HSN chapter guide
Chapter 86 — Railway locomotives & track
43 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) Railway or tramway sleepers of wood or of concrete, or concrete guide-track sections for hovertrains (heading 44.06 or 68.10); (b) Railway or tramway track construction material of iron or steel of heading 73.02; or (c) Electrical signalling, safety or traffic control equipment of heading 85.30.
- Heading 86.07 applies, inter alia, to: (a) Axles, wheels, wheel sets (running gear), metal tyres, hoops and hubs and other parts of wheels; (b) Frames, underframes, bogies and bissel-bogies; (c) Axle boxes; brake gear; (d) Buffers for rolling-stock; hooks and other coupling gear and corridor connections; (e) Coachwork.
- Subject to the provisions of Note 1 above, heading 86.08 applies, inter alia, to: (a) Assembled track, turntables, platform buffers, loading gauges; (b) Semaphores, mechanical signal discs, level crossing control gear, signal and point controls, and other mechanical (including electro-mechanical) signalling, safety or traffic control equipment, whether or not fitted for electric lighting, for railways, tramways, roads, inland waterways, parking facilities, port installations or airfields.
Sample 8-digit lines
| HSN | Description | BCD |
|---|---|---|
| 8601 10 00 | Powered from an external source of electricity | 10% |
| 8601 20 00 | Powered by electric accumulators | 10% |
| 8602 10 00 | Diesel-electric locomotives | 10% |
| 8602 90 10 | Steam locomotives and tenders thereof | 10% |
| 8602 90 90 | Other | 10% |
| 8603 10 00 | Powered from an external source of electricity | 10% |
| 8603 90 00 | Other | 10% |
| 8604 00 00 | RAILWAY OR TRAMWAY MAINTENANCE OR SERVICE VEHICLES WHETHER OR NOT SELF-PROPELLED (FOR EXAMPLE, WORKSHOPS, CRANES, BALLAST TAMPERS, TRACK-LINERS, TESTING COACHES AND TRACK INSPECTION VEHICLES) | 10% |
| 8605 00 00 | RAILWAY OR TRAMWAY PASSENGER COACHES, NOT SELF-PROPELLED; LUGGAGE VANS, POST OFFICE COACHES AND OTHER SPECIAL PURPOSE RAILWAY OR TRAMWAY COACHES, NOT SELF-PROPELLED (EXCLUDING THOSE OF HEADING 8604) | 10% |
| 8606 10 10 | Four wheeler tank wagons of pay-load exceeding 23 tonnes | 10% |
| 8606 10 20 | Eight wheeler tank wagons of pay-load not exceeding 60 tonnes | 10% |
| 8606 10 90 | Other | 10% |
| 8606 30 00 | Self-discharging vans and wagons, other than those of sub-heading 8606 10 | 10% |
| 8606 91 10 | Meter guage eight wheeler covered wagons of pay-load not exceeding 38 tonnes | 10% |
| 8606 91 20 | Broad guage eight wheeler covered wagons of pay-load not exceeding 60 tonnes | 10% |
| 8606 91 90 | Other | 10% |
| 8606 92 10 | Bogie eight wheeler wagons of pay-load not exceeding 60 tonnes | 10% |
| 8606 92 20 | Broad guage bogie eight wheeler wagons of pay-load exceeding 60 tonnes but not exceeding 67 tonnes | 10% |
| 8606 92 90 | Other | 10% |
| 8606 99 00 | Other | 10% |
| 8607 11 00 | Driving bogies and bissel-bogies | 10% |
| 8607 12 00 | Other bogies and bissel-bogies | 10% |
| 8607 19 10 | Axles, wheels for coaches, van and wagons (rolling-stock) | 10% |
| 8607 19 20 | Axles and wheels for locomotives | 10% |
| 8607 19 30 | Axle boxes (lubricating or grease box) | 10% |
| 8607 19 90 | Other parts of axles and wheels | 10% |
| 8607 21 00 | Air brakes and parts thereof | 10% |
| 8607 29 00 | Other | 10% |
| 8607 30 10 | Buffers and coupling devices | 10% |
| 8607 30 90 | Other | 10% |
| 8607 91 00 | Of locomotives | 10% |
| 8607 99 10 | Parts of coach work of railway running stock | 10% |
| 8607 99 20 | Parts of tramway, locomotives and running stock | 10% |
| 8607 99 30 | Hydraulic shock absorbers for railway bogies | 10% |
| 8607 99 90 | Other | 7.5% |
| 8608 00 10 | Railway and tramway track fixtures and fittings | 10% |
| 8608 00 20 | Mechanical equipment, not electrically powered for signalling to, or controlling, road rail or other vehicles, ships or aircraft | 10% |
| 8608 00 30 | Other traffic control equipment for railways | 10% |
| 8608 00 40 | Other traffic control equipment for roads or inland waterways including automatic traffic control equipment for use at ports and airports | 10% |
| 8608 00 90 | Other | 10% |