9804.00.20 | | Wearing apparel, articles of personal adornment, toilet articles and similar personal effects; all the foregoing, if actually owned by and in the possession of such person abroad at the time of or prior to his departure for the United States, and if appropriate for his own personal use and intended only for such use and not for any other person nor for sale | | Free | | Free |
9804.00.30 | | Not exceeding $100 in value of articles (not including alcoholic beverages and cigarettes but including not more than 100 cigars) accompanying such person to be disposed of by him as bona fide gifts, if such person has not claimed an exemption under this subheading 9804.00.30 within the 6 months immediately preceding his arrival and he intends to remain in the United States for not less than 72 hours | | Free | | Free |
9804.00.35 | | Automobiles, trailers, aircraft, motorcycles, bicycles, baby carriages, boats, horse-drawn conveyances, horses and similar means of transportation, and the usual equipment accompanying the foregoing; any of the foregoing imported in connection with the arrival of such person and to be used in the United States only for the transportation of such person, his family and guests, and such incidental carriage of articles as may be appropriate to his personal use of the conveyance | | Free | | Free |
9804.00.40 | | Not exceeding $200 in value of articles (including not more than 4 liters of alcoholic beverages) accompanying such a person who is in transit to a place outside United States customs territory and who will take the articles with him to such place | | Free | | Free |
9804.00.45 | | Articles imported by or for the account of any person arriving in the United States who is a returning resident thereof (including American citizens who are residents of American Samoa, Guam or the Virgin Islands of the United States): | | | | |
9804.00.60 | | Automobiles rented by any resident of the United States while abroad and imported for the transportation of such resident, his family and guests, and such incidental carriage of articles as may be appropriate to his personal use of the automobile | | Free, for such temporary periods as the Secretary of the Treasury by regulation may prescribe | Free (BH,CA,CL, IL,MA,MX, P,SG) | Free, for such temporary periods as the Secretary of the Treasury by regulation may prescribe |
9804.00.70 | | Articles whether or not accompanying a person, not over $1600 in aggregate fair market value in the country of acquisition, including: (a) but only in the case of an individual who has attained the age of 21, not more than 5 liters of alcoholic beverages, not more than 1 liter of which shall have been acquired elsewhere than in American Samoa, Guam or the Virgin Islands of the United States, and not more than 4 liters of which shall have been produced elsewhere than in such insular possessions, and (b) not more than 1,000 cigarettes, not more than 200 of which shall have been acquired elsewhere than in such insular possessions, and not more than 100 cigars, if such person arrives directly or indirectly from such insular possessions, not more than $800 of which shall have been acquired elsewhere than in such insular possessions (but this subheading does not permit the entry of articles not accompanying a person which were acquired elsewhere than in such insular possessions) | | Free | | Free |
9804.00.80 | | Articles (including not over 50 cigars, or 300 cigarettes, or 2 kilograms of smoking tobacco or a proportionate amount of each, and not over 1 liter of alcoholic beverages), reasonable and appropriate, and intended exclusively, for the bona fide personal use of, and (except for articles consumed in use) to be taken out of the United States by, any person arriving in the United States who is leaving a vessel, vehicle or aircraft, engaged in international traffic, on which he is employed, with the intention of resuming such employment | | Free | | Free |
9804.00.85 | | Personal and household effects, not stock in trade, the title to which at the time of importation is in the estate of a citizen of the United States who died abroad | | Free | | Free |
9805.00.50 | | The personal and household effects (with such limitation on the importation of alcoholic beverages and tobacco products as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe) of any person in the service of the United States who returns to the United States upon the termination of assignment to extended duty (as defined in regulations issued in connection with this provision) at a post or station outside the customs territory of the United States, or of returning members of his family who have resided with him at such post or station, or of any person evacuated to the United States under Government orders or instructions | | Free | | Free |
9806.00.05 | | Upon the request of the Department of State, ambassadors, ministers, charge d'affaires, secretaries, counselors, attaches and other representatives, officers and employees of foreign governments, accredited to the United States or en route to or from other countries to which accredited, and their immediate families, suites and servants | | Free | | Free |
9806.00.15 | | Upon the request of the Department of State, representatives of foreign governments in or to, and officers and employees of, organizations designated by the President of the United States as public international organizations pursuant to section 1 of the International Organizations Immunities Act (22 U.S.C. 288), and their immediate families, suites and servants | | Free | | Free |
9806.00.20 | | Persons on duty in the United States as members of the armed forces of any foreign country and their immediate families | | Free | | Free |
9806.00.30 | | Upon the request of the Department of State, persons designated pursuant to statute or pursuant to treaties ratified by the United States Senate | | Free | | Free |
9806.00.35 | | Upon the request of the Department of State, personal effects and equipment of groups or delegations of foreign residents arriving in the United States on goodwill visits of short duration to participate in patriotic celebrations, festivals and other demonstrations of public interest and which will be exported or destroyed at the conclusion of the visit | | Free | | Free |
9806.00.40 | | Articles entered for the personal or family use of the following persons who are aliens on duty in the United States: | | | | |
9806.00.55 | | Upon the request of the Department of State, persons designated pursuant to statute or pursuant to treaties ratified by the United States Senate | | Free | | Free |
9807.00.40 | | Articles of metal (including medals, trophies and prizes), for bestowal on persons in the United States, as honorary distinctions, by foreign countries or citizens of foreign countries | | Free | | Free |
9807.00.50 | | Upon the request of the Department of State, articles from citizens of foreign countries for presentation to the President or Vice President of the United States | | Free | | Free |
9808.00.10 | 00 | Articles for the use of any agency of the United States Government: | | | | |
9808.00.20 | 00 | Sound recordings and recorded video tapes for use by it in the program authorized by the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 (22 U.S.C. 1431-1479) | X | Free | | Free |
9808.00.60 | 00 | Articles for the use of the Department of Agriculture or of the United States Botanic Garden: | | | | |
9809.00.20 | | Upon the request of the Department of State, office supplies and equipment and other articles for the official use of representatives of foreign governments or of personnel of public international organizations, on duty in the United States | | Free | | Free |
9809.00.30 | | Articles for the official use of members of the armed forces of any foreign country on duty in the United States | | Free | | Free |
9809.00.40 | | Articles which, while in the United States, will remain the property of such government or of such organization and will be used only in connection with noncommercial functions of such government or of such organization, including exhibitions which are sponsored by or participated in by such government or such organization and which are not commercial in character or connected with commercial undertakings | | Free | | Free |