Chapter 96 — Miscellaneous manufactured articles

Nepal Customs Tariff 2026/27 import duty rates and 57 HS code lines for Miscellaneous manufactured articles (Section XX — Miscellaneous manufactured articles). Each code shows the general and SAARC customs duty; tap a code to open the full breakdown and landed-cost estimate.

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96.01 — Worked ivory, bone, tortoise-shell, horn, antlers, coral, mother-of-pearl and other animal carving material, and articles of these materials (including articles obtained by moulding)

HS code	Description	Unit	General duty	SAARC duty
9601.10.00	Worked ivory and articles of ivory	kg	20%	9.5%
9601.90.00	Other	kg	20%	9.5%

96.02 — Worked vegetable or mineral carving material and articles of these materials; moulded or carved articles of wax, of stearin, of natural gums or natural resins or of modelling pastes, and other moulded or carved articles, not elsewhere specified or included; worked, unhardened gelatin (except gelatin of Heading 35.03) and articles of unhardened gelatin

HS code	Description	Unit	General duty	SAARC duty
9602.00.00	Worked vegetable or mineral carving material and articles of these materials; moulded or carved articles of wax, of stearin, of natural gums or natural resins or of modelling pastes, and other moulded or carved articles, not elsewhere specified or included; worked, unhardened gelatin (except gelatin of Heading 35.03) and articles of unhardened gelatin.	kg	20%	9.5%

96.03 — Brooms, brushes (including brushes constituting parts of machines, appliances or vehicles), hand-operated mechanical floor sweepers,not motorised, mops and feather dusters; prepared knots and tufts for broom or brush making; paint pads and rollers; squeegees (other than roller squeegees)

HS code	Description	Unit	General duty	SAARC duty
9603.10.00	Brooms and brushes, consisting of twigs or other vegetable materials, bound together, with or without handles	nos	15%	7.25%
9603.21.00	Tooth brushes, including dental plate brushes	nos	15%	15%
9603.29.00	Tooth brushes, shaving brushes, hairbrushes, nail brushes, eyelash brushes and other toilet brushes for use on the person, including such brushes constituting parts of appliances — Other	nos	15%	7.25%
9603.30.00	Artists' brushes, writing brushes and similar brushes for the application of cosmetics	nos	15%	7.25%
9603.40.00	Paint, distemper, varnish or similar brushes (other than brushes of Sub-heading 9603.30); paint pads and rollers	nos	15%	7.25%
9603.50.00	Other brushes constituting parts of machines, appliances or vehicles	nos	15%	7.25%
9603.90.00	Other	nos	15%	7.25%

96.04 — Hand sieves and hand riddles

HS code	Description	Unit	General duty	SAARC duty
9604.00.00	Hand sieves and hand riddles.	nos/kg	5%	5%

96.05 — Travel sets for personal toilet, sewing or shoe or clothes cleaning

HS code	Description	Unit	General duty	SAARC duty
9605.00.00	Travel sets for personal toilet, sewing or shoe or clothes cleaning.	nos	15%	9.5%

96.06 — Buttons, press-fasteners, snap-fasteners and press-studs, button moulds and other parts of these articles; button blanks

HS code	Description	Unit	General duty	SAARC duty
9606.10.00	Press-fasteners, snap-fasteners and press-studs and parts therefor	kg	15%	7.25%
9606.21.00	Of plastics not covered with textile material	kg	15%	7.25%
9606.22.00	Of base metal, not covered with textile material	kg	15%	7.25%
9606.29.00	Buttons — Other	kg	15%	7.25%
9606.30.00	Button moulds and other parts of buttons; button blanks	kg	15%	7.25%

96.07 — Slide fasteners and parts thereof

HS code	Description	Unit	General duty	SAARC duty
9607.11.00	Fitted with chain scoops of base metal	kg	15%	9.5%
9607.19.00	Slide fasteners — Other	kg	15%	9.5%
9607.20.00	Parts	kg	5%	5%

