Analysis
HTS 0210.20.00 covers meat of bovine animals under heading 0210 (meat and edible meat offal, salted, in brine, dried or smoked; edible flours and meals of…).
Within this group the rate runs from 2.3% to 2.3%. Compared with 0210.99.91 (other: other), which pays 2.3%, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 2.3 percentage points.
The normal trade relations rate here is zero, shared by about 36% of the 56 tariff lines in chapter 02, a useful check when a neighbouring dutiable line is a candidate. Chapter 99 measures such as Section 301 or 232 can still apply on top, depending on where the goods come from.
Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 30% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 30% duty.
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.
The general rate of Free has not changed in any edition of the schedule since Jan 2023.
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 0210.11.00 | Hams, shoulders and cuts thereof, with bone in | 1.4¢/kg |
| 0210.12.00 | Bellies (streaky) and cuts thereof | 1.4¢/kg |
| 0210.19.00 | Meat of swine: other | 1.4¢/kg |
| 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% |