Egg White Protein Isolate from China
Egg white protein isolate, or egg albumin isolate, is spray-dried from fresh egg whites to >90% protein for baking and sports nutrition. HTS 3504.00.10.00 includes it as nesoi, separate from unmodified egg albumins due to advanced purification. Its functional properties like foaming aid industrial food production.
Duty Rate — China → United States
25%
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)
9903.05.3112.5%Section 301 (forced labor) — additional 12.5% ad valorem on products of China
Import Tips
• Salmonella and avian flu certificates essential for egg product imports
• Purity assays to distinguish from heading 3502 egg albumins
• FSIS prior notice required for animal-derived proteins