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    3503.00.55

    Other

    This code covers gelatin (including sheets & derivatives) and other animal glues, excluding casein. Use this code when importing these products to determine the applicable duty – a general rate of 2.8¢/kg + 3.8% for standard trade partners, or potentially free if eligible for specific trade agreements, as detailed within Chapter 35.

    Other

    Detailed information for HTS Code 3503.00.55

    This tariff classification falls within Chapter 35, which covers albuminoidal substances, modified starches, glues, and enzymes. Specifically, code 3503.00.55 covers other gelatin, gelatin derivatives, isinglass, and other animal glues excluding casein glues. This includes products like edible gelatin, photographic gelatin, or other types of gelatin not specifically categorized elsewhere, and is further subdivided by these specific uses via statistical suffixes 3503.00.55.10, 3503.00.55.20, and 3503.00.55.50; choose the suffix that best matches the intended application of the gelatin being reported.

    ChapterChapter 35 - Albuminoidal substances; modified starches; glues; enzymes
    SectionSection VI - Products of the Chemical or Allied Industries

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    General Duty

    2.8¢/kg + 3.8%

    Standard trade partners (NTR)

    Special Duty

    Free (A,AU,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL,JO,KR,MA,OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG)

    Eligible FTA or preference programs

    The duty for HTS code 3503.00.55 and its subdivisions (3503.00.55.10, 3503.00.55.20, 3503.00.55.50) is calculated in kilograms. The general rate of duty is 2.8¢/kg plus 3.8%, applied to imports from countries not covered by a special trade agreement. However, a duty-free rate applies to goods originating from countries including Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Israel, Jordan, Korea, Morocco, Oman, Panama, Peru, Singapore, and others participating in eligible FTA or preference programs; the specific programs are not specified. Both rates apply equally to all subdivisions under this code.

    Rate of Duty (Column 2): 15.4¢/kg + 20%

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    Code subdivisions

    3503.00.55.10

    Gelatin (including gelatin in rectangular (including square) sheets, whether or not surfaceworked or colored) and gelatin derivatives; isinglass; other glues of animal origin, excluding casein glues of heading 3501: > Other > Edible gelatin

    3503.00.55.20

    Gelatin (including gelatin in rectangular (including square) sheets, whether or not surfaceworked or colored) and gelatin derivatives; isinglass; other glues of animal origin, excluding casein glues of heading 3501: > Other > Photographic gelatin

    3503.00.55.50

    Gelatin (including gelatin in rectangular (including square) sheets, whether or not surfaceworked or colored) and gelatin derivatives; isinglass; other glues of animal origin, excluding casein glues of heading 3501: > Other > Other

    Chapter & section notes

    Chapter notes

    Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States Revision 29 (2025) Annotated for Statistical Reporting Purposes CHAPTER 35 ALBUMINOIDAL SUBSTANCES; MODIFIED STARCHES; GLUES; ENZYMES VI 35-1 Notes 1. This chapter does not cover: (a) Yeasts (heading 2102); (b) Blood fractions (other than blood albumin not prepared for therapeutic or prophylactic uses), medicaments or other products of chapter 30; (c) Enzymatic preparations for pre-tanning (heading 3202); (d) Enzymatic soaking or washing preparations or other products of chapter 34; (e) Hardened proteins (heading 3913); or (f) Gelatin products of the printing industry (chapter 49). 2. For the purposes of heading 3505, the term "dextrins" means starch degradation products with a reducing sugar content, expressed as dextrose on the dry substance, not exceeding 10 percent. Such products with a reducing sugar content exceeding 10 percent fall in heading 1702. Additional U.S. Note 1. For the purposes of subheading 3501.10.10, "milk protein concentrate" means any complete milk protein (casein plus lactalbumin) concentrate. Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States Revision 29 (2025) Annotated for Statistical Reporting Purposes VI 35-2

    Section notes

    SECTION VI PRODUCTS OF THE CHEMICAL OR ALLIED INDUSTRIES VI-1 Notes 1. (a) Goods (other than radioactive ores) answering to a description in heading 2844 or 2845 are to be classified in those headings and in no other heading of the tariff schedule. (b) Subject to paragraph (a) above, goods answering to a description in heading 2843, 2846 or 2852 are to be classified in those headings and in no other heading of this section. 2. Subject to note 1 above, goods classifiable in heading 3004, 3005, 3006, 3212, 3303, 3304, 3305, 3306, 3307, 3506, 3707 or 3808 by reason of being put up in measured doses or for retail sale are to be classified in those headings and in no other heading of the tariff schedule. 3. Goods put up in sets consisting of two or more separate constituents, some or all of which fall in this section and are intended to be mixed together to obtain a product of section VI or VII, are to be classified in the heading appropriate to that product, provided that the constituents are: (a) Having regard to the manner in which they are put up, clearly identifiable as being intended to be used together without first being repacked; (b) Entered together; and (c) Identifiable, whether by their nature or by the relative proportions in which they are present, as being complementary one to another. 4. Where a product answers to a description in one or more of the headings in section VI by virtue of being described by name or function and also to heading 3827, then it is classifiable in a heading that references the product by name or function and not under heading 3827. Additional U.S. Notes 1. In determining the amount of duty applicable to a solution of a single compound in water subject to duty in this section at a specific rate, an allowance in weight or volume, as the case may be, shall be made for the water in excess of any water of crystallization which may be present in the undissolved compound. 2. For the purposes of the tariff schedule: (a) The term "aromatic" as applied to any chemical compound refers to such compound containing one or more fused or unfused benzene rings; (b) The term "modified aromatic" describes a molecular structure having at least one six-membered heterocyclic ring which contains at least four carbon atoms and having an arrangement of molecular bonds as in the benzene ring or in the quinone ring, but does not include any such molecular structure in which one or more pyrimidine rings are the only modified aromatic rings present; (c) For the purposes of headings 2902, 2907 and 3817, the term "alkyl" describes any saturated acyclic hydrocarbon group having six or more carbon atoms or, subject to note 1 to

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