9804.00.15 | | Professional books, implements, instruments and tools of trade, occupation or employment (not including theatrical scenery, properties or apparel, and not including articles for use in any manufacturing establishment, for any other person or for sale), owned and used by him abroad | | Free | | Free |
9804.00.20 | | Articles imported by or for the account of any person arriving in the United States who is not a returning resident thereof: | | | | |
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 |
9804.00.45 | | 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): | | | | |
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 |
9806.00.30 | | 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 |
9806.00.55 | | 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 |
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 |
9808.00.60 | 00 | Articles for the use of the Department of Agriculture or of the United States Botanic Garden: | | | | |
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 |
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 |
9809.00.70 | | 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 | Articles imported for the use of an institution established solely for religious purposes: | | | | |
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 |
9810.00.20 | 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 | Articles imported for the use of an institution organized and operated for religious purposes, including cemeteries, schools, hospitals, orphanages and similar nonprofit activities staffed and controlled by such institution: | | | | |
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 |
9810.00.40 | 00 | Sculptures and statuary | X | Free | | Free |
9810.00.50 | 00 | Any textile machine or machinery or part thereof, solely for the instruction of students | X | Free | | Free |
9810.00.55 | 00 | Patterns and models exclusively for exhibition or educational use at any such institution | X | Free | | Free |
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 |