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Notebooks & Stationery: Bahamas import duty

Heading 4820 covers notebooks & stationery. The most common rate is 45% import duty (4 of 6 tariff lines), with rates ranging from 0% to 60%. 1 line is duty-free. It includes exercise books, albums for samples or for collections and binders, folders and file covers. Duty is not the whole bill: The Bahamas adds a 1% customs processing fee (minimum $10, maximum $1,500) and 10% VAT on the landed cost.

Calculate landed cost at 45% duty All of Paper & Paperboard

Tariff lines under heading 4820

HS codeDescriptionImport duty
4820.1000 Registers, account books, note books, order books, receipt books, letter pads, memorandum pads, diaries and similar articles 45%
4820.2000 Exercise books Free
4820.3000 Binders (other than book covers), folders and file covers 45%
4820.4000 Manifold business forms and interleaved carbon sets 45%
4820.5000 Albums for samples or for collections 45%
4820.9000 Other 60%

Part of Paper & Paperboard (chapter 48), 127 lines in total. You can also search the whole schedule.

Bahamas Tariff Act (schedule version 2026-2027) · 6 lines shown. Lines tagged verified have been individually checked against the current schedule; the rest are as published in the Tariff Act. Rates are import duty only. Final classification and charges are determined by Bahamas Customs.