Baked Vegetable Crackers from Japan
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 — Japan → United States
4.5%
Rate breakdown
9903.05.870%Universal product exemption, description-limited (U.S. note 52(c))
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