CN code: 3002 90 10

This chapter does not cover:(

• a) foods or beverages (such as dietetic, diabetic or fortified foods, food supplements, tonic beverages and mineral waters), other than nutritional preparations for intravenous administration (Section IV);(
• b) products, such as tablets, chewing gum or patches (transdermal systems), containing nicotine and intended to assist tobacco use cessation (heading 2404);(
• c) plasters specially calcined or finely ground for use in dentistry (heading 2520);(
• d) aqueous distillates or aqueous solutions of essential oils, suitable for medicinal uses (heading 3301);(
• e) preparations of headings 3303 to 3307, even if they have therapeutic or prophylactic properties;(
• f) soap or other products of heading 3401 containing added medicaments;(
• g) preparations with a basis of plaster for use in dentistry (heading 3407);(
• h) blood albumin not prepared for therapeutic or prophylactic uses (heading 3502); or(
• ij) diagnostic reagents of heading 3822.

2For the purposes of heading 3002, the expression immunological products applies to peptides and proteins (other than goods of heading 2937) which are directly involved in the regulation of immunological processes, such as monoclonal antibodies (MAB), antibody fragments, antibody conjugates and antibody fragment conjugates, interleukins, interferons (IFN), chemokines and certain tumour-necrosis factors (TNF), growth factors (GF), hematopoietins and colony-stimulating factors (CSF).

For the purposes of headings 3003 and 3004 and of note 4(d) to this chapter, the following are to be treated:(

• a) as unmixed products:(1)unmixed products dissolved in water;(2)all goods of Chapter 28 or 29; and(3)simple vegetable extracts of heading 1302, merely standardised or dissolved in any solvent;(
• b) as products which have been mixed:(1)colloidal solutions and suspensions (other than colloidal sulphur);(2)vegetable extracts obtained by the treatment of mixtures of vegetable materials; and(3)salts and concentrates obtained by evaporating natural mineral waters.