Information for ruling 600012888
This section is Advance Tariff Ruling
- Start date
- 12 May 2025
- Expiry date
- 11 May 2028
- Commodity code
- 1212210000 (opens in new tab)
- Description
- Frozen seaweed (Undaria pinnatifida) The ingredients are: Seaweed (wakame), Black fungus, Agar-agar, Sesame oil, Sesame seeds, Chili, Rice Vinegar, Salt, high Fructose Corn Syrup, Mirin, Sugar, Flavour enhancer E621, Hydrolyzed, Vegetable Protein, Colouring E133 & Colouring E102. It is packed in 500g blocks, 20x500g blocks per master carton.
- Keywords
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- SEAWEED
- FROZEN
- FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION
- EDIBLE
- 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 1212 locust beans, seaweeds and other algae, sugar beet and sugar cane, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not ground; fruit stones and kernels and other vegetable products (including unroasted chicory roots of the variety cichorium intybus sativum) of a kind used primarily for human consumption, not elsewhere specified or included. GIR 5b Has been used to identify the type of packaging: Packaged in 500 grams. GIR 6 Has been used to classify the goods to subheading level 121221 seaweeds and other algae; fit for human consumption Also classified in accordance with: Harmonised System Explanatory Notes (HSEN’s) to heading 1212 (A)