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    9208.90.00

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    HTS code 9208.90.00 covers a variety of musical instruments not specifically classified elsewhere, including music boxes and whistles. This code is used for importing these “other” musical items, with a general duty rate of 5.3% unless the origin qualifies for a free trade agreement or preference program.

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    Detailed information for HTS Code 9208.90.00

    Chapter 92 covers musical instruments, their parts, and accessories, excluding items like microphones, toy instruments, and collectors’ pieces. The 9208.90.00 code specifically covers other musical instruments not falling within more specific categories, as well as items like decoy calls and whistles. This code has two statistical subdivisions: 9208.90.00.40 for musical instruments and 9208.90.00.80 for all other items within this category; choose the suffix that best describes the specific type of instrument or item being reported.

    ChapterChapter 92 - Musical instruments; parts and accessories of such articles
    SectionSection XVIII - Optical, Photographic, Cinematographic, Measuring, Checking, Precision, Medical or Surgical Instrume

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    General Duty

    5.30%

    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 9208.90.00 is 5.30% applied to the value of the goods. Special duty rates of Free (0%) apply to goods originating from specific countries including Australia (AU), Germany (D), and others listed as eligible for Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) or preference programs. These special rates apply to both subdivisions 9208.90.00.40 (Musical instruments) and 9208.90.00.80 (Other). No report units are specified, meaning quantity or value reporting may not be required or is handled separately.

    Rate of Duty (Column 2): 40%

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    Code subdivisions

    9208.90.00.40

    Music boxes, fairground organs, mechanical street organs, mechanical singing birds, musical saws and other musical instruments not falling within any other heading of this chapter; decoy calls of all kinds; whistles, call horns and other mouth-blown sound signaling instruments: > Other > Musical instruments

    9208.90.00.80

    Music boxes, fairground organs, mechanical street organs, mechanical singing birds, musical saws and other musical instruments not falling within any other heading of this chapter; decoy calls of all kinds; whistles, call horns and other mouth-blown sound signaling instruments: > Other > Other

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    Chapter & section notes

    Chapter notes

    Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States Revision 29 (2025) Annotated for Statistical Reporting Purposes CHAPTER 92 MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; PARTS AND ACCESSORIES OF SUCH ARTICLES XVIII 92-1 Notes 1. This chapter does not cover: (a) Parts of general use, as defined in note 2 to section XV, of base metal (section XV), or similar goods of plastics (chapter 39); (b) Microphones, amplifiers, loudspeakers, headphones, switches, stroboscopes or other accessory instruments, apparatus or equipment of chapter 85 or 90, for use with but not incorporated in or housed in the same cabinet as instruments of this chapter; (c) Toy instruments or apparatus (heading 9503); (d) Brushes for cleaning musical instruments (heading 9603), or monopods, bipods, tripods and similar articles (heading 9620); or (e) Collectors' pieces or antiques (heading 9705 or 9706). 2. Bows and sticks and similar devices used in playing the musical instruments of heading 9202 or 9206 entered with such instruments in numbers normal thereto and clearly intended for use therewith, are to be classified in the same heading as the relative instruments. Cards, discs and rolls of heading 9209 entered with an instrument are to be treated as separate articles and not as forming a part of such instrument. Statistical Notes 1. For statistical reporting purposes under subheading 9201.10, the height of an upright piano case is determined by measuring from the floor to the top of the back of the case. 2. For statistical reporting purposes under subheading 9201.20, the length of a grand piano case is determined by measuring perpendicularly from the front edge of the cabinet in front of the keys to the farthest point at the center of the grand rim tail. Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States Revision 29 (2025) Annotated for Statistical Reporting Purposes XVIII 92-2

    Section notes

    SECTION XVIII OPTICAL, PHOTOGRAPHIC, CINEMATOGRAPHIC, MEASURING, CHECKING, PRECISION, MEDICAL OR SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS AND APPARATUS; CLOCKS AND WATCHES; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; PARTS AND ACCESSORIES THEREOF XVIII-1 Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States Revision 29 (2025) Annotated for Statistical Reporting Purposes XVIII-2 Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States Revision 29 (2025) Annotated for Statistical Reporting Purposes

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    November 15, 2025

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