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The HS code directory for India sourcing

Every product crossing a border carries a Harmonised System code that sets its duty and paperwork. Browse the complete nomenclature — each chapter mapped to the Indian clusters that make it best.

The HS code directory for India sourcing

Live Animals & Animal Products

Animals; live

Meat and edible meat offal

Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates

Dairy produce; birds' eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included

Animal originated products; not elsewhere specified or included

Vegetable Products

Trees and other plants, live; bulbs, roots and the like; cut flowers and ornamental foliage

Vegetables and certain roots and tubers; edible

Fruit and nuts, edible; peel of citrus fruit or melons

Coffee, tea, mate and spices

Cereals

Products of the milling industry; malt, starches, inulin, wheat gluten

Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit, industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder

Lac; gums, resins and other vegetable saps and extracts

Vegetable plaiting materials; vegetable products not elsewhere specified or included

Animal, Vegetable & Microbial Fats & Oils

Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes

Prepared Foodstuffs, Beverages & Tobacco

Meat, fish, crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, or insects; preparations thereof

Sugars and sugar confectionery

Cocoa and cocoa preparations

Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; pastrycooks' products

Preparations of vegetables, fruit, nuts or other parts of plants

Miscellaneous edible preparations

Beverages, spirits and vinegar

Food industries, residues and wastes thereof; prepared animal fodder

Tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes; products, whether or not containing nicotine, intended for inhalation without combustion; other nicotine containing products intended for the intake of nicotine into the human body

Mineral Products

Salt; sulphur; earths, stone; plastering materials, lime and cement

Ores, slag and ash

Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes

Chemicals & Allied Industries

Inorganic chemicals; organic and inorganic compounds of precious metals; of rare earth metals, of radio-active elements and of isotopes

Organic chemicals

Pharmaceutical products

Fertilizers

Tanning or dyeing extracts; tannins and their derivatives; dyes, pigments and other colouring matter; paints, varnishes; putty, other mastics; inks

Essential oils and resinoids; perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations

Soap, organic surface-active agents; washing, lubricating, polishing or scouring preparations; artificial or prepared waxes, candles and similar articles, modelling pastes, dental waxes and dental preparations with a basis of plaster

Albuminoidal substances; modified starches; glues; enzymes

Explosives; pyrotechnic products; matches; pyrophoric alloys; certain combustible preparations

Photographic or cinematographic goods

Chemical products n.e.c.

Plastics & Rubber

Plastics and articles thereof

Rubber and articles thereof

Raw Hides, Leather, Fur & Travel Goods

Raw hides and skins (other than furskins) and leather

Articles of leather; saddlery and harness; travel goods, handbags and similar containers; articles of animal gut (other than silk-worm gut)

Furskins and artificial fur; manufactures thereof

Wood, Cork & Basketware

Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal

Cork and articles of cork

Manufactures of straw, esparto or other plaiting materials; basketware and wickerwork

Pulp, Paper & Paperboard

Pulp of wood or other fibrous cellulosic material; recovered (waste and scrap) paper or paperboard

Paper and paperboard; articles of paper pulp, of paper or paperboard

Printed books, newspapers, pictures and other products of the printing industry; manuscripts, typescripts and plans

Textiles & Textile Articles

Silk

Wool, fine or coarse animal hair; horsehair yarn and woven fabric

Cotton

Vegetable textile fibres; paper yarn and woven fabrics of paper yarn

Man-made filaments; strip and the like of man-made textile materials

Man-made staple fibres

Wadding, felt and nonwovens, special yarns; twine, cordage, ropes and cables and articles thereof

Carpets and other textile floor coverings

Fabrics; special woven fabrics, tufted textile fabrics, lace, tapestries, trimmings, embroidery

Textile fabrics; impregnated, coated, covered or laminated; textile articles of a kind suitable for industrial use

Fabrics; knitted or crocheted

Apparel and clothing accessories; knitted or crocheted

Apparel and clothing accessories; not knitted or crocheted

Textiles, made up articles; sets; worn clothing and worn textile articles; rags

Footwear, Headgear & Umbrellas

Footwear; gaiters and the like; parts of such articles

Headgear and parts thereof

Umbrellas, sun umbrellas, walking-sticks, seat sticks, whips, riding crops; and parts thereof

Feathers and down, prepared; and articles made of feather or of down; artificial flowers; articles of human hair