Cereals; rice, broken

HS code 100640 covers broken rice, a byproduct of the rice milling process. Rice is a staple food crop grown and consumed worldwide, making broken rice an important commodity in the global agricultural trade. While not suitable for direct human consumption, broken rice has a variety of industrial and animal feed applications, contributing to the overall efficiency and sustainability of the rice industry.

Broken rice is produced as a result of the rice milling process. After harvesting, rice grains are dried, hulled to remove the outer husk, and then milled to remove the bran layer and polish the grains. During this milling process, a portion of the rice grains can become broken or fragmented, resulting in the broken rice product covered under HS code 100640.

The primary input for the production of broken rice is, of course, raw rice grains. Rice cultivation requires fertile agricultural land, adequate water resources, and appropriate farming equipment and techniques. Additionally, the rice milling process relies on specialized machinery such as hullers, polishers, and sorting equipment to efficiently separate the broken rice from whole grains.

Broken rice has a variety of uses, primarily as an ingredient in animal feed 230400 Oilcake and other solid residues, whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of soybean oil and for industrial applications such as the production of 190120 Mixes and doughs for the preparation of bakers' wares of heading 1905. While not suitable for direct human consumption, broken rice can also be used in the production of 190230 Bread, pastries, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products.