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820. 10

820.20

820.30

820.40 820.50

820. 60

821.00

822. 10

Subpart C.-Personnel of Foreign Governments and International
Organizations; Distinguished Visitors-Continued

Subpart C headnotes-Continued

2. The privileges of item 821.00 are limited to such personal effects and equipment as are necessary for the occasion and temporary visit, and are to be exported no later than 30 days after the conclusion of the public demonstration.

3. The term "articles entered for the personal or family use", as used in this subpart, does not include articles imported as an accommodation to others or for sale or other commercial use.

4. The privileges provided for in this subpart for representa-
tives, officers, employees, and members of the armed forces,
of foreign governments, their families, suites, and servants,
shall be accorded only if their government grants reciprocal
privileges to United States personnel of comparable status.
Baggage and effects of the following persons who are aliens:

Upon the request of the Department of State, ambassadors,
ministers, chargé d'affaires, secretaries, counselors, attachés,
and other representatives, officers and employees of foreign
governments, accredited to the United States or en route to
or from other countries to which accredited, and their imme-
diate families, suites, and servants.
Upon the request of the Department of State, diplomatic cou-
riers of foreign governmerts.
Upon the request of the Department of State, representatives
of foreign governments in or to, and officers and employees
of, organizations designated by the President of the United
States as public international organizations pursuant to
section 1 of the International Organizations Immunities Act
(22 U.S.C. 288), and their immediate families, suites, and
servants.

Persons on duty in the United States as members of the armed
forces of any foreign country, and their immediate families.
Upon the request of the Department of State, persons desig-
nated by the Department of State as high officials of foreign
governments or distinguished foreign visitors, and their
immediate families.

Upon the request of the Department of State, persons desig-
nated pursuant to statute or pursuant to treaties ratified by
the United States Senate.
Upon the request of the Department of State, personal effects and
equipment of groups or delegations of foreign residents arriving
in the United States on goodwill visits of short duration to par-
ticipate in patriotic celebrations, festivals, and other demonstra-
tions of public interest and which will be exported or destroyed
at the conclusion of the visit.

Rates of duty

Free.

Free...

822. 20 822.30

822.40

Articles entered for the personal or family use of the following
persons who are aliens on duty in the United States:
Upon the request of the Department of State, ambassadors,
ministers, chargé d'affaires, secretaries, counselors, and
attachés of foreign embassies and legations.
Members of the armed forces of any foreign country..
Upon the request of the Department of State, other representa-
tives, officers, and employees of foreign governments.
Upon the request of the Department of State, persons desig-
nated pursuant to statute or pursuant to treaties ratified by
the United States Senate.

Plants, seeds, and all other material for planting..
Articles for the Commodity Credit Corporation:

Free...

Free.

835.00 836.00

840.00

Materials certified by it to the Commissioner of Customs to be strategic materials acquired by that agency as a result of barter or exchange of agricultural commodities or products. Subpart B.-Foreign Governments and International Organizations Subpart B headnotes:

1. Any article exempted under this subpart from the payment of duty shall be exempt also from the payment of any internalrevenue tax imposed upon or by reason of importation.

2. The term "public international organization", as used in
this subpart, means an organization so designated by the
President pursuant to section 1 of the International Orga-
nizations Immunities Act (22 U.S.C. 288).

Public documents issued wholly at the instance and expense of a
foreign government, of a political subdivision of a foreign country,
or of an international organization the membership of which
includes two or more foreign countries.

Articles for foreign governments on a reciprocal basis, and for
public international organi ations:

841.10

841.20

842.10

842.20

842.30

842.40

842.50

Upon the request of the Department of State, office supplies Free..
and equipment and other articles for the official use of
representatives of foreign governments, or of personnel of
pulic international organi ations, on duty in the United
States.

Articles for the official use of members of the armed forces of any
foreign country on duty in the United States.
Upon the request of the Department of State, articles which are
the property of a foreign government or of a public international
organization:

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 exhibi-
tions 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.

