0308

Analysis

Heading 0308 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule covers aquatic invertebrates other than crustaceans and molluscs, live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine; smoked aquatic invertebrates other than crustaceans and molluscs, whether or not cooked before or…. It divides into 8 six-digit subheadings and 8 eight-digit tariff lines, with 9 ten-digit statistical suffixes below them.

Every one of its 8 tariff lines is duty-free at the general rate, so classification within the heading affects statistics and Chapter 99 measures rather than the base duty.

The largest subheadings are 0308.11 (unnamed, 1 line), 0308.12 (unnamed, 1 line), 0308.19 (unnamed, 1 line) and 0308.21 (unnamed, 1 line).

By Census's concordance, most of its statistical lines are made by Shellfish Fishing (114112). Those are the NAICS industries a US producer of these goods would report under.

Its median rate of duty-free sits at the 43rd percentile of the headings in chapter 03.