Heading
No.

Sub-heading No.

Description of goods

Rate of duty

(1) 

(2) 

(3) 

(4) 

85.01

8501.00 

Electric motors and generators (excluding generating sets)

16% 

85.02

Electric generating sets and rotary convertors

8502.10 

- Diesel generating sets assembled, at site of installation, from duty paid engine and generator 

Nil 

8502.90 

- Other 

16% 

85.03

8503.00 

Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of heading No. 85.01 or 85.02

16% 

85.04

8504.00 

Electrical transformers, static converters (for example, rectifiers) and inductors

16% 

85.05

8505.00 

Electro-magnets; permanent magnets and articles intended to become permanent magnets after magnetisation; electro-magnetic or permanent magnet chucks, clamps and similar holding devices; electro-magnetic couplings, clutches and brakes; electro-magnetic lifting heads

16% 

85.06

8506.00 

Primary cells and primary batteries

16% 

85.07

8507.00 

Electric accumulators, including separators therefore, whether or not rectangular (including square) 

16% 

85.08 

8508.00 

Electro-mechanical tools for working in the hand, with self-contained electric motor 

16% 

85.09 

8509.00 

Electro-mechanical domestic appliances with self-contained electric motor 

16% 

85.10

8510.00 

Shavers, hair clippers and hair-removing appliances, with self-contained electric motor 

16% 

85.11

8511.00 

Electrical ignition or starting equipment of a kind used for spark-ignition or compression-ignition internal combustion engines (for example, ignition magnetos, magneto-dynamos, ignition coils, sparking plugs and glow plugs, starter motors); generators (for example, dynamos, alternators) and cut-outs of a kind used in conjunction with such engines

16% 

85.12

8512.00 

Electrical lighting or signalling equipment (excluding articles of heading No. 85.39), windscreen wipers, defrosters and demisters, of a kind used for cycles or motor vehicles 

16% 

85.13

8513.00 

Portable electric lamps designed to function by their own source of energy (for example, dry batteries, accumulators, magnetos), other than lighting equipment of heading No. 85.12 

16% 

85.14 

8514.00 

Industrial or laboratory electric (including induction or dielectric) furnaces and ovens; other industrial or laboratory induction or dielectric heating equipment 

16% 

85.15 

8515.00 

Electric (including electrically heated gas), laser or other light or photon beam, ultrasonic, electron beam, magnetic pulse or plasma arc soldering, brazing or welding machines and apparatus, whether or not capable of cutting; electric machines and apparatus for hot spraying of metals or cermets 

16% 

85.16 

8516.00 

Electric instantaneous or storage water heaters and immersion heaters; electric space heating apparatus and soil heating apparatus; electrothermic hair-dressing apparatus; (for example, hair dryers, hair curlers, curling tong heaters) and hand dryers; electric smoothing irons; other electrothermic appliances of a kind used for domestic purposes; electric heating resistors, other than those of heading No. 85.45 

16% 

85.17

8517.00 

Electrical apparatus for line telephony or line telegraphy, including line telephone sets with cordless handsets and telecommunication apparatus for carrier-current line systems or for digital line systems; videophones 

16% 

85.18

8518.00 

Microphones and stands there for; loudspeakers, whether or not mounted in their enclosures; head-phones, earphones and combined microphone/ speaker sets; audio-frequency electric amplifiers; electric sound amplifier sets

16% 

85.19

8519.00 

Turntables (record-decks), record-players, cassette-players and other sound reproducing apparatus, not incorporating a sound recording device

16% 

85.20

8520.00 

Magnetic tape recorders and other sound recording apparatus, whether or not incorporating a sound reproducing device

16% 

85.21

8521.00 

Video recording or reproducing apparatus, whether or not incorporating a video tuner

16% 

85.22

8522.00 

Farts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading Nos. 85.19 to 85.21

16% 

85.23

Prepared unrecorded media for sound recording or similar recording of other phenomena, other than products of Chapter 37

- Magnetic tapes:

8523.11 

--Audio tapes in the form of jumbo rolls, pancakes, mini-pancakes, hubs or reels 

16% 

8523.12 

- Audio cassettes 

16% 

8523.13 

- Video tapes in the form of jumbo rolls, pancakes, mini-pancakes, hubs or reels 

16% 

8523.14 

- Video cassettes 

16% 

8523.19 

- Other 

16% 

8523.20 

- Magnetic discs 

16% 

8523.90 

-Other 

16% 

85.24

Records, tapes and other recorded media for sound or other similarly recorded phenomena, including matrices and masters for the production of records, but excluding products of Chapter 37

8524.10 

- Gramophone records 

16% 

8524.20 

- Software 

Nil 

- Magnetic tapes:

8524.31 

-- Audio tapes in any form 

16% 

8524.32 

--Audio cassettes 

Nil 

8524.33 

- Video tapes in any form 

16% 

8524.34 

- Video cassettes 

16% 

8524.39 

-Other 

16% 

8524.40 

- Magnetic discs 

16% 

8524.90 

-Other 

16% 

85.25

8525.00 

Transmission apparatus for radio-telephony, radiotelegraphy, radio-broadcasting or television, whether or not incorporating reception apparatus or sound recording or reproducing apparatus; television cameras 

