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Composite Commodity List


Birds

Cheese


Coffee

Compost


Containers

Corn cob


Cotton

Cottonseed

Dinners


Feathers

Feeds


Fibers


Forest products

Trees


Figs or dates – ground, in paste form, cooked, or with substantial amounts of other substances added – Not Exempt - Office

Hair


Hay

Horticultural commodities


Livestock

Meal


Milk and Cream

Oil


Poultry and Poultry Products

Rabbits


Skins

Syrup


Tobacco

Wax


Wheat

Whey


Wool

Composite Commodity List


Of Administrative Ruling No 119

Additives - Ruling NO 107 reflects the policy of allowing minor amounts of additives, since such things as vitamins in milk, seasoning or sweetening in foods, coated Christmas trees, etc are shown as exempt. Informal rule of thumb is that no more than 5 percent non-exempt additives are allowable - Office

Advertising matter - in reasonable amounts, transported along with exempt commodities to which it relates, not considered as affecting the exempt nature of shipment - Office.

Advertising matter - comprising 2030 cases transported with 500 cases of tulip bulbs – Exempt – Office

Alfalfa -see Feeds

1 Animal fats - Not exempt - Law

1 Exempt if used as a livestock or poultry feed or feed ingredient and transported to a business enterprise engaged in the sale to agricultural procedures of goods used in agricultural

Animals - see Livestock

Bagged commodities - Placing exempt commodities in bags does not affect their exempt status - Office

Bagging - scrap (worn jute bagging)- Not exempt - Office

Bananas
- Not exempt-Law Ruling 110

Bark - see Forest Products
Barley
- see Grains
Bees –
Exempt - Law
Beeswax
-crude, in cakes and slabs- Exempt-Law
Beet pulp
- see Feeds
Beets, sugar
– Exempt – Law
production. – Motor Carrier Act of 1980. – Amendment to Section 10526(a)(6) by addition of (E). –Case No. 33

 

Berries - see Fruits

 

Birds

 

Canaries and parakeets - Not Exempt – Office

 

Edible - See separate heading: Poultry

 

Feathers - see separate heading: Feathers

 

Pigeons – racing - Not exempt – Law

 

Birdseed - see separate heading: Feeds

 

Bones, animal - Not exempt – Office

 

Bran - see Feeds

 

Broom corn - threshed and baled – Exempt – Law

 

Bulbs - see Horticultural Commodities

Butter - Not exempt – Law

Buttermilk - Exempt-Law

Candied apples -(fresh apples on a stick dipped in taffy) - Not exempt-Office

Casein - derived from milk - Not exempt - Case No. 1

 

 

 

Canned fruits and vegetables - Not exempt - Law

 

Carnauba wax - as imported in slabs or chunks - Not exempt - Law

Castor Beans – Exempt - Law

Castor pomace -(cake remaining alter extraction of oil from castor beans) Not exempt - Office

Cattle, live- see livestock

Cattle, slaughtered - Not exempt - Law

Charcoal - Not exempt - Law

Cheese Cheese - Not exempt - Law

Cheese, cottage - Not exempt - Law

Cheese, cottage, curd, in bulk - Not exempt - Office

Cheese, cream - Not exempt - Law

Chicle (a gum obtained from latex of trees) in form normally shipped, i.e. purified and neutralized - Not exempt Office

Christmas trees – plain, sprayed, or

coated-- Exempt - Law

Cider, apple, and cider vinegar - Not exempt – Office

Citrus fruits - see Fruits Clay - Not exempt – Office Coal - Not exempt – Law

Cocoa beans shells - in any form - Not exempt - Office

 

Cocoa beans - Not exempt – law Ruling 110

Coconut - see Nuts

Coffee

Coffee beans - Not exempt – Law - Ruling 110

Coffee, instant - Not exempt - Law

Coffee, roasted - Not exempt - Law

Compost

Compost - composed of manure end straw sweepings, dried, disintegrated, and decomposed - Exempt - Office

Compost, product -a mixture of processed garbage and sewage sludge Not exempt - Office

