1108.19.00

Analysis

HTS 1108.19.00 covers starches: other starches under heading 1108 (starches; inulin). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in kilograms.

Neighbouring lines carry rates from duty-free to 2.6%, so the exact line matters. The widest gap is with 1108.20.00 (starches; inulin: inulin), at 2.6%: a product that belongs there but is entered here, or the reverse, changes the duty by 2.6 percentage points.

For statistics it divides in two: 1108.19.00.10 for cereal starches for non-food use and 1108.19.00.90 for other. 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 311221 (Wet Corn Milling and Starch Manufacturing), an industry of 70 US establishments employing 7,467 people. That is the industry code a US manufacturer of the same product would normally use.