1801 00 — Cocoa beans, whole or broken, raw or roasted

1801 Cocoa beans, whole or crushed, raw or fried

Cocoa beans are those found in large quantities (25 to 80) in the fruit of the cocoa tree (Theobroma cacao). They have a flat egg-shaped shape and are usually purple or reddish in color. Cocoa beans consist of a hard and fragile husk and a very thin inner shell and or a whitish skin covering the core and dividing it into several parts. To weaken their slightly bitter taste, give them a pleasant smell and facilitate cleaning of the cacao shell, the beans are fermented; they can be either steamed or dried. They are roasted, while the shell is easily separated from the core, the beans become more fragile and their taste and aroma improve. Their props are then scraped through grooved rollers, which grind the beans and separate the embryos; as a result of subsequent operations, the shell, husk and embryos are removed from the crushed pieces of the core (cocoa - chips). This heading includes raw or fried cocoa beans, whole (with separated or unseparated shells, husks, skins or germs) or crushed.

This heading does not cover: (a) husks, shells, skins and other waste cocoa (heading 1802); (b) cocoa paste (heading 1803).

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) food preparations containing more than 20 % by weight of sausage, meat, meat offal, blood, insects, fish or crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, or any combination thereof (Chapter 16);

(b) preparations of headings 0403, 1901, 1902, 1904, 1905, 2105, 2202, 2208, 3003 or 3004.

2. Heading 1806 includes sugar confectionery containing cocoa and, subject to note 1 to this chapter, other food preparations containing cocoa.

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. Подсубпозиции 1806 90 110 0 и 1806 90 190 0 не включают шоколадные конфеты, изготовленные целиком из шоколада одного типа.