Compost - mixture of manure, straw or rice hulls, but not sawdust –Exempt Office

Compost -mixture of manure end sweepings with water and bacterial agents to hasten fermentation, used as a growth medium for mushrooms - Not exempt - Office

Containers

Containers, crates, and boxes which have been used in the movement of exempt commodities, which have been reconditioned and sold from stock to new purchasers - Not exempt - Office

2 Containers, crates, end boxes which have been used in the movement of exempt commodities, and ere being returned for reuse – Exempt - Law

Containers, new, for use in shipping exempt commodities - Not exempt Law

2Used pallets, used empty shipping containers including used intermodal

1 Exempt if used as a livestock or poultry feed or feed ingredient and transported to a business enterprise engaged in the sale to agricultural procedures of goods used in agricultural production. – Motor Carrier Act of 1980. – Amendment to Section 10526(a)(6) by addition of (E). –Case No. 33

2 exempt except those used in the transportation of motor vehicles or parts of motor vehicle. – Motor Carrier Act of 1980 – Amendment to Section 10526(a) by addition of subsection (11)

containers and other shipping devices Exempt - Motor Carrier Act of 1980

1Copra meal - Not exempt - Law

Corn - see Grain

Corn cob Corn cobs – Exempt – Law

Corn cobs – ground – Exempt - Law

Corn fodder – Exempt - Law

Cottage cheese - see cheese

Cotton Cotton -carded but not spun, woven or knitted – Exempt - Law

Cotton - ginned or unginned - Exempt

-Law

Cotton felt - used in mattresses, etc consisting of scraps of raw cotton. blended end carded, but not otherwise processed - Exempt - Office

Cotton lap - (Baled cotton, blended, cleaned end formed into rolls Cottonseed Cake - Egg preparatory to milling) – Exempt – Office. Cotton linters – Exempt - Law

 

Cotton motes -(fibers removed from cotton seed after ginning and removal of linters) - Exempt - Office

Cotton wastes – consisting of bits of string thread, and yarn - Not exempt -Office

Cotton wastes - consisting of scraps of cotton fiber not spun, woven or knitted - Exempt - Law

 

Cotton yarn - Not exempt - Law

 

Cottonseed

 

Cottonseed, whole – Exempt - Law

 

Cottonseed, dehulled - Exempt – Law

 

1Cottonseed cake - Not exempt - Law

 

Cottonseed hulls - Exempt - Law

 

Cottonseed meal - Not exempt - Law

 

Crates - see Containers

 

Cream - see Milk

 

Cream Cheese - See Cheese

 

Dehydrated – See commodity name: Fruits, Vegetables, Eggs, etc.

Diatomaceous earth - Not exempt - Law

Dinners

Dinners, frozen - Not exempt-Law (But see next two entries)

Dinners - chicken, cooked and frozen-Exempt --Office (Based on Case No. 26)

Dinners - seafood, frozen – Exempt – Law - Ruling 110

Dried - see commodity name: Fruits. Vegetables, Eggs, etc.

1 Exempt if used as a livestock or poultry feed or feed ingredient and transported to a business enterprise engaged in the sale to agricultural procedures of goods used in agricultural production. – Motor Carrier Act of 1980. – Amendment to Section 10526(a)(6) by addition of (E). –Case No. 33

 

Egg

Albumen -fresh, liquid – Exempt Law

Albumen - fresh, liquid, pasteurized – Exempt - Office

Dried – Exempt - Law

Frozen – Exempt - Law

Hard boiled -pickled, packed in vinegar and water with spices - Not Exempt -Office

In shell – Exempt – Law

Liquid - whole or separated - Exempt Law

Mixture - of 90% powdered and 10% syrup and salt, dried - Not exempt Office

Oiled – Exempt - Law

Omelet mix - consisting of fresh broken eggs and milk with minute amounts of salt and pepper and seasoning, packaged and frozen – Exempt - Office

Powder, dried - Exempt - Law

 

Shelled - Exempt – Law

 

Shells - pulverized, for medical use (designated "pure calcium carbonate”) - Not exempt - Office

 

Whites – frozen – Exempt - Office

 

Whole -frozen with added yolks – Exempt - Office

 

