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Heading Duty(general) Duty(china) Article Description Compare Code
4202 Trunks, suitcases, vanity cases, attache cases, briefcases, school satchels, spectacle cases, binocular cases, camera cases, musical instrument cases, gun cases, holsters and similar containers; traveling bags, insulated food or beverage bags, toiletry bags, knapsacks and backpacks, handbags, shopping bags, wallets, purses, map cases, cigarette cases, tobacco pouches, tool bags, sports bags, bottle cases, jewelry boxes, powder cases, cutlery cases and similar containers, of leather or of composition leather, of sheeting of plastics, of textile materials, of vulcanized fiber or of paperboard, or wholly or mainly covered with such materials or with paper:
Trunks, suitcases, vanity cases, attache cases, briefcases, school satchels and similar containers:
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4202.92.50.00 4.2% The duty provided in the applicable subheading + 25% Musical instrument cases
Other:
vs-4202
4901.99.00.50 Free The duty provided in the applicable subheading + 7.5% Technical, scientific and professional books
Art and pictorial books:
vs-4202925000
9104.00 Instrument panel clocks and clocks of a similar type for vehicles, aircraft, spacecraft or vessels:
With clock movements measuring over 50 mm in width or diameter:
Valued not over $10 each:
vs-4901990050
9209.30.00.00 Free The duty provided in the applicable subheading + 7.5% Musical instrument strings
Other:
vs-910400
9209.92.20.00 3.9% The duty provided in the applicable subheading + 15% Mutes, collapsible musical instrument stands and music holders for attachment to musical instruments vs-9209300000
9209.94.40.00 5.7% The duty provided in the applicable subheading + 15% Collapsible musical instrument stands vs-9209922000
9801.00.40 Free Exhibition, examination or experimentation, for scientific or educational purposes vs-9209944000
9810.00.25.00 Free 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)
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:
vs-98010040
9810.00.55.00 Free Patterns and models exclusively for exhibition or educational use at any such institution
Articles entered for the use of any nonprofit institution, whether public or private, established for educational or scientific purposes:
vs-9810002500
9810.00.60.00 Free 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) vs-9810005500
9810.00.70.00 Free 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
Articles imported for the use of an institution established to encourage the saving of human life:
vs-9810006000
9810.00.75.00 Free Lifeboats and life-saving apparatus
Articles imported for the use of any nonprofit institution, whether public or private, established for educational, scientific or therapeutic purposes:
vs-9810007000
9813.00.70 Free, under bond, as prescribed in U.S. note 1 to this subchapter 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 vs-9810007500