Pharmaceutical products
Chapter 30 of the Harmonised System covers Pharmaceutical products. It groups 6 four-digit headings used worldwide to classify these goods for customs and duty.
Sourcing this category from India
Products classified under HS 30 can be sourced from India across a range of clusters and price points. Use this page to understand where Pharmaceutical products sits in the tariff schedule, then explore the Indian sectors and products that supply it.
How to read this code
30 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 30
The Harmonised System breaks Pharmaceutical products into these 6 headings. Drill down to the exact classification for your goods.
Glands and other organs (extracts, secretions thereof) for organo-therapeutic uses, dried, powdered or not; heparin and its salts; other human or animal substances for therapeutic or prophylactic uses n.e.c.
Human blood; animal blood for therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic uses; antisera, other blood fractions, immunological products, modified or obtained by biotechnological processes; vaccines, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms (excluding yeasts) etc
Medicaments; (not goods of heading no. 3002, 3005 or 3006) of two or more constituents mixed together for therapeutic or prophylactic use not in measured doses or in forms or packings for retail sale
Medicaments; (not goods of heading no. 3002, 3005 or 3006) consisting of mixed or unmixed products for therapeutic or prophylactic use, put up in measured doses (incl. those in the form of transdermal admin. systems) or packed for retail sale
Wadding, gauze, bandages (dressings, adhesive plasters, poultices), impregnated or coated with pharmaceutical substances or in forms or packings for retail sale, for medical, surgical or veterinary use
Pharmaceutical goods
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