Whole - frozen, standardized by subtraction of white – Exempt - Office

 

Yolks - dried - Exempt - Law

 

Yolks – fresh, liquid –Exempt - Law

 

Yolks - frozen – Exempt - Office

 

Yolks -with 10% salt or sugar added Not exempt - Office

 

Fats – animal – Not Exempt – Law

 

Feathers

Feathers – cleaned and ground, not further processed, nothing added (sometimes referred to as “feather meal.”) – Exempt – Office

Feathers – ground, combined with dehydrated poultry offal – Exempt - Office

Feeds

Alfalfa - dried, chopped, and pressed into cubes and wafers by machine, after dampening with water – Exempt Office

1 Alfalfa -dried, etc., as above, but by a steam process - Not exempt - Office

1 Exempt if used as a livestock or poultry feed or feed ingredient and transported to a business enterprise engaged in the sale to agricultural procedures of goods used in agricultural production. – Motor Carrier Act of 1980. – Amendment to Section 10526(a)(6) by addition of (E). –Case No. 33

 

1Alfalfa pellets - Not exempt - Office

1Beet pellets - Not exempt - Office

1Beet pulp -Not exempt - Law

Bird gravel - Not exempt - Office

Bird seed - containing milo, millet, wheat chaff, end peanut heart – Exempt

- Office

Bird seed bell - seed (millet, wheat, milo, and sunflower seed) mixed with an adhesive, such as corn syrup or wood glue, filled with a wire hanger, and molded into a bell shape, for feeding wild birds - Exempt - Case No. 19

1Bran shorts - Not exempt - Law Corn

1Corn gluten - Not exempt – Law

Cottonseed products - see separate heading: Cottonseed

1 Distilled corn grain residues -with or without solubles added - Not exempt -Law

 

1Formulas composed of hominy feed, beet pulp, corn gluten, wheat middlings, cane molasses end minerals - Not exempt - Office

Hamster and gerbil food - with 9% soy bean and alfalfa meal added - Not exempt - Office

1Hominy feed - Not exempt - Law

Meal - see separate heading: Meat

Middlings - Not exempt- Law

Oat hulls -ground – Exempt - Law

Parrot Food - mixture of exempt commodities – Exempt - Office

1 Pelletized ground refuse screenings Not exempt - Law

Rice bran – Exempt - Law

1Rice hulls - anhydrous ammonia added providing a 10% protein source as feed - Not exempt - Office

Rice hulls - ground or unground, nothing added – Exempt - Office

1Rice mill feed pellets - retaining a continuing substantial identity through the processing stage – Exempt - Case No. 32

1 Exempt if used as a livestock or poultry feed or feed ingredient and transported to a business enterprise engaged in the sale to agricultural procedures of goods used in agricultural production. – Motor Carrier Act of 1980. – Amendment to Section 10526(a)(6) by addition of (E). –Case No. 33

 

Screenings-feed - Exempt - Law

Soybean husks – Exempt - Case No. 16

1Wheat bran - Not exempt - Law

1Wheat - mixed feed (mixture of coarse outer covering of wheat kernel, wheat germ, wheat flour, and offal of the tail of the mill) - Not exempt - Case No. 2

3 Fertilizer, commercial - Not exempt Law

Fibers

Abaca (manila hemp) – piassava, ixtle, rattan, and palm and grass fibers – Exempt - Case No 3

Clippings resulting from rope making - Not exempt - Office

3 Exempt if fertilizer is a fish or shellfish by product not intended for human consumption. Motor Carrier Act of 1980. Amendment to Section 10526(a)(6)(D)

Coir yarn - made from coconut fiber, is manufactured by spinning - Not exempt - Case No. 3

Flax – Exempt - Law

Hemp - Not exempt - Law-Ruling 110 "Hemp" specifically made not exempt by amendment of Section 203(b)(6) means true hemp (cannabis sativa) or its fiber, and does not embrace similar plants or plant fibers commonly referred to by name Case No. 3

Jute - in bales - Exempt - Law

Jute fabric - product of a textile operation - Not exempt - Office

Kapok -in loose bales, not processed beyond separation of fibers from seeds - Exempt - Office

