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By Chapter, Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States
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COVER
CHANGE
RECORD
PREFACE
GENERAL
NOTES; GENERAL RULES OF INTERPRETATION; GENERAL STATISTICAL NOTES
Notice to Exporters
SECTION I: LIVE ANIMALS;
ANIMAL PRODUCTS |
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Section Notes |
Chapter 1 |
Live animals |
Chapter 2 |
Meat and edible meat offal |
Chapter 3 |
Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic
invertebrates |
Chapter 4 |
Dairy produce; birds eggs; natural honey; edible
products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included |
Chapter 5 |
Products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified
or included
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SECTION II: VEGETABLE
PRODUCTS |
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Section Notes |
Chapter 6 |
Live trees and other plants; bulbs,
roots and the like; cut flowers and ornamental foliage |
Chapter 7 |
Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers
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Chapter 8 |
Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons
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Chapter 9 |
Coffee, tea, maté and spices |
Chapter 10 |
Cereals |
Chapter 11 |
Products of the milling industry; malt; starches;
inulin; wheat gluten |
Chapter 12 |
Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous
grains, seeds and fruits; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder |
Chapter 13 |
Lac; gums, resins and other vegetable saps and
extracts |
Chapter 14 |
Vegetable plaiting materials; vegetable products
not elsewhere specified or included
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SECTION III: ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE FATS AND OILS AND THEIR
CLEAVAGE PRODUCTS; PREPARED EDIBLE FATS; ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE WAXES |
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Chapter 15 |
Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their
cleavage products prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes |
SECTION V:
MINERAL PRODUCTS
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Chapter 25 |
Salt; sulfur; earths and
stone; plastering materials, lime and cement |
Chapter 26 |
Ores, slag and ash
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Chapter 27 |
Mineral fuels,
mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes |
SECTION VI: PRODUCTS OF THE
CHEMICAL OR ALLIED INDUSTRIES |
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Section Notes |
Chapter
28 |
Inorganic chemicals; organic or inorganic
compounds of precious metals, of rare-earth metals,of radioactive elements or of isotopes |
Chapter
29 |
Organic chemicals |
Chapter 30
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Pharmaceutical products |
Chapter 31
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Fertilizers |
Chapter
32 |
Tanning or dyeing extracts; dyes, pigments, paints, varnishes, putty and mastics
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Chapter
33 |
Essential oils and resinoids; perfumery, cosmetic
or toilet preparations |
Chapter
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 |
Chapter
35 |
Albuminoidal substances; modified starches;
glues; enzymes |
Chapter
36 |
Explosives; pyrotechnic products; matches;
pyrophoric alloys; certain combustible preparations |
Chapter
37 |
Photographic or cinematographic
goods |
Chapter
38 |
Miscellaneous chemical products |
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) |
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Section Notes |
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Chapter
41 |
Raw hides and skins (other than furskins) and leather |
Chapter
42 |
Articles of leather; saddlery and harness; travel goods, handbags and similar containers; articles of animal gut (other than silkworm gut) |
Chapter 43
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Furskins and artificial fur; manufactures thereof
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SECTION IX: WOOD AND ARTICLES OF
WOOD; WOOD CHARCOAL; CORK AND ARTICLES OF CORK; MANUFACTURERS OF
STRAW,OF ESPARTO OR OF OTHER PLAITING MATERIALS; BASKETWARE AND
WICKERWORK |
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Chapter
44 |
Wood and articles of wood; wood
charcoal |
Chapter
45 |
Cork and articles of cork |
Chapter 46
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Manufactures of straw, of esparto or of other
plaiting materials; basketware and wickerwork |
SECTION X: PULP OF WOOD OR OF OTHER
FIBROUS CELLULOSIC MATERIAL; WASTE AND SCRAP OF PAPER OR PAPERBOARD;
PAPER AND PAPERBOARD AND ARTICLES THEREOF |
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Section Notes |
Chapter
47 |
Pulp of wood or of other fibrous
cellulosic material; waste and scrap of paper or paperboard |
Chapter
48 |
Paper and paperboard; articles of paper pulp, of
paper or of paperboard |
Chapter 49
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Printed books, newspapers, pictures and other
