What is the typical U.S. duty rate for Chapter 96 imports?

General (Column 1) duty rates for ad-valorem lines range from 1.8% to 32% (median 5.2%); roughly 24% of lines enter duty-free. Use the calculator linked from each code page to build a date- and origin-specific import-duty estimate, including applicable Chapter 99 layers and customs fees. Potential AD/CVD exposure is flagged separately and is not included in the estimate.

How are Section 301 and Section 232 measures represented in the HTSUS?

Section 301 and Section 232 measures are represented by Chapter 99 provisions. A catalog link between a provision and a 10-digit line is a screening flag, not a claim that the measure applies; origin, product and material facts, claims, and entry date control the result.

How do I screen for antidumping or countervailing duty (AD/CVD) when using Chapter 96?

AD/CVD orders are issued at the case level by the Department of Commerce against specific products from specific countries. Use the product's base HTS code to find potentially relevant AD/CVD order flags, then read the written order scope; an HTS match alone does not determine coverage.

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Section XX: Miscellaneous Manufactured Articles

Chapter 96: Miscellaneous manufactured articles

Q: What does HTS Chapter 96 cover?

Chapter 96 of the U.S. Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTSUS) covers Miscellaneous manufactured articles. It sits within Section XX: Miscellaneous Manufactured Articles. Tandom's catalog lists all 157 10-digit statistical lines and 10 4-digit headings in this chapter.

Chapter 96 of the U.S. Harmonized Tariff Schedule covers Miscellaneous manufactured articles and sits within Section XX: Miscellaneous Manufactured Articles.

About Chapter 96

Chapter 96 contains 157 10-digit statistical lines grouped under 10 4-digit headings. Brokers, importers, and customs counsel use these codes to declare miscellaneous manufactured articles on entry summaries (CBP Form 7501) and to look up the published Column 1, Special, and Column 2 rate notation.

General (Column 1) duty rates for ad-valorem lines in Chapter 96 range from 1.8% to 32%, with a median of 5.2%. About 18% of the chapter's lines (29 of 157) enter duty-free under the general rate. Special-rate notation (including USMCA, KORUS, AGOA, and GSP when authorized) and Chapter 99 measures can modify these base rates for qualifying shipments.

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.

Code	Description	General	Column 2	Special	Units
9601.10.00.00	Worked ivory and articles of ivory	Free	35%	—	No., kg
9601.90	Other:	—	—	—	—
9601.90.20.00	·Worked shell and articles thereof	Free	35%	—	No., kg
9601.90.40.00	·Coral, cut but not set, and cameos, suitable for use in jewelry	2.1%	10%	Free (A*,AU,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL,JO,KR,MA,OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG)	kg
9601.90.60.00	·Of bone, horn, hoof, whalebone, quill or any combination thereof	Free	25%	—	No., kg
9601.90.80.00	·Other	3.7%	20%	Free (A*,AU,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL,JO,KR,MA,OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG)	No., kg

Code	Description	General	Column 2	Special	Units
9606.10	Press-fasteners, snap-fasteners and press-studs and parts thereof:	—	—	—	—
9606.10.40.00	·Valued not over 20¢ per dozen pieces or parts	3.5%

Code	Description	General	Column 2	Special	Units
9607.11.00.00	·Fitted with chain scoops of base metal	10%	66%	Free (A,AU,B,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL,JO,KR,MA,OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG)	No.
9607.19.00	·Other	13%

Code	Description	General	Column 2	Special	Units
9608.10.00.00	Ball point pens	0.8¢ each + 5.4%	6¢ each + 40%	Free (A,AU,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL,JO,KR,MA,OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG)	No.
9608.20.00.00	Felt tipped and other porous-tipped pens and markers

Code	Description	General	Column 2	Special	Units
9609.10.00.00	Pencils and crayons, with leads encased in a sheath	14¢/gross + 4.3%	50¢/gross + 30%	Free (A*,AU,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL,JO,KR,MA,OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG)	gross
9609.20	Pencil leads, black or colored:

Chapter 96: Miscellaneous manufactured articles

`9601`Worked ivory, bone, tortoise-shell, horn, antlers, coral, mother-of-pearl and other animal carving material, and articles of these materials (including articles obtained by molding):

