Water Buffalo Full Grain Leather Hide from Japan
A full-grain leather hide sourced from water buffalo, further prepared after tanning or crusting without hair on, used for premium upholstery and accessories. Classified under HTS 4107.99.40.00 as buffalo leather, other than heading 4114, due to its bovine buffalo origin and preparation process. It is unsplit and meets the chapter's exclusion for raw or hair-on hides.
Duty Rate — Japan → United States
52.5%
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
9903.41.0540%Bovine (including buffalo) and equine leather (provided for in heading 4104 or 4107); goat, kid, sheep and lamb leather, the foregoing dyed, colored, stamped or embossed (provided for in heading 4105, 4106, 4112 or 4113)
Import Tips
• Verify CITES documentation if from wild buffalo populations; provide tannery certificates proving post-tanning preparation; inspect for hair removal to avoid chapter 43 reclassification