Archived – Standard Classification of Goods (SCG) - Notes 1996-2001

Section I:  Live animals; animal products

Notes.

  1. Any reference in this Section to a particular genus or species of an animal, except where the context otherwise requires, includes a reference to the young of that genus or species.
  2. Except where the context otherwise requires, throughout the Classification any reference to "dried" products also covers products which have been dehydrated, evaporated or freeze-dried.

Chapter 01:  Live animals

Note.

  1. This Chapter covers all live animals except:
    1. Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates, of heading No. 03.01, 03.06 or 03.07;
    2. Cultures of micro-organisms and other products of heading No. 30.02; and
    3. Animals of heading No. 95.08.

Chapter 02:  Meat and edible meat offal

Note.

  1. This Chapter does not cover:
    1. Products of the kinds described in headings Nos. 02.01 to 02.08 or 02.10, unfit or unsuitable for human consumption;
    2. Guts, bladders or stomachs of animals (heading No. 05.04) or animal blood (heading No. 05.11 or 30.02); or
    3. Animal fat, other than products of heading No. 02.09 (Chapter 15).

Chapter 03:  Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates

Notes.

  1. This Chapter does not cover:
    1. Marine mammals (heading No. 01.06) or meat thereof (heading No. 02.08 or 02.10);
    2. Fish (including livers and roes thereof) or crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, dead and unfit or unsuitable for human consumption by reason of either their species or their condition (Chapter 5); flours, meals or pellets of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, unfit for human consumption (heading No. 23.01); or
    3. Caviar or caviar substitutes prepared from fish eggs (heading No. 16.04).
  2. In this Chapter the term "pellets" means products which have been agglomerated either directly by compression or by the addition of a small quantity of binder.

Chapter 04:  Dairy produce; birds' eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included

Notes.

  1. The expression "milk" means full cream milk or partially or completely skimmed milk.
  2. For the purposes of heading No. 04.05:
    1. the term "butter" means natural butter, whey butter or recombined butter (fresh, salted or rancid, including canned butter) derived exclusively from milk, with a milkfat content of 80% or more but not more than 95% by weight, a maximum milk solids-not-fat content of 2% by weight and a maximum water content of 16% by weight. Butter does not contain added emulsifiers, but may contain sodium chloride, food colours, neutralising salts and cultures of harmless lactic-acid-producing bacteria.
    2. the expression "dairy-spread" means a spreadable emulsion of the water-in-oil type, containing milkfat as the only fat in the product, with a milkfat content of 39% or more but less than 80% by weight.
  3. Products obtained by the concentration of whey and with the addition of milk or milkfat are to be classified as cheese in heading No. 04.06 provided that they have the three following characteristics:
    1. a milkfat content, by weight of the dry matter, of 5% or more;
    2. a dry matter content, by weight, of at least 70% but not exceeding 85%; and
    3. they are moulded or capable of being moulded.
  4. This Chapter does not cover:
    1. Products obtained from whey, containing by weight more than 95% lactose, expressed as anhydrous lactose calculated on the dry matter (heading No. 17.02); or
    2. Albumins (including concentrates of two or more whey proteins, containing by weight more than 80% whey proteins, calculated on the dry matter) (heading No. 35.02) or globulins (heading No. 35.04).

Subheading Notes.

  1. For the purposes of subheading No. 0404.10, the expression "modified whey" means products consisting of whey constituents, i.e., whey from which all or part of the lactose, proteins or minerals have been removed, whey to which natural whey constituents have been added, and products obtained by mixing natural whey constituents.
  2. For the purposes of subheading No. 0405.10 the term "butter" does not include dehydrated butter or ghee (subheading No. 0405.90).

Chapter 05:  Products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included

Notes.

  1. This Chapter does not cover:
    1. Edible products (other than guts, bladders and stomachs of animals, whole and pieces thereof, and animal blood, liquid or dried);
    2. Hides or skins (including furskins) other than goods of heading No. 05.05 and parings and similar waste of raw hides or skins of heading No. 05.11 (Chapter 41 or 43);
    3. Animal textile materials, other than horsehair and horsehair waste (Section XI); or
    4. Prepared knots or tufts for broom or brush making (heading No. 96.03).
  2. For the purpose of heading No. 05.01, the sorting of hair by length (provided the root ends and tip ends respectively are not arranged together) shall be deemed not to constitute working.
  3. Throughout the Classification, elephant, walrus, narwhal and wild boar tusks, rhinoceros horns and the teeth of all animals are regarded as "ivory".
  4. Throughout the Classification, the expression "horsehair" means hair of the manes or tails of equine or bovine animals.
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