| 9804.00.05 | | Books, libraries, usual and reasonable furniture and similar household effects, if actually used abroad by him or by him and his family not less than one year, and not intended for any other person, or for sale | | Free | | Free |
| 9804.00.10 | | Professional books, implements, instruments and tools of trade, occupation or employment, which have been taken abroad by him or for his account | | Free | | Free |
| 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 | | 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 | | All personal and household effects taken abroad by him or for his account | | Free | | Free |
| 9804.00.50 | | Articles of metal (including medals, trophies and prizes), bestowed upon him abroad, as honorary distinctions, by foreign countries or citizens of foreign countries | | Free | | Free |
| 9804.00.55 | | Game animals (including birds and fish) killed abroad by him and imported by him for noncommercial purposes | | Free | | Free |
| 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 |
| 9804.00.85 | | 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 |
| 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 |
| 9813.00.40 | | Locomotives and other railroad equipment brought temporarily into the United States for use in clearing obstructions, fighting fires or making emergency repairs on railroads within the United States, or for use in transportation otherwise than in international traffic when the Secretary of the Treasury finds that the temporary use of foreign railroad equipment is necessary to meet an emergency | | 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 |
| 9817.00.98 | 00 | Theatrical scenery, properties and apparel brought into the United States by proprietors or managers of theatrical, ballet, opera or similar productions arriving from abroad for temporary use by them in such productions | X | Free | | The rate applicable in the absence of this heading |
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