Prosthetic appliances furnished by a foreign government to
former members of its armed forces who reside in the United
States.

Headstones furnished by a foreign government for graves of its
war veterans buried in the United States.
Articles for presentation as gifts to the United States Govern-
ment, to any State or local government, or to any public
institution organi ed in the United States.
Printed matter, not containing advertising matter, for free
distribution.

Free.

Free...

Free..

Free.

850, 10

850, 30

850.40 850.50

Part 4 headnotes;

1. Except as provided in items 850.50 and 852.20, the articles covered by this part must be imported exclusively for the use of the institutions involved, and not for distribution, sale, or other commercial use.

2. The term "regalia" as used in this part (items 850.40 and 851.30) embraces only such insignia of rank or office, emblems, or other articles as may be worn upon the person or borne in the hand during public exercises of the institution, and does not include articles of furniture or fixtures, nor regular wearing apparel, nor personal property of individuals.

3. Architectural, engineering, industrial, or commercial drawings and plans are not covered by this part unless they are intended solely for exhibition or for educational use under item 851.10 (see part 5 of schedule 2).

4. Painted, colored, or stained glass windows, and parts thereof, not covered by item 850.30 are provided for in part 3B of schedule 5.

5. Part 5B of this schedule contains provisions under which
certain institutions may import articles free of duty for perma-
nent exhibition under bond.

Articles imported for the use of an institution established solely for
religious purposes:

Books, charts, paintings, pastels, drawings, sketches, engrav-
ings, etchings, lithographs, woodcuts, maps, music, sound
recordings, and photographic or other prints, all the fore-
going whether bound or unbound, and exposed photographic
films (including motion-picture films) whether or not de-
veloped.

Painted, colored, or stained glass windows and parts thereof,
all the foregoing valued over $15 per square foot and designed
by, and produced by or under the direction of, a professional
artist.
Regalia..

Item

PART 4.-IMPORTATIONS OF RELIGIOUS, EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC, AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS-Continued

Articles

Articles imported for the use of an institution organized and oper-
ated for religious purposes, including cemeteries, schools, hospi-
tals, orphanages, and similar nonprofit activities staffed and
controlled by such institution:

850.70

851, 10

Altars, pulpits, communion tables, baptismal fonts, shrines, Free..
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).
Articles imported for the use of any public library, any other public
institution, or any institution established solely for eductional,
scientific, literary, or philosophical purposes, or for the encourage-
ment of the fine arts:

Books, charts, paintings, pastels, drawings, sketches, engrav-
ings, etchings, lithographs, woodcuts, maps, music, sound
recordings, and photographic or other prints, all the foregoing
whether bound or unbound, and exposed photographic films
(including motion-picture films) whether or not developed.
Sculptures and statuary.

Regalia

Free

Free.

851. 20 851.30 851.40

Free

Free.

Any textile machine or machinery, or part thereof, solely for the
instruction of students.

860.10

860.20

860.30

Free.

Item 852.20 amended by Pub. L. 88-482, § 1 (a), (c), Aug. 22, 1964, 73 Stat. 594, effective on the tenth day after Aug. 22, 1964.

PART 5.-SAMPLES; ARTICLES ADMITTED FREE OF DUTY UNDER BOND
[28 F.R. 9035]

Subpart A.-Samples for Soliciting Orders

Subpart A headnotes:

1. Any article exempted under this subpart from the pay-
ment of duty shall be exempt also from the payment of any
internal-revenue tax imposed upon or by reason of importation
and from the labeling requirements of the Federal Alcohol
Administration Act and chapter 52 of the Internal Revenue
Code of 1954.

