Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; pastrycooks' products
Chapter 19 of the Harmonised System covers Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; pastrycooks' products. It groups 5 four-digit headings used worldwide to classify these goods for customs and duty.
Sourcing this category from India
Products classified under HS 19 can be sourced from India across a range of clusters and price points. Use this page to understand where Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; pastrycooks' products sits in the tariff schedule, then explore the Indian sectors and products that supply it.
How to read this code
19 is the two-digit HS chapter. 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.
Headings under HS 19
The Harmonised System breaks Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; pastrycooks' products into these 5 headings. Drill down to the exact classification for your goods.
Malt extract; flour/groats/meal/starch/malt extract products, no cocoa (or less than 40% by weight) and food preparations of goods of headings 04.01 to 04.04, no cocoa (or less than 5% by weight), weights calculated on a totally defatted basis, n.e.c.
Pasta; whether or not cooked or stuffed with meat or other substance, or otherwise prepared, egg spaghetti, macaroni, noodles, lasagne, gnocchi, ravioli, cannelloni; couscous, whether or not prepared
Tapioca and substitutes therefor prepared from starch; in the form of flakes, grains, pearls, siftings or similar forms
Prepared foods obtained by swelling or roasting cereals or cereal products (e.g. corn flakes); cereals (other than maize (corn)) in grain form or in the form of flakes or other worked grains (not flour and meal), pre-cooked or otherwise prepared, n.e.c.
Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits, other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products
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