Chapter 10: Cereals

Section II — Vegetable products

8 headings · 37 total HS codes

Classification Notes for Chapter 10
Notes 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. This Chapter does not cover grains which have been hulled or otherwise worked. However, rice, husked, milled, polished, glazed, parboiled or broken remains classified in 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 1008. 2. 1005 does not cover sweet corn (Chapter 7). Subheading Note 1. "Durum wheat" means wheat of the Triticum durum species and the hybrids derived from the inter-specific crossing of Triticum durum which have the same number (28) of chromosomes as that species. Note 1B Operative 1/1/22
HeadingDescriptionGeneral RateSub-codesFTAs
1001Wheat and meslin0%616 FTAs
1002RYE0%215 FTAs
1003Barley0%216 FTAs
1004OATS0%215 FTAs
1005Maize (corn)0%216 FTAs
1006RICE0%416 FTAs
1007Grain sorghum0%216 FTAs
1008Buckwheat, millet and canary seeds; other cereals0%916 FTAs

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