1008 90 — Cereals (excl. wheat and meslin, rye, barley, oats, maize, rice, grain sorghum, buckwheat, millet, canary seeds, fonio, quinoa and triticale)

1008 Buckwheat, millet and canary seeds; other cereals (+): 1008 10 - buckwheat - millet: 1008 21 - seed 1008 29 - - - other 1008 30 - seeds of canary 1008 40 - dew (Digitaria spp.) 1008 50 - quinoa, or rice swan (Chenopodium quinoa) 1008 60 - triticale 1008 90 - other cereals

(A) GRECH, PROSO and CANAREESE SEED This heading includes: (1) Buckwheat. This cereal, also known as black wheat, belongs to the family Polygonaceae, very different from the family Gramineae, which includes most cereals. (2) Millet, round grain, pale yellow color. It includes the following botanical species: Setaria spp., Pennisetum spp., Echinochloa spp., Eleusine spp. (including Eleusine coracana, i.e. dagussa), Panicum spp., Digitaria sanguinalis and Eragrostis tef. (3) Canary, shiny straw-colored seeds, elongated and pointed at both ends. (B) Other grains This product group includes certain hybrids, such as triticale, a hybrid of wheat and rye.

94 Explanation of the subheading. Subheading 1008 21 In subheading 1008 21, the term “seed” means only that millet which is considered as seed material by the national competent authorities.

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. (A) The products specified in the headings of this chapter are to be classified in those headings only if grains are present, whether or not in the ear or on the stalk.

(B) The Chapter does not cover grains which have been hulled or otherwise worked. However, rice, husked, milled, polished, glazed, parboiled or broken remains classified in heading 1006. Similarly, quinoa from which the pericarp has been wholly or partly removed in order to separate the saponin, but which has not undergone any other processes, remains classified in heading 1008.

2. Heading 1005 does not cover sweetcorn (Chapter 7).

Subheading notes

Machine translation. The original is the Russian text of the EAEU tariff, and customs goes by it; this translation is for understanding only and has no legal force.

1. The term "hard wheat" means wheat of the species Triticum durum and hybrids obtained by interbreeding Triticum durum with other species having the same number of chromosomes (28).

Additional note

Machine translation. The original is the Russian text of the EAEU tariff, and customs goes by it; this translation is for understanding only and has no legal force.

1. The terms used in these subheadings have the following meanings:

(a) “short-grained rice” (subheadings 1006 10 210 0, 1006 10 920 0, 1006 20 110 0, 1006 20 920 0, 1006 30 210 0, 1006 30 420 0, 1006 30 610 0 and 1006 30 920 0) – rice having a grain size in length not exceeding 5.2 mm and a length-to-width ratio of less than 2;

(b) “medium-grain rice” (subheadings 1006 10 230 0, 1006 10 940 0, 1006 20 130 0, 1006 20 940 0, 1006 30 230 0, 1006 30 440 0, 1006 30 630 0 and 1006 30 940 0) – rice with a grain size of more than 5.2 mm in length but not more than 6.0 mm and a length-to-width ratio of less than 3;

(в) «длиннозерный рис» (подсубпозиции 1006 10 250 0, 1006 10 270 0, 1006 10 960 0, 1006 10 980 0, 1006 20 150 0, 1006 20 170 0, 1006 20 960 0, 1006 20 980 0, 1006 30 250 0, 1006 30 270 0, 1006 30 460 0, 1006 30 480 0, 1006 30 650 0, 1006 30 670, 1006 30 960 0 и 1006 30 980) – рис с размером зерен по длине более 6,0 мм;

(d) “unpeeled rice (raw rice)” (subheadings 1006 10 210 0, 1006 10 230 0, 1006 10 250 0, 1006 10 270 0, 1006 10 920 0, 1006 10 940 0, 1006 10 960 0 and 1006 10 980 0) – rice that has retained the grain film after threshing;

(e) “peeled rice” (subheadings 1006 20 110 0, 1006 20 130 0, 1006 20 150 0, 1006 20 170 0, 1006 20 920 0, 1006 20 940 0, 1006 20 960 0 and 1006 20 980 0) – rice from which only the grain film has been removed. An example of rice falling under this definition is rice with such commercial names as “unpolished rice”, “cargo rice”, “lunzen” and “sbramato rice”;

(f) “semi-broken rice” (subheadings 1006 30 210 0, 1006 30 230 0, 1006 30 250 0, 1006 30 270 0, 1006 30 420 0, 1006 30 440 0, 1006 30 460 0 and 1006 30 480 0) – rice in which the grain film, part of the germ and the outer shells of the pericolat are removed wholly or partially, but the inner shells are left intact;

(g) "completely collapsed rice" (subheadings 1006 30 610 0, 1006 30 630 0, 1006 30 650 0, 1006 30 670, 1006 30 920 0, 1006 30 940 0, 1006 30 960 0 and 1006 30 980) - rice in which the grain film, all the outer and inner shells of the pericolatum, the entire germ (in long-grain and medium-grain rice) or at least a part of it (in short-grain rice) with the possible preservation of longitudinal white furrows not more than 10 %;

(з) «дробленый рис» (субпозиция 1006 40) – части зерна, длиной не превышающие три четверти средней длины целого зерна.

Additional note of the Eurasian Economic Union

Machine translation. The original is the Russian text of the EAEU tariff, and customs goes by it; this translation is for understanding only and has no legal force.

1. Subheading 1006 30 670 1 and 1006 30 980 1 includes fully collapsed long-grain rice with a length-to-width ratio of 3 or more for which a tariff quota is established in accordance with international treaties of the Eurasian Economic Union with a third party, subject to a license issued by the competent authority.