HSN chapter guide
Chapter 19 — Cereal, flour & milk preparations
34 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) Except in the case of stuffed products of heading 19.02, food preparations containing more than 20% by weight of sausage, meat, meat offal, blood, insects, fish or crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, or any combination thereof (Chapter 16); (b) Biscuits or other articles made from flour or from starch, specially prepared for use in animal feeding (heading 23.09); or (c) Medicaments or other products of Chapter 30.
- For the purposes of heading 19.01: (a) The term 'groats' means cereal groats of Chapter 11; (b) The terms 'flour' and 'meal' mean: (1) Cereal flour and meal of Chapter 11, and (2) Flour, meal and powder of vegetable origin of any Chapter, other than flour, meal or powder of dried vegetables (heading 07.12), of potatoes (heading 11.05) or of dried leguminous vegetables (heading 11.06).
- Heading 19.04 does not cover preparations containing more than 6% by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis or completely coated with chocolate or other food preparations containing cocoa of heading 18.06 (heading 18.06).
- For the purposes of heading 19.04, the expression 'otherwise prepared' means prepared or processed to an extent beyond that provided for in the headings of or Notes to Chapter 10 or 11.
Sample 8-digit lines
| HSN | Description | BCD |
|---|---|---|
| 1901 10 10 | Malted milk (including powder) | 50% |
| 1901 10 90 | Other | 50% |
| 1901 20 00 | Mixes and doughs for the preparation of bakers’ wares of heading 1905 | 30% |
| 1901 90 10 | Malt extract | 30% |
| 1901 90 90 | Other | 30% |
| 1902 11 00 | Containing eggs | 30% |
| 1902 19 00 | Other | 30% |
| 1902 20 10 | Cooked | 30% |
| 1902 20 90 | Other | 30% |
| 1902 30 10 | Dried | 30% |
| 1902 30 90 | Other | 30% |
| 1902 40 10 | Unprepared | 30% |
| 1902 40 90 | Other | 30% |
| 1903 00 00 | TAPIOCA AND SUBSTITUTES THEREFOR PREPARED FROM STARCH, IN THE FORM OF FLAKES, GRAINS, PEARLS, SIFTINGS OR IN SIMILAR FORMS | 50% |
| 1904 10 10 | Corn flakes | 30% |
| 1904 10 20 | Paws, Mudi and the like | 30% |
| 1904 10 30 | Bulgur wheat | 30% |
| 1904 10 90 | Other | 30% |
| 1904 20 10 | With millet content 15% or more by weight | 30% |
| 1904 20 90 | Other | 30% |
| 1904 30 00 | Bulgur wheat | 30% |
| 1904 90 00 | Other | 30% |
| 1905 10 00 | Crispbread | 30% |
| 1905 20 00 | Gingerbread and the like | 30% |
| 1905 31 00 | Sweet biscuits | 30% |
| 1905 32 11 | Coated with chocolate or containing chocolate | 30% |
| 1905 32 19 | Communion wafers: ---- Other | 30% |
| 1905 32 90 | Other | 30% |
| 1905 40 00 | Rusks, toasted bread and similar toasted products | 30% |
| 1905 90 10 | Pastries and cakes | 30% |
| 1905 90 20 | Biscuits not elsewhere specified or included | 30% |
| 1905 90 30 | Extruded or expanded products, savoury or salted | 30% |
| 1905 90 40 | Papad | 30% |
| 1905 90 90 | Other | 30% |