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 |
9810.00.25 | 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: | | | | |
9810.00.35 | 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 |
9810.00.55 | 00 | Patterns and models exclusively for exhibition or educational use at any such institution | 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 |
9810.00.65 | 00 | Repair components for instruments or apparatus admitted under subheading 9810.00.60 | X | Free | | Free |
9810.00.67 | 00 | Tools specially designed to be used for the maintenance, checking, gauging or repair of instruments or apparatus admitted under subheading 9810.00.60 | X | Free | | Free |
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 |
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 |
9812.00.20 | 00 | Articles imported for exhibition by any institution or society established for the encouragement of agriculture, arts, education or science, or for such exhibition by any State or for a municipal corporation | 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 |
9813.00.05 | | Articles to be repaired, altered or processed (including processes which result in articles manufactured or produced 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 |
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 |
9813.00.35 | | Automobiles, motorcycles, bicycles, airplanes, airships, balloons, boats, racing shells and similar vehicles and craft, and the usual equipment of the foregoing; all the foregoing which are brought temporarily into the United States by nonresidents for the purpose of taking part in races or other specific contests | | 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 |
9813.00.40 | | 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 |
9813.00.45 | | Containers for compressed gases, filled or empty, and containers or other articles in use for covering or holding merchandise (including personal or household effects) during transportation and suitable for reuse for that purpose | | 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 |
9813.00.50 | | Professional equipment, tools of trade, repair components for equipment or tools admitted under this heading and camping equipment; all the foregoing imported by or for nonresidents sojourning temporarily in the United Statesand for the use of such nonresidents | | 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 |
9813.00.60 | | Animals and poultry brought into the United States for the purpose of breeding, exhibition or competition for prizes, and the usual equipment therefor | | 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 |
9815.00.60 | 00 | Products of American fisheries, prepared or preserved by an American fishery on the treaty coasts of Labrador, Magdalen Islands and Newfoundland, as such coasts are defined in the convention of 1818 between the United States and Great Britain | kg | Free | | Free |
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: | | | | |
9816.00.40 | | Imported by or for the account of a person (whether or not accompanying him) arriving directly or indirectly from American Samoa, Guam or the Virgin Islands of the United States, acquired in such insular possessions as an incident of such person's physical presence | | 1.5 percent of the fair retail value | Free (BH,CA,IL, JO,MA,MX,P) 0.7 percent of the fair retail value (CL,SG) | 2 percent of the fair retail value |
9817.00.30 | 00 | To be used in taking wild birds under license issued by an appropriate Federal or State governmental authority | X | Free | | Free |
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: | | | | |
9817.00.46 | 00 | Sound recordings, combination sound and visual recordings, and magnetic recordings; video discs, video tapes and similar articles | X | Free | | Free |