Pasta, whether or not cooked or stuffed (with meat or other substances) or otherwise prepared, such as spaghetti, macaroni, noodles, lasagne, gnocchi, ravioli, cannelloni; couscous, whether or not prepared

1. This chapter does not cover: (a) except in the case of stuffed products of heading 1902, food preparations containing more than 20% by weight of sausage, meat, meat offal, blood, fish or crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, or any combination thereof (Chapter 16); (b) biscuits or other articles made from flour or from starch, specially prepared for use in animal feeding (heading 2309); (c) medicaments or other products of Chapter 30. 2. For the purposes of heading 1901: (a) the term 'groats' means cereal groats of Chapter 11; (b) the terms 'flour' and 'meal' mean: flour and meal of cereals of Chapter 11; flour, meal and powder of vegetable origin of any chapter. 3. Heading 1904 does not cover preparations containing more than 6% by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis or coated with chocolate or other food preparations containing cocoa of heading 1806.