Case No. IA-2016-329380-1 [Application included]

Date issued: Jul. 13 2016

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Notes:

1) Case No. IA-2015-318952-1 and Case No. IA-2016-329380-1 are two letters that address Smithsonian importation-related guidance/license requests that were made by Smithsonian on the same day (via a “letter dated April 27, 2015”). While Case No. IA-2015-318952-1 was issued on 08/12/2015, this response was issued on 07/13/2016, over a year after the making of the guidance request. We only have the application associated with Case No. IA-2016-329380-1.

The details concerning the item at issue here—the Iranian-origin portrait of Jalal al-Din Mirza, painted in 1859—can be found at https://collections.si.edu/search/detail/edanmdm:fsg_S2016.9a-b. (Accession in 2016, purchased by the "Friends of the Freer and Sackler Galleries," i.e. the "distinguished patrons group" of the Freer and Sackler Galleries). This is clearly an “artwork” that would be “classified under chapter heading 9701, 9702, or 9703 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United...