D SHAPED SLICES OF HAM. INGREDIENTS INCLUDE: PORK, WATER, DEXTROSE, POTASSIUM LACTATE, SODIUM DIACETATE, SALT, SODIUM PHOSPHATES, SODIUM ERTHROBATE, SODIUM NITRITE, DIMETHYL POLYSIOXANE. MEAT CONTENT OF FINAL COOKED PRODUCT 68%. PACKED IN SLICES OF 10 AND 16 OUNCES GAS FLUSHED POUCHES.

THESE D SHAPED SLICES OF HAM IN GAS FLUSHED POUCHES IS CLASSIFIED TO COMMODITY CODE 1602493000 IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING: GENERAL INTERPRETATIVE RULES (GIR) GIR1 HAS BEEN USED TO CLASSIFY THIS PRODUCT BY THE TERMS OF HEADING 1602, OTHER PREPARED OR PRESERVED MEAT, MEAT OFFAL OR BLOOD. GIR5B HAS BEEN USED AS THE GOODS ARE PACKAGED IN NORMAL PACKING FOR TRANSPORT (GAS FLUSHED POUCHES). GIR6 HAS BEEN USED TO CLASSIFY THE GOODS TO SUBHEADING LEVEL, OTHER CONTAINING BY WEIGHT 40% OR MORE BUT LESS THAN 80% OF MEAT OR MEAT OFFAL, OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING FATS OF ANY KIND OR ORIGIN. . SECTION AND CHAPTER NOTES CHAPTER 16 NOTE 2. FOOD PREPARATIONS FALL IN THIS CHAPTER PROVIDED THAT THEY CONTAIN MORE THAN 20 % BY WEIGHT OF SAUSAGE, MEAT, MEAT OFFAL, BLOOD, FISH OR CRUSTACEANS, MOLLUSCS OR OTHER AQUATIC INVERTEBRATES, OR ANY COMBINATION THEREOF. IN CASES WHERE THE PREPARATION CONTAINS TWO OR MORE OF THE PRODUCTS MENTIONED ABOVE, IT IS CLASSIFIED IN THE HEADING OF CHAPTER 16 CORRESPONDING TO THE COMPONENT OR COMPONENTS WHICH PREDOMINATE BY WEIGHT. THESE PROVISIONS DO NOT APPLY TO THE STUFFED PRODUCTS OF HEADING 1902 OR TO THE PREPARATIONS OF HEADING 2103 OR 2104.