About Chapter 96
Chapter 96 of the Harmonized System of Nomenclature (HSN) is titled “Miscellaneous manufactured articles”. It is part of Section XX, Miscellaneous Manufactured Articles, together with Chapter 94 (furniture, bedding and lighting) and Chapter 95 (toys, games and sports requisites).
The chapter is divided into 20 headings, from 9601 (worked ivory, bone, tortoise-shell, horn, antlers, coral) to 9620 (monopods, bipods, tripods and similar articles). The headings with the most codes that people search for are brooms, brushes, hand- operated mechanical floor sweepers (9603), buttons, press-fasteners, snap-fasteners and press-studs (9606), pencils, crayons, pencil leads, pastels, drawing charcoals (9609), worked vegetable or mineral carving material and articles of these materials moulded (9602) and slates and boards, with writing or drawing surfaces, whether or not framed (9610).
Note 1 sends cosmetic pencils to Chapter 33, parts of umbrellas and walking-sticks to Chapter 66, and imitation jewellery to heading 7117.
Every heading is listed below. Under each are the codes that have their own page on Laabam One, 18 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 96: 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 96, DGCI&S (title, headings and notes); Notification No. 78/2020 – Central Tax (HSN digits on invoices).