 

Palm leaf -not processed beyond separation from leaf, cleaning, combing drying and baling – Exempt - Office

Ramie – Exempt - Law

Ramie Tops - consisting of long fibers of the ramie plant - Exempt - Office specimens – Exempt – Office

Sisal -not being a true hemp - Exempt - See explanation under "Hemp"

 

Fish (including shellfish)

General: Frozen, quick frozen, and unfrozen fish and shell fish in the various forms in which it is shipped, such as live fish, fish in the round, beheaded, and gutted fish, filleted fish, beheaded shrimp, and oysters, clams, crabs, and lobsters, with or without shells, including crabmeat and lobster meat – Exempt - Law

Breaded, cooked, or uncooked, frozen or fresh – Exempt – Law - Ruling 110; Case No. 24

Cakes, codfish - cooked or uncooked frozen or fresh – Exempt - Law-Ruling 110; Case No. 24

Canned - as a treatment for Preserving - Not exempt - Ruling 110; Case No. 24

Clam juice or broth - cooked or uncooked, frozen or fresh –Exempt – Ruling 110; Case No. 24.

Condensed fish solubles - (obtained by condensing the aqueous portion of the residue of pressing oil from fish) - Not exempt - Office

Cooked or partially cooked fish or Shellfish - frozen or fresh –Exempt – Law -Ruling 110; Case No. 24

Crab offal – residue after extraction of meat from crabs including shells, dried and ground – Exempt – Office

Crabmeat – pasteurized, placed in hermetically sealed containers for purposes of preservation – Not Exempt – Office

Crabmeat – pasteurized, sealed for purposes of cleanliness only, preservation accomplished by refrigeration – Exempt - Office

Croquettes, salmon - Cooked or uncooked, frozen or fresh- Exempt Law – Ruling 110; Case No. 24

Deviled Crabs, clams, or lobsters – cooked or uncooked, frozen or fresh - Exempt – Law – Ruling 110; Case No. 24

Dinners – cooked or uncooked, frozen or fresh – Exempt – Law – Ruling 110; Case No. 24.

 

Fish - processed by cleaning, scaling, and adding a small amount of salt – Exempt - Case No. 4

 

Fish – ground, frozen into blocks – Exempt – Case No. 4

Fish – luncheon meat of smoked ground fish formed into loaves – Not Exempt – Office

 

Fish – lightly salted or spiced, requiring refrigeration to retard deterioration – Exempt – Office

Fried Fish Fillets, oysters, or scallops – frozen or fresh – Exempt – Law – Ruling 110; Case No. 24

 

Frogs – live or dressed – Exempt – Law

Frogs and turtles – placed in formaldehyde to prevent or retard deterioration during transportation ( but not as a preservative as that term is

normally used) and used in substantially the same manner as live specimens -- Exempt -- Office

Frozen -see General above, and individual listings

Hermetically sealed in containers - as a treatment for preserving - Not exempt—Law

 

Hermetically sealed in containers -for cleanliness only, preservation attained by refrigeration – Exempt – Law

Meal – Not exempt - Law

Offal – inedible portions of fish not further processed - Exempt – Law

Oil from fishes - Not exempt – Law

Preserved or treated - for preserving, such as smoked, salted, pickled, spiced, corned or kippered - Not exempt – Law

Residue - remaining after extraction of oil from fish - Not exempt – Office

Salmon eggs -brined and packed in salt and formaldehyde solution in vacuum sealed jars - Not exempt – Office Salmon eggs – frozen, not pickled or brined or otherwise treated for preservation – Exempt – Office

Salted -as treatment for preserving – Not Exempt – Law

Scraps - frozen, granulated, and pressed into blocks, for cat food-Exempt – Office

Sea lions and walrus -Not exempt – Office

Seafood casseroles and dinners - of which fish or shellfish is the principal ingredient – Exempt – Office

Seal blubber - Not exempt – Office

Seal skins - Not exempt - Office

4 Shells of sea creatures - other than those mixed with other refuse of "offal” - Not exempt – Office

4 Exempt if fish or shellfish by product, such as fish meal, fertilizer and pet food, not intended for human consumption. Motor Carrier Act of 1980. Amendment to Section 10526(a)(6)(D).

