Miscellaneous edible preparations
Chapter 21 of the Harmonised System covers Miscellaneous edible preparations — 6 four-digit headings spanning yeasts (active or inactive) to ice cream and other edible ice that customs authorities worldwide use to classify these goods and set duty.
- India exports 2024
- $1.63B
Source: UN Comtrade — India's reported merchandise exports to the world, 2024.
Sourcing this category from India
Chapter 21 covers miscellaneous edible preparations — extracts of coffee and tea, sauces, soups, yeast, and food preparations not specified elsewhere. India exports instant tea and coffee extracts, spice blends, sauces, chutneys and nutraceutical preparations. This catch-all chapter is used for composite and proprietary food products that don't fit a single commodity heading.
How to read this code
21 is the two-digit HS chapter for miscellaneous edible preparations. 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 21
The Harmonised System breaks Miscellaneous edible preparations into these 6 headings. Drill down to the exact classification for your goods.
Extracts, essences, concentrates of coffee, tea or mate; preparations with a basis of these products or with a basis of coffee, tea or mate; roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes and extracts, essences and concentrates thereof
Yeasts (active or inactive); other single-cell micro-organisms, dead (but not including vaccines of heading no. 3002); prepared baking powders
Sauces and preparations therefor; mixed condiments and mixed seasonings, mustard flour and meal and prepared mustard
Soups and broths and preparations therefor; homogenised composite food preparations
Ice cream and other edible ice; whether or not containing cocoa
Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included
Top destinations for Chapter 21 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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Indian exporters in this category
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