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10.08 - Buckwheat, millet and canary seeds; other cereals (+). 1008.10 - Buckwheat - Millet : - - Seed 1008.29 - - Other 1008.30 - Canaryseeds 1008.21 1008.40 - Fonio (Digitaria spp.) 1008.50 - Quinoa (Chenopodiurn quinoa) - Triticale 1008.90 - Other cereals 1008.60 (A) BUCKWHEAT, MILLET AND CANARY SEED This group covers : (1) Buckwheat. This cereal, also known as black wheat, belongs to the Polygonaceae family, quite different from the Gramineae family which includes most other cereals. (2) Millet, a round grain ale-yellow in colour. It includes the following species : Setaria spp., Pennisetuin spp., h?!hinochloa spp., Eleusine s . (including Eleusine comcana (Coracan)), Panicurn spp., Digitaria sanguinalis and ragrostis tef: f (3) Canary seed, a shining straw coloured seed, elongated and pointed at both ends. (B) OTHER CEmALS This group includes certain hybrid grains, e-g., triticale, a cross between wheat and rye.
Notes. 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.