Customs Tariff Of The Russian Federation
(with the Amendments and Additions of May 30, July 15, August 12, 20, 30, 31, November 1, 12, 19, 2002, February 25, March 11, April 11, 24, 28, June 5, 20, 21, 24, July 7, 16, August 8, 27, September 10, October 18, November 11, 13, 24, 29, December 23, 24, 2003, January 23, 2004)
Adopted by the State Duma on December 20, 2001
Endorsed by the Council of Federation on December 26, 2001
Chapter 49. Printed Books, Newspapers, Pictures and Other Productsfor the Printing Industry; Manuscripts, Typescripts andPlans
Notes:
1.
This Chapter does not cover:
a)
photographic negatives or positives on transparent bases (Chapter 37);
b)
maps, plans or globes, in relief, whether or not printed (Heading 9023);
c)
playing cards or other goods of Chapter 95; or
d)
original engravings, prints or lithographs (Heading 9702), postage or revenue stamps, stamp-postmarks, first-day covers, postal stationery or the like of Heading 9704, antiques of an age exceding 100 years or other articles of Chapter 97.
2.
For the purposes of Chapter 49, the term "printed" also means reproduced by means of a duplicating machine, produced under the control of a computer, embossed, photographed, photocopied, thermocopied or typewritten.
3.
Newspapers, journals and periodicals, which are bound otherwise than in paper, and sets of newspapers, journals or periodicals comprising more than one number under a single cover are to be classified in Heading 4901, whether or not containing advertising material.
4.
Heading 4901 also covers:
a)
a collection of printed reproduction of, for example, works of art or drawings, with a relative text, put up with numbered pages in a form suitable for binding into one or more volumes;
b)
a pictorial supplement accompanying, and subsidiary to, a bound volume; and
c)
printed parts of books or booklets, in the form of assembled or separate sheets or signatures, constituting the whole or a part of a complete work and designed for binding.
However, printed pictures or illustrations not bearing a text, whether in the form of signatures or separate sheets, fall within Heading 4911.
5.
Subject to Note 3 to this Chapter, Heading 4901 does not cover publications which are essentially devoted to advertising (for example, brochures, pamphlets, leaflets, trade catalogues, year books published by trade associations, tourist propaganda). Such publications are to be classified in Heading 4911.
6.
For the purposes of Heading 4903, the expression "children's picture books" means books for children in which the pictures form the principal interest and the text is subsidiary.
| CC FEA | Description | Suppl. | Rate of import |
| Code | | unit | customs duty |
| | of | (as a per cent |
| | measu- | of the customs |
| | rement | value or |
| | | in euros) |
| 4901 | Printed books, brochures, | | |
| leaflets and similar printed | | |
| matter, whether or not in single | | |
| sheets: | | |
| 4901 10 000 0 | - in single sheets, whether or | - | duty-free |
| not folded | | |
| - other: | | |
| 4901 91 000 0 | - - dictionaries and | - | duty-free |
| encyclopedias, and serial | | |
| instalments thereof | | |
| 4901 99 000 0 | - - other | - | duty-free |
| 4902 | Newspapers, journals and | | |
| periodicals, whether or not | | |
| illustrated or containing | | |
| advertising materials: | | |
| 4902 10 000 0 | - appearing at least four times a | - | duty-free |
| week | | |
| 4902 90 | - other: | | |
| 4902 90 100 0 | - - appearing once a week | - | duty-free |
| 4902 90 300 0 | - - appearing once a month | - | duty-free |
| 4902 90 900 0 | - - other | - | duty-free |
| 4903 00 000 0 | Children's picture, drawing or | | |
| colouring books | | |
| 4904 00 000 0 | Music, printed or in manuscript, | - | duty-free |
| whether or not bound or | | |
| illustrated | | |
| 4905 | Maps and hydrographic or similar | | |
| charts of all kinds, including | | |
| atlases, wall maps, topographic | | |
| plans and globes, printed: | | |
| 4905 10 000 0 | - globes | - | duty-free |
| - other: | | |
| 4905 91 000 0 | - - in book form | - | duty-free |
| 4905 99 000 0 | - - other | - | duty-free |
| 4906 00 000 0 | Plans and drawings for | - | duty-free |
| architectural, engineering, | | |
| industrial, commercial, | | |
| topographic or similar purposes, | | |
| being originals drawn by hand; | | |
| hand-written texts; photographic | | |
| reproductions on sensitised paper | | |
| and carbon copies of the | | |
| foregoing | | |
| 4907 00 | Unused postage, revenue or | | |
| similar stamps of current or new | | |
| issue in the country to which | | |
| they are destined; | | |
| stamp-impressed paper; banknotes; | | |
| cheque forms; stock, share, or | | |
| bond certificates and similar | | |
| documents of title: | | |
| 4907 00 10 | - postage, revenue and similar | - | 15 |
| stamps | | |
| 4907 00 101 0 | - - excise marks of excisable | - | 15 |
| goods | | |
| 4907 00 109 0 | - - other | - | 15 |
| 4907 00 300 0 | - banknotes | - | duty-free |
| 4907 00 900 0 | - other | - | 15 |
| 4908 | Transfers (decalcomanias): | | |
| 4908 10 000 0 | - transfers (decalcomanias), | - | 15 |
| vitrifiable | | |
| 4908 90 000 0 | - other | - | 15 |
| 4909 00 | Printed or illustrated postcards; | | |
| printed cards bearing personal | | |
| greetings, messages or | | |
| announcements, whether or not | | |
| illustrated, with or without | | |
| envelopes or trimmings: | | |
| 4909 00 100 0 | - printed or illustrated | - | 15 |
| postcards | | |
| 4909 00 900 0 | - other | - | 15 |
| 4910 00 000 0 | Calendars of any kind, printed, | - | 15 |
| including calendar blocks | | |
| 4911 | Other printed matter, including | | |
| printed pictures and photographs: | | |
| 4911 10 | - trade advertising material, | | |
| commercial catalogues and the | | |
| like: | | |
| 4911 10 100 0 | - - commercial catalogues | - | 15 |
| 4911 10 900 0 | - - other | - | 15 |
| - other: | | |
| 4911 91 | - - pictures, designs and | | |
| photographs: | | |
| 4911 91 100 0 | - - - sheets (not being trade | - | duty-free |
| advertising material), not | | |
| folded, merely with illustrations | | |
| or pictures not bearing a text or | | |
| caption, for editions of books or | | |
| periodicals which are published | | |
| in different countries on one or | | |
| more languages | | |
| 4911 91 800 0 | - - - other | - | duty-free |
| 4911 99 000 0 | - - other | - | 15 |
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