Chapter notes
Chapter 20 - NOTES
1. This chapter does not cover:
(a) Vegetables, fruit or nuts, prepared or preserved by the processes
specified in Chapters 7, 8 or 11;
(b) Food preparations containing more than 20% by weight of sausage,
meat, meat offal, blood, fish or crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic
invertebrates, or any combination thereof (Chapter 16); or
(c) Homogenised composite food preparations of heading No. 21.04.
2. Headings Nos. 20.07 and 20.08 do not apply to fruit jellies, fruit
pastes, sugar-coated almonds or the like in the form of sugar confectionery
(heading No. 17.04) or chocolate confectionery (heading No. 18.06).
3. Headings Nos. 20.01, 20.04 and 20.05 cover, as the case may be, only
those products of Chapter 7 or of heading No. 11.05 or 11.06 (other than
flour, meal and powder of the products of Chapter 8) which have been
prepared or preserved by processes other than those referred to in Note 1
(a).
4. Tomato juice the dry weight content of which is 7% or more is to be
classified under heading No. 20.02.
5. For the purposes of heading No. 20.09, the expression "juices,
unfermented and not containing added spirit" means juices of an alcoholic
strength by volume (see Note 2 to Chapter 22) not exceeding 0.5% vol.
SUBHEADING NOTES
1. For the purposes of subheading No.20.05.10, the expression
"homogenised vegetables" means preparations of vegetables, finely
homogenised, put up for retail sale as infant food or for dietetic
purposes, in containers of a net weight content not exceeding 250 g. For
the application of this definition no account is to be taken of small
quantities of any ingredients which may have been added to the preparation
for seasoning, preserving or other purposes. These preparations may
contain a small quantity of visible pieces of vegetables. Subheading No
20.05.10 takes precedence over all other subheadings of heading No. 20.05
2. For the purposes of subheading No. 20.07.10, the expression
"homogenised preparations" means preparations of fruit, finely homogenised,
put up for retail sale as infant food or for dietetic purposes, in
containers of a net weight content not exceeding 250 g. For the
application of this definition no account is to be taken of small
quantities of any ingredients which may have been added to the preparation
for seasoning, preserving or other purposes. These preparations may
contain a small quantity of visible pieces of fruit. Subheading No.
20.07.10 takes precedence over all other subheadings of heading No. 20.07.