Chapter 8487 Tariff Headings
HSN Codes Chapter 84: Machinery and mechanical appliances
Chapter 84 of the GST HSN tariff classifies nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof. This chapter contains 87 4-digit tariff headings with applicable GST rates effective 22 September 2025.
Official CBIC Rates (Notification 09/2025 & 10/2025)GST rates as per CBIC Notifications 09/2025 and 10/2025 (Central Tax - Rate), effective 22 September 2025. Last updated: October 2026. Always verify on the official GST portal before filing.. Main active GST slabs across goods are 0%, 5%, 18% and 40%.
4-Digit Tariff Headings in Chapter 84
Select any heading below to view its complete 6-digit and 8-digit sub-codes, item-level rate specifications, and CBIC notification details.
Nuclear Reactors; Fuel Elements (Cartridges), Non-Irradiated, For Nuclear Reactors; Machinery And Apparatus For Isotopic Separation
GST Rate:
5%
18%
Steam Or Other Vapour Generating Boilers (Other Than Central Heating Hot Water Boilers Capable Also Of Producing Low Pressure Steam), Super Heated Water Boilers
GST Rate:
18%
Auxiliary Plant For Use With Boilers Of Heading 8402 Or 8403 (For Example, Economisers, Super Heaters, Soot Removers, Gas Recoverers), Condensers For Steam Or Other Vapour Power Units
GST Rate:
18%
Producer Gas Or Water Gas Generators, With Or Without Their Purifiers; Acetylene Gas Generators And Similar Water Process Gas Generators, With Or Without Their Purifiers
GST Rate:
18%
Spark-Ignition Reciprocating Or Rotary Internal Combustion Piston Engines
GST Rate:
5%Applies to some sub-codes
18%
Compression-Ignition Internal Combustion Piston Engines (Diesel Or Semi-Diesel Engines)
GST Rate:
5%Applies to some sub-codes
5%
18%
Parts Suitable For Use Solely Or Principally With The Engines Of Heading 8407 Or 8408
GST Rate:
18%
Pumps For Liquids, Whether Or Not Fitted With A Measuring Device, Liquid Elevators
GST Rate:
5%Applies to some sub-codes
5%Applies to some sub-codes
18%
Air Or Vacuum Pumps, Air Or Other Gas Compressors And Fans; Ventilating Or Recycling Hoods Incorporating A Fan, Whether Or Not Fitted With Filters; Gas-Tight Biological Safety Cabinets, Whether Or Not Fitted With Filters
GST Rate:
5%Applies to some sub-codes
18%Applies to some sub-codes
18%Applies to some sub-codes
18%
Air Conditioning Machines, Comprising A Motor Driven Fan And Elements For Changing The Temperature And Humidity, Including Those Machines In Which The Humidity Cannot Be Separately Regulated
GST Rate:
18%
Furnace Burners For Liquid Fuel , For Pulverised Solid Fuel Or For Gas, Mechanical Stokers, Including Their Mechanical Grates, Mechanical Ash Dischargers And Similar Appliances
GST Rate:
18%
Industrial Or Laboratory Furnaces And Ovens, Including Incinerators, Non-Electric
GST Rate:
18%
Refrigerators, Freezers And Other Refrigerating Or Freezing Equipment, Electric Or Other; Heat Pumps Other Than Air Conditioning Machines Of Heading 8412.5
GST Rate:
18%
Machinery, Plant Or Laboratory Equipment, Whether Or Not Electrically Heated ( Excluding Furnaces , Ovens And Other Equipment Of Heading 8514 ), For The Treatment Of Materials By A Process Involving A Change Of Temperature Such As Heating, Cooking, Roasting, Distilling, Rectifying, Sterilising, Pasteurising, Steaming, Drying, Evaporating, Vaporising, Condensing Or Cooling, Other Than Machinery Or Plant Of A Kind Used For Domestic Purposes, Instantaneous Or Storage Water Heaters, Non-Electric
