HSN chapter guide
Chapter 74 — Copper & articles thereof
96 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
- Refined copper: Metal containing at least 99.85% by weight of copper, OR Metal containing at least 97.5% by weight of copper, provided that the content by weight of any other element does not exceed the limit specified in a table (Ag 0.25%, As 0.5%, Cd 1.3%, Cr 1.4%, Mg 0.8%, Pb 1.5%, S 0.7%, Sn 0.8%, Te 0.8%, Zn 1%, Zr 0.3%, other elements each 0.3%).
- Copper alloys: Metallic substances other than unrefined copper in which copper predominates by weight over each of the other elements, provided that: (i) the content by weight of at least one of the other elements is greater than the limit specified in the refined copper table; or (ii) the total content by weight of such other elements exceeds 2.5%.
- Master alloys: Alloys containing with other elements more than 10% by weight of copper, not usefully malleable and commonly used as an additive in the manufacture of other alloys or as de-oxidants, de-sulphurising agents or for similar uses in the metallurgy of non-ferrous metals. However, copper phosphide (phosphor copper) containing more than 15% by weight of phosphorus falls in heading 28.53.
- Copper-zinc base alloys (brasses): Alloys of copper and zinc, with or without other elements. When other elements are present: zinc predominates by weight over each of such other elements; any nickel content by weight is less than 5%; and any tin content by weight is less than 3%.
Sample 8-digit lines
| HSN | Description | BCD |
|---|---|---|
| 7401 00 10 | Copper mattes | 5% |
| 7401 00 90 | Cement copper (precipitated copper) | 5% |
| 7402 00 10 | Blister copper | 5% |
| 7402 00 90 | Other | 5% |
| 7403 11 00 | Cathodes and sections of cathodes | 5% |
| 7403 12 00 | Wire-bars | 5% |
| 7403 13 00 | Billets | 5% |
| 7403 19 00 | Other | 5% |
| 7403 21 00 | Copper-zinc base alloys (brass) | 5% |
| 7403 22 10 | Phosphor bronze | 5% |
| 7403 22 90 | Other | 5% |
| 7403 29 00 | Other copper alloys (other than master alloys of heading 7405) | 5% |
| 7404 00 11 | Empty or discharged cartridges of all bores and sizes | 2.5% |
| 7404 00 12 | Copper scrap, namely the following: | 0% |
| 7404 00 19 | Other | 0% |
| 7404 00 21 | Empty or discharged cartridges of all bores and sizes, including the following: clean fired 70/30 brass shells free of bullets, iron and any other foreign material covered by ISRI code word ‘Lake’; clean muffled (popped) 70/30 brass shells free of bullets, iron and any other foreign material covered by ISRI code word ‘Lamb’ | 2.5% |
| 7404 00 22 | Brass scrap, namely the following: | 0% |
| 7404 00 24 | Bronze scrap, including the following: manganese bronze solids covered ISRI code word ‘Parch’; High lead bronze solids and borings covered by ISRI code word ‘Elias’ | 2.5% |
| 7404 00 25 | Copper nickel scrap, including the following: new cupro nickel clips and solids covered by ISRI code word ‘Dandy’; cupro nickel solids covered by ISRI code word ‘Daunt’; soldered cupro-nickel solids covered by ISRI code word ‘Delta’; cupro nickel spinnings, turnings, borings covered by ISRI code word ‘Decoy’; | 2.5% |
| 7404 00 29 | Other | 2.5% |
| 7405 00 00 | MASTER ALLOYS OF COPPER | 5% |
| 7406 10 00 | Powders of non-lamellar structure | 5% |
| 7406 20 00 | Powders of lamellar structure; flakes | 5% |
| 7407 10 10 | Electrolytic copper rods or black copper rods | 5% |
| 7407 10 20 | Other copper rods | 5% |
| 7407 10 30 | Copper bars (excluding hollow bars) | 5% |
| 7407 10 40 | Hollow bars of copper | 5% |
| 7407 10 51 | Hollow profiles | 5% |
| 7407 10 59 | Other | 5% |
| 7407 10 90 | Other | 5% |
| 7407 21 10 | Bars | 5% |
| 7407 21 20 | Rods | 5% |
| 7407 21 30 | Hollow bars | 5% |
| 7407 21 90 | Other | 5% |
| 7407 29 10 | Rods of bronze and similar alloys | 5% |
| 7407 29 21 | Hollow | 5% |
| 7407 29 29 | Other | 5% |
| 7407 29 90 | Other | 5% |
| 7408 11 10 | Copper weld wire | 5% |
| 7408 11 90 | Other | 5% |