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03.07 - Molluscs, whether in shell or not, live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine; smoked molluscs, whether in shell or not, whether or not cooked before or during the smoking process; flours, meals and pellets of molluscs, fit for human consumption. - Oysters : 0307.1 1 - - Live, fresh or chilled 0307.19 - - Other - Scallops, including queen scallops, of the genera Pecten, Chlamys or Placopecten : 0307.21 0307.29 - - Live, fresh or chilled - - Other - Mussels (Mytilus spp., Pema spp.) : 0307.3 1 0307.39 - - Live, fiesh or chilled - - Other - Cuttle fish (Sepia oflcinalis, Rossia macrosoma, Sepiola s p.) and squid (Ommastrephes spp., Loligo spp., Nototodam spp., Sepioteut is spp.) : 0307.41 - - Live, fresh or chilled 0307.49 - - Other 0307.51 - Octopus (Octopus spp.) : - - Live, fresh or chilled - - Other 0307.59 5: 0307.60 - Snails, other than sea snails - Clams, cockles and ark shells (families Arcidae, Arcticidae, Cardiidae, Donacidae, Hiatellidae, Mactridae, Mesodesmatidae, Myidae, Semelidae, Solecurtidue, Solenidae, Tridacnidae and Veneridae) : 0307.71 - - Live, fresh or chilled 0307.79 0307.81 0307.89 - - Other - Abalone (Haliotis spp.) : - - Live, fresh or chilled - - Other - Other, including flours, meals and pellets, fit for human consumption : 0307.91 - - Live, fresh or chilled 0307.99 - - Other This heading covers : (1) Molluscs, whether in shell or not, live, fiesh, chilled, fkozen, dried, salted or in brine. (2) Smoked molluscs, whether in shell or not, whether or not cooked before or during the smoking process. The main kinds of molluscs are oysters, scallops, mussels, cuttle fish, squid, octopus, snails, clams, cockles, ark shells and abalone. This heading also covers arts of molluscs, provided they have been subjected to no other processes than those speci led in (1) or (2) above. P The heading also includes oyster spat (small oysters intended for cultivation) and flours, meals and pellets of molluscs, fit or suitable for human consumption. The heading does not cover molluscs prepared o r preserved by processes not provided for in this heading (e.g., molluscs boiled in water or preserved in vmegar) (heading 16.05). -
Notes. 1.- This Chapter does not cover : (a) Mammals of heading 01.06; (b) Meat of mammals of heading 01.06 (heading 02.08 or 02.10); (c) Fish (including livers, roes and milt 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 23.01); or (d) Caviar or caviar substitutes prepared from fish eggs (heading 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. 3.- Headings 03.05 to 03.08 do not cover flours, meals and pellets, fit for human consumption (heading 03.09).