0306.32.00

Analysis

HTS 0306.32.00 covers lobsters (Homarus spp.) under heading 0306 (crustaceans, whether in shell or not, live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in kilograms.

Neighbouring lines carry rates from duty-free to 7.5%, so the exact line matters. The widest gap is with 0306.93.20 (crabs: crabmeat), at 7.5%: a product that belongs there but is entered here, or the reverse, changes the duty by 7.5 percentage points.

For statistics it divides in two: 0306.32.00.10 for live and 0306.32.00.90 for other. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.

Goods classified here enter the United States duty-free at the general (normal trade relations) rate, as do about 86% of the 272 tariff lines in chapter 03. Free here means free of the base duty only: origin-specific Chapter 99 duties such as Section 301 can still be owed.

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 114112 (Shellfish Fishing), an industry of 940 US establishments employing 1,604 people. That is the industry code a US manufacturer of the same product would normally use.