Analysis
HTS 0210.12.00 covers bellies (streaky) and cuts thereof under heading 0210 (meat and edible meat offal, salted, in brine, dried or smoked; edible flours and meals of…). 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: 0210.12.00.20 for bacon and 0210.12.00.40 for other. 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 is the industry code a US manufacturer of the same product would normally use.
Statistical suffixes
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 0210.11.00 | Hams, shoulders and cuts thereof, with bone in | 1.4¢/kg |
| 0210.19.00 | Meat of swine: other | 1.4¢/kg |
| 0210.20.00 | Meat of bovine animals | Free |
| 0210.91.00 | Other, including edible flours and meals of meat or meat offal: of primates | 2.3% |
| 0210.92.01 | Of whales, dolphins and porpoises (mammals of the order Cetacea); of manatees and dugongs (mammals of the order Sirenia); of seals, sea lions and walruses (mammals of the suborder Pinnipedia) | 2.3% |
| 0210.93.00 | Of reptiles (including snakes and turtles) | 2.3% |
| 0210.99.20 | Meat of poultry of heading 0105 | 2.3% |
| 0210.99.91 | Other: other | 2.3% |