About Chapter 70
Chapter 70 of the Harmonized System of Nomenclature (HSN) is titled “Glass and glassware”. It is part of Section XIII, Stone, Cement, Ceramic & Glass, together with Chapter 68 (articles of stone, plaster, cement, asbestos) and Chapter 69 (ceramic products).
The chapter is divided into 19 headings, from 7001 (cullet and other waste and scrap of glass) to 7020 (other articles of glass). The headings with the most codes that people search for are glass fibres and articles thereof (7019), glass beads, imitation pearls (7018), laboratory, hygienic or pharmaceutical glassware, whether or not graduated or calibrated (7017), other articles of glass (7020) and cullet and other waste and scrap of glass (7001).
Note 1 sends glass frit and glass in powder, granules or flakes to heading 3207, imitation jewellery to Chapter 71, optical fibre cables to heading 8544, and hypodermic syringes, thermometers and optically worked optical elements to Chapter 90.
Every heading is listed below. Under each are the codes that have their own page on Laabam One, 17 codes in this chapter, each with its full classification: its chapter, heading and sub-heading, and the codes beside it.
Every code in this chapter begins with 70: four digits make a heading, six a sub-heading, and eight a tariff item of India's Customs Tariff. How many of those digits a GST tax invoice shows depends on the business, not the goods: under Notification No. 78/2020 – Central Tax, from 1 April 2021, four digits where aggregate turnover in the previous financial year was up to ₹5 crore, and six above it. Up to ₹5 crore, the code may be left off invoices to unregistered buyers.
No GST rate is shown here. GST rates were revised in September 2025, and a rate appears on this site only once it has been checked against the CBIC rate notifications.
Sources: ITC(HS) Chapter 70, DGCI&S (title, headings and notes); Notification No. 78/2020 – Central Tax (HSN digits on invoices).