0909 31 000 0 — Seeds of anise, badian, fennel, coriander, cumin (Roman or Volosh cumin) or caraway; juniper berries: cumin seeds: neither crushed nor ground

0909 Seeds of anise, badian, fennel, coriander, Roman cumin, or Wallachian cumin, or caraway; juniper berries: – Seeds of coriander: 0909 21 – – Neither crushed nor ground 0909 22 – – Crushed or ground – Seeds of Roman cumin, or Wallachian cumin: 0909 31 – – Neither crushed nor ground 0909 32 – – Crushed or ground – Seeds of anise, badian, caraway or fennel; juniper berries: 0909 61 – – Neither crushed nor ground 0909 62 – – Crushed or ground

These fruits or seeds are used as spices, for industrial purposes (e.g., in the distilling of alcoholic beverages) and in medicine. They remain classified in this heading even when (particularly in the case of aniseed) put up (e.g., in sachets) for making herbal infusions or herbal "tea". The anise seeds of this heading are unripe egg-shaped seeds, greyish-green in colour, with longitudinal stripes and a very characteristic aromatic odour. Badian is star anise. Seeds of coriander, of cumin, or Roman caraway, and of caraway are the aromatic seeds of certain plants of the Umbelliferae family, used mainly in the manufacture of liqueurs. Fennel seeds, obtained from a culinary herb, may be dark grey, giving off a strong and pleasant odour, or pale green with a very distinctive sweet odour. Juniper berries are dark brown fruits with a slight purplish-blue bloom, covered with a resinous dust. They contain a reddish aromatic pulp with a bitter and slightly sweetish taste, enclosing three small and very hard seeds. These berries are used for flavouring various alcoholic beverages (e.g., gin), sauerkraut and various food products, and for the extraction of essential oils.

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. Mixtures of the products of headings 0904 to 0910 are to be classified as follows:

(a) mixtures of two or more of the products of the same heading are to be classified in that heading;

(b) mixtures of two or more of the products of different headings are to be classified in heading 0910. The addition of other substances to the products of headings 0904 to 0910 (or to the mixtures referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) above) shall not affect their classification, provided that the resulting mixtures retain the essential character of the goods of those headings. Otherwise, such mixtures are not classified in this chapter; those constituting mixed condiments or mixed seasonings are classified in heading 2103.

2. This chapter does not cover cubeb pepper (Piper cubeba) or other products of heading 1211.