Miscellaneous manufactured articles
Chapter 96 of the Harmonised System covers Miscellaneous manufactured articles — 20 four-digit headings spanning hand sieves and hand riddles to monopods, bipods, tripods and similar articles that customs authorities worldwide use to classify these goods and set duty.
- India exports 2024
- $718M
Source: UN Comtrade — India's reported merchandise exports to the world, 2024.
Sourcing this category from India
Chapter 96 covers miscellaneous manufactured articles — pens, brushes, combs, buttons, slide fasteners, stationery and similar goods. India exports writing instruments, brushware, buttons, combs and a range of finished consumer articles. This catch-all chapter classifies assorted finished products that don't fit the more specific chapters, organised by the type of article.
How to read this code
96 is the two-digit HS chapter for miscellaneous manufactured articles. 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 miscellaneous manufactured articles lines — check our import guides for your market.
Headings under HS 96
The Harmonised System breaks Miscellaneous manufactured articles into these 20 headings. Drill down to the exact classification for your goods.
Ivory, bone, tortoise-shell, horn, antlers, coral, mother-of-pearl and other animal carving material and articles of these materials; worked, (including articles obtained by moulding)
Vegetable, mineral carving material and articles of these materials, moulded or carved articles of wax, stearin, natural gums, resins or modelling pastes, worked unhardened gelatin (not heading no. 3503)
Brooms, brushes (including parts of machines), hand operated floor sweepers, mops and feather dusters; knots and tufts for broom or brush making; paint pads and rollers; squeegees
Hand sieves and hand riddles
Travel sets; for personal toilet, sewing, shoe or clothes cleaning
Buttons, press-fasteners, snap-fasteners and press-studs, button moulds and other parts of these articles; button blanks
Slide fasteners and parts thereof
Pens; ball-point, felt tipped, other porous tipped pens; fountain pens, stylograph pens duplicating stylos, propelling or sliding pencils; parts of the foregoing, excluding those of heading no. 9609
Pencils (not of heading no. 9608), crayons, pencil leads, pastels, drawing charcoals, writing or drawing chalks and tailors' chalks
Slates and boards, with writing or drawing surfaces, whether or not framed
Stamps; date, numbering, sealing stamps and the like (including devices for printing or embossing labels), designed for operating by hand; hand operated composing sticks and printing sets
Typewriter, similar ribbons, inked, otherwise prepared for giving impressions, whether or not on spools or in cartridges; ink pads, whether or not inked, with or without boxes
Cigarette lighters and other lighters, whether or not mechanical or electrical and parts thereof other than flints and wicks
Smoking pipes (including pipe bowls) and cigar or cigarette holders, and parts thereof
Combs, hair-slides and similar; hairpins, curling pins, curling grips and hair curlers and the like, other than those of heading no. 8516 and parts thereof
Scent sprays and similar toilet sprays and mounts and heads therefor; powder-puffs and pads for the application of cosmetics or toilet preparations
Vacuum flasks and other vacuum vessels, complete with cases; parts thereof other than glass inners
Tailors' dummies and other lay figures; automata and other animated displays used for shop window dressing
Sanitary towels (pads) and tampons, napkins (diapers), napkin liners and similar articles, of any material
Monopods, bipods, tripods and similar articles
Top destinations for Chapter 96 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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