Flue-Cured Oriental Tobacco for Hookah Blends from China
Partly stemmed flue-cured Oriental-style light tobacco leaf, unthreshed, for non-cigarette hookah mixtures (excluding water pipe tobacco per note). HTS 2401.20.31.40 applies as it's other light air-cured leaf for products other than cigarettes, without wrapper tobacco. Used by blenders for flavored shisha bases.
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
• Confirm mixture does not qualify as 'water pipe tobacco' with glycerol to avoid 2403.11 exclusion
• Aggregate quota tracking essential for origins like Turkey or Greece via EU limit
• Document as 'not for water pipe' if borderline to stay in unmanufactured category