HSN chapter guide
Chapter 14 — Vegetable plaiting materials
14 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 the following products which are to be classified in Section XI: vegetable materials or fibres of vegetable materials of a kind used primarily in the manufacture of textiles, however prepared, or other vegetable materials which have undergone treatment so as to render them suitable for use only as textile materials.
- Heading 14.01 applies, inter alia, to bamboos (whether or not split, sawn lengthwise, cut to length, rounded at the ends, bleached, rendered non-inflammable, polished or dyed), split osier, reeds and the like, to rattan cores and to drawn or split rattans. The heading does not apply to chipwood (heading 44.04).
- Heading 14.04 does not apply to wood wool (heading 44.05) and prepared knots or tufts for broom or brush making (heading 96.03).
Sample 8-digit lines
| HSN | Description | BCD |
|---|---|---|
| 1401 10 00 | Bamboos | 25% |
| 1401 20 00 | Rattans | 30% |
| 1401 90 10 | Canes | 30% |
| 1401 90 90 | Other | 30% |
| 1404 20 00 | Cotton linters | 30% |
| 1404 90 10 | Bidi wrapper leaves (tendu) | 30% |
| 1404 90 21 | Powder | 30% |
| 1404 90 29 | Other | 30% |
| 1404 90 30 | Hard seeds, pips, hulls and nuts, of a kind used primarily for carving | 30% |
| 1404 90 40 | Betel leaves | 30% |
| 1404 90 50 | Indian katha | 30% |
| 1404 90 60 | Coconut shell, unworked | 30% |
| 1404 90 70 | Rudraksha seeds | 30% |
| 1404 90 90 | Other | 30% |