The tariff, section by section
The schedule groups its chapters into sections, and the section is usually the level a reader actually thinks in. Each one below opens onto its chapters, and each chapter onto its tariff items.
96 chapters appear here rather than the schedule's full set. Chapters the source carried no duty and tax rate for are absent rather than filled in.
Live animals, meat, fish and crustaceans, dairy, eggs and honey. The chapters importers reach for on food and on breeding stock.
Everything grown: plants and bulbs, vegetables, fruit and nuts, coffee, tea and spices, cereals, milling products, oil seeds, gums and resins.
One chapter, and one of the largest lines in India's import bill: edible oils, crude and refined, together with animal fats and waxes.
Food once it has been processed: preparations of meat and fish, sugar, cocoa, cereals and vegetables, plus beverages, spirits, vinegar and tobacco.
16Preparations of meat, of fish, of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, or of insects47 items17Sugars and sugar confectionery41 items18Cocoa and cocoa preparations15 items19Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; pastrycooks' products33 items20Preparations of vegetables, fruit, nuts or other parts of plants67 items21Miscellaneous edible preparations41 items22Beverages, spirits and vinegar61 items23Residues and waste from the food industries; prepared animal fodder66 items24Tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes; products, whether or not containing nicotine, intended for inhalation without combustion; other nicotine containing products intended for the intake of nicotine into the human body51 items Salt, earths and stone, ores and slag, and the mineral fuels chapter that carries crude petroleum, coal and refined products.
Inorganic and organic chemicals, pharmaceuticals, fertilisers, dyes and pigments, cosmetics, soaps, adhesives, explosives and photographic goods.
28Inorganic chemicals, organic or inorganic compounds of precious metals, of rare-earth metals, of radioactive elements or of isotopes331 items29Organic chemicals882 items30Pharmaceutical products226 items31Fertilisers29 items32Tanning or dyeing extracts; tannins and their derivatives; dyes, pigments and other colouring matter; paints and varnishes; putty and other mastics; inks338 items33Essential oils and resinoids, perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations122 items34Soap, organic surface-active agents, washing preparations, lubricating preparations, artificial waxes, prepared waxes, polishing or scouring preparations, candles and similar articles, modelling pastes, "dental waxes" and dental preparations with a basis of plaster57 items35Albuminoidal substances; modified starches; glues; enzymes38 items36Explosives; pyrotechnic products; matches; pyrophoric alloys; certain combustible preparations22 items37Photographic or cinematographic goods100 items38Miscellaneous chemical products171 items Polymers in primary form and everything made from them, and the rubber chapter that carries tyres and industrial rubber goods.
Raw hides through finished leather, plus saddlery, handbags, luggage and furskins.
Timber and wood products, charcoal, cork, and goods plaited from straw or other materials.
Wood pulp and recovered paper, paper and paperboard in every form, and printed books, newspapers and other printed matter.
The largest section in the tariff by chapter count: fibres, yarns, woven and knitted fabrics, and finished garments and made-ups. Where classification most often decides the rate.
Footwear and its parts, hats and headgear, umbrellas and walking-sticks, prepared feathers, artificial flowers and articles of human hair.
Worked stone including granite and marble, cement and plaster goods, refractories, ceramics and tiles, and glass in every form.
One chapter carrying pearls, diamonds and coloured stones, gold, silver and platinum, finished jewellery, imitation jewellery and coin.
Iron and steel and their articles, copper, nickel, aluminium, lead, zinc and tin, plus tools, cutlery and fasteners made from them.
Two chapters, and the heart of India's capital-goods and electronics imports: industrial machinery, computers, telephones and semiconductors, and the parts of all of them.
Railway stock, motor vehicles and their parts, aircraft and spacecraft, and ships and boats.
Optical and photographic apparatus, measuring and testing instruments, medical and surgical devices, clocks and watches, and musical instruments.
One chapter, covering arms, ammunition and their parts. Most of it also carries an import policy restriction, which each code page states where the record has one.
Furniture, bedding and lamps, toys, games and sports goods, and the manufactured articles that fit nowhere else.
One chapter: paintings, sculpture, collectors' pieces and antiques.
One chapter, and it is unlike every other. Its entries turn on the procedure a consignment moves under, project imports, baggage, stores and personal imports, rather than on what the goods are, so a rate here answers a question about a scheme and not about a product.
What a code page tells you
Four levies, worked in order, each on a base that includes the ones before it: basic customs duty on the assessable value at the First Schedule rate, the Social Welfare Surcharge at ten per cent of that duty under section 110 of the Finance Act, 2018, integrated tax on the value plus those duties under section 3(8) of the Customs Tariff Act, 1975, and compensation cess on the same base under section 3(9) where the goods attract it. Preferential rates by origin are shown where the line carries them.
And the part that decides whether duty-credit scrips are worth an importer's attention: Regulation 6(1) of the Electronic Duty Credit Ledger Regulations, 2021 confines the credit in an e-scrip to duties of customs specified in the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975, which is the basic customs duty line alone. Integrated tax and compensation cess on the same Bill of Entry are paid in cash whatever you paid for the scrip.
The run on 18 August 2026 found no Integrated Tax (Rate) notification newer than the ones this dataset already carries, and no disagreement across the 447 duty codes it sampled against ICEGATE. Duty rates change by notification, and a notification can take effect the day it is issued. Confirm against the tariff in force before you file a Bill of Entry.