1605.59.05

Analysis

HTS 1605.59.05 covers products containing fish meat; prepared meals under heading 1605 (crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates, prepared or preserved).

Rates on the nearby lines range from duty-free to 10%. The costliest confusion would be with 1605.56.15 (boiled clams, whether whole, minced or chopped, and whether or not…) at 10%, a difference of 10 points on the customs value.

There is no general-rate duty on this line, which puts it with roughly 46% of the 108 tariff lines in chapter 16 that are also free. Free here means free of the base duty only: origin-specific Chapter 99 duties such as Section 301 can still be owed.

Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 20% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 20% duty.

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 311710 (Seafood Product Preparation and Packaging), an industry of 516 US establishments employing 29,132 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.

The general rate of Free has not changed in any edition of the schedule since Jan 2023.