Buckwheat Flour
Gluten-free flour from buckwheat groats, essential for soba noodles, pancakes, and blinis. HTS 1102.90.60.00 covers buckwheat flour with starch >80% and ash <4% per chapter specifications.
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Alternative Classifications
This product could be classified differently depending on its characteristics or intended use.
If coarse buckwheat grits
Less fine fragmentation classifies as groats/meal in 1103, not flour.
If fagopyrum milling residues
Buckwheat bran/hulls exceeding ash/starch fall to 2302 other bran.
If blended buckwheat baking mix
Prepared with leaveners/eggs for pancakes enters Chapter 19 preparations.
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Import Tips & Compliance
• Buckwheat ash <4%; hull contamination common—test cleaned groats only
• Confirm not roasted (0901/2101 exclusion); pure milling flour only
• Popular for celiac; voluntary gluten-free claims need third-party testing
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