Meat and edible meat offal
Chapter 02 of the Harmonised System covers Meat and edible meat offal — 10 four-digit headings spanning meat of bovine animals to meat and edible meat offal that customs authorities worldwide use to classify these goods and set duty.
- India exports 2024
- $3.95B
Source: UN Comtrade — India's reported merchandise exports to the world, 2024.
Sourcing this category from India
Chapter 02 covers meat and edible offal, fresh, chilled or frozen. India is one of the world's largest exporters of frozen bovine (buffalo) meat, shipped chilled-chain to the Middle East, Southeast Asia and North Africa. Correct classification here turns on species, cut and preservation state, each of which carries its own duty and sanitary requirements.
How to read this code
02 is the two-digit HS chapter for meat and edible meat offal. To clear customs your destination country extends it to a full 8–10 digit code and assigns the duty rate. India's preferential trade agreements (UAE CEPA, Australia ECTA, and others) can reduce or zero out that duty on many live animals & animal products lines — check our import guides for your market.
Headings under HS 02
The Harmonised System breaks Meat and edible meat offal into these 10 headings. Drill down to the exact classification for your goods.
Meat of bovine animals; fresh or chilled
Meat of bovine animals; frozen
Meat of swine; fresh, chilled or frozen
Meat of sheep or goats; fresh, chilled or frozen
Meat; of horses, asses, mules or hinnies, fresh, chilled or frozen
Edible offal of bovine animals, swine, sheep, goats, horses, asses, mules or hinnies; fresh, chilled or frozen
Meat and edible offal of poultry; of the poultry of heading no. 0105, (i.e. fowls of the species Gallus domesticus), fresh, chilled or frozen
Meat and edible meat offal, n.e.c. in chapter 2; fresh, chilled or frozen
Pig fat, free of lean meat, and poultry fat, not rendered or otherwise extracted, fresh, chilled, frozen, salted, in brine, dried or smoked
Meat and edible meat offal; salted, in brine, dried or smoked; edible flours and meals of meat or meat offal
Top destinations for Chapter 02 exports
India's largest buyers of goods in this HS chapter in 2024, ranked by export value.
Chapter-level destination mix — your specific HS line may skew differently. Source: UN Comtrade, 2024.
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