Chocolate Baking Wafers with Milkfat from Japan
High butterfat chocolate wafers designed for industrial baking and confectionery production, containing over 5.5% butterfat and milk solids. Classified under HTS 1806.90.15.00 as a food preparation containing cocoa not for retail candy consumption, entered pursuant to additional U.S. note 2 provisions for quota-limited imports. Excludes retail-packaged candy bars.
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
• Verify butterfat exceeds 5.5% via lab analysis; provide certificates for U.S. note 2 quota eligibility
• Confirm not retail candy packaged; bulk shipments only to avoid reclassification
• Track annual quotas (e.g
• Ireland 1.7M kg); enter early in calendar year to secure allocation