Arms and ammunition; parts and accessories thereof
Chapter 93 of the Harmonised System covers Arms and ammunition; parts and accessories thereof — 7 four-digit headings spanning military weapons to arms that customs authorities worldwide use to classify these goods and set duty.
- India exports 2024
- $490.6M
Source: UN Comtrade — India's reported merchandise exports to the world, 2024.
Sourcing this category from India
Chapter 93 covers arms and ammunition and their parts and accessories. Trade in this chapter is tightly controlled, and India's exports are limited and licence-bound, spanning defence equipment and sporting arms. Classification separates military weapons from sporting and other arms, swords and similar, and from ammunition and the parts of each, all under strict export control.
How to read this code
93 is the two-digit HS chapter for arms and ammunition. To clear customs your destination country extends it to a full 8–10 digit code and assigns the duty rate. India's preferential trade agreements (UAE CEPA, Australia ECTA, and others) can reduce or zero out that duty on many arms & ammunition lines — check our import guides for your market.
Headings under HS 93
The Harmonised System breaks Arms and ammunition; parts and accessories thereof into these 7 headings. Drill down to the exact classification for your goods.
Military weapons; other than revolvers, pistols and arms of heading no. 9307
Revolvers and pistols; other than those of heading no. 9303 or 9304
Firearms; other similar devices (e.g. sporting shotguns and rifles, muzzle-loading firearms, very pistols, devices for firing flares or blank ammunition, captive bolt humane killers, line throwing guns)
Firearms; (e.g. spring, air or gas guns and pistols, truncheons), excluding those of heading no. 9307
Firearms; parts and accessories of articles of heading no. 9301 to 9304
Bombs, grenades, torpedoes, mines, missiles and similar munitions of war and parts thereof; cartridges and other ammunition, projectiles and parts thereof, including shot and cartridge wads
Arms; swords, cutlasses, bayonets, lances and the like, parts thereof and scabbards and sheaths therefor
Top destinations for Chapter 93 exports
India's largest buyers of goods in this HS chapter in 2024, ranked by export value.
Chapter-level destination mix — your specific HS line may skew differently. Source: UN Comtrade, 2024.
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