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A scale model truck: 9503, not a holiday provision
Using the HTSUS 2025 Basic Edition (no supplements) prescribed for the October 2025 exam, classify a die-cast reduced-scale model of a 1955 pickup truck intended for persons 15 years of age and up in heading 9503 by the terms of the heading (GRI 1, GRI 6), select statistical suffix 90 ('Other') because classification within 9503 follows the youngest intended age and 15+ is outside the under-3 and 3-to-12 categories, and read the column 1 General rate of Free (General Note 3(a); neither country in the fact pattern is listed in General Note 3(b) column 2, so no origin conclusion is needed to choose column 1). Explain that 9817.95.01 is limited to utilitarian articles of a kind used in the home in performing specific religious or cultural ritual celebrations and to articles of the subheadings it enumerates, so a holiday nickname such as 'Christmas Truck' alone does not qualify. Recognize that, in this edition, the additional 15 percent of heading 9903.88.16 (U.S. notes 20(t)/(u), List 4B, which enumerates 9503.00.00) is suspended under 84 FR 69447 — and that this is not a statement that all China Section 301 duties are suspended. Boundary: this is a Basic-edition classification and rate explanation, not a determination of the actual total duties owed on an entry of August 1, 2025, and it makes no finding on country of origin.
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Using the HTSUS 2025 Basic Edition (no supplements) prescribed for the October 2025 exam, classify a die-cast reduced-scale model of a 1955 pickup truck intended for persons 15 years of age and up in heading 9503 by the terms of the heading (GRI 1, GRI 6), select statistical suffix 90 ('Other') because classification within 9503 follows the youngest intended age and 15+ is outside the under-3 and 3-to-12 categories, and read the column 1 General rate of Free (General Note 3(a); neither country in the fact pattern is listed in General Note 3(b) column 2, so no origin conclusion is needed to choose column 1). Explain that 9817.95.01 is limited to utilitarian articles of a kind used in the home in performing specific religious or cultural ritual celebrations and to articles of the subheadings it enumerates, so a holiday nickname such as 'Christmas Truck' alone does not qualify. Recognize that, in this edition, the additional 15 percent of heading 9903.88.16 (U.S. notes 20(t)/(u), List 4B, which enumerates 9503.00.00) is suspended under 84 FR 69447 — and that this is not a statement that all China Section 301 duties are suspended. Boundary: this is a Basic-edition classification and rate explanation, not a determination of the actual total duties owed on an entry of August 1, 2025, and it makes no finding on country of origin.
HTSUS (2025) chapter 95, heading 9503.00.00 and statistical suffixes; chapter 95 statistical note 1; chapter 95 note 1(x); HTSUS (2025) chapter 98, subchapter XVII, subheading 9817.95.01 (page 98-XVII-7, extract PAGE 64); HTSUS (2025) chapter 99, subchapter III, U.S. note 20(t) and 20(u)(i) (heading 9903.88.16; 9503.00.00 enumerated on extract PAGE 277); HTSUS (2025) General Rules of Interpretation 1 and 6; General Note 3(a)(i)-(ii) and 3(b); USTR, Notice of Modification of Section 301 Action, 84 FR 69447 (Dec. 18, 2019), FR Doc. 2019-27306 · Exam-version-bound: October 2025 CBLE references the HTSUS 2025 Basic Edition, no supplements (per Pipeline Codex independent review of the official exam cover). All tariff text used here is from local extracts of that 2025 Basic Edition (chapters 95, 98, 99 and General Notes) plus USTR notice FR Doc. 2019-27306 (84 FR 69447). No later revision, supplement or current-law sweep.
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