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Live animals & animal products

384 tariff lines

Live animals & animal products
HS code	Product	MFN	COMESA-FTA	EAC
0305.52.00	Tilapias (Oreochromis spp.), catfish (Pangasius spp., Silurus spp., Clarias spp., Ictalurus spp.), carp (Cyprinus spp., Carassius spp., Ctenopharyngodon idellus, Hypophthalmichthys spp., Cirrhinus spp., Mylopharyngodon piceus, Catla catla, Labeo spp., Osteochilus hasselti, Leptobarbus hoeveni, Megalobrama spp.), eels (Anguilla spp.), Nile perch (Lates niloticus) and snakeheads (Channa spp.)	0.25%	0%	0%
0305.53.00	Fish of the families Bregmacerotidae, Euclichthyidae, Gadidae, Macrouridae, Melanonidae, Merlucciidae, Moridae and Muraenolepididae, other than cod (Gadus morhua, Gadus ogac, Gadus macrocephalus)	0.25%	0%	0%
0305.54.00	Herrings (Clupea harengus, Clupea pallasii), anchovies (Engraulis spp.), sardines (Sardina pilchardus, Sardinops spp.), sardinella (Sardinella spp.), brisling or sprats (Sprattus sprattus), mackerel (Scomber scombrus, Scomber australasicus, Scomber japonicus), Indian mackerels (Rastrelliger spp.), seerfishes (Scomberomorus spp.), jack and horse mackerel (Trachurus spp.), jacks, crevalles (Caranx spp.), cobia (Rachycentron canadum), silver pomfrets (Pampus spp.), Pacific saury (Cololabis saira), scads (Decapterus spp.), capelin (Mallotus villosus), swordfish (Xiphias gladius), Kawakawa (Euthynnus affinis), bonitos (Sarda spp.), marlins, sailfishes, spearfish (Istiophoridae)	0.25%	0%	0%
0305.59.00	Other	0.25%	0%	0%
0305.61.00	Herrings (Clupea harengus, Clupea pallasii)	0.25%	0%	0%
0305.62.00	Cod (Gadus morhua, Gadus ogac, Gadus macrocephalus)	0.25%	0%	0%
0305.63.00	Anchovies (Engraulis spp.)	0.25%	0%	0%
0305.64.00	Tilapias (Oreochromis spp.), catfish (Pangasius spp., Silurus spp., Clarias spp., Ictalurus spp.), carp (Cyprinus spp., Carassius spp., Ctenopharyngodon idellus, Hypophthalmichthys spp., Cirrhinus spp., Mylopharyngodon piceus, Catla catla, Labeo spp., Osteochilus hasselti, Leptobarbus hoeveni, Megalobrama spp.), eels (Anguilla spp.), Nile perch (Lates niloticus) and snakeheads (Channa spp.)	0.25%	0%	0%
0305.69.00	Other	0.25%	0%	0%
0305.71.00	Shark fins	0.25%	0%	0%
0305.72.00	Fish heads, tails and maws	0.25%	0%	0%
0305.79.00	Other	0.25%	0%	0%
0306.11.00	Rock lobster and other sea crawfish (Palinurus spp., Panulirus spp., Jasus spp.)	0.25%	0%	0%
0306.12.00	Lobsters (Homarus spp.)	0.25%	0%	0%
0306.14.00	Crabs	0.25%	0%	0%
0306.15.00	Norway lobsters (Nephrops norvegicus)	0.25%	0%	0%
0306.16.00	Cold-water shrimps and prawns (Pandalus spp., Crangon crangon)	0.25%	0%	0%
0306.17.00	Other shrimps and prawns	0.25%	0%	0%
0306.19.00	Other	0.25%	0%	0%
0306.31.00	Rock lobster and other sea crawfish (Palinurus spp., Panulirus spp., Jasus spp.)	0.25%	0%	0%

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HS 0306.31.00

Live, fresh or chilled, rock lobster and other sea crawfish (Palinurus spp., Panulirus spp., Jasus spp.)

Section I · Live animals & animal products › Ch 03 Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates › 03.06 Crustaceans, whether in shell or not, live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine; smoked crustaceans, whether in shell or not, whether or not cooked before or during the smoking process; crustaceans, in shell, cooked by steaming or by boiling in water, whether or not chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine

Applied duty rates

0.25% MFN applied rate
0% COMESA-FTA preferential rate
0% EAC preferential rate

Exports | US$ thousand

No exports recorded for this product.

Imports | US$ thousand

0 0.5 1

2020 2020 $0 From the world $0 Within the Commonwealth

2021 2021 $0 From the world $0 Within the Commonwealth

2022 2022 $1 From the world $0 Within the Commonwealth

2023 2023 $0 From the world $0 Within the Commonwealth

2024 2024 $0 From the world $0 Within the Commonwealth

$1 2025 2025 $1 From the world $1 Within the Commonwealth

From the world
Within the Commonwealth

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Year	From the world	Within the Commonwealth
2020	$0	$0
2021	$0	$0
2022	$1	$0
2023	$0	$0
2024	$0	$0
2025	$1	$1

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