HTS Index

HTS 2936

Provitamins and vitamins, natural or reproduced by synthesis (including natural concentrates), derivatives thereof used primarily as vitamins, and intermixtures of the foregoing, whether or not in any solvent

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
2936.21.00.00Vitamins A and their derivativeskgFree
2936.22.00.00Vitamin B1 (Thiamine) and its derivativeskgFree
2936.23.00.00Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin) and its derivativeskgFree
2936.24.01.00D- or DL-Pantothenic acid (Vitamin B5) and its derivativeskgFree
2936.25.00.00Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine and related compounds with Vitamin B6 activity) and its derivativeskgFree
2936.26.00.00Vitamin B12 (Cyanocobalamin and related compounds with Vitamin B12 activity) and its derivativeskgFree
2936.27.00.00Vitamin C (Ascorbic acid) and its derivativeskgFree
2936.28.00.00Vitamin E (Tocopherols and related compounds with Vitamin E activity) and its derivativeskgFree
2936.29Other vitamins and their derivativessee above
2936.29.10.00Folic acidkgFree
2936.29.16Niacin and niacinamideFree
2936.29.16.10Pharmaceutical gradekgFree
2936.29.16.20OtherkgFree
2936.29.16.30NiacinamidekgFree
2936.29.20.00Aromatic or modified aromatickgFree
2936.29.50OtherFree
2936.29.50.20Vitamins D and their derivativeskgFree
2936.29.50.30BiotinkgFree
2936.29.50.50OtherkgFree
2936.90.01Other, including provitamins and natural concentratesFree
2936.90.01.10ProvitaminskgFree
2936.90.01.50OtherkgFree

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.