Personal Effects HS Code & Harmonized Tariff Code (HTS) for USA
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HTS CodeDescriptionUnit of QtyRate Of Duty
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General Rate Of DutySpecial Rate Of Duty2
9804.00.05Books, libraries, usual and reasonable furniture and similar household effects, if actually used abroad by him or by him and his family not less than one year, and not intended for any other person, or for sale
FreeFree
9804.00.10Professional books, implements, instruments and tools of trade, occupation or employment, which have been taken abroad by him or for his account
FreeFree
9804.00.15Professional books, implements, instruments and tools of trade, occupation or employment (not including theatrical scenery, properties or apparel, and not including articles for use in any manufacturing establishment, for any other person or for sale), owned and used by him abroad
FreeFree
9804.00.20Wearing apparel, articles of personal adornment, toilet articles and similar personal effects; all the foregoing, if actually owned by and in the possession of such person abroad at the time of or prior to his departure for the United States, and if appropriate for his own personal use and intended only for such use and not for any other person nor for sale
FreeFree
9804.00.25Not over 50 cigars, or 200 cigarettes, or 2 kilograms of smoking tobacco or a proportionate amount of each, and not over 1 liter of alcoholic beverages, when brought in by an adult nonresident for his own consumption
FreeFree
9804.00.30Not exceeding $100 in value of articles (not including alcoholic beverages and cigarettes but including not more than 100 cigars) accompanying such person to be disposed of by him as bona fide gifts, if such person has not claimed an exemption under this subheading 9804.00.30 within the 6 months immediately preceding his arrival and he intends to remain in the United States for not less than 72 hours
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9804.00.35Automobiles, trailers, aircraft, motorcycles, bicycles, baby carriages, boats, horse-drawn conveyances, horses and similar means of transportation, and the usual equipment accompanying the foregoing; any of the foregoing imported in connection with the arrival of such person and to be used in the United States only for the transportation of such person, his family and guests, and such incidental carriage of articles as may be appropriate to his personal use of the conveyance
FreeFree
9804.00.40Not exceeding $200 in value of articles (including not more than 4 liters of alcoholic beverages) accompanying such a person who is in transit to a place outside United States customs territory and who will take the articles with him to such place
FreeFree
9804.00.45All personal and household effects taken abroad by him or for his account
FreeFree
9804.00.50Articles of metal (including medals, trophies and prizes), bestowed upon him abroad, as honorary distinctions, by foreign countries or citizens of foreign countries
FreeFree
9804.00.55Game animals (including birds and fish) killed abroad by him and imported by him for noncommercial purposes
FreeFree
9804.00.60Automobiles rented by any resident of the United States while abroad and imported for the transportation of such resident, his family and guests, and such incidental carriage of articles as may be appropriate to his personal use of the automobile
Free, for such temporary periods as the Secretary of the Treasury by regulation may prescribeFree (BH,CA,CL, CO,IL,KR,MA,MX, P,PA,PE,S,SG)Free, for such temporary periods as the Secretary of the Treasury by regulation may prescribe
9804.00.65Articles, accompanying a person, not over $800 in aggregate fair retail value in the country of acquisition, including (but only in the case of an individual who has attained the age of 21) not more than 1 liter of alcoholic beverages and including not more than 200 cigarettes and 100 cigars
FreeFree
9804.00.70Articles whether or not accompanying a person, not over $1600 in aggregate fair market value in the country of acquisition, including: <newline/>(a) but only in the case of an individual who has attained the age of 21, not more than 5 liters of alcoholic beverages, not more than 1 liter of which shall have been acquired elsewhere than in American Samoa, Guam or the Virgin Islands of the United States, and not more than 4 liters of which shall have been produced elsewhere than in such insular possessions, and (b) not more than 1,000 cigarettes, not more than 200 of which shall have been acquired elsewhere than in such insular possessions, and not more than 100 cigars, <newline/> if such person arrives directly or indirectly from such insular possessions, not more than $800 of which shall have been acquired elsewhere than in such insular possessions (but this subheading does not permit the entry of articles not accompanying a person which were acquired elsewhere than in such insular possessions)
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9804.00.72Articles whether or not accompanying a person, not over $800 in aggregate fair market value in the country of acquisition, including- <newline/> (a) but only in the case of an individual who has attained the age of 21, not more than 1 liter of alcoholic beverages or not more than 2 liters if at least one liter is the product of one or more beneficiary countries, and <newline/> (b) not more than 200 cigarettes, and not more than 100 cigars,<newline/> if such person arrives directly from a beneficiary country (but this item does not permit the entry of articles not accompanying a person which were acquired elsewhere than in beneficiary countries)
