1602.50.60

Analysis

HTS 1602.50.60 covers other: other under heading 1602 (other prepared or preserved meat, meat offal, blood or insects).

Within this group the rate runs from duty-free to 4.5%. Compared with 1602.50.08 (cured or pickled: other), which pays 4.5%, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 2.7 percentage points.

The general duty rate is 1.8% of the customs value, which is in the middle of the rates in chapter 16 (48th percentile of 108 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $180 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.

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 1.8%. 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.

The column 2 rate, for countries without normal trade relations, is 20%, 11.1 times the general rate.

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 311611 (Animal (except Poultry) Slaughtering), an industry of 1,274 US establishments employing 159,965 people. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.