HS Chapter 82: Tools, implements, cutlery, spoons and forks, of base metal

The First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 heads chapter 82 as “Tools, implements, cutlery, spoons and forks, of base metal; parts thereof of base metal”. Every tariff item in chapter 82 that this dataset carries a duty and a tax rate for, listed by heading so a code can be found by reading rather than by guessing. The rates sit on the code itself: open any item for the standard rate of basic customs duty from the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975, the integrated tax beside it, the surcharge and cess on top with the base each is charged on, and the part a duty-credit scrip can pay.

Heading 8201: Hand tools, the following: spades, shovels, mattocks, picks, hoes, forks and rakes; axes

Heading 8202: Hand saws; blades for saws of all kinds

Heading 8203: Files, rasps, pliers (including cutting pliers), pincers, tweezers, metal cutting shears

Heading 8204: Hand-operated spanners and wrenches

Heading 8205: Hand tools (including glaziers' diamonds), not elsewhere specified or included

Heading 8206: Tools of two or more of the headings 8202 to 8205, put up in sets for retail sale

Heading 8207: Interchangeable tools for hand tools, whether or not power-operated, or for machine-tools

Heading 8208: Knives and cutting blades, for machines or for mechanical appliances

Heading 8209: Plates, sticks, tips and the like for tools, unmounted, of cermets

CodeDescription
8209 00 90Other

Heading 8210

Heading 8211: Knives with cutting blades, serrated or not (including pruning knives)

Heading 8212: Razors and razor blades (including razor blade blanks in strips)

Heading 8213

Heading 8214: Other articles of cutlery

Heading 8215: Spoons, forks, ladles, skimmers, cake- servers, fish-knives, butter-knives

Reading the duty column

The duty shown is the standard rate in the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975. It is not the whole bill and it is often not the rate a consignment is finally assessed at. On top of it sits the Social Welfare Surcharge at ten per cent of the duty under section 110 of the Finance Act, 2018, then integrated tax on the value plus those duties under section 3(8) of the Customs Tariff Act, 1975, and compensation cess on the same base under section 3(9) where the goods attract it.

Four things are outside every figure in this chapter, and each of them can move a Bill of Entry on its own. An exemption notification, which a great many consignments are assessed under and which this site does not apply. The Agriculture Infrastructure and Development Cess under section 124 of the Finance Act, 2021. A duty the schedule states per unit rather than as a percentage. And an anti-dumping, countervailing or safeguard duty on the line. The calculator works the whole stack.

The run on 18 August 2026 found no Integrated Tax (Rate) notification newer than the ones this dataset already carries, and no disagreement across the 447 duty codes it sampled against ICEGATE. Duty rates change by notification, and a notification can take effect the day it is issued. Confirm against the tariff in force before you file a Bill of Entry.

Chapter 81: Other base metals; cermets; articles thereofEvery chapterChapter 83: Miscellaneous articles of base metal

For importers

Pay the basic customs duty line with a scrip, not cash.

Money locked before the scrip moves. Settlement the same business day.