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GST Rate & HSN Code for Musical Instruments

HSN Code and GST Rate for Musical Instruments

GST Rate & HSN Code for Musical Instruments

In this article we look at the HSN code and GST rate for musical instruments, parts and related accessories which fall under Chapter 92 of HSN Code.

This Chapter does not cover:

  • Parts of general use as defined in Note 2 to Section XV, of base metal (Section XV), or similar goods of plastics (Chapter 39);
  • Microphones, amplifiers, loud-speakers, head-phones, switches, stroboscopes or other accessory instruments, apparatus or equipment of Chapter 85 or 90, for use with but not incorporated in or housed in the same cabinet as instruments of this Chapter.
  • Toy instruments or apparatus (headings 9503);
  • brushes for cleaning musical instruments (heading 9603), or monopods, bipods, tripods and similar articles (heading 9620); or
  • Collectors’ pieces or antiques (heading 9705 or 9706)

Bows and sticks and similar devices used in playing musical instruments of heading 9202 or 9206 presented with such instruments in numbers normal thereto and clearly intended for use therewith, are to be classified in the same heading as the relative instruments.  Cards, discs and rolls of heading 9209 presented with an instrument are to be treated as separate articles and not as forming a part of such instruments.

Read the detailed analysis on GST rate for musical instruments.

HSN Code HSN Item Description Policy Policy Conditions GST Rate in Percentage
9201 PIANOS, INCLUDING AUTOMATIC PIANOS; HARPSI-CHORDS AND OTHER KEYBOARD STRINGED INSTRUMENTS
9201 10 00 Upright pianos Free 28
9201 20 00 Grand pianos Free 28
9201 90 00 Other Free 28
9202 OTHER STRING MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS (FOR EXAMPLE, GUITARS, VIOLINS, HARPS)
9202 10 00 Played with a bow Free 28
9202 90 00 Other Free 28
9205 WIND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS (FOR EXAMPLE, KEYBOARD PIPE ORGANS, ACCORDIONS, CLARINETS, TRUMPETS, BAGPIPES) OTHER THAN FAIRGROUND ORGANS AND MECHANICAL STREET ORGANS
9205 10 00 Brass-wind instruments Free 28
9205 90 Other:
9205 90 10 Flutes Free 28
9205 90 20 Clarinets Free 28
9205 90 90 Other Free 28
9206 00 00 Percussion musical instruments (for example, drums, xylophones, cymbols, castanets, maracas) Free 28
9207 MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, THE SOUND OF WHICH IS PRODUCED, OR MUST BE AMPLIFIED, ELECTRICALLY (FOR EXAMPLE, ORGANS, GUITARS, ACCORDIONS)
9207 10 00 Keyboard instruments, other than accordions Free 28
9207 90 00 Other Free 28
9208 MUSICAL BOXES, FAIRGROUND ORGANS, MECHANICAL STREET ORGANS, MECHANICAL SINGING BIRDS, MUSICAL SAWS AND OTHER MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS NOT FALLING WITHIN ANY OTHER HEADING OF THIS CHAPTER; DECOY CALLS OF ALL KINDS; WHISTLES, CALL HORNS AND OTHER MOUTH-BLOWN SOUND SIGNALLING INSTRUMENTS
9208 10 00 Musical boxes Free 28
9208 90 00 Other Free 28
9209 PARTS (FOR EXAMPLE, MECHANISMS FOR MUSICAL BOXES) AND ACCESSORIES (FOR EXAMPLE, CARDS, DISCS AND ROLLS FOR MECHANICAL INSTRUMENTS) OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; METRONOMES, TUNING FORKS AND PITCH PIPES OF ALL KINDS
9209 30 00 Musical instrument strings Free 28
  Other:
9209 91 00 Parts and accessories for pianos Free 28
9209 92 00 Parts and accessories for the musical instruments of heading 9202 Free 28
9209 94 00 Parts and accessories for the musical instruments of heading 9207 Free 28
9209 99
9209 99 00 Other Free 28

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