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ESP Horizon Electric Guitar from Japan

ESP Horizon offers sleek angular design with active EMG pickups and set-thru neck for extreme metal performance. Classified HTS 9202.90.4000 as other guitars due to solid-body electric configuration excluding named exceptions like resonators.

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

• Battery compartment documentation confirms active electronics under guitar heading

• CITES certs mandatory for ebony fingerboards regardless of quantity

• Avoid bulk shipments mislabeled as parts to prevent reclassification