Heading 2403 : Other manufactured tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes; "homogenised" or "reconstituted"tobacco; tobacco extracts and essences.
This heading covers :(1) Smoking tobacco, whether or not containing tobacco substitutes in any proportion, for example, manufactured tobacco for use in pipes or for making cigarettes. (2) Chewing tobacco, usually highly fermented and liquored. (3) Snuff, more or less flavoured. (4) Tobacco compressed or liquored for making snuff. (5) Manufactured tobacco substitutes, for example, smoking mixtures not containing tobacco. However, products such as cannabis are excluded (heading 12.11). (6) Homogenised or reconstituted tobacco made by agglomerating finely divided tobacco from tobacco leaves, tobacco refuse or dust, whether or not on a backing (e.g., sheet of cellulose from tobacco stems), generally put up in the form of rectangular sheets or strip. It can be either used in the sheet form (as a wrapper) or shredded/chopped (as a filler). (7) Tobacco extracts and essences. These are liquids extracted from moist leaves by pressure, or prepared by boiling waste tobacco in water. They are used mainly for the manufacture of insecticides and parasiticides. The heading does not cover : (a) Nicotine (the alkaloid extracted from tobacco) (heading 29.39). (b) Insecticides of heading 38.08.
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