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    3707.10.00

    Sensitizing emulsions

    HTS code 3707.10.00 covers sensitizing emulsions used for photographic applications. This code is used for importing these chemical preparations, with a general duty of 3% unless the goods qualify for free trade benefits with specific partner countries.

    Sensitizing emulsions

    Detailed information for HTS Code 3707.10.00

    Chapter 37 covers photographic or cinematographic goods, excluding waste and scrap, and defines “photographic” broadly as processes using light or radiation on sensitive surfaces. Code 3707.10.00 specifically addresses sensitizing emulsions, which are chemical preparations used in photography, put up in measured portions or ready for retail sale. This code has two subdivisions: 3707.10.00.05 for emulsions used in color negative photographic paper, and 3707.10.00.90 for all other sensitizing emulsions, so choose the suffix that best describes the emulsion’s intended use.

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

    Duty snapshot

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

    General Duty

    3%

    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 3707.10.00 (Sensitizing emulsions) is 3% with standard trade partner (NTR) status. However, specific countries including Australia, Bahrain, Chile, Colombia, Israel, Jordan, Korea, Morocco, Oman, Peru, Panama, Singapore, and others eligible for FTA or preference programs qualify for a 0% duty rate. This applies to both subdivisions 3707.10.00.05 (For use in color negative photographic paper) and 3707.10.00.90 (Other). All imports under this HTS code and its subdivisions must be reported in kilograms (kg). Section information is not specified.

    Rate of Duty (Column 2): 20%

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    Code subdivisions

    3707.10.00.05

    Chemical preparations for photographic uses (other than varnishes, glues, adhesives and similar preparations); unmixed products for photographic uses, put up in measured portions or put up for retail sale in a form ready for use: > Sensitizing emulsions > For use in color negative photographic paper

    3707.10.00.90

    Chemical preparations for photographic uses (other than varnishes, glues, adhesives and similar preparations); unmixed products for photographic uses, put up in measured portions or put up for retail sale in a form ready for use: > Sensitizing emulsions > 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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