Sorghum|HTS Code

Sorghum harmonized system code

Product Overview: Sorghum under HTS 1007.90 refers to the cleaned, dried grain of Sorghum bicolor offered for human food, animal feed or industrial processing, excluding seed specifically declared for sowing and processed derivatives classified elsewhere. Key characteristics include whole kernels with typical commercial moisture content of 12–14% (w/w) for safe storage, impurity/foreign matter generally specified <2% by weight, broken kernels often limited to ≤5%, and protein content commonly 8–12% depending on variety. Processing levels covered by this classification are unmilled/cleaned, decorticated/pearled, cracked or coarsely milled material when still sold as grain, and varieties intended for malting or starch feedstock. Quality attributes required by trade professionals include freedom from live pests, absence of objectionable odors, documented mycotoxin testing, and declared GMO/pesticide status where applicable. Commercial subcategories commonly declared to customs under 1007.90 include food-grade whole grain, decorticated/pearled grain, feed-grade cracked or coarsely ground sorghum, and industrial/malting types. Primary commercial applications are human food formulations (cereals, flours), livestock feed, brewing/malting, and biochemical/ethanol processing. HTS Code Classification & Trade Specifications: Full 6-digit HTS structure is 100790 (Chapter 10: Cereals; Heading 1007: Sorghum; Subheading 1007.90: Other sorghum). Classification rationale: unprocessed or nominally processed sorghum grain is captured in Chapter 10 as a cereal; it is distinguished from seed for sowing (separately identified) and from flour or other products of Chapter 11, which attract different headings. For import documentation and duty calculation, declare 100790 on the commercial invoice, packing list and bill of lading and support with species identification, lot number, net weight, and country of origin. Trade considerations include common packaging (bulk container loads, 500–1,000 kg FIBCs, or 25–50 kg polypropylene sacks), required drying to specified moisture, segregation of lots, and typical phytosanitary/fumigation measures (phytosanitary certificate, fumigation/heat treatment documentation where required, certificate of analysis for mycotoxins and pesticide residues). Quality standards are quantified by moisture content, foreign matter percentage, broken kernel percentage, protein, and declared GMO status; documentation must meet USDA/FDA/APHIS requirements and any applicable buyer specifications.

Sorghum Chapter Note

1.- (A) The products specified in the headings of this Chapter are to be classified in those headings only if grains are present, whether or not in the ear or on the stalk. (B) The Chapter does not cover grains which have been hulled or otherwise worked. However, rice, husked, milled, polished, glazed, parboiled or broken remains classified in heading 10.06. Similarly, quinoa from which the pericarp has been wholly or partly removed in order to separate the saponin, but which has not undergone any other processes, remains classified in heading 10.08. 2.- Heading 10.05 does not cover sweet corn (Chapter 7). Subheading Note. 1.- The term “durum wheat” means wheat of the Triticum durum species and the hybrids derived from the inter-specific crossing of Triticum durum which have the same number (28) of chromosomes as that species