Tariff Lines: A
HTS tariff lines and product descriptions beginning with “A”, with their general duty rates.
495 tariff lines starting with "A"
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| HTS Number | Description | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| 9801.00.20.00 | Articles, previously imported, with respect to which the duty was paid upon such previous importation or which were previously free of duty pursuant to the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act or Title V of the Trade Act of 1974, if (1) reimported, without having been advanced in value or improved in condition by any process of manufacture or other means while abroad, after having been exported under lease or similar use agreements, and (2) reimported by or for the account of the person who imported it into, and exported it from, the United States | Free |
| 9801.00.25.00 | Articles, previously imported, with respect to which the duty was paid upon such previous importation if (1) exported within three years after the date of such previous importation, (2) reimported without having been advanced in value or improved in condition by any process of manufacture or other means while abroad, (3) reimported for the reason that such articles do not conform to sample or specifications, and (4) reimported by or for the account of the person who imported them into, and exported them from, the United States | Free |
| 9801.00.26.00 | Articles, previously imported, with respect to which the duty was paid upon such previous importation, if: (1) exported within 3 years after the date of such previous importation; (2) sold for exportation and exported to individuals for personal use; (3) reimported without having been advanced in value or improved in condition by any process of manufacture or other means while abroad; (4) reimported as personal returns from those individuals, whether or not consolidated with other personal returns prior to reimportation; and (5) reimported by or for the account of the person who exported them from the United States within 1 year of such exportation | Free |
| 9801.00.30.00 | Any aircraft engine or propeller, or any part or accessory of either, previously imported, with respect to which the duty was paid upon such previous importation, if (1) reimported without having been advanced in value or improved in condition by any process of manufacture or other means while abroad, after having been exported under loan, lease or rent to an aircraft owner or operator as a temporary replacement for an aircraft engine being overhauled, repaired, rebuilt or reconditioned in the United States, and (2) reimported by or for the account of the person who exported it from the United States | Free |
| 9801.00.70.00 | Aircraft exported from the United States with benefit of drawback or heading 9813.00.05 | A duty equal to the duty upon the importation of like articles not previously exported, but in no case in excess of the sum of (a) any customs drawback proved to have been allowed upon such exportation, and (b) the duty which would have been payable on any articles used in the manufacture or production of such aircraft had they not been entered and exported under heading 9813.00.05 |
| 9801.00.90.00 | Animals, domesticated, straying across the boundary line into any foreign country, or driven across such boundary line by the owner for temporary pasturage purpose only, together with their offspring; all the foregoing if brought back to the United States within 8 months | Free |
| 9802.00.60.00 | Any article of metal (as defined in U.S. note 3(e) of this subchapter) manufactured in the United States or subjected to a process of manufacture in the United States, if exported for further processing, and if the exported article as processed outside the United States, or the article which results from the processing outside the United States, is returned to the United States for further processing | A duty upon the value of such processing outside the United States (see U.S. note 3 of this subchapter) |
| 9802.00.80 | Articles, except goods of heading 9802.00.91 and goods imported under provisions of subchapter XIX of this chapter and goods imported under provisions of subchapter XX, assembled abroad in whole or in part of fabricated components, the product of the United States, which (a) were exported in condition ready for assembly without further fabrication, (b) have not lost their physical identity in such articles by change in form, shape or otherwise, and (c) have not been advanced in value or improved in condition abroad except by being assembled and except by operations incidental to the assembly process such as cleaning, lubricating and painting | A duty upon the full value of the imported article, less the cost or value of such products of the United States (see U.S. Note 4 of this subchapter) |
| 9804.00.35 | Automobiles, trailers, aircraft, motorcycles, bicycles, baby carriages, boats, horse-drawn conveyances, horses and similar means of transportation, and the usual equipment accompanying the foregoing; any of the foregoing imported in connection with the arrival of such person and to be used in the United States only for the transportation of such person, his family and guests, and such incidental carriage of articles as may be appropriate to his personal use of the conveyance | Free |
| 9804.00.45 | All personal and household effects taken abroad by him or for his account | Free |
| 9804.00.50 | Articles of metal (including medals, trophies and prizes), bestowed upon him abroad, as honorary distinctions, by foreign countries or citizens of foreign countries | Free |
