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HSN 90: Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring,…
HSN code 90 covers: Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories.
After the 22 Sep 2025 reform most goods fall under 5% or 18% GST (a few sin/luxury items are 40%). We don't show an exact rate for this specific code because it isn't verified — check the CBIC rate finder or your CA, then enter that rate when you invoice.
Rates were revised in the 22 Sep 2025 GST reform (now a two-slab 5% / 18% structure for most goods, with a 40% slab for sin/luxury items). This is a reference, not tax advice — confirm the exact rate for your specific item with your CA.
Headings under chapter 90
- 9001 — 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
- 9002 — Lenses, 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
- 9003 — Frames and mountings; for spectacles, goggles or the like, and parts
- 9004 — Spectacles, goggles and the like; corrective, protective or other
- 9005 — Binoculars, monoculars, other optical telescopes, mountings therefore; other astronomical instruments, mountings therefore, but not including instruments for radio-astronomy
- 9006 — Cameras, photographic (excluding cinematographic); photographic flashlight apparatus and flashbulbs other than discharge lamps of heading no. 8539
- 9007 — Cinematographic cameras and projectors, whether or not incorporating sound recording or reproducing apparatus
- 9008 — Image projectors, other than cinematographic; photographic (other than cinematographic) enlargers and reducers
- 9010 — Photographic (including cinematographic) laboratory apparatus and equipment, n.e.c. in chapter 90; negatoscopes; projection screens
- 9011 — Microscopes, compound optical; including those for photomicrography, cinephotomicrography or microprojection
- 9012 — Microscopes (excluding optical microscopes); diffraction apparatus
- 9013 — Lasers, other than laser diodes; other optical appliances and instruments n.e.c. in this chapter
- 9014 — Navigational instruments and appliances; direction finding compasses
- 9015 — Surveying (including photogrammetrical surveying), hydrographic, oceanographic, hydrological, meteorological or geophysical instruments and appliances, excluding compasses, rangefinders
- 9016 — Balances; of a sensitivity of 5cg or better, with or without weights
- 9017 — Drawing, marking-out, mathematical calculating instruments (drafting machines, protractors, drawing sets etc); instruments for measuring length (e.g. measuring rods, tapes, micrometers, callipers) n.e.c.
- 9018 — Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical apparatus and sight testing instruments
- 9019 — Mechano-therapy, massage appliances; psychological aptitude testing apparatus; ozone, oxygen, aerosol therapy, artificial respiration or other therapeutic respiration apparatus
- 9020 — Breathing appliances and gas masks; excluding protective masks having neither mechanical parts nor replaceable filters and excluding apparatus of item no. 9019.20
- 9021 — Orthopaedic appliances; including crutches, surgical belts and trusses; splints and other fracture appliances; artificial parts of the body; hearing aids and other which are worn, carried or implanted in the body to compensate for a defect or disability
- 9022 — Apparatus based on the use of x-rays or of alpha, beta, gamma or other ionising radiations, whether or not for medical, surgical, dental or veterinary uses, including radiography or radiotherapy apparatus, x-ray tubes and other x-ray generators, high tens
- 9023 — Instruments, apparatus and models, designed for demonstrational purposes (in education or exhibitions), unsuitable for other uses
- 9024 — Machines and appliances for testing the hardness, strength, compressibility, elasticity of other mechanical properties of materials (e.g. metals, wood, textiles, paper, plastics)
- 9025 — Hydrometers and similar floating instruments, thermometers, pyrometers, barometers, hygrometers and psychrometers, recording or not
- 9026 — Instruments, apparatus for measuring or checking the flow, level, pressure of liquids, gases (e.g. flow meters, heat meters etc), not instruments and apparatus of heading no. 9014, 9015, 9028 or 9032
- 9027 — Instruments and apparatus; for physical or chemical analysis (e.g. polarimeters, spectrometers), for measuring or checking viscosity, porosity, etc, for measuring quantities of heat, sound or light
- 9028 — Gas, liquid or electricity supply or production meters, including calibrating meters therefor
- 9029 — Revolution counter, production counters, taximeters, mileometers, pedometers and the like, speed indicators and tachometers, other than those of heading no. 9015, stroboscopes
- 9030 — Instruments, apparatus for measuring, checking electrical quantities not meters of heading no. 9028; instruments, apparatus for measuring or detecting alpha, beta, gamma, x-ray, cosmic and other radiations
- 9031 — Measuring or checking instruments, appliances and machines, n.e.c. or included in this chapter; profile projectors
- 9032 — Regulating or controlling instruments and apparatus; automatic type
- 9033 — Machines and appliances, instruments or apparatus of chapter 90; parts and accessories n.e.c. in chapter 90
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