Flue-Cured Tobacco Scraps for Pipe Blends from China
Irregular scraps and fragments from flue-cured tobacco leaf processing, destined for pipe tobacco mixtures rather than cigarettes. Classified in HTS 2401.30.27.10 as 'other' flue-cured refuse for non-cigarette products. These are threshed byproducts not suitable for whole leaf use.
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
• Document intended pipe tobacco formulation to justify non-cigarette status; check country-specific quotas (e.g
• 80,200 MT for Brazil); ensure no glycerol addition that could imply water pipe use