Paperboard Gift Packaging Boxes from Japan
Elegant rigid boxes made from folding boxboard, often with foil stamping, used for packaging luxury gifts like jewelry or cosmetics. Classified under HTS 4819.50.40.60 as other packing containers of paperboard, distinct from retail egg cartons or record sleeves.
Duty Rate — Japan → United States
12.5%
Rate breakdown
9903.05.4912.5%Except for products described in headings 9903.05.85–9903.05.92, articles the product of Japan, with an ad valorem (or ad valorem equivalent) rate of duty under column 1 less than 12.5 percent, as provided for in U.S. note 52 to this subchapter
Import Tips
• Include detailed descriptions of surface treatments like lamination to confirm paperboard base material
• Avoid misdeclaration as printed matter; motifs must be subsidiary to packing function per chapter notes