HSN chapter guide
Chapter 70 — Glass & glassware
110 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
- This Chapter does not cover: (a) Goods of heading 32.07 (vitrifiable enamels and glazes, glass frit, other glass in the form of powder, granules or flakes); (b) Articles of Chapter 71 (imitation jewellery); (c) Optical fibre cables of heading 85.44, electrical insulators (heading 85.46) or fittings of insulating material (heading 85.47); (d) Front windscreens, rear windows and other windows, framed, for vehicles of Chapters 86 to 88; (e) Front windscreens, rear windows and other windows, whether or not framed, incorporating heating or electrical devices, for vehicles of Chapters 86 to 88; (f) Optical fibres, optically worked optical elements, hypodermic syringes, artificial eyes, thermometers, barometers, hydrometers or other articles of Chapter 90; (g) Luminaires and lighting fittings, illuminated signs, illuminated name-plates or the like of heading 94.05; (h) Toys, games, sports requisites, Christmas tree ornaments or other articles of Chapter 95 (excluding glass eyes without mechanisms for dolls or for other articles of Chapter 95); or (i) Buttons, fitted vacuum flasks, scent or similar sprays or other articles of Chapter 96.
- For the purposes of headings 70.03, 70.04 and 70.05: (a) glass is not regarded as 'worked' by reason of any process it has undergone before annealing; (b) cutting to shape does not affect the classification of glass in sheets; (c) the expression 'absorbent, reflecting or non-reflecting layer' means a microscopically thin coating of metal or of a chemical compound which absorbs infra-red light or improves reflecting qualities while retaining transparency or translucency, or which prevents light from being reflected on the surface of the glass.
- For the purposes of heading 70.19, the expression 'glass wool' means: (a) Mineral wools with a silica (SiO2) content not less than 60% by weight; (b) Mineral wools with a silica (SiO2) content less than 60% but with an alkaline oxide (K2O or Na2O) content exceeding 5% by weight or a boric oxide (B2O3) content exceeding 2% by weight. Mineral wools which do not comply with the above specifications fall in heading 68.06.
- Throughout the Nomenclature, the expression 'glass' includes fused quartz and other fused silica.
Sample 8-digit lines
| HSN | Description | BCD |
|---|---|---|
| 7001 00 10 | Cullet and other waste and scrap of glass | 5% |
| 7001 00 20 | Enamel glass in the mass | 10% |
| 7001 00 90 | Other | 10% |
| 7002 10 00 | Balls | 10% |
| 7002 20 10 | Enamel glass rods | 10% |
| 7002 20 90 | Other | 10% |
| 7002 31 00 | Of fused quartz or other fused silica | 10% |
| 7002 32 00 | Of other glass having a linear coefficient of expansion not exceeding 5 x 10-6 per Kelvin within a temperature range of 00C to 3000C | 10% |
| 7002 39 00 | Other | 10% |
| 7003 12 10 | Tinted | 10% |
| 7003 12 90 | Other | 10% |
| 7003 19 10 | Tinted | 10% |
| 7003 19 90 | Other | 10% |
| 7003 20 10 | Tinted | 10% |
| 7003 20 90 | Other | 10% |
| 7003 30 10 | Tinted | 10% |
| 7003 30 90 | Other | 10% |
| 7004 20 11 | Tinted | 10% |
| 7004 20 19 | Other | 10% |
| 7004 20 91 | Tinted | 10% |
| 7004 20 99 | Other | 10% |
| 7004 90 11 | Tinted | 10% |
| 7004 90 19 | Other | 10% |
| 7004 90 91 | Tinted | 10% |
| 7004 90 99 | Other | 10% |
| 7005 10 10 | Tinted | 10% |
| 7005 10 90 | Other | 10% |
| 7005 21 10 | Tinted | 10% |
| 7005 21 90 | Other | 10% |
| 7005 29 10 | Tinted | 10% |
| 7005 29 90 | Other | 10% |
| 7005 30 10 | Tinted | 10% |
| 7005 30 90 | Other | 10% |
| 7007 11 00 | Of size and shape suitable for incorporation in vehicles, aircraft, spacecraft or vessels | 10% |
| 7007 19 00 | Other | 10% |
| 7007 21 10 | Bullet proof glass | 10% |
| 7007 21 90 | Other | 10% |
| 7007 29 00 | Other | 10% |
| 7008 00 10 | Glazed glass, double walled | 10% |
| 7008 00 20 | Glazed glass, multiple walled | 10% |