2. The provisions of item 860.10 or 860.20 apply to not more
than one sample of each beverage product, or of each tobacco
product, cigarette paper, or cigarette tube, respectively, admit-
ted during any calendar quarter for the use of each person im-
porting alcoholic beverages, tobacco products, cigarette papers,
or cigarette tubes in commercial quantities.
Alcoholic beverage samples (each sample containing not more than
8 ounces if a malt beverage, not more than 4 ounces if a wine, and
not more than 2 ounces if any other alcoholic beverage) to be used
in the United States only for soliciting orders by persons import-
ing alcoholic beverages in commercial quantities.
Samples of tobacco products, and cigarette papers and tubes (each
sample consisting of not more than (a) 3 cigars, (b) 3 cigarettes,
(c) ounce of tobacco, (d) 18 ounce of snuff, (e) 3 cigarette tubes,
or (f) 25 cigarette papers) to be used in the United States only for
soliciting orders by persons importing tobacco products, cigarette
papers, or cigarette tubes in commercial quantities.
Any sample (except samples covered by item 860.10 or 8€0.20),
valued not over $1 each, or marked, torn, perforated, or other-
wise treated so that it is unsuitable for sale or for use other vise
than as a sample, to be used in the United States only for solicit-
ing orders for products of foreign countries.

Subpart B.-Articles for Permanent Exhibition under Bond
Subpart B headnotes:

1. The provisions of this subpart do not apply to articles
intended for sale or for any purpose other than exhibition or
erecting a public monument, nor do they apply to any institu-
tion or society engaged in or connected with business of a private
or commercial character. Articles admitted under item 862.10
may be transferred from an organization specified therein to
another such organization, or temporarily to a commercial gal-
lery or other premises, for exhibition and not for sale.

2. Prior to the release of articles under item 862.10 or 862.20, bond shall be given for the payment of lawful duties which may accrue should any of the articles be sold, transferred, or used contrary to the provisions of this subpart within 5 years after the date of entry hereunder, and such articles shall be subject at any time within such 5 year period to examination and inspection by customs officers. Surety on such bonds may be waived in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury.

864.05

864.10

864.15

Subpart B.-Articles for Permanent Exhibition Under Bond-Con.

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.

Articles imported by any institution, society, or State, or for a
municipal corporation, for the purpose of erecting a public
monument.

Subpart C.-Articles Admitted Temporarily Free of Duty Under
Subpart C head notes:

Bond

1. The articles described in the provisions of this subpart, when not imported for sale or for sale on approval, may be admitted into the United States without the payment of duty, under bond for their exportation within 1 year from the date of importation, which period, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, may be extended, upon application, for one or more further periods which, when added to the initial 1 year, shall not exceed a total of 3 years, except that articles imported under item 864.75 shall be admitted under bond for their exportation within 6 months from the date of importation and such 6-months period shall not be extended. For purposes of this headnote, an aircraft engine or propeller, or any part or accessory of either, imported under item 864.05, which is removed physically from the United States as part of an aircraft departing from the United States in international traffic shall be treated as exported.

2. Merchandise may be admitted into the United States under item 864.05 only on condition that

(a) such merchandise will not be processed into an article manufactured or produced in the United States if such article is

(1) alcohol, distilled spirits, wine, beer, or any dilution or mixture of any or all of the foregoing;

(ii) a perfume or other commodity containing ethyl alcohol (whether or not such alcohol is denatured), or (iii) a product of wheat; and

(b) if any processing of such merchandise results in an article (other than an article described in (a) of this headnote) manufactured or produced in the United States

(i) a complete accounting will be made to the Customs Service for all articles, wastes, and irrecoverable losses resulting from such processing, and

(ii) all articles and valuable wastes resulting from such processing will be exported or destroyed under customs supervision within the bonded period.

3. Upon satisfactory proof that any article admitted under item 864.30 has been destroyed because of its use for any purpose provided for therein, the obligation under the bond to export such article shall be treated as satisfied.

4. Collectors of customs may defer the exaction of a bond for not to exceed 90 days after the date of importation for vehicles and craft entered under item 864.35 to take part in races or other specific contests for other than money purses; but unless any such vehicle or craft is exported or the bond is given within the period of such deferment, such vehicle or craft shall be subject to forfeiture.

