Quinoline Yellow WS Dye from Japan
Quinoline Yellow WS is a synthetic trisodium salt of a quinophthalone compound used as a food coloring (E104), based on quinoline structure. It falls under HTS 2933.49.70.00 as a chemically defined quinoline heterocyclic, though primarily imported for industrial dye applications. Excluded from Chapter 32 per chapter note (g) only if not coloring matter.
Duty Rate — Japan → United States
21%
Rate breakdown
9903.04.628.5%Patented pharmaceutical articles that are the product of Japan, of a European Union member country, of South Korea, of Switzerland, or of Liechtenstein as provided for in subdivisions (c) and (f) of U.S. note 40 to this subchapter
9903.05.4912.5%Except for products described in headings 9903.05.85–9903.05.92, articles the product of Japan, with an ad valorem (or ad valorem equivalent) rate of duty under column 1 less than 12.5 percent, as provided for in U.S. note 52 to this subchapter
Import Tips
• FDA Color Additive Petition status required; declare purity >85% for food grade
• Salt form documentation essential; verify against Chapter 29 inorganic salt rules