Organic chemicals
Chapter 29 of the Harmonised System covers Organic chemicals. It groups 42 four-digit headings used worldwide to classify these goods for customs and duty.
Sourcing this category from India
Products classified under HS 29 can be sourced from India across a range of clusters and price points. Use this page to understand where Organic chemicals sits in the tariff schedule, then explore the Indian sectors and products that supply it.
How to read this code
29 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 29
The Harmonised System breaks Organic chemicals into these 42 headings. Drill down to the exact classification for your goods.
Acyclic hydrocarbons
Cyclic hydrocarbons
Halogenated derivatives of hydrocarbons
Sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives of hydrocarbons; whether or not halogenated
Acyclic alcohols and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives
Alcohols; cyclic, and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives
Phenols; monophenols, polyphenols, and phenol-alcohols
Phenols or phenol-alcohols; halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives
Ethers, ether-alcohols, ether-phenols, ether-alcohol-phenols, alcohol peroxides, ether peroxides, acetal and hemiacetal peroxides, ketone peroxides (chemically defined or not), and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives
Epoxides, epoxyalcohols, epoxyphenols and epoxyethers; with a three-membered ring and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives
Acetals and hemiacetals; whether or not with other oxygen function, and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrostated derivatives
Aldehydes, whether or not with other oxygen function; cyclic polymers of aldehydes; paraformaldehyde
Aldehydes; halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives of products of heading no. 2912
Ketones and quinones; whether or not with other oxygen function, and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrostated derivatives
Acids; saturated acyclic monocarboxylic acids and their anhydrides, halides, peroxides and peroxyacids; their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives
Acids; unsaturated acyclic monocarboxylic, cyclic monocarboxylic, their anhydrides, halides, peroxides and peroxyacids; their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives
Acids; polycarboxylic acids, their anhydrides, halides, peroxides and peroxy-acids; their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives
Acids; carboxylic acid with additional oxygen function and their anhydrides, halides, peroxides, peroxyacids; their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives
Esters; phosphoric, and their salts, including lactophosphates, their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives
Esters of other inorganic acids of non-metals (other than of hydrogen halides) and their salts, their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives
Amine-function compounds
Oxygen-function amino-compounds
Quaternary ammonium salts and hydroxides; lecithins and other phosphoaminolipids, whether or not chemically defined
Carboxyamide-function compounds; amide-function compounds of carbonic acid
Carboxyimide-function compounds (including saccharin and its salts) and imine-function compounds
Nitrile-function compounds
Diazo-, azo- or azoxy-compounds
Organic derivatives of hydrazine or of hydroxylamine
Nitrogen-function compounds, n.e.c. in chapter 29
Organo-sulphur compounds
Other organo-inorganic compounds
Heterocyclic compounds with oxygen hetero-atom(s) only
Heterocyclic compounds with nitrogen hetero-atom(s) only
Nucleic acids and their salts, whether or not chemically defined; other heterocyclic compounds
Sulphonamides
Provitamins, vitamins; natural or reproduced by synthesis (including natural concentrates) derivatives thereof used as vitamins, and intermixtures of the fore-going, whether or not in any solvent
Hormones, prostaglandins, thromboxanes and leukotrienes, natural or reproduced by synthesis; derivatives and structural analogues thereof, including chain modified polypeptides, used primarily as hormones.
Glycosides, natural or reproduced by synthesis, and their salts, ethers, esters and other derivatives
Alkaloids; natural or reproduced by synthesis, and their salts, ethers, esters and other derivatives
Sugars, chemically pure, other than sucrose, lactose, maltose, glucose and fructose; sugar ethers, sugar acetals and sugar esters, and their salts, other than the products of heading 29.37, 29.38, or 29.39
Antibiotics
Organic compounds; n.e.c. in chapter 29
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