Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics

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INDIAN TRADE CLASSIFICATION HARMONISED SYSTEM 2012

Section-wise Commodity Classification (Implemented at DGCI&S from April. 2012)

Section	Description	Chapters
I	Live Animals; Animal Products	01-05
II	Vegitable Products	06-14
III	Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegitable waes	15
IV	Prepared foodstuffs; beverages, spirits and vinegar;tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes	16-24
V	Mineral products	25-27
VI	Products of the chemical or allied industries	28-38
VII	Plastics and articles thereof, rubber and articles thereof	39-40
VIII	Raw hides and skins, leather, furskins and articles thereof; saddlery and harness; travel goods, handbags and similar containers; articles of animal gut (other than silk-worm gut)	41-43
IX	Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal; cork and articles of cork; manufacturers of straw, of esparto or of other plating materials; basketware and wickerwork	44-46
X	Pulp of wood or of other fibrous cellulosic material; recovered (waste and scrap) paper or paperboard; paper and paperboard and articles thereof	47-49
XI	Textiles and textile articles	50-63
XII	Footwear, headgear, umbrellas, sun umbrellas, walking- sticks, eatsticks, whips, riding-crops and parts thereof; prepared feathers and articles made therewith; artificial flowers, articles of human hair	64-67
XIII	Articles of stone, plaster, cement, asbestos, mica or similar materials; ceramic products; glass and glassware	68-70
XIV	Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal, and articles thereof; imitation jewellery; coin	71
XV	Base metals and articles of base metal	72-83
XVI	Machinery and mechanical appliances; electrical equipment; parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles	84-85
XVII	Vehicles, aircraft, vessels and associated transport equipment	86-89
XVIII	Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; clocks and watches; musical instruments; parts and accessories thereof	90-92
XIX	Arms and ammunition; parts and accessories thereof	93
XX	Miscellaneous manufactured articles	94-96
XXI	Works of art, collectors' pieces and antiques	97-98
XXII	Miscellaneous goods	99