HSN chapter guide
Chapter 46 — Straw & basketware
13 eight-digit tariff lines. Rates below are from the Indian Customs Tariff First Schedule. Use the AI HSN classifier if you only have a product description. Reviewed by the CustomsAI compliance desk · 24 August 2026.
Chapter notes
- In this Chapter the expression 'plaiting materials' means materials in a state or form suitable for plaiting, interlacing or similar processes; it includes straw, osier or willow, bamboos, rushes, rattans, reeds, strips of wood or similar vegetable materials, unspun natural textile fibres, monofilament and strip and the like of plastics and strips of paper, but not strips of leather or composition leather or of felt or nonwovens, human hair, horsehair, textile rovings or yarns, or monofilament and strip and the like of Chapter 54.
- This Chapter does not cover: (a) Wall coverings of heading 48.14; (b) Twine, cordage, ropes or cables, plaited or not (heading 56.07); (c) Footwear or headgear or parts thereof of Chapter 64 or 65; (d) Vehicles or bodies for vehicles of basketware (Chapter 87); or (e) Articles of Chapter 94 (for example, furniture, luminaires and lighting fittings).
- For the purposes of heading 46.01, the expression 'plaiting materials, plaits and similar products of plaiting materials, bound together in parallel strands' means plaiting materials, plaits and similar products of plaiting materials, placed side by side and bound together, in the form of sheets, whether or not the binding materials are of spun textile materials.
Sample 8-digit lines
| HSN | Description | BCD |
|---|---|---|
| 4601 21 00 | Of bamboo | 10% |
| 4601 22 00 | Of rattan | 10% |
| 4601 29 00 | Other | 10% |
| 4601 92 00 | Of bamboo | 10% |
| 4601 93 00 | Of rattan | 10% |
| 4601 94 00 | Of other vegetable materials | 10% |
| 4601 99 00 | Other | 10% |
| 4602 11 00 | Of bamboo | 10% |
| 4602 12 00 | Of rattan | 10% |
| 4602 19 11 | Baskets | 10% |
| 4602 19 19 | Other | 10% |
| 4602 19 90 | Other | 10% |
| 4602 90 00 | Other | 10% |