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U.S. Harmonized Tariff Schedule

CHAPTER 20

preparations of vegetables, fruit, nuts

or other parts of plants

20-1

Notes

1. This chapter does not cover:
- (a) Vegetables, fruit or nuts, prepared or preserved by the processes specified in chapter 7, 8 or 11;
- (b) Vegetable fats and oils (Chapter 15);
- (c) Food preparations containing more than 20 percent by weight of sausage, meat, meat offal, blood, insects, fish or crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, or any combination thereof (chapter 16);
- (d) Bakers' wares and other products of heading 1905; or
- (e) Homogenized composite food preparations of heading 2104.
2. Headings 2007 and 2008 do not apply to fruit jellies, fruit pastes, sugar-coated almonds or the like in the form of sugar confectionery (heading 1704) or chocolate confectionery (heading 1806).
3. Heading 2001, 2004 and 2005 cover, as the case may be, only those products of chapter 7 or of heading 1105 or 1106 (other than flour, meal and powder of the products of chapter 8), which have been prepared or preserved by processes other than those referred to in note 1(a).
4. Tomato juice the dry weight content of which is 7 percent or more is to be classified in heading 2002.
5. For the purposes of heading 2007, the expression " obtained by cooking" means obtained by heat treatment at atmospheric pressure or under reduced pressure to increase the viscosity of a product through reduction of water content or other means.
6. For the purposes of heading 2009 the expression "juices, unfermented and not containing added spirit" means juices of an alcoholic strength by volume (see note 2 to chapter 22) not exceeding 0.5 percent vol.

Subheading Notes

1. For the purposes of subheading 2005.10, the expression "homogenized vegetables" means preparations of vegetables, finely homogenized, put up for retail sale as food suitable for infants or young children or for dietetic purposes, in containers of a net weight content not exceeding 250 g. For the application of this definition no account is to be taken of small quantities of any ingredients which may have been added to the preparation for seasoning, preservation or other purposes. These preparations may contain a small quantity of visible pieces of vegetables. Subheading 2005.10 takes precedence over all other subheadings of heading 2005.
2. For the purposes of subheading 2007.10, the expression "homogenized preparations" means preparations of fruit, finely homogenized, put up for retail sale as food suitable for infants or young children or for dietetic purposes, in containers of a net weight content not exceeding 250 g. For the application of this definition no account is to be taken of small quantities of any ingredients which may have been added to the preparation for seasoning, preservation or other purposes. These preparations may contain a small quantity of visible pieces of fruit. Subheading 2007.10 takes precedence over all other subheadings of heading 2007.
3. For the purposes of subheadings 2009.12, 2009.21, 2009.31, 2009.41, 2009.61 and 2009.71, the expression " Brix value" means the direct reading of degrees Brix obtained from a Brix hydrometer or of refractive index expressed in terms of percentage sucrose content obtained from a refractometer, at a temperature of 20 °C or corrected for 20 °C if the reading is made at a different temperature.

Additional U.S. Notes

1. For the purposes of heading 2009:
- (a) The term "liter" in the "Rates of Duty" column of the provisions applicable to fruit juices means liter of natural unconcentrated fruit juice or liter of reconstituted fruit juice;
- (b) The term "reconstituted fruit juice" means the product which can be obtained by mixing the imported concentrate with water in such proportion that the product will have a Brix value equal to that found by the Secretary of the Treasury from time to time to be the average Brix value of like natural unconcentrated juice in the trade and commerce of the United States; and
- (c) The term "Brix value" means the refractometric sucrose value of the juice, adjusted to compensate for the effect of any added sweetening materials, and thereafter corrected for acid.
2. In determining the number of liters of reconstituted fruit juice which can be obtained from a concentrate, the degree of concentration shall be calculated on a volume basis to the nearest 0.5 degree, as determined by the ratio of the Brix value of the imported concentrated juice to that of the reconstituted juice, corrected for differences of specific gravity of the juices. Any juice having a degree of concentration of less than 1.5 (as determined before correction to the nearest 0.5 degree) shall be regarded as a natural unconcentrated juice.
3. In determining the degree of concentration of mixed fruit juices, the mixture shall be considered as being wholly of the component juice having the lowest Brix value.
4. The aggregate quantity of olives entered under subheadings 0711.20.18 and 2005.70.06 in any calendar year shall not exceed 4,400 metric tons.

