HSN chapter guide
Chapter 82 — Tools & cutlery of base metal
98 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
- Apart from certain exceptions (e.g., portable forges and grinding wheels with frameworks), this Chapter applies only to articles with a blade, working edge, working surface or other working part of: (a) base metal; (b) metal carbides or cermets; (c) precious or semi-precious stones on a support of base metal, metal carbide or cermet; or (d) abrasive materials on a support of base metal, provided the articles have cutting teeth, flutes, grooves, or the like of base metal which retain their identity and function after the application of abrasive.
- Parts of base metal of articles of this Chapter are to be classified with the articles of which they are parts, except parts separately specified as such and tool-holders for hand tools (heading 84.66). Parts of general use as defined in Note 2 to Section XV are in all cases excluded from this Chapter. Heads, blades and cutting plates for electric shavers and electric hair clippers are to be classified in heading 85.10.
- Sets consisting of one or more knives of heading 82.11 and at least an equal number of articles of heading 82.15 are to be classified in heading 82.15.
Sample 8-digit lines
| HSN | Description | BCD |
|---|---|---|
| 8201 10 00 | Spades and shovels | 10% |
| 8201 30 00 | Mattocks, picks, hoes and rakes | 10% |
| 8201 40 00 | Axes, bill hooks and similar hewing tools | 10% |
| 8201 50 00 | Secateurs and similar one-handed pruners and shears (including poultry shears) | 10% |
| 8201 60 00 | Hedge shears, two-handed pruning shears and similar two-handed shears | 10% |
| 8201 90 00 | Other hand tools of a kind used in agriculture, horticulture or forestry | 10% |
| 8202 10 10 | Metal working hand saws | 10% |
| 8202 10 20 | Wood working and similar hand saws | 10% |
| 8202 10 90 | Other | 10% |
| 8202 20 00 | Band saw blades | 10% |
| 8202 31 00 | With working part of steel | 10% |
| 8202 39 00 | Other, including parts | 10% |
| 8202 40 00 | Chain saw blades | 10% |
| 8202 91 10 | Machine operated | 10% |
| 8202 91 20 | Hand operated | 10% |
| 8202 99 10 | Hacksaw frames | 10% |
| 8202 99 90 | Other | 10% |
| 8203 10 00 | Files, rasps and similar tools | 10% |
| 8203 20 00 | Pliers (including cutting pliers), pincers, tweezers and similar tools | 10% |
| 8203 30 00 | Metal cutting shears and similar tools | 10% |
| 8203 40 10 | Perforating punches and pipe cutters | 10% |
| 8203 40 90 | Other | 10% |
| 8204 11 10 | Spanners | 10% |
| 8204 11 20 | Wrenches | 10% |
| 8204 12 10 | Spanners | 10% |
| 8204 12 20 | Wrenches | 10% |
| 8204 20 00 | Interchangeable spanner sockets, with or without handles | 10% |
| 8205 10 00 | Drilling, threading or tapping tools | 10% |
| 8205 20 00 | Hammers and sledge hammers | 10% |
| 8205 30 00 | Planes, chisels, gouges and similar cutting tools for working wood | 10% |
| 8205 40 00 | Screwdrivers | 10% |
| 8205 51 10 | Can or cork openers | 10% |
| 8205 51 90 | Other | 10% |
| 8205 59 10 | Grease guns (excluding compressed air type) | 10% |
| 8205 59 20 | Metal working hand tools | 10% |
| 8205 59 30 | Hand tools for specified uses, such as watch making tools, goldsmith tools | 10% |
| 8205 59 40 | Forks other than those of headings 8201 and 8215 | 10% |
| 8205 59 90 | Other | 10% |
| 8205 60 00 | Blow lamps | 10% |
| 8205 70 00 | Vices, clamps and the like | 10% |