0307.43.00

Analysis

HTS 0307.43.00 covers cuttle fish and squid: frozen under heading 0307 (molluscs, whether in shell or not, live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 6 ten-digit suffixes, reported in kilograms.

Rates on the nearby lines range from duty-free to 5%. The costliest confusion would be with 0307.60.00 (snails, other than sea snails) at 5%, a difference of 5 points on the customs value.

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.

The ten-digit suffixes separate fillets, loligo opalescens and loligo pealei. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.

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.