HSN chapter 90

HSN chapter 90: Optical, photographic, measuring, checking, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus

33 headings and 291 8-digit tariff items. HSN codes in this chapter start with 90.

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Headings in chapter 90

9001Optical fibres and optical fibre bundles; optical fibre cables other than those of heading 8544; sheets and plates of polarising material; prisms, mirrors and other optical elements, of any material, unmounted, other than such elements of glass not optical · 8 items 9002Lenses, 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 [other than intraocular lens] · 4 items 9003Frames And Mountings For Spectacles, Goggles Or The Like, And Parts Thereof · 3 items 9004Spectacles [other than corrective]; goggles including those for correcting vision · 4 items 9005Binoculars, monoculars, other optical telescopes, and 27 mountings therefor; other astronomical instruments and mountings therefor, but not including instruments for radio-astronomy · 7 items 9006Photographic (other than cinematographic) cameras; photographic flashlight apparatus and flashbulbs other than discharge lamps of heading 8539 · 15 items 9007Cinematographic cameras and projectors, whether or not incorporating sound recording or reproducing apparatus · 6 items 9008Image projectors, other than cinematographic; photographic (other than cinematographic) enlargers and reducers · 5 items 9009Photocopying Apparatus Incorporating An Optical System Or Of The Contact Type And Thermo-Copying Apparatus · 9 items 9010Apparatus and equipment for photographic (including cinematographic) laboratories, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter; negatoscopes; projection screens · 7 items 9011Compound optical microscopes, including those for photomicrography cinephotomicrography or microprojection · 4 items 9012Microscopes other than optical microscopes; diffraction apparatus · 3 items 9013Lasers, other than Laser Diodes; other Optical Appliances and Instruments, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter · 8 items 9014Direction finding compasses; other navigational instruments and appliances · 6 items 9015Surveying (including photogrammetrical surveying), hydrographic, oceanographic, hydrological, meteorological or geophysical instruments and appliances, excluding compasses; rangefinders · 10 items 9016Balances of a sensitivity of 5 cg or better, with or without weights · 3 items 9017Drawing, 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 tap · 13 items 9018Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical apparatus and sight-testing instruments · 49 items 9019Mechano-therapy appliances; massage apparatus; psychological aptitude-testing apparatus; ozone therapy, oxygen therapy, aerosol therapy, artificial respiration or other therapeutic respiration apparatus · 5 items 9020Other breathing appliances and gas masks, excluding protective masks having neither mechanical parts nor replaceable filters · 1 items 9021Hearing aids · 10 items 9022Apparatus based on the use of X-rays or of alpha, beta, gamma or other ionizing radiations [other than those for medical, surgical, dental or veterinary uses], including radiography or radiotherapy apparatus, X-ray tubes and other X-ray generators, high te · 14 items 9023Instruments, apparatus and models, designed for demonstrational purposes (for example, in education or exhibitions), unsuitable for other uses · 2 items 9024Machines and appliances for testing the hardness, strength, compressibility, elasticity or other mechanical properties of materials (for example, metals, wood, textiles, paper, plastics) · 5 items 9025Hydrometers and similar floating instruments, thermometers, pyrometers, barometers, hygrometers and psychrometers, recording or not, and any combination of these instruments · 10 items 9026Instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking the flow, level, pressure or other variables of liquids or gases (for example, flow meters, level gauges,manometers, heat meters), excluding instruments and apparatus of heading 9014, 9015, 9028 or 9032 · 7 items 9027Instruments 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 · 18 items 9028Gas, liquid or electricity supply or production meters, including calibrating meters therefor · 6 items 9029Revolution counters, production counters, taximeters, mileometers, pedometers and the like; speed indicators and tachometers, other than those of heading 9014 or 9015; stroboscopes · 7 items 9030Oscilloscopes, spectrum analysers and other instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking electrical quantities, excluding meters of heading 90.28; instruments and apparatus for measuring or detecting alpha, beta, gamma, X‑ray, cosmic or other ionisi · 26 items 9031Measuring or checking instruments, appliances and machines, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter; profile projectors · 7 items 9032Automatic regulating or controlling instruments and apparatus · 8 items 9033Parts and accessories (not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter) for machines, appliances, instruments or apparatus of Chapter 90 · 1 items

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