CHINESE RAW SHELLED BLANCHED PEANUTS. PEANUTS ARE HARVESTED AND DRIED NATURALLY BEFORE BEING AIR CLEANED AND REMOVED FROM OUTER SHELL BY SQUEEZING THE PEANUTS THROUGH TWO ROTATING RUBBER CYLINDERS. TO REMOVE THE SKIN FROM THE PEANUT, THEY ARE FLASH HEATED THROUGH A BELT DRIVEN OVEN AT APPROXIMATELY 120 DEGREES FOR 2 MINUTES, LOOSENING THE SKIN OF THE PEANUT, BUT NOT COOKING. THE PEANUTS ARE THEN PASSED THROUGH ANOTHER TWO SOFTER ROTATING RUBBER CYLINDERS WHICH GENTLY SQUEEZES THE PEANUT TO RELEASE THEM FROM THEIR SKIN. THE PEANUTS ARE THEN GRADED, SORTED AND CHECKED BEFORE TRANSIT.

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 1202 GROUNDNUTS, NOT ROASTED OR OTHERWISE COOKED, WHETHER OR NOT SHELLED OR BROKEN GIR 6 - HAS BEEN USED TO CLASSIFY THE GOODS TO SUBHEADING LEVEL 120242 OTHER THAN ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED IN THE SUBHEADING; SHELLED, WHETHER OR NOT BROKEN ALSO CLASSIFIED IN ACCORDANCE WITH: HSEN'S TO CHAPTER 12 GENERAL NOTE SECOND PARAGRAPH REFERS HSEN'S TO HEADING 1202 REFERS EC REGULATION 446/2009 AMENDED BY LINE 72 OF EC REGULATION 441/2013