96.08 — Ball point pens; felt tipped and other porous-tipped pens and markers; fountain pens; stylograph pens, and other pens; duplicating stylos; propelling or sliding pencils; pen-holders, pencil-holders and similar holders; parts (including caps and clips) of the foregoing articles, other than those of Heading 96.09

HS code	Description	Unit	General duty	SAARC duty
9608.10.00	Ball point pens	nos	15%	15%
9608.20.10	Felt tipped and other porous tipped	nos	5%	5%
9608.20.90	Felt tipped and other porous-tipped pens and markers — Other marker etc.	nos	5%	5%
9608.30.00	Fountain pens, stylograph pens and other pens	nos	5%	5%
9608.40.00	Propelling or sliding pencils	nos	5%	5%
9608.50.00	Sets of articles from two or more of the foregoing Sub-headings	nos	5%	5%
9608.60.00	Refills for ball point pens, comprising the ball point and ink-reservoir	nos/kg	5%	5%
9608.91.00	Pen nibs and nib points	nos/kg	5%	5%
9608.99.00	Other	nos/kg	5%	5%

96.09 — Pencils (other than pencils of Heading 96.08), crayons, pencil leads, pastels, drawing charcoals, writing or drawing chalks and tailors' chalks

HS code	Description	Unit	General duty	SAARC duty
9609.10.00	Pencils and crayons, with leads encased in a rigid sheath	nos/kg	5%	5%
9609.20.00	Pencil leads, black or coloured	nos/kg	5%	5%
9609.90.00	Other	kg	5%	5%

96.10 — Slates and boards, with writing or drawing surfaces, whether or not framed

HS code	Description	Unit	General duty	SAARC duty
9610.00.00	Slates and boards, with writing or drawing surfaces, whether or not framed.	nos/kg	5%	5%

96.11 — Date, sealing or numbering stamps, and the like (including devices for printing or embossing labels), designed for operating in the hand; hand-operated composing sticks and hand printing sets incorporating such composing sticks

HS code	Description	Unit	General duty	SAARC duty
9611.00.00	Date, sealing or numbering stamps, and the like (including devices for printing or embossing labels), designed for operating in the hand; hand-operated composing sticks and hand printing sets incorporating such composing sticks.	nos/kg	5%	5%

96.12 — Typewriter or similar ribbons, inked or otherwise prepared for giving impressions, whether or not on spools or in cartridges; ink-pads, whether or not inked, with or without boxes

HS code	Description	Unit	General duty	SAARC duty
9612.10.00	Ribbons	nos/kg	5%	5%
9612.20.00	Ink-pads	nos	5%	5%

96.13 — Cigarette lighters and other lighters, whether or not mechanical or electrical, and parts thereof other than flints and wicks

HS code	Description	Unit	General duty	SAARC duty
9613.10.00	Pocket lighters, gas fuelled, non-refillable	nos	30%	7.25%
9613.20.00	Pocket lighters, gas fuelled, refillable	nos	30%	7.25%
9613.80.00	Other lighters	nos	30%	7.25%
9613.90.00	Parts	nos/kg	10%	7.25%

96.14 — Smoking pipes (including pipe bowls) and cigar or cigarette holders, and parts thereof

HS code	Description	Unit	General duty	SAARC duty
9614.00.00	Smoking pipes (including pipe bowls) and cigar or cigarette holders, and parts thereof.	nos/kg	30%	9.5%

96.15 — Combs, hair-slides and the like; hairpins, curling pins, curling grips, hair-curlers and the like, other than those of Heading 85.16, and parts thereof

HS code	Description	Unit	General duty	SAARC duty
9615.11.00	Of hard rubber or plastics	nos/kg	20%	7.25%
9615.19.00	Combs, hair-slides and the like — Other	nos/kg	20%	7.25%
9615.90.00	Other	nos/kg	20%	7.25%

96.16 — Scent sprays and similar toilet sprays, and mounts and heads therefor; powder-puffs and pads for the application of cosmetics or toilet preparations

