0309

Analysis

Heading 0309 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule covers flours, meals and pellets of fish, crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates, fit for human consumption. It divides into 2 six-digit subheadings and 9 eight-digit tariff lines, with 13 ten-digit statistical suffixes below them.

8 of its 9 lines with a percentage rate are duty-free at the general rate (89%) and 1 are dutiable, from duty-free up to 6%. The median line pays duty-free.

The spread of 6 percentage points between the cheapest and dearest lines makes misclassification expensive here. The highest rate, 6%, applies to 0309.10.90 (of fish: other).

The largest subheadings are 0309.90 (other, 7 lines) and 0309.10 (of fish, 2 lines).

By Census's concordance, most of its statistical lines are made by Shellfish Fishing (114112) and Seafood Product Preparation and Packaging (311710). 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.