1302.19.41

Analysis

HTS 1302.19.41 covers ginseng; substances having anesthetic, prophylactic or therapeutic properties: other under heading 1302 (vegetable saps and extracts; pectic substances, pectinates and pectates; agar-agar and…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in kilograms.

The general duty rate is 1% of the customs value, which is in the middle of the rates in chapter 13 (69th percentile of 13 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $100 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.

Within this group the rate runs from duty-free to duty-free. Compared with 1302.19.91 (other: other), which pays duty-free, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 1 percentage points.

For statistics it divides in two: 1302.19.41.20 for ginseng and 1302.19.41.40 for other. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.

The other lines in the same group are 1302.19.21 (poppy straw extract, duty-free) and 1302.19.91 (other: other, duty-free).

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 1%. 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.