What's HSN Code?
HSN code stands for “Harmonized System of Nomenclature”. It’s obligatory for both B2B and B2C duty checks on the inventories of Goods and Services. HSN was introduced for a methodical bracket of goods both public and transnational. This is a 6 – number code that classifies colorful products. India has been using HSN code since 1986 to classify goods for Customs and Central Excise. This code removes the need to upload details about the goods which makes form of GST returns easier.
Why is HSN Important?
The main purpose of HSN is to GST Registration & classify goods from each over the World in a methodical and logical manner. This brings in a invariant bracket of goods and facilitates transnational trade.
Understanding the HSN Code
HSN code list is used across over 200 countries worldwide to classify as numerous as, 5000 products. The HSN code structure contains 21 sections, with 99 Chapters, about, 244 headlines, and 224 heads. Each Section is divided into Chapters. Each Chapter is divided into headlines. Each Heading is divided into Sub headlines.
India's HSN Code Format
Why is HSN Important under GST?
Numerous nations have been using HSN codes for times to conduct systematized trade. HSN codes help keep GST livery and generally accepted. Exercising HSN codes will speed up the process of defining products or services.
Chapter wise distribution of commodities using HSN codes
| Chapter Code | Chapter Description |
|---|---|
| Chapter 01 | HSN/SAC Code for Live Animals |
| Chapter 02 | HS Code for Meat and edible meat offal |
| Chapter 03 | HS Code for Fish and crustceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates |
| Chapter 04 | HS Code for Dairy produce; bird's eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included |
| Chapter 05 | HS Code for Products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included |
| Chapter 06 | HS Code for Live trees and other plants; bulbs, roots and the like; cut flowers and ornamental foliage |
| Chapter 07 | HS Code for Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers |
| Chapter 08 | HS Code for Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons |
| Chapter 09 | HS Code for Coffee, tea, mate and spices |
| Chapter 10 | HS Code for Cereals |
| Chapter 11 | HS Code for Products of the milling industry; malt; starches; inulin; wheat gluten |
| Chapter 12 | HS Code for Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder. |
| Chapter 13 | HS Code for Lac gums, resins and other vegetable saps and extracts |
| Chapter 14 | HS Code for Vegetable plaiting materials; vegetable products not elsewhere specified or included |
| Chapter 15 | HS Code for Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes |
| Chapter 16 | HS Code for Prepared foodstuffs; beverages, spirits and vinegar; tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes |
| Chapter 17 | HS Code for Sugar and sugar confectionery |
| Chapter 19 | HS Code for Cocoa and cocoa preparations |
| Chapter 19 | HS Code for Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; pastrycooks’ products |
| Chapter 20 | HS Code for Preparations of vegetables, fruit, nuts or other parts of plants |
| Chapter 21 | HS Code for Miscellaneous edible preparations |
| Chapter 22 | HS Code for Beverages, spirits and vinegar |
| Chapter 23 | HS Code for Residues and waste from the food industries; prepared animal fodder |
| Chapter 24 | HS Code for Tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes |
| Chapter 25 | HS Code for Salt; sulphur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement |
| Chapter 26 | HS Code for Ores, slag and ash |
| Chapter 27 | HS Code for Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes |
| Chapter 28 | HS Code for Products of the chemical or allied industries |
| Chapter 29 | HS Code for Organic chemicals |
| Chapter 30 | HS Code for Pharmaceutical products |
| Chapter 31 | HS Code for Fertilisers |
| Chapter 32 | HS Code for Tanning or dyeing extracts; tannins and their derivatives; dyes, pigments and other colouring matter; paints and varnishes; putty and other mastics; inks |
| Chapter 33 | HS Code for Essential oils and resinoids; perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations |
| Chapter 34 | HS Code for Soap, organic surface-active agents, washing preparations, lubricating preparations, artificial waxes, prepared waxes, polishing or scouring preparations, candles and similar articles, modelling pastes, “dental waxes” and dental preparations with a basis |
| Chapter 35 | HS Code for Albuminoidal substances; modified starches; glues; enzymes |
| Chapter 36 | HS Code for Explosives; pyrotechnic products; matches; pyrophoric alloys; certain combustible preparations |
| Chapter 37 | HS Code for Photographic or cinematographic goods |
| Chapter 38 | HS Code for Miscellaneous chemical products |
| Chapter 39 | HS Code for Plastics and articles thereof; rubber and articles thereof |
| Chapter 40 | HS Code for Rubber and articles thereof |
| Chapter 41 | HS Code for Raw hides and skins (other than furskins) and leather |
| Chapter 42 | HS Code for Articles of leather; saddlery and harness, travel goods, handbags and similar containers; articles of animal gut (other than silkworm gut) |
