Food industries, residues and wastes thereof; prepared animal fodder
Chapter 23 of the Harmonised System covers Food industries, residues and wastes thereof; prepared animal fodder — 9 four-digit headings spanning bran, sharps and other residues to preparations of a kind used in animal feeding that customs authorities worldwide use to classify these goods and set duty.
- India exports 2024
- $2.32B
Source: UN Comtrade — India's reported merchandise exports to the world, 2024.
Sourcing this category from India
Chapter 23 covers residues and waste from the food industries and prepared animal fodder. India is a large exporter of oilseed meals — soybean, rapeseed and groundnut cake — and de-oiled rice bran used in animal feed across Asia. Classification separates the goods by the source material and by whether they are for feed or further extraction.
How to read this code
23 is the two-digit HS chapter for food industries, residues and wastes thereof. 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 23
The Harmonised System breaks Food industries, residues and wastes thereof; prepared animal fodder into these 9 headings. Drill down to the exact classification for your goods.
Flours, meal and pellets, of meat or meat offal, of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, unfit for human consumption; greaves
Bran, sharps and other residues; whether or not in the form of pellets derived from the sifting, milling or other working of cereals or of leguminous plants
Residues of starch manufacture, similar residues; beet-pulp, bagasse and other waste of sugar manufacture, brewing or distilling dregs and waste, whether or not in the form of pellets
Oil-cake and other solid residues; whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of soya-bean oil
Oil-cake and other solid residues; whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of ground-nut oil
Oil-cake and other solid residues; whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of vegetable or microbial fats or oils, other than those of heading no. 2304 or 2305
Wine lees; argol
Vegetable materials and vegetable waste, vegetable residues and bi-products; whether or not in the form of pellets, of a kind used in animal feeding, not elsewhere specified or included
Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding
Top destinations for Chapter 23 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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