Analysis
HTS 2001.90.34 covers vegetables: onions under heading 2001 (vegetables, fruit, nuts and other edible parts of plants, prepared or preserved by…).
Within this group the rate runs from 5.8% to 14%. Compared with 2001.90.60 (other: other), which pays 14%, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 10.4 percentage points.
The general duty rate is 3.6% of the customs value, which is in the middle of the rates in chapter 20 (30th percentile of 107 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $360 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 3.6%. 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 35%, 9.7 times the general rate.
Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 311421 (Fruit and Vegetable Canning), an industry of 802 US establishments employing 44,903 people. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 2001.90.10 | In immediate containers holding more than 3.4 kg | 8% |
| 2001.90.20 | Capers: other | 8% |
| 2001.90.25 | Vegetables: artichokes | 10.2% |
| 2001.90.30 | Vegetables: beans | 5.8% |
| 2001.90.33 | Vegetables: nopalitos | 7.7% |
| 2001.90.35 | Pimientos (Capsicum anuum) | 8.1% |
| 2001.90.38 | Vegetables: other | 9.6% |
| 2001.90.42 | Chestnuts, other than Chinese water chestnuts | 4.9¢/kg |
| 2001.90.45 | Other: mangoes | 1.5¢/kg |
| 2001.90.48 | Chinese water chestnuts | 9.6% |
| 2001.90.50 | Other: walnuts | 7¢/kg |
| 2001.90.60 | Other: other | 14% |