Valdeon Blue Cheese from China
Valdeon is a Spanish intense blue cheese wrapped in leaves, blending cow and goat milk with strong blue veins. Classified HTS 0406.90.74.00 as 'other' containing blue-veined, outside EU blue-mold core quotas. Leaf wrapping doesn't alter cheese classification per notes.
Duty Rate — China → United States
17.5%
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
9903.88.157.5%Except as provided in headings 9903.88.39, 9903.88.42, 9903.88.44, 9903.88.47, 9903.88.49, 9903.88.51, 9903.88.53, 9903.88.55, 9903.88.57, 9903.88.65, 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(r) to this subchapter and as provided for in the subheadings enumerated in U.S. note 20(s)
Import Tips
• Document milk blend and leaf as inedible covering per US note 8
• Apply for other countries quota access
• Test for mold fit excluding insects or non-edibles