HTS Index

HTS 9209

Parts (for example, mechanisms for music boxes) and accessories (for example, cards, discs and rolls for mechanical instruments) of musical instruments; metronomes, tuning forks and pitch pipes of all kinds

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
9209.30.00.00Musical instrument stringsNo.Free
9209.91Parts and accessories for pianossee above
9209.91.40.00Tuning pinsthousandsFree
9209.91.80.00OtherNo.4.2%
9209.92Parts and accessories for the musical instruments of heading 9202see above
9209.92.20.00Mutes, collapsible musical instrument stands and music holders for attachment to musical instrumentsNo.3.9%
9209.92.40.00Tuning pinsthousands10¢/1,000 pins + 3.5%
9209.92.60.00Bows, parts of bows, bow hair, chin rests and other parts and accessories for string instruments played with a bowNo.Free
9209.92.80.00OtherNo.4.6%
9209.94Parts and accessories for the musical instruments of heading 9207see above
9209.94.40.00Collapsible musical instrument standsNo.5.7%
9209.94.80.00OtherNo.2.7%
9209.99Othersee above
9209.99.05.00Metronomes, tuning forks and pitch pipesNo., kgFree
9209.99.10.00Mutes for musical instruments; pedals, dampers and spurs for drums; pedals and holders for cymbals; lyres and other music holders for attachment to musical instruments; and collapsible stands for holding music or for holding musical instrumentsNo.5.7%
9209.99.16.00For pipe organs of subheading 9205.90.12No., kgFree
9209.99.18.00For instruments of subheading 9205.90.14No.2.7%
9209.99.20.00For bagpipesNo., kgFree
9209.99.40For other woodwind and brass wind musical instrumentsFree
9209.99.40.40For woodwind musical instrumentsNo., kgFree
9209.99.40.80OtherNo., kgFree
9209.99.61.00For music boxesNo., kgFree
9209.99.80.00OtherNo.5.3%

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