Pork Breakfast Sausage Patties from Japan
Seasoned ground pork formed into flat patties, often sage-flavored for breakfast use. HTS 1601.00.20 covers these as sausage products of pork, emphasizing their formed and seasoned sausage identity over mere ground 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
• Include commercial invoices specifying 'sausage' to distinguish from fresh pork products
• Comply with country-specific pork import quotas and prior approval from APHIS
• Test for residual nitrite levels to meet FDA food safety standards