3001

Analysis

Heading 3001 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule covers glands and other organs for organotherapeutic uses, dried, whether or not powdered; extracts of glands or other organs or of their secretions for organotherapeutic uses; heparin and its salts; other human or animal…. It divides into 2 six-digit subheadings and 2 eight-digit tariff lines, with 5 ten-digit statistical suffixes below them.

Every one of its 2 tariff lines is duty-free at the general rate, so classification within the heading affects statistics and Chapter 99 measures rather than the base duty.

The largest subheadings are 3001.20 (unnamed, 1 line) and 3001.90 (unnamed, 1 line).

By Census's concordance, most of its statistical lines are made by Medicinal and Botanical Manufacturing (325411). Those are the NAICS industries a US producer of these goods would report under.

Its median rate of duty-free sits at the 47th percentile of the headings in chapter 30.

The heading text decides whether a product belongs here at all (General Rule of Interpretation 1); the subheadings and lines below it only apply once that is settled. Section and chapter notes can override the heading wording, so read them for borderline goods.