HTS Chapter 23: Residues and waste from the food industries; prepared animal fodder
HTS Chapter 23 covers Residues and waste from the food industries; prepared animal fodder. Browse 5 published headings, then narrow to the active product line that matches the goods.
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Written to help non-specialists understand this page. Rates, dates, and legal facts come from the official records above and on the linked source.
HTS Chapter 23 generally covers residues and byproducts from processing food, crops, oils, sugar, brewing, and distilling, along with certain products made for animal feeding. Examples include meat, fish, or aquatic-animal meals that are unfit for human consumption; cereal or legume milling residues such as bran; sugar, starch, brewing, and distilling residues; oilseed extraction residues such as oilcake; and animal-feed preparations under heading 2309. The product’s ingredients, condition, and manufacturing process are important—not just the fact that it is sold as feed.
The Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) is organized from broad to specific: chapter, heading, subheading, and the complete 10-digit statistical reporting number. Start with Chapter 23, compare the product with the heading descriptions and legal notes, then work through the subheadings using facts such as source material, processing method, composition, and intended use. Confirm whether another chapter or heading is more specific, and obtain customs-broker or classification advice when the ingredients, processing, or exclusions create uncertainty.
What to check
- Identify the product’s source material, ingredients, physical form, and manufacturing process before relying on its marketing description or intended use.
- Distinguish processing residues and byproducts from prepared animal-feed products, and check whether a heading requires the goods to be unfit for human consumption or otherwise limits their condition.
- Read the chapter notes, heading notes, subheading text, and relevant exclusions; similar-looking products may be classified in another chapter based on composition or use.
- Work from the heading to the subheading and then the 10-digit code, checking all statistical suffixes and any applicable units of quantity in the current HTS.
- Check whether Chapter 99 provisions, trade remedies, quota measures, or other additional duties apply separately, and verify the result with current official HTS data or a qualified customs professional.
How to use this chapter
A chapter is the first classification level, not a duty rate. Choose the heading that describes the product, narrow by material, construction, use, or other legal distinctions, and verify the final line against the official HTS notes.
Heading list
| HTS code | Description | Linked 8-digit entries |
|---|---|---|
| 2301 | Flours, meals and pellets, of meat or meat offal, of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, unfit for human consumption; greaves (cracklings): | 1 |
| 2302 | Bran, sharps (middlings) and other residues, whether or not in the form of pellets, derived from the sifting, milling or other working of cereals or of leguminous plants: | 2 |
| 2303 | Residues of starch manufacture and similar residues, beet-pulp, bagasse and other waste of sugar manufacture, brewing or distilling dregs and waste, whether or not in the form of pellets: | 2 |
| 2306 | Oilcake and other solid residues, whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of vegetable or microbial fats or oils, other than those of heading 2304 or 2305: | 1 |
| 2309 | Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding: | 1 |
Linked measures
0 linked measure entries in the current snapshot.
Questions about HTS Chapter 23
What does HTS Chapter 23 cover?
HTS Chapter 23 covers Residues and waste from the food industries; prepared animal fodder. This page groups the chapter’s 4-digit headings; a shipment still needs the most specific active 8- or 10-digit line supported by the product facts.
Is HTS Chapter 23 a final product classification?
No. A chapter is a broad 2-digit category. Narrow it to the applicable heading and the most specific active statistical line before estimating duty or filing an entry.