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Chapter 49 — Printed books, newspapers, pictures and other products of the printing industry; manuscripts, typescripts and plans · Section X
Entries: 69
| Code | Level | Official description | Unit | US duty (MFN / pref. / col.2) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4901 | HS4 heading | Printed books, brochures, leaflets and similar printed matter, whether or not in single sheets: | — | |
| 4901.10.00 | US 8-digit | In single sheets, whether or not folded | Free / — / Free * | |
| 4901.10.00.20 | US 10-digit | Reproduction proofs | kg | — |
| 4901.10.00.40 | US 10-digit | Other | kg | — |
| 4901.91.00 | US 8-digit | Dictionaries and encyclopedias, and serial installments thereof | Free / — / Free * | |
| 4901.91.00.20 | US 10-digit | Dictionaries (including thesauruses) | No. | — |
| 4901.91.00.40 | US 10-digit | Encyclopedias | No. | — |
| 4901.99.00 | US 8-digit | Other | Free / — / Free * | |
| 4901.99.00.10 | US 10-digit | Textbooks | No. | — |
| 4901.99.00.20 | US 10-digit | Bound newspapers, journals and periodicals provided for in Legal Note 3 to this chapter | No. | — |
| 4901.99.00.30 | US 10-digit | Directories | No. | — |
| 4901.99.00.40 | US 10-digit | Bibles, testaments, prayer books and other religious books | No. | — |
| 4901.99.00.50 | US 10-digit | Technical, scientific and professional books | No. | — |
| 4901.99.00.60 | US 10-digit | Valued under $5 each | No. | — |
| 4901.99.00.65 | US 10-digit | Valued $5 or more each | No. | — |
| 4901.99.00.70 | US 10-digit | Hardbound books | No. | — |
| 4901.99.00.75 | US 10-digit | Rack size paperbound books | No. | — |
| 4901.99.00.91 | US 10-digit | Containing not more than 4 pages each (excluding covers) | No. | — |
| 4901.99.00.92 | US 10-digit | Containing 5 or more pages each, but not more than 48 pages each (excluding covers) | No. | — |
| 4901.99.00.93 | US 10-digit | Containing 49 or more pages each (excluding covers) | No. | — |
| 4902 | HS4 heading | Newspapers, journals and periodicals, whether or not illustrated or containing advertising material: | — | |
| 4902.10.00.00 | US 10-digit | Appearing at least four times a week | kg | Free / — / Free * |
| 4902.90 | HS6 subheading | Other: | — | |
| 4902.90.10.00 | US 10-digit | Newspaper supplements printed by a gravure process | No. | Free / — / 25% * |
| 4902.90.20 | US 8-digit | Other | Free / — / Free * | |
| 4902.90.20.20 | US 10-digit | Newspapers appearing less than four times per week | kg | — |
| 4902.90.20.40 | US 10-digit | Other business and professional journals and periodicals (including single issues tied together for shipping purposes) | No. | — |
| 4902.90.20.60 | US 10-digit | Other (including single issues tied together for shipping purposes) | No. | — |
| 4903.00.00.00 | US 10-digit | Children's picture, drawing or coloring books | No. | Free / — / Free * |
| 4904.00.00 | US 8-digit | Music, printed or in manuscript, whether or not bound or illustrated | Free / — / Free * | |
| 4904.00.00.20 | US 10-digit | Sheet music, whether or not stapled or folded, but not otherwise bound | kg | — |
| 4904.00.00.40 | US 10-digit | Other | No. | — |
| 4905 | HS4 heading | Maps and hydrographic or similar charts of all kinds, including atlases, wall maps, topographical plans and globes, printed: | — | |
| 4905.20.00.00 | US 10-digit | In book form | No. | Free / — / Free |
| 4905.90 | HS6 subheading | Other: | — | |
| 4905.90.20.00 | US 10-digit | Globes | kg | Free / — / 35% |
