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9817.00.20 9817.00.30

9817.00.40

9817.00.42

Article description

SUBCHAPTER XVII

OTHER SPECIAL CLASSIFICATION PROVISIONS

Nets or sections or parts of nets:

Monofilament gill nets to be used for fish sampling..
To be used in taking wild birds under license issued by
an appropriate Federal or State governmental authority.....
Developed photographic film, including motion-picture film on
which pictures or sound and pictures have been recorded;
photographic slides; transparencies; sound recordings;
recorded video tape; models (except toy models); charts; maps;
globes; and posters; all of the foregoing which are determined
to be visual or auditory materials in accordance with U.S.
note 1(a) of subchapter XVII of chapter 98 to the USHTS..

Articles determined to be visual or auditory materials in
accordance with U.S. note 1 of subchapter XVII of chapter 98
of the USHTS:

Holograms for laser projection; microfilm, microfiches
and similar articles....

9817.00.44

Motion-picture films in any form on which pictures, or
sound and pictures, have been recorded, whether or not
developed......

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Article description

Base Rate

Staging
Category

9817.00.80 9817.00.90

Unwrought metal including remelt scrap ingot (except copper,
lead, zinc and tungsten) in the form of pigs, ingots or
billets (a) which are defective or damaged, or have been
produced from melted down metal waste and scrap for
convenience in handling and transportation without sweetening,
alloying, fluxing or deliberate purifying, and (b) which
cannot be commercially used without remanufacture; relaying
or rerolling rails; and articles of metal (except articles of
lead, of zinc or of tungsten, and not including metal-bearing
materials provided for in section VI or in chapter 26 and not
including unwrought metal provided for in chapters 72-81) to
be used in remanufacture by melting or to be processed by
shredding, shearing, compacting or similar processing which
renders them fit only for the recovery of the metal content:
Articles of copper.
Other....

....

Articles specially designed or adapted for the use or benefit
of the blind or other physically or mentally handicapped
persons:

Articles for the blind:

(a) Vessels subject to duty.--The equipments, or any part
thereof, including boats, purchased for, or the repair
parts or the materials to be used, expenses of repairs
made in a foreign country upon a vessel documented under
the laws of the United States to engage in the foreign
or coasting trade, or a vessel intended to be employed
in such trade, shall, on the first arrival of such vessel
in any port of the United States, be liable to entry and
the payment of an ad valorem duty of.....

50% on the
cost thereof
in such
foreign
country

Sec. 310 Tariff Act of 1930

(f) Civil aircraft exception.--The duty imposed under
subsection (a) shall not apply to the cost of equipments,
or any part thereof, purchased, of repair parts or materials
used, or any of repairs made in a foreign country with
respect to a United States civil aircraft, within the meaning
of general note 3(c)(iv) of the USHTS...

FREE IMPORTATION OF MERCHANDISE RECOVERED FROM SUNKEN AND
ABANDONED VESSELS

Whenever any vessel laden with merchandise, in whole or in
part subject to duty, has been sunk in any river, harbor,
bay, or waters subject to the jurisdiction of the United
States, and within its limits, for the period of two years
and is abandoned by the owner thereof, any person who may
raise such vessel shall be permitted to bring any merchandise
recovered therefrom into the port nearest to the place where
such vessel was so raised free from the payment of any duty
thereon, but under such regulations as the Secretary of the
Treasury may prescribe.....

✩ U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE:1992-330-816/70625

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