PREPARED FOODSTUFFS > PREPARATIONS OF VEGETABLES, FRUIT, NUTS OR OTHER PARTS OF PLANTS > Fruit or nut juices (including grape must and coconut water) and vegetable juices, unfermented and not containing added spirit, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter
1. For the purposes of this chapter, the 'sugar content' corresponds to the figure indicated by a refractometer (used in accordance with the method prescribed in Annex I to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 974/2014) at a temperature of 20 degrees C and multiplied by 0.95 or, in the case of products of subheading 2009 (fruit juices), by the factor 0.93. 2. For the purposes of subheading 2001 90 and 2005 99, 'sweet corn' (Zea mays var. saccharata) means preparations of corn with a sugar content determined on a dry basis of at least 30 % by weight. 3. For the purposes of subheadings 2006 00 31, 2006 00 35, 2006 00 38, 2006 00 91, 2006 00 95 and 2006 00 99, the 'sugar content' means the sucrose content determined by the refractometric method. 4. The Brix value of fruit juices of heading 2009 is the Brix value as read on the refractometer at 20 degrees C. It indicates the percentage by weight of soluble dry matter (predominantly sugars).
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) 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); (c) bakery products and other products of heading 1905; (d) homogenised 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. Headings 2001, 2004 and 2005 cover, as the case may be, only those products of Chapter 7 or of heading 1105 or 1106 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% or more, is to be classified in heading 2002.
1. In this Section the term 'pellets' means products which have been agglomerated either directly by compression or by the addition of a binder in a proportion not exceeding 3 % by weight. 2. The expression 'food preparations' in this Section, unless the context otherwise requires, means preparations classified in headings 1601 to 2106.
Source: European Commission - CN Explanatory Notes (CNEN) and HS legal notes.