| 4905.90.60.00 | US 10-digit | Other | kg | Free / — / Free |
| 4906.00.00.00 | US 10-digit | Plans and drawings for architectural, engineering, industrial, commercial, topographical or similar purposes, being originals drawn by hand; handwritten texts; photographic reproductions on sensitized paper and carbon copies of the foregoing | kg | Free / — / 25% * |
| 4907.00.00.00 | US 10-digit | Unused postage, revenue or similar stamps of current or new issue in the country in which they have, or will have, a recognized face value; stamp-impressed paper; banknotes; check forms; stock, share or bond certificates and similar documents of title | kg | Free / — / 66¢/kg * |
| 4908 | HS4 heading | Transfers (decalcomanias): | — | |
| 4908.10.00.00 | US 10-digit | Transfers (decalcomanias), vitrifiable | kg | Free / — / 66¢/kg + 15% |
| 4908.90.00.00 | US 10-digit | Other | kg | Free / — / 88¢/kg * |
| 4909.00 | HS6 subheading | Printed or illustrated postcards; printed cards bearing personal greetings, messages or announcements, whether or not illustrated, with or without envelopes or trimmings: | — | |
| 4909.00.20.00 | US 10-digit | Postcards | thousands | Free / — / 25% * |
| 4909.00.40.00 | US 10-digit | Other | kg | Free / — / 45% |
| 4910.00 | HS6 subheading | Calendars of any kind, printed, including calendar blocks: | — | |
| 4910.00.20.00 | US 10-digit | Not over 0.51 mm in thickness | kg | Free / — / 66¢/kg * |
| 4910.00.40.00 | US 10-digit | Over 0.51 mm in thickness | kg | Free / — / 19¢/kg |
| 4910.00.60.00 | US 10-digit | Other | kg | Free / — / 35% |
| 4911 | HS4 heading | Other printed matter, including printed pictures and photographs: | — | |
| 4911.10.00 | US 8-digit | Trade advertising material, commercial catalogs and the like | Free / — / Free * | |
| 4911.10.00.20 | US 10-digit | Printed catalogs relating principally to current offers for the sale of United States products | No. | — |
| 4911.10.00.40 | US 10-digit | Printed 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. | — |
| 4911.10.00.60 | US 10-digit | Tourist 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 | — |
| 4911.10.00.80 | US 10-digit | Other | kg | — |
| 4911.91 | HS6 subheading | Pictures, designs and photographs: | — | |
| 4911.91.10.00 | US 10-digit | Printed over 20 years at time of importation | kg | Free / — / Free * |
| 4911.91.15.00 | US 10-digit | Suitable for use in the production of articles of heading 4901 | kg | Free / — / Free |
| 4911.91.20 | US 8-digit | Not over 0.51 mm in thickness | Free / — / 66¢/kg | |
| 4911.91.20.20 | US 10-digit | Posters | kg | — |
| 4911.91.20.40 | US 10-digit | Other | kg | — |
| 4911.91.30.00 | US 10-digit | Over 0.51 mm in thickness | kg | Free / — / 19.3¢/kg |
| 4911.91.40 | US 8-digit | Other | Free / — / 25% * | |
| 4911.91.40.20 | US 10-digit | Posters | kg | — |
| 4911.91.40.40 | US 10-digit | Other | kg | — |
| 4911.99 | HS6 subheading | Other: | — | |
| 4911.99.20.00 | US 10-digit | International customs forms (carnets) and parts thereof, in English or French (whether or not in additional languages) | kg | Free / — / Free |
| 4911.99.60.00 | US 10-digit | Printed on paper in whole or in part by a lithographic process | kg | Free / — / 66¢/kg + 0.4% |
| 4911.99.80.00 | US 10-digit | Other | kg | Free / — / 35% |
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Chapters 01–97 of the Harmonized System (US chapters 98/99 are national legislation and not included).