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9804.00.75Any article imported to replace a like article of comparable value previously exempted from duty under subheading 9804.00.70, if the article previously exempted shall have been exported, under such supervision as the Secretary may prescribe, within 60 days after its importation because it was found by the importer to be unsatisfactory
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9804.00.80Articles (including not over 50 cigars, or 300 cigarettes, or 2 kilograms of smoking tobacco or a proportionate amount of each, and not over 1 liter of alcoholic beverages), reasonable and appropriate, and intended exclusively, for the bona fide personal use of, and (except for articles consumed in use) to be taken out of the United States by, any person arriving in the United States who is leaving a vessel, vehicle or aircraft, engaged in international traffic, on which he is employed, with the intention of resuming such employment
FreeFree
9804.00.85Personal and household effects, not stock in trade, the title to which at the time of importation is in the estate of a citizen of the United States who died abroad
FreeFree
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9806.00.05Upon the request of the Department of State, ambassadors, ministers, charge d'affaires, secretaries, counselors, attaches and other representatives, officers and employees of foreign governments, accredited to the United States or en route to or from other countries to which accredited, and their immediate families, suites and servants
FreeFree
9806.00.10Upon the request of the Department of State, diplomatic couriers of foreign governments
FreeFree
9806.00.15Upon the request of the Department of State, representatives of foreign governments in or to, and officers and employees of, organizations designated by the President of the United States as public international organizations pursuant to section 1 of the International Organizations Immunities Act (22 U.S.C. 288), and their immediate families, suites and servants
FreeFree
9806.00.20Persons on duty in the United States as members of the armed forces of any foreign country and their immediate families
FreeFree
9806.00.25Upon the request of the Department of State, persons designated by the Department of State as high officials of foreign governments or distinguished foreign visitors and their immediate families
FreeFree
9806.00.30Upon the request of the Department of State, persons designated pursuant to statute or pursuant to treaties ratified by the United States Senate
FreeFree
9806.00.35Upon the request of the Department of State, personal effects and equipment of groups or delegations of foreign residents arriving in the United States on goodwill visits of short duration to participate in patriotic celebrations, festivals and other demonstrations of public interest and which will be exported or destroyed at the conclusion of the visit
FreeFree
9806.00.40Upon the request of the Department of State, ambassadors, ministers, charge d'affaires, secretaries, counselors and attaches of foreign embassies and legations
FreeFree
9806.00.45Members of the armed forces of any foreign country
FreeFree
9806.00.50Upon the request of the Department of State, other representatives, officers and employees of foreign governments
FreeFree
9806.00.55Upon the request of the Department of State, persons designated pursuant to statute or pursuant to treaties ratified by the United States Senate
FreeFree
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General Rate Of DutySpecial Rate Of Duty2
9817.60.00.00Any of the following articles not intended for sale or distribution to the public: personal effects of aliens who are participants in, officials of, or accredited members of delegations to, an international athletic event held in the United States, such as the Olympics and Paralympics, the Goodwill Games, the Special Olympics World Games, the World Cup Soccer Games, or any similar international athletic event as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine, and of persons who are immediate family members of or servants to any of the foregoing persons; equipment and materials imported in connection with any such foregoing event by or on behalf of the foregoing persons or the organizing committee of such an event, articles to be used in exhibitions depicting the culture of a country participating in such an event; and, if consistent with the foregoing, such other articles as the Secretary of the Treasury may allow
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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,

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

  • Identify your product's 6 digit HTS Code or HS Code from the above list

  • Now, you have to identify the 8 digit code of your product as all the import duty tariffs in the United States HTS are listed at 8 digit HTS Code.

  • Click on the HTS 6 you have selected for your product, it will take you to a list of 8-10 digit HTS Codes where you will also find your product's import duty rate.

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