GST Rate:
5%Applies to some sub-codes
18%
Calendering Or Other Rolling Machines, Other Than For Metals Or Glass, And Cylinders Therefor
GST Rate:
5%
18%
Centrifuges, Including Centrifugal Dryers, Filtering Or Purifying Machinery And Appara For Liquids Or Gases
GST Rate:
18%
Dish Washing Machines , Machinery For Cleaning Or Drying Bottles Or Other Containers, Machinery For Filling, Closing, Sealing Or Labelling Bottles, Cans, Boxes, Bags Or Other Containers, Machinery For Capsuling Bottles, Jars, Tubes And Similar Containers , Other Packing Or Wrapping Machinery (Including Heat-Shrink Wrapping Machinery), Machinery For Aerating Beverages
GST Rate:
18%
Weighing Machinery (Excluding Balances Of A Sensitivity Of 5 Centigrams Or Better), Including Weight Operated Counting Or Checking Machines; Weighing Machine Weights Of All Kinds
GST Rate:
18%
Mechanical Appliances (Whether Or Not Hand-Operated) For Projecting, Dispersing Or Spraying Liquids Or Powders, Fire Extinguishers, Whether Or Not Charged, Spray Guns And Similar Appliances, Steam Or Sand Blasting Machines And Similar Jet Projecting Machines
GST Rate:
5%
5%
18%
Pulley Tackle And Hoists Other Than Skip Hoists, Winches And Capstans, Jacks
GST Rate:
18%
Ship'S Derricks, Cranes Including Cable Cranes, Mobile Lifting Frames, Straddle Carriers And Works Trucks Fitted With A Crane
GST Rate:
18%
Fork-Lift Trucks; Other Works Trucks Fitted With Lifting Or Handling Equipment
GST Rate:
18%
Other Lifting, Handling, Loading Or Unloading Machinery (For Example, Lifts, Escalators, Conveyors, Teleferics)
GST Rate:
18%
Self-Propelled Bulldozers, Angledozers, Graders, Levellers, Scrapers, Mechanical Shovels, Excavators, Shovel Loaders, Tamping Machines And Road Rollers
GST Rate:
18%
Other Moving, Grading, Levelling, Scraping, Excavating, Tamping, Compacting, Extracting Or Boring Machinery, For Earth, Minerals Or Ores,Pile Drivers And Pile Extractors, Snow-Ploughs And Snow-Blowers
GST Rate:
18%
Parts Suitable For Use Solely Or Principally With The Machinery Of Headings 8425 To 8430
GST Rate:
18%
Agricultural, Horticultural Or Forestry Machinery For Soil Preparation Or Cultivation; Lawn Or Sports- Ground Rollers
GST Rate:
5%
Harvesting Or Threshing Machinery, Including Straw Or Fodder Balers, Grass Or Hay Mowers, Machines For Cleaning, Sorting Or Grading Eggs, Fruit Or Other Agricultural Produce, Other Than Machinery Of Heading 8436
GST Rate:
5%
18%
Presses, Crushers And Similar Machinery Used In The Manufacture Of Wine, Cider, Fruit Juices Or Similar Beverages
GST Rate:
18%
Other Agricultural, Horticultural, Forestry, Poultry Keeping Or Bee-Keeping Machinery, Including Germination Plant Fitted With Mechanical Or Thermal Equipment, Poultry Incubators And Brooders
GST Rate:
5%
Machines For Cleaning, Sorting Or Grading Seed, Grain Or Dried Leguminous Vegetables; Machinery Used In The Milling Industry Or For The Working Of Cereals Or Dried Leguminous Vegetables, Other Than Farm-Type Machinery
GST Rate:
18%
Machinery, Not Specified Or Included Elsewhere In This Chapter, For The Industrial Preparation Or Manufacture Of Food Or Drink, Other Than Machinery For The Extraction Or Preparation Of Animal Or Fixed Vegetable Or Microbial Fats Or Oils
GST Rate:
18%
Machinery For Making Pulp Of Fibrous Cellulosic Material Or For Making Or Finishing Paper Or Paperboard
GST Rate:
18%
