Chapter notes
Chapter 16 - NOTES
1. This Chapter does not cover meat, meat offal, fish, crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, prepared or preserved by the processes specified in Chapters 2 or 3.
2 . Food preparations fall in this Chapter provided that they contain more
than 20% by weight of sausage, meat, meat offal, blood, fish or
crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, or any combination
thereof. In cases where the preparation contains two or more of the
products mentioned above, it is classified in the heading of Chapter 16
corresponding to the component or components which predominate by weight.
These provisions do not apply to the stuffed products of heading No 19.02
or to the preparations of heading No. 21.03 or 21.04.
SUBHEADING NOTES
1. For the puposes of subheading No. 16.02.10, the expression "homogenised
preparations" means preparations of meat, meat offal or blood, 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, preservation or other purposes. These preparations may
contain a small quantity of visible pieces of meat or meat offal. This
subheading takes precedence over all other subheadings of heading No 16.02.
2. The fish and crustaceans specified in the subheadings of heading No.
16.04 or 16.05 under their common names only, are of the same species as
those mentioned in Chapter 3 under the same name.