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    9603.40.40

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    This code covers miscellaneous manufactured articles, specifically brooms, brushes, paint pads, and related items—use it when importing these cleaning and painting tools. Duty rates are generally 4% for standard trade partners, but can be free for products originating from eligible countries with which the U.S. has free trade agreements.

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    Detailed information for HTS Code 9603.40.40

    AI Summary

    Chapter 96 covers miscellaneous manufactured articles, and this particular code, 9603.40.40, focuses on paint, distemper, varnish, or similar brushes, paint pads, and rollers that aren't specifically covered elsewhere. This code includes items like paintbrushes and rollers used for applying coatings to surfaces. Subdivisions exist to further specify the type of brush or roller, with 9603.40.40.20 for paint pads, 9603.40.40.40 for natural bristle brushes, and 9603.40.40.60 for all other types; select the suffix that most accurately describes the specific product being classified.

    ChapterChapter 96 - Miscellaneous manufactured articles
    SectionSection XX - Miscellaneous Manufactured Articles

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    General Duty

    4%

    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 9603.40.40 and its subdivisions (9603.40.40.20, 9603.40.40.40, 9603.40.40.60) is 4%. Special rates of Free apply to goods originating from specific countries including Australia, Canada, and others listed (A, AU, BH, CL, CO, D, E, IL, JO, KR, MA, OM, P, PA, PE, S, SG) if eligible under relevant FTA or preference programs. No report units are specified, meaning quantity and value are likely reported without specific unit requirements. These rates apply consistently to all subdivisions under 9603.40.40, contingent on origin and program eligibility for the free rate.

    Rate of Duty (Column 2): 50%

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    Code subdivisions

    9603.40.40.20

    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): > Paint, distemper, varnish or similar brushes (other than brushes of subheading 9603.30); paint pads and rollers: > Other > Paint pads

    9603.40.40.40

    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): > Paint, distemper, varnish or similar brushes (other than brushes of subheading 9603.30); paint pads and rollers: > Other > Natural bristle brushes

    9603.40.40.60

    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): > Paint, distemper, varnish or similar brushes (other than brushes of subheading 9603.30); paint pads and rollers: > Other > Other

    Chapter & section notes

    Chapter notes

    Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States Revision 29 (2025) Annotated for Statistical Reporting Purposes CHAPTER 96 MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES XX 96-1 Notes 1. This chapter does not cover: (a) Pencils for cosmetic or toilet uses (chapter 33); (b) Articles of chapter 66 (for example, parts of umbrellas or walking-sticks); (c) Imitation jewelry (heading 7117); (d) Parts of general use, as defined in note 2 to section XV, of base metal (section XV) or similar goods of plastics (chapter 39); (e) Cutlery or other articles of chapter 82 with handles or other parts of carving or molding materials; heading 9601 or 9602 applies, however, to separately entered handles or other parts of such articles; (f) Articles of chapter 90 (for example, spectacle frames (heading 9003), mathematical drawing pens (heading 9017), brushes of a kind specialized for use in dentistry or for medical, surgical or veterinary purposes (heading 9018)); (g) Articles of chapter 91 (for example, clock or watch cases); (h) Musical instruments or parts or accessories thereof (chapter 92); (ij) Articles of chapter 93 (arms and parts thereof); (k) Articles of chapter 94 (for example, furniture, luminaires and lighting fittings); (l) Articles of chapter 95 (toys, games, sports equipment); or (m) Works of art, collectors' pieces or antiques (chapter 97). 2. In heading 9602 the expression "vegetable or mineral carving material" means: (a) Hard seeds, pips, hulls and nuts and similar vegetable materials of a kind used for carving (for example, corozo and dom); (b) Amber, meerschaum, agglomerated amber and agglomerated meerschaum, jet and mineral substitutes for jet. 3. In heading 9603 the expression "prepared knots and tufts for broom or brush making" applies only to unmounted knots and tufts of animal hair, vegetable fiber or other material, which are ready for incorporation without division in brooms or brushes, or which require only such further minor processes as trimming to shape at the top, to render them ready for such incorporation. 4. Articles of this chapter, other than those of headings 9601 to 9606 or 9615, remain classified in the chapter whether or not composed wholly or partly of precious metal or metal clad with precious metal, of natural or cultured pearls, or precious or semiprecious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed). However, headings 9601 to 9606 and 9615 include articles in which natural or cultured pearls, precious or semiprecious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed), precious metal or metal clad with precious metal constitute only minor constituents. Additional U.S. Notes 1. For the purposes of heading 9606 the term "line" in the rates of duty columns means the line button measure of 0.635 mm. 2. Buttons (whether or not finished) provided for in subheadings 9606.21.40 and 9606.29.20 which are the product of an insular possession of the United States outside the customs territory of the United States and which are manufactured or produced from button blanks or unfinished buttons which were the product of any foreign country shall be subject to duty under subheadings 9606.21.40 and 9606.29.20 at the rates which apply to products of such foreign country. Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States Revision 29 (2025) Annotated for Statistical Reporting Purposes XX 96-2

    Section notes

    SECTION XX MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES XX-1 Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States Revision 29 (2025) Annotated for Statistical Reporting Purposes XX-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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