5. The aggregate quantity of peanut butter and paste entered under subheading 2008.11.05 in any calendar year shall not exceed the quantities specified in this note (articles the product of Mexico shall not be permitted or included under the aforementioned quantitative limitation and no such articles shall be classifiable therein).

	Quantity
	(metric tons)

Canada	14,500
Argentina	3,650
Countries or territories identified in additional U.S. note 6 to this chapter combined (aggregate)	1,600
Other countries or areas	250

Imports of peanut butter and paste under this note are subject to regulations as may be issued by the United States Trade Representative or other designated agency.

6. The expression "Countries or territories identified in additional U.S. note 6 to this chapter" means that those countries listed below shall be eligible to enter, in the aggregate, the quantity specified in additional U.S. note 5 to this chapter:

Albania	Dominica	Lesotho	Rwanda
Angola	Dominican Republic	Liberia	St. Helena
Anguilla	Djibouti	Lithuania	St. Kitts and Nevis
Antigua and Barbuda	Ecuador	Macao	St. Lucia
Argentina	Egypt	Madagascar	St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Aruba	El Salvador	Malawi	Sao Tome and Principe
Bahamas	Equatorial Guinea	Malaysia	Senegal
Bahrain	Ethiopia	Maldive Islands	Seychelles
Bangladesh	Estonia	Mali	Sierra Leone
Barbados	Falkland Islands	Malta and Gozo	Slovakia
Belize	French Polynesia	Mauritania	Slovenia
Benin	Fiji	Mauritius	Solomon Islands
Bhutan	Gabon	Montserrat	Somalia
Bolivia	Gambia, The	Morocco	Sri Lanka
Bosnia-Hercegovina	Ghana	Mozambique	Suriname
Botswana	Gibraltar	Namibia	Swaziland
Brazil	Greenland	Nepal	Tanzania
British Indian Ocean Territory	Grenada	Netherlands Antilles	Thailand
British Virgin Islands	Guatemala	New Caledonia	Togo
Bulgaria	Guinea	Nicaragua	Tokelau Islands
Burkina	Guinea-Bissau	Niger	Tonga
Burundi	Guyana	Niue	Trinidad and Tobago
Cameroon	Haiti	Norfolk Island	Tunisia
Cape Verde	Heard Island and McDonald Islands	North Macedonia	Turkey
Cayman Islands	Honduras	Oman	Turks and Caicos Islands
Central African Republic	Hungary	Pakistan	Tuvalu
Chad	India	Palau	Uganda
Chile	Indonesia	Panama	Ukraine
Christmas Island (in the Indian Ocean)	Israel	Papua New Guinea	Uruguay
Cocos (Keeling) Island	Ivory Coast	Paraguay	Vanuatu
Colombia	Jamaica	Peru	Venezuela
Comoros	Jordan	Philippines	Wallis and Futuna
Congo	Kazakhstan	Pitcairn Island	Western Sahara
Cook Islands	Kenya	Poland	Western Samoa
Costa Rica	Kiribati	Republic of South Africa	Zaire
Croatia	Kyrgyzstan	Republic of Yemen	Zambia
Cyprus	Latvia	Romania	Zimbabwe
Czech Republic	Lebanon	Russia

Statistical Notes

1. For the purposes of statistical reporting numbers 2005.70.2542 and 2005.70.2570, the term "Spanish style" refers to green olives that are processed by being fermented and cured but does not include olives processed by being heat sterilized under pressure and brined.
2. For the purposes of statistical reporting in heading 2009, the term "liters" in the "Units of Quantity" column of the provisions applicable to fruit juices means liters of natural unconcentrated juice or liters of reconstituted juice (as defined in additional U.S. note 1(b) above).

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