Other Machinery For Making Up Paper Pulp, Paper Or Paperboard, Including Cutting Machines Of All Kinds
GST Rate:
18%
Machinery, Apparatus And Equipment (Other Then The Machines Of Headings 8456 To 8465) For Preparing Or Making Plates, Printing Components , Plates, Cylinders And Lithographic Stones, Prepared For Printing Purposes (For Example, Planed, Grained Or Polished)
GST Rate:
18%
Printing Machinery Used For Printing By Means Of Plates, Cylinders And Other Printing Components Of Heading 8442, Other Printers, Copying Machines And Facsimile Machines, Whether Or Not Combined, Parts And Accessories Thereof
GST Rate:
18%
Machines For Extruding, Drawing, Texturing Or Cutting Man-Made Textile Materials
GST Rate:
18%
Machines For Preparing Textile Fibres, Spinning, Doubling Or Twisting Machines And Other Machinery For Producing Textile Yarns, Textile Reeling Or Winding (Including Weft-Winding) Machines And Machines For Preparing Textile Yarns For Use On The Machines Of Heading 8446 Or 8446
GST Rate:
0% (Nil / exempt)
18%
Machines For Preparing Textile Fibres, Spinning, Doubling Or Twisting Machines And Other Machinery For Producing Textile Yarns, Textile Reeling Or Winding (Including Weft-Winding Machines And Machines For Preparing Textile Yarns For Use On The Machines Of Heading 8446 Or 8446
GST Rate:
0% (Nil / exempt)
18%
Knitting Machines, Stitch-Bonding Machines And Machines For Making Gimped Yarn, Tulle, Lace, Embroidery, Trimmings, Braid Or Net And Machines For Tufting.
GST Rate:
18%
Auxiliary Machinery For Use With Machines Of Heading 8444, 8445, 8446 Or 8447 (For Example, Dobbies, Jacquards, Automatic Stop Motions, Shuttle Changing Mechanisms), Parts And Accessories Suitable For Use Solely Or Principally With The Machines Of This Heading Or Of Heading 8444, 8445, 8446 Or 8447 (For Example, Spindles And Spindle Flyers, Card Clothing, Combs, Extruding Nipples, Shuttles, Healds And Heald Frames, Hosiery Needles)
GST Rate:
18%
Auxiliary Machinery For Use With Machines Of Heading 8444, 8445, 8446 Or 8447 (For Example, Dobbies, Jacquards, Automatic Stop Motions, Shuttle Changing Mechanisms), Parts And Accessories Suitable For Use Solely Or Principally With The Machines Of This Heading Or Of Heading 8444, 8445, 8446 Or 8447 (For Example, Spindles And Spindle Flyers, Card Clothing, Combs, Extruding Nipples, Shuttles, Healds And Heald Frames, Hosiery Needles)
GST Rate:
18%
Household Or Laundry-Type Washing Machines, Including Machines Which Both Wash And Dry
GST Rate:
18%
Household Or Laundry-Type Washing Machines, Including Machines Which Both Wash And Dry
GST Rate:
18%
Machinery (Other Than Machines Of Heading 8450) For Washing, Cleaning, Wringing, Drying, Ironing, Pressing (Including Fusing Presses), Bleaching, Dyeing, Dressing, Finishing, Coating Or Impregnating Textile Yarns, Fabrics Or Made Up Textile Articles And Machines For Applying The Paste To The Base Fabric Or Other Support Used In The Manufacture Of Floor Coverings Such As Linoleum, Machines For Reeling, Unreeling, Folding, Cutting Or Pinking Textile Fabrics
GST Rate:
5%
Sewing Machines, Other Than Book-Sewing Machines Of Heading 8440, Furniture, Bases And Covers Specially Designed For Sewing Machines, Sewing Machine Needles
GST Rate:
18%
Machinery For Preparing, Tanning Or Working Hides, Skins Or Leather Or For Making Or Repairing Footwear Or Other Articles Of Hides, Skins Or Leather, Other Than Sewing Machines
GST Rate:
18%
