Providedthey are not included in any other more specific heading of the Nomenclature and are of a kind used in animal feeding, this heading covers vegetable products, vegetable waste, and residues and by‑products from the industrial processing of vegetable materials in order to extract some of their constituents.
It covers, inter alia :(1) Acorns and horse‑chestnuts. (2) Maize (corn) cobs after removal of the grain; maize (corn) stalks and leaves. (3) Beet or carrot tops. (4) Peelings of vegetables (pea or bean pods, etc.). (5) Waste of fruit (peel and cores of apples, pears, etc.) and fruit pomace and marc (from the pressing of grapes, apples, pears, citrus fruit, etc.), even if they may also be used for the extraction of pectin. (6) Bran obtained as a by‑product from the crushing of mustard seed. (7) Residues left after the preparation of coffee substitute (or extracts thereof) from cereal grains or other vegetable materials. (8) By‑products obtained by concentrating residual waters from citrus fruit juice manufacture, sometimes known as "citrus fruit molasses". (9) Residues from the hydrolysis of maize (corn) cobs to obtain 2‑furaldehyde, known as "hydrolysed ground corn cobs". The products of this heading may be in the form of pellets (see the General Explanatory Note to this Chapter).
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