HS code	Description	Unit	General duty	SAARC duty
9616.10.00	Scent sprays and similar toilet sprays, and mounts and heads therefor	kg	15%	9.5%
9616.20.00	Powder-puffs and pads for the application of cosmetics or toilet preparations	kg	15%	9.5%

96.17 — Vacuum flasks and other vacuum vessels, complete; parts thereof other than glass inners

HS code	Description	Unit	General duty	SAARC duty
9617.00.10	Vacuum flasks complete	nos/kg	15%	7.25%
9617.00.20	Vacuum vessels complete	nos/kg	15%	7.25%
9617.00.90	parts, other than glass inners.	nos/kg	15%	7.25%

96.18 — Tailors' dummies and other lay figures; automata and other animated displays used for shop window dressing

HS code	Description	Unit	General duty	SAARC duty
9618.00.00	Tailors' dummies and other lay figures; automata and other animated displays used for shop window dressing.	nos/kg	15%	7.25%

96.19 — Sanitary towels (pads) and tampons, napkins (diapers), napkin liners and similar articles, of any material

HS code	Description	Unit	General duty	SAARC duty
9619.00.10	Sanitary towel (Pads)	nos/kg	5%	5%
9619.00.20	Napkins (Diapers)	nos/kg	15%	15%
9619.00.30	Napkins liners	nos/kg	15%	15%
9619.00.40	Tampons and menstrual cups	nos/kg	5%	5%
9619.00.90	Other	nos/kg	15%	15%

96.20 — Monopods, bipods, tripods and similar articles

HS code	Description	Unit	General duty	SAARC duty
9620.00.10	Selfie stick for smart phone	nos/kg	15%	15%
9620.00.90	Other	nos/kg	15%	15%

Chapter 96 legal notes

Notes. 1.- This Chapter does not cover : (a) Pencils for cosmetic or toilet uses (Chapter 33); (b) Articles of Chapter 66 (for example, parts of umbrellas or walking-sticks); (c) Imitation jewellery (heading 71.17); (d) Parts of general use, as defined in Note 2 to Section XV, of base metal (Section XV), or similar goods of plastics (Chapter 39); (e) Cutlery or other articles of Chapter 82 with handles or other parts of carving or moulding materials; heading 96.01 or 96.02 applies, however, to separately presented handles or other parts of such articles; (f) Articles of Chapter 90 (for example, spectacle frames (heading 90.03), mathematical drawing pens (heading 90.17), brushes of a kind specialised for use in dentistry or for medical, surgical or veterinary purposes (heading 90.18)); (g) Articles of Chapter 91 (for example, clock or watch cases); (h) Musical instruments or parts or accessories thereof (Chapter 92); (ij) Articles of Chapter 93 (arms and parts thereof); (k) Articles of Chapter 94 (for example, furniture, luminaires and lighting fittings); (l) Articles of Chapter 95 (toys, games, sports requisites); or (m) Works of art, collectors’ pieces or antiques (Chapter 97). 2.- In heading 96.02 the expression “vegetable or mineral carving material” means : (a) Hard seeds, pips, hulls and nuts and similar vegetable materials of a kind used for carving (for example, corozo and dom); (b) Amber, meerschaum, agglomerated amber and agglomerated meerschaum, jet and mineral substitutes for jet. 3.- In heading 96.03 the expression “prepared knots and tufts for broom or brush making” applies only to unmounted knots and tufts of animal hair, vegetable fibre or other material, which are ready for incorporation without division in brooms or brushes, or which require only such further minor processes as trimming to shape at the top, to render them ready for such incorporation. 4.- Articles of this Chapter, other than those of headings 96.01 to 96.06 or 96.15, remain classified in the Chapter whether or not composed wholly or partly of precious metal or metal clad with precious metal, of natural or cultured pearls, or precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed). However, headings 96.01 to 96.06 and 96.15 include articles in which natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones (natural, synthetic or reconstructed), precious metal or metal clad with precious metal constitute only minor constituents.

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