Food-Grade Aluminum Soda Can Closures from Germany
Precision-engineered aluminum closures with stay-on tabs for 12-oz soda cans, ensuring airtight seal post-filling. Designed exclusively for carbonated beverage conveyance. HTS 8309.90.0020 applies due to statistical note covering stay-on-tab ends for beverage cans.
Duty Rate — Germany → United States
27.6%
Rate breakdown
9903.82.0925%Except as provided for in headings 9903.82.16, 9903.82.20–9903.82.26 and 9903.85.68, articles of copper and derivative aluminum and steel articles, as provided for in subdivisions (c)(vi)–(viii) and (xi) of U.S. note 16 to this subchapter
9903.05.900%Articles already subject to Section 232 (steel/aluminum/copper + derivatives, autos + parts, wood, medium/heavy vehicles + parts, semiconductors, patented pharma) — U.S. note 52(f)
Import Tips
• Obtain FDA prior notice and ensure coatings meet food contact regulations for beverage lids
• Document compatibility with standard can diameters (e.g
• 202 or 204) to justify .0020 classification
• Avoid misdeclaring as general lids; customs audits focus on beverage-specific features