Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical apparatus and sight testing instruments
HS heading 90.18 covers Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical apparatus and sight testing instruments. It sits within Chapter 90 and breaks down into 13 six-digit subheadings at the border.
Sourcing this category from India
Products classified under HS 90.18 can be sourced from India across a range of clusters and price points. Use this page to understand where Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical apparatus and sight testing instruments sits in the tariff schedule, then explore the Indian sectors and products that supply it.
How to read this code
90.18 is the four-digit HS heading. 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.
Subheadings under HS 90.18
The Harmonised System breaks Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical apparatus and sight testing instruments into these 13 subheadings. Drill down to the exact classification for your goods.
Medical, surgical instruments and appliances; electro-cardiographs
Medical, surgical instruments and appliances; ultrasonic scanning apparatus
Medical, surgical instruments and appliances; magnetic resonance imaging apparatus
Medical, surgical instruments and appliances; scintigraphic apparatus
Medical, surgical instruments and appliances; electro-diagnostic apparatus (including apparatus for functional exploratory examination or for checking physiological parameters), n.e.c. in item no. 9018.1
Medical, surgical instruments and appliances; ultra-violet or infra-red ray apparatus
Medical, surgical instruments and appliances; syringes, with or without needles
Medical, surgical instruments and appliances; tubular metal needles and needles for sutures
Medical, surgical instruments and appliances; catheters, cannulae and the like
Dental instruments and appliances; dental drill engines, whether or not combined on a single base with other dental equipment
Dental instruments and appliances; other than dental drill engines
Ophthalmic instruments and appliances
Medical, surgical or dental instruments and appliances; n.e.c. in heading no. 9018
Related codes in Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories
Optical fibres and optical fibre bundles; optical fibre cables not of heading no. 8544; sheets, plates of polarising material; lenses, prisms, mirrors, of any material; unmounted; not non optical glass
90.02Lenses, prisms, mirrors and other optical elements, of any material, mounted, being parts or fittings for instruments or apparatus, other than such elements of glass not optically worked
90.03Frames and mountings; for spectacles, goggles or the like, and parts
90.04Spectacles, goggles and the like; corrective, protective or other
90.05Binoculars, monoculars, other optical telescopes, mountings therefore; other astronomical instruments, mountings therefore, but not including instruments for radio-astronomy
90.06Cameras, photographic (excluding cinematographic); photographic flashlight apparatus and flashbulbs other than discharge lamps of heading no. 8539
90.07Cinematographic cameras and projectors, whether or not incorporating sound recording or reproducing apparatus
90.08Image projectors, other than cinematographic; photographic (other than cinematographic) enlargers and reducers
90.10Photographic (including cinematographic) laboratory apparatus and equipment, n.e.c. in chapter 90; negatoscopes; projection screens
90.11Microscopes, compound optical; including those for photomicrography, cinephotomicrography or microprojection
90.12Microscopes (excluding optical microscopes); diffraction apparatus
90.13Lasers, other than laser diodes; other optical appliances and instruments n.e.c. in this chapter
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