 

4Shells, oyster - moving to market for use in button making - Not exempt – Law

4Shells, oyster – ground - Not exempt

– Case No. 28

Shrimp cocktail - Shrimp cooked and placed in glass jars with special sauce and seasoning and kept under refrigeration - Exempt – Office

Soup or chowder – containing a relatively small proportion of fish or shellfish in proportion to other ingredients which are not within the exemption - Not exempt – Office

Stew - consisting of raw oysters or clams, milk and seasoning, frozen but uncooked – Exempt – Law

Sticks - cooked or uncooked, frozen or fresh – Exempt – Law - Ruling 110

Sticks -frozen, cooked, breaded – Exempt – Case No. 5

Tuna Pies – Frozen – Exempt – Office

Turtles - sea or fresh water – Exempt Law Whale meat – fresh – Exempt – Law Flagstone - Not exempt – Law Flax fiber - see Fibers Flaxseed, whole – Exempt – Law Flaxseed Meal - Not exempt – Law Flies -live sterile screw worm

eradication program - Exempt – Office

Flour

Flour - Not exempt – Law

Corn flour -extruded and hammered to a flour consistency - Not exempt –Office 1 Corn meal flour - Not exempt - Office

Mustard flour - consisting of seeds ground or milled and bolted - Not exempt – Office

Tapioca flour - produced in same manner as wheat flour - Not exempt –Office

Flowers and flower plants - See Horticultural commodities




Fodder– corn and sorghum – Exempt – law

Forest products Bark – Exempt – Law

Bark - Boiled to clean and soften – Exempt - Law

 

 

Exempt if used as a livestock or poultry feed or feed ingredient and transported to a site of agricultural production or to a business enterprise engaged in the sale to agricultural producers of goods used in agricultural production. Motor Carrier Act of 1980. Amendment to Section 10526(a)(6) by addition of (E). Case No. 33

 

 

 

Bark, raw -broken up by means of hammermill, or shredded, ground, or crushed, graded, and bagged – Exempt - Office

 

Bark, shredded - in its natural state, sprayed with copper based fungicide – Exempt – Office

 

Blankets of pine end spruce boughs – Exempt – Law

Bolts for making shingles - Exempt Law

Divi and divi pods - natural products of certain trees, not processed – Exempt – Office

Excelsior wood – shredded birch bark, not a by-product of sawing, planning or finishing of wood – Exempt – Office

Fence pickets – split by hand from bolts, edged and pointed – Not exempt – Office

Fence posts and rails – consisting of logs peeled and cut to length, the post having holes drilled in them for insertion of rails and the rails being split and sharpened at both ends – Not exempt – case No. 6

“fire log”: wood shavings, sawdust, low grade petroleum, used in place of firewood – Not exempt – Office

Greenery – Exempt – Law

Growing – See separate heading: Horticultural Commodities

Hickory “wheels” – short lengths cut from trees or logs – Exempt – Office

Hickory meal – sawdust or powdered hickory wood – Exempt – Case No.

Holly sprigs and cuttings – Exempt – Law

Leaves – Exempt – Law

Leaves, sisal - husks and moisture removed – Exempt – Law

Lignin sulphonate -obtained by cooking wood chips in a chemical solution and used as road binder - Not exempt - Office

Logs and pilings - impregnated with a preservative, usually creosote -Not exempt - Case No. 7

Mesquite brush - ground, dehydrated and packaged in plastic bags – Exempt

– Office

Mesquite brush -twigs, and debris burned off - Exempt - Law

Mine timbers or cants - comprised of 8-foot lengths of fir, rough-sawn, square cornered - Not exempt - office

Mistletoe – Exempt – Law

Myrobalans – as imported in natural state – Exempt - Law

Palmyra stalk fibers - fronds from palm leaves – Exempt - Law

Peat moss - dried, shredded, baled – Exempt - Law

Peat or peat moss - in bags or boxes - Exempt – Office (see also Case No. 31) Peat moss flower pots - impregnated with wetting agent - Not exempt Office

