Iron or steel articles
Chapter 73 of the Harmonised System covers Iron or steel articles. It groups 26 four-digit headings used worldwide to classify these goods for customs and duty.
Sourcing this category from India
Products classified under HS 73 can be sourced from India across a range of clusters and price points. Use this page to understand where Iron or steel articles sits in the tariff schedule, then explore the Indian sectors and products that supply it.
How to read this code
73 is the two-digit HS chapter. Your destination country extends it to 8–10 digits and assigns the duty rate. India's preferential trade agreements (UAE CEPA, Australia ECTA, and others) can reduce or zero out that duty for many goods — check our import guides for your market.
Headings under HS 73
The Harmonised System breaks Iron or steel articles into these 26 headings. Drill down to the exact classification for your goods.
Iron or steel sheet piling, whether or not drilled, punched or made from assembled elements; welded angles, shapes and sections, of iron or steel
Railway or tramway track constructions of iron or steel; rails, check and track rails, switch blades, crossing frogs, point rods, sleepers, fish-plates, chair wedges, sole plates, bedplates, ties and the like
Tubes, pipes and hollow profiles, of cast iron
Tubes, pipes and hollow profiles, seamless, of iron (other than cast iron) or steel
Iron or steel (excluding cast iron); tubes and pipes (e.g. welded, riveted or similarly closed), having circular cross-sections, external diameter of which exceeds 406.4mm, not seamless
Iron or steel (excluding cast iron); tubes, pipes and hollow profiles (not seamless), n.e.c. in chapter 73
Tube or pipe fittings (e.g. couplings, elbows, sleeves), of iron or steel
Structures of iron or steel and parts thereof; plates, rods, angles, shapes, sections, tubes and the like, prepared for use in structures
Reservoirs, tanks, vats and similar containers; for any material (excluding compressed or liquefied gas), of iron or steel, capacity exceeding 300l, whether or not lined or heat insulated
Tanks, casks, drums, cans, boxes and similar containers, for any material (excluding compressed or liquefied gas), of iron or steel, capacity not exceeding 300l, whether or not lined or heat-insulated
Containers for compressed or liquefied gas, of iron or steel
Stranded wire, ropes, cables, plaited bands, slings and the like, of iron or steel, not electrically insulated
Barbed wire of iron or steel; twisted hoop or single flat wire, barbed or not and loosely twisted double wire, of a kind used for fencing, of iron or steel
Cloth (including endless bands), grill, netting and fencing, of iron or steel wire; expanded metal of iron or steel
Chain and parts thereof, of iron or steel
Anchors, grapnels and parts thereof, of iron or steel
Nails, tacks, drawing pins, corrugated nails, staples (not those of heading no. 8305) and the like, of iron or steel, with heads of other material or not, but excluding articles with heads of copper
Screws, bolts, nuts, coach screws, screw hooks, rivets, cotters, cotter-pins, washers (including spring washers) and similar articles, of iron or steel
Sewing and knitting needles, bodkins, crochet hooks, embroidery stilettos and similar articles, for use in the hand, of iron or steel; safety pins and other pins of iron or steel, not elsewhere specified or included
Springs and leaves for springs, of iron or steel
Stoves, ranges, grates, cookers (those with subsidiary boilers for central heating), barbecues, braziers, gas-rings, plate warmers and similar non-electric domestic appliances and parts, of iron or steel
Radiators for central heating, not electrically heated and parts thereof, of iron or steel; air heaters, hot air distributors not electrically heated, with motor fan or blower
Table, kitchen, other household articles and parts, of iron or steel; iron or steel wool; pot scourers and scouring or polishing pads, gloves and the like, of iron or steel
Sanitary ware and parts thereof, of iron or steel
Iron or steel; cast articles
Iron or steel; articles, n.e.c. in chapter 73
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