3213.90.00.00 - Other

This HTS classification, 3213.90.00.00, encompasses "Other" artists', students', and signboard painters' colors, along with modifying tints, amusement colors, and similar preparations. These items are presented in various forms, including tablets, tubes, jars, bottles, pans, or other similar packings. The scope is broad, covering coloring agents intended for artistic, educational, decorative, or recreational purposes, not specifically categorized elsewhere within heading 3213.

Distinguishing this category from its sibling, 3213.10.00.00, is crucial. While 3213.10.00.00 specifically addresses colors presented as "sets" – implying a curated collection of multiple colors intended to be used together as a unit – this category, 3213.90.00.00, covers individual colors or assortments that do not constitute a formal set. The emphasis here is on individual units of coloring material or unpackaged assortments that don't meet the definition of a pre-arranged set.

As this is a leaf node within the HTS classification system, there are no further subcategories to introduce. Therefore, classification under 3213.90.00.00 relies on correctly identifying that the goods are indeed artists' colors or similar preparations as described in heading 3213, and that they are not presented as a set. Examples of goods that would fall here include individual tubes of oil paint, single jars of tempera paint, or loose pans of watercolor not sold as part of a designated set.