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    3701.91.00

    For color photography (polychrome)

    HTS code 3701.91.00 covers unexposed color photographic plates and film (other than paper, paperboard, or textiles). Use this code for importing these products to understand applicable duty rates – generally 3.7% but potentially free depending on the country of origin due to trade agreements – as detailed within Chapter 37.

    For color photography (polychrome)

    Detailed information for HTS Code 3701.91.00

    Chapter 37 covers photographic or cinematographic goods, excluding waste and scrap, and defines “photographic” as relating to image formation through light or radiation on photosensitive surfaces. Code 3701.91.00 specifically covers flat, unexposed photographic plates and film (not paper, paperboard, or textiles) designed for color photography. This code has two statistical suffixes: 3701.91.00.30 for disc film and 3701.91.00.60 for all other color photographic film; choose the suffix that accurately reflects the type of film being reported. Reporting is done in units of number or square meters.

    ChapterChapter 37 - Photographic or cinematographic goods
    SectionSection VI - Products of the Chemical or Allied Industries

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    Quick reference for the duty outcomes tied to this HTS line.

    General Duty

    3.70%

    Standard trade partners (NTR)

    Special Duty

    Free (A,AU,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL,JO,KR,MA,OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG)

    Eligible FTA or preference programs

    The general duty rate for HTS code 3701.91.00 and its subdivisions (3701.91.00.30 – Disc film and 3701.91.00.60 – Other) is 3.70%, applicable to imports from countries without a specified preferential trade agreement. However, several countries (A, AU, BH, CL, CO, D, E, IL, JO, KR, MA, OM, P, PA, PE, S, SG) are eligible for a free (0%) duty rate under specific FTA or preference programs. Reporting units for this code are either in number (No.) or square meters (m2). It is not specified whether these units are required or optional.

    Rate of Duty (Column 2): 25%

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    Code subdivisions

    3701.91.00.30

    Photographic plates and film in the flat, sensitized, unexposed, of any material other than paper, paperboard or textiles; instant print film in the flat, sensitized, unexposed, whether or not in packs: > Other: > For color photography (polychrome) > Disc film

    3701.91.00.60

    Photographic plates and film in the flat, sensitized, unexposed, of any material other than paper, paperboard or textiles; instant print film in the flat, sensitized, unexposed, whether or not in packs: > Other: > For color photography (polychrome) > Other

    Chapter & section notes

    Chapter notes

    Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States Revision 29 (2025) Annotated for Statistical Reporting Purposes CHAPTER 37 PHOTOGRAPHIC OR CINEMATOGRAPHIC GOODS VI 37-1 Notes 1. This chapter does not cover waste or scrap. 2. In this chapter the word “photographic” relates to the process by which visible images are formed, directly or indirectly, by the action of light or other forms of radiation on photosensitive, including thermosensitive, surfaces. Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States Revision 29 (2025) Annotated for Statistical Reporting Purposes VI 37-2

    Section notes

    SECTION VI PRODUCTS OF THE CHEMICAL OR ALLIED INDUSTRIES VI-1 Notes 1. (a) Goods (other than radioactive ores) answering to a description in heading 2844 or 2845 are to be classified in those headings and in no other heading of the tariff schedule. (b) Subject to paragraph (a) above, goods answering to a description in heading 2843, 2846 or 2852 are to be classified in those headings and in no other heading of this section. 2. Subject to note 1 above, goods classifiable in heading 3004, 3005, 3006, 3212, 3303, 3304, 3305, 3306, 3307, 3506, 3707 or 3808 by reason of being put up in measured doses or for retail sale are to be classified in those headings and in no other heading of the tariff schedule. 3. Goods put up in sets consisting of two or more separate constituents, some or all of which fall in this section and are intended to be mixed together to obtain a product of section VI or VII, are to be classified in the heading appropriate to that product, provided that the constituents are: (a) Having regard to the manner in which they are put up, clearly identifiable as being intended to be used together without first being repacked; (b) Entered together; and (c) Identifiable, whether by their nature or by the relative proportions in which they are present, as being complementary one to another. 4. Where a product answers to a description in one or more of the headings in section VI by virtue of being described by name or function and also to heading 3827, then it is classifiable in a heading that references the product by name or function and not under heading 3827. Additional U.S. Notes 1. In determining the amount of duty applicable to a solution of a single compound in water subject to duty in this section at a specific rate, an allowance in weight or volume, as the case may be, shall be made for the water in excess of any water of crystallization which may be present in the undissolved compound. 2. For the purposes of the tariff schedule: (a) The term "aromatic" as applied to any chemical compound refers to such compound containing one or more fused or unfused benzene rings; (b) The term "modified aromatic" describes a molecular structure having at least one six-membered heterocyclic ring which contains at least four carbon atoms and having an arrangement of molecular bonds as in the benzene ring or in the quinone ring, but does not include any such molecular structure in which one or more pyrimidine rings are the only modified aromatic rings present; (c) For the purposes of headings 2902, 2907 and 3817, the term "alkyl" describes any saturated acyclic hydrocarbon group having six or more carbon atoms or, subject to note 1 to

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