Baked Vegetable Crackers from China
Crackers incorporating dehydrated vegetable powders like carrot or spinach with minimal grain binders, fully baked. Under HTS 1905.90.90 as other bakers' wares 'otherwise prepared' beyond Chapter 11 flours. Vegetable content under 50% keeps it from Chapter 20.
Duty Rate — China → United States
12%
Rate breakdown
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)
9903.03.040%Articles the product of any country, as provided for in subdivision (aa)(iii) of U.S. note 2 to this subchapter
Import Tips
• Provide recipe breakdown showing bakery processing; FDA nutrition labeling required
• Pitfall: high vegetable content risking Chapter 7 or 20 shift
• Declare binders clearly