9816.00.20

8-digit subheading

Accompanying a person, arriving in the United States (exclusive of duty-free articles and articles acquired in American Samoa, Guam or the Virgin Islands of the United States)

This is a 8-digit subheading — a category, not a filing code. Pick the more specific code beneath it that best matches your goods; only a 10-digit statistical code can be used on a customs entry.

Duty rates

Rate could not be parsed automatically: “3 percent of the fair retail value”.

Duty rates for HTS 9816.00.20
Rate	Value and what it means
General rate (Column 1)	3 percent of the fair retail valueColumn 1 general Applies to most trading partners — the standard "normal trade relations" rate.
Special rate (Column 1)	Free (BH,CL,CO,IL,JO,KR,MA,OM,P,PA,PE,S, SG)Trade programs The country letters in parentheses are free trade agreement and preference programs. If your goods qualify under one of them, that rate replaces the general rate. BH — Bahrain FTA CL — Chile FTA CO — Colombia TPA IL — Israel FTA JO — Jordan FTA KR — Korea FTA (KORUS) MA — Morocco FTA OM — Oman FTA P — CAFTA-DR PA — Panama TPA PE — Peru TPA S — USMCA SG — Singapore FTA
Column 2 rate	4 percent of the fair retail valueNon-NTR Reserved for the small group of countries that do not have normal trade relations with the US (currently Cuba, North Korea, Russia and Belarus). Almost no importer uses this column — if you are shipping from anywhere else, ignore it.
Unit of quantity	— How CBP expects the quantity to be reported on the entry summary.

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Where this sits in the schedule

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Articles for personal or household use, or as bona fide gifts, not imported for the account of another person, valued in the aggregate at not over $1,000 fair retail value in the country of acquisition, if the person claiming the benefit of subheading 9816.00.20 or 9816.00.40, or both, has not received the benefits thereof within the 30 days immediately preceding his arrival:

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Source: USITC Harmonized Tariff Schedule, 2026 Basic Edition, Revision 16. Rate text is reproduced verbatim from the official export; category paths and duty estimates are derived.

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