How does CBP classify sports and fitness equipment?

The codes CBP used

• 9506.99.6080Other articles and equipment of heading 9506 for sports or outdoor games, outside the named lines such as snowshoes, pools and nets.

  Heading 9506 names equipment for sports and outdoor games. CBP placed these goods on its line for other articles. A playground set window came here as a part under chapter 95 note 3.

  Rulings: N335360, N357281, N358235, N361878

• 9506.91.0030Other articles and equipment for general physical exercise, gymnastics or athletics, and their parts and accessories, besides exercise cycles and rowing machines.

  Heading 9506 names equipment for general physical exercise and its accessories. CBP placed exercise gear, and an accessory that fits a rowing machine's handles, on this line.

  Rulings: N345961, N344645, N356463, N345826

• 9506.91.0010Exercise cycles, within the subheading for exercise equipment and its parts and accessories.

  CBP put parts built into a stationary exercise bike, and an adapter made only to attach to one, on the line for exercise cycles. The frame parts don't interchange with ordinary bicycle parts.

  Rulings: N342624, N360889

• 9506.99.5000Snowshoes and their parts and accessories.

  CBP treated snowshoe kits with poles and a carry bag as retail sets under GRI 3(b). The snowshoes give each kit its essential character.

  Rulings: N339723, N340525

• 9506.99.5500Swimming pools and wading pools, and their parts and accessories.

  Heading 9506 names swimming pools. CBP found fiberglass in-ground pool shells named there, and chapter 39 note 2(y) keeps chapter 95 goods out of chapter 39.

  Ruling: N357680

• 9506.91.00Articles and equipment for general physical exercise, gymnastics or athletics, and their parts and accessories.

  CBP found an augmented reality kiosk's method of operation novel, but its use is general physical exercise. It placed the kiosk here under GRI 1 and GRI 6.

  Ruling: H356461

What separates them

• 9506.91.0030 or 9019

  CBP ruled out heading 9019 for a knee stretching device. The Explanatory Notes describe mechano-therapy appliances as treating joint or muscle disease by reproducing movements mechanically. The device has no mechanical device and isn't a massage apparatus.

  Ruling: N356463

• 9506.99.6080 or 9503

  CBP ruled out heading 9503, toys, for a disc golf putter. Its main use is a game with rules, a scoring system and a win or lose objective. CBP placed it in heading 9506 as outdoor game equipment.

  Ruling: N335360

• 9506.99.5500 or 3926

  CBP ruled out heading 3926, other articles of plastic, for fiberglass pool shells. Chapter 39 note 2(y) excludes chapter 95 goods, and heading 9506 names swimming pools.

  Ruling: N357680

• 9506.91.00 or 9506

  For the exercise kiosk, CBP turned down the heading's residual Other subheading. The subheading for general physical exercise describes the kiosk. Section XVI note 1(p) keeps chapter 95 goods out of that section.

  Ruling: H356461

Duty today by origin

The all-in duty for entries on November 10, 2026, from the same tariff engine as the duty calculator. Rates change; the calculator has today's figure for your own origin and value.

A range means the 10-digit lines under that 8-digit line resolve differently. "+" marks a line with a per-unit duty component the percentage does not capture. "*" marks lines the engine could not price. Chapter 99 headings beneath a rate are the additional-duty provisions applied. AD/CVD, quota, and the regimes listed under "Not included" are not in these numbers.

Source: USITC, 2026 HTS Revision 22, for entries on 2026-11-10. The whole heading, with every line and the programs behind each layer: HTS 9506.

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Every ruling in this guide

17 CBP rulings, grouped by the code CBP gave. Each page restates one ruling in plain words.