5 Pet Food - Not exempt - Case No. 33

Peat - for use as an organic fertilizer, wet with water and other solutions, decomposed in a pressure vessel and dried - Not exempt - Case No. 3

Peller cores - composed of the center portions of logs remaining after plywood is cut therefrom – Exempt Case No. 30

Pilings - wooden, untreated – Exempt

-Case No. 9

Pilings -wooden, impregnated with a preservative, usually creosote -Not exempt - Case No. 7

Pine Cones leaves, and miniature

5 Exempt if pet food is a fish or shellfish by-product not intended for human consumption. Motor Carrier Act of 1980 – Amendment to Section 10526(a)(6)(D)

trees -preserved by use of solution containing calcium chloride – Exempt Case No. 8

Poles - wooden, untreated - Exempt Case No. 9

Poles - preassorted, preventative-treated (used by utility companies, contractors, municipalities, etc.) - Not exempt - Case No. 10

Poles -telephone, not creosoted – Exempt – Law

Railroad ties - composed of bolts from felled trees sawed crosswise processed

– Exempt – Office

Railroad ties - lengths of wood cut to length and sawed lengthwise to size Not exempt – Office

Resin, crude – Exempt – Law

Resin products - such as turpentine Not exempt – Law

Roots - natural or dried – Exempt – Law

Sap – maple – Exempt – Law

6 Sawdust and shavings-regardless of their place of production, the process by which they are created, or their ultimate use – Exempt - Case No. 35

6Sawdust -from lumber mills – Exempt -Case No. 35

Shakes and shingles - whether split by hand or by machine - Not exempt Case No. 12

Shingle bolts – Exempt – Law

6Slabwood - produced from sawmill operations – Exempt - Case No. 35

Spanish moss – Exempt – Law

Sphagnum moss – Exempt – Law

Spices - see separate heading: Spices

6 Exempt as wood chips or wood residue for primary plant or forest. Motor carrier Act of 1980. Amendment to Section 10526(a) by addition of subsection (13)

Tanbark or tanwood - residue after tanning dye is extracted from bark, roots, or wood by means of extreme pressure and hot water, used as a mulch

-
Not exempt – Office
Tanning extracts -(wattle, chestnut, guebracho) produced by leaching bark, clarifying the extract and concentrating it in vacuum evaporators -Not exempt - Office

 

Timber - rough logs or bolls cut in Random lengths, with bark removed – Exempt – Office

6Wood chips - including those for making wood pulp, or wood residues from primary manufacturing plants such as slabs, trimmings, shavings, sawdust, edgings, and hogged fuel – Exempt - Case No. 35

Trees

 

Christmas – plain, sprayed or coated – Exempt – Law

Cut to length, peeled, or split – Exempt – Law

Growing – see Horticultural commodities

Sawed into lumber – Not exempt – Law

6 Trimmings - from logs and bolts except bark – Exempt - Case No. 35

Valonia - as imported in natural state – Exempt – Law

Wood - cut Into short crosswise lengths for firewood (not sawed lengthwise) – Exempt - Office

Wreaths of holly or other natural material - with small amount of foundation or decorative material Exempt – Law

6 Exempt as wood chips or wood residue for primary plant or forest. Motor carrier Act of 1980. Amendment to Section 10526(a) by addition of subsection (13)

Frogs - see Fish

Frozen - see commodity name: Fruits, vegetables, fish, poultry, etc

Apple peels and cores - ground, but not otherwise processed – Exempt – Office

Apples pomace - substance remaining alter extraction of Juice - Not exempt Office

Apples - fresh, unfrozen, peeled, cored, sliced and dipped in brine solution to retain freshness – Exempt – Office

Bagged – Exempt – Law

Bananas - fresh, dried, dehydrated, or frozen - Not exempt – Law - Ruling 110

Blueberries - incidentally frozen while being maintained in low temperature storage, allowed to thaw during transportation - Exempt – Law

Canned - Not Exempt – Law

Cherries - in sulphur dioxide "brine" for purpose of holding them in fresh state until they can be processed for marketing, which processing includes "debrining” – Exempt - Case No. 14

