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HTS codes for “printed matter”

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HTS Code for printed matter

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Subheading

HTS code 4707.30

Recovered "waste and scrap" paper or paperboard made mainly of mechanical pulp, e.g. newspapers, journals and similar printed matter

HTS codeDescriptionUnit of quantityRate of duty
Column 1Column 2
General (most countries)
Special (trade agreements)
Cuba, N. Korea, Russia, Belarus
4707.30.00Paper or paperboard made mainly of mechanical pulp (for example, newspapers, journals and similar printed matter)
Free
Free
4707.30.00.20Newsprint
t
4707.30.00.40Other
t
Subheading

HTS code 4901.10

Printed books, brochures and similar printed matter, in single sheets, whether or not folded (excluding periodicals and publications which are essentially devoted to advertising)

HTS codeDescriptionUnit of quantityRate of duty
Column 1Column 2
General (most countries)
Special (trade agreements)
Cuba, N. Korea, Russia, Belarus
4901.10.00In single sheets, whether or not folded
Free
Free
4901.10.00.20Reproduction proofs
kg
4901.10.00.40Other
kg
Subheading

HTS code 4901.91

Dictionaries and encyclopaedias, and serial instalments thereof

HTS codeDescriptionUnit of quantityRate of duty
Column 1Column 2
General (most countries)
Special (trade agreements)
Cuba, N. Korea, Russia, Belarus
4901.91.00Dictionaries and encyclopedias, and serial installments thereof
Free
Free
4901.91.00.20Dictionaries (including thesauruses)
No.
4901.91.00.40Encyclopedias
No.
Subheading

HTS code 4901.99

Printed books, brochures and similar printed matter (excluding those in single sheets; dictionaries, encyclopaedias, periodicals and publications which are essentially devoted to advertising)

HTS codeDescriptionUnit of quantityRate of duty
Column 1Column 2
General (most countries)
Special (trade agreements)
Cuba, N. Korea, Russia, Belarus
4901.99.00Other
Free
Free
4901.99.00.10Textbooks
No.
4901.99.00.20Bound newspapers, journals and periodicals provided for in Legal Note 3 to this chapter
No.
4901.99.00.30Directories
No.
4901.99.00.40Bibles, testaments, prayer books and other religious books
No.
4901.99.00.50Technical, scientific and professional books
No.
4901.99.00.60Valued under $5 each
No.
4901.99.00.65Valued $5 or more each
No.
4901.99.00.70Hardbound books
No.
4901.99.00.75Rack size paperbound books
No.
4901.99.00.91Containing not more than 4 pages each (excluding covers)
No.
4901.99.00.92Containing 5 or more pages each, but not more than 48 pages each (excluding covers)
No.
4901.99.00.93Containing 49 or more pages each (excluding covers)
No.
Subheading

HTS code 4911.10

Trade advertising material, commercial catalogues and the like

HTS codeDescriptionUnit of quantityRate of duty
Column 1Column 2
General (most countries)
Special (trade agreements)
Cuba, N. Korea, Russia, Belarus
4911.10.00Trade advertising material, commercial catalogs and the like
Free
Free
4911.10.00.20Printed catalogs relating principally to current offers for the sale of United States products
No.
4911.10.00.40Printed catalogs, price lists or trade notices, relating to offers, by a person whose principal place of business or bonafide residence is in a foreign country, to sell or rent products of a foreign country or to furnish foreign or international transportation or commercial insurance services
No.
4911.10.00.60Tourist and other literature (including posters), containing geographic, historical, hotel, institutional, timetable, travel or similar information, principally with respect to places, travel facilities or educational opportunities outside the customs territory of the United States
kg
4911.10.00.80Other
kg
Subheading

HTS code 4911.91

Pictures, prints and photographs, n.e.s.

HTS codeDescriptionUnit of quantityRate of duty
Column 1Column 2
General (most countries)
Special (trade agreements)
Cuba, N. Korea, Russia, Belarus
4911.91Pictures, designs and photographs:
4911.91.20Not over 0.51 mm in thickness
Free
66¢/kg
4911.91.40Other
Free
25%
4911.91.10.00Printed over 20 years at time of importation
kg
Free
Free
4911.91.15.00Suitable for use in the production of articles of heading 4901
kg
Free
Free
4911.91.20.20Posters
kg
4911.91.20.40Other
kg
4911.91.30.00Over 0.51 mm in thickness
kg
Free
19.3¢/kg
4911.91.40.20Posters
kg
4911.91.40.40Other
kg
Subheading

HTS code 4911.99

Printed matter, n.e.s.

