Fresh Chilled Farmed Rainbow Trout Gutted from China

Farmed rainbow trout chilled on ice after minimal gutting (head-on, scaled), remaining whole without filleting, fitting HTS 0302.11.0010 as fresh/chilled farmed trout excluding 0304 meat. Chapter notes confirm not pellets or human-consumption flour.

Duty Rate — China → United States

35%

Rate breakdown

9903.03.0110%Except for products described in headings 9903.03.02–9903.03.11, articles the product of any country, as provided for in subdivision (aa) of U.S. note 2 to this subchapter
9903.88.0325%Except as provided in headings 9903.88.13, 9903.88.18, 9903.88.33, 9903.88.34, 9903.88.35, 9903.88.36, 9903.88.37, 9903.88.38, 9903.88.40, 9903.88.41, 9903.88.43, 9903.88.45, 9903.88.46, 9903.88.48, 9903.88.56, 9903.88.64, 9903.88.66, 9903.88.67, 9903.88.68, or 9903.88.69, articles the product of China, as provided for in U.S. note 20(e) to this subchapter and as provided for in the subheadings enumerated in U.S. note 20(f)

Import Tips

Label as 'gutted head-on' with lot traceability; FDA requires species ID to match HTS farmed rainbow trout

Maintain 0-4°C chain of custody docs; warming risks bacteria and reclass to unfit or cooked categories

Separate from wild stock in manifests to claim farmed subheading benefits