HSN chapter guide
Chapter 40 — Rubber & articles thereof
168 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
- Throughout the Nomenclature the expression 'rubber' means the following products, whether or not vulcanised or hard: natural rubber, balata, gutta-percha, guayule, chicle and similar natural gums, synthetic rubber, factice derived from oils, and such substances reclaimed.
- This Chapter does not cover: (a) textiles Section XI; (b) footwear Chapter 64; (c) headgear Chapter 65; (d) mechanical/electrical appliances of hard rubber Section XVI; (e) articles of Chapters 90, 92, 94 or 96; (f) articles of Chapter 95 other than sports gloves and tyres/tubes.
- In headings 40.01 to 40.03 and 40.05, the expression 'primary forms' applies only to: (a) Liquids and pastes (including latex, whether or not pre-vulcanised, and other dispersions and solutions); (b) Blocks of irregular shape, lumps, bales, powders, granules, crumbs and similar bulk forms.
- The expression 'synthetic rubber' applies to: (a) Unsaturated synthetic substances vulcanisable with sulphur into non-thermoplastic substances which at 18-29°C will not break on extension to 3x original length and will return to ≤1.5x original length within 5 minutes of extension to 2x original length; (b) Thioplasts (TM); (c) Modified natural rubber (grafted/mixed with plastics), depolymerised natural rubber, and mixtures of unsaturated synthetic substances with saturated synthetic high polymers — provided they comply with (a).
Sample 8-digit lines
| HSN | Description | BCD |
|---|---|---|
| 4001 10 10 | Prevulcanised | 70% |
| 4001 10 20 | Other than prevulcanised | 70% |
| 4001 21 00 | Smoked sheets | — |
| 4001 22 00 | Technically specified natural rubber (TSNR) | — |
| 4001 29 10 | Hevea | — |
| 4001 29 20 | Pale crepe | — |
| 4001 29 30 | Estate brown crepe | — |
| 4001 29 40 | Oil extended natural rubber | — |
| 4001 29 90 | Other | — |
| 4001 30 00 | Balata, gutta-percha, guayule, chicle and similar natural gums | 10% |
| 4002 11 00 | Latex | 10% |
| 4002 19 10 | Oil extended styrene butadiene rubber | 10% |
| 4002 19 20 | Styrene butadiene rubber with styrene content exceeding 50% | 10% |
| 4002 19 30 | Styrene butadiene styrene oil bound copolymer | 10% |
| 4002 19 90 | Other | 10% |
| 4002 20 00 | Butadiene rubber (BR) | 10% |
| 4002 31 00 | Isobutene-isoprene (butyl) rubber (IIR) | 10% |
| 4002 39 00 | Other | 10% |
| 4002 41 00 | Latex | 10% |
| 4002 49 00 | Other | 10% |
| 4002 51 00 | Latex | 10% |
| 4002 59 00 | Other | 10% |
| 4002 60 00 | Isoprene rubber (IR) | 10% |
| 4002 70 00 | Ethylene-propylene-non-conjugated diene rubber (EPDM) | 10% |
| 4002 80 10 | Latex | 10% |
| 4002 80 20 | Chemically modified form of natural rubber including graft rubber | 10% |
| 4002 80 90 | Other | 10% |
| 4002 91 00 | Latex | 10% |
| 4002 99 10 | Factice (rubber substitute derived from oil) | 10% |
| 4002 99 20 | Tread rubber compound, cushion compound, cushion gum and tread gum for resoling or repairing or retreading rubber tyres | 10% |
| 4002 99 90 | Other | 10% |
| 4003 00 00 | RECLAIMED RUBBER IN PRIMARY FORMS OR IN PLATES, SHEETS OR STRIP | 10% |
| 4004 00 00 | WASTE, PARINGS AND SCRAP OF RUBBER (OTHER THAN HARD RUBBER) AND POWDERS AND GRANULES OBTAINED THEREFROM | 10% |
| 4005 10 00 | Compounded with carbon black or silica | — |
| 4005 20 10 | Can sealing compound | — |
| 4005 20 90 | Other | — |
| 4005 91 10 | Hospital sheeting | — |
| 4005 91 90 | Other | — |
| 4005 99 10 | Granules of unvulcanised natural or synthetic rubber, compounded, ready for vulcanisation | — |
| 4005 99 90 | Other | — |