| 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 |
| 9804.00.65 | | Articles, accompanying a person, not over $800 in aggregate fair retail value in the country of acquisition, including (but only in the case of an individual who has attained the age of 21) not more than 1 liter of alcoholic beverages and including not more than 200 cigarettes and 100 cigars | | Free | | Free |
| 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 |
| 9804.00.72 | | Articles whether or not accompanying a person, not over $800 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 1 liter of alcoholic beverages or not more than 2 liters if at least one liter is the product of one or more beneficiary countries, and (b) not more than 200 cigarettes, and not more than 100 cigars, if such person arrives directly from a beneficiary country (but this item does not permit the entry of articles not accompanying a person which were acquired elsewhere than in beneficiary countries) | | 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 |
| 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 |
| 9809.00.40 | | 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 |
| 9810.00.60 | 00 | Articles entered for the use of any nonprofit institution, whether public or private, established for educational or scientific purposes: | | | | |
| 9810.00.80 | 00 | Articles imported for the use of any nonprofit institution, whether public or private, established for educational, scientific or therapeutic purposes: | | | | |
| 9810.00.95 | 00 | Scrolls or tablets of wood or paper, commonly known as Gohonzon, imported for use in public or private religious observances, whether or not any of the foregoing is imported for the use of a religious institution | X | Free | | Free |
| 9811.00.60 | | Any sample (except samples covered by heading 9811.00.20 or 9811.00.40), valued not over $1 each, or marked, torn, perforated or otherwise treated so that it is unsuitable for sale or for use otherwise than as a sample, to be used in the United States only for soliciting orders for products of foreign countries | | Free | | Free |
| 9812.00.40 | 00 | Articles imported by any institution, society or State, or for a municipal corporation, for the purpose of erecting a public monument | X | Free, under bond, as prescribed in U.S. note 2 to this subchapter | Free (AU,BH,CA, CL,IL,JO,MA, MX,P,SG) | Free, under bond, as prescribed in U.S. note 2 to this subchapter |
| 9813.00.25 | | Articles solely for examination with a view to reproduction, or for such examination and reproduction (except photoengraved printing plates for examination and reproduction); and motion-picture advertising films | | 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 |
| 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: | | | | |
| 9816.00.20 | | Accompanying a person, arriving in the United States (exclusive of duty-free articles and articles acquired in American Samoa, Guam or the Virgin Islands of the United States) | | 3 percent of the fair retail value | Free (BH,CA,IL, JO,MA,MX,P) 1.5 percent of the fair retail value (CL,SG) | 4 percent of the fair retail value |
| 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: | | | | |
| 9817.60.00 | 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 |
| 9817.61.01 | | Articles of ski racing apparel which, because of their padding, construction, or other special features, are specially designed to protect against injuries from the sport of ski racing, such as blows caused by slalom gates or falls (provided for in subheading 6101.30.20, 6105.20.20, 6110.11, 6110.12.20, 6110.19, 6110.20.20, 6110.30.30, 6112.20.10, 6114.30.30, 6203.43.15 or 6203.43.35) | | 5.5% | Free (AU,JO, MX,P) The rate applicable in the absence of this heading (A,BH,CA,CL,E,IL, J,MA,SG) | The rate applicable in the absence of this heading |
| 9817.85.01 | | Prototypes to be used exclusively for development, testing, product evaluation, or quality control purposes | | Free | | The rateapplicable in the absence of this heading |
| 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 |
| 9818.00.05 | 00 | Spare parts necessarily installed before first entry into the United States, upon first entry into the United States of each such spare part purchased in, or imported from, a foreign country | | The rate applicable in the absence of this subheading on the cost of such parts | Free (BH,C,CA,E, IL,J,JO,MA, MX,P) The rate applicable in the absence of this subheading on the cost of such parts (AU,CL,SG) | 50 percent of the cost of such parts |
| 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 | |
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States inquiry: no