Converters, Ladles, Ingot Moulds And Casting Machines, Of A Kind Used In Metallurgy Or In Metal Foundries
GST Rate:
18%
Machine-Tools For Working Any Material By Removal Of Material, By Laser Or Other Light Orphoton Beam, Ultra-Sonic, Electro-Discharge, Electro-Chemical, Electron Beam, Ionic-Beam Or Plasma Arc Processes, Water-Jet Cutting Machines
GST Rate:
18%
Machine-Tools For Working Any Material By Removal Of Material, By Laser Or Other Light Orphoton Beam, Ultra-Sonic, Electro-Discharge, Electro-Chemical, Electron Beam, Ionic-Beam Or Plasma Arc Processes, Water-Jet Cutting Machines
GST Rate:
18%
Machine-Tools (Including Way-Type Unit Machines) For Drilling, Boring, Milling, Treading Or Tapping By Removing Metal, Other Than Lathes (Including Turning Centres) Of Heading 8457
GST Rate:
18%
Machine-Tools For Deburring, Sharpening, Grinding, Honing, Lapping, Polishing Or Otherwise Finishing Metal, Or Cermets By Means Of Grinding Stones, Abrasives Or Polishing Products, Other Than Gear Cutting, Gear Grinding Or Gear Finishing Machines Of Heading 8460
GST Rate:
18%
Machine-Tools For Deburring, Sharpening, Grinding, Honing, Lapping, Polishing Or Otherwise Finishing Metal, Or Cermets By Means Of Grinding Stones, Abrasives Or Polishing Products, Other Than Gear Cutting, Gear Grinding Or Gear Finishing Machines Of Heading 8460
GST Rate:
18%
Machine-Tools (Including Presses) For Working Metal By Forging, Hammering Or Die Forging (Excluding Rolling Mills), Machine-Tools (Including Presses, Slitting Lines And Cut-To Length Lines) For Working Metal By Bending, Folding, Straightening, Flattening, Shearing, Punching, Notching Or Nibbling (Excluding Draw-Benches), Presses For Working Metal Or Metal Carbides, Not Specified Above
GST Rate:
18%
Other Machine-Tools For Working Metal, Or Cermets, Without Removing Material
GST Rate:
18%
Machine-Tools For Working Stone, Ceramics Concrete, Asbestos-Cement Or Like Mineral Materials Or For Cold Working Glass
GST Rate:
18%
Machine-Tools (Including Machines For Nailing, Stapling, Glueing Or Otherwise Assembling) For Working Wood, Cork, Bone, Hard Rubber, Hard Plastics Or Similar Hard Materials
GST Rate:
18%
Parts And Accessories Suitable For Use Solely Or Principally With The Machines Of Headings 8456 To 8465 Including Work Or Tool Holders, Self-Opening Dieheads, Dividing Heads And Other Special Attachm Ents For The Machines, Tool Holders For Any Type Of Tool, For Working In The Hand
GST Rate:
18%
Tools For Working In The Hand, Pneumatic, Hydraulic Or With Self-Contained Electric Or Non-Electric Motor
GST Rate:
18%
Machinery And Apparatus For Soldering, Brazing Or Welding, Whether Or Not Capable Of Cutting, Other Than Those Of Heading 8512.5; Gas- Operated Surface Tempering Machines And Appliances
GST Rate:
18%
Typewriters Other Than Printers Of Heading 8443; Word-Processing Machines
GST Rate:
5%
18%
18%
18%
Calculating Machines And Pocket-Size Data Recording, Reproducing And Displaying Machines With Calculating Functions, Accounting Machines, Postage Franking Machines, Ticket-Issuing Machines And Similar
GST Rate:
18%
Automatic Data Processing Machines And Units There Of , Magnetic Or Optical Readers, Machines For Transcribing Data On To Data Media In Coded Form And Machines For Processing Such Data, Not Elsewhere Specified Or Included
GST Rate:
18%