Section I — Live Animals; Animal Products
Section II — Vegetable Products
- 06 Live trees and other plants; bulbs, roots and the like; cut flowers and ornamental foliage
- 07 Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers
- 08 Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons
- 09 Coffee, tea, maté and spices
- 10 Cereals
- 11 Products of the milling industry; malt; starches; inulin; wheat gluten
- 12 Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder
- 13 Lac; gums; resins and other vegetable saps and extracts
- 14 Vegetable plaiting materials; vegetable products not elsewhere specified or included
Section III — Animal, Vegetable Or Microbial Fats And Oils And Their Cleavage Products; Prepared Edible Fats; Animal Or Vegetable Waxes
Section IV — Prepared Foodstuffs; Beverages, Spirits And Vinegar; Tobacco And Manufactured Tobacco Substitutes; Products, Whether Or Not Containing Nicotine, Intended For Inhalation Without Combustion; Other Nicotine Containing Products Intended For The Intake Of Nicotine Into The Human Body
- 16 Preparations of meat, of fish, of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, or of insects
- 17 Sugars and sugar confectionery
- 18 Cocoa and cocoa preparations
- 19 3 Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; bakers' wares
- 20 Preparations of vegetables, fruit, nuts or other parts of plants
- 21 Miscellaneous edible preparations
- 22 Beverages, spirits and vinegar
- 23 Residues and waste from the food industries; prepared animal feed
- 24 Tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes; products whether or not containing nicotine, intended for inhalation without combustion; other nicotine containing products intended for the intake of nicotine into the human body
Section V — Mineral Products
Section VI — Products Of The Chemical Or Allied Industries
- 28 Inorganic chemicals; organic or inorganic compounds of precious metals, of rare-earth metals, of radioactive elements or of isotopes
- 29 Organic chemicals
- 30 Pharmaceutical products
- 31 Fertilizers
- 32 Tanning or dyeing extracts; tannins and their derivatives; dyes, pigments and other coloring matter; paints and varnishes; putty and other mastics; inks
- 33 Essential oils and resinoids; perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations
- 34 Soap, organic surface-active agents, washing preparations, lubricating preparations, artificial waxes, prepared waxes, polishing or scouring preparations, candles and similar articles, modeling pastes,"dental waxes" and dental preparations with a basis of plaster
- 35 4 Albuminoidal substances; modified starches; glues; enzymes
- 36 Explosives; pyrotechnic products; matches; pyrophoric alloys; certain combustible preparations
- 37 Photographic or cinematographic goods
- 38 Miscellaneous chemical products
Section VII — Plastics And Articles Thereof; Rubber And Articles Thereof
Section VIII — Raw Hides And Skins, Leather, Furskins And Articles Thereof; Saddlery And Harness; Travel Goods, Handbags And Similar Containers; Articles Of Animal Gut (Other Than Silkworm Gut)
Section IX — Wood And Articles Of Wood; Wood Charcoal; Cork And Articles Of Cork; Manufactures Of Straw, Of Esparto Or Of Other Plaiting Materials; Basketware And Wickerwork
Section X — Pulp Of Wood Or Of Other Fibrous Cellulosic Material; Recovered (Waste And Scrap) Paper Or Paperboard; Paper And Paperboard And Articles Thereof
Section XI — Textiles And Textile Articles
- 50 Silk
- 51 Wool, fine or coarse animal hair; horsehair yarn and woven fabric
- 52 Cotton
- 53 Other vegetable textile fibers; paper yarn and woven fabrics of paper yarn
- 54 Man-made filaments; strip and the like of man-made textile materials
- 55 Man-made staple fibers
- 56 Wadding, felt and nonwovens; special yarns; twine, cordage, ropes and cables and articles thereof
- 57 Carpets and other textile floor coverings
- 58 Special woven fabrics; tufted textile fabrics; lace; tapestries; trimmings; embroidery
- 59 Impregnated, coated, covered or laminated textile fabrics; textile articles of a kind suitable for industrial use
- 60 Knitted or crocheted fabrics
