CLA-2-23:S:N:N7:231 802423
Mr. W.L. Winstrom
Pennfield Oil Company
14040 Industrial Road
Omaha, NB 68144
RE: The tariff classification of animal feed materials from China,
Croatia, Italy, and Slovakia.
Dear Mr. Winstrom:
In your letter, dated September 15, 1994, you have requested
a tariff classification ruling.
The products are chlortetracycline and oxytetracycline feed grade
materials. They will be packaged and sold to animal producers who will use
them as animal feed ingredients and as sources of medication.
Chlortetracycline will be manufactured in China, Italy, and Slovakia.
Oxytetracycline will be made in Croatia.
Chlortetracycline feed grade material will be produced in a fermentation
mycelium medium. Chlortetracycline contains corn starch, glucose, corn-steep
liquor, soybean meal, peanut meal, yeast powder, peptone, (NH4)2SO4, Amylase,
CaCO3, H2PO4, vegetable oil, MgSO4, NaCl, and water. The ingredients are
mixed and placed in a fermentation vat made for aureofaciens fermentation.
The ingredients are inoculated with a bacterial strain, Streptomyces
aureofaciens, to initiate the fermentation process. Sugar and starch are
added.
Oxytetracycline contains corn meal, corn starch, corn steep liquid,
soybean oil, dextrine, ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid, ammonium hydroxide,
filtration earth, sodium hydrosulfite, magnesium sulphate, manganese
sulphate, zinc sulphate, ammonium sulphate, cobalt chloride, calcium
carbonate, wheat bran, paraffin oil, and water.
The applicable subheading for chlortetracycline and oxytetracycline will
be 2309.90.1050, Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS), which
provides for preparations of a kind used in animal feeding, other, mixed
feeds or mixed feed ingredients, other. The rate of duty will be free.
This ruling is being issued under the provisions of Section 177 of the
Customs Regulations (19 C.F.R. 177).
A copy of this ruling letter should be attached to the entry documents
filed at the time this merchandise is imported. If the documents have been
filed without a copy, this ruling should be brought to the attention of the
Customs officer handling the transaction.
Sincerely,
Jean F. Maguire
Area Director
New York Seaport