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Relations between dependent islands and the mother country
Trade and tariffs
Importing goods into the U.S.
from
the freely associated states:
General Note 10 of the
Harmonized Tariff Schedule (2000)
GENERAL NOTES
General Note 10. Products of the Freely Associated
States.
(a) Pursuant to sections 101 and 401 of the Compact of Free
Association Act of 1985 (99 Stat. 1773 and 1838), the following countries shall
be eligible for treatment as freely associated states:
 | Marshall Islands |
| Federated States of Micronesia, |
| Republic of Palau |
(b) Except as provided in subdivisions (d) and (e) of this
note, any article the growth, product or manufacture of a freely associated
state shall enter the customs territory of the United States free of duty if
(i) such article is imported directly from the freely
associated state, and
(ii) the sum of
(A) the cost or value of the materials produced in the
freely associated state, plus
(B) the direct costs of processing operations performed
in the freely associated state
is not less than 35 percent of the appraised value of such
article at the time of its entry into the customs territory of the United
States. If the cost or value of materials produced in the customs territory of
the United States is included with respect to an article the product of a
freely associated state and not described in subdivision (d) of this note, an
amount not to exceed 15 percent of the appraised value of such article at the
time it is entered that is attributed to such United States cost or value may
be applied toward determining the percentage referred to in subdivision (b)(ii)(B)
of this note.
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(c) Tunas and skipjack, prepared or preserved, not in oil, in
airtight containers weighing with their contents not over 7 kilograms each, in
an aggregate quantity entered in any calendar year from the freely associated
states not to exceed 10 percent of United States consumption of canned tuna
during the immediately preceding calendar year, as reported by the National
Marine Fisheries Service, may enter the customs territory free of duty; such
imports shall be counted against, but not be limited by, the aggregate quantity
of tuna, if any, that is dutiable under subheading 1604.14.20 for that calendar
year.
(d) The duty-free treatment provided under subdivision (b) of
this note shall not apply to
(i) tunas and skipjack, prepared or preserved, not in oil,
in airtight containers weighing with their contents not over 7 kilograms each,
in excess of the quantity afforded duty-free entry under subdivision (c) of
this note;
(ii) textile and apparel articles which are subject to
textile agreements;
(iii) footwear, handbags, luggage, flat goods, work gloves
and leather wearing apparel, the foregoing which were not eligible articles
for purposes of the Generalized System of Preferences on April 1, 1984;
(iv) watches, clocks and timing apparatus of chapter 91
(except such articles incorporating an optoelectronic display and no other
type of display);
(v) buttons of subheading 9606.21.40 or 9606.29.20; and
(vi) any agricultural product of chapters 2 through 52,
inclusive, that is subject to a tariff-rate quota, if entered in a quantity in
excess of the in-quota quantity for such product.
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