India HSN Codes for Door Hardware 2026: Every Eight-Digit Tariff Item Under 8301 and 8302, and How Locks, Hinges and Closers Are Classified

India classifies imports with an eight-digit tariff item, and the same eight digits appear as the HSN code on GST invoices. For door hardware almost everything lands in two headings of Chapter 83 of the Customs Tariff: 8301 for locks and keys, and 8302 for mountings and fittings, a heading whose Indian text also names automatic door closers.

Our general HS code guide covers the six digits every country shares. This page covers the two digits India adds, lists every eight-digit item under both headings, and shows where our own product categories fall.

Where the codes on this page come from

Every code and description below was checked on 19 October 2026 against Chapter 83 of the Customs Tariff of India, the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975, in the edition CBIC lists as "Tariff (as on 30.06.2025)". The tariff is amended by each Finance Act and by notifications, so check the current edition before you file. A code that was right on your last shipment is not evidence that it is right on this one.

We do not quote duty rates here. The rate printed in the schedule is a starting point, not what an importer pays: notifications can reduce it, and surcharges and IGST are added on top. How to find the figure that applies is set out further down.

The eight-digit items under 8301

Two lines deserve a note. 8301 40 90 is where most door locks go, and it is an "other" line: India does not split door locks any further, so a mortise lock case, a rim night latch and a keyed tubular lockset share it. And 8301 70 00 applies only to keys presented separately. Keys packed with the lock they operate travel with the lock.

The eight-digit items under 8302

The hinge split is by material, and it is the line most worth getting right. A stainless steel hinge is a hinge of steel, 8302 10 10. A brass hinge is 8302 10 20. A hinge of zinc alloy or aluminum falls to 8302 10 90. A hinge of two materials needs a decision about which one gives it its character, and that decision belongs to the importer, written down, before the bill of entry is filed.

India also separates tower bolts, 8302 41 20, from other door fittings. A flush bolt set into the edge of a door is not a tower bolt because both have the word bolt in their names. Classify by what the article is, not by what the catalog calls it.

How to decide: lock, fitting or closer

Chapter 83 asks three questions, in this order.

Does the article lock? Heading 8301 covers locks that are key, combination or electrically operated. A lock case, a cylinder lock, a deadbolt and a night latch lock the door, so they are 8301 even though they are also fitted to a door. A passage latch with no locking function is a different case, and a question to put to your broker rather than an assumption.

If it does not lock, is it a mounting or fitting? Hinges, handles, bolts and door stops of base metal are 8302, and within it the building lines of 8302 41, unless the tariff names them more precisely. Two door products are named precisely: hinges have their own subheading, 8302 10, and automatic door closers have theirs, 8302 60 00. A closer declared as a building fitting under 8302 41 is in the right heading and the wrong item.

Is it a part? Note 1 to Chapter 83 says parts of base metal are classified with their parent articles, so a spare lock body shipped on its own is a part of a lock, 8301 60 00. The same note keeps screws and springs out: articles of headings such as 7318 (screws and bolts) and 7320 (springs) are not treated as parts of Chapter 83 goods, and are classified under their own headings when they are shipped on their own.

Our categories, line by line

Locksets sold with their handles are a common question. When a lock and its trim are put up together as a set, classification generally follows the component that gives the set its essential character, which for a lockset is the lock. When they are invoiced as separate lines, each line is classified on its own.

Panic exit devices are not named anywhere in Chapter 83. A device that latches the door has a case for 8301, a bar that only operates someone else's lock has a case for 8302, and the line between them is a question for an advance ruling rather than a guess.

Finding the duty rate that applies

The rate column in the schedule is the Basic Customs Duty before notifications. To reach the figure for a shipment:

1. Look up the tariff item in the current CBIC tariff. 2. Check the exemption notifications for that item, chiefly Notification 50/2017-Customs as amended, and any trade agreement notification if the goods qualify with a certificate of origin. 3. Check Part V of the CBIC tariff, which lists anti-dumping duty notifications, for your product and its country of origin. 4. Add the Social Welfare Surcharge, which is calculated on the customs duty. 5. Add IGST at the rate the GST rate notifications set for that HSN.

Your customs broker's filing system works from the same tariff and notifications and will show the duty it calculates; ask for that calculation before the goods ship, not after they land. Import policy is a separate check. DGFT's ITC(HS) Schedule I sets import conditions by the same eight digits, so read it for your item as well.

Getting an answer that binds

A broker's opinion does not bind customs. India's Customs Act, 1962 provides for advance rulings, issued by the Customs Authority for Advance Rulings. The application describes the product, its material and its use, and the ruling binds the applicant and customs for that product. For a product you will import repeatedly, a ruling is cheaper than a dispute.

What we put on our documents

We state the six-digit HS subheading on commercial invoices and packing lists, because that part is international and we can stand behind it. We do not state India's eight-digit item unless the importer tells us which one to use, because the importer of record answers for the classification. If you send us your item, we will print it.

Material, country of origin and net and gross weights are on the same documents, because in India, as everywhere, a classification question is often really a material question: the hinge lines turn on nothing else.