0712.90.85

Analysis

HTS 0712.90.85 covers other vegetables; mixtures of vegetables: other vegetables; mixtures of vegetables under heading 0712 (dried vegetables, whole, cut, sliced, broken or in powder, but not further prepared). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 6 ten-digit suffixes, reported in kilograms.

Neighbouring lines carry rates from duty-free to 29.8%, so the exact line matters. The widest gap is with 0712.90.40 (other vegetables; mixtures of vegetables: garlic), at 29.8%: a product that belongs there but is entered here, or the reverse, changes the duty by 21.5 percentage points.

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 8.3%. 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 35%, 4.2 times the general rate.

The general duty rate is 8.3% of the customs value, which is in the middle of the rates in chapter 07 (55th percentile of 91 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $830 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.

The ten-digit suffixes separate broccoli, celery stalks, leeks, spinach and sweet corn seeds of a kind used for…. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.