0709 99 400 0 — Fresh or chilled capers

0709 Other vegetables, fresh or chilled: 0709 20 – Asparagus 0709 30 – Aubergines (egg-plants) 0709 40 – Celery other than celeriac – Mushrooms and truffles: 0709 51 – – Mushrooms of the genus Agaricus 0709 59 – – Other 0709 60 – Fruits of the genus Capsicum or of the genus Pimenta 0709 70 – Spinach, New Zealand spinach and orache spinach (garden spinach) – Other: 0709 91 – – Globe artichokes 0709 92 – – Olives 0709 93 – – Pumpkins, squash and other vegetables of the pumpkin genus (Cucurbita spp.) 0709 99 – – Other

This heading covers the following vegetables: (1) Asparagus. (2) Aubergines (eggplants). (3) Celery other than celeriac of heading 0706. (4) Mushrooms (including mushrooms of the genus Agaricus, such as the common cultivated mushroom, A. bisporus) and truffles. (5) Fruits of the genus Capsicum or of the genus Pimenta, commonly called "peppers". The fruits of the genus Capsicum range from the sweet or salad peppers (Capsicum annuum var. annuum), which are the least pungent and the largest of the genus Capsicum and which are usually eaten, when green or fully ripe, as a vegetable in various salads, to the more pungent peppers of the species Capsicum frutescens and Capsicum annuum, including hot red pepper (chilli pepper), hot pod pepper (cayenne pepper), various varieties of paprika, etc., most often used as condiments. The fruits of the genus Pimenta include Jamaica pepper (also known as allspice, clove pepper or as pimento

67 Jamaica pepper). These products, dried, crushed or ground, are excluded from this heading (heading 0904). (6) Spinach, including New Zealand spinach and orache spinach (garden spinach). (7) Globe artichokes. (8) Sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata), on the cob or in grains. (9) Pumpkins, marrows, pattypan squash and other vegetables of the genus Cucurbita (Cucurbita spp.). (10) Olives, black or green. (11) Rhubarb, cardoons, fennel, capers and sorrel. (12) Chard (or white beet) and gumbo (okra). (13) Parsley, chervil, tarragon, or estragon, cress, summer savory (Satureia hortensis), coriander, dill, sweet marjoram (Majorana hortensis or Origanum majorana). Wild marjoram (Origanum vulgare) is excluded from this heading (heading 1211). (14) Bamboo shoots and soya bean sprouts. The heading further excludes the edible tubers of the species Eleocharis dulcis or Eleocharis tuberosa, commonly known as Chinese water chestnuts (heading 0714).

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 forage products of heading 1214.

2. In headings 0709 to 0712, the word ‘vegetables’ includes edible mushrooms, truffles, olives, capers, marrows, pumpkins, aubergines, sweetcorn (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 0712 covers all dried vegetables of the kinds falling in headings 0701 to 0711, other than:

(a) dried leguminous vegetables, shelled (heading 0713);

(b) sweetcorn in the forms specified in headings 1102 to 1104;

(c) flour, meal, powder, flakes, granules and pellets of potatoes (heading 1105);

(d) flour, meal and powder of the dried leguminous vegetables of heading 0713 (heading 1106).

4. However, dried or crushed or ground fruits of the genus Capsicum or of the genus Pimenta are excluded from this chapter (heading 0904).

5. Heading 0711 applies to vegetables which have been treated solely to ensure their provisional preservation during transport or storage prior to use (for example, by sulphur dioxide gas, in brine, in sulphur water or in other preservative solutions), provided they remain unsuitable for immediate consumption in that state.