0804.10.20

Analysis

HTS 0804.10.20 covers packed in units weighing (with the immediate container, if any) not more than 4.6 kg under heading 0804 (dates, figs, pineapples, avocados, guavas, mangoes and mangosteens, fresh or dried). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in kilograms.

The general rate is 13.2¢/kg, a specific or compound duty rather than a simple percentage, so the effective burden depends on the unit value of the goods: cheap goods pay proportionally more than expensive ones. Importers usually convert it to an ad valorem equivalent to compare it with other lines.

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 13.2¢/kg. 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.

For statistics it divides in two: 0804.10.20.10 for certified organic and 0804.10.20.90 for other. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.