HSN code CHAPTER-49
Printed books, newspapers, pictures and other products of the printing industry, manuscripts, typescripts and plans
The information provided below about HSN codes are used for GST purpose to classify goods. You may reconfirm with GST authorities whether your product HSN code is classified correctly below. The HSN codes under 02 digits, 04 digits, 06 digits and 08 digits explains and classifies broadly for each section of goods.
Notes:
1. This Chapter does not cover:
(a) photographic negatives or positives on transparent bases (Chapter 37);
(b) maps, plans or globes, in relief, whether or not printed (heading 9023 00 00);
(c) playing cards or other goods of Chapter 95; or
(d) original engravings, prints or lithographs (heading 9702 00 00), postage or revenue stamps, stamp-postmarks, first-day covers, postal stationery or the like of heading 9704 00 00, antiques of an age exceeding one hundred years or other articles of Chapter 97.
2. For the purposes of Chapter 49, the term "printed" also means reproduced by means of a duplicating machine, produced under the control of an automatic data processing machine, embossed, photographed, photocopied, thermos copied or typewritten.
3. Newspapers, journals and periodicals which are bound otherwise than in paper, and sets of newspapers, journals or periodicals comprising more than one number under a single cover is to be classified in heading 4901 00 00, whether or not containing advertising material.
4. Heading 4901 00 00 also covers:
(a) a collection of printed reproductions of, for example, works of art or drawings, with a relative text, put up with numbered pages in a form suitable for binding into one or more volumes;
(b) a pictorial supplement accompanying, and subsidiary to, a bound volume; and
(c) printed parts of books or booklets, in the form of assembled or separate sheets or signatures, constituting the whole or a part of a complete work and designed for binding. However, printed pictures or illustrations not bearing a text, whether in the form of signatures or separate sheets, fall in heading 4911 00 00.
5. Subject to Note 3 to this Chapter, heading 4901 00 00 does not cover publications which are essentially devoted to advertising (for example, brochures, pamphlets, leaflets, trade catalogues, year books published by trade associations, tourist propaganda). Such publications are to be classified in heading 4911 00 00.
6. The purposes of heading 4903 00 00, the expression "children's picture books" means books for children in which the pictures form the principal interest and the text is subsidiary.
HSN Code Description of goods
HSN code 4901 Printed books,brochures, leaflets and similar printed matter,
whether or not in single sheets
4901 10 - In single sheets, whether or not folded :
4901 10 10 --- Printed books
4901 10 20 --- Pamphlets, booklets, brochures, leaflets and
similar printed matter
- Other :
4901 91 00 -- Dictionaries and encyclopaedias, and serial
instalments thereof
4901 99 00 -- Other
HSN code 4902 Newspapers, journals and periodicals, whether or not
illustrated or containing advertising material
4902 10 - Appearing at least four times a week
4902 10 10 --- Newspapers
4902 10 20 --- Journals and periodicals
4902 90 - Other :
4902 90 10 --- Newspapers
4902 90 20 --- Journals and periodicals
HSN code 4903 Children's picture, drawing or colouring books
4903 00 - Children's picture, drawing or colouring books :
4903 00 10 --- Picture books
4903 00 20 --- Drawing or colouring books
HSN code 4904 00 00 Music, printed or in manuscript, whether or not bound or
illustrated
HSN code 4905 Maps and hydrographic or similar charts of all kinds,
including atlases, wall maps, topographical plans and
globes, printed
4905 10 00 - Globes
- Other :
4905 91 00 -- In book form
4905 99 -- Other:
4905 99 10 --- Geographical, hydrological, astronomical
maps or charts
4905 99 90 --- Other
HSN code 4906 00 00 Plans and drawings for architectural, engineering,
industrial, commercial, topographical or similar purposes,
being originals drawn by hand; hand- written texts;
photographic reproductions on sensitised paper and
carbon copies of the foregoing
HSN code 4907 Unused postages, revenue or similar stamps of current or
new issue in the country in which they have, or will have, a
recognized face value; stamp-impressed paper; banknotes;
cheque forms; stock, share or bond certificates and similar
documents of title
4907 00 Unused postages, revenue or similar stamps of current or
new issue in the country in which they have, or will have, a
recognized face value; stamp-impressed paper; banknotes;
cheque forms; stock, share or bond certificates and similar
documents of title
HSN code 4907 00 10 Unused postages, revenue or similar stamps of current or new
issue in the country in which they have, or will have, a recognized face value
HSN code 4907 00 20 Bank notes
HSN code 4907 00 30 Documents of title conveying the right to use Information
Technology software
HSN code 4907 00 90 Other
HSN code 4908 Transfers (decalcomanias)
4908 10 00 - Transfers (decalcomanias), vitrifiable
4908 90 00 - Other
HSN code 4909 Printed or illustrated postcards; printed cards bearing
personal greetings, messages or announcements, whether
or not illustrated, with or without envelopes or trimmings
4909 00 - Printed or illustrated postcards; printed cards
bearing personal greetings, messages or
announcements, whether or not illustrated, with
or without envelopes or trimmings :
4909 00 10 --- GREETING OR WEDDING CARDS
4909 00 90 --- Other
HSN code 4910 00 00 Calendars of any kind, printed, including calendar blocks
4910 00 - Calendars of any kind, printed, including calendar
blocks :
4910 00 10 --- Advertising calendar
4910 00 90 --- Other
HSN code 4911 Other printed matter, including printed pictures and
photographs
HSN code 4911 10 Trade advertising material, commercial catalogues and the
like
4911 10 10 --- Posters, printed
4911 10 20 --- Commercial catalogues
4911 10 30 --- Printed inlay cards
4911 10 90 --- Other
Other:
HSN code 4911 91 00 Pictures, designs and photographs
4911 99 -- Other :
4911 99 10 --- Hard copy (printed) of computer software
4911 99 20 --- Plan and drawings for architectural
engineering, industrial, commercial,
topographical or similar purposes reproduced
with the aid of computer or any other devices
4911 99 90 --- Other
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