HS Code 7206 90 92: Blocks, lumps and similar forms

Blocks, lumps and similar forms imported into India falls under tariff item 7206 90 92. The standard rate of basic customs duty in the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 is 15%, and integrated tax is 18%. Below is the whole bill worked at an assessable value of ₹10,00,000, with the base each levy is charged on.

Duty and tax on ₹10,00,0007206 90 9237.47% of value
Basic customs duty15% of the assessable value₹1,50,000
Social Welfare Surcharge10% of the basic customs duty₹15,000
IGST18% of value plus the duties above₹2,09,700
Payable with a duty-credit scripbasic customs duty only₹1,50,000
Payable in cashsurcharge, integrated tax and cess₹2,24,700
Total duty and tax on this Bill of Entry₹3,74,700
Worked at the standard First Schedule rate. No exemption notification is applied.Change the value

Where tariff item 7206 90 92 sits in the schedule

LevelDescription
72Chapter 72: Iron and steel
7206Heading 7206: Iron and non-alloy steel in ingots or other primary forms (excluding iron of heading 7203)
7206 90Sub-heading 7206 90: Other
7206 90 92Blocks, lumps and similar forms. Unit: kg.. Import policy: Free

Heading 7206 holds 9 tariff items in this dataset and every one of them carries the same standard rate of 15%, so within this heading the choice of eight digit line does not change the duty.

Duty on an import of this item

Put your own assessable value in and the whole stack re-works on this line's own rates: basic customs duty at 15%, the Social Welfare Surcharge charged on that duty rather than on the value, and integrated tax at 18% on the value plus both. Assessable value is cost, insurance and freight plus landing charges where they apply, not the invoice value on its own.

RateLevyAmount
15%Basic customs duty, of the assessable value₹1,50,000
10%Social Welfare Surcharge, of the basic customs duty₹15,000
18%IGST, of value plus the duties above₹2,09,700
37.47%Total duty and tax, as a share of the assessable value₹3,74,700
₹1,50,000Payable with a duty-credit scripOf this, the basic customs duty of ₹1,50,000 can be paid with duty credit scrips. The remaining ₹2,24,700 is paid in cash.

RoDTEP on this tariff line, the export side

Appendix 4R carries no entry for tariff item 7206 90 92, so an export on this line earns nothing under RoDTEP. That is an answer rather than a gap: whole chapters of the tariff sit outside the scheme, and an exporter told so plainly is better served than one shown a hedge.

Notification 74/2025-26 ran the scheme to 30 September 2026, which has passed, so check DGFT for a continuation notification before relying on the figure above. Rates come from Appendix 4R and Appendix 4RE as DGFT publishes them. Work the entitlement on your own FOB value and quantity.

Preferential rates by origin

Where a trade agreement covers this line, the preferential rate replaces the basic customs duty rate, and it pulls the surcharge and the integrated tax down with it. At 0% for ASEAN countries, the whole bill on ₹10,00,000 falls from ₹3,74,700 to ₹1,80,000.

ASEAN countries0%
Australia0%
Japan0%
Least Developed Countries0%
Malaysia0%
Nepal0%
Philippines0%
SAFTA (LDC) countries0%
Sri Lanka0%
the republic of Korea0%
United Arab Emirats0%
SAFTA countries5%

A preference is never automatic. It applies against a valid certificate of origin, and the Customs (Administration of Rules of Origin under Trade Agreements) Rules, 2020 put the burden of proving origin on the importer. These are the 2025 schedule.

Other tariff items under heading 7206

CodeDescriptionDutyIGSTExport rate
7206 10 10Of iron15%18%n/a
7206 10 20Of high carbon steel15%18%n/a
7206 10 90Other15%18%n/a
7206 90 11Puddled bars and pilings15%18%n/a
7206 90 12Blocks, lumps and similar forms15%18%n/a
7206 90 19Other15%18%n/a
7206 90 91Puddled bars and pilings15%18%n/a
7206 90 99Other15%18%n/a

What this means in plain English

Bring in ₹10,00,000 of blocks, lumps and similar forms and customs will ask for ₹3,74,700, which is 37.47% of what the consignment is assessed at. That is not one charge. It is four, and each is charged on a base that includes the ones before it.

  • Basic customs duty, ₹1,50,000 at 15% of the assessable value.
  • Social Welfare Surcharge, ₹15,000 at 10% of that duty rather than of the value, under section 110 of the Finance Act, 2018.
  • Integrated tax, the large one: ₹2,09,700 at 18% on the value plus the duties above it, under section 3(8) of the Customs Tariff Act, 1975. Carried under CBIC notification 009/2025, schedule II265.
Read the duty rate as a ceiling, not a bill. 15% is the standard rate in the First Schedule, before any exemption notification, and the total above carries no Agriculture Infrastructure and Development Cess, no duty stated per unit and no trade remedy duty. What is and is not inside these figures, written once for the whole chapter.

Paying part of this with a duty-credit scrip

Of the ₹3,74,700 above, exactly ₹1,50,000 can be paid with a RoDTEP or RoSCTL duty-credit scrip instead of cash, because Regulation 6(1) of the Electronic Duty Credit Ledger Regulations, 2021 confines the credit in an e-scrip to duties of customs specified in the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975. The remaining ₹2,24,700 is paid in cash.

A scrip bought below face value therefore saves that discount on ₹1,50,000, not on ₹3,74,700. How the buy side works, or read what a duty-credit scrip is end to end.

Where these rates come from

The First Schedule states the duty on this line as "15%". Integrated tax is carried under CBIC notification 009/2025. How the figures in this chapter are checked, and when they were last checked is in the meta line at the top of this page.

This is the tariff arithmetic on a published rate, not an assessment. Goods are assessed by the proper officer under section 17 of the Customs Act, 1962, and valuation, exemption notifications, anti-dumping and safeguard duties can all change what is finally payable. A wrong tariff line makes every number on this page wrong together, so this is not classification advice.

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