HSN chapter guide
Chapter 41 — Raw hides, skins & leather
62 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) Parings or similar waste of raw hides or skins (heading 05.11); (b) Birdskins or parts of birdskins, with their feathers or down, of heading 05.05 or 67.01; (c) Hides or skins, with the hair or wool on, raw, tanned or dressed (Chapter 43) — with exceptions for specified animal types.
- (A) Headings 41.04 to 41.06 do not cover hides and skins which have undergone a reversible tanning (including pre-tanning) process — those remain in 41.01 to 41.03. (B) For headings 41.04 to 41.06, 'crust' includes hides and skins that have been retanned, coloured or fat-liquored (stuffed) prior to drying.
- Throughout the Nomenclature the expression 'composition leather' means only substances of the kind referred to in heading 41.15.
Sample 8-digit lines
| HSN | Description | BCD |
|---|---|---|
| 4101 20 10 | Of cow, including cow calf | 0% |
| 4101 20 20 | Of buffalo, including buffalo calf | 0% |
| 4101 20 90 | Other | 0% |
| 4101 50 10 | Of cow, including cow calf | 0% |
| 4101 50 20 | Of buffalo, including buffalo calf | 0% |
| 4101 50 90 | Other | 0% |
| 4101 90 10 | Of cow, including cow calf | 0% |
| 4101 90 20 | Of buffalo, including buffalo calf | 0% |
| 4101 90 90 | Other | 0% |
| 4102 10 10 | Sheep skins | 0% |
| 4102 10 20 | Pelts of baby lambs | 0% |
| 4102 10 30 | Lamb skins, other than pelts | 0% |
| 4102 21 10 | Sheep skins | 0% |
| 4102 21 20 | Lamb skins | 0% |
| 4102 21 30 | Lamb pelt | 0% |
| 4102 29 10 | Sheep skins | 0% |
| 4102 29 20 | Lamb skins | 0% |
| 4103 20 00 | Of reptiles | 0% |
| 4103 30 00 | Of swine | 0% |
| 4103 90 00 | Other | 0% |
| 4104 11 00 | Full grains, unsplit; grain splits | 10% |
| 4104 11 10 | Wet blues | 10% |
| 4104 11 90 | Other | 10% |
| 4104 19 00 | Other | 10% |
| 4104 19 10 | Wet blues | 10% |
| 4104 19 90 | Other | 10% |
| 4104 41 00 | Full grains, unsplit; grain splits | 10% |
| 4104 49 00 | Other | 10% |
| 4105 10 00 | In the wet state (including wet-blue) | 10% |
| 4105 10 10 | Wet blues | 10% |
| 4105 10 90 | Other | 10% |
| 4105 30 00 | In the dry state (crust) | 10% |
| 4106 21 00 | In the wet state (including wet-blue) | 10% |
| 4106 21 10 | Wet blues | 10% |
| 4106 21 90 | Other | 10% |
| 4106 22 00 | In the dry state (crust) | 10% |
| 4106 31 00 | In the wet state (including wet-blue) | 10% |
| 4106 31 10 | Wet blues | 10% |
| 4106 31 90 | Other | 10% |
| 4106 32 00 | In the dry state (crust) | 10% |