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Information for ruling 600005624

This section is Advance Tariff Ruling

Start date
09 Mar 2023
Expiry date
08 Mar 2026
Description
Box of red bean paste mooncakes. 4x185g pieces packaged in a purpose built tin box. Ingredients include: Red bean paste, Wheat flour, Syrup, Egg, Peanut oil, Edible lye water.
Keywords
  • WHEAT FLOUR
  • SUGARS
  • FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION
  • SNACKFOODS
  • BAKERY PRODUCTS
  • CAKES
Justification
Classification has been determined in accordance with the following:- For the purposes of determining the commodity codes within which goods most appropriately fall, reg 3 (1) of The Customs Tariff (Establishment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 sets out that the rules of interpretation contained in the following have effect – a. Part Two (Goods Classification Table Rules of Interpretation) of the Tariff of the United Kingdom (Reg 3(1)(a)); and b. Notes to a section or chapter of the Goods Classification Table (Reg 3(1)(b)). General interpretative rules (GIR)s: GIR1 has been used to classify the products by the terms of heading 1905 - bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products. GIR 5b has been used to identify the type of packaging as a purpose built tin box. GIR 6 has been used to classify the goods to subheading level 190590 - other than elsewhere specified. 8 digit code: 19059070 - other; containing 5% or more, by weight, of sucrose, invert sugar or isoglucose. Also classified in accordance with: Harmonised System Explanatory Note’s (HSEN’s) to heading 1905 Note (A) (10)