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12.14 Swedes, mangolds, fodder roots, hay, lucerne (alfalfa), clover, sainfoin, forage kale, lupines, vetches and similar forage products, whether or not in the form of pellets. 1214.10 1214.90 - Lucerne (alfalfa) meal and pellets - Other This heading covers : (1) Swedes (rutabagas) (Brmsica napobrassica), mangolds, forage turnips, for? e carrots (white or pale ellow m colour and other forage roots. These roots remain cIasst led in thts heading even &ough some of em may be suitable for human consumption. k B (2) Hay, lucerne (alfalfa), clover, sainfoin, forage kale, lupines, vetches and similar fora e roducts, fresh or dried, whole, cut, chopped or pressed. These products remain in t e Reading whether or not they have been salted or otherwise treated in a silo to prevent fermentation or deterioration. % The expression " similar forage products " refers only to lants specially grown for animal food. It does not include vegetable waste which may be used or the same purpose (heading 23.08). ? The fora e products of this heading may also be in the form of pellets, i.e. agglomerated either directly i? y compression or by the addition of a binder in a proportion not exceeding 3 % by weight. The heading also excludes : (a) Carrots (reddish-yellow in colour) of beading 07.06. (b) Cereal straw and husks (beading 12.13). (c) Vegetable products which, though used for animal food, are not specially grown for that purpose, e.g., beet or carrot tops and maize (corn) leaves (heading 23.08). (d) Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding (e.g., sweetened forage) (heading 23.09).
1.- Heading 12.07 applies, inter alia, to palm nuts and kernels, cotton seeds, castor oil seeds, sesamum seeds, mustard seeds, safflower seeds, poppy seeds and shea nuts (karite nuts). It does not apply to products of heading 08.01 or 08.02 or to olives (Chapter 7 or Chapter 20). 2.- Heading 12.08 applies not only to non-defatted flours and meals but also to flours and meals which have been partially defatted or defatted and wholly or partially refatted with their original oils. It does not, however, apply to residues of headings 23.04 to 23.06. 3.- For the purposes of heading 12.09, beet seeds, grass and other herbage seeds, seeds of ornamental flowers, vegetable seeds, seeds of forest trees, seeds of fruit trees, seeds of vetches (other than those of the species Vicia faba) or of lupines are to be regarded as “seeds of a kind used for sowing”. Heading 12.09 does not, however, apply to the following even if for sowing : (a) Leguminous vegetables or sweet corn (Chapter 7); (b) Spices or other products of Chapter 9; (c) Cereals (Chapter 10); or (d) Products of headings 12.01 to 12.07 or 12.11. 4.- Heading 12.11 applies, inter alia, to the following plants or parts thereof : basil, borage, ginseng, hyssop, liquorice, all species of mint, rosemary, rue, sage and wormwood. Heading 12.11 does not, however, apply to : (a) Medicaments of Chapter 30; (b) Perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations of Chapter 33; or (c) Insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, disinfectants or similar products of heading 38.08. 5.- For the purposes of heading 12.12, the term “seaweeds and other algae” does not include : (a) Dead single-cell micro-organisms of heading 21.02; (b) Cultures of micro-organisms of heading 30.02; or (c) Fertilisers of heading 31.01 or 31.05. Subheading Note. 1.- For the purposes of subheading 1205.10, the expression “low erucic acid rape or colza seeds” means rape or colza seeds yielding a fixed oil which has an erucic acid content of less than 2 % by weight and yielding a solid component which contains less than 30 micromoles of glucosinolates per gram.