HSN chapter guide
Chapter 92 — Musical instruments
19 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) Parts of general use, as defined in Note 2 to Section XV, of base metal (Section XV), or similar goods of plastics (Chapter 39); (b) Microphones, amplifiers, loud-speakers, head-phones, switches, stroboscopes or other accessory instruments, apparatus or equipment of Chapter 85 or 90, for use with but not incorporated in or housed in the same cabinet as instruments of this Chapter; (c) Toy instruments or apparatus (heading 95.03); (d) Brushes for cleaning musical instruments (heading 96.03), or monopods, bipods, tripods and similar articles (heading 96.20); (e) Collectors' pieces or antiques (heading 97.05 or 97.06).
- Bows and sticks and similar devices used in playing the musical instruments of heading 92.02 or 92.06 presented with such instruments in numbers normal thereto and clearly intended for use therewith, are to be classified in the same heading as the relative instruments. Cards, discs and rolls of heading 92.09 presented with an instrument are to be treated as separate articles and not as forming a part of such instrument.
Sample 8-digit lines
| HSN | Description | BCD |
|---|---|---|
| 9201 10 00 | Upright pianos | 10% |
| 9201 20 00 | Grand pianos | 10% |
| 9201 90 00 | Other | 10% |
| 9202 10 00 | Played with a bow | 10% |
| 9202 90 00 | Other | 10% |
| 9205 10 00 | Brass-wind instruments | 10% |
| 9205 90 10 | Flutes | 10% |
| 9205 90 20 | Clarinets | 10% |
| 9205 90 90 | Other | 10% |
| 9206 00 00 | PERCUSSION MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS (FOR EXAMPLE, DRUMS, XYLOPHONES, CYMBOLS, CASTANETS, MARACAS) | 10% |
| 9207 10 00 | Keyboard instruments, other than accordions | 10% |
| 9207 90 00 | Other | 10% |
| 9208 10 00 | Musical boxes | 10% |
| 9208 90 00 | Other | 10% |
| 9209 30 00 | Musical instrument strings | 10% |
| 9209 91 00 | Parts and accessories for pianos | 10% |
| 9209 92 00 | Parts and accessories for the musical instruments of heading 9202 | 10% |
| 9209 94 00 | Parts and accessories for the musical instruments of heading 9207 | 10% |
| 9209 99 00 | Other | 10% |