HSN chapter guide
Chapter 96 — Miscellaneous manufactured articles
101 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) Pencils for cosmetic or toilet uses (Chapter 33); (b) Articles of Chapter 66 (for example, parts of umbrellas or walking-sticks); (c) Imitation jewellery (heading 71.17); (d) Parts of general use, as defined in Note 2 to Section XV, of base metal (Section XV), or similar goods of plastics (Chapter 39); (e) Cutlery or other articles of Chapter 82 with handles or other parts of carving or moulding materials; heading 96.01 or 96.02 applies, however, to separately presented handles or other parts of such articles; (f) Articles of Chapter 90 (for example, spectacle frames (heading 90.03), mathematical drawing pens (heading 90.17), brushes of a kind specialised for use in dentistry or for medical, surgical or veterinary purposes (heading 90.18)); (g) Articles of Chapter 91 (for example, clock or watch cases); (h) Musical instruments or parts or accessories thereof (Chapter 92); (ij) Articles of Chapter 93 (arms and parts thereof); (k) Articles of Chapter 94 (for example, furniture, luminaires and lighting fittings); (l) Articles of Chapter 95 (toys, games, sports requisites); or (m) Works of art, collectors' pieces or antiques (Chapter 97).
- In heading 96.02 the expression 'vegetable or mineral carving material' means: (a) Hard seeds, pips, hulls and nuts and similar vegetable materials of a kind used for carving (for example, corozo and dom); (b) Amber, meerschaum, agglomerated amber and agglomerated meerschaum, jet and mineral substitutes for jet.
- In heading 96.03 the expression 'prepared knots and tufts for broom or brush making' applies only to unmounted knots and tufts of animal hair, vegetable fibre or other material, which are ready for incorporation without division in brooms or brushes, or which require only such further minor processes as trimming to shape at the top, to render them ready for such incorporation.
- Articles of this Chapter, other than those of headings 96.01 to 96.06 or 96.15, remain classified in the Chapter whether or not composed wholly or partly of precious metal or metal clad with precious metal, of natural or cultured pearls, or precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed). However, headings 96.01 to 96.06 and 96.15 include 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.
Sample 8-digit lines
| HSN | Description | BCD |
|---|---|---|
| 9601 10 00 | Worked ivory and articles of ivory | 10% |
| 9601 90 10 | Worked tortoise-shell and articles thereof | 10% |
| 9601 90 20 | Worked mother-of-pearl and articles thereof | 10% |
| 9601 90 30 | Worked bone (excluding whale bone) and articles thereof | 10% |
| 9601 90 40 | Worked horn, coral and other animal carving material and articles thereof | 10% |
| 9601 90 90 | Other | 10% |
| 9602 00 10 | Worked vegetable carving material and articles thereof | 10% |
| 9602 00 20 | Moulded or carved articles of wax, stearin, natural gums and resins and other moulded or carved articles | 10% |
| 9602 00 30 | Gelatin capsules, empty | 10% |
| 9602 00 40 | Other articles of unhardened gelatin | 10% |
| 9602 00 90 | Other | 10% |
| 9603 10 00 | Muddhas made of sarkanda, Brooms and brushes, consisting of twigs or other vegetable materials, bound together, with or without handles | 20% |
| 9603 21 00 | Tooth brushes including dental-plate brushes | 20% |
| 9603 29 00 | Other | 20% |
| 9603 30 10 | Artist brushes | 20% |
| 9603 30 20 | Brushes for the application of cosmetics | 20% |
| 9603 30 90 | Other | 20% |
| 9603 40 10 | Paint, distemper, varnish or similar brushes (other than brushes of sub-heading 9603 30); | 20% |
| 9603 40 20 | Paint pads and rollers | 20% |
| 9603 50 00 | Other brushes constituting parts of machines, appliances or vehicles | 20% |
| 9603 90 00 | Other | 20% |
| 9604 00 00 | HAND SIEVES AND HAND RIDDLES | 20% |
| 9605 00 10 | For personal toilet | 10% |
| 9605 00 90 | Other | 10% |
| 9606 10 10 | Press-fasteners, snap-fasteners and press-studs | 10% |
| 9606 10 20 | Parts | 10% |
| 9606 21 00 | Of plastics, not covered with textile material | 10% |
| 9606 22 00 | Of base metals, not covered with textile material | 10% |
| 9606 29 10 | Button of coconut shell or wood | 10% |
| 9606 29 90 | Other | 10% |
| 9606 30 10 | Button blanks | 10% |
| 9606 30 90 | Other | 10% |
| 9607 11 10 | Zip fasteners | 10% |
| 9607 11 90 | Other | 10% |
| 9607 19 10 | Zip fasteners | 10% |
| 9607 19 90 | Other | 10% |
| 9607 20 00 | Parts | 10% |
| 9608 10 11 | High value ball point pens (US $ 100 and above c.i.f. per unit) | 10% |
| 9608 10 12 | Ball point pens with body or cap of precious metal or rolled precious metal | 10% |
| 9608 10 19 | Other | 10% |