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 — 5 four-digit headings spanning malt extract to pasta that customs authorities worldwide use to classify these goods and set duty.
- India exports 2024
- $877.3M
Source: UN Comtrade — India's reported merchandise exports to the world, 2024.
Sourcing this category from India
Chapter 19 covers preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk and bakers' wares. India exports biscuits, breakfast cereals, pasta, papad and a wide range of ready-to-eat and ethnic flour preparations to its large diaspora markets. Subheadings separate the goods by base ingredient and by whether they are baked, extruded or otherwise prepared.
How to read this code
19 is the two-digit HS chapter for preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk. 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 prepared foodstuffs, beverages & tobacco lines — 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
Top destinations for Chapter 19 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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