Gel preparations designed to be used in human or veterinary medicine as a lubricant for parts of the body for surgical operations or physical examinations or as a coupling agent between the body and medical instruments

Other articles of cutlery (for example, hair clippers, butchers' or kitchen cleavers, chopping or mincing knives, paper knives); manicure or pedicure sets and instruments (including nail files); base metal parts thereof:

Manicure or pedicure sets and instruments (including nail files), and parts thereof:

Articles designed for connection to telegraphic or telephonic apparatus or instruments or to telegraphic or telephonic networks

Boards, panels, consoles, desks, cabinets and other bases, equipped with two or more apparatus of heading 8535 or 8536, for electric control or the distribution of electricity, including those incorporating instruments or apparatus of chapter 90, and numerical control apparatus, other than switching apparatus of heading 8517:

Lamps having glass envelopes not over 6.35 mm in maximum diameter and suitable for use in cystoscopes and other surgical instruments

Articles designed for connection to telegraphic or telephonic apparatus or instruments or to telegraphic or telephonic networks

Special effects pedals for use with musical instruments

Lenses, prisms, mirrors and other optical elements, of any material, mounted, being parts of or fittings for instruments or apparatus, other than such elements of glass not optically worked; parts and accessories thereof:

Binoculars, monoculars, other optical telescopes, and mountings therefor; other astronomical instruments and mountings therefor, but not including instruments for radio-astronomy; parts and accessories thereof:

Other instruments:

Lasers, other than laser diodes; other optical appliances and instruments, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter:

Telescopic sights for fitting to arms; periscopes; telescopes designed to form parts of machines, appliances, instruments or apparatus of this chapter or section XVI:

Telescopes designed to form parts of machines, appliances, instruments or apparatus of this chapter of section XVI

Other devices, appliances and instruments:

Direction finding compasses; other navigational instruments and appliances; parts and accessories thereof:

Optical instruments

Optical instruments and appliances

Other instruments and appliances:

Optical instruments

Surveying (including photogrammetrical surveying), hydrographic, oceanographic, hydrological, meteorological or geophysical instruments and appliances, excluding compasses; rangefinders; parts and accessories thereof:

Photogrammetrical surveying instruments and appliances:

Other instruments and appliances:

Optical instruments and appliances

Geophysical instruments and appliances

Of photogrammetrical surveying instruments and apparatus

Of other geophysical instruments and appliances

Drawing, marking-out or mathematical calculating instruments (for example, drafting machines, pantographs, protractors, drawing sets, slide rules, disc calculators); instruments for measuring length, for use in the hand (for example, measuring rods and tapes, micrometers, calipers), not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter; parts and accessories thereof:

Other drawing, marking-out or mathematical calculating instruments:

Disc calculators, slide rules and other mathematical calculating instruments

Other instruments

Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical apparatus and sight-testing instruments; parts and accessories thereof:

Dental hand instruments and parts and accessories thereof

Other ophthalmic instruments and appliances and parts and accessories thereof

Other instruments and appliances and parts and accessories thereof:

Anesthetic instruments and appliances and parts and accessories thereof

Electro-surgical instruments and appliances, other than extracorporeal shock wave lithotripters; all the foregoing and parts and accessories thereof

Dialysis instruments and apparatus

Parts and accessories of dialysis instruments and apparatus

Hydrometers and similar floating instruments, thermometers, pyrometers, barometers, hygrometers and psychrometers, recording or not, and any combination of these instruments; parts and accessories thereof:

Other instruments:

Barometers, not combined with other instruments

Hydrometers and similar floating instruments, whether or not incorporating a thermometer, non-recording

Thermographs, barographs, hygrographs and other recording instruments

Instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking the flow, level, pressure or other variables of liquids or gases (for example, flow meters, level gauges, manometers, heat meters), excluding instruments and apparatus of heading 9014, 9015, 9028 or 9032; parts and accessories thereof:

Other instruments and apparatus:

Of electrical instruments and apparatus

Instruments and apparatus for physical or chemical analysis (for example, polarimeters, refractometers, spectrometers, gas or smoke analysis apparatus); instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking viscosity, porosity, expansion, surface tension or the like; instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking quantities of heat, sound or light (including exposure meters); microtomes; parts and accessories thereof:

Optical instruments and apparatus

Chromatographs and electrophoresis instruments:

Electrophoresis instruments

Other instruments and apparatus using optical radiations (ultraviolet, visible, infrared):

Chemical analysis instruments and apparatus

Thermal analysis instruments and apparatus

Chemical analysis instruments and apparatus

Thermal analysis instruments and apparatus

Nuclear magnetic resonance instruments

Chemical analysis instruments and apparatus

Physical analysis instruments and apparatus

Chemical analysis instruments and apparatus

Physical analysis instruments and apparatus

Of electrophoresis instruments not incorporating an optical or other measuring device

Of instruments and apparatus of subheading 9027.20, 9027.30, 9027.50, 9027.81 or 9027.89

Of instruments and apparatus of subheading 9027.20, 9027.30, 9027.50, 9027.81 or 9027.89

Of instruments and apparatus of subheading 9027.20, 9027.30, 9027.50, 9027.81 or 9027.89

Oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers and other instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking electrical quantities, excluding meters of heading 9028; instruments and apparatus for measuring or detecting alpha, beta, gamma, X-ray, cosmic or other ionizing radiations; parts and accessories thereof:​

Resistance measuring instruments

Other instruments and apparatus, specially designed for telecommunications (for example, cross-talk meters, gain measuring instruments, distortion factor meters, psophometers)

Of instruments and apparatus of subheading 9030.40 or 9030.82

Of instruments and apparatus of subheading 9030.82

Measuring or checking instruments, appliances and machines, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter; profile projectors; parts and accessories thereof:

Other instruments, appliances and machines:

Of optical instruments and appliances of subheading 9031.41 or 9031.49.70

Automatic regulating or controlling instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof:

Temperature control instruments

Pressure and draft control instruments

Flow and liquid level control instruments

Humidity control instruments

Of instruments and apparatus of subheading 9032.81

Parts and accessories (not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter) for machines, appliances, instruments or apparatus of chapter 90:

Pianos, including player pianos; harpsichords and other keyboard stringed instruments:

Other string musical instruments (for example, guitars, violins, harps):

Wind musical instruments (for example, keyboard pipe organs, accordions, clarinets, trumpets, bagpipes), other than fairground organs and mechanical street organs:

Brass-wind instruments

Percussion musical instruments (for example, drums, xylophones, cymbals, castanets, maracas):

Musical instruments, the sound of which is produced, or must be amplified, electrically (for example, organs, guitars, accordions):

Keyboard instruments, other than accordions

Fretted stringed instruments

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:

Musical instruments

Parts (for example, mechanisms for music boxes) and accessories (for example, cards, discs and rolls for mechanical instruments) of musical instruments; metronomes, tuning forks and pitch pipes of all kinds:

Parts and accessories for the musical instruments of heading 9202:

Mutes, collapsible musical instrument stands and music holders for attachment to musical instruments

Bows, parts of bows, bow hair, chin rests and other parts and accessories for string instruments played with a bow

Parts and accessories for the musical instruments of heading 9207:

Mutes for musical instruments; pedals, dampers and spurs for drums; pedals and holders for cymbals; lyres and other music holders for attachment to musical instruments; and collapsible stands for holding music or for holding musical instruments

For instruments of subheading 9205.90.14

For other woodwind and brass wind musical instruments

For woodwind musical instruments

Accessories for the instruments and appliances, including rangefinders, of heading 9015

Of photogrammetrical surveying instruments and apparatus

Of other geophysical instruments and apparatus

Professional books, implements, instruments, and tools of trade, occupation, or employment, when returned to the United States after having been exported for use temporarily abroad, if imported by or for the account of the person who exported such items

