4904.00.00

Analysis

HTS 4904.00.00 covers music, printed or in manuscript, whether or not bound or illustrated under heading 4904 (music, printed or in manuscript, whether or not bound or illustrated). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in kilograms.

This line's footnotes point to one additional provision in Chapter 99: 9903.90.08 (measures on products of Russia). Chapter 99 duties are added on top of the general rate for goods of the countries they name, and they change more often than the rest of the schedule, so check the current CBP guidance before you rely on a total.

For statistics it divides in two: 4904.00.00.20 for sheet music, whether or not stapled or folded, but not… and 4904.00.00.40 for other. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.

Goods classified here enter the United States duty-free at the general (normal trade relations) rate, as do about 100% of the 29 tariff lines in chapter 49. Free here means free of the base duty only: origin-specific Chapter 99 duties such as Section 301 can still be owed.

It is the only US line under subheading 4904.00, so the six-digit code used by every Harmonized System country and the eight-digit US line describe the same goods; a foreign tariff or an exporter's invoice showing 4904.00 points straight here.