HSN chapter guide
Chapter 72 — Iron & steel
529 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
- Pig iron: Iron-carbon alloys not usefully malleable, containing more than 2% by weight of carbon and which may contain by weight one or more other elements within the following limits: not more than 10% of chromium; not more than 6% of manganese; not more than 3% of phosphorus; not more than 8% of silicon; a total of not more than 10% of other elements.
- Spiegeleisen: Iron-carbon alloys containing by weight more than 6% but not more than 30% of manganese and otherwise conforming to the specification at (a) above.
- Ferro-alloys: Alloys in pigs, blocks, lumps or similar primary forms, in forms obtained by continuous casting and also in granular or powder forms, whether or not agglomerated, commonly used as an additive in the manufacture of other alloys or as de-oxidants, de-sulphurising agents or for similar uses in ferrous metallurgy and generally not usefully malleable, containing by weight 4% or more of the element iron and one or more of the following: more than 10% of chromium; more than 30% of manganese; more than 3% of phosphorus; more than 8% of silicon; a total of more than 10% of other elements, excluding carbon, subject to a maximum content of 10% in the case of copper.
- Steel: Ferrous materials other than those of heading 72.03 which (with the exception of certain types produced in the form of castings) are usefully malleable and which contain by weight 2% or less of carbon. However, chromium steels may contain higher proportions of carbon.
Sample 8-digit lines
| HSN | Description | BCD |
|---|---|---|
| 7201 10 00 | Non-alloy pig iron containing by weight 0.5% or less of phosphorus | 7.5% |
| 7201 20 00 | Non-alloy pig iron containing by weight more than 0.5% of phosphorus | 7.5% |
| 7201 50 10 | Cast iron | 7.5% |
| 7201 50 90 | Other | 7.5% |
| 7202 11 00 | Containing by weight more than 2% of carbon | 7.5% |
| 7202 19 00 | Other | 7.5% |
| 7202 21 00 | Containing by weight more than 55% of silicon | 7.5% |
| 7202 29 00 | Other | 7.5% |
| 7202 30 00 | Ferro-silico-manganese | 7.5% |
| 7202 41 00 | Containing by weight more than 4% of carbon | 7.5% |
| 7202 49 00 | Other | 7.5% |
| 7202 50 00 | Ferro-silico-chromium | 7.5% |
| 7202 60 00 | Ferro-nickel | 7.5% |
| 7202 70 00 | Ferro-molybdenum | 7.5% |
| 7202 80 00 | Ferro tungsten and ferro-silico-tungsten | 7.5% |
| 7202 91 00 | Ferro-titanium and Ferro-silico-titanium | 7.5% |
| 7202 92 00 | Ferro-vanadium | 7.5% |
| 7202 93 00 | Ferro-niobium | 7.5% |
| 7202 99 11 | Ferro-phosphorus | 7.5% |
| 7202 99 12 | Ferro-selenium | 7.5% |
| 7202 99 13 | Ferro-cobalt | 7.5% |
| 7202 99 14 | Ferro-columbium | 7.5% |
| 7202 99 15 | Ferro-zirconium | 7.5% |
| 7202 99 16 | Ferro-tantalum | 7.5% |
| 7202 99 21 | Ferro-silico-zirconium | 7.5% |
| 7202 99 22 | Ferro-silico-magnesium | 7.5% |
| 7202 99 31 | Ferro-boron | 7.5% |
| 7202 99 32 | Charge-chrome | 7.5% |
| 7202 99 90 | Other | 7.5% |
| 7203 10 00 | Ferrous products obtained by direct reduction of iron ore | 7.5% |
| 7203 90 00 | Other | 7.5% |
| 7204 10 00 | Waste and scrap of cast iron | 0% |
| 7204 21 10 | Empty or discharged cartridges of all bores and sizes | 0% |
| 7204 21 90 | Other | 0% |
| 7204 29 10 | Empty or discharged cartridges of all bores and sizes | 0% |
| 7204 29 20 | Of high speed steel | 0% |
| 7204 29 90 | Other | 0% |
| 7204 30 00 | Waste and scrap of tinned iron or steel | 0% |
| 7204 41 00 | Turnings, shavings, chips, milling waste, saw dust, fillings, trimmings and stampings, whether or not in bundles | 0% |
| 7204 49 00 | Other | 0% |