| Chapter 43 | HS Code for Furskins and artificial fur, manufactures thereof |
| Chapter 44 | HS Code for Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal |
| Chapter 45 | HS Code for Cork and articles of cork. |
| Chapter 46 | HS Code for Manufactures of straw, of esparto or of other plaiting materials; basketware and wickerwork |
| Chapter 47 | HS Code for Pulp of wood or of other fibrous cellulosic material; recovered (waste and scrap) paper or paper board |
| Chapter 48 | HS Code for Paper and paperboard; articles of paper pulp, of paper or of paperboard |
| Chapter 49 | HS Code for Printed books, newspaper, pictures and other products of the printing industry; manuscripts, typescripts and plans |
| Chapter 50 | HS Code for Textiles and textile articles |
| Chapter 51 | HS Code for Wool, fine or coarse animal hair; horsehair yarn and woven fabric |
| Chapter 52 | HS Code for Cotton |
| Chapter 53 | HS Code for Other vegetable textile fibres; paper yarn and woven fabrics of paper yarn |
| Chapter 54 | HS Code for Man-made filaments; strip and the like of man-made textile materials |
| Chapter 55 | HS Code for Man-made staple fibres |
| Chapter 56 | HS Code for Wadding, felt and nonwovens; special yarns; twine, cordage, ropes and cables and articles thereof |
| Chapter 57 | HS Code for Carpets and other textile floor coverings |
| Chapter 58 | HS Code for Special woven fabrics; tufted textile fabrics; lace; tapestries; trimmings; embroidery |
| Chapter 59 | HS Code for Impregnated, coated, covered or laminated textile fabrics; textile articles of a kind suitable for industrial use |
| Chapter 60 | HS Code for Knitted or crocheted fabrics |
| Chapter 61 | HS Code for Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, knitted or crocheted |
| Chapter 62 | HS Code for Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, not knitted or crocheted |
| Chapter 63 | HS Code for Other made up textile articles; sets; worn clothing and worn textile articles; rags |
| Chapter 64 | HS Code for Footwear, gaiters and the like; parts of such articles |
| Chapter 65 | HS Code for Headgear and parts thereof |
| Chapter 66 | HS Code for Umbrellas, sun umbrellas, walking-sticks, seat-sticks, whips, riding crops and parts thereof |
| Chapter 67 | HS Code for Prepared feathers and down and articles made of feathers or of down; artificial flowers; articles of human hair |
| Chapter 68 | HS Code for Articles of stone, plaster, cement, asbestos, mica or similar materials |
| Chapter 69 | HS Code for Ceramic products |
| Chapter 70 | HS Code for Glass and glassware |
| Chapter 71 | HS Code for Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metal, metals clad with precious metal, and articles thereof; imitation jewellery; coin |
| Chapter 72 | HS Code for Base metals and articles of base metal |
| Chapter 73 | HS Code for Articles of iron or steel |
| Chapter 74 | HS Code for Copper and articles thereof |
| Chapter 75 | HS Code for Nickel and articles thereof |
| Chapter 76 | HS Code for Aluminium and articles thereof |
| Chapter 77 | HS Code for Reserved for possible future use |
| Chapter 78 | HS Code for Lead and articles thereof |
| Chapter 79 | HS Code for Zinc and articles thereof |
| Chapter 80 | HS Code for Tin and articles thereof |
| Chapter 81 | HS Code for Other base metals; cermets; articles thereof |
| Chapter 82 | HS Code for Tools, implements, cutlery, spoons and forks, of base metal; parts thereof of base metal |
| Chapter 83 | HS Code for Miscellaneous articles of base metal |
| Chapter 84 | HS Code for Machinery and mechanical appliances; electrical equipment; parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers; and parts and accessories of such articles |
| Chapter 85 | HS Code for Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers and parts and accessories of such articles |
| Chapter 86 | HS Code for Vehicles, aircraft, vessels and associated transport equipment |
| Chapter 87 | HS Code for Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling - stock, and parts and accessories thereof |
| Chapter 88 | HS Code for Aircraft, spacecraft and parts thereof |
| Chapter 89 | HS Code for Ships, boats and floating structures |
| Chapter 90 | HS Code for Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof |
| Chapter 91 | HS Code for Clocks and watches and parts thereof |
| Chapter 92 | HS Code for Musical instruments; parts and accessories of such articles |
| Chapter 93 | HS Code for Arms and ammunition; parts and accessories thereof |
| Chapter 94 | HS Code for Furniture; bedding, mattresses, mattress supports, cushions and similar stuffed furnishing; lamps and lighting fittings, not elsewhere specified or included; illuminated signs, illuminated name-plates and the like; prefabricated buildin |
| Chapter 95 | HS Code for Toys, games and sports requisites; parts and accessories thereof |
| Chapter 96 | HS Code for Miscellaneous manufactured articles |
| Chapter 97 | HS Code for Works of art, collectors' pieces and antiques |
| Chapter 98 | HS Code for Project imports; laboratory chemicals; passengers' baggage, personal implementations by air or post; ship stores |