Substantial containers and holders, if products of the United States (including shooks and staves of United States production when returned as boxes or barrels containing merchandise), or if of foreign production and previously imported and duty (if any) thereon paid, or if of a class specified by the Secretary of the Treasury as instruments of international traffic, repair components for containers of foreign production which are instruments of international traffic, and accessories and equipment for such containers, whether the accessories and equipment are imported with a container to be reexported separately or with another container, or imported separately to be reexported with a container

Professional books, implements, instruments and tools of trade, occupation or employment, which have been taken abroad by him or for his account

Professional books, implements, instruments and tools of trade, occupation or employment (not including theatrical scenery, properties or apparel, and not including articles for use in any manufacturing establishment, for any other person or for sale), owned and used by him abroad

Repair components for instruments or apparatus admitted under subheading 9810.00.60

Tools specially designed to be used for the maintenance, checking, gauging or repair of instruments or apparatus admitted under subheading 9810.00.60

Camera mounts of plastics, designed for mounting cameras of subheading 8525.80.40 to musical instruments or microphone stands; each incorporating a spring-loaded clamp and a folding extension arm (provided for in subheading 3926.90.99)

Electrical cables and cable bundles for a voltage not exceeding 1,000 V, fitted with connectors (provided for in subheading 8544.42.90), the foregoing of a kind used with machines and apparatus for the manufacture or inspection of semiconductor devices of subheading 8486.20.00 or with optical instruments and appliances for inspecting semiconductor wafers of 9031.41.00

Optical attenuators designed to reduce the power level of an optical signal, either in free space or in an optical fiber, such instruments or apparatus specifically designed for telecommunications (provided for in subheading 9013.80.90).

Multimeters, each without recording device, not intended to be hand-held, having either 4-1/2, 5-1/2, 6-1/2, 7-1/2 or 8-1/2 digits of measurement accuracy, with or without LXI (LAN extension for instruments) standard and with either a color or non-color single or dual display screen (provided for in subheading 9030.31.00).

Gel preparations designed to be used in human or veterinary medicine as a lubricant for parts of the body for surgical operations or physical examinations or as a coupling agent between the body and medical instruments

Other articles of cutlery (for example, hair clippers, butchers' or kitchen cleavers, chopping or mincing knives, paper knives); manicure or pedicure sets and instruments (including nail files); base metal parts thereof:

Manicure or pedicure sets and instruments (including nail files), and parts thereof:

Articles designed for connection to telegraphic or telephonic apparatus or instruments or to telegraphic or telephonic networks

Boards, panels, consoles, desks, cabinets and other bases, equipped with two or more apparatus of heading 8535 or 8536, for electric control or the distribution of electricity, including those incorporating instruments or apparatus of chapter 90, and numerical control apparatus, other than switching apparatus of heading 8517:

Lamps having glass envelopes not over 6.35 mm in maximum diameter and suitable for use in cystoscopes and other surgical instruments

Articles designed for connection to telegraphic or telephonic apparatus or instruments or to telegraphic or telephonic networks

Special effects pedals for use with musical instruments

Lenses, prisms, mirrors and other optical elements, of any material, mounted, being parts of or fittings for instruments or apparatus, other than such elements of glass not optically worked; parts and accessories thereof:

Binoculars, monoculars, other optical telescopes, and mountings therefor; other astronomical instruments and mountings therefor, but not including instruments for radio-astronomy; parts and accessories thereof:

Other instruments:

Lasers, other than laser diodes; other optical appliances and instruments, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter:

Telescopic sights for fitting to arms; periscopes; telescopes designed to form parts of machines, appliances, instruments or apparatus of this chapter or section XVI:

Telescopes designed to form parts of machines, appliances, instruments or apparatus of this chapter of section XVI

Other devices, appliances and instruments:

Direction finding compasses; other navigational instruments and appliances; parts and accessories thereof:

Optical instruments

Optical instruments and appliances

Other instruments and appliances:

