Analysis
HTS 1103.20.00 covers cereal groats, meal and pellets: pellets under heading 1103 (cereal groats, meal and pellets). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in kilograms.
Neighbouring lines carry rates from 9% to 9%, so the exact line matters. The widest gap is with 1103.19.90 (of other cereals: of other cereals), at 9%: a product that belongs there but is entered here, or the reverse, changes the duty by 9 percentage points.
For statistics it divides in two: 1103.20.00.10 for of wheat and 1103.20.00.90 for of other cereals. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.
Goods classified here enter the United States duty-free at the general (normal trade relations) rate, as do about 26% of the 19 tariff lines in chapter 11. Free here means free of the base duty only: origin-specific Chapter 99 duties such as Section 301 can still be owed.
Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 311211 (Flour Milling), an industry of 333 US establishments employing 14,916 people. That is the industry code a US manufacturer of the same product would normally use.
Statistical suffixes
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 1103.11.00 | Groats and meal: of wheat | 0.5¢/kg |
| 1103.13.00 | Groats and meal: of corn (maize) | 0.3¢/kg |
| 1103.19.12 | Of other cereals: of oats | 0.8¢/kg |
| 1103.19.14 | Of other cereals: of rice | 0.09¢/kg |
| 1103.19.90 | Of other cereals: of other cereals | 9% |