13 
30% 
... 
  1106.20  - Of sago or of roots or tubers of heading No. 07.14 
30% 
... 
  1106.30  - Of the products of Chapter 8 
30% 
... 
11.07   Malt, whether or not roasted     
  1107.10  - Not roasted 
40% 
... 
  1107.20  - Roasted 
30% 
... 
11.08   Starches; inulin     
    - Starches:     
  1108.11  -- Wheat starch 
30% 
... 
  1108.12  -- Maize (corn) starch 
30% 
... 
  1108.13 -- Potato starch 
30% 
... 
  1108.14  -- Manioc (cassava) starch 
30% 
... 
  1108.19  -- Other starches 
30% 
... 
  1108.20  - Inulin 
30% 
... 
11.09 1109.00  Wheat Gluten, Whether or not dried 
30% 
...