Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
Chapter 27 of the Harmonised System covers Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes. It groups 16 four-digit headings used worldwide to classify these goods for customs and duty.
Sourcing this category from India
Products classified under HS 27 can be sourced from India across a range of clusters and price points. Use this page to understand where Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes sits in the tariff schedule, then explore the Indian sectors and products that supply it.
How to read this code
27 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 27
The Harmonised System breaks Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes into these 16 headings. Drill down to the exact classification for your goods.
Coal; briquettes, ovoids and similar solid fuels manufactured from coal
Lignite; whether or not agglomerated, excluding jet
Peat; (including peat litter), whether or not agglomerated
Coke and semi-coke; of coal, lignite or peat, whether or not agglomerated; retort carbon
Coal gas, water gas, producer gas and similar gases, other than petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons
Tar distilled from coal, from lignite, peat and other mineral tars, whether or not dehydrated or partially distilled; including reconstituted tars
Oils and other products of the distillation of high temperature coal tar; similar products in which the weight of the aromatic constituents exceeds that of the non-aromatic constituents
Pitch and pitch coke; obtained from coal tar or from other mineral tars
Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals; crude
Petroleum oils and oils from bituminous minerals, not crude; preparations n.e.c, containing by weight 70% or more of petroleum oils or oils from bituminous minerals; these being the basic constituents of the preparations; waste oils
Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons
Petroleum jelly; paraffin wax, micro-crystalline petroleum wax, slack wax, ozokerite, lignite wax, peat wax, other mineral waxes, similar products obtained by synthesis, other processes; coloured or not
Petroleum coke, petroleum bitumen; other residues of petroleum oils or oils obtained from bituminous minerals
Bitumen and asphalt, natural; bituminous or oil shale and tar sands; asphaltites and asphaltic rocks
Bituminous mixtures based on natural asphalt; on natural bitumen, on petroleum bitumen, on mineral tar or on mineral tar pitch (e.g. bituminous mastics, cut-backs)
Electrical energy
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