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CHAPTER 7
Edible Vegetables and certain Roots and Tubers

Notes:

1. This Chapter does not cover forage products of Heading No. 12.14.

2. In Headings Nos. 07.09, 07.10, 07.11 and 07.12 the word "vegetables" includes edible mushrooms, truffles, olives, capers, marrows, pumpkins, aubergines, sweet corn (Zea mays var, saccharata), fruits of the genus Capsicum or of the genus Pimenta, fennel, parsley, chervil, tarragon, cress and sweet marjoram (Majorana hortensis or Origanum majorana).

3. Heading No. 07.12 covers all dried vegetables of the kinds falling in Headings Nos. 07.01 to 07.11, other than:

(a) dried leguminous vegetables, shelled (Heading No. 07.13);

(b) sweet corn in the forms specified in Headings Nos. 11.02 to 11.04;

(c) flour, meal, powder, flakes, granules and pellets of potatoes (heading No. 11.05);

(d) flour, meal and powder of the dried leguminous vegetables of heading No. 07.13 (heading No. 11.06).

4. However, dried or crushed or ground fruits of the genus Capsicum or of the genus Pimenta are excluded from this Chapter (Heading No. 09.04). 
Heading No 
Sub-Heading. No. 
Description of article 
Rate of duty
     
Standard 
 Preferential     Areas
(1) 
(2) 
(3) 
(4) 
(5) 
07.01    Potatoes, fresh or chilled     
  0701.10  -Seed 
30% 
20% 
  0701.90  -Other 
30% 
20% 
07.02  0702.00  Tomatoes, fresh or chilled 
30% 
20% 
07.03    Onions, shallots, garlic, leeks and other alliaceous vegetables, fresh or chilled     
  0703.10  - Onions and shallots 
30% 
20% 
  0703.20  - Garlic 
30%
20% 
  0703.90  - Leeks and other alliaceous vegetables 
30% 
20% 
07.04    Cabbages, cauliflowers, kohlrabi, kale and similar edible brassicas, fresh or chilled     
  0704.10  - Cauliflowers and headed broccoli 
30% 
20% 
  0704.20  - Brussels sprouts 
30% 
20% 
  0704.90  -Other 
30% 
20% 
07.05    Lettuce (Lactucasativa) and chicory (Chichorium spp.), fresh or chilled     
    - Lettuce:    
  0705.11  -- Cabbage lettuce (head lettuce) 
30% 
20% 
  0705.19  -- Other 
30% 
20% 
    - Chicory :.     
  0705.21  -- Witloof chicory (Cichorium intybus var. foliosum)
30% 
20% 
  0705.29  -- Other 
30% 
20% 
07.06    Carrots, turnips, salad beetroot, salsify, celeriac, radishes and similar edible roots, fresh or chilled     
  0706.10  - Carrots and turnips 
30% 
20% 
  0706.90  - Other 
30% 
20% 
07.07 0707.00  Cucumbers and gherkins, fresh or chilled 
30% 
20% 
07.08    Leguminous vegetables, shelled or un-shelled, fresh or chilled     
  0708.10  - Peas (Pisum sativum)
30% 
20% 
  0708.20  - Beans (Vigna spp., Phaseolus spp.)
30% 
20% 
  0708.90  - Other leguminous vegetables 
30% 
20% 
07.09    Other vegetables, fresh or chilled     
  0709.10  - Globe artichokes 
30% 
20% 
  0709.20  - Asparagus 
30% 
20% 
  0709.30  - Aubergines (egg plants) 
30% 
20% 
  0709.40  - Celery other than celeriac 
30% 
20% 
    - Mushrooms and truffles :    
  0709.51  -- Mushrooms 
30% 
20% 
  0709.52  -- Truffles 
30% 
20% 
  0709.60  - Fruits of the genus Capsicum or of the genus Pimenta
30% 
20% 
  0709.70  - Spinach, New Zealand spinach and orache spinach (garden spinach) 
30% 
20% 
  0709.90  - Other 
30% 
20% 
07.10    Vegetables (uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water), frozen     
  0710.10  - Potatoes 
30% 
20% 
    - Leguminous vegetables shelled or unshelled :    
  0710.21  -- Peas (Pisum sativum)
30% 
20% 
  0710.22  -- Beans (Vigna spp., Phaseolus spp.)
30% 
20% 
  0710.29  -- Other 
30% 
20% 
  0710.30  - Spinach, New Zealand spinach and orache spinach (garden spinach) 
30% 
20% 
  0710.40  - Sweet corn 
30% 
20% 
  0710.80  - Other vegetables 
30% 
20% 
  0710.90  - Mixtures of vegetables 
30% 
20% 
07.11    Vegetables provisionally preserved (for example, by sulphur dioxide gas, in brine, in sulphur water or in other preservative solutions), but unsuitable in that state for immediate consumption     
  0711.10  - Onions 
30% 
20% 
  0711.20  - Olives 
30% 
20% 
  0711.30  - Capers 
30% 
20% 
  0711.40  - Cucumbers and gherkins 
30% 
20% 
  0711.90  - Other vegetables; mixtures of vegetables 
30% 
20% 
07.12    Dried vegetables, whole, cut, sliced, broken or in powder, but not further prepared     
  0712.20  - Onions 
30% 
20% 
  0712.30  - Mushrooms and truffles 
30% 
20% 
  0712.90  - Other vegetables; mixtures of vegetables 
30% 
20% 
07.13    Dried leguminous vegetables, shelled, whether or not skinned or split     
  0713.10  - Peas (Pisum sativum)
50% 
40% 
  0713.20  - Chickpeas (garbanzos) 
35% 
20% 
    - Beans (Vigna spp., phaseolus spp.):    
  0713.31 -- Beans of the species Vigna mungo (L.) Hepper or Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek
35% 
20% 
  0713.32  -- Small red (Adzuki) beans (Phaseolus or Vigna angularis)
35% 
20% 
  0713.33  -- Kidney beans, including white pea beans (Phaseolus vulgaris)
35% 
20% 
  0713.39  -- Other 
35% 
20% 
  0713.40  - Lentils 
35% 
20% 
  0713.50  - Broad beans (Vicia faba var. major) and horse beans (Vicia faba var. equina. Vicia faba var. minor)
35% 
20% 
  0713.90  -Other 
35% 
20% 
07.14    Manioc, Arrowroot, salep, Jerusalem artichokes, sweet potatoes and similar roots and tubers with high starch or inulin content, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not sliced or in the form of pellets; sago pith     
  0714.10  - Manioc (cassava) 
30% 
20% 
  0714.20  - Sweet potatoes 
30% 
20% 
  0714.90  -Other 
30% 
20%