CLA-2-16:R:N2:231 814437
Mr. Oswaldo Yeng
4354 Smart Street, Apt. 2
Flushing, NY 11355
RE: The tariff classification of bovine offal and a prepared
vegetable product from Peru.
Dear Mr. Yeng:
In your letter, which is undated and received by this office
on September 7, 1995, you requested a tariff classification ruling.
The merchandise consists of the following four products:
1. Ollucus with sheep's meat. The ingredients are ollucus (220 mg), onions
(75 mg), charqui (20 mg), dry sheep's meat (10 mg), vegetable oil (10 mg),
salt (5 mg), panca pepper (3 mg), monosodium glutamate (1 mg), comino (1 mg),
garlic (1 mg), oregano (1 mg), pepper (1 mg), annatto, and water. The net
weight is 15 ounces.
2. Beef's lungs. The ingredients are beef's lungs (155 mg), potatoes (80
mg), vegetable oil (10 mg), salt (5 mg), panca pepper (3 mg), garlic (2 mg),
monosodium glutamate (1 mg), comino (1 mg), mint (1 mg), oregano (1 mg),
pepper (1 mg), annatto, and water. The net weight is 15 ounces.
3. Tripe stew prepared in turmeric sauce. The ingredients are tripe (155
mg), onions (85 mg), potatoes (75 mg), vegetable oil (10 mg), carrots (5 mg),
peas (5 mg), salt (5 mg), garlic (2 mg), monosodium glutamate (1 mg), comino
(1 mg), mint (1 mg), pepper (1 mg), oregano (1 mg), turmeric, and water. The
net weight is 15 ounces.
4. Beef's feet in peanut sauce. The ingredients are beef's feet (155 mg),
potatoes (80 mg), onions (75 mg), peanuts (15 mg), vegetable oil (10 mg),
salt (5 mg), panca pepper (4 mg), garlic (3 mg), monosodium glutamte (1 mg),
comino (1 mg), pepper (1 mg), annatto, and water. The net weight is 15
ounces.
The applicable subheading for the beef's lungs, tripe stew prepared in
turmeric sauce, and beef's feet in peanut sauce, will be 1602.50.0500,
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS), which provides for
other prepared or preserved meat, meat offal or blood, of bovine animals,
offal. The rate of duty will be 4.6 percent ad valorem.
The applicable subheading for the ollucus with sheep's meat will be
2008.99.9090, HTS, which provides for fruit, nuts and other edible parts of
plants, otherwise prepared or preserved, whether or not containing added
sugar or other sweetening matter or spirit, not elsewhere specified or
included, other, including mixtures other than those of subheading 2008.19,
other, other, other, other. The rate of duty will be 6.8 percent ad valorem.
Articles classifiable under subheadings 1602.50.0500 or 2008.99.9090,
HTS, which are products of Peru, are entitled to duty free treatment under
the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) upon compliance with all
applicable regulations, if the GSP is renewed.
Articles classifiable under subheadings 1602.50.0500 or 2008.99.9090,
HTS, which are products of Peru, are entitled to duty freee treatment under
the Andean Trade Preference Act upon compliance with all applicable
regulations.
Additonal requirements may be imposed on these products by the United
States Department of Agriculture. You may contact the USDA at:
United States Department of Agriculture
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
1201 Corbin Street
Elizabeth, NJ 07201
This ruling is being issued under the provisions of Section 177 of the
Customs Regulations (19 C.F.R. 177.
A copy of the ruling or the control number indicated above should be
provided with the entry documents filed at the time this merchandise is
imported. If you have any questions regarding the ruling, contact National
Import Specialist Ralph Conte at (212) 466-5759.
Sincerely,
Roger J. Silvestri
Director
National Commodity
Specialist Division