Cherries - maraschino type, resulting from further processing of cherries mentioned just above - Not exempt Case No. 14

Chopped glazed fruit – similar to that used in fruit cakes – Not exempt – Office

Citrus fruit salad - fresh, chilled – Exempt – Office

Citrus fruit sections - fresh, cold packed or semi-frozen – Exempt – Law

Citrus fruit sections – frozen - Not exempt – Law - Ruling 110

Citrus fruit sections -not frozen, packed with sugar water, citric acid, and benzoate of soda, additives being 6% to 10% of total - Not exempt - Office

Citrus pulp - substance remaining after juice extraction - Not exempt - Office

Color added – Exempt – Law

Cranberries - partially frozen as result of being placed in open boxes in storage under controlled temperatures to insure freshness pending transportation to canneries – Exempt – Office

Cranberries - purposely quick-frozen, maintained in a frozen state during transportation - Not exempt – Office

Dates - pitted, dried - Exempt – Law

Dehydrated - Exempt – Law

Dried – naturally or artificially – Exempt - Law

Dried – not further processed, placed in sealed packages or receptacles – Exempt – Office

Figs – dried, halved or quartered – Exempt - Office Figs or dates – ground, in paste form, cooked, or with substantial amounts of other substances added – Not Exempt - Office

Fig paste -consisting of ground figs, either in their natural state or dried – Exempt - Office

Frozen - Not exempt – Law - Ruling 110

Frozen (quick-frozen) - for the purpose of preservation during transportation --whether shipped under temperature control or not - Not exempt

– Office

Fruit baskets or gift packages -consisting of fresh fruit with 5% or less of jelly in jars and candy - Exempt – Office

Fumigated – Exempt – Law

Graded - Exempt – Law

Grape slurry - comprised of grapes removed from stems and crushed – Exempt – Office Hulls of oranges - after juice extractions - Not exempt – Law

In Brine -to retain freshness – Exempt – Law

Juice, orange or other citrus - Not exempt – Law

Juice, fruit - plain or concentrated -Not exempt – Law

Kernels - Exempt – Law

Myrobalan - prune-like tropical fruit dried, crushed and bagged – Exempt Office

Oiled apples – Exempt – Law

Olives - processed for table use, in brine or not in brine, stuffed or not stuffed, in any type container - Not exempt – Office

Orange and lemon peel - dried, prepared from hulls of fruit following juice extraction - Not exempt - Office

Peaches - peeled, pitted, and put in cold storage in unsealed containers – Exempt - Law Pies - frozen - Not exempt – Law

Plantains - considered to be bananas Not exempt - Case No 15

Preserved - such as jam - Not exempt –Law

Purees - strawberry and other, frozen Not exempt – Law

Quick frozen - Not exempt – Law Ruling 110

Raisins - seeded or unseeded – Exempt –Law

Raisins - very lightly coated with honey, cinnamon, or sugar - Exempt – Office

Raisins - chocolate coated or glaced, thereby preserving and candying them Not exempt - Office

Sliced, frozen - Not exempt – Law Ruling 110

Strawberries - in syrup and unsealed containers in cold storage – Exempt Law

 

Strawberries - in unsealed containers with temperature controlled at 10° or lower - Not exempt – Office

Grain

Artificially dried - Exempt – Law

Barley, brewers - residuary byproducts of the malting process in which barley, steeped and germinated, is mixed with hops and other ingredients and allowed to ferment - Not exempt - Office

Barley - malted (processed only to the extent of soaking in warm water to hasten or induce germination, then drying, and removal of sprouts in some instances) – Exempt - Office

Barley - pearled (husked and polished grains) - Exempt – Office

Barley – rolled – Exempt – Law

Barley - whole - Exempt – Law

Brewer's grains - wet, by-product of brewing process - Not exempt – Office 1 Corn cob pellets - consisting of finely ground cobs with graphite added - Not exempt – Office

Corn – cracked – Exempt - Law

1Corn - from which oil is extracted, ground and dried to comprise a product known as "brewers corn grits" - Not exempt - Office

Corn screenings – Exempt – Office