Pork Blood Sausage from Japan
Traditional sausage made from pork blood, fat, and fillers like oats, stuffed into casings. Included in HTS 1601.00.20.90 as other pork-based products, even with blood component under threshold for 1602. It qualifies as a food preparation based on pork blood and meat.
Duty Rate — Japan → United States
12.5%
Rate breakdown
9903.05.4912.5%Except for products described in headings 9903.05.85–9903.05.92, articles the product of Japan, with an ad valorem (or ad valorem equivalent) rate of duty under column 1 less than 12.5 percent, as provided for in U.S. note 52 to this subchapter
Import Tips
• Test for heavy metals in blood products per FDA import alerts
• Secure equivalence determination for foreign slaughter facilities
• Avoid holds by including full recipe disclosure