GST Rate and HSN Code for Art Work and Antiques
GST Rate and HSN Code for Art Work and Antiques
In this article, we look at the GST rate and HSN code for Art Work, antiques and collector’s pieces. The GST Rate and HSN Code for Art Work and Antiques fall under Chapter 97 of the HSN Code. Chapter 97 of the HSN code does not cover:
- Unused postage or revenue stamps, postal stationery (stamped paper) or the like of heading 4907;
- Theatrical scenery, studio back-cloths and the like, of the painted canvas (heading 5907); except if they may be classified in heading 9706; or
- Pearls, natural or cultured, or precious or semi-precious stones (headings 7101 to 7103).
For the purposes of heading 9702, the expression “original engravings, prints and lithographs” means impressions produced directly, in black and white, or colour, of one or of several plates wholly executed by hand by the artist, irrespective of the processor of the material employed by him, but not including any mechanical or photomechanical process.
Heading 9703 does not apply to mass-produced reproductions or works of conventional craftsmanship of a commercial character, even if these articles are designed or created by artists.
Subject to Notes 1 to 3 above, articles of this Chapter are to be classified in this Chapter and not in any other Chapter of this Schedule. Heading 9706 does not apply to articles of the preceding headings of this Chapter.
Frames around paintings, drawings, pastels, collages or similarly decorative plaques, engravings, prints or lithographs are to be classified with those articles, provided they are of a kind and a value normal to those articles. Frames which are not of the kind or a value normal to the articles referred to in this Note are to be classified separately.
HSN Code | HSN Code Description | Policy | Policy Conditions | GST Rate in Percentage |
9701 | PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS AND PASTELS, EXECUTED ENTIRELY BY HAND, OTHER THAN DRAWINGS OF HEADING 4906 AND OTHER THAN HAND-PAINTED OR HAND-DECORATED MANUFACTURED ARTICLES; COLLAGES AND SIMILAR DECORATIVE | |||
PLAQUES | ||||
9701 10 | Paintings, drawings and pastels: | |||
9701 10 10 | Madhubani paintings (on textiles) | Free | 12 | |
9701 10 20 | Kalamkari paintings (on textiles) | Free | 12 | |
9701 10 30 | Rajasthani paintings (on textiles) | Free | 12 | |
9701 10 90 | Other | Free | 12 | |
9701 90 | Other: | |||
9701 90 91 | Domestic articles of wood (hand-decorated) | Free | 12 | |
9701 90 92 | Restaurant decoration of plastics | Free | 12 | |
9701 90 99 | Other | Free | 12 | |
9702 00 00 | Original engravings, prints and lithographs | Free | 12 | |
9703 | ORIGINAL SCULPTURES AND STATUARY, IN ANY MATERIAL | |||
9703 00 | Original sculptures and statuary, in any material: | |||
9703 00 10 | Original sculptures and statuary, in metal | Free | 12 | |
9703 00 20 | Original sculptures and statuary, in stone | Free | 12 | |
9703 00 90 | Original sculptures and statuary, in other materials | Free | 12 | |
9704 |
POSTAGE OR REVENUE STAMPS, STAMP-POST MARKS, FIRST-DAY COVERS, POSTAL STATIONERY (STAMPED PAPER), AND THE LIKE, USED OR UNUSED, OTHER THAN THOSE OF HEADING 4907 |
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9704 00 | Postage or revenue stamps, stamp-post marks, first-day covers, postal stationery (stamped paper), and the like, used or unused, other than those of heading 4907: | |||
9704 00 10 | Used postal stamp | Free | 12 | |
9704 00 20 | Used or unused first-day covers for philatelists | Free | 12 | |
9704 00 90 | Other | Free | Import of Philatelic accessories and Postage stamps, Unused, for the use of philately (excluding Indian Postage Stamps), is free. | 12 |
9705 | COLLECTIONS AND COLLECTORS’ PIECES OF ZOOLOGICAL, BOTANICAL, MINERALOGICAL, ANATOMICAL, HISTORICAL, ARCHAEOLOGICAL, PALAEONTOLOGICAL, ETHNOGRAPHIC OR NUMISMATIC INTEREST: | |||
9705 00 | Collections and collectors’ pieces of zoological, botanical, mineralogical, anatomical, historical, archaeological, palaeontological, ethnographic or numismatic interest: | |||
9705 00 10 | Stuffed animals and birds (taxidermy) | Restricted |
Allowed for import under-saving clause 3(1) of Foreign Trade (Exemption from Application of Rules in Certain Cases) Order, 1993, read with Customs Notification 157 dated 28.03.1990. |
12 |
9705 00 90 |
Other | Restricted |
Allowed for import under-saving clause 3(1) of Foreign Trade (Exemption from Application of Rules in Certain Cases) Order, 1993, read with Customs Notification 157 dated 28.03.1990. |
12 |
9706 00 00 | Antiques of an age exceeding one hundred years | Free | The importer must abide by the laws/rules relating to the export of such item, of the country from where imports are sought to be made | 12 |
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