HSN chapter guide
Chapter 21 — Miscellaneous edible preparations
43 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) Mixed vegetables of heading 07.12; (b) Roasted coffee substitutes containing coffee in any proportion (heading 09.01); (c) Flavoured tea (heading 09.02); (d) Spices or other products of headings 09.04 to 09.10; (e) Food preparations, other than the products described in heading 21.03 or 21.04, 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); (f) Products of heading 24.04; (g) Yeast put up as a medicament or other products of heading 30.03 or 30.04; or (h) Prepared enzymes of heading 35.07.
- Extracts of the substitutes referred to in Note 1(b) above are to be classified in heading 21.01.
- For the purposes of heading 21.04, the expression "homogenised composite food preparations" means preparations consisting of a finely homogenised mixture of two or more basic ingredients such as meat, fish, vegetables, fruit or nuts, put up for retail sale as food suitable for infants or young children or for dietetic purposes, in containers of a net weight content not exceeding 250 g.
Sample 8-digit lines
| HSN | Description | BCD |
|---|---|---|
| 2101 11 10 | Instant coffee, flavoured | 30% |
| 2101 11 20 | Instant coffee, not flovered | 30% |
| 2101 11 30 | Coffee aroma | 30% |
| 2101 11 90 | Other | 30% |
| 2101 12 00 | Preparations with basis of extracts, essences concentrates or with a basis of coffee | 30% |
| 2101 20 10 | Instant tea | 30% |
| 2101 20 20 | Quick brewing black tea | 30% |
| 2101 20 30 | Tea aroma | 30% |
| 2101 20 90 | Other | 30% |
| 2101 30 10 | Roasted chicory | 30% |
| 2101 30 20 | Roasted coffee substitutes | 30% |
| 2101 30 90 | Other | 30% |
| 2102 10 10 | Culture yeast | 30% |
| 2102 10 20 | Baker’s yeast | 30% |
| 2102 10 90 | Other | 30% |
| 2102 20 00 | Inactive yeasts, other single-cell micro-organisms, dead | 30% |
| 2102 30 00 | Prepared baking powders | 30% |
| 2103 10 00 | Soya sauce | 30% |
| 2103 20 00 | Tomato ketchup and other tomato sauces | 30% |
| 2103 30 00 | Mustard flour and meal and prepared mustard | 30% |
| 2103 90 10 | Curry paste | 30% |
| 2103 90 20 | Chilli sauce | 30% |
| 2103 90 30 | Majonnaise and salad dressings | 30% |
| 2103 90 40 | Mixed, condiments and mixed seasoning | 30% |
| 2103 90 90 | Other | 30% |
| 2104 10 10 | Dried | 30% |
| 2104 10 90 | Other | 30% |
| 2104 20 00 | Homogenised composite food preparations | 30% |
| 2105 00 00 | ICE CREAM AND OTHER EDIBLE ICE, WHETHER OR NOT CONTAINING COCOA | 30% |
| 2106 10 00 | Protein concentrates and textured protein substances | 40% |
| 2106 90 11 | Sharbat | 150% |
| 2106 90 19 | Other | 150% |
| 2106 90 20 | Pan masala | 150% |
| 2106 90 30 | Betel nut product known as “Supari” | 150% |
| 2106 90 40 | Sugar-syrups containing added flavouring or colouring matter, not elsewhere specified or included; lactose syrup; glucose syrup and malto dextrine syrup | 150% |
| 2106 90 50 | Compound preparations for making non-alcoholic beverages | 150% |
| 2106 90 59 | Compound preparations for making beverages : Other | 150% |
| 2106 90 60 | Food flavouring material | 150% |
| 2106 90 70 | Churna for pan | 150% |
| 2106 90 80 | Custard powder | 150% |