`9602`

`9603`Brooms, brushes (including brushes constituting parts of machines, appliances or vehicles), hand-operated mechanical floor sweepers, not motorized, mops and feather dusters; prepared knots and tufts for broom or brush making; paint pads and rollers; squeegees (other than roller squeegees):

`9604`Hand sieves and hand riddles

`9605`Travel sets for personal toilet, sewing or shoe or clothes cleaning (other than manicure and pedicure sets of heading 8214)

`9606`Buttons, press-fasteners, snap-fasteners and press-studs, button molds and other parts of these articles; button blanks:

`9607`Slide fasteners and parts thereof:

`9609`Pencils (other than those pencils of heading 9608), crayons, pencil leads, pastels, drawing charcoals, writing or drawing chalks and tailors' chalks:

`9610`Slates and boards, with writing or drawing surfaces, whether or not framed

`9611`Date, sealing or numbering stamps and the like, (including devices for printing or embossing labels), designed for operating in the hand; hand-operated composing sticks and hand printing sets incorporating such composing sticks

`9612`Typewriter or similar ribbons, inked or otherwise prepared for giving impressions, whether or not on spools or in cartridges; ink pads, whether or not inked, with or without boxes:

`9613`Cigarette lighters and other lighters, whether or not mechanical or electrical, and parts thereof other than flints and wicks:

`9614`

`9615`Combs, hair-slides and the like; hairpins, curling pins, curling grips, hair-curlers and the like, other than those of heading 8516, and parts thereof:

`9616`Scent sprayers and similar toilet sprayers, and mounts and heads therefor; powder puffs and pads for the application of cosmetics or toilet preparations:

`9617`

`9618`Tailors' dummies and other mannequins; automatons and other animated displays used for shopwindow dressing

`9619`

`9620`

Frequently asked questions

What does HTS Chapter 96 cover?

What is the typical U.S. duty rate for Chapter 96 imports?

How are Section 301 and Section 232 measures represented in the HTSUS?

How do I screen for antidumping or countervailing duty (AD/CVD) when using Chapter 96?

Code	Description	General	Column 2	Special	Units
9602.00	Worked vegetable or mineral carving material and articles of these materials; molded or carved articles of wax, of stearin, of natural gums or natural resins, of modeling pastes, and other molded or carved articles, not elsewhere specified or included; worked, unhardened gelatin (except gelatin of heading 3503) and articles of unhardened gelatin:	—	—	—	—
9602.00.10	Worked unhardened gelatin and articles thereof

Code	Description	General	Column 2	Special	Units
9603.10	Brooms and brushes, consisting of twigs or other vegetable materials bound together, with or without handles:	—	—	—	—
9603.10.05.00

Code	Description	General	Column 2	Special	Units
9612.10	Ribbons:	—	—	—	—
9612.10.10	·Measuring less than 30 mm in width, permanently put up in plastic or metal cartridges (whether or not containing spools) of a kind used in typewriters, automatic data processing or other machines

Code	Description	General	Column 2	Special	Units
9613.10.00.00	Pocket lighters, gas fueled, non-refillable	4%	110%	Free (A*,AU,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL,JO,KR,MA,OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG)	No.
9613.20.00.00	Pocket lighters, gas fueled, refillable	9%

Code	Description	General	Column 2	Special	Units
9614.00	Smoking pipes (including pipe bowls) and cigar or cigarette holders, and parts thereof:	—	—	—	—
9614.00.21.00	··Roughly shaped blocks of wood or root, for the manufacture of pipes	Free

Code	Description	General	Column 2	Special	Units
9615.11	·Of hard rubber or plastics:	—	—	—	—
9615.11.10.00	···Valued not over $4.50 per gross	14.4¢/gross + 2%

Code	Description	General	Column 2	Special	Units
9616.10.00.00	Scent sprayers and similar toilet sprayers, and mounts and heads therefor	Free	40%	—	No.
9616.20.00.00	Powder puffs and pads for the application of cosmetics or toilet preparations

Code	Description	General	Column 2	Special	Units
9617.00	Vacuum flasks and other vacuum vessels, complete; parts thereof other than glass inners:	—	—	—	—
9617.00.10.00	·Having a capacity not exceeding 1 liter	7.2%

Code	Description	General	Column 2	Special	Units
9619.00	Sanitary pads (towels) and tampons, diapers (napkins), diaper liners and similar articles, of any material:	—	—	—	—
9619.00.05.00	Of plastics	5%	25%

