HTS Index

HTS 0305

Fish, dried, salted or in brine; smoked fish, whether or not cooked before or during the smoking process

General rateNot stated for this line
What most imports pay — countries with normal trade relations, which is nearly all of them.
Special rateNot stated for this line
Only under a trade programme or agreement, and only if the goods qualify. The codes name the programmes.
Column 2 rateNot stated for this line
Only for the few countries without normal trade relations.

This line states no general duty rate, and none is inherited from the lines above it. That is not the same as duty-free: lines in Chapters 98 and 99 are provisions and qualifiers rather than ordinary commodities, and a rate may be stated elsewhere. Check the heading before assuming anything.

Additional duties may apply

This line references Chapter 99, where Section 301, Section 232 and other additional duties live. Those are charged on top of the general rate above and depend on where the goods were made. The rate shown here is therefore not the whole story for every origin.

What the Chapter 99 provisions are

Statistical breakouts

The 10-digit lines under this code. They are reporting categories; the duty is the one above unless a line states its own.

CodeDescriptionUnitsRate
0305.20Livers, roes and milt of fish, dried, smoked, salted or in brinesee above
0305.20.20.00Sturgeon roekg7.5%
0305.20.40OtherFree
0305.20.40.20Salmon roekgFree
0305.20.40.40Herring roekgFree
0305.20.40.65OtherkgFree
0305.31.01.00Tilapias (Oreochromis spp.), catfish (Pangasius spp., Silurus spp., Clarias spp., Ictalurus spp.), carp (Cyprinus spp., Carassius spp., Ctenopharyngodon idellus, Hypophthalmichthys spp., Cirrhinus spp., Mylopharyngodon piceus, Catla catla, Labeo spp., Osteochilus hasselti, Leptobarbus hoeveni, Megalobrama spp.), eels (Anguilla spp.), Nile perch (Lates niloticus) and snakeheads (Channa spp.)kgFree
0305.32.00Fish of the families Bregmacerotidae, Euclichthyidae, Gadidae, Macrouridae, Melanonidae, Merlucciidae, Moridae and MuraenolepididaeFree
0305.32.00.10CodkgFree
0305.32.00.90OtherkgFree
0305.39Othersee above
0305.39.20.00Herrings, in immediate containers weighing with their contents 6.8 kg or less eachkg4%
0305.39.40.00Mackerel, in immediate containers weighing with their contents 6.8 kg or less eachkg5%
0305.39.61OtherFree
0305.39.61.10HerringkgFree
0305.39.61.80OtherkgFree
0305.41.00.00Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, Oncorhynchus keta, Oncorhynchus tschawytscha, Oncorhynchus kisutch, Oncorhynchus masou and Oncorhynchus rhodurus),Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and Danube salmon (Hucho hucho)kg5%
0305.42.00Herrings (Clupea harengus, Clupea pallasii)Free
0305.42.00.20Whole or beheaded but not otherwise processedkgFree
0305.42.00.50BonelesskgFree
0305.42.00.60OtherkgFree
0305.43.00.00Trout (Salmo trutta, Oncorhynchus mykiss, Oncorhynchus clarki, Oncorhynchus aguabonita, Oncorhynchus gilae, Oncorhynchus apache and Oncorhynchus chrysogaster)kgFree
0305.44.01.00Tilapias (Oreochromis spp.), catfish (Pangasius spp., Silurus spp., Clarias spp., Ictalurus spp.), carp (Cyprinus spp., Carassius spp., Ctenopharyngodon idellus, Hypophthalmichthys spp., Cirrhinus spp., Mylopharyngodon piceus, Catla catla, Labeo spp., Osteochilus hasselti, Leptobarbus hoeveni, Megalobrama spp.), eels (Anguilla spp.), Nile perch (Lates niloticus) and snakeheads (Channa spp.)kgFree
0305.49Othersee above
0305.49.20.00MackerelkgFree
0305.49.40OtherFree
0305.49.40.20Cod, cusk, haddock, hake (Urophycis spp.) and pollockkgFree
0305.49.40.45OtherkgFree
0305.51.00.00Cod (Gadus morhua, Gadus ogac, Gadus macrocephalus)kgFree