products of the printing industry; manuscripts, typescripts and plans |
SECTION XI: TEXTILE AND TEXTILE
ARTICLES |
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Section Notes |
Chapter
50 |
Silk |
Chapter
51 |
Wool, fine or coarse animal hair; horsehair yarn and woven fabric |
Chapter 52
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Cotton |
Chapter 53
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Other vegetable textile fibers; paper yarn and
woven fabric of paper yarn |
Chapter
54 |
Man-made filaments
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Chapter
55 |
Man-made staple fibers |
Chapter
56 |
Wadding, felt and nonwovens; special yarns,
twine, cordage, ropes and cables and articles thereof |
Chapter
57 |
Carpets and other textile floor coverings
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Chapter
58 |
Special woven fabrics; tufted textile fabrics; lace,
tapestries; trimmings; embroidery |
Chapter 59 |
Impregnated, coated, covered or laminated textile
fabrics; textile articles of a kind suitable for industrial use |
Chapter 60 |
Knitted or crocheted fabrics |
Chapter 61 |
Articles of apparel and clothing accessories,
knitted or crocheted |
Chapter
62 |
Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, not
knitted or crocheted |
Chapter
63 |
Other made up textile articles; sets; worn clothing
and worn textile articles; rags |
SECTION XII: FOOTWEAR, HEADGEAR,
UMBRELLAS, SUN UMBRELLAS, WALKING STICKS, SEATSTICKS, WHIPS, RIDING-CROPS
AND PARTS THEREOF; PREPARED FEATHERS AND ARTICLES MADE THEREWITH;
ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS; ARTICLES OF HUMAN HAIR |
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Footwear,
gaiters and the like; parts of such articles |
Chapter 65 |
Headgear and parts thereof
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Chapter 66 |
Umbrellas, sun umbrellas,
walking sticks, seatsticks, whips, riding-crops and parts thereof |
Chapter 67 |
Prepared feathers and
down and articles made of feathers or of down; artificial flowers; articles of human hair |
SECTION XIII: ARTICLES OF STONE,
PLASTER, CEMENT, ASBESTOS, MICA OR SIMILAR MATERIALS; CERAMIC PRODUCTS;
GLASS AND GLASSWARE |
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Articles of
stone, plaster, cement, asbestos, mica or similar materials |
Chapter 69 |
Ceramic
products |
Chapter 70 |
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 |
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Natural
or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones,precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and
articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin |
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 |
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Section Notes |
Chapter 84 |
Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical
appliances; parts thereof |
Chapter 85 |
Electrical machinery and equipment and 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 |
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Section Notes |
Chapter 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 signalling equipment of all kinds |
Chapter 87 |
Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling
stock, and parts and accessories thereof |
Chapter 88 |
Aircraft, spacecraft, and parts thereof |
Chapter 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 |
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Optical,
photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and
apparatus; parts and accessories thereof |
Chapter 91 |
Clocks and watches and
parts thereof |
Chapter 92 |
Musical instruments; parts
and accessories of such articles |
SECTION XIX: ARMS AND AMMUNITION; PARTS AND
ACCESSORIES THEREOF |
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Arms and
ammunition; parts and accessories thereof |
SECTION XX: MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED
ARTICLES |
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Furniture;
bedding, mattresses, mattress supports, cushions and similar stuffed furnishings; lamps and lighting fittings,
not elsewhere specified or included; illuminated sign illuminated nameplates and the like; prefabricated
buildings |
Chapter 95 |
Toys, games and sports
requisites; parts and accessories thereof |
Chapter 96 |
Miscellaneous manufactured articles |
SECTION XXI: WORKS OF ART, COLLECTORS'
PIECES AND ANTIQUES |
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Works of art,
collectors' pieces and antiques |
SECTION XXII: SPECIAL CLASSIFICATION
PROVISIONS; TEMPORARY LEGISLATION; TEMPORARY MODIFICATIONS
PROCLAIMEDPURSUANT TO TRADE AGREEMENTS LEGISLATION; ADDITIONAL
IMPORT RESTRICTIONS PROCLAIMED PURSUANT TO SECTION 22 OF THE
AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT ACT, AS AMENDED |
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Special
classification provisions |
Chapter 99 |
Temporary legislation;
temporary modifications proclaimed pursuant to trade agreements legislation; additional import restrictions
proclaimed pursuant to section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended |
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