0203.12.10

Analysis

HTS 0203.12.10 covers hams, shoulders and cuts thereof, with bone in: processed under heading 0203 (meat of swine, fresh, chilled, or frozen). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in kilograms.

The general rate is 1.4¢/kg, a specific or compound duty rather than a simple percentage, so the effective burden depends on the unit value of the goods: cheap goods pay proportionally more than expensive ones. Importers usually convert it to an ad valorem equivalent to compare it with other lines.

Goods that qualify under GSP, the Australia FTA, the Bahrain FTA, the Chile FTA, the Colombia TPA, and 12 others can enter duty-free instead of paying 1.4¢/kg. It is also eligible under GSP, the developing-country programme, which Congress has to renew; check whether GSP is in force on the entry date.

For statistics it divides in two: 0203.12.10.10 for hams and cuts thereof and 0203.12.10.20 for shoulders and cuts thereof. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 311611 (Animal (except Poultry) Slaughtering), an industry of 1,274 US establishments employing 159,965 people. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.