0305.52.00.00Tilapias (Oreochromis spp.), catfish (Pangasius spp., Silurus spp., Clarias spp., Ictalurus spp.), carp (Cyprinus spp., Carassius spp., Ctenopharyngodon idellus, Hypophthalmichthys spp., Cirrhinus spp., Mylopharyngodon piceus, Catla catla, Labeo spp., Osteochilus hasselti, Leptobarbus hoeveni, Megalobrama spp.), eels (Anguilla spp.), Nile perch (Lates niloticus) and snakeheads (Channa spp.)kgFree
0305.53.00.00Fish of the families Bregmacerotidae, Euclichthyidae, Gadidae, Macrouridae,Melanonidae, Merlucciidae, Moridae and Muraenolepididae, other than cod (Gadus morhua, Gadus ogac, Gadus macrocephalus).kgFree
0305.54.00.00Herrings (Clupea harengus, Clupea pallasii), anchovies (Engraulis spp.), sardines (Sardina pilchardus, Sardinops spp.), sardinella (Sardinella spp.), brisling or sprats (Sprattus sprattus), mackerel (Scomber scombrus, Scomber australasicus, Scomber japonicus), Indian mackerels (Rastrelliger spp.), seerfishes (Scomberomorus spp.), jack and horse mackerel (Trachurus spp.), jacks, crevalles (Caranx spp.), cobia (Rachycentron canadum), silver pomfrets (Pampus spp.), Pacific saury (Cololabis saira), scads (Decapterus spp.), capelin (Mallotus villosus), swordfish (Xiphias gladius), Kawakawa (Euthynnus affinis), bonitos (Sarda spp.), marlins, sailfishes, spearfish (Istiophoridae)kgFree
0305.59.00.01OtherkgFree
0305.61Herrings (Clupea harengus, Clupea pallasii)see above
0305.61.20.00In immediate containers weighing with their contents 6.8 kg or less eachkg4%
0305.61.40.00OtherkgFree
0305.62.00Cod (Gadus morhua, Gadus ogac, Gadus macrocephalus)Free
0305.62.00.10Having a moisture content by weight over 50 percentkgFree
0305.62.00.25Having a moisture content by weight over 45 percent but not over 50 percentkgFree
0305.62.00.30Having a moisture content by weight over 43 percent but not over 45 percentkgFree
0305.62.00.45Having a moisture content by weight not over 43 percentkgFree
0305.62.00.50Having a moisture content by weight over 50 percentkgFree
0305.62.00.60Having a moisture content by weight over 45 percent but not over 50 percentkgFree
0305.62.00.70Having a moisture content by weight over 43 percent but not over 45 percentkgFree
0305.62.00.80Having a moisture content by weight not over 43 percentkgFree
0305.63Anchovies (Engraulis spp.)see above
0305.63.20.00In airtight containerskg5%
0305.63.40.00OtherkgFree
0305.63.60.00OtherkgFree
0305.64Tilapias (Oreochromis spp.), catfish (Pangasius spp., Silurus spp., Clarias spp., Ictalurus spp.), carp (Cyprinus spp., Carassius spp., Ctenopharyngodon idellus, Hypophthalmichthys spp., Cirrhinus spp., Mylopharyngodon piceus, Catla catla, Labeo spp., Osteochilus hasselti, Leptobarbus hoeveni, Megalobrama spp.), eels (Anguilla spp.), Nile perch (Lates niloticus) and snakeheads (Channa spp.)see above
0305.64.10.00In immediate containers weighing with their contents 6.8 kg or less eachkgFree
0305.64.50.00Otherkg0.5%
0305.69Othersee above
0305.69.10Cusk, haddock, hake (Urophycis spp.) and pollockFree
0305.69.10.21HakekgFree
0305.69.10.22PollockkgFree
0305.69.10.29Haddock and cuskkgFree
0305.69.10.41HakekgFree
0305.69.10.42PollockkgFree
0305.69.10.49Haddock and cuskkgFree
0305.69.20.00In immediate containers weighing with their contents 6.8 kg or less eachkg5%
0305.69.30.00OtherkgFree
0305.69.40.00Salmonkg3%
0305.69.50.01In immediate containers weighing with their contents 6.8 kg or less eachkgFree
0305.69.60.01Otherkg0.5%
0305.71.00.00Shark finskgFree
0305.72.00.00Fish heads, tails and mawskgFree
0305.79.00.00OtherkgFree

What changed

No recorded change to this line since we began reading the schedule daily. That is the ordinary state: USITC revises it fifteen to eighteen times a year, and most codes are untouched in any given revision.

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Source: Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States, U.S. International Trade Commission (public domain). Re-checked daily.