Profile grinders
Profile grinders for metal and cermet finishing
HSN 8460 29 40 (Profile grinders) is not covered by a Bureau of Indian Standards Quality Control Order and carries no Partner Government Agency clearance requirement at the tariff-line level. Import follows the standard customs procedure: Importer-Exporter Code (IEC), bill of entry, commercial invoice, packing list. Other machine-tools under Chapter 84 — particularly gear grinding and gear finishing machines falling under heading 8461 — are separately classified and may carry distinct compliance obligations.
The absence of compliance at this tariff line does not extend to functionally adjacent machine-tools: gear cutting, gear grinding, and gear finishing machines are expressly excluded from heading 8460 and fall under heading 8461, which carries its own tariff treatment. Misclassification of a profile grinder as a general-purpose surface grinder, or vice versa, can trigger re-classification on customs examination — leading to detention pending the correct tariff determination and retrospective duty recovery. Verify the machine's operational specification and intended finishing function against the customs tariff before filing the bill of entry.