Section X: Pulp of Wood or of Other Fibrous Cellulosic Material; Paper and Paperboard; Articles Thereof
Chapter 49: Printed books, newspapers, pictures and other products of the printing industry; manuscripts, typescripts and plans
Chapter 49 of the U.S. Harmonized Tariff Schedule covers Printed books, newspapers, pictures and other products of the printing industry; manuscripts, typescripts and plans and sits within Section X: Pulp of Wood or of Other Fibrous Cellulosic Material; Paper and Paperboard; Articles Thereof.
About Chapter 49
Chapter 49 contains 50 10-digit statistical lines grouped under 5 4-digit headings. Brokers, importers, and customs counsel use these codes to declare printed books, newspapers, pictures and other products of the printing industry; manuscripts, typescripts and plans on entry summaries (CBP Form 7501) and to look up the published Column 1, Special, and Column 2 rate notation.
All 50 10-digit lines in this chapter enter duty-free under the general (Column 1) rate. Chapter 99 flags or potentially relevant AD/CVD order flags can still appear beyond the base rate; use the calculator's entry-date and origin inputs, and read any AD/CVD order's written scope.
Product-code pages link into the Tandom Tariff Calculator with the base HTS code prefilled. Chapter 99 provision pages instead show mapped base codes and send you to a dated calculator scenario, which determines whether a measure applies from the entry facts. Tandom's data refreshes daily from USITC HTSUS, CBP CSMS, the Federal Register, and the Department of Commerce — the same authoritative sources the trade community files against.