HTS Index

HTS 4911

Other printed matter, including printed pictures and photographs

General rateNot stated for this line
What most imports pay — countries with normal trade relations, which is nearly all of them.
Special rateNot stated for this line
Only under a trade programme or agreement, and only if the goods qualify. The codes name the programmes.
Column 2 rateNot stated for this line
Only for the few countries without normal trade relations.

This line states no general duty rate, and none is inherited from the lines above it. That is not the same as duty-free: lines in Chapters 98 and 99 are provisions and qualifiers rather than ordinary commodities, and a rate may be stated elsewhere. Check the heading before assuming anything.

Additional duties may apply

This line references Chapter 99, where Section 301, Section 232 and other additional duties live. Those are charged on top of the general rate above and depend on where the goods were made. The rate shown here is therefore not the whole story for every origin.

What the Chapter 99 provisions are

Statistical breakouts

The 10-digit lines under this code. They are reporting categories; the duty is the one above unless a line states its own.

CodeDescriptionUnitsRate
4911.10.00Trade advertising material, commercial catalogs and the likeFree
4911.10.00.20Printed catalogs relating principally to current offers for the sale of United States productsNo.Free
4911.10.00.40Printed catalogs, price lists or trade notices, relating to offers, by a person whose principal place of business or bonafide residence is in a foreign country, to sell or rent products of a foreign country or to furnish foreign or international transportation or commercial insurance servicesNo.Free
4911.10.00.60Tourist and other literature (including posters), containing geographic, historical, hotel, institutional, timetable, travel or similar information, principally with respect to places, travel facilities or educational opportunities outside the customs territory of the United StateskgFree
4911.10.00.80OtherkgFree
4911.91Pictures, designs and photographssee above
4911.91.10.00Printed over 20 years at time of importationkgFree
4911.91.15.00Suitable for use in the production of articles of heading 4901kgFree
4911.91.20Not over 0.51 mm in thicknessFree
4911.91.20.20PosterskgFree
4911.91.20.40OtherkgFree
4911.91.30.00Over 0.51 mm in thicknesskgFree
4911.91.40OtherFree
4911.91.40.20PosterskgFree
4911.91.40.40OtherkgFree
4911.99Othersee above
4911.99.20.00International customs forms (carnets) and parts thereof, in English or French (whether or not in additional languages)kgFree
4911.99.60.00Printed on paper in whole or in part by a lithographic processkgFree
4911.99.80.00OtherkgFree

What changed

No recorded change to this line since we began reading the schedule daily. That is the ordinary state: USITC revises it fifteen to eighteen times a year, and most codes are untouched in any given revision.

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Classification and the duties that finally apply to a shipment are a licensed customs broker's call. This page publishes the schedule as USITC does; it does not calculate what an entry will cost.

Source: Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States, U.S. International Trade Commission (public domain). Re-checked daily.