HTS Index

HTS heading 4911

Other printed matter, including printed pictures and photographs — 20 codes under this heading, with the duty on each.

CodeDescriptionGeneral rateUnits
4911Other printed matter, including printed pictures and photographs + Ch. 99not stated
4911.10.00Trade advertising material, commercial catalogs and the like + Ch. 99Free
4911.10.00.20Printed catalogs relating principally to current offers for the sale of United States products + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 4911.10.00)No.
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 services + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 4911.10.00)No.
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 States + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 4911.10.00)kg
4911.10.00.80Other + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 4911.10.00)kg
4911.91Pictures, designs and photographs + Ch. 99not stated
4911.91.10.00Printed over 20 years at time of importation + Ch. 99Freekg
4911.91.15.00Suitable for use in the production of articles of heading 4901 + Ch. 99Freekg
4911.91.20Not over 0.51 mm in thickness + Ch. 99Free
4911.91.20.20Posters + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 4911.91.20)kg
4911.91.20.40Other + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 4911.91.20)kg
4911.91.30.00Over 0.51 mm in thickness + Ch. 99Freekg
4911.91.40Other + Ch. 99Free
4911.91.40.20Posters + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 4911.91.40)kg
4911.91.40.40Other + Ch. 99Free (inherited from 4911.91.40)kg
4911.99Other + Ch. 99not stated
4911.99.20.00International customs forms (carnets) and parts thereof, in English or French (whether or not in additional languages) + Ch. 99Freekg
4911.99.60.00Printed on paper in whole or in part by a lithographic process + Ch. 99Freekg
4911.99.80.00Other + Ch. 99Freekg

8 of these lines state no rate of their own and inherit one from the line above, which is how the schedule is read. Each says which line it came from.

Additional duties may apply

20 lines here reference Chapter 99, where Section 301, Section 232 and other additional duties live. Those are charged on top of the general rate and depend on where the goods were made. What those provisions are.

Source: Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States, U.S. International Trade Commission (public domain). Classification and the duties that finally apply to a shipment are a licensed customs broker's call.