HSN chapter 12

HSN chapter 12: Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder

14 headings and 110 8-digit tariff items. HSN codes in this chapter start with 12.

⚠️About GST rates: GST rates on many goods changed from 22 September 2025, when most items moved to the 5% and 18% slabs and a few to 40%. This finder lists codes and descriptions only — confirm the rate for your item in the current CBIC rate notification before you invoice.

Headings in chapter 12

1201Soya beans, whether or not broken, of seed quality. · 2 items 1202Ground-nuts, not roasted or otherwise cooked, whether or not shelled or broken, of seed quality. · 6 items 1203Copra · 1 items 1204Linseed, whether or not broken, of seed quality. · 2 items 1205Rape or colza seeds, whether or not broken, of seed quality. · 2 items 1206Sunflower seeds, whether or not broken, of seed quality. · 2 items 1207Other oil seeds and oleaginous fruits (i.e. Palm nuts and kernels, cotton seeds, Castor oil seeds, Sesamum seeds, Mustard seeds, Saffower (Carthamus tinctorius) seeds, Melon seeds, Poppy seeds, Ajams, Mango kernel, Niger seed, Kokam) whether or not broken, · 18 items 1208Flour and meals of oil seeds or oleaginous fruits, other than those of mustard · 2 items 1209Seeds, fruit and spores, of a kind used for sowing. Explanation: This entry does not cover seeds meant for any use other than sowing. · 19 items 1210Hop cones, fresh. · 2 items 1211Plants and parts of plants (including seeds and fruits), of a kind used primarily in perfumery, in pharmacy or for insecticidal, fungicidal or similar purpose, fresh or chilled. · 41 items 1212Locust beans, seaweeds and other algae, sugar beet and sugar cane, fresh or chilled. · 10 items 1213Cereal straw and husks, unprepared, whether or not chopped, ground, pressed or in the form of pellets · 1 items 1214Swedes, mangolds, fodder roots, hay, lucerne (alfalfa), clover, sainfoin, forage kale, lupines, vetches and similar forage products, whether or not in the form of pellets. · 2 items

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