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MSC Self-Ignited Commodities Risk Surcharge for USA imports and exports

Jul 24, 2020

EIS (Self-Ignited Commodities Risk Surcharge) effective September 1st, 2020 - USD 50 - per container (import and export)

MSC announced the new charge implementation effective September 1st 2020, which will be applied to self-ignited commodities. 

Self-ignited commodities include: 

HS Code 4 first digits Description: 1214

OIL SEEDS AND OLEAGINOUS FRUITS; MISCELLANEOUS GRAINS, SEEDS AND FRUIT; INDUSTRIAL OR MEDICINAL PLANTS; STRAW AND FODDER

Swedes, mangolds, fodder roots, hay, lucerne (alfalfa), clover, sainfoin, forage kale, lupines, vetches and similar forage products, whether or not in the form of pellets

HS Code 4 first digits Description: 1404

VEGETABLE PLAITING MATERIALS; VEGETABLE PRODUCTS NOT ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED OR INCLUDED

Vegetable products not elsewhere specified or included

HS Code 4 first digits Description: 1802

COCOA AND COCOA PREPARATIONS

Cocoa shells, husks, skins and other cocoa waste

HS Code 4 first digits Description: 2301

RESIDUES AND WASTE FROM THE FOOD INDUSTRIES; PREPARED ANIMAL FODDER

Flours, meals and pellets, of meat or meat offal, of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, unfit for human consumption; greaves

HS Code 4 first digits Description: 2304

RESIDUES AND WASTE FROM THE FOOD INDUSTRIES; PREPARED ANIMAL FODDER

Oilcake and other solid residues, whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of soya-bean oil

HS Code 4 first digits Description: 2305

RESIDUES AND WASTE FROM THE FOOD INDUSTRIES; PREPARED ANIMAL FODDER

Oilcake and other solid residues, whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of groundnut oil

HS Code 4 first digits Description: 2306

RESIDUES AND WASTE FROM THE FOOD INDUSTRIES; PREPARED ANIMAL FODDER

Oilcake and other solid residues, whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of vegetable fats or oils, other than those of heading|2304|or 2305

HS Code 4 first digits Description: 2308

RESIDUES AND WASTE FROM THE FOOD INDUSTRIES; PREPARED ANIMAL FODDER

Vegetable materials and vegetable waste, vegetable residues and by-products, whether or not in the form of pellets, of a kind used in animal feeding, not elsewhere specified or included

HS Code 4 first digits Description: 3802

MISCELLANEOUS CHEMICAL PRODUCTS

Activated carbon; activated natural mineral products; animal black, including spent animal black

HS Code 4 first digits Description: 4401

WOOD AND ARTICLES OF WOOD; WOOD CHARCOAL

Fuel wood, in logs, in billets, in twigs, in faggots or in similar forms; wood in chips or particles; sawdust and wood waste and scrap, whether or not agglomerated in logs, briquettes, pellets or similar forms

HS Code 4 first digits Description: 4402

WOOD AND ARTICLES OF WOOD; WOOD CHARCOAL

Wood charcoal (including shell or nut charcoal), whether or not agglomerated

HS Code 4 first digits Description: 4421

WOOD AND ARTICLES OF WOOD; WOOD CHARCOAL

Other articles of wood

HS Code 4 first digits Description: 5301

OTHER VEGETABLE TEXTILE FIBRES; PAPER YARN AND WOVEN FABRICS OF PAPER YARN

Flax, raw or processed but not spun; flax tow and waste (including yarn waste and garnetted stock)

HS Code 4 first digits Description: 5302

OTHER VEGETABLE TEXTILE FIBRES; PAPER YARN AND WOVEN FABRICS OF PAPER YARN

True hemp (Cannabis sativa L.), raw or processed but not spun; tow and waste of true hemp (including yarn waste and garnetted stock)

HS Code 4 first digits Description: 5303

OTHER VEGETABLE TEXTILE FIBRES; PAPER YARN AND WOVEN FABRICS OF PAPER YARN

Jute and other textile bast fibres (excluding flax, true hemp and ramie), raw or processed but not spun; tow and waste of these fibres (including yarn waste and garnetted stock)

HS Code 4 first digits Description: 5305

OTHER VEGETABLE TEXTILE FIBRES; PAPER YARN AND WOVEN FABRICS OF PAPER YARN

Coconut, abaca (Manila hemp or Musa textilis Nee), ramie and other vegetable textile fibres, not elsewhere specified or included, raw or processed but not spun; tow, noils and waste of these fibres (including yarn waste and garnetted stock)

HS Code 4 first digits Description: 7204

Ferrous Waste metal turnings / waste and scrap iron ore

HS Code 4 first digits Description: 7602

Aluminium waste and scrap

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