HTS heading 9813
Articles to be repaired, altered or processed (including processes which result in articles manufactured or produced in the United States) — 16 codes under this heading, with the duty on each.
| Code | Description | General rate | Units |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9813.00.05 | Articles to be repaired, altered or processed (including processes which result in articles manufactured or produced in the United States) + Ch. 99 | Free, under bond, as prescribed in U.S. note 1 to this subchapter | — |
| 9813.00.05.20 | Articles to be processed into articles manufactured or produced in the United States + Ch. 99 | Free, under bond, as prescribed in U.S. note 1 to this subchapter (inherited from 9813.00.05) | — |
| 9813.00.05.40 | Other + Ch. 99 | Free, under bond, as prescribed in U.S. note 1 to this subchapter (inherited from 9813.00.05) | — |
| 9813.00.10 | Models of women's wearing apparel imported by manufacturers for use solely as models in their own establishments + Ch. 99 | Free, under bond, as prescribed in U.S. note 1 to this subchapter | — |
| 9813.00.15 | Articles imported by illustrators and photographers for use solely as models in their own establishments, in the illustrating of catalogues, pamphlets or advertising matters + Ch. 99 | Free, under bond, as prescribed in U.S. note 1 to this subchapter | — |
| 9813.00.20 | Samples solely for use in taking orders for merchandise + Ch. 99 | Free, under bond, as prescribed in U.S. note 1 to this subchapter | — |
| 9813.00.25 | Articles solely for examination with a view to reproduction, or for such examination and reproduction (except photoengraved printing plates for examination and reproduction); and motion-picture advertising films + Ch. 99 | Free, under bond, as prescribed in U.S. note 1 to this subchapter | — |
| 9813.00.30 | Articles intended solely for testing, experimental or review purposes, including specifications, photographs and similar articles for use in connection with experiments or for study + Ch. 99 | Free, under bond, as prescribed in U.S. note 1 to this subchapter | — |
| 9813.00.35 | Automobiles, motorcycles, bicycles, airplanes, airships, balloons, boats, racing shells and similar vehicles and craft, and the usual equipment of the foregoing; all the foregoing which are brought temporarily into the United States by nonresidents for the purpose of taking part in races or other specific contests + Ch. 99 | Free, under bond, as prescribed in U.S. note 1 to this subchapter | — |
| 9813.00.40 | Locomotives and other railroad equipment brought temporarily into the United States for use in clearing obstructions, fighting fires or making emergency repairs on railroads within the United States, or for use in transportation otherwise than in international traffic when the Secretary of the Treasury finds that the temporary use of foreign railroad equipment is necessary to meet an emergency + Ch. 99 | Free, under bond, as prescribed in U.S. note 1 to this subchapter | — |
| 9813.00.45 | Containers for compressed gases, filled or empty, and containers or other articles in use for covering or holding merchandise (including personal or household effects) during transportation and suitable for reuse for that purpose + Ch. 99 | Free, under bond, as prescribed in U.S. note 1 to this subchapter | — |
| 9813.00.50 | Professional equipment, tools of trade, repair components for equipment or tools admitted under this heading and camping equipment; all the foregoing imported by or for nonresidents sojourning temporarily in the United Statesand for the use of such nonresidents + Ch. 99 | Free, under bond, as prescribed in U.S. note 1 to this subchapter | — |
| 9813.00.55 | Articles of special design for temporary use exclusively in connection with the manufacture or production of articles for export + Ch. 99 | Free, under bond, as prescribed in U.S. note 1 to this subchapter | — |
| 9813.00.60 | Animals and poultry brought into the United States for the purpose of breeding, exhibition or competition for prizes, and the usual equipment therefor + Ch. 99 | Free, under bond, as prescribed in U.S. note 1 to this subchapter | — |
| 9813.00.70 | Works of the free fine arts, engravings, photographic pictures and philosophical and scientific apparatus brought into the United States by professional artists, lecturers or scientists arriving from abroad for use by them for exhibition and in illustration, promotion and encouragement of art, science or industry in the United States + Ch. 99 | Free, under bond, as prescribed in U.S. note 1 to this subchapter | — |
| 9813.00.75 | Automobiles, automobile chassis, automobile bodies, cutaway portions of any of the foregoing and parts for any of the foregoing, finished, unfinished or cutaway, when intended solely for show purposes + Ch. 99 | Free, under bond, as prescribed in U.S. note 1 to this subchapter | — |
2 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
16 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.