HSN chapter guide
Chapter 20 — Preparations of vegetables/fruit
75 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) Vegetables, fruit or nuts, prepared or preserved by the processes specified in Chapter 7, 8 or 11; (b) Vegetable fats and oils (Chapter 15); (c) 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); (d) Bakers' wares and other products of heading 19.05; or (e) Homogenised composite food preparations of heading 21.04.
- Headings 20.07 and 20.08 do not apply to fruit jellies, fruit pastes, sugar-coated almonds or the like in the form of sugar confectionery (heading 17.04) or chocolate confectionery (heading 18.06).
- Headings 20.01, 20.04 and 20.05 cover, as the case may be, only those products of Chapter 7 or of heading 11.05 or 11.06 (other than flour, meal and powder of the products of Chapter 8) which have been prepared or preserved by processes other than those referred to in Note 1(a).
- Tomato juice the dry weight content of which is 7% or more is to be classified in heading 20.02.
Sample 8-digit lines
| HSN | Description | BCD |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 10 00 | Cucumbers and gherkins | 30% |
| 2001 90 00 | Other | 30% |
| 2002 10 00 | Tomatoes, whole or in pieces | 30% |
| 2002 90 00 | Other | 30% |
| 2003 10 00 | Mushrooms of the genus Agaricus | 30% |
| 2003 90 10 | Truffles | 30% |
| 2003 90 90 | Other | 30% |
| 2004 10 00 | Potatoes | 35% |
| 2004 90 00 | Other vegetables and mixtures of vegetables | 30% |
| 2005 10 00 | Homogenised vegetables | 30% |
| 2005 20 00 | Potatoes | 30% |
| 2005 40 00 | Peas (pisum, sativum) | 30% |
| 2005 51 00 | Beans, shelled | 30% |
| 2005 59 00 | Other | 30% |
| 2005 60 00 | Asparagus | 30% |
| 2005 70 00 | Olives | 30% |
| 2005 80 00 | Sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata) | 30% |
| 2005 91 00 | Bamboo shoots | 30% |
| 2005 99 00 | Other | 30% |
| 2006 00 00 | VEGETABLES, FRUITS, NUTS, FRUIT-PEEL AND OTHER PARTS OF PLANTS, PRESERVED BY SUGAR (DRAINED, GLACE OR CRYSTALLISED) | 30% |
| 2007 10 00 | Homogenised preparations | 30% |
| 2007 91 00 | Citrus fruit | 30% |
| 2007 99 10 | Mango | 30% |
| 2007 99 20 | Guava | 30% |
| 2007 99 30 | Pine apple | 30% |
| 2007 99 40 | Apple | 30% |
| 2007 99 90 | Other | 30% |
| 2008 11 00 | Ground-nuts | 30% |
| 2008 19 10 | Cashew nut, roasted, salted or roasted and salted | 45% |
| 2008 19 20 | Other roasted nuts and seeds | 30% |
| 2008 19 30 | Other Nuts, otherwise prepared or preserved | 30% |
| 2008 19 40 | Other roasted and fried vegetable products | 30% |
| 2008 19 90 | Other | 30% |
| 2008 20 00 | Pineapples | 30% |
| 2008 30 10 | Orange | 30% |
| 2008 30 90 | Other | 30% |
| 2008 40 00 | Pears | 30% |
| 2008 50 00 | Apricots | 30% |
| 2008 60 00 | Cherries | 30% |
| 2008 70 00 | Peaches, including nectarines | 30% |