Waste Home Heating Oil (API 29) from China
Spent No. 2 heating oil from residential tanks, testing 29 degrees API, falls under HTS 2710.99.10.00 as waste distillate fuel oil due to contamination making it unusable without re-refining. Common in Northeast US oil recycling streams.
Duty Rate — China → United States
7.5%
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)
9903.03.030%Articles the product of any country, as provided for in subdivision (aa)(ii) of U.S. note 2 to this subchapter
Import Tips
• Provide delivery tank bottom sludge analysis confirming waste status
• RCRA waste codes D001/D018 apply; secure TSD facility agreement
• Avoid pitfall of 2710.19.16 classification by proving unsuitability for fuel use