Optical instruments

Surveying (including photogrammetrical surveying), hydrographic, oceanographic, hydrological, meteorological or geophysical instruments and appliances, excluding compasses; rangefinders; parts and accessories thereof:

Photogrammetrical surveying instruments and appliances:

Other instruments and appliances:

Optical instruments and appliances

Geophysical instruments and appliances

Of photogrammetrical surveying instruments and apparatus

Of other geophysical instruments and appliances

Drawing, marking-out or mathematical calculating instruments (for example, drafting machines, pantographs, protractors, drawing sets, slide rules, disc calculators); instruments for measuring length, for use in the hand (for example, measuring rods and tapes, micrometers, calipers), not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter; parts and accessories thereof:

Other drawing, marking-out or mathematical calculating instruments:

Disc calculators, slide rules and other mathematical calculating instruments

Other instruments

Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical apparatus and sight-testing instruments; parts and accessories thereof:

Dental hand instruments and parts and accessories thereof

Other ophthalmic instruments and appliances and parts and accessories thereof

Other instruments and appliances and parts and accessories thereof:

Anesthetic instruments and appliances and parts and accessories thereof

Electro-surgical instruments and appliances, other than extracorporeal shock wave lithotripters; all the foregoing and parts and accessories thereof

Dialysis instruments and apparatus

Parts and accessories of dialysis instruments and apparatus

Hydrometers and similar floating instruments, thermometers, pyrometers, barometers, hygrometers and psychrometers, recording or not, and any combination of these instruments; parts and accessories thereof:

Other instruments:

Barometers, not combined with other instruments

Hydrometers and similar floating instruments, whether or not incorporating a thermometer, non-recording

Thermographs, barographs, hygrographs and other recording instruments

Instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking the flow, level, pressure or other variables of liquids or gases (for example, flow meters, level gauges, manometers, heat meters), excluding instruments and apparatus of heading 9014, 9015, 9028 or 9032; parts and accessories thereof:

Other instruments and apparatus:

Of electrical instruments and apparatus

Instruments and apparatus for physical or chemical analysis (for example, polarimeters, refractometers, spectrometers, gas or smoke analysis apparatus); instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking viscosity, porosity, expansion, surface tension or the like; instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking quantities of heat, sound or light (including exposure meters); microtomes; parts and accessories thereof:

Optical instruments and apparatus

Chromatographs and electrophoresis instruments:

Electrophoresis instruments

Other instruments and apparatus using optical radiations (ultraviolet, visible, infrared):

Chemical analysis instruments and apparatus

Thermal analysis instruments and apparatus

Chemical analysis instruments and apparatus

Thermal analysis instruments and apparatus

Nuclear magnetic resonance instruments

Chemical analysis instruments and apparatus

Physical analysis instruments and apparatus

Chemical analysis instruments and apparatus

Physical analysis instruments and apparatus

Of electrophoresis instruments not incorporating an optical or other measuring device

Of instruments and apparatus of subheading 9027.20, 9027.30, 9027.50, 9027.81 or 9027.89

Of instruments and apparatus of subheading 9027.20, 9027.30, 9027.50, 9027.81 or 9027.89

Of instruments and apparatus of subheading 9027.20, 9027.30, 9027.50, 9027.81 or 9027.89

Oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers and other instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking electrical quantities, excluding meters of heading 9028; instruments and apparatus for measuring or detecting alpha, beta, gamma, X-ray, cosmic or other ionizing radiations; parts and accessories thereof:​

Resistance measuring instruments

Other instruments and apparatus, specially designed for telecommunications (for example, cross-talk meters, gain measuring instruments, distortion factor meters, psophometers)

Of instruments and apparatus of subheading 9030.40 or 9030.82

Of instruments and apparatus of subheading 9030.82

Measuring or checking instruments, appliances and machines, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter; profile projectors; parts and accessories thereof:

Other instruments, appliances and machines:

Of optical instruments and appliances of subheading 9031.41 or 9031.49.70

Automatic regulating or controlling instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof:

