Export Ball point pens with body or cap of precious metal or rolled precious metal from India

Q: Can Ball point pens with body or cap of precious metal or rolled precious metal be exported from India?

Under ITC-HS 96081012, Ball point pens with body or cap of precious metal or rolled precious metal is Free to export from India.

Export policy, GST, RoDTEP and Duty Drawback for ITC-HS 96081012, taken from the notifications that set them. Unit of quantity: ---.

Can you export it?

Free to export

What India ships

$114k

exported in FY 2025-26

+62.9%

year on year

FY 2019-20

$324k

FY 2020-21

$215k

FY 2021-22

$147k

FY 2022-23

$62k

FY 2023-24

$150k

FY 2024-25

$70k

FY 2025-26

$114k

India exported $114k under ITC-HS 96081012 in FY 2025-26. That is up 62.9% on the previous year. National total across every state; it does not say which countries bought it.

What India pays back

GST

18%

RoDTEP

0.01%

of FOB, notified rate

Duty drawback

1.4–4.4%

5 items under heading 9608

GST—GST 18% (Schedule II, HSN 9608)

RoDTEP—RoDTEP notified rate 0.01% of FOB. DGFT has limited benefits under Appendix 4R and 4RE to 50% of the notified rates and value caps. Rates below are the NOTIFIED rates. This limitation has been extended once already. Confirm whether it is still in force before quoting an effective rate.

Duty drawback—Duty Drawback for HS heading 9608 depends on the drawback item: 960801 4.2% (Ball point pens 1000 Pcs); 960802 4.4% (Felt tipped and other porous tipped 1000 Pcs); 960803 4.2% (Fountain pens; stylograph pens and 1000 Pcs); 960804 2.2% (Propelling or sliding pencils 1000 Pcs); 960899 1.4% (Others including parts). The Drawback Schedule uses its own tariff-item numbering below the 4-digit heading and does NOT align with 8-digit ITC-HS codes. A rate here cannot be attributed to a specific ITC-HS line without a broker confirming which drawback item the goods fall under.

Where this code sits

96Chapter: Miscellaneous manufactured articles
9608Heading: Pens; ball-point, felt tipped, other porous tipped pens; fountain pens, stylograph pens duplicating stylos, propelling or sliding pencils; parts of the foregoing, excluding those of heading no. 9609
960810Subheading: Pens; ball point
96081012Tariff line: Ball point pens with body or cap of precious metal or rolled precious metal

The first six digits are the same in every country you ship to. The last two are India's alone.

What your buyer pays

Import duty, VAT and trade-agreement eligibility depend on where you ship. Run this line against 80 markets — or price a single one — in the toolkit.

Price 96081012 into any market

Other lines under HS 960810

Export values from Trade Intelligence and Analytics (TIA) Portal, DGCIS — Department of Commerce, Government of India, USD million. Tariff line and export policy from DGFT ITC(HS) 2022. GST from Notification 9/2025-Integrated Tax (Rate). RoDTEP from DGFT Appendix 4R. Duty Drawback from CBIC 77/2023-Cus (N.T.). Bundled and updated periodically, never fetched live — rates change by notification, so confirm before you ship or file. Nothing here is legal or tax advice.