4820

Analysis

Heading 4820 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule covers registers, account books, notebooks, order books, receipt books, letter pads, memorandum pads, diaries and similar articles, exercise books, blotting pads, binders (looseleaf or other), folders, file covers, manifold…. It divides into 6 six-digit subheadings and 7 eight-digit tariff lines, with 12 ten-digit statistical suffixes below them.

Every one of its 7 tariff lines is duty-free at the general rate, so classification within the heading affects statistics and Chapter 99 measures rather than the base duty.

The largest subheadings are 4820.10 (registers, account books, notebooks, order books…, 2 lines), 4820.20 (unnamed, 1 line), 4820.30 (unnamed, 1 line) and 4820.40 (unnamed, 1 line).

By Census's concordance, most of its statistical lines are made by Commercial Printing (except Screen and Books) (323111) and Stationery Product Manufacturing (322230). Those are the NAICS industries a US producer of these goods would report under.

Its median rate of duty-free sits at the 50th percentile of the headings in chapter 48.