| 9804.00.60 | Automobiles rented by any resident of the United States while abroad and imported for the transportation of such resident, his family and guests, and such incidental carriage of articles as may be appropriate to his personal use of the automobile | Free, for such temporary periods as the Secretary of the Treasury by regulation may prescribe |
| 9804.00.65 | Articles, accompanying a person, not over $800 in aggregate fair retail value in the country of acquisition, including (but only in the case of an individual who has attained the age of 21) not more than 1 liter of alcoholic beverages and including not more than 200 cigarettes and 100 cigars | Free |
| 9804.00.70 | Articles whether or not accompanying a person, not over $1600 in aggregate fair market value in the country of acquisition, including:(a) but only in the case of an individual who has attained the age of 21, not more than 5 liters of alcoholic beverages, not more than 1 liter of which shall have been acquired elsewhere than in American Samoa, Guam or the Virgin Islands of the United States, and not more than 4 liters of which shall have been produced elsewhere than in such insular possessions, and (b) not more than 1,000 cigarettes, not more than 200 of which shall have been acquired elsewhere than in such insular possessions, and not more than 100 cigars, if such person arrives directly or indirectly from such insular possessions, not more than $800 of which shall have been acquired elsewhere than in such insular possessions (but this subheading does not permit the entry of articles not accompanying a person which were acquired elsewhere than in such insular possessions) | Free |
| 9804.00.72 | Articles whether or not accompanying a person, not over $800 in aggregate fair market value in the country of acquisition, including- (a) but only in the case of an individual who has attained the age of 21, not more than 1 liter of alcoholic beverages or not more than 2 liters if at least one liter is the product of one or more beneficiary countries, and (b) not more than 200 cigarettes, and not more than 100 cigars, if such person arrives directly from a beneficiary country (but this item does not permit the entry of articles not accompanying a person which were acquired elsewhere than in beneficiary countries) | Free |
| 9804.00.75 | Any article imported to replace a like article of comparable value previously exempted from duty under subheading 9804.00.70, if the article previously exempted shall have been exported, under such supervision as the Secretary may prescribe, within 60 days after its importation because it was found by the importer to be unsatisfactory | Free |
| 9804.00.80 | Articles (including not over 50 cigars, or 300 cigarettes, or 2 kilograms of smoking tobacco or a proportionate amount of each, and not over 1 liter of alcoholic beverages), reasonable and appropriate, and intended exclusively, for the bona fide personal use of, and (except for articles consumed in use) to be taken out of the United States by, any person arriving in the United States who is leaving a vessel, vehicle or aircraft, engaged in international traffic, on which he is employed, with the intention of resuming such employment | Free |
| 9807.00.40 | Articles of metal (including medals, trophies and prizes), for bestowal on persons in the United States, as honorary distinctions, by foreign countries or citizens of foreign countries | Free |
| 9809.00.30 | Articles for the official use of members of the armed forces of any foreign country on duty in the United States | Free |
| 9809.00.40 | Articles which, while in the United States, will remain the property of such government or of such organization and will be used only in connection with noncommercial functions of such government or of such organization, including exhibitions which are sponsored by or participated in by such government or such organization and which are not commercial in character or connected with commercial undertakings | Free |
| 9809.00.70 | Articles for presentation as gifts to the United States Government, to any State or local government or to any public institution organized in the United States | Free |
| 9810.00.25.00 | Altars, pulpits, communion tables, baptismal fonts, shrines, mosaics, iconostases, or parts, appurtenances or adjuncts of any of the foregoing, whether to be physically joined thereto or not, and statuary (except granite or marble cemetery headstones, granite or marble grave markers and granite or marble feature memorials, and except casts of plaster of Paris, or of compositions of paper or papier-mâché) | Free |
| 9810.00.50.00 | Any textile machine or machinery or part thereof, solely for the instruction of students | Free |
| 9810.00.80.00 | Apparatus utilizing any radioactive substance in medical diagnosis or therapeutic treatment, including the radioactive material itself when contained in the apparatus as an integral element thereof, and parts or accessories of any of the foregoing | Free |
| 9811.00.20 | Alcoholic beverage samples (each sample containing not more than 300 milliliters if a malt beverage, not more than 150 milliliters if a wine and not more than 100 milliliters if any other alcoholic beverage) to be used in the United States only for soliciting orders by persons importing alcoholic beverages in commercial quantities | Free |
| 9811.00.60 | Any sample (except samples covered by heading 9811.00.20 or 9811.00.40), valued not over $1 each, or marked, torn, perforated or otherwise treated so that it is unsuitable for sale or for use otherwise than as a sample, to be used in the United States only for soliciting orders for products of foreign countries | Free |