Other Office Machines (For Example, Hectograph Or Stencil Duplicating Machines, Addressing Machines, Automatic Banknote Dispensers, Coin Sorting Machines, Coin Counting Or Wrap Ping Machines, Pencil-Sharpening Machines, Perforating Or Stapling Machines)
GST Rate:
18%
Parts And Accessories (Other Than Covers, Carrying Cases And The Like) Suitable For Use Solely Or Principally With Machines Of Headings 8470 To 8471
GST Rate:
18%
Machinery For Sorting, Screening, Separating, Washing, Crushing, Grinding, Mixing Or Kneading Earth, Stone, Ores Or Other Mineral Substances, In Solid (Including Powder Or Paste) Form; Machinery For Agglomerating, Shaping Or Moulding Solid Mineral Fuels, Ceramic Paste, Unhardened Cements, Plastering Materials Or Other Mineral Products In Powder Or Paste Form; Machines For Forming Foundry Moulds Of Sand
GST Rate:
18%
Machines For Assembling Electric Or Electronic Lamps, Tubes Or Valves Or Flash-Bulbs, In Glass Envelopes, Machines Or Manufacturing Or Hot Working Glass Or Glassware
GST Rate:
18%
Automatic Goods-Vending Machines (For Example, Postage Stamps, Cigarette, Food Or Beverage Machines), Including Money Changing Machines
GST Rate:
18%
Machinery For Working Rubber Or Plastics Or For The Manufacture Of Products From These Materials, Not Specified Or Included Elsewhere In This Chapter
GST Rate:
18%
Machinery For Preparing Or Making Up Tobacco, Not Specified Or Included Elsewhere In This Chapter
GST Rate:
18%
Machines And Mechanical Appliances Having Individual Functions, Not Specified Or Included Elsewhere In This Chapter
GST Rate:
5%
18%
Moulding Boxes For Metal Foundry: Mould Bases, Moulding Patterns, Moulds For Metal (Other Than Ingot Moulds), Metal Carbides, Glass, Mineral Materials, Rubber Or Plastics
GST Rate:
18%
Taps, Cocks, Valves And Similar Appliances For Pipes, Boiler Shells, Tanks, Vats Or The Like, Including Pressure-Reducing Valves And Thermostatically Controlled Valves
GST Rate:
18%
Transmission Shafts (Including Cam Shafts And Crank Shafts) And Cranks; Bearing Housings And Plain Shaft Bearings; Gears And Gearing; Ball Or Roller Screws; Gear Boxes And Other Speed Changers, Including Torque Converters; Flywheels And Pulleys, Including Pulley Blocks; Clutches And Shaft Couplings (Including Universal Joints)
GST Rate:
18%
Gaskets And Similar Joints Of Metal Sheeting Combined With Other Material Or Of Two Or More Layers Of Metal, Sets Or Assortments Of Gaskets And Similar Joints, Dissimilar In Composition, Put Up In Pouches, Envelopes Or Similar Packings, Mechanical Seals Gaskets And Similar Joints Of Metal Sheeting
GST Rate:
18%
Machines And Apparatus Of A Kind Used Solely Or Pricipally For The Manufacture Of Semiconductor Boules Or Wafers, Semiconductor Devices, Electronic Integrated Circuits Or Flat Panel Displays, Machines And Apparatus Specified In Note 11(C) To This Chapter, Parts And Accessories
GST Rate:
18%
Machines Parts, Not Containing Electrical Connectors, Insulators, Coils, Contacts Or Other Electrical Features, Not Specified Or Included Elsewhere In This Chapter
GST Rate:
18%
How Many HSN Digits Do You Need to Mention?
Under GST Notification 78/2020-Central Tax, businesses must declare HSN codes on tax invoices according to annual aggregate turnover:
| Annual Turnover | B2B Invoices | B2C Invoices |
|---|---|---|
| Up to ₹5 Crore | 4 Digits minimum | Optional (4 Digits recommended) |
| Above ₹5 Crore | 6 Digits mandatory | 6 Digits mandatory |
| Exports / Imports | 8 Digits mandatory | 8 Digits mandatory |