2008.30.42

Analysis

HTS 2008.30.42 covers for an aggregate quantity entered in any calendar year not to exceed 40,000 metric tons under heading 2008 (fruit, nuts and other edible parts of plants, otherwise prepared or preserved, whether or…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in kilograms.

Within this group the rate runs from 6.8% to 14%. Compared with 2008.30.96 (other: other, including bergamots), which pays 14%, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 14 percentage points.

For statistics it divides in two: 2008.30.42.10 for containing cane and/or beet sugar and 2008.30.42.90 for other. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.

The normal trade relations rate here is zero, shared by about 13% of the 107 tariff lines in chapter 20, 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 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.