Heading · Chapter 84 · Section XVI, Machinery and mechanical appliances

HS 8462Machine-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

Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof

Customs duty
7.5%
20 tariff items
GST now
18%
or 5% for some goods
Import policy
Free
Export policy
Free
Unit
units
Duty in China
9%
On Indian goods
Search codesRates as on 19 Oct 2026

Codes under this heading

20 codes. Duty and GST are set on the 8-digit tariff items; open the one that describes your goods.

Codes under this code
CodeDescriptionCustoms dutyGST nowUnit
8462 11 00Closed die forging machines7.5%18%units
8462 19 00Other7.5%18%units
8462 22 00Profile forming machines7.5%18%units
8462 23 00Numerically controlled press brakes7.5%18%units
8462 24 00Numerically controlled panel benders7.5%18%units
8462 25 00Numerically controlled roll forming machines7.5%18%units
8462 26 00Other numerically controlled bending, folding, straightening or flattening machines7.5%18%units
8462 29 00Other7.5%18%units
8462 32 00Slitting lines and cut-to-length lines7.5%18%units
8462 33 00Numerically controlled shearing machines7.5%18%units
8462 39 00Other7.5%18%units
8462 42 00Numerically controlled7.5%18%units
8462 49 00Other7.5%18%units
8462 51 00Numerically controlled7.5%18%units
8462 59 00Other7.5%18%units
8462 61 00Hydraulic presses7.5%18%units
8462 62 00Mechanical presses7.5%18%units
8462 63 00Servo-presses7.5%18%units
8462 69 00Other7.5%18%units
8462 90 00Other7.5%18%units

Importing into India

Duty is set on each 8-digit tariff item: open one of the codes above. Basic customs duty across its 20 tariff items: 7.5%. The rules below cover this whole code.

Anti-dumping, countervailing and safeguard duty

None in force on this code as on 19 Oct 2026. 1 earlier measure has ended.

Import policy (DGFT ITC(HS)) of its tariff items

  • Free: 20 tariff items

GST

IGST on imports is the GST rate. Rates changed on 22 September 2025.

  • Now 18%, or 5% for some goods.
  • Until 21 September 2025 18%, or 5% or 12% for some goods.
  • Change: Unchanged.

The rules that set it now

GST rate rules in force
NotificationGoodsRate
9/2025-Integrated Tax (Rate)Schedule II, S.No. 448Machine-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 above18%
9/2025-Integrated Tax (Rate)Schedule I, S.No. 437Following renewable energy devices and parts for their manufacture:- (a) Bio-gas plant; (b) Solar power-based devices; (c) Solar power generator; (d) Wind mills, Wind Operated Electricity Generator (WOEG); (e) Waste to energy plants / devices; (f) Solar lantern / solar lamp; (g) Ocean waves/tidal waves energy devices/plants; (h) Photo voltaic cells, whether or not assembled in modules or made up into panels. Explanation:- If the goods specified in this entry are supplied, by a supplier, along with supplies of other goods and services, one of which being a taxable service specified in the entry at S. No. 38 of the Table mentioned in the notification No. 8/2017- Integrated Tax (Rate), dated 28th June, 2017 [G.S.R. 683(E)], the value of supply of goods for the purposes of this entry shall be deemed as seventy per cent. of the gross consideration charged for all such supplies, and the remaining thirty per cent. of the gross consideration charged shall be deemed as value of the said taxable service5%
9/2025-Integrated Tax (Rate)Schedule I, S.No. 479Disposable sterilized dialyzer or micro barrier of artificial kidney5%
9/2025-Integrated Tax (Rate)Schedule II, S.No. 386Parts suitable for use solely or principally with fixed Speed Diesel Engines of power not exceeding 15HP18%
9/2025-Integrated Tax (Rate)Schedule II, S.No. 387Parts suitable for use solely or principally with power driven pumps primarily designed for handling water, namely, centrifugal pumps (horizontal and vertical), deep tube-well turbine pumps, submersible pumps, axial flow and mixed flow vertical pumps18%
9/2025-Integrated Tax (Rate)Schedule II, S.No. 473E-waste Explanation.- For the purpose of this entry, E-waste means electrical and electronic equipment listed in Schedule I of the E- Waste (Management) Rules, 2016 (published in the Gazette of India vide G.S.R. 338 (E) dated the 23rd March, 2016), whole or in part if discarded as waste by the consumer or bulk consumer18%

History

GST rate history
PeriodRateNotification
Until 21 Sep 20255%, 12% or 18%1/2017-Central Tax (Rate)
From 22 Sep 20255% or 18%9/2025-Integrated Tax (Rate)

Exporting from India

Export duty

Nil. The Second Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act does not list these goods, so no export duty is charged.

Duty drawback (All Industry Rates)

All Industry Rates of duty drawback under this heading
Drawback itemGoodsRateCap
8462Machine-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 above1.5%—

Drawback items follow the 4-digit heading, not the 8-digit code: claim the one that describes your goods. Rates of notification 77/2023-Customs (N.T.) as amended, in force on 19 Oct 2026.

Export policy (DGFT ITC(HS) Schedule 2) of its tariff items

  • Free: 20 tariff items

China: the same goods (8462)

China shares the first 6 digits with India and splits them into 10-digit codes of its own: 3 in force and 17 expired under 8462. Exporters see what China charges Indian goods; importers see the rebate and licences their Chinese supplier deals with.

China's tariff for these goods
China codeGoodsDuty on Indian goodsMFNImport VATExport rebateLicences
8462.29.10.00Non-NC straightening machines for working flat metal用于加工金属板材的非数控矫直机床9%MFN rate (no APTA concession on this line)9%13%13%None
8462.29.90.00Non-NC bending, folding or straightening machines for working sheet metal用于加工金属板材的非数控弯曲、折叠或矫平机床9%MFN rate (no APTA concession on this line)9%13%13%None
8462.49.00.00Non-NC punching, notching or nibbling machines for working sheet metal用于加工金属板材的非数控冲孔、开槽或步冲机床9%MFN rate (no APTA concession on this line)9%13%13%None
  • India is a member of the Asia-Pacific Trade Agreement (APTA). With an APTA certificate of origin, Indian goods pay China's APTA rate where the line has one; China applies the lower of that and its provisional rate.
  • The export VAT rebate is what China refunds its own exporters. When China cuts it, Chinese export prices tend to rise.

China's tariff as compiled by HS编码网 from China Customs, the State Council Tariff Commission and the State Taxation Administration. The Chinese is the original.

Nearby codes

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Sources

For information, not a customs ruling. Only notifications published in the Gazette have legal force; confirm the duty with your customs broker or ICEGATE before you price a deal.