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03.08 Aquatic invertebrates other than crustaceans and molluscs, live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine; smoked aquatic invertebrates other than crustaceans and molluscs, whether or not cooked before or during the smoking process; flours, meals and pellets of aquatic invertebrates other than crustaceans and molluscs, fit for human consumption. 0308.1 1 - Sea cucumbers (Stichopwjaponicus, Holothurioidea) : - - Live, fresh or chilled 0308.19 - - Other - Sea urchins (Strongylocentrotus spp., Paracentrotus lividus, Loxechinus albus, Echichinus esculenhcs) : 0308.21 0308.29 0308.30 0308.90 - - Live, fresh or chilled - - Other - - Jellyfish (Rhopilema spp.) - Other This heading covers : (1) Aquatic invertebrates other than crustaceans and molluscs, live, fiesh, chilled, frozen, dned, salted or in brine. (2) Smoked a uatic invertebrates other than crustaceans and molluscs, whether or not cooked before or uring the smoking process. The principal varieties of aquatic invertebrates are sea-urchins, sea cucumbers (beches-de-mer) and jellyfish. This heading also covers parts of aquatic invertebrates (e-g., gonads of sea-urchins), provided they have been subjected to no other processes than those speclfied in (1) or (2) above. The heading also includes flours, meals and pellets of aquatic invertebrates, fit or suitable for human consumption. The heading does not cover aquatic invertebrates prepared or preserved by processes not provided for in this heading (e.g., aquatic invertebrates boiled in water or preserved in vinegar) (heading 16.05).
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).