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10.07 - Grain soxghum (+). 1007.10 1007.90 - Seed - Other This heading covers only those varieties of sorghum which are known as grain sorghums and whose grains may be used as cereals for human consumption. The heading includes sorghums such as caflorum (kafir), cernuum (whitedurra), durra (brown durra) and newosum (kaoliang). The headin does not include forage sorghums (which are used for making hay or silage) such as halepensrls &alepense), ass sorghums (which are used for grazing) such as sudanensis (sudanense) or sweet sorghums (whicf are used primarily for the manufacture of syrup or molasses) such as saccharaturn. When presented as seeds for sowing, these products are classified in headlng 12.09. Otherwise, forage sorghums and grass sorghums fall to be classified in heading 12.14 and sweet sor@ums in headin 12.12. The heading also excludes broomcorn (Sorghum vulgare var. technicurn), whlch is classified in eading 14.04.
1.- (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) The Chapter does not cover grains which have been hulled or otherwise worked. However, rice, husked, milled, polished, glazed, parboiled or broken remains classified in heading 10.06. 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 heading 10.08. 2.- Heading 10.05 does not cover sweet corn (Chapter 7). Subheading Note. 1.- The term “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.