Customs Tariff updates September 2023

September 22, 2023

Argentina customs tariff update

Argentina customs authority has updated the import tariff. Update includes the addition of HTS codes and products into the tariff chapter 03.

European Union customs tariff update

European Commission has updated the import tariff. Update includes the changes in the general and preferential duty rates for certain products classified under tariff chapters 07, 08, 15, 20, 22, 27, 38, 44, 48, 51, 52, 54, 55 etc.

India customs tariff update

India customs authority has updated the export tariff. Update includes the imposition of export duty of 40% on onions (classified under tariff heading 070310) till 31st December 2023 and also levied export duty of 20% on parboiled rice (HTS code 10063010).

Mexico customs tariff update

Mexico customs authority has updated the import tariff. Update includes the changes in the import duty rates for certain products classified under tariff chapter 28 and 44.

Singapore customs tariff update

Singapore customs authority has updated the import tariff. Update includes the changes in the certain HTS code for tariff chapter 85.

UK customs tariff update

UK customs authority has updated the import tariff. Update includes the changes in the tariff HTS code of chapter 15, 27 and 38. 

  • New commodity codes added to tariff as of 18 August 2023: 1518009931 and 1518009510
  • Commodity codes merged:
  • 1518009930 is being absorbed into 1518009931
  • 3824999220 is being absorbed into 3824999215
  • 3824999212 is being absorbed into 3824999214

UK customs tariff update

UK customs authority has updated the import tariff. Update includes the changes in the tariff HTS code of for Heading 1516, Heading 1518, Heading 2710, Heading 3824 and Heading 3826.

  • New Commodity Codes for Heading 1516 - Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their fractions, partly or wholly hydrogenated, inter-esterified, re-esterified or elaidinised, whether or not refined, but not further prepared
  • New Commodity Codes for Heading 1518 - Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their fractions, boiled, oxidised, dehydrated, sulphurised, blown, polymerised by heat in vacuum or in inert gas or otherwise chemically modified, excluding those of heading 1516; inedible mixtures or preparations of animal, vegetable or microbial fats or oils or of fractions of different fats or oils of this chapter, not elsewhere specified or included
  • New Commodity Codes for Heading 2710 - Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, other than crude; preparations not elsewhere specified or included, containing by weight 70% or more of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals, these oils being the basic constituents of the preparations; waste oils

US customs tariffs updates

US customs authority has updated the import tariff. Update includes the changes in the Merchandise Processing Fee (MPF).  The new user fees are outlined below:

  • Minimum MPF on informal entries (shipments valued under $2500 USD) will increase from $2.37 to $2.53
  • Minimum MPF on formal entries (shipments valued over $2500 USD) will increase from $29.66 to $31.67.
  • Maximum MPF on a formal entry will increase from $575.35 to $614.35.
  • MPF ad-valorm rate of 0.3464% will not change.
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