Cereals

Chapter 10

Cereals

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 that have been
hulled or otherwise worked. However, rice, husked, milled, polished, glazed, parboiled, or broken remains classified in heading 10.06.
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 the crossing of Triticum durum which have the same number (28) of chromosomes as that species.

Explanatory remarks to Chapter 10

1. Importation is subject to the observance of Article 11 of Plant Protection Law adopted in the year 1967.
2. The import duty on seed cereals is 5% of the value.
3. The importation and exportation of products of this chapter are subject to the observance of Article seven of the Veterinary law approved in 1971.
4. The entry of seeds and plants which, according to the export documents of the country of origin, have been identified as genetically modified shall be subject to the approbation of the Environment Protection Organization in terms of any environmental dangers.
5. Import and export of seeds and saplings on a commercial scale shall be subject to a certificate obtained from the Institute for the Research, Registration, and Certification of Seed and Sapling, and to compliance with the quarantine regulations.
6. import and export of genetically transformed living creatures and transgenic products bound to save national, security, and biological legal provisions with the previous authorization of the Ministry of Agriculture- Jahad.