HS Code 97012100 - antique paintings drawings pastels

Paintings, e.g. oil paintings, watercolours and pastels, and drawings executed entirely by hand, over 100 years old (excl. technical drawings and the like of heading 4906, and hand-painted or hand-decorated manufactured articles)

Examples (No official information or warranty)

- 19th century oil portraits (artist unknown)
- Early 1800s botanical watercolor studies
- Mid-1800s European landscape pastels
- Pre-20th century figurative charcoal sketches
- Victorian-era family portrait miniatures
- 18th-century preparatory chalk drawings for frescoes
- Academic figure studies on paper (c. 1880s)

Code Tree Structure / Hierarchy

    9701 Paintings, drawings and pastels, executed entirely by hand, other than drawings of heading 4906 and other than hand-painted or hand-decorated manufactured articles; collages, mosaics and similar decorative plaques Of an age exceeding 100 years 97012100 Paintings, drawings and pastels

Trade restrictions and policies

Chapter 97
9 Trade restrictions and policies
Position 9701
14 Trade restrictions and policies
Subheading 970121
3 Trade restrictions and policies
Customs Tariff Number 97012100
1900-01-28
All third countries (1008)
Import control on cultural goods
Regulation 0880/19
1900-01-28
ERGA OMNES (1011)
Supplementary unit import
Regulation 0880/19
1900-01-28
All third countries (1008)
Import control on cultural goods
Regulation 0880/19

Changes to this tariff number

Changes in favor of 97012100
2021: 97011000
2022: 97012100