CLA-2-21:S:N:N7:228 803580
Mr. H.D. Rogers
H.E. Ladwig Div.
Border Brokerage Company, Inc.
P.O. Box 57
Eastport, ID 83820
RE: The tariff classification of herbal teas from Germany
Dear Mr. Rogers:
In your letter dated October 26, 1994, on behalf of Grass
Roots Living, Bonners Ferry, Idaho, you requested a tariff
classification ruling.
Descriptive literature, two package labels, and one sample
were submitted with your letter. The products are described as
fruit teas, composed of a mixture of dried fruits, fruit peel,
flowers, and other ingredients, put up for retail sale in
containers holding 4.4 ounces, net weight. Tropical Flavour
Fruit Tea Mixture is said to contain apples, bananas, blue mallow
flowers, currants, elder flowers, hibiscus, orange peel, papaya,
rosehips and tropical fruit flavor. Passion Fruit Flavour Fruit
Tea Mixture contains apples, elder berries, hibiscus, marigold
flowers, orange peel, rosehips and passion fruit flavor.
The applicable subheading for these two herbal teas will be
2106.90.6987, Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States
(HTS), which provides for food preparations not elsewhere
specified or included...other...other...herbal teas and herbal
infusions comprising mixed herbs. The duty rate will be 10
percent ad valorem.
Your inquiry does not provide enough information for us to
give a classification ruling on the Orange Blush product. Your
request for a classification ruling should include a complete
ingredients breakdown for all products you wish to import.
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