HTS Index

HTS 1517

Margarine; edible mixtures or preparations of animal, vegetable or microbial fats or oils or of fractions of different fats or oils of this chapter, other than edible fats or oils or their fractions of heading 1516

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
1517.10.00.00Margarine, excluding liquid margarinekg12.3¢/kg
1517.90Othersee above
1517.90.10Containing 5 percent or more by weight of soybean oil or any fraction thereof18%
1517.90.10.20Salad and cooking oilskg18%
1517.90.10.40Wholly of vegetable oilskg18%
1517.90.10.60Otherkg18%
1517.90.10.80Otherkg18%
1517.90.20Other8%
1517.90.20.20Salad and cooking oilskg8%
1517.90.20.40Wholly of vegetable oilskg8%
1517.90.20.60Otherkg8%
1517.90.20.80Otherkg8%
1517.90.45.00Described in general note 15 of the tariff schedule and entered pursuant to its provisionskg11¢/kg
1517.90.50.00Described in additional U.S. note 10 to chapter 4 and entered pursuant to its provisionskg, kg cmsc11¢/kg
1517.90.60.00Otherkg, kg cmsc34.2¢/kg
1517.90.90Other8.8¢/kg
1517.90.90.15Partially hydrogenated salad and cooking oilkg8.8¢/kg
1517.90.90.25Soybean oil, wholly hydrogenatedkg8.8¢/kg
1517.90.90.85Cottonseed oil, wholly hydrogenatedkg8.8¢/kg
1517.90.90.90Otherkg8.8¢/kg

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.