HSN chapter guide
Chapter 32 — Tanning/dyeing extracts & paints
338 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) Separate chemically defined elements or compounds (except those of heading 32.03 or 32.04, inorganic products of a kind used as luminophores (heading 32.06), glass obtained from fused quartz or other fused silica in forms provided for in heading 32.07, and also dyes and other colouring matter put up in forms or packings for retail sale, of heading 32.12); (b) Tannates or other tannin derivatives of products of headings 29.36 to 29.39, 29.41 or 35.01 to 35.04; (c) Mastics of asphalt or other bituminous mastics (heading 27.15).
- Heading 32.04 includes mixtures of stabilised diazonium salts and couplers for the production of azo dyes.
- Headings 32.03, 32.04, 32.05 and 32.06 apply also to preparations based on colouring matter (including, in the case of heading 32.06, colouring pigments of heading 25.30 or Chapter 28, metal flakes and metal powders), of a kind used for colouring any material or used as ingredients in the manufacture of colouring preparations. The headings do not apply, however, to pigments dispersed in non-aqueous media, in liquid or paste form, of a kind used in the manufacture of paints (heading 32.12), or to other preparations of heading 32.07, 32.08, 32.09, 32.10, 32.12, 32.13 or 32.15.
- Heading 32.08 includes solutions (other than collodions) consisting of any of the products specified in headings 39.01 to 39.13 in volatile organic solvents when the weight of the solvent exceeds 50% of the weight of the solution.
Sample 8-digit lines
| HSN | Description | BCD |
|---|---|---|
| 3201 10 00 | Quebracho extract | 7.5% |
| 3201 20 00 | Wattle extract | 2.5% |
| 3201 90 10 | Gambier extracts | 7.5% |
| 3201 90 20 | Myrobalan fruit extract | 7.5% |
| 3201 90 30 | Gallotannic acid (tannin, digallic acid) | 7.5% |
| 3201 90 90 | Other | 7.5% |
| 3202 10 00 | Synthetic organic tanning substances | 7.5% |
| 3202 90 10 | Inorganic tanning substances | 7.5% |
| 3202 90 20 | Tanning preparations, whether or not containing natural tanning substances | 7.5% |
| 3202 90 30 | Enzymatic preparations for pre-tanning | 7.5% |
| 3202 90 90 | Other | 7.5% |
| 3203 00 10 | Cutch (Catechu) extracts | 7.5% |
| 3203 00 20 | Food colours other than synthetic | 7.5% |
| 3203 00 30 | Lac-dye | 7.5% |
| 3203 00 40 | Natural indigo | 7.5% |
| 3203 00 90 | Other | 7.5% |
| 3204 11 11 | Disperse yellow 13 (duranol brill yellow 6 G) | 7.5% |
| 3204 11 19 | Other | 7.5% |
| 3204 11 21 | Disperse orange 11 (duranol orange G) | 7.5% |
| 3204 11 29 | Other | 7.5% |
| 3204 11 31 | Disperse red 3 (serisol fast pink B) | 7.5% |
| 3204 11 32 | Disperse red 4 (celliton fast pink RF) | 7.5% |
| 3204 11 33 | Disperse red 9 (duranol red GN) | 7.5% |
| 3204 11 39 | Other | 7.5% |
| 3204 11 41 | Disperse violet 1 (duranol violet 2R) | 7.5% |
| 3204 11 42 | Disperse violet 4 (duranol brill violet B) | 7.5% |
| 3204 11 43 | Disperse violet 8 (duranol brill violet BR) | 7.5% |
| 3204 11 49 | Other | 7.5% |
| 3204 11 51 | Disperse blue 1 (duranol brill blue CB) | 7.5% |
| 3204 11 52 | Disperse blue 3 (duranol brill blue BBN) | 7.5% |
| 3204 11 53 | Disperse blue 5 (celliton fast blue FFB) | 7.5% |
| 3204 11 54 | Disperse blue 6 (celliton fast blue FFG) | 7.5% |
| 3204 11 55 | Disperse blue 14 (duranol brill blue G) | 7.5% |
| 3204 11 56 | Disperse blue 24 (duranol blue 2G) | 7.5% |
| 3204 11 59 | Other | 7.5% |
| 3204 11 91 | Disperse greens | 7.5% |
| 3204 11 92 | Disperse browns | 7.5% |
| 3204 11 93 | Disperse blacks | 7.5% |
| 3204 11 94 | Disperse brown mixtures | 7.5% |
| 3204 11 95 | Disperse grey mixtures | 7.5% |