Sugar Wafers from China

Delicate, icing-sugar-dusted wafers ideal for tea time. HTS 1905.32.0049 covers these as 'other' wafers, prepared extensively from flours into thin, crisp forms per chapter 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

Ensure sugar dusting is noted as 'otherwise prepared' to fit heading 1904 exclusion criteria

Use HS explanatory notes on wafer thinness for binding rulings if challenged

Check for starch content to avoid potato flour mix-ups under chapter 11