Division 2

The following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them:

1. (a)

   ‘carcases or half-carcases’, for the purposes of subheadings 0203 11 10 and 0203 21 10: slaughtered pigs, in the form of carcases of domestic swine which have been bled and eviscerated and from which the bristles and hooves have been removed. Half-carcases are derived from whole carcases by division through each cervical, dorsal, lumbar and sacral vertebra, through or along the sternum and through the ischio-pubic symphysis. These carcases or half-carcases may be with or without head, with or without the chaps, feet, flare fat, kidneys, tail or diaphragm. Half-carcases may be with or without spinal cord, brain or tongue. Carcases and half-carcases of sows may be with or without udders (mammary glands);

2. (b)

   ‘hams’ (legs), for the purposes of subheadings 0203 12 11, 0203 22 11, 0210 11 11 and 0210 11 31: the posterior (caudal) part of the half-carcase, including bones, with or without the foot, shank, rind or subcutaneous fat.

   The ham (leg) is separated from the rest of the half-carcase, so that it includes, at most, the last lumbar vertebra;

3. (c)

   ‘fore-ends’, for the purposes of subheadings 0203 19 11, 0203 29 11, 0210 19 30 and 0210 19 60: the anterior (cranial) part of the half-carcase without the head, with or without the chaps, including bones, with or without foot, shank, rind or subcutaneous fat.

   The fore-end is separated from the rest of the half-carcase, so that it includes, at most, the fifth dorsal vertebra.

   The upper (dorsal) part of the fore-end, whether or not containing the blade-bone and attached muscles (neck-end in fresh or collar in salted condition), is considered a cut of the loin, when it is separated from the lower (ventral) part of the fore-end, at most by a cut just below the vertebral column;

4. (d)

   ‘shoulders’, for the purposes of subheadings 0203 12 19, 0203 22 19, 0210 11 19 and 0210 11 39: the lower part of the fore-end whether or not containing the blade-bone and attached muscles, including bones, with or without foot, shank, rind or subcutaneous fat.

   The blade-bone and attached muscles, presented separately, remain classified in this subheading as a part of the shoulder;

5. (e)

   ‘loins’, for the purposes of subheadings 0203 19 13, 0203 29 13, 0210 19 40 and 0210 19 70: the upper part of the half-carcase, extending from the first cervical vertebra to the caudal vertebrae, including bones, with or without the tenderloin, blade-bone, subcutaneous fat or rind.

   The loin is separated from the lower part of the half-carcase by a cut just below the vertebral column;

6. (f)

   ‘bellies’, for the purposes of subheadings 0203 19 15, 0203 29 15, 0210 12 11 and 0210 12 19: the lower part of the half-carcase situated between the ham (leg) and the shoulder, commonly known as ‘streaky’, with or without bones, but with the rind and the subcutaneous fat;

7. (g)

   ‘bacon sides’, for the purposes of subheading 0210 19 10: the pig half-carcase without the head, cheek, chap, feet, tail, flare fat, kidney, tenderloin, blade-bone, sternum, vertebral column, pelvic bone and diaphragm;

8. (h)

   ‘spencers’, for the purposes of subheading 0210 19 10: the bacon side without the ham, whether or not boned;

9. (ij)

   ‘three-quarter sides’, for the purposes of subheading 0210 19 20: the bacon side without the fore-end, whether or not boned;

10. (k)

    ‘middles’, for the purposes of subheading 0210 19 20: the bacon side without the ham and the fore-end, whether or not boned.

    The subheading also includes cuts of middles containing tissue of loin and belly in natural proportion to the entire middles.

The parts of the cuts defined in paragraph 2(A)(f) fall in the same subheadings, only if they contain rind and subcutaneous fat.

If the cuts falling in subheadings 0210 11 11, 0210 11 19, 0210 11 31, 0210 11 39, 0210 19 30 and 0210 19 60 are derived from a bacon side from which the bones indicated under paragraph 2(A)(g) have already been removed, the lines of cutting must follow those defined under paragraph 2(A)(b), (c) and (d) accordingly; in any case, these cuts or parts thereof must contain bones.

Subheadings 0206 49 00 and 0210 99 49, include, in particular, heads or halves of heads of domestic swine, with or without the brains, cheeks or tongues, and parts thereof.

The head is separated from the rest of the half-carcase as follows:

• by a straight cut parallel to the cranium; or

• by a cut parallel to the cranium up to the level of the eyes and then inclined to the front of the head, thereby causing the chaps to remain attached to the half-carcase.

The cheeks, snouts and ears as well as the meat attached to the head, particularly to the rear part, are considered parts of heads. However, the cuts of boneless meat of the fore-end, presented alone (jowls, chaps, or chaps and jowls together), fall in subheading 0203 19 55, 0203 29 55, 0210 19 50 or 0210 19 81, as the case may be.

For the purposes of subheadings 0209 10 11 and 0209 10 19, ‘subcutaneous pig fat’ has the meaning of the fatty tissue which accumulates under the rind of the pig and adheres to it, irrespective of the part of the pig from which it comes; in any case, the weight of the fatty tissue must exceed the weight of the rind.

These subheadings also include subcutaneous pig fat from which the rind has been removed.

For the purposes of subheadings 0210 11 31, 0210 11 39, 0210 12 19 and 0210 19 60 to 0210 19 89, products in which the water/protein ratio in the meat (nitrogen content × 6,25) is 2,8 or less is considered as ‘dried or smoked’. The nitrogen content is determined in accordance with ISO method 937-1978.