- 61 Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, knitted or crocheted
- 62 Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, not knitted or crocheted
- 63 Other made up textile articles; needlecraft sets; worn clothing and worn textile articles; rags
Section XII — Footwear, Headgear, Umbrellas, Sun Umbrellas, Walking-Sticks, Seat-Sticks, Whips, Riding-Crops And Parts Thereof; Prepared Feathers And Articles Made Therewith; Artificial Flowers; Articles Of Human Hair
Section XIII — Articles Of Stone, Plaster, Cement, Asbestos, Mica Or Similar Materials; Ceramic Products; Glass And Glassware
Section XIV — Natural Or Cultured Pearls, Precious Or Semiprecious Stones, Precious Metals, Metals Clad With Precious Metal, And Articles Thereof; Imitation Jewelry; Coin
Section XV — Base Metals And Articles Of Base Metal
- 72 Iron and steel
- 73 Articles of iron or steel
- 74 Copper and articles thereof
- 75 7 Nickel and articles thereof
- 76 Aluminum and articles thereof
- 77 (Reserved for possible future use)
- 78 Lead and articles thereof
- 79 Zinc and articles thereof
- 80 Tin and articles thereof
- 81 Other base metals; cermets; articles thereof
- 82 Tools, implements, cutlery, spoons and forks, of base metal; parts thereof of base metal
- 83 Miscellaneous articles of base metal
Section XVI — Machinery And Mechanical Appliances; Electrical Equipment; Parts Thereof; Sound Recorders And Reproducers, Television Image And Sound Recorders And Reproducers, And Parts And Accessories Of Such Articles
Section XVII — Vehicles, Aircraft, Vessels And Associated Transport Equipment
- 86 Railway or tramway locomotives, rolling stock and parts thereof; railway or tramway track fixtures and fittings and parts thereof; mechanical (including electro-mechanical) traffic signaling equipment of all kinds
- 87 Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
- 88 Aircraft, spacecraft, and parts thereof
- 89 Ships, boats and floating structures
Section XVIII — Optical, Photographic, Cinematographic, Measuring, Checking, Precision, Medical Or Surgical Instruments And Apparatus; Clocks And Watches; Musical Instruments; Parts And Accessories Thereof
Section XIX — Arms And Ammunition; Parts And Accessories Thereof
Section XX — Miscellaneous Manufactured Articles
- 94 Furniture; bedding, mattresses, mattress supports, cushions and similar stuffed furnishings; luminaires and lighting fittings, not elsewhere specified or included; illuminated signs, illuminated nameplates and the like; prefabricated buildings
- 95 Toys, games and sports equipment; parts and accessories thereof
- 96 Miscellaneous manufactured articles
Section XXI — Works Of Art, Collectors' Pieces And Antiques
What this data covers — and what it does not
- International layer: HS chapters 01–97 with 4-digit headings and 6-digit subheadings (HS 2022 edition) — the part shared by every member country’s tariff schedule.
- US layer: 8-digit rate lines and 10-digit statistical suffixes of the US HTS, clearly badged; the duty columns are US import rates for reference only.
- China layer: PRC 2026 tariff schedule 8-digit lines with official Chinese names and MFN/ordinary rates, matched to international rows by shared HS6 prefix; provisional (△), agreement, quota, VAT/consumption and 10-digit customs numbers are not in scope.
- Not included: the EU’s 8-digit CN codes, other countries’ national extensions, WCO Explanatory Notes, and US chapters 98/99 (national legislation).
- Descriptions are English-only. Classification of a real product needs the General Rules of Interpretation plus material, composition, use and processing details — treat every result as a candidate, not a ruling.
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That's normal. The same description appears at different levels (heading/subheading/statistical suffix) and under different chapters — cotton, for example, lives in the yarn, fabric and apparel chapters alike. The tool lists every candidate instead of guessing one answer for you.
Whose 8- and 10-digit codes are these?
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