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U.S. imports of fresh or chilled mahi-mahi (whole or dressed, excluding fillets, livers & roes) (HS 0302895072) totaled $2.7M in June 2026, traded with 14 countries.
Importers of Fresh or Chilled Mahi-Mahi (Whole or Dressed, Excluding Fillets, Livers & Roes) paid $255K in duties in June 2026 — an effective duty rate of 9.3% on $2.7M in dutiable value, based on actual customs collections rather than the published tariff schedule. Fresh or Chilled Mahi-Mahi (Whole or Dressed, Excluding Fillets, Livers & Roes) imports of $2.7M in June 2026 ran 25% below the year-to-date monthly average of $3.7M.
Mahi-mahi (Coryphaena spp.), also widely known as dolphin fish in international trade documentation, is a warm-water pelagic species with strong demand in US restaurant and retail channels. This tariff line covers the fish in whole or dressed form — not fillets, which move under heading 0304 — and applies to fresh or chilled shipments that require FDA prior notice and HACCP compliance. Scombrotoxin (histamine) formation is a well-documented risk for mahi-mahi given its rapid post-harvest temperature sensitivity, making cold-chain documentation a key element of FDA admissibility review.
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Mahi-mahi is a scombrotoxin-forming species, meaning histamine can accumulate rapidly if the fish is not kept at proper temperatures post-harvest. FDA's seafood HACCP regulations require importers and their foreign suppliers to have critical control points addressing time-temperature control throughout the cold chain.
The official HTS long description uses 'dolphin fish (mahi mahi)' because Coryphaena spp. is called dolphin fish in many international markets and in the Harmonized System nomenclature. To avoid consumer confusion with marine mammals, US retail and foodservice markets standardized on 'mahi-mahi,' but both names refer to the same species and are acceptable in trade documentation.
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Monthly import values over time
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U.S. trade for this product is not broken down by state or port in the latest Census Bureau release.