PATENT BLUE V FOOD COLOUR KNOWN AS E131. IT IS IN POWDER FORM AND HAS A SMALL PERCENTAGE OF SODIUM SULPHATE IN IT. CAS NUMBER 3536-49-0

CLASSIFICATION HAS BEEN DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING: GENERAL INTERPRETATIVE RULES (GIRS): GIR 1 HAS BEEN USEDTO CLASSIFY THIS PRODUCT BY THE TERMS OF HEADING 3204 - SYNTHETIC ORGANIC COLOURING MATTER, WHETHER OR NOT CHEMICALLY DEFINED; PREPARATIONS AS SPECIFIED IN NOTE 3 TO THIS CHAPTER BASED ON SYNTHETIC ORGANIC COLOURING MATTER; SYNTHETIC ORGANIC PRODUCTS OF A KIND USED AS FLUORESCENT BRIGHTENING AGENTS OR AS LUMINOPHORES, WHETHER OR NOT CHEMICALLY DEFINED. GIR 6 HAS BEEN USED TO CLASSIFY THE GOODS TO SUBHEADING LEVEL 320412 - ACID DYES, WHETHER OR NOT PREMETALLISED, AND PREPARATIONS BASED THEREON; MORDANT DYES AND PREPARATIONS BASED THEREON. TARIC CODE 3204120090 - OTHER THAN ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED. ALSO CLASSIFIED IN ACCORDANCE WITH: NOTE 3 TO CHAPTER 32 NOTE 2(G) TO CHAPTER 29 HSEN'S TO HEADING 3204 (I) (A)