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09.07 - Cloves (whole fruit, cloves and stems). 0907.10 - Neither crushed nor ground 0907.20 - Crushed or ground This heading includes : (1) Whole h i t of the clove tree (these have the characteristic taste and smell of cloves although less pronounced). (2) Cloves (the flowers of the clove tree picked before maturity and dried in the sun). (3) The fine, greyish, strongly scented stems of the clove flowers. The heading excludes clove bark and leaves (heading 12.11).
1.- Mixtures of the products of headings 09.04 to 09.10 are to be classified as follows : (a) Mixtures of two or more of the products of the same heading are to be classified in that heading; (b) Mixtures of two or more of the products of different headings are to be classified in heading 09.10. The addition of other substances to the products of headings 09.04 to 09.10 (or to the mixtures referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) above) shall not affect their classification provided the resulting mixtures retain the essential character of the goods of those headings. Otherwise such mixtures are not classified in this Chapter; those constituting mixed condiments or mixed seasonings are classified in heading 21.03. 2.- This Chapter does not cover Cubeb pepper (Piper cubeba) or other products of heading 12.11.