0203

Analysis

Heading 0203 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule covers meat of swine, fresh, chilled, or frozen. It divides into 6 six-digit subheadings and 10 eight-digit tariff lines, with 14 ten-digit statistical suffixes below them.

Every one of its 10 tariff lines is duty-free at the general rate, so classification within the heading affects statistics and Chapter 99 measures rather than the base duty.

Its median rate of duty-free sits at the 18th percentile of the headings in chapter 02.

4 of the lines carry specific or compound rates (per kilogram, per dozen and so on) rather than a percentage, so their burden depends on the unit value of the goods.

The largest subheadings are 0203.12 (hams, shoulders and cuts thereof, with bone in, 2 lines), 0203.19 (other, 2 lines), 0203.22 (hams, shoulders and cuts thereof, with bone in, 2 lines) and 0203.29 (other, 2 lines).

By Census's concordance, most of its statistical lines are made by Animal (except Poultry) Slaughtering (311611). Those are the NAICS industries a US producer of these goods would report under.