HSN chapter guide
Chapter 95 — Toys, games & sports equipment
63 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) Candles (heading 34.06); (b) Fireworks or other pyrotechnic articles of heading 36.04; (c) Yarns, monofilament, cords or gut for fishing, cut to length but not made up into fishing lines (Chapter 39, heading 42.06 or Section XI); (d) Sports bags or other containers of heading 42.02, 43.03 or 43.04; (e) Fancy dress of textiles, of Chapter 61 or 62; sports clothing and special articles of apparel of textiles, of Chapter 61 or 62, whether or not incorporating incidentally protective components; (f) Textile flags or bunting, or sails for boats, sailboards or land craft, of Chapter 63; (g) Sports footwear (other than skating boots with ice or roller skates attached) of Chapter 64, or sports headgear of Chapter 65; (h) Walking-sticks, whips, riding-crops or the like (heading 66.02), or parts thereof (heading 66.03); (i) Unmounted glass eyes for dolls or other toys, of heading 70.18; (k) Parts of general use, as defined in Note 2 to Section XV, of base metal (Section XV), or similar goods of plastics (Chapter 39); (l) Bells, gongs or the like of heading 83.06; (m) Pumps for liquids (heading 84.13), filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus (heading 84.21), electric motors (heading 85.01), electric transformers (heading 85.04), recording media (heading 85.23), radio remote control apparatus (heading 85.26) or cordless infrared remote control devices (heading 85.43); (n) Sports vehicles (other than bobsleighs, toboggans and the like) of Section XVII; (o) Children's bicycles (heading 87.12); (p) Unmanned aircraft (heading 88.06); (q) Sports craft such as canoes and skiffs (Chapter 89), or their means of propulsion (Chapter 44 for wood); (r) Spectacles, goggles or the like, for sports or outdoor games (heading 90.04); (s) Decoy calls or whistles (heading 92.08); (t) Arms or other articles of Chapter 93; (u) Lighting strings of all kinds (heading 94.05); (v) Monopods, bipods, tripods and similar articles (heading 96.20); (w) Racket strings, tents or other camping goods, or gloves, mittens and mitts (classified according to their constituent material); (x) Tableware, kitchenware, toilet articles, carpets and other textile floor coverings, apparel, bed linen, table linen, toilet linen, kitchen linen and similar articles having a utilitarian function (classified according to their constituent material).
- This Chapter includes articles in which natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed), precious metal or metal clad with precious metal constitute only minor constituents.
- Subject to Note 1 above, parts and accessories which are suitable for use solely or principally with articles of this Chapter are to be classified with those articles.
- Subject to the provisions of Note 1 above, heading 95.03 applies, inter alia, to articles of this heading combined with one or more items, which cannot be considered as sets under the terms of General Interpretative Rule 3 (b), and which, if presented separately, would be classified in other headings, provided the articles are put up together for retail sale and the combinations have the essential character of toys.
Sample 8-digit lines
| HSN | Description | BCD |
|---|---|---|
| 9503 00 10 | Electronic | 70% |
| 9503 00 20 | Non electronic | 70% |
| 9503 00 91 | Of electronic toys | 20% |
| 9503 00 99 | Other | 70% |
| 9504 20 00 | Articles and accessories for billiards of all kinds | 20% |
| 9504 30 00 | Other games, operated by coins, banknotes, bank cards, tokens or by any other means of payment, other than automatic bowling alley equipment | 20% |
| 9504 40 00 | Playing cards | 20% |
| 9504 50 00 | Video game consoles and machines, other than those of sub-heading 9504 30 | 20% |
| 9504 90 10 | Chess set, all types | 20% |
| 9504 90 20 | Carrom board, with or without coins and strikers | 20% |
| 9504 90 90 | Other | 20% |
| 9505 10 00 | Articles for Christmas festivities | 20% |
| 9505 90 10 | Magical equipments | 20% |
| 9505 90 90 | Other | 20% |
| 9506 11 00 | Skis | 20% |
| 9506 12 00 | Ski-fastenings (ski-bindings) | 20% |
| 9506 19 00 | Other | 20% |
| 9506 21 00 | Sailboards | 20% |
| 9506 29 00 | Other | 20% |
| 9506 31 00 | Clubs, complete | 20% |
| 9506 32 00 | Balls | 20% |
| 9506 39 00 | Other | 20% |
| 9506 40 00 | Articles and equipment for table-tennis | 20% |
| 9506 51 00 | Lawn-tennis rackets, whether or not strung | 20% |
| 9506 59 10 | Squash or racketball badminton rackets, whether or not strung | 20% |
| 9506 59 90 | Other | 20% |
| 9506 61 00 | Lawn-tennis balls | 20% |
| 9506 62 10 | Football | 20% |
| 9506 62 20 | Volley ball | 20% |
| 9506 62 30 | Basket ball | 20% |
| 9506 62 90 | Other | 20% |
| 9506 69 10 | Hockey ball | 20% |
| 9506 69 20 | Cricket ball | 20% |
| 9506 69 30 | Golf ball | 20% |
| 9506 69 40 | Rugby ball | 20% |
| 9506 69 90 | Other | 20% |
| 9506 70 00 | Ice skates and roller skates, including skating boots with skates attached | 20% |
| 9506 91 10 | Boxing equipment | 10% |
| 9506 91 90 | Other | 10% |
| 9506 99 10 | Badminton shuttle cocks | 20% |