Code 0305 44 · Heading 0305

Smoked eel, tilapia, catfish, carp, Nile perch and snakehead fish, including fillets but excluding edible fish waste

This covers smoked eel, tilapia, the listed catfish, carp, Nile perch and snakehead fish, including their fillets. Edible fish waste is excluded.

For example

Smoked eel fillets
Smoked tilapia
Smoked Pangasius catfish fillets
Smoked Nile perch

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Official tariff text

Smoked tilapia "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.", incl. fillets (excl. offal)

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Step 1 · Section I Live animals; animal products
Is it a live animal; meat or edible offal; a fish, crustacean, mollusc or other aquatic invertebrate; milk, a dairy product, bird egg, natural honey or another edible animal-origin product; or another product of animal origin?
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Step 2 · Chapter 03 Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic in… 3 of 5 chapters in section I
What is the product: live fish; edible fish that is fresh, chilled or frozen; fish fillets or other fish meat; preserved fish; a crustacean; a mollusc; another aquatic invertebrate; or meal, powder or pellets suitable for human consumption?
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Step 3 · Heading 0305 Fish, fit for human consumption, dried, salted or i… 5 of 9 headings under chapter 03
What is the product: fish liver, roe or milt; a filet; a named fish group or species; or fish fins, heads, tails, stomachs or other edible fish offal—and is it dried, salted, in brine, smoked, or treated in a stated combination?
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Step 4 · Subheading 0305 44 Smoked tilapia "Oreochromis spp.", catfish "Pangasi… 8 of 22 subheadings under heading 0305
Is it eel, or is it one of the other listed fish: tilapia, catfish, carp, Nile perch or snakehead fish?

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Import duty on the codes below: 14.0%

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Classification decides the rate here: from 10.0% to 16.0%.

Selling to Norway, Great Britain and the United States

What they charge on arrival.

Norway, Great Britain and the United States use their own tariff lines under the 6-digit HS code. The rates below are what their customs charge on goods arriving from the EU. Match the goods against each country's own wording before you rely on a rate.

Norway

Duty free

Their lines1 Norwegian line

03.05.4400 Tilapias (Oreochromis spp.), catfish

Norwegian tariff data checked Sept. 13, 2026.

Great Britain

14.0%

Their lines3 British lines
EU originDuty free

0305 44 10 00 Eels (Anguilla spp.)

Northern Ireland follows other rules.

UK tariff data checked Sept. 13, 2026.

United States

10.0%

Estimated from published US measures

Their lines1 US line
Entry dateSept. 17, 2026

0305.44.01.00 Fish, dried, salted or in brine; smoked fish, whether or not cooked before or during

The US importer of record files the entry.

US tariff data checked Sept. 16, 2026.

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Selling to Norway

Norway splits the 6-digit category its own way, so these are Norway's own lines under it, not this EU code. Check your product against their wording; what Norwegian customs charges is shown per line.

03.05.4400

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.)

Ordinary duty

Duty free

Norwegian tariff data version 1.5/1.2, last checked Sept. 13, 2026.

Contains data from Norwegian Customs (data.toll.no), licensed under CC BY 4.0, adapted for display.

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Selling to Great Britain

What UK customs charges when goods like these arrive in Great Britain.

All 3 UK lines under this code

They all have the same duty rates shown here.

Ordinary duty

14.0%

Goods of EU origin

Duty free You need documentation of EU preferential origin to use this rate.

These rates apply in Great Britain. Different rules may apply for goods entering Northern Ireland.

UK tariff data version v4.0.1599, last checked Sept. 13, 2026.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Source: UK Department for Business and Trade (data.api.trade.gov.uk).

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Selling to the United States

What US customs charges when goods like these arrive from the EU. The US importer of record files the entry and pays the duty.

0305.44.01.00

Fish, dried, salted or in brine; smoked fish, whether or not cooked before or during the smoking process, Smoked fish, including fillets, other than edible fish offal, 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.)

General rate

Free

From the EU

10.0% Estimated from published US measures US headings applied: 9903.05.39 Section 301 forced-labour action, 91 FR 47318 (memorandum 91 FR 47717), U.S. note 52 to subchapter III of chapter 99

Worked out for an entry on Sept. 17, 2026.

US tariff schedule 2026HTSRev19, last checked Sept. 16, 2026.

Last change we recorded: Revision 19 (2026), Sept. 16, 2026.

Anti-dumping and countervailing duties, US import taxes and customs fees are not included.

The descriptions above are the US tariff texts, which the United States publishes in English only.

Source: the US International Trade Commission's Harmonized Tariff Schedule (hts.usitc.gov), public domain, and the measures published in the Federal Register.

This is a planning estimate from the US Harmonized Tariff Schedule (revision shown) and the published Federal Register measures as of the date shown, for a shipment of EU origin. It is not a customs entry, legal advice or a broker's opinion, and tariffs.help is not a US-licensed customs broker. The US importer of record or their broker confirms the classification, origin, value and the duty due before filing.

Duty rates shown here are estimates, read from official EU / Danish, Norwegian and UK tariff data for orientation only. Confirm the current rate with Toldstyrelsen, TARIC, Norwegian Customs or the UK Online Trade Tariff before you file. The rate you pay can also depend on the country of origin. These are base customs duties only: import VAT, excise duties, anti-dumping duties and safeguard or quota measures are not included.