HSN chapter guide
Chapter 10 — Cereals
58 eight-digit tariff lines. Rates below are from the Indian Customs Tariff First Schedule. Use the AI HSN classifier if you only have a product description. Reviewed by the CustomsAI compliance desk · 24 August 2026.
Chapter notes
- (A) The products specified in the headings of this Chapter are to be classified in those headings only if grains are present, whether or not in the ear or on the stalk. (B) The Chapter does not cover grains which have been hulled or otherwise worked. However, rice, husked, milled, polished, glazed, parboiled or broken remains classified in heading 10.06. Similarly, quinoa from which the pericarp has been wholly or partly removed in order to separate the saponin, but which has not undergone any other processes, remains classified in heading 10.08.
- Heading 10.05 does not cover sweet corn (Chapter 7).
- The term "durum wheat" means wheat of the Triticum durum species and the hybrids derived from the inter-specific crossing of Triticum durum which have the same number (28) of chromosomes as that species.
Sample 8-digit lines
| HSN | Description | BCD |
|---|---|---|
| 1001 11 00 | Seed | 100% |
| 1001 19 00 | Other | 40% |
| 1001 91 00 | Seed | 100% |
| 1001 99 10 | Wheat | 40% |
| 1001 99 20 | Meslin | 100% |
| 1002 10 00 | Seed | 0% |
| 1002 90 00 | Other | 0% |
| 1003 10 00 | Seed | 0% |
| 1003 90 00 | Other | 0% |
| 1004 10 00 | Seed | 0% |
| 1004 90 00 | Other | 0% |
| 1005 10 00 | Seed | 50% |
| 1005 90 11 | Yellow | 50% |
| 1005 90 19 | Other | 50% |
| 1005 90 20 | Flint corn (Zea mays var. indurata) | 50% |
| 1005 90 30 | Popcorn (Zea mays var. everta) | 50% |
| 1005 90 90 | Other | 50% |
| 1006 10 10 | Of seed quality | 80% |
| 1006 10 90 | Other | 80% |
| 1006 20 00 | Husked (brown) rice | 80% |
| 1006 30 10 | Rice, parboiled | — |
| 1006 30 19 | Other | 70% |
| 1006 30 20 | Basmati rice | — |
| 1006 30 90 | Other | — |
| 1006 30 92 | Basmati rice | 70% |
| 1006 30 99 | Other | 70% |
| 1006 40 00 | Broken rice | 80% |
| 1007 10 00 | Seed | 50% |
| 1007 90 00 | Other | 50% |
| 1008 10 10 | Of seed quality | 0% |
| 1008 10 90 | Other | 0% |
| 1008 21 10 | Jawar | 50% |
| 1008 21 20 | Bajra | 50% |
| 1008 21 30 | Ragi | 50% |
| 1008 21 40 | Barnyard (Echinochloa esculenta (L.)) | 50% |
| 1008 21 50 | Proso (Panicum miliaceum (L.)) | 50% |
| 1008 21 60 | Foxtail (Setaria italica (L.)) | 50% |
| 1008 21 70 | Kodo (Paspalum scrobiculatum (L.)) | 50% |
| 1008 21 80 | Little (Panicum sumatrense (L.)) | 50% |
| 1008 21 91 | Amaranth (Amaranthus (L.)) | 50% |