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Information for ruling 600012583

This section is Advance Tariff Ruling

Start date
12 Apr 2025
Expiry date
11 Apr 2028
Description
Product is a frozen ready meal paella that weighs 750 grams. The product is tipped from the bag and cooked in either a pan, oven, microwave or air fryer. The product is enclosed in a full design printed low-density polyethylene pillow bag sealed top, bottom and along the back. It contains the following ingredients: rice-yellow, pepper-red slices, tomato-cube 10mm with skin, peas-fine, Chicken pieces fried, onion-cube, water, bean-Romano 40mm precooked, chorizo-slices, tomato-puree, Salt, Fine sugar, basil, rapeseed oil, thyme, butter oil-liquid, oil-olive extra-virgin, rice starch, garlic powder, vis bouillon, turmeric powder and cream powder. The product contains 12.9% of meat. The proportion of vegetables is higher than that of the rice.
Keywords
  • CHICKEN MEAT
  • FROZEN
  • RICE
  • MIXTURES OF VEGETABLES
  • CHORIZO
  • READY TO SERVE MEAL WITH RICE
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: Classification has been determined in accordance with the following: General interpretative rules (GIR’s): GIR 1 Has been used to classify this product by the terms of heading 2004: Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, frozen, other than products of heading 2006. GIR 5b - has been used to identify the type of packaging as pouches within a cardboard box. GIR 6 Has been used to classify this product by the terms of heading 200490: Other vegetables and mixtures of vegetables. 8-Digit code 20049098: Other, including mixtures; Other than onions, cooked, not otherwise prepared 10-Digit code 2004909860: Products containing meat in a proportion of 3% up to and including 20% by weight. Also classified in accordance with: Chapter 20 note 1 (c) Harmonised System Explanatory Notes (HSEN) to heading 2004.