Hot-Smoked Steelhead Trout Whole
Whole steelhead trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) hot-smoked over alder wood, gutted and scaled but intact, ideal for slicing at home. Classified under HTS 0305.43.00.00 as smoked trout, not offal, with smoking as the primary preservation method. Not further cooked, preserving natural oils.
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Alternative Classifications
This product could be classified differently depending on its characteristics or intended use.
If fresh or chilled whole, not smoked
Unprocessed fresh/chilled trout is in 0302; smoking adds preservation changing to 0305.
If smoked sturgeon instead of trout
Different species like sturgeon have separate subheadings within smoked fish headings.
If processed into flour or pellets for human consumption
Chapter notes exclude flours, meals, pellets fit for humans from 0305-0308, moving to 0309.
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Import Tips & Compliance
• Provide commercial invoice detailing smoking temperature and wood type for CBP verification
• Label with country of origin and 'hot-smoked' to distinguish from cold-smoked under same HTS
• Avoid common pitfall of misdeclaring as 'cooked' which shifts to Chapter 16 duties
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