| 9810.00.35 | 00 | Letters, numbers, and other symbols; number cards and other arithmetical materials; printed matter; blocks and other dimensional shapes; geometrical figures, plane or solid; geographical globes; tuned bells and basic materials for understanding music; model articles and figures of animate objects; puzzles and games; flags; dressing frames; dummy clocks; bottles, boxes, and other containers or holders; all the foregoing, whether or not in sets, fabricated to specification and designed for the classroom instruction of children; and containers or holders fabricated to specification and designed for the storage of such instructional articles when not in use | X | Free | | The rate applicable in the absence of this subheading |
| 9810.00.60 | 00 | Articles entered for the use of any nonprofit institution, whether public or private, established for educational or scientific purposes: | | | | |
| 9810.00.60 | 00 | Instruments and apparatus, if no instrument or apparatus of equivalent scientific value for the purposes for which the instrument or apparatus is intended to be used is being manufactured in the United States (see U.S. note 6 to this subchapter) | X | Free | | Free |
| 9810.00.70 | 00 | Wild animals (including birds and fish) imported for use, or for sale for use, in any scientific public collection for exhibition for scientific or educational purposes | X | Free | | Free |
| 9810.00.75 | 00 | Articles imported for the use of an institution established to encourage the saving of human life: | | | | |
| 9810.00.75 | 00 | Lifeboats and life-saving apparatus | X | Free | | Free |
| 9810.00.80 | 00 | Articles imported for the use of any nonprofit institution, whether public or private, established for educational, scientific or therapeutic purposes: | | | | |
| 9810.00.85 | 00 | Cellulosic plastics materials imported for use in artificial kidney machines or apparatus by a hospital or by a patient pursuant to prescription of a physician | X | Free | | The rate applicable in the absence of this heading |
| 9811.00.20 | | Alcoholic beverage samples (each sample containing not more than 300 milliliters if a malt beverage, not more than 150 milliliters if a wine and not more than 100 milliliters if any other alcoholic beverage) to be used in the United States only for soliciting orders by persons importing alcoholic beverages in commercial quantities | | Free | | Free |
| 9813.00.30 | | Articles intended solely for testing, experimental or review purposes, including specifications, photographs and similar articles for use in connection with experiments or for study | | Free, under bond, as prescribed in U.S. note 1 to this subchapter | Free (AU,BH,CA, CL,IL,JO,MA, MX,P,SG) | Free, under bond, as prescribed in U.S. note 1 to this subchapter |
| 9813.00.35 | | Automobiles, motorcycles, bicycles, airplanes, airships, balloons, boats, racing shells and similar vehicles and craft, and the usual equipment of the foregoing; all the foregoing which are brought temporarily into the United States by nonresidents for the purpose of taking part in races or other specific contests | | Free, under bond, as prescribed in U.S. note 1 to this subchapter | Free (AU,BH,CA, CL,IL,JO,MA, MX,P,SG) | Free, under bond, as prescribed in U.S. note 1 to this subchapter |
| 9813.00.70 | | Works of the free fine arts, engravings, photographic pictures and philosophical and scientific apparatus brought into the United States by professional artists, lecturers or scientists arriving from abroad for use by them for exhibition and in illustration, promotion and encouragement of art, science or industry in the United States | | Free, under bond, as prescribed in U.S. note 1 to this subchapter | Free (AU,BH,CA, CL,IL,JO,MA, MX,P,SG) | Free, under bond, as prescribed in U.S. note 1 to this subchapter |
| 9814.00.50 | 00 | Tea, tea waste and tea siftings and sweepings, all the foregoing to be used solely for manufacturing theine, caffeine or other chemical products whereby the identity and character of the original material is entirely destroyed or changed | X | Free, under bond, as prescribed in U.S. note 1 to this subchapter | Free (AU,BH,CA, CL,IL,JO,MA, MX,P,SG) | Free, under bond, as prescribed in U.S. note 1 to this subchapter |
| 9815.00.20 | 00 | Products of American fisheries (including fish, shellfish and other marine animals, spermaceti and marine animal oils), which have not been landed in a foreign country, or which, if so landed, have been landed solely for transshipment without change in condition | kg | Free | | Free |
| 9816.00.20 | | Articles for personal or household use, or as bona fide gifts, not imported for the account of another person, valued in the aggregate at not over $1,000 fair retail value in the country of acquisition, if the person claiming the benefit of subheading 9816.00.20 or 9816.00.40, or both, has not received the benefits thereof within the 30 days immediately preceding his arrival: | | | | |