| 9812.00.20.00 | Articles imported for exhibition by any institution or society established for the encouragement of agriculture, arts, education or science, or for such exhibition by any State or for a municipal corporation | Free, under bond, as prescribed in U.S. note 2 to this subchapter |
| 9812.00.40.00 | Articles imported by any institution, society or State, or for a municipal corporation, for the purpose of erecting a public monument | Free, under bond, as prescribed in U.S. note 2 to this subchapter |
| 9813.00.05 | Articles to be repaired, altered or processed (including processes which result in articles manufactured or produced in the United States) | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Free, under bond, as prescribed in U.S. note 1 to this subchapter |
| 9816.00.20 | Accompanying a person, arriving in the United States (exclusive of duty-free articles and articles acquired in American Samoa, Guam or the Virgin Islands of the United States) | 3 percent of the fair retail value |
| 9817.00.70.00 | Animals, game, imported to be liberated in the United States for stocking purposes | Free |
| 9817.00.80 | Articles of copper | Free |
| 9817.60.00.00 | Any of the following articles not intended for sale or distribution to the public: personal effects of aliens who are participants in, officials of, or accredited members of delegations to, an international athletic event held in the United States, such as the Olympics and Paralympics, the Goodwill Games, the Special Olympics World Games, the World Cup Soccer Games, or any similar international athletic event as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine, and of persons who are immediate family members of or servants to any of the foregoing persons; equipment and materials imported in connection with any such foregoing event by or on behalf of the foregoing persons or the organizing committee of such an event, articles to be used in exhibitions depicting the culture of a country participating in such an event; and, if consistent with the foregoing, such other articles as the Secretary of the Treasury may allow | Free |
| 9817.61.01 | Articles of ski racing apparel which, because of their padding, construction, or other special features, are specially designed to protect against injuries from the sport of ski racing, such as blows caused by slalom gates or falls (provided for in subheading 6101.30.20, 6105.20.20, 6110.11, 6110.12.20, 6110.19, 6110.20.20, 6110.30.30, 6112.20.10, 6114.30.30, 6203.43.15 or 6203.43.35) | 5.5% |
| 9818.00.01.00 | Any equipment, or any part of equipment, purchased for, or the repair parts or materials employed in, or the expense of repairs made in a foreign country with respect to, a LASH (Lighter Aboard Ship) barge utilized as a cargo container, upon first arrival of such barge in any port of the United States | Free |
| 9902.01.04 | Artichokes, prepared or preserved by vinegar or acetic acid (provided for in subheading 2001.90.25) | 7.2% |
| 9902.01.10 | Artichokes, prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen (provided for in subheading 2005.99.80) | 12.7% |
| 9902.01.30 | Amorphous silicon dioxide micro-spheres of mean particle size of 0.050-0.100 mm, and specific electrical resistance of 50,000 Ohm cm or more (CAS No. 7631-86-9) (provided for in subheading 2811.22.10) | Free |
| 9902.01.31 | Amorphous silicon dioxide micro-spheres of mean particle size 0.003-0.018 mm, linseed oil absorption 30-40 ml/g, surface area less than 80 m²/g, and pore volume less than 0.1 ml/g (CAS No. 7631-86-9) (provided for in subheading 2811.22.10) | Free |
| 9902.01.41 | Ammonium bifluoride (Ammonium fluoride hydrofluoride (1:1:1)) (CAS No. 1341-49-7) (provided for in subheading 2826.19.10) | Free |
| 9902.01.59 | Ammonium polyphosphate (CAS No. 68333-79-9) (provided for in subheading 2835.39.50) | Free |
| 9902.01.83 | Allyl Bromide (3-bromo-1-propene) (CAS No. 106-95-6) (provided for in subheading 2903.39.20) | Free |
| 9902.02.82 | Allyl methacrylate (CAS No. 96-05-9) (provided for in subheading 2916.14.20) | Free |
About this letter-paged tariff browse
Tariff lines starting with the letter A span multiple HTS chapters and sections, because the Harmonized Tariff Schedule classifies products by common product name rather than by industry sector at the description level. Products beginning with this letter may appear across animal-product chapters, mineral-product chapters, prepared-food chapters, machinery chapters, and so on — wherever the USITC's plain-language description for the tariff line happens to start with A. The pagination above moves through every line whose description starts with this letter, in chapter order by default.
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Why duty rates vary so widely
MFN duty rates on the schedule range from 0% (free) on roughly 5,979 tariff lines to north of 100% on a small number of textile and tobacco classifications. The variation reflects decades of accumulated trade policy: GATT/WTO rounds of reciprocal tariff reductions, sector-specific protection retained for textiles, footwear, and certain agricultural commodities, and special programs that eliminated duties for products with strategic-supply or development-policy rationale. Within a single chapter, individual subheadings can carry rates from 0% to 30%+ depending on the specific product description — which is why classification accuracy matters so much for importers.
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Additional duties beyond the MFN rate
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