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Interpretation

12/01/2005 16:50:00

We ask for your help to answer a pair of questions related to the classification of a number of products of agriculture in the CPC. 1. The following groups of plants can be gathered (harvested) or cultivated. In Mexico, it is very common that they are gathered. As we understand, the CPC version 1.1 does not make clear if gathered products are grouped in the same class and subclass as cultivated products. Are the following gathered products classified in the same class and subclass as the similar agricultural products, or are they classified in subclass 03930? - Other vegetables, fresh or chilled - Edible roots and tubers with high starch or insulin content - Dates, figs, bananas, coconuts, brazil nuts, pineapples, avocados, mangoes, guavas, mangosteens, fresh or dried - Other fruit, fresh n.e.c. - Other fruit, dried - Other nuts, fresh or dried, whether or not shelled - Oil seeds n.e.c. and oleaginous fruit - Live plants; bulbs, tubers and roots; cuttings and slips; mushroom spawn - Cut flowers and flower buds including bouquets, wreaths, floral baskets and similar articles - Flower seeds and fruit seeds - Vegetable seeds - Spices, whether or not processed - Raw vegetable materials used in textile - Jute and other textile bast fibres, raw or retted, except flax, true hemp and ramie - Agave, raw - Plants and parts of plants used primarily in perfumery, in pharmacy, or for insecticidal, fungicidal or similar purposes 2. Are cereals cultivated for animal feed (forage) classified in the same subclass as cereals in grain or in subclass 01910?

The CPC is essentially based on subheadings of the Harmonized System (HS). Consequently, the products defined in the CPC typically do not reflect the way in which they were produced, as the product descriptions/definitions should also be applicable for non-production-related statistics, such as trade. Therefore, products that have been grown and products of the same type that have been gathered are classified in the same CPC subclass. The products listed under 1. should be classified together with the grown agricultural products and not under 03930. The cereals in 2. are classified in the same subclass as the cereals when used for human consumption (as they are the same). Subclass 01910 covers only cereal straw and husks in various forms, which is essentially a waste product after preliminary processing. While this can be used as animal feed, it is not this particular use that affects the classification.