Chapter 98: Special classification provisions
HTS heading 9810: Drawings, engravings, etchings, lithographs, woodcuts, sound recordings, recorded video tapes and photographic and other prints, all the fo…
20 numbered lines under heading 9810, including 20 10-digit statistical lines. The first six digits are the international HS subheading; the general column is the normal US duty rate.
| HTS code | Description | Unit | General | Special | Column 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | No. | Free | Free | |
| 9810.00.10.00 | Painted, colored or stained glass windows and parts thereof, all the foregoing valued over $161 per square meter and designed by, and produced by or under the direction of, a professional artist | m2 | Free | Free | |
| 9810.00.15.00 | Regalia | No. | 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 | m2 | Free | Free | |
| 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-mâché) | No. | Free | Free | |
| 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 | No. | 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 | kg | Free | The rate applicable in the absence of this subheading | |
| 9810.00.40.00 | Sculptures and statuary | No. | Free | Free | |
| 9810.00.45.00 | Regalia | No. | Free | Free | |
| 9810.00.50.00 | Any textile machine or machinery or part thereof, solely for the instruction of students | No. | Free | Free | |
| 9810.00.55.00 | Patterns and models exclusively for exhibition or educational use at any such institution | No. | Free | Free | |
| 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) | No. | Free | Free | |
| 9810.00.65.00 | Repair components for instruments or apparatus admitted under subheading 9810.00.60 | kg | 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 | No. | Free | Free | |
| 9810.00.70.00 | Wild animals (including birds and fish) imported for use, or for sale for use, in any scientific public collection for exhibition for scientific or educational purposes | No. | Free | Free | |
| Articles imported for the use of an institution established to encourage the saving of human life: | |||||
| 9810.00.75.00 | Lifeboats and life-saving apparatus | No. | Free | Free | |
| Articles imported for the use of any nonprofit institution, whether public or private, established for educational, scientific or therapeutic purposes: | |||||
| 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 | No. | 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 | No. | Free | The rate applicable in the absence of this heading | |
| 9810.00.90.00 | Prayer shawls, bags for the keeping of prayer shawls and headwear of a kind used for public or private religious observances, whether or not any of the foregoing is imported for the use of a religious institution | kg | Free | Free | |
| 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 | No. | Free | Free |
Statistical (10-digit) lines without a rate use the rate of the 8-digit line above them. Additional duties such as Section 301 and Section 232 may apply; check them with the tariff checker.
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Request a free auditSource: Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States, 2026 HTS Revision 20 (effective 2026-09-28), U.S. International Trade Commission (hts.usitc.gov), imported 2026-10-07. Reference only; not legal or customs advice or a binding classification. Additional duties under Chapter 99 may apply. ShipWave is not affiliated with the USITC or U.S. Customs and Border Protection.