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 applicable Column 1, Special, and Column 2 duty rates.
All 50 10-digit lines in this chapter enter duty-free under the general (Column 1) rate. Country-of-origin overlays (Section 301 for China, Section 232 for steel/aluminum, IEEPA reciprocal tariffs, AD/CVD orders) can still apply on top of the base rate — open any code for the live overlay stack.
Every code page links into the Tandom Tariff Calculator with the HTS code prefilled, so you can compute the full landed duty for a specific shipment by entering value, country of origin, and (where relevant) material content or date of entry. 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.