Couscous

19.02 Pasta, whether or not cooked or stuffed (with meat or other substances) or otherwise prepared, such as spaghetti, macaroni, noodles, lasagne, gnocchi, ravioli, cannelloni; couscous, whether or not prepared. - Uncooked pasta, not stuffed or otherwise prepared : 1902.11 - - Containing eggs 1902.19 - - Other 1902.20 - Stuffed pasta, whether or not cooked or otherwise prepared 1902.30 - Other pasta 1902.40 - Couscous The pasta of this heading are unfermented products made from semolinas or flours of wheat, maize, rice, potatoes, etc. a These semolinas or flours (or intermixtures thereo are first mixed with water and kneaded into a dou h which may also Incorporate other ingre ients (e-g., very finely chopped vegetables, vegeta le juice or purkes, eggs, milk, gluten, diastases, vitamins, colouring matter, flavouring). % ? The dou s are then formed (e.g., by extrusion and cutting, by rollin and cuttinhby pressing, by moul ing or by agglomeration in rotating drums) into spec~ficpre etennined s pes (such as tubes, strips, filaments, cockleshells, beads, granules, stars, elbow-bends, letters .In this process a small quantity of oil is sometimes added. These forms often give rise to e names of the finished products (e.g., macaroni, tagliatelle, spaghetti, noodles). % Z The products are usually dried before marketing to facilitate trans ort, storage and conservation; in t h s dried form, they are brittle. The headin also covers un&ed (i.e., moist or fresh) and % frozen products, for example, fresh gnocchi and ozen ravioli. The pasta of this heading may be cooked, stuffed with meat, fish, cheese or other substances in any proportion or otherwise pre ared (e.g., as prepared dishes containing other ingredients such as vegetables, sauce, meat). doking serves to soften the pasta without changing its basic original form. Stuffed pasta may be fully closed (for example, ravioli), open at the ends (for example, cannelloni) or layered, such as lasagne. e The headin also covers couscous which is a heat-treated semolina. Couscous of this heading may be coo ed or otherwise prepared (e-g., put up with meat, vegetables and other ingredients as the complete dish which bears the same name). The heading does not cover (a) Preparations, other than stuffed pasta, containing more than 20 % by weight of sausage, meat, meat offal, blood, fish or crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, or any combtnation thereof (Chapter 16). (b) Soups and broths and preparations therefor, containing pasta (heading 21.04). -