Heading No.

Sub-heading No.

Description of goods

Rate of duty

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

90.01

Optical fibres and optical fibre bundles, optical fibre cables other than those of heading No. 85.44; sheets and plates of polarising material; lenses (including contact lenses), prisms, mirrors and other optical elements, of any material, unmounted, other than such elements of glass not optically worked

9001.10 

- Spectacle lenses, intraocular lenses and contact lenses 

8% 

9001.90 

-Other 

16% 

90.02 

9002.00 

Lenses, prisms, mirrors and other optical elements, of any material, mounted, being parts of or fittings for instruments or apparatus, other than such elements of glass not optically worked 

16% 

90.03 

Frames and mountings for spectacles, goggles or the like, and parts thereof 

- Frames and mountings :

9003.11 

- Of plastics 

16% 

9003.19 

- Of other materials 

16% 

9003.90 

- Parts 

16% 

90.04 

Spectacles, goggles and the like, corrective, protective or other 

9004.10 

- Sunglasses, other than those used for correcting vision 

16% 

9004.90 

-Other 

16% 

90.05

9005.00 

Binoculars, monoculars, other optical telescopes and mountings therefor; other astronomical instruments and mountings therefor, but not including instruments for radio-astronomy, and parts and accessories thereof (including mountings) 

16% 

90.06 

9006.00 

Photographic (other than cinematographic) cameras; photographic flashlight apparatus and flash bulbs other than discharge lamps of heading No. 85.39 

16% 

90.07 

9007.00 

Cinematographic cameras and projectors whether or not incorporating sound recording or reproducing apparatus 

16% 

90.08 

9008.00 

Image projectors, other than cinematographic; photographic (other than cinematographic) enlargers and reducers 

16% 

90.09 

9009.00 

Photo-copying apparatus incorporating an optical system or of the contact-type and thermo-copying apparatus 

16%

90.10 

9010.00 

Apparatus and equipment for photographic (including cinematographic) laboratories (including apparatus for the projection or drawing of circuit patterns on sensitised semiconductor materials), not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter; negatoscopes; projection screens 

16% 

90.11 

9011.00 

Compound optical microscopes, including those for photomicrography, cinephotomicrography or microprojection 

16% 

90.12 

9012.00 

Microscopes other than optical microscopes; diffraction apparatus 

16% 

90.13 

9013.00 

Liquid crystal devices not constituting articles provided for more specifically in other headings; lasers, other than laser diodes; other optical appliances and instruments, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter 

16% 

90.14 

9014.00 

Direction finding compasses; other navigational instruments and appliances 

16% 

90.15 

9015.00 

Surveying (including photogrammetrical surveying), hydrographic, oceanographic, hydrological, meteorological or geophysical instruments and appliances, excluding compasses; rangefinders 

16% 

90.16 

Balances of a sensitivity of 5 centigrams or better 

9016.10 

- Balances 

16% 

9016.90 

- Parts 

16% 

90.17 

Drawing, marking-out or mathematical calculating instruments (for example, drafting machines, pantographs, protractors, drawing sets, slide rules, disc calculators); instruments for measuring length, for use in the hand (for example, measuring rods and tapes, micrometers, callipers), not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter 

9017.10 

- Drawing and mathematical instruments 

Nil 

9017.90 

-Other 

16% 

90.18 

9018.00 

Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scientigraphic apparatus, other electromedical apparatus and sight-testing instruments 

16% 

90.19 

9019.00 

Mechanotherapy appliances; massage apparatus; psychological aptitude-testing apparatus; ozone therapy, oxygen therapy, aerosol therapy, artificial respiration or other therapeutic respiration apparatus 

16% 

90.20 

9020.00 

Other breathing appliances and gas masks, excluding protective masks having neither mechanical parts nor replaceable filters 

16% 

90.21 

Orthopaedic appliances, including crutches, surgical belts and trusses; splints and other fracture appliances; artificial parts of the body; hearing aids and other appliances which are worn or carried, or implanted in the body, to compensate for a defect or disability 

9021.10 

- Artificial limbs and rehabilitation aids for the handicapped 

Nil 

9021.20 

- Orthopaedic footwear, in or in relation to the manufacture of which no process is ordinarily carried on with the aid of power 

Nil 

9021.90 

-Other 

Nil 

90-22 

Apparatus based on the use of x-rays or of alpha, beta  or gamma radiations, whether or not for medical, surgical, dental or veterinary uses, including radiography or radio-therapy apparatus, x-ray tubes and other x-ray generators, high tension generators ,control panels and desks, screens, examination or treatment tables, chairs and the like 

9022.10 

- For medical, surgical, dental, or veterinary use 

16% 

9022.90 

-Other 

16% 

90.23 

9023.00 

Instruments, apparatus and models, designed for demonstrational purposes ( for example, in education exhibitions), unsuitable for other uses 

16% 

90.24 

9024.00 

Machines and appliances for testing the hardness, strength, compressibility, elasticity or other mechanical properties of materials (for example, metals, wood, textiles, paper, plastics) 

16% 

90.25 

9025,00 

Hydrometers and similar floating instruments, thermometers, pyrometers, barometers, hygrometers and psychrometers, recording or not, and any combination of these instruments 

16% 

90.26 

9026.00 

Instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking the flow, level, pressure or other variables of liquids or gases (for example, flow meters, level gauges, monometers, heat meters), excluding instruments and apparatus or heading No. 90.14, 90.15, 90.28 or 90.32 

16% 

90.27 

9027.00 

Instruments and apparatus for physical or chemical analysis (for example, polarimeters, refractometers, spectrometers, gas or smoke analysis apparatus); instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking viscosity, porosity, expansion, surface tension or the like; instruments. and apparatus for measuring or checking quantities of heat, sound or light (including exposure meters; microtomes 

16% 

90.28

9028.00 

Gas, liquid or electricity supply or production meters, including calibrating meters therefor 

16% 

90.29 

9029.00 

Revolution counters, production counters, taximeters, mileometers, pedometers and the like; speed indicators and tachometers, other than those of heading No. 90.14 or 90.15; strobosopes

16% 

90.30 

9030,00 

Oscilloscopes, spectrum analyser and other instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking electrical quantities, excluding meters of heading No. 90.28; instruments and apparatus for measuring or detecting alpha, beta, gamma, X-ray, cosmic or other ionising radiations 

16% 

90.31

9031.00 

Measuring or checking instruments, appliances and machines, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter; profile projectors

16% 

90.32

Automatic regulating or controlling instruments and apparatus

- Thermostats and pressure switches:

9032.11 

- Thermostats and pressure switches for refrigerating and air-conditioning appliances and machinery 

16% 

9032.12 

- Other 

16% 

9032.80 

- Other instruments and apparatus 

16% 

- Parts and accessories:

9032.91 

- Of goods covered by sub-heading No. 9032.11 

16% 

9032.99 

- Other 

16% 

90.33

9033.00 

Parts and accessories (not specified or included else-where in this Chapter) for machines, appliances, instruments or apparatus of Chapter 90

16%