| 9808.00.80 | 00 | Goods certified by it to the Commissioner of Customs to be imported for the use of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration or for the implementation of an international program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, including articles to be launched into space and parts thereof, ground support equipment and uniquely associated equipment for use in connection with an international program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, including launch services agreements | | Free | | Free |
| 9810.00.30 | 00 | Articles imported for the use of any public library, any other public institution or any nonprofit institution established for educational, scientific, literary or philosophical purposes, or for the encouragement of the fine arts: | | | | |
| 9810.00.60 | 00 | Articles entered for the use of any nonprofit institution, whether public or private, established for educational or scientific purposes: | | | | |
| 9810.00.60 | 00 | Instruments and apparatus, if no instrument or apparatus of equivalent scientific value for the purposes for which the instrument or apparatus is intended to be used is being manufactured in the United States (see U.S. note 6 to this subchapter) | X | Free | | Free |
| 9810.00.70 | 00 | Wild animals (including birds and fish) imported for use, or for sale for use, in any scientific public collection for exhibition for scientific or educational purposes | X | Free | | Free |
| 9810.00.80 | 00 | Articles imported for the use of any nonprofit institution, whether public or private, established for educational, scientific or therapeutic purposes: | | | | |
| 9810.00.85 | 00 | Cellulosic plastics materials imported for use in artificial kidney machines or apparatus by a hospital or by a patient pursuant to prescription of a physician | X | Free | | The rate applicable in the absence of this heading |
| 9813.00.70 | | Works of the free fine arts, engravings, photographic pictures and philosophical and scientific apparatus brought into the United States by professional artists, lecturers or scientists arriving from abroad for use by them for exhibition and in illustration, promotion and encouragement of art, science or industry in the United States | | Free, under bond, as prescribed in U.S. note 1 to this subchapter | Free (AU,BH,CA, CL,IL,JO,MA, MX,P,SG) | Free, under bond, as prescribed in U.S. note 1 to this subchapter |
| 9817.00.90 | 80 | Other Articles specially designed or adapted for the use or benefit of the blind or other physically or mentally handicapped persons; parts and accessories (except parts and accessories of braces and artificial limb prosthetics) that are specially designed or adapted for use in the foregoing articles: | | | | |
| 9817.95.05 | | Utilitarian articles in the form of a three-dimensional representation of a symbol or motif clearly associated with a specific holiday in the United States. | | Free | | 25% |
| 9818.00.03 | 00 | Spare repair parts or materials (other than nets or nettings) which the owner or master of a vessel certifies are intended for use aboard a cargo vessel, for installation or use on such vessel, as needed, in the United States, at sea, or in a foreign country, but only if duty is or has been paid under this schedule upon first entry into the United States of each such spare part or material purchased in, or imported from, a foreign country | X | Free | | 50 percent of the cost of such parts or materials |
