Frozen Cooked Octopus Tentacles from China
Pre-cooked and peeled octopus tentacles from Dosidicus gigas, frozen for convenience in salads or hot pots. This enters HTS 1605.55.60.00 as 'other' preserved octopus, as cooking constitutes preparation beyond simple freezing. It is not in airtight containers or specified elsewhere.
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
• Provide cooking process details and blast-freezing certificates; ensure country-of-origin labeling
• Pitfall: classifying cooked-frozen as merely frozen under 0307, leading to audits