Code	Description	General	Column 2	Special	Units
9620.00	Monopods, bipods, tripods and similar articles:	—	—	—	—
9620.00.10.00	Accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading 8519 or 8521	2%	35%

9601Worked ivory, bone, tortoise-shell, horn, antlers, coral, mother-of-pearl and other animal carving material, and articles of these materials (including articles obtained by molding):

9602

9603Brooms, brushes (including brushes constituting parts of machines, appliances or vehicles), hand-operated mechanical floor sweepers, not motorized, mops and feather dusters; prepared knots and tufts for broom or brush making; paint pads and rollers; squeegees (other than roller squeegees):

9604Hand sieves and hand riddles

9605Travel sets for personal toilet, sewing or shoe or clothes cleaning (other than manicure and pedicure sets of heading 8214)

9606Buttons, press-fasteners, snap-fasteners and press-studs, button molds and other parts of these articles; button blanks:

9607Slide fasteners and parts thereof:

9609Pencils (other than those pencils of heading 9608), crayons, pencil leads, pastels, drawing charcoals, writing or drawing chalks and tailors' chalks:

9610Slates and boards, with writing or drawing surfaces, whether or not framed

9611Date, sealing or numbering stamps and the like, (including devices for printing or embossing labels), designed for operating in the hand; hand-operated composing sticks and hand printing sets incorporating such composing sticks

9612Typewriter or similar ribbons, inked or otherwise prepared for giving impressions, whether or not on spools or in cartridges; ink pads, whether or not inked, with or without boxes:

9613Cigarette lighters and other lighters, whether or not mechanical or electrical, and parts thereof other than flints and wicks:

9614

9615Combs, hair-slides and the like; hairpins, curling pins, curling grips, hair-curlers and the like, other than those of heading 8516, and parts thereof:

9616Scent sprayers and similar toilet sprayers, and mounts and heads therefor; powder puffs and pads for the application of cosmetics or toilet preparations:

9617

9618Tailors' dummies and other mannequins; automatons and other animated displays used for shopwindow dressing

9619

9620

Frequently asked questions

What does HTS Chapter 96 cover?

What is the typical U.S. duty rate for Chapter 96 imports?

How are Section 301 and Section 232 measures represented in the HTSUS?

How do I screen for antidumping or countervailing duty (AD/CVD) when using Chapter 96?

`9601`Worked ivory, bone, tortoise-shell, horn, antlers, coral, mother-of-pearl and other animal carving material, and articles of these materials (including articles obtained by molding):

`9602`

`9603`Brooms, brushes (including brushes constituting parts of machines, appliances or vehicles), hand-operated mechanical floor sweepers, not motorized, mops and feather dusters; prepared knots and tufts for broom or brush making; paint pads and rollers; squeegees (other than roller squeegees):

`9604`Hand sieves and hand riddles

`9605`Travel sets for personal toilet, sewing or shoe or clothes cleaning (other than manicure and pedicure sets of heading 8214)

`9606`Buttons, press-fasteners, snap-fasteners and press-studs, button molds and other parts of these articles; button blanks:

`9607`Slide fasteners and parts thereof:

`9609`Pencils (other than those pencils of heading 9608), crayons, pencil leads, pastels, drawing charcoals, writing or drawing chalks and tailors' chalks:

`9610`Slates and boards, with writing or drawing surfaces, whether or not framed

`9611`Date, sealing or numbering stamps and the like, (including devices for printing or embossing labels), designed for operating in the hand; hand-operated composing sticks and hand printing sets incorporating such composing sticks

`9612`Typewriter or similar ribbons, inked or otherwise prepared for giving impressions, whether or not on spools or in cartridges; ink pads, whether or not inked, with or without boxes:

`9613`Cigarette lighters and other lighters, whether or not mechanical or electrical, and parts thereof other than flints and wicks:

`9614`

`9615`Combs, hair-slides and the like; hairpins, curling pins, curling grips, hair-curlers and the like, other than those of heading 8516, and parts thereof:

`9616`Scent sprayers and similar toilet sprayers, and mounts and heads therefor; powder puffs and pads for the application of cosmetics or toilet preparations:

`9617`

`9618`Tailors' dummies and other mannequins; automatons and other animated displays used for shopwindow dressing

`9619`

`9620`