Chapter 11
Products of the milling industry; malt; starches; inulin; wheat gluten
Section II — Vegetable products · 9 headings · 27 subheadings
Duty in chapter 11 at a glance
Counted across the 61 US national lines beneath this chapter's subheadings. It says what kind of chapter this is before you read ninety headings to find out.
- Duty-free lines
- 9 of 61 stating a rate
- Ad valorem range
- 0.5% – 12.8%
- Dutiable per unit, not on value
- 36 lines are charged per kilogram, litre or item rather than as a percentage of the customs value. A landed-cost estimate built from value alone will understate the duty on those.
Preference programmes appearing in this chapter
Named from General Note 3(c)(i). A programme appearing here does not mean it applies to your goods — that depends on the line, the origin and the agreement's rules of origin.
What this chapter excludes
These notes push goods out of chapter 11 even when a subheading's wording seems to fit. They are the fastest way to find out you are in the wrong chapter.
1. This chapter does not cover:
- (a) Roasted malt put up as coffee substitutes (heading 0901 or 2101);
- (b) Prepared flours, groats, meals or starches of heading 1901;
- (c) Corn flakes or other products of heading 1904;
- (d) Vegetables, prepared or preserved, of heading 2001, 2004 or 2005;
- (e) Pharmaceutical products (chapter 30); or
- (f) Starches having the character of perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations (chapter 33).
Legal notes
Reproduced from the published tariff schedule. Section and chapter notes are binding and part of the nomenclature; statistical notes are US reporting rules and are not classification law.
Section II notes VEGETABLE PRODUCTS
1. In this section the term "pellets" means products which have been agglomerated either directly by compression or by the addition of a binder in a proportion not exceeding 3 percent by weight.
Chapter 11 — Notes
Legal Notes of the Harmonized System. Binding, and part of the international nomenclature.
1. This chapter does not cover:
(a) Roasted malt put up as coffee substitutes (heading 0901 or 2101);
(b) Prepared flours, groats, meals or starches of heading 1901;
(c) Corn flakes or other products of heading 1904;
(d) Vegetables, prepared or preserved, of heading 2001, 2004 or 2005;
(e) Pharmaceutical products (chapter 30); or
(f) Starches having the character of perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations (chapter 33).
2. (A) Products from the milling of the cereals listed in the table below fall within this chapter if they have, by weight on the dry product:
(a) A starch content (determined by the modified Ewers polarimetric method) exceeding that indicated in column (2); and
(b) An ash content (after deduction of any added minerals) not exceeding that indicated in column (3).
Otherwise, they fall in heading 2302. However, germ of cereals, whole, rolled, flaked or ground is always classified in heading 1104.
(B) Products falling within this chapter under the above provisions shall be classified in heading 1101 or 1102 if the percentage passing through a woven metal wire cloth sieve with the aperture indicated in column (4) or (5) is not less, by weight, than that shown against the cereal concerned.
Otherwise, they fall in heading 1103 or 1104.
Cereal Starch content Ash content Rate of passage through a sieve with an aperture of-- 315 micrometers 500 micrometers (1) (2) (3) (microns) (microns) (4) (5) Percent Percent Percent Percent Wheat and rye ........ 45 2.5 80 - Barley ..................... 45 3 80 - Oats ....................... 45 5 80 - Corn (maize) and grain sorghum ...... 45 2 - 90 Rice ........................ 45 1.6 80 - Buckwheat ............. 45 4 80 -
3. For the purposes of heading 1103 the terms "groats" and "meal" mean products obtained by the fragmentation of cereal grains, of which --
(a) In the case of corn (maize) products, at least 95 percent by weight passes through a woven metal wire cloth sieve with an aperture of 2 mm;
(b) In the case of other cereal products, at least 95 percent by weight passes through a woven metal wirecloth sieve with an aperture of 1.25 mm.
Chapter 11 — Additional U.S. Notes
Additional U.S. Notes. Binding in the United States; not part of the international HS.
1. Notwithstanding the rates of duty set forth in this subchapter, mixtures of the products classifiable in headings 1101, 1102, 1103 or 1104 (except mixtures classifiable in subheading 1102.90.30) are dutiable as follows:
column 1 (general)- 12.8% column 1 (special)- Free (AU,CL,E,IL,P,SG) column 2- 20%
Notes are reproduced from the published tariff schedule. They govern classification, but reading them is not the same as applying them to your goods — that is what a broker or a binding ruling is for.
Headings in chapter 11
1102 Cereal flours other than of wheat or meslin
1103 Cereal groats, meal and pellets
1104 Cereal grains otherwise worked (for example, hulled, rolled, flaked, pearled, sliced or kibbled), except rice of heading 1006; germ of cereals, whole, rolled, flaked or ground
1105 Flour, meal, powder, flakes, granules and pellets of potatoes
1106 Flour, meal and powder of the dried leguminous vegetables of heading 0713, of sago or of roots or tubers of heading 0714 or of the products of chapter 8
1107 Malt, whether or not roasted
1108 Starches; inulin
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Common questions
What does HS chapter 11 cover?
Products of the milling industry; malt; starches; inulin; wheat gluten. It contains 9 headings and 27 six-digit subheadings, and sits in Section II (vegetable products).
What is excluded from chapter 11?
1. This chapter does not cover: (a) Roasted malt put up as coffee substitutes (heading 0901 or 2101); (b) Prepared flours, groats, meals or starches of heading 1901; (c) Corn flakes or other products of heading 1904; (d) Vegetables, prepared or preserved, of heading 2001, 2004 or 2005;
Are chapter 11's notes legally binding?
This chapter carries 19 binding note paragraph(s) — legal notes of the Harmonized System, plus any US-specific Additional U.S. Notes. They decide classification, and they outrank the wording of an individual subheading.