HTS Index

HTS 1604

Prepared or preserved fish; caviar and caviar substitutes prepared from fish eggs

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
1604.11Salmonsee above
1604.11.20In oil, in airtight containers6%
1604.11.20.20Pink (humpie)kg6%
1604.11.20.30Sockeyekg6%
1604.11.20.90Otherkg6%
1604.11.40OtherFree
1604.11.40.10Chum (dog)kgFree
1604.11.40.20Pink (humpie)kgFree
1604.11.40.30SockeyekgFree
1604.11.40.40OtherkgFree
1604.11.40.50OtherkgFree
1604.12Herringssee above
1604.12.20.00In oil, in airtight containerskg4%
1604.12.40.00In tomato sauce, smoked or kippered, and in immediate containers weighing with their contents over 0.45 kg eachkgFree
1604.12.60OtherFree
1604.12.60.10FilletskgFree
1604.12.60.30OtherkgFree
1604.12.60.50Kipper snackskgFree
1604.12.60.90OtherkgFree
1604.13Sardines, sardinella and brisling or spratssee above
1604.13.10.00Smoked sardines, neither skinned nor boned, valued $1 or more per kg in tin- plate containers, or $1.10 or more per kg in other containerskgFree
1604.13.20.00Neither skinned nor bonedkg15%
1604.13.30.00Skinned or bonedkg20%
1604.13.40.00In immediate containers weighing with their contents under 225 grams eachkgFree
1604.13.90.00Otherkg3.1%
1604.14Tunas, skipjack tuna and bonito (Sarda spp.)see above
1604.14.10In oil35%
1604.14.10.10In foil or other flexible containers weighing with their contents not more than 6.8 kg eachkg35%
1604.14.10.91Albacorekg35%
1604.14.10.99Otherkg35%
1604.14.22In containers weighing with their contents not over 7 kg each, and not the product of any insular possession of the United States, for an aggregate quantity entered in any calendar year not to exceed 4.8 percent of apparent United States consumption of tuna in airtight containers during the immediately preceding year, as reported by the National Marine Fisheries Service6%
1604.14.22.51In foil or other flexible con- tainers weighing with their contents not more than 6.8 kg eachkg6%
1604.14.22.59Otherkg6%
1604.14.22.91In foil or other flexible con- tainers weighing with their contents not more than 6.8 kg eachkg6%
1604.14.22.99Otherkg6%
1604.14.30Other12.5%
1604.14.30.51In foil or other flexible con- tainers weighing with their contents not more than 6.8 kg eachkg12.5%
1604.14.30.59Otherkg12.5%
1604.14.30.91In foil or other flexible con- tainers weighing with their contents not more than 6.8 kg eachkg12.5%
1604.14.30.99Otherkg12.5%
1604.14.40.00In bulk or in immediate containers weighing with their contents over 6.8 kg each, not in oilkg1.1¢/kg
1604.14.50.00Otherkg6%
1604.14.70.00In oilkg4.9%
1604.14.80.00Not in oilkg6%
1604.15.00.00Mackerelkg3%
1604.16Anchoviessee above
1604.16.20.00In oil, in airtight containerskgFree
1604.16.40.00In immediate containers weighing with their contents 6.8 kg or less eachkg5%
1604.16.60.00OtherkgFree
1604.17Eelssee above
1604.17.10.00In airtight containerskg4%
1604.17.40.00Neither cooked nor in oilkg10%
1604.17.50.00Otherkg7.5%
1604.17.60.00In oil and in bulk or in immediate containers over 7 kg eachkgFree
1604.17.80.00Otherkg6%
1604.18Shark finssee above
1604.18.10.00In airtight containerskg4%
1604.18.90.00Otherkg6%
1604.19Other (including yellowtail)see above
1604.19.10.00Bonito, yellowtail and pollockkg4%
1604.19.22.00Otherkg4%
1604.19.25.00Bonito, yellowtail and pollockkg5%
1604.19.32.00Otherkg4%
1604.19.41.00Neither cooked nor in oilkg10%
1604.19.51.00Otherkg7.5%
1604.19.61.00In oil and in bulk or in immediate containers weighing with their contents over 7 kg eachkgFree
1604.19.82.00Otherkg6%
1604.20Other prepared or preserved fishsee above
1604.20.05Products containing meat of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates; prepared meals5%
1604.20.05.10Prepared mealskg5%
1604.20.05.90Otherkg5%
1604.20.10.00PasteskgFree
1604.20.15.00In oilkgFree
1604.20.20.00In airtight containerskgFree
1604.20.25.00OtherkgFree
1604.20.30.00OtherkgFree
1604.20.40.00Neither cooked nor in oilkg10%
1604.20.50Other7.5%
1604.20.50.10Pre-cooked and frozenkg7.5%
1604.20.50.90Otherkg7.5%
1604.20.60OtherFree
1604.20.60.10Pre-cooked and frozenkgFree
1604.20.60.90OtherkgFree
1604.31.00.00Caviarkg15%
1604.32Caviar substitutessee above
1604.32.30.00Boiled and in airtight containerskgFree
1604.32.40.00OtherkgFree

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.