0207.25.40

Analysis

HTS 0207.25.40 covers valued 88¢ or more per kg under heading 0207 (meat and edible offal, of the poultry of heading 0105, fresh, chilled or frozen).

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 10%. 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.

The general duty rate is 10% of the customs value, which is above most the rates in chapter 02 (81st percentile of 56 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $1,000 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.

The column 2 rate, for countries without normal trade relations, is 25%, 2.5 times the general rate.

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 311615 (Poultry Processing), an industry of 520 US establishments employing 238,635 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.