1302.32.00

Analysis

HTS 1302.32.00 covers mucilages and thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from locust beans, locust bean seeds or guar seeds 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.

Within this group the rate runs from duty-free to 3.8%. Compared with 1302.12.00 (vegetable saps and extracts: of licorice), which pays 3.8%, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 3.8 percentage points.

For statistics it divides in two: 1302.32.00.20 for guar and 1302.32.00.40 for locust bean. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.

The normal trade relations rate here is zero, shared by about 62% of the 13 tariff lines in chapter 13, a useful check when a neighbouring dutiable line is a candidate. Duty-free at the general rate does not rule out additional duties under Chapter 99, such as Section 301 or Section 232 measures, which depend on the country of origin.

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 311999 (All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing), an industry of 872 US establishments employing 31,860 people. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.