16% 

85.26 

8526.00 

Radar apparatus, radio navigational aid apparatus and radio remote control apparatus 

16% 

85.27 

Reception apparatus for radio-telephony, radiotelegraphy or radio-broadcasting, whether or not combined, in the same housing, with sound recording or reproducing apparatus or a clock 

8527.10 

- Radio sets including transistor sets, having the facility of receiving radio signals and converting the same into audio output with no other additional facility like sound recording or reproducing or clock in the same housing or attached to it 

16% 

8527.90 

-Other 

16% 

85.28

8528.00 

Television receivers (including video monitors and video projectors), whether or not incorporating radio broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus 

16% or Rs. 34,000 per set, which-ever is higher 

85.29 

8529.00 

Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading Nos. 85.25 to 85.28 

16% 

85.30 

8530.00 

Electrical signalling, safety or traffic control equipment for railways, tramways, roads, inland water-ways, parking facilities, port installations or air-fields (other than those of heading No. 86.08) 

16% 

85.31 

8531.00 

Electric sound or visual signalling apparatus (for ex- ample, bells, sirens, indicator panels, burglar or fire alarms), other than those of heading No. 85.12 or 85.30 

16% 

85.32 

8532.00 

Electrical capacitors, fixed, variable or adjustable (pre-set) 

16% 

85.33 

8533.00 

Electrical resistors (including rheostats and potentiometers), other than heating resistors 

16% 

85.34

8534.00 

Printed circuits 

16% 

85.35 

8535.00 

Electrical apparatus for switching or protecting electrical circuits, or for making connections to or in electrical circuits (for example, switches, fuses, lightning arresters, voltage limiters, surge suppressors, plugs, junction boxes), for a voltage exceeding 1,000 volts 

16% 

85.36 

Electrical apparatus for switching or protecting electrical circuits, or for making connections to or in electrical circuits (for example, switches, relays, fuses, surge suppressors, plugs, sockets, lamp-holders, junction boxes), for a voltage not exceeding 1,000 volts

8536.10 

- Overload protection or thermal relays, starting relay controls, for refrigerating and air-conditioning appliances and machinery 

16% 

8536.90 

-Other 

16% 

85.37

8537.00 

Boards, panels, consoles, desks, cabinets and other bases, equipped with two or more apparatus of heading No. 85.35 or 85.36, for electric control or the distribution of electricity, including those incorporating instruments or apparatus of Chapter 90, and numerical control apparatus, other than switching apparatus of heading No. 85.17

16% 

85.38

8538.00 

Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading No. 85.35,85.36 or 85.37

16% 

85.39

Electric filament or discharge lamps, including sealed beam lamp units and ultra-violet or infra-red lamps; Arc lamps

8539.10 

- Vacuum and gas filled bulbs of retail sale price not exceeding Rs. 20 per bulb 

16%

8539.90 

-Other 

16% 

85.40

Thermionic, cold cathode or photo-cathode valves and tubes (for example, vacuum or vapour or gas filled valves and tubes, mercury arc rectifying valves and tubes, cathode-ray tubes, television cam-era tubes)

- Cathode-Ray television picture 
tubes :

8540.11 

-- Colour 

16% 

8540.12 

- Black and White 

16% 

8540.90 

-Other 

16% 

85.41

8541.00 

Diodes, transistors and similar semi-conductor de-vices; photosensitive semi-conductor devices, including photo-voltaic cells whether or not assembled in modules or made up into panels; light emit-ting diodes; mounted piezo-electric crystals

16% 

85.42

8542.00 

Electronic integrated circuits and micro-assemblies

16% 

85.43

Electrical machines and apparatus, having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter

8543.10 

- Machinery for the production of a commodity 

16% 

8543.90 

-Other 

16% 

85.44 

Insulated (including enamelled or anodised) wire, ca-ble (including co-axial cable) and other insulated electric conductors, whether or not fitted with connectors; optical fibre cables, made up of individually sheathed fibres, whether or not assembled with electric conductors or fitted with connectors 

8544.10 

- Fibre optic cables 

16% 

8544.90 

-Other 

16% 

85.45 

8545.00 

Carbon electrodes, carbon brushes, lamp carbons, battery carbons and other articles of graphite or other carbon, with or without metal, of a kind used for electrical purposes 

16% 

85.46 

8546.00 

Electrical insulators of any material 

16% 

85.47

8547.00 

Insulating fittings for electrical machines, appliances or equipment, being fittings wholly of insulating material apart from any minor components of metal (for example, threaded sockets) incorporated during moulding solely for purposes of assembly, other than insulators of Heading No. 85.46; electrical conduit tubing and joints there for, of base metal lined with insulating material 

16% 

85.48 

8548.00 

Electrical parts of machinery or apparatus, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter 

16%