HSN chapter 38

HSN chapter 38: Miscellaneous chemical products

26 headings and 226 8-digit tariff items. HSN codes in this chapter start with 38.

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Headings in chapter 38

3801Artificial graphite; colloidal or semi- colloidal graphite; preparations based on graphite or other carbon in the form of pastes, blocks, plates or other semi- manufactures · 4 items 3802Activated carbon; activated natural mineral products; animal black, including spent animal black · 5 items 3803Tall Oil, Whether Or Not Refined · 1 items 3804Residual lyes from the manufacture of wood pulp, whether or not concentrated, desugared or chemically treated, including lignin sulphonates · 3 items 3805Gum, wood or sulphate turpentine and other terpenic oils produced by the distillation or other treatment of coniferous woods; crude dipentene; sulphite turpentine and other crude para-cymene; pine oil containing alpha-terpineol as the main constituent · 8 items 3806Rosin and resin acids, and derivatives thereof; rosin spirit and rosin oils; run gums · 6 items 3807Wood tar; wood tar oils; wood creosote; wood naphtha; vegetable pitch; brewers' pitch and similar preparations based on rosin, resin acids or on vegetable pitch · 3 items 3808Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, anti-sprouting products and plant-growth regulators, disinfectants and similar products [other than bio-pesticides mentioned against S. No. 78A of schedule -II · 72 items 3809Finishing agents, dye carriers to accelerate the dyeing or fixing of dyestuffs and other products and preparations (for example, dressings and mordants), of a kind used in the textile, paper, leather or like industries, not elsewhere specified or included · 14 items 3810Pickling preparations for metal surfaces; fluxes and other auxiliary preparations for soldering, brazing or welding; soldering, brazing or welding powders and pastes consisting of metal and other materials; preparations of a kind used as cores or coatings · 5 items 3811Anti-knock preparations, oxidation inhibitors, gum inhibitors, viscosity improvers, anti-corrosive preparations and other prepared additives, for mineral oils (including gasoline) or for other liquids used for the same purposes as mineral oils” · 5 items 3812Prepared rubber accelerators; compound plasticisers for rubber or plastics, not elsewhere specified or included; anti- oxidising preparations and other compound stabilisers for rubber or plastics.; such as Vulcanizing agents for rubber · 7 items 3813Preparations and charges for fire- extinguishers; charged fire extinguishing grenades · 1 items 3814Organic composite solvents and thinners, not elsewhere specified or included; prepared paint or varnish removers · 2 items 3815Reaction initiators, reaction accelerators and catalytic preparations, not elsewhere specified or included · 5 items 3816Refractory cements, mortars, concretes and similar compositions, other than products of heading 3801 · 1 items 3817Mixed alkylbenzenes and mixed alkylnaphthalenes, other than those of heading 2707 or 2902 · 3 items 3818Chemical elements doped for use in electronics, in the form of discs, wafers or similar forms; chemical compounds doped for use in electronics [other than silicon wafers] · 2 items 3819Hydraulic brake fluids and other prepared liquids for hydraulic transmission, not containing or containing less than 70% by weight of petroleum oils or oils obtained from bituminous minerals · 2 items 3820Anti-freezing preparations and prepared de-icing fluids · 1 items 3821Prepared culture media for the development or maintenance of micro- organisms (including viruses and the like) or of plant, human or animal cells · 1 items 3822All diagnostic kits and reagents · 4 items 3823Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids, acid oils from refining; industrial fatty alcohols · 12 items 3824Prepared binders for foundry moulds or cores; chemical products and preparations of the chemical or allied industries (including those consisting of mixtures of natural products), not elsewhere specified or included · 49 items 3825Municipal waste, sewage sludge, clinical waste · 9 items 3826Bio-diesel (other than bio-diesel supplied to Oil Marketing Companies for blending with High Speed Diesel) · 1 items

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