0306.35.00

Analysis

HTS 0306.35.00 covers cold-water shrimps and prawns (Pandalus spp., Crangon crangon) 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.

Rates on the nearby lines range from duty-free to 7.5%. The costliest confusion would be with 0306.93.20 (crabs: crabmeat) at 7.5%, a difference of 7.5 points on the customs value.

For statistics it divides in two: 0306.35.00.20 for shell-on, imported in accordance with statistical note 1 to… and 0306.35.00.40 for peeled, imported in accordance with statistical note 1 to…. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.

There is no general-rate duty on this line, which puts it with roughly 86% of the 272 tariff lines in chapter 03 that are also free. 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, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.