Other

This code covers frozen fish, excluding fillets and other specific fish meat, offering a detailed breakdown of various species like smelts, perch, and grouper. Use this code when importing these frozen, whole or processed fish—duty is generally free for standard trade partners, as defined within Chapter 3 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule.

Detailed information for HTS Code 0303.89.00

Chapter 3 covers live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or smoked fish and seafood. This particular code, 0303.89, specifically deals with frozen fish, excluding fillets and other fish meat detailed elsewhere, categorized as “other” fish types. Numerous statistical suffixes exist within 0303.89, each representing a specific fish species like sea smelts, cusk, pike, or tilapia, so select the suffix that accurately identifies the fish being classified; if a specific species isn't listed, use the “Other” suffix (0303.89.00.80). Be mindful of the chapter notes which exclude certain fish products unfit for human consumption or covered under other chapters.

Chapter	Chapter 3 - Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates
Section	Section I - Live Animals; Animal Products

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General Duty

Free

Standard trade partners (NTR)

Special Duty

N/A

Eligible FTA or preference programs

The general duty rate for HTS code 0303.89.00 and all its subdivisions is Free, meaning no duty is assessed for standard trade partners (NTR). Special rates are not specified, but could potentially apply if the goods qualify for eligibility under a Free Trade Agreement or other preference program. All imports are reported in kilograms. This means that regardless of the specific type of frozen fish within the subdivisions (e.g., sea smelts, pike, sable fish), as long as it falls under the main code and meets the origin requirements for any preferential trade programs, it will generally enter duty-free under the standard rate.

Rate of Duty (Column 2): 2.2¢/kg

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Code subdivisions

0303.89.00.01

Fish, frozen, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 0304: > Other fish, excluding edible fish offal of subheadings 0303.91 to 0303.99: > Other > Smelts: > Sea smelts

0303.89.00.04

Fish, frozen, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 0304: > Other fish, excluding edible fish offal of subheadings 0303.91 to 0303.99: > Other > Smelts: > Other smelts

0303.89.00.10

Fish, frozen, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 0304: > Other fish, excluding edible fish offal of subheadings 0303.91 to 0303.99: > Other > Cusk

0303.89.00.13

Fish, frozen, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 0304: > Other fish, excluding edible fish offal of subheadings 0303.91 to 0303.99: > Other > Shad and sturgeon

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0303.89.00.28

Fish, frozen, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 0304: > Other fish, excluding edible fish offal of subheadings 0303.91 to 0303.99: > Other > Fresh-water fish: > Pike and pickerel

0303.89.00.31

Fish, frozen, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 0304: > Other fish, excluding edible fish offal of subheadings 0303.91 to 0303.99: > Other > Fresh-water fish: > Perch and pike perch (including yellow pike)

0303.89.00.34

Fish, frozen, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 0304: > Other fish, excluding edible fish offal of subheadings 0303.91 to 0303.99: > Other > Fresh-water fish: > Sauger

0303.89.00.37

Fish, frozen, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 0304: > Other fish, excluding edible fish offal of subheadings 0303.91 to 0303.99: > Other > Fresh-water fish: > Whitefish

0303.89.00.40

0303.89.00.43

Fish, frozen, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 0304: > Other fish, excluding edible fish offal of subheadings 0303.91 to 0303.99: > Other > Fresh-water fish: > Other

0303.89.00.46

Fish, frozen, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 0304: > Other fish, excluding edible fish offal of subheadings 0303.91 to 0303.99: > Other > Atka mackerel (Atkafish) (Pleurogrammus monopterygius)

0303.89.00.49

Fish, frozen, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 0304: > Other fish, excluding edible fish offal of subheadings 0303.91 to 0303.99: > Other > Mullet

0303.89.00.52

Fish, frozen, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 0304: > Other fish, excluding edible fish offal of subheadings 0303.91 to 0303.99: > Other > Monkfish (Lophius spp.)

0303.89.00.55

Fish, frozen, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 0304: > Other fish, excluding edible fish offal of subheadings 0303.91 to 0303.99: > Other > Butterfish

0303.89.00.58

Fish, frozen, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 0304: > Other fish, excluding edible fish offal of subheadings 0303.91 to 0303.99: > Other > Capelin

0303.89.00.61

Fish, frozen, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 0304: > Other fish, excluding edible fish offal of subheadings 0303.91 to 0303.99: > Other > Sable fish (Anoplopoma fimbria)

0303.89.00.64

Fish, frozen, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 0304: > Other fish, excluding edible fish offal of subheadings 0303.91 to 0303.99: > Other > Ocean perch

0303.89.00.67

Fish, frozen, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 0304: > Other fish, excluding edible fish offal of subheadings 0303.91 to 0303.99: > Other > Snapper (Lutjanidae spp.)

0303.89.00.70

Fish, frozen, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 0304: > Other fish, excluding edible fish offal of subheadings 0303.91 to 0303.99: > Other > Grouper

0303.89.00.80

Fish, frozen, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 0304: > Other fish, excluding edible fish offal of subheadings 0303.91 to 0303.99: > Other > Other

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Chapter & section notes

Chapter notes

Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States Revision 29 (2025) Annotated for Statistical Reporting Purposes CHAPTER 3 FISH AND CRUSTACEANS, MOLLUSCS AND OTHER AQUATIC INVERTEBRATES I 3-1 Note 1. This chapter does not cover: (a) Mammals of heading 0106; (b) Meat of mammals of heading 0106 (heading 0208 or 0210); (c) Fish (including livers, roes and milt thereof) or crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, dead and unfit or unsuitable for human consumption by reason of either their species or their condition (chapter 5); flours, meals or pellets of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, unfit for human consumption (heading 2301); or (d) Caviar or caviar substitutes prepared from fish eggs (heading 1604). 2. In this chapter the term "pellets" means products which have been agglomerated either directly by compression or by the addition of a small quantity of binder. 3. Headings 0305 to 0308 do not cover flours, meals and pellets, fit for human consumption (heading 0309). Additional U.S. Note 1. Certain fish, crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates are provided for in chapter 98. Statistical Note 1. Imports of shrimp or products of shrimp are subject to the provisions of section 609 of Public Law 101-162 of November 21, 1989 (16 U.S.C. 1537 note). Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States Revision 29 (2025) Annotated for Statistical Reporting Purposes I 3-2

Section notes

SECTION I LIVE ANIMALS; ANIMAL PRODUCTS I-1 Notes 1. Any reference in this section to a particular genus or species of an animal, except where the context otherwise requires, includes a reference to the young of that genus or species. 2. Except where the context otherwise requires, throughout the tariff schedule any reference to "dried" products also covers products which have been dehydrated, evaporated or freeze-dried. Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States Revision 29 (2025) Annotated for Statistical Reporting Purposes I-2 Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States Revision 29 (2025) Annotated for Statistical Reporting Purposes

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