HSN chapter guide
Chapter 93 — Arms & ammunition
20 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) Goods of Chapter 36 (for example, percussion caps, detonators, signalling flares); (b) Parts of general use, as defined in Note 2 to Section XV, of base metal (Section XV), or similar goods of plastics (Chapter 39); (c) Armoured fighting vehicles (heading 87.10); (d) Telescopic sights and other optical devices suitable for use with arms, unless mounted on a firearm or presented with the firearm on which they are designed to be mounted (Chapter 90); (e) Bows, arrows, fencing foils or toys (Chapter 95); (f) Collectors' pieces or antiques (heading 97.05 or 97.06).
- In heading 93.06, the reference to 'parts thereof' does not include radio or radar apparatus of heading 85.26.
Sample 8-digit lines
| HSN | Description | BCD |
|---|---|---|
| 9301 10 10 | Self propelled | 10% |
| 9301 10 90 | Other | 10% |
| 9301 20 00 | Rocket launchers; flame-throwers; grenade launchers; torpedo tubes and similar projectors | 10% |
| 9301 90 00 | Other | 10% |
| 9302 00 00 | REVOLVERS AND PISTOLS, OTHER THAN THOSE OF HEADING 9303 OR 9304 | 10% |
| 9303 10 00 | Muzzle-loading firearms | 10% |
| 9303 20 00 | Other sporting, hunting or target-shooting shotguns, including combination shotgun-rifles | 10% |
| 9303 30 00 | Other sporting, hunting or target-shooting rifles | 10% |
| 9303 90 00 | Other | 10% |
| 9304 00 00 | OTHER ARMS (FOR EXAMPLE, SPRING, AIR OR GAS GUNS AND PISTOLS, TRUNCHEONS), EXCLUDING THOSE OF HEADING 9307 | 10% |
| 9305 10 00 | Of revolvers or pistols | 10% |
| 9305 20 10 | Shotgun barrels | 10% |
| 9305 20 90 | Other | 10% |
| 9305 91 00 | Of military weapons of heading 9301 | 10% |
| 9305 99 00 | Other : -- Other | 10% |
| 9306 21 00 | Cartridges | 10% |
| 9306 29 00 | Other | 10% |
| 9306 30 00 | Other cartridges and parts thereof | 10% |
| 9306 90 00 | Other | 10% |
| 9307 00 00 | SWORDS, CUT LASSES, BAYONETS, LANCES AND SIMILAR ARMS AND PARTS THEREOF AND SCABBARDS AND SHEATHS THEREFOR | 10% |