HTS chapter · section XX
Chapter 96
Miscellaneous manufactured articles
Chapter 96 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule sits in section XX (miscellaneous manufactured articles). It has 20 headings and 127 eight-digit tariff lines.
The spread of 32 percentage points between the cheapest and dearest lines makes misclassification expensive here.
26 of its 104 lines with a percentage rate are duty-free at the general rate (25%) and 78 are dutiable, from duty-free up to 32%. The median line pays 4%.
23 of the lines carry specific or compound rates (per kilogram, per dozen and so on) rather than a percentage, so their burden depends on the unit value of the goods.
The most finely divided heading is 9619 (sanitary pads (towels) and tampons, diapers (napkins), diaper liners and…), with 19 lines; fine division usually means the rates or the trade statistics differ enough to be worth separating.
The heading with the highest median rate is 9607 (slide fasteners and parts thereof) at 11.5%.
Headings
| Heading | Description | Lines | Free | Median rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9601 | Worked ivory, bone, tortoise-shell, horn, antlers, coral, mother-of-pearl and other animal carving material, and articles of these materials (including… | 5 | 3 | duty-free |
| 9602 | Worked vegetable or mineral carving material and articles of these materials; molded or carved articles of wax, of stearin, of natural gums or natural resins,… | 3 | 0 | 2.7% |
| 9603 | Brooms, brushes (including brushes constituting parts of machines, appliances or vehicles), hand-operated mechanical floor sweepers, not motorized, mops and… | 18 | 5 | 3.4% |
| 9604 | Hand sieves and hand riddles | 1 | 0 | 4.9% |
| 9605 | Travel sets for personal toilet, sewing or shoe or clothes cleaning (other than manicure and pedicure sets of heading 8214) | 1 | 0 | 8.1% |
| 9606 | Buttons, press-fasteners, snap-fasteners and press-studs, button molds and other parts of these articles; button blanks | 11 | 3 | 2.8% |
| 9607 | Slide fasteners and parts thereof | 3 | 0 | 11.5% |
| 9608 | Ball point pens; felt tipped and other porous-tipped pens and markers; fountain pens, stylograph pens and other pens; duplicating styli; propelling or sliding… | 12 | 4 | duty-free |
| 9609 | Pencils (other than those pencils of heading 9608), crayons, pencil leads, pastels, drawing charcoals, writing or drawing chalks and tailors' chalks | 5 | 4 | duty-free |
| 9610 | Slates and boards, with writing or drawing surfaces, whether or not framed | 1 | 0 | 3.5% |
| 9611 | Date, sealing or numbering stamps and the like, (including devices for printing or embossing labels), designed for operating in the hand; hand-operated… | 1 | 0 | 2.7% |
| 9612 | Typewriter or similar ribbons, inked or otherwise prepared for giving impressions, whether or not on spools or in cartridges; ink pads, whether or not inked,… | 3 | 1 | 3.5% |
| 9613 | Cigarette lighters and other lighters, whether or not mechanical or electrical, and parts thereof other than flints and wicks | 9 | 0 | 4% |
| 9614 | Smoking pipes (including pipe bowls) and cigar or cigarette holders, and parts thereof | 6 | 1 | 3% |
| 9615 | Combs, hair-slides and the like; hairpins, curling pins, curling grips, hair-curlers and the like, other than those of heading 8516, and parts thereof | 12 | 1 | 5.3% |
| 9616 | Scent sprayers and similar toilet sprayers, and mounts and heads therefor; powder puffs and pads for the application of cosmetics or toilet preparations | 2 | 1 | 2.15% |
| 9617 | Vacuum flasks and other vacuum vessels, complete; parts thereof other than glass inners | 4 | 0 | 7.050000000000001% |
| 9618 | Tailors' dummies and other mannequins; automatons and other animated displays used for shopwindow dressing | 1 | 0 | 4.4% |
| 9619 | Sanitary pads (towels) and tampons, diapers (napkins), diaper liners and similar articles, of any material | 19 | 2 | 7% |
| 9620 | Monopods, bipods, tripods and similar articles | 10 | 1 | 3.0999999999999996% |