HTS codeDescriptionUnit of quantityRate of duty
Column 1Column 2
General (most countries)
Special (trade agreements)
Cuba, N. Korea, Russia, Belarus
4911.99Other:
4911.99.20.00International customs forms (carnets) and parts thereof, in English or French (whether or not in additional languages)
kg
Free
Free
4911.99.60.00Printed on paper in whole or in part by a lithographic process
kg
Free
66¢/kg + 0.4%
4911.99.80.00Other
kg
Free
35%
Subheading

HTS code 9809.00

Public documents, whether or not in the form of microfilm, microfiches, or similar film media (including exposed and developed motion picture and other films, recorded video tapes and sound recordings) issued essentially at the instance and expense of a foreign government, of a political subdivision of a foreign country or of an international organization the membership of which includes two or more foreign countries

HTS codeDescriptionUnit of quantityRate of duty
Column 1Column 2
General (most countries)
Special (trade agreements)
Cuba, N. Korea, Russia, Belarus
9809.00.10Public documents, whether or not in the form of microfilm, microfiches, or similar film media (including exposed and developed motion picture and other films, recorded video tapes and sound recordings) issued essentially at the instance and expense of a foreign government, of a political subdivision of a foreign country or of an international organization the membership of which includes two or more foreign countries
Free
Free
9809.00.20Upon the request of the Department of State, office supplies and equipment and other articles for the official use of representatives of foreign governments or of personnel of public international organizations, on duty in the United States
Free
Free
9809.00.30Articles for the official use of members of the armed forces of any foreign country on duty in the United States
Free
Free
9809.00.40Articles 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
9809.00.50Prosthetic appliances furnished by a foreign government to former members of its armed forces who reside in the United States
Free
Free
9809.00.60Headstones furnished by a foreign government for graves of its war veterans buried in the United States
Free
Free
9809.00.70Articles for presentation as gifts to the United States Government, to any State or local government or to any public institution organized in the United States
Free
Free
9809.00.80Printed matter, not containing advertising matter, for free distribution
Free
Free
Subheading

HTS code 9810.00

Articles imported for the use of an institution established solely for religious purposes:

HTS codeDescriptionUnit of quantityRate of duty
Column 1Column 2
General (most countries)
Special (trade agreements)
Cuba, N. Korea, Russia, Belarus
9810.00.05.00Drawings, 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
9810.00.10.00Painted, 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
9810.00.15.00Regalia
No.
Free
Free
9810.00.20.00Hand-woven fabrics, to be used by the institution in making religious vestments for its own use or for sale
m2
Free
Free
9810.00.25.00Altars, 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
9810.00.30.00Drawings 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
9810.00.35.00Letters, 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
9810.00.40.00Sculptures and statuary
No.
Free
Free
9810.00.45.00Regalia
No.
Free
Free
9810.00.50.00Any textile machine or machinery or part thereof, solely for the instruction of students
No.
Free
Free
9810.00.55.00Patterns and models exclusively for exhibition or educational use at any such institution
No.
Free
Free
9810.00.60.00Instruments 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
9810.00.65.00Repair components for instruments or apparatus admitted under subheading 9810.00.60
kg
Free
Free
9810.00.67.00Tools 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
9810.00.70.00Wild 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
9810.00.75.00Lifeboats and life-saving apparatus
No.
Free
Free
9810.00.80.00Apparatus 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
9810.00.85.00Cellulosic 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
9810.00.90.00Prayer 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
9810.00.95.00Scrolls 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

What is a 6 digit HTS Code or HS Code?

The 6 digit HS Code or HTS Code is called a sub-heading. It comes after chapter (2 digit) and the heading (4 digit) in the HS Code hierarchy. Till 6 digits HS Codes remain the same globally. It is only after the 6 digit level that the HS Codes start varying for each country,

Check country-specific US tariffs: the HTS duty rate is only part of what you pay. Depending on the country of origin, imports can also face additional duties such as Section 301 or Section 232 tariffs. See current rates by country and product in our US tariff calculator.

How to find the US import duty or customs duty from this page?

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