Flours and meals; of soya beans

HS code 120810 covers the production and trade of soya bean flours and meals. Soya beans are a versatile and nutritious legume crop that is widely cultivated around the world. The flours and meals derived from soya beans have a wide range of applications in the food, animal feed, and industrial sectors, making this a significant and growing industry within the broader agricultural economy.

Soya bean flours and meals are typically produced through a process of cleaning, dehulling, and milling the soya beans. The beans are first cleaned to remove any foreign matter, then dehulled to separate the outer hull from the inner kernel. The kernels are then ground into a fine powder, either by mechanical milling or through the use of specialized equipment. The resulting flours and meals can vary in their fat, protein, and fiber content depending on the specific processing methods used.

The primary input for the production of soya bean flours and meals is, of course, soya beans. Soya beans are grown by farmers around the world, with major producers including 120100 Soya beans, 120190 Soya beans, whether or not broken, and 120400 Rape or colza seeds. In addition to the raw soya beans, the production process also requires specialized milling equipment, as well as energy sources and labor to operate the facilities.

The main outputs of HS code 120810 are soya bean flours and meals, which have a wide range of applications. These products are commonly used as ingredients in 190110 Preparations for infant use, put up for retail sale, 230400 Oil-cake and other solid residues, whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of soya-bean oil, and 210690 Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included. The flours and meals may also be used in industrial applications, such as the production of 382499 Chemical products and preparations of the chemical or allied industries, not elsewhere specified or included.