Stoneware Patterned Service - Autumn Harvest from Japan
Autumn Harvest stoneware service provides full specified tableware set for ≤$38 value: standard 12-piece assortments of plates, cups, bowls plus serving pieces in unified pattern. HTS 6912.00.35.50 for other low-value stoneware patterns meeting fired ceramic, absorption criteria.
Duty Rate — Japan → United States
12.5%
Rate breakdown
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
• Retain commercial invoices showing individual article values for CBP aggregate calculation
• White bodies risk porcelain misclassification—prove stoneware via absorption >0.5% and opacity
• Pattern must be identical across all specified articles; variations disqualify set status