5. Articles may be admitted under item 864.75 only on condition that the Secretary of the Treasury shall have found that the foreign country from which the articles were imported allows, or will allow, substantially reciprocal privileges in respect of similar imports to such country from the United States; and if the Secretary finds that a foreign country has discontinued, or will discontinue, the allowance of such privileges, the privileges of item 864.75 shall not apply thereafter in respect of imports from such foreign country.

Articles to be repaired, altered, or processed (including processes
which results in articles manufactured or produced in the United
States.

Models of women's wearing apparel imported by manufacturers for
use solely as models in their own establishments.
Articles imported by illustrators and photographers for use solely
as models in their own establishments, in the illustrating of
catalogues, pamplets, or advertising matter.

864.20 Samples solely for use in taking orders for merchandise..

864.25 Articles solely for examination with a view to reproduction, or for such examination and reproduction (except photoengraved printing plates for examination and reproduction); and motionpicture advertising films.

864.30

864.35

864.40

864.45

Articles intended solely for testing, experimental, or review purposes, including plans, specifications, drawings, blueprints, photographs, and similar articles for use in connection with experiments or for study.

Free, under bond, as prescribed
in headnote 2.

Free, under bond, as prescribed
in headnote 1.

Automobiles, motorcycles, bicycles, airplanes, airships, balloons,
boats, racing shells, and similor 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 pur-
pose of taking part in races or other specific contests.
Locomotives and other railroad equipment brought temporarily Free, under bond, as prescribed
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 interna-
tional traffic when the Secretary of the Treasury finds that the
temporary use of foreign railroad equipment is necessary to meet
an emergency.

Containers for compressed gases, filled or empty, and containers
or other articles in use for covering or holding merchandise (in-
cluding personal or household effects) during transportation and
suitable for reuse for that purpose.

in headnote 1.

Free, under bond, as prescribed
in headnote 1.

Free, under bond, as prescribed in headnote 2.

Free, under bond, as prescribed in head note 2.

Free, under bond, as prescribed in headnote 1.

Free, under bond, as prescribed
in headnote 1.
Free, under bond, as prescribed
in headnote 1.

Free, under bond, as prescribed in headnote 1.

864. 50

864.55 864.60

864. 65

864.70

864.75

867.00

Professional equipment, tools of trade, and camping equipment
imported for their own use by nonresidents sojourning tempo-
rarily in the United States.

Articles of special design for temporary use exclusively in connec-
tion with the manufacture or production of articles for export.
Animals and poultry brought into the United States for the pur-
pose of breeding, exhibition, or competition for prizes, and the
usual equipment therefor.

Theatrical scenery, properties, and apparel brought into the United
States by proprietors or managers of theatrical exhibitions arriv-
ing from abroad for temporary use by them in such exhibitions.
Works of the free fine arts, drawings, 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 ex' ibition and in illus-
tration, promotion, and encouragement of art, science, or indus-
try in the United States.

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

Subpart C, headnote 1, amended by Pub. L. 88-334, June 30, 1964, 78 Stat. 231, effective with respect to articles physically removed from the United States on or after June 30, 1964, without regard to when such articles were admitted into the United States. For the purposes of this

870. 10

Free, under bond, as prescribed Free, under bond, as prescribed
in headnote 1.
in headnote 1.

amendment, articles imported before August 31, 1963, under section 308 (1) of the Tariff Act of 1930 [former section 1308(1) of this title shall be treated as imported under item 864.05 of the Tariff Schedules of the United States.

PART 6.-OTHER SPECIAL CLASSIFICATION PROVISIONS
[28 F.R. 9041]

Records, diagrams, and other data with regard to any business,
engineering, or exploration operation conducted outside the
United States, whether on paper, cards, photographs, blueprints,
tapes, or other media.

Free..

Free.

Nets or sections or parts of nets:

870.20 870.25

Monofilament gill nets to be used for fish sampling..

To be used in taking wild birds under license issued by an
appropriate Federal or State governmental authority.

Free.

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