0309.10.90

Analysis

HTS 0309.10.90 covers of fish: other under heading 0309 (flours, meals and pellets of fish, crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates…).

Rates on the nearby lines range from duty-free to duty-free. The costliest confusion would be with 0309.90.90 (other: other) at duty-free, a difference of 6 points on the customs value.

The general duty rate is 6% of the customs value, which is among the highest the rates in chapter 03 (96th percentile of 272 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $600 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.

Goods that qualify under GSP, the Australia FTA, the Bahrain FTA, the Chile FTA, the Colombia TPA, and 12 others can enter duty-free instead of paying 6%. It is also eligible under GSP, the developing-country programme, which Congress has to renew; check whether GSP is in force on the entry date.

The column 2 rate, for countries without normal trade relations, is 25%, 4.2 times the general rate.

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 311710 (Seafood Product Preparation and Packaging), an industry of 516 US establishments employing 29,132 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.