A tobacco blend consisting of tobacco leaves, homogenised tobacco leaves and tobacco dust. The materials are blended with a food-grade adhesive, used to bind the components which are then formed into cylindrical type shapes or bunches. These bunches form the inner parts of cigarillos.
Justification
Classification has been determined in accordance with the following:
For the purposes of determining the commodity codes within which goods most appropriately fall, reg 3 (1) of The Customs Tariff (Establishment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 sets out that the rules of interpretation contained in the following have effect –
a. Part Two (Goods Classification Table Rules of Interpretation) of the Tariff of the United Kingdom (Reg 3(1)(a)); and
b. Notes to a section or chapter of the Goods Classification Table (Reg 3(1)(b))
Classification has been determined in accordance with the following:
General Interpretative Rules (GIR)s:
GIR 1 has been used to classify this product by the terms of heading 2403: Other manu-factured tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes; 'homoge-nised' or 'reconstituted' tobacco; tobacco extracts and essences
GIR 6 has been used to classify this product by the terms of heading 240391: Other than smoking tobacco, whether or not containing tobacco substitutes in any proportion; 'homogenised' or 'reconstituted' tobacco
Also classified in accordance with:
Harmonised System Explanatory Note (6) to heading 2403