| 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 |
| 9808.00.30 | 00 | Materials certified to the Commissioner of Customs by the authorized procuring agencies to be emergency war material purchased abroad | | Free | | Free |
| 9808.00.40 | 00 | Materials certified by it to the Commissioner of Customs to be strategic and critical materials procured under the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98-98h) | | Free | | Free |
| 9808.00.50 | 00 | Materials certified by it to the Commissioner of Customs to be source materials the entry of which is necessary in the interest of the common defense and security | | Free | | Free |
| 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 |
| 9809.00.80 | | Printed matter, not containing advertising matter, for free distribution | | 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 |
| 9810.00.80 | 00 | Apparatus utilizing any radioactive substance in medical diagnosis or therapeutic treatment, including the radioactive material itself when contained in the apparatus as an integral element thereof, and parts or accessories of any of the foregoing | X | Free | | Free |
| 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 |
| 9813.00.15 | | Articles imported by illustrators and photographers for use solely as models in their own establishments, in the illustrating of catalogues, pamphlets or advertising matters | | 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 |
| 9817.00.40 | 00 | Developed photographic film, including motion-picture film on which pictures or sound and pictures have been recorded; photographic slides; transparencies; sound recordings; recorded video tape; models (except toy models); charts; maps; globes; and posters; all of the foregoing which are determined to be visual or auditory materials in accordance with U.S. note 1(a) of this subchapter | X | Free | | Free |
| 9817.00.42 | 00 | Articles determined to be visual or auditory materials in accordance with U.S. note 1 of this subchapter: | | | | |
| 9817.00.48 | 00 | Patterns and wall charts; globes; mock-ups or visualizations of abstract concepts such as molecular structures or mathematical formulae; materials for programmed instruction; and kits containing printed materials and audio materials or any combination of two or more of the foregoing | X | Free | | Free |
| 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: | | | | |
| 9817.29.01 | | 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 |
| 9818.00.01 | 00 | Equipments, or any part thereof, including boats, purchased for, or the repair parts or materials to be used, or the expenses of repairs made in a foreign country upon, a vessel described in U.S. note 1 to this subchapter: | | | | |
| 9818.00.01 | 00 | Any equipment, or any part of equipment, purchased for, or the repair parts or materials employed in, or the expense of repairs made in a foreign country with respect to, a LASH (Lighter Aboard Ship) barge utilized as a cargo container, upon first arrival of such barge in any port of the United States | X | Free | | 50 percent of the cost of such goods or repairs |
| 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 |
| 9822.01.10 | | Vessels (together with equipment, parts or materials) regardless of origin, the foregoing exported temporarily from the United States and re-entered into the customs territory after undergoing repairs or alterations, under the terms of U.S. note 1(c) to this subchapter | | | Free, under the terms of U.S. note 1(c) to this subchapter | |
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