0308 90 — Live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine, even smoked, aquatic invertebrates (excl. crustaceans, molluscs, sea cucumbers, sea urchins and jellyfish); all flours, meals and pellets of aquatic invertebrates other than crustaceans and molluscs, fit for human consumption
Live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine, even smoked, aquatic invertebrates (excl. crustaceans, molluscs, sea cucumbers, sea urchins and jellyfish); all flours, meals and pellets of aquatic invertebrates other than crustaceans and molluscs, fit for human consumption
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Where it sits in the nomenclature
Section I. Live animals; animal products
- 03Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates
- 0308Aquatic invertebrates other than crustaceans and molluscs, live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine, even smoked; flours, meals and pellets of aquatic invertebrates other than crustaceans and molluscs, fit for human consumption
- 0308 90you are here
Explanatory notes to heading 0308 2 paragraphs
Machine translation from Russian. The original is the EEC explanatory note, and that is what a classification dispute is argued from; the translation is for understanding and has no legal force.
0308 Aquatic invertebrates other than crustaceans and molluscs, live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine; smoked aquatic invertebrates other than crustaceans and molluscs, whether or not cooked before or during the smoking process; flours, meals and pellets of aquatic invertebrates other than crustaceans and molluscs, fit for human consumption: – Sea cucumbers (Stichopus japonicus, Holothuroidea): 0308 11 – – Live, fresh or chilled 0308 12 – – Frozen 0308 19 – – Other – Sea urchins (Strongylocentrotus spp., Paracentrotus lividus, Loxechinus albus, Echinus esculentus): 0308 21 – – Live, fresh or chilled 0308 22 – – Frozen 0308 29 – – Other 0308 30 – Jellyfish (Rhopilema spp.) 0308 90 – Other
This heading covers: (1) Aquatic invertebrates other than crustaceans and molluscs, live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine. (2) Aquatic invertebrates other than crustaceans and molluscs, smoked, whether or not cooked before or during the smoking process. The main kinds of aquatic invertebrates are sea urchins, holothurians (sea cucumbers) and jellyfish. The heading also covers parts of aquatic invertebrates (e.g., the gonads of sea urchins), provided they have not undergone any processing other than that referred to in item (1) or (2) above. The heading also covers flours, meals and pellets of aquatic invertebrates, fit or suitable for human consumption. The heading excludes aquatic invertebrates prepared or preserved by processes not provided for in this heading (e.g., aquatic invertebrates cooked in water or preserved in vinegar) (heading 1605).
Official text adopted by a Recommendation of the EEC Board
Notes to chapter 03 — Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates 3 items
Notes
English text as published in Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2021/1832 (Combined Nomenclature). The EAEU tariff and the EU nomenclature copy these notes from the same convention. For a Russian declaration the binding version is the Russian one: Annex to Decision No 80 of the EEC Council of 14 September 2021.
1. This chapter does not cover:
(a) mammals of heading 0106;
(b) meat of mammals of heading 0106 (heading 0208 or 0210);
(c) fish (including livers, roes and milt thereof) or crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, dead and unfit or unsuitable for human consumption by reason of either their species or their condition (Chapter 5); flours, meals or pellets of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, unfit for human consumption (heading 2301); or
(d) caviar or caviar substitutes prepared from fish eggs (heading 1604).
2. In this chapter, the term ‘pellets’ means products which have been agglomerated either directly by compression or by the addition of a small quantity of binder.
3. Headings 0305 to 0308 do not cover flours, meals and pellets, fit for human consumption (heading 0309).
How it is done in practice
Valid documents in the EAEU unified register for subheading 0308 90: certificates 0, declarations 73.
- By technical regulation
- ТР ЕАЭС 040/201670ТР ТС 021/201169ТР ТС 022/201167ТР ТС 029/201247ТР ТС 024/201118
- Schemes
- 3д646д81д1The letter after the scheme number shows the form: certification or declaration of conformity.
- Most active certification bodies
- Орган по сертификации продукции и услуг ОГБУ «Костромская областная ветеринарная лаборатория»РУП «Центр испытаний и сертификации ТООТ»Учреждение «Таласский Центр испытаний, сертификации и метрологии Центра по стандартизации и метрологии при Министерстве экономики и коммерции Кыргызской Республики»
Codes inside
Only the ten-digit code carries a duty rate
| Code | Name |
|---|---|
| 0308 90 20 | Прочие: живые, свежие или охлажденные |
| 0308 90 30 | Other: aquatic invertebrates other than crustaceans and molluscs, smoked, whether or not cooked before or during the smoking process |
| 0308 90 60 | Прочие: мороженые |
| 0308 90 80 | Прочие: прочие |
The right code is in the HS code search.