HSN chapter guide
Chapter 11 — Milling products
39 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
- This Chapter does not cover: (a) Roasted malt put up as coffee substitutes (heading 09.01 or 21.01); (b) Prepared flours, groats, meals or starches of heading 19.01; (c) Corn flakes or other products of heading 19.04; (d) Vegetables, prepared or preserved, of heading 20.01, 20.04 or 20.05; (e) Pharmaceutical products (Chapter 30); or (f) Starches having the character of perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations (Chapter 33).
- Products from the milling of cereals fall in this Chapter if they have: (a) a starch content (by the modified Ewers polarimetric method) exceeding the specified level, and (b) an ash content (after deduction of added minerals) not exceeding the specified level. Otherwise they fall in heading 23.02. Products are classified in heading 11.01 or 11.02 (flour) if at least 80% (or 90% for maize/grain sorghum) passes through a sieve with aperture of 315 micrometres (or 500 micrometres for maize/sorghum); otherwise they fall in heading 11.03 or 11.04.
- For the purposes of heading 11.03, the terms "groats" and "meal" mean products obtained by the fragmentation of cereal grains, of which: (a) in the case of maize (corn) products, at least 95% by weight passes through a woven metal wire cloth sieve with an aperture of 2 mm; (b) in the case of other cereal products, at least 95% by weight passes through a woven metal wire cloth sieve with an aperture of 1.25 mm.
Sample 8-digit lines
| HSN | Description | BCD |
|---|---|---|
| 1101 00 00 | WHEAT OR MESLIN FLOUR | 30% |
| 1102 20 00 | Maize (corn) flour | 30% |
| 1102 90 10 | Rye flour | 30% |
| 1102 90 21 | Brown rice flour | 30% |
| 1102 90 22 | White rice flour | 30% |
| 1102 90 29 | Other | 30% |
| 1102 90 90 | Other | 30% |
| 1103 11 10 | Groat | 30% |
| 1103 11 20 | Meal | 30% |
| 1103 13 00 | Of maize (corn) | 30% |
| 1103 19 00 | Of other cereals | 30% |
| 1103 20 00 | Pellets | 30% |
| 1104 12 00 | Of oats | 30% |
| 1104 19 00 | Of other cereals | 30% |
| 1104 22 00 | Of oats | 15% |
| 1104 23 00 | Of maize (corn) | 30% |
| 1104 29 00 | Of other cereals | 30% |
| 1104 30 00 | Germ of cereals, whole, rolled, flaked or ground | 30% |
| 1105 10 00 | Flour, meal and powder | 30% |
| 1105 20 00 | Flakes, granules and pellets | 30% |
| 1106 10 10 | Guar Meal | 30% |
| 1106 10 90 | Others | 30% |
| 1106 20 10 | Of sago | 30% |
| 1106 20 20 | Of manioc (cassava) | 30% |
| 1106 20 90 | Of other roots and tubers | 30% |
| 1106 30 10 | Of tamarind | 30% |
| 1106 30 20 | Of singoda | 30% |
| 1106 30 30 | Mango flour | 30% |
| 1106 30 90 | Other | 30% |
| 1107 10 00 | Not roasted | 30% |
| 1107 20 00 | Roasted | 30% |
| 1108 11 00 | Wheat starch | 30% |
| 1108 12 00 | Maize (corn) starch | 30% |
| 1108 13 00 | Potato starch | 30% |
| 1108 14 00 | Manioc (cassava) starch | 50% |
| 1108 19 10 | Sago | 50% |
| 1108 19 90 | Other | 50% |
| 1108 20 00 | Inulin | 30% |
| 1109 00 00 | WHEAT GLUTEN, WHETHER OR NOT DRIED | 30% |