1902 30 10 — Dried, prepared pasta (excl. stuffed)

1902 Pasta, whether or not cooked or stuffed (with meat or other substances) or otherwise prepared, such as spaghetti, macaroni, noodles, lasagne, gnocchi, ravioli, cannelloni; couscous, whether or not prepared: – Uncooked pasta, not stuffed or otherwise prepared: 1902 11 – – Containing eggs 1902 19 – – Other 1902 20 – Stuffed pasta, whether or not cooked or otherwise prepared 1902 30 – Other pasta 1902 40 – Couscous

The pasta of this heading are products made from semolina or flours of wheat, maize, rice, potatoes or other, without the use of yeast. These semolinas or flours (or mixtures thereof) are first mixed with water and kneaded into a dough which may also incorporate other ingredients (e.g., very finely chopped vegetables, vegetable juices or purées, eggs, milk, gluten, diastase, vitamins, colouring matter, flavourings). The dough is then shaped (e.g., by extrusion and cutting, or by rolling and cutting, by pressing, moulding or agglomeration in rotating drums) into specific forms (such as tubes, strips, threads, shells, pellets, stars, granules, elbows, letters). During shaping a small quantity of vegetable oil is sometimes added. These forms often give rise to the names of the finished products (e.g., macaroni, tagliatelle, spaghetti, noodles). The products are usually dried before being marketed, to facilitate transport, storage and keeping; in this dried form they become brittle. The heading also covers undried (i.e., moist or fresh) and frozen products, for example, fresh gnocchi and frozen pelmeni. Pasta of this heading, stuffed with meat, fish, cheese or other substances in any proportion, may be cooked or otherwise prepared (e.g., prepared dishes containing other ingredients such as vegetables, sauce, meat). Cooking softens the pasta but it retains its original shape. Stuffed pasta may be entirely closed (e.g., ravioli), open at the ends (e.g., cannelloni) or in layers, such as lasagne. The heading also covers couscous, which is heat-treated semolina. Couscous of this heading may be

cooked or otherwise prepared (e.g., prepared with meat, vegetables and other ingredients in the form of a complete dish bearing the same name). The heading excludes: (a) preparations, other than stuffed pasta, containing more than 20 % by weight of sausage, meat, edible meat offal, blood, fish or crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, or any combination thereof (Chapter 16); (b) soups and broths and preparations therefor, containing pasta (heading 2104).

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. This group does not include:

(a) prepared foodstuffs 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), with the exception of articles filling heading 1902;

(b) dry biscuits or other articles of flour or starch, specially prepared as animal feed (heading 2309); or

(c) medicinal products or other products of Chapter 30.

2. In heading 1901:

(a) the term “cereal” means cereals of cereals of Chapter 11;

(b) the terms “fine flour” and “coarse flour” mean:

(1) fine and coarse grain flour of cereals of Chapter 11; and

(2) flour of fine and coarse grinding and powder of plants of any group other than flour of fine and coarse grinding or powder of dried vegetables (heading 0712), potatoes (heading 1105) or dried legumes (heading 1106).

3. Heading 1904 does not include articles containing more than 6 % by weight of cocoa on a completely fat-free basis or fully glazed with chocolate or other prepared foodstuffs containing cocoa (heading 1806).

4. For the purpose of heading 1904, the expression “other prepared” means articles which have undergone a special culinary treatment different from that specified in the headings or notes of Chapter 10 or 11.

Additional 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 "sweet dry biscuits" in subheading 1905 31 applies only to products containing not more than 12 % by weight of moisture and not more than 35 % by weight of fat (filling and coating are not taken into account in determining these figures).

2. В подсубпозицию 1905 90 200 0 включаются только сухие и ломкие продукты.