9806.00.25 | | Upon the request of the Department of State, persons designated by the Department of State as high officials of foreign governments or distinguished foreign visitors and their immediate families | | 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 |
9806.00.50 | | Upon the request of the Department of State, other representatives, officers and employees of foreign governments | | Free | | Free |
9808.00.10 | 00 | Engravings, etchings, photographic prints, whether bound or unbound, recorded video tapes and exposed photographic films (including motion-picture films) whether or not developed; official government publications in the form of microfilm, microfiches, or similar film media | X | Free | | Free |
9808.00.30 | 00 | Articles for military departments: | | | | |
9808.00.60 | 00 | Plants, seeds and all other material for planting | X | Free | | Free |
9808.00.70 | 00 | Materials certified by it to the Commissioner of Customs to be strategic materials acquired by that agency as a result of barter or exchange of agricultural commodities or products | | Free | | Free |
9808.00.80 | 00 | Articles for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and articles imported to implement international programs between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and foreign entities, including launch services agreements: | | | | |
9808.00.80 | 00 | Goods certified by it to the Commissioner of Customs to be imported for the use of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration or for the implementation of an international program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, including articles to be launched into space and parts thereof, ground support equipment and uniquely associated equipment for use in connection with an international program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, including launch services agreements | | Free | | Free |
9809.00.10 | | Public documents, whether or not in the form of microfilm, microfiches, or similar film media (including exposed and developed motion picture and other films, recorded video tapes and sound recordings) issued essentially at the instance and expense of a foreign government, of a political subdivision of a foreign country or of an international organization the membership of which includes two or more foreign countries | | Free | | Free |
9809.00.20 | | Articles for foreign governments on a reciprocal basis and for public international organizations: | | | | |
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 |
9809.00.40 | | Upon the request of the Department of State, articles (other than communications satellites and parts thereof) which are the property of a foreign government or of a public international organization: | | | | |
9809.00.50 | | Prosthetic appliances furnished by a foreign government to former members of its armed forces who reside in the United States | | Free | | Free |
9809.00.60 | | Headstones furnished by a foreign government for graves of its war veterans buried in the United States | | Free | | Free |
9809.00.70 | | Articles for presentation as gifts to the United States Government, to any State or local government or to any public institution organized in the United States | | Free | | Free |
9810.00.05 | 00 | Drawings, engravings, etchings, lithographs, woodcuts, sound recordings, recorded video tapes and photographic and other prints, all the foregoing whether bound or unbound, and exposed photographic films (including motion-picture films) whether or not developed | X | Free | | Free |
9810.00.10 | 00 | Painted, colored or stained glass windows and parts thereof, all the foregoing valued over $161 per square meter and designed by, and produced by or under the direction of, a professional artist | m2 | Free | | Free |
9810.00.20 | 00 | Hand-woven fabrics, to be used by the institution in making religious vestments for its own use or for sale | X | Free | | Free |
9810.00.25 | 00 | Altars, pulpits, communion tables, baptismal fonts, shrines, mosaics, iconostases, or parts, appurtenances or adjuncts of any of the foregoing, whether to be physically joined thereto or not, and statuary (except granite or marble cemetery headstones, granite or marble grave markers and granite or marble feature memorials, and except casts of plaster of Paris, or of compositions of paper or papier-m鈉h¢/ | X | Free | | Free |
9810.00.30 | 00 | Articles imported for the use of any public library, any other public institution or any nonprofit institution established for educational, scientific, literary or philosophical purposes, or for the encouragement of the fine arts: | | | | |
9810.00.30 | 00 | Drawings and plans, reproductions thereof, engravings, etchings, lithographs, woodcuts, globes, sound recordings, recorded video tapes and photographic and other prints, all the foregoing whether bound or unbound, and exposed photographic films (including motion-picture films) whether or not developed | X | Free | | Free |
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 |
9810.00.50 | 00 | Any textile machine or machinery or part thereof, solely for the instruction of students | X | Free | | Free |
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 |