Prepared or preserved meat, meat offal, blood or insects
HS heading 16.02 covers Prepared or preserved meat, meat offal, blood or insects. It sits within Chapter 16 and breaks down into 10 six-digit subheadings at the border.
Sourcing this category from India
Products classified under HS 16.02 can be sourced from India across a range of clusters and price points. Use this page to understand where Prepared or preserved meat, meat offal, blood or insects sits in the tariff schedule, then explore the Indian sectors and products that supply it.
How to read this code
16.02 is the four-digit HS heading. Your destination country extends it to 8–10 digits and assigns the duty rate. India's preferential trade agreements (UAE CEPA, Australia ECTA, and others) can reduce or zero out that duty for many goods — check our import guides for your market.
Subheadings under HS 16.02
The Harmonised System breaks Prepared or preserved meat, meat offal, blood or insects into these 10 subheadings. Drill down to the exact classification for your goods.
Meat preparations; homogenised preparations of meat, meat offal blood or insects
Meat preparations; of the prepared or preserved liver of any animal (excluding homogenised preparations)
Meat preparations; of turkeys, prepared or preserved meat or meat offal (excluding livers and homogenised preparations)
Meat preparations; of the poultry of heading no. 0105, (i.e. of fowls of the species Gallus domesticus)
Meat preparations; of poultry (excluding turkeys), prepared or preserved meat or meat offal (excluding livers and homogenised preparations)
Meat preparations; of swine, hams and cuts thereof, prepared or preserved (excluding homogenised preparations)
Meat preparations; of swine, shoulders and cuts thereof, prepared or preserved (excluding homogenised preparations)
Meat preparations; of swine, meat or meat offal (including mixtures), prepared or preserved, n.e.c. in heading no. 1602
Meat preparations; of bovine animals, meat or meat offal, prepared or preserved (excluding livers and homogenised preparations)
Meat preparations; of meat, meat offal or the blood of any animal, n.e.c. in heading no. 1602
Related codes in Meat, fish, crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, or insects; preparations thereof
Sausages and similar products, of meat, meat offal, blood or insects; food preparations based on these products
16.03Extracts and juices of meat, fish or crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates
16.04Prepared or preserved fish; caviar and caviar substitutes prepared from fish eggs
16.05Crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates, prepared or preserved
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