Temperature control instruments

Pressure and draft control instruments

Flow and liquid level control instruments

Humidity control instruments

Of instruments and apparatus of subheading 9032.81

Parts and accessories (not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter) for machines, appliances, instruments or apparatus of chapter 90:

Pianos, including player pianos; harpsichords and other keyboard stringed instruments:

Other string musical instruments (for example, guitars, violins, harps):

Wind musical instruments (for example, keyboard pipe organs, accordions, clarinets, trumpets, bagpipes), other than fairground organs and mechanical street organs:

Brass-wind instruments

Percussion musical instruments (for example, drums, xylophones, cymbals, castanets, maracas):

Musical instruments, the sound of which is produced, or must be amplified, electrically (for example, organs, guitars, accordions):

Keyboard instruments, other than accordions

Fretted stringed instruments

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:

Musical instruments

Parts (for example, mechanisms for music boxes) and accessories (for example, cards, discs and rolls for mechanical instruments) of musical instruments; metronomes, tuning forks and pitch pipes of all kinds:

Parts and accessories for the musical instruments of heading 9202:

Mutes, collapsible musical instrument stands and music holders for attachment to musical instruments

Bows, parts of bows, bow hair, chin rests and other parts and accessories for string instruments played with a bow

Parts and accessories for the musical instruments of heading 9207:

Mutes for musical instruments; pedals, dampers and spurs for drums; pedals and holders for cymbals; lyres and other music holders for attachment to musical instruments; and collapsible stands for holding music or for holding musical instruments

For instruments of subheading 9205.90.14

For other woodwind and brass wind musical instruments

For woodwind musical instruments

Accessories for the instruments and appliances, including rangefinders, of heading 9015

Of photogrammetrical surveying instruments and apparatus

Of other geophysical instruments and apparatus

Professional books, implements, instruments, and tools of trade, occupation, or employment, when returned to the United States after having been exported for use temporarily abroad, if imported by or for the account of the person who exported such items

Substantial containers and holders, if products of the United States (including shooks and staves of United States production when returned as boxes or barrels containing merchandise), or if of foreign production and previously imported and duty (if any) thereon paid, or if of a class specified by the Secretary of the Treasury as instruments of international traffic, repair components for containers of foreign production which are instruments of international traffic, and accessories and equipment for such containers, whether the accessories and equipment are imported with a container to be reexported separately or with another container, or imported separately to be reexported with a container

Professional books, implements, instruments and tools of trade, occupation or employment, which have been taken abroad by him or for his account

Professional books, implements, instruments and tools of trade, occupation or employment (not including theatrical scenery, properties or apparel, and not including articles for use in any manufacturing establishment, for any other person or for sale), owned and used by him abroad

Repair components for instruments or apparatus admitted under subheading 9810.00.60

Tools specially designed to be used for the maintenance, checking, gauging or repair of instruments or apparatus admitted under subheading 9810.00.60

Camera mounts of plastics, designed for mounting cameras of subheading 8525.80.40 to musical instruments or microphone stands; each incorporating a spring-loaded clamp and a folding extension arm (provided for in subheading 3926.90.99)

Electrical cables and cable bundles for a voltage not exceeding 1,000 V, fitted with connectors (provided for in subheading 8544.42.90), the foregoing of a kind used with machines and apparatus for the manufacture or inspection of semiconductor devices of subheading 8486.20.00 or with optical instruments and appliances for inspecting semiconductor wafers of 9031.41.00

Optical attenuators designed to reduce the power level of an optical signal, either in free space or in an optical fiber, such instruments or apparatus specifically designed for telecommunications (provided for in subheading 9013.80.90).

Multimeters, each without recording device, not intended to be hand-held, having either 4-1/2, 5-1/2, 6-1/2, 7-1/2 or 8-1/2 digits of measurement accuracy, with or without LXI (LAN extension for instruments) standard and with either a color or non-color single or dual display screen (provided for in subheading 9030.31.00).