HS 7204.49 — Ferrous waste and scrap, other

7204.49 is the residual subheading for ferrous waste and scrap: the material that falls under heading 7204 but is not turnings, shavings, chips, milling waste, filings, trimmings or stampings (which go to 7204.41).

Why classification matters here

Scrap is one of the commodities where the HS code drives the document requirement, not just the duty rate. Because most jurisdictions regulate scrap as a waste stream, a consignment under 7204.49 typically travels with more paperwork than its value would suggest: inspection certificates, radiation clearance, and origin documentation that a finished-goods shipment of the same value would never need.

That is precisely the shipment profile where a missing certificate turns into demurrage: the container arrives fine, and then sits. The metal scrap import documents page sets out what an Indian scrap consignment has to carry, port by port.

Verify before you file

Subheadings below the six-digit level are national. The 4- and 6-digit codes are harmonised under the WCO nomenclature, but the 8- and 10-digit extensions differ by country, as do the licensing requirements attached to them. Confirm the national tariff line and any import licence with your customs broker for the specific destination before filing. In India that broker is the customs house agent, in Singapore your declaring agent, in the UAE your clearing agent.

The rate you confirm is the one your costing has to carry, on every consignment under this line rather than on the one you checked. That is the job landed cost calculation software does: it holds the classification you and your broker agreed and builds the cost of each consignment against it as the charges arrive.