| 9817.00.60 | 00 | Parts to be used in articles provided for in headings 8432, 8433, 8434 and 8436, whether or not such parts are principally used as parts of such articles and whether or not covered by a specific provision within the meaning of additional U.S. rule of interpretation 1(c) | X | Free | | The rate applicable in the absence of this heading |
| 9817.00.80 | | Unwrought metal including remelt scrap ingot (except copper, lead, zinc and tungsten) in the form of pigs, ingots or billets (a) which are defective or damaged, or have been produced from melted down metal waste and scrap for convenience in handling and transportation without sweetening, alloying, fluxing or deliberate purifying, and (b) which cannot be commercially used without re-manufacture; relaying or rerolling rails; and articles of metal (except articles of lead, of zinc or of tungsten, and not including metal-bearing materials provided for in section VI, chapter 26 or subheading 8548.10 and not including unwrought metal provided for in chapters 72-81) to be used in remanufacture by melting or to be processed by shredding, shearing, compacting or similar processing which renders them fit only for the recovery of the metal content: | | | | |
| 9817.00.90 | 80 | Other Articles specially designed or adapted for the use or benefit of the blind or other physically or mentally handicapped persons; parts and accessories (except parts and accessories of braces and artificial limb prosthetics) that are specially designed or adapted for use in the foregoing articles: | | | | |
| 9817.22.05 | | Rum, tafia, liqueurs and spirituous beverages, of a type classifiable in subheading 2208.40 or 2208.90 and described in U.S. note 6 to this subchapter | | | Free | |
| 9817.29.01 | | Cyclic organic chemical products in any physical form having an aromatic or modified aromatic structure, however provided for in chapter 29 (but excluding 2,3-dihydroxynaphthalene-6-sulfonic acid, sodium salt), to be used in the manufacture of photographic color couplers; photographic color couplers (but excluding 2,3-dihydroxynaphthalene-6-sulfonic acid, sodium salt) (all the foregoing goods however provided for in chapter 29 or in subheading 3707.90.31, 3707.90.32 or 3707.90.60) | | Free | | The rate applicable in the absence of this heading |
| 9817.60.00 | 00 | Any of the following articles not intended for sale or distribution to the public: personal effects of aliens who are participants in, officials of, or accredited members of delegations to, an international athletic event held in the United States, such as the Olympics and Paralympics, the Goodwill Games, the Special Olympics World Games, the World Cup Soccer Games, or any similar international athletic event as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine, and of persons who are immediate family members of or servants to any of the foregoing persons; equipment and materials imported in connection with any such foregoing event by or on behalf of the foregoing persons or the organizing committee of such an event, articles to be used in exhibitions depicting the culture of a country participating in such an event; and, if consistent with the foregoing, such other articles as the Secretary of the Treasury may allow | X | Free | | Free |
| 9817.95.01 | | Articles classifiable in subheadings 3924.10, 3926.90, 6307.90, 6911.10, 6912.00, 7013.22, 7013.28, 7013.41, 7013.49, 9405.20, 9405.40 or 9405.50, the foregoing meeting the descriptions set forth below: | | | | |
| 9817.95.01 | | Utilitarian articles of a kind used in the home in the performance of specific religious or cultural ritual celebrations for religious or cultural holidays, or religious festive occasions, such as Seder plates, blessing cups, menorahs or kinaras | | Free | | 25% |
| 9817.95.05 | | Utilitarian articles in the form of a three-dimensional representation of a symbol or motif clearly associated with a specific holiday in the United States. | | Free | | 25% |
| 9818.00.03 | 00 | Spare repair parts or materials (other than nets or nettings) which the owner or master of a vessel certifies are intended for use aboard a cargo vessel, for installation or use on such vessel, as needed, in the United States, at sea, or in a foreign country, but only if duty is or has been paid under this schedule upon first entry into the United States of each such spare part or material purchased in, or imported from, a foreign country | X | Free | | 50 percent of the cost of such parts or materials |
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States inquiry: 534
