HS Chapter 22: Beverages, spirits and vinegar

Every tariff item in chapter 22 that this dataset carries a duty and a tax rate for, listed by heading so a code can be found by reading rather than by guessing. The rates sit on the code itself: open any item for the standard rate of basic customs duty from the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975, the integrated tax beside it, the surcharge and cess on top with the base each is charged on, and the part a duty-credit scrip can pay.

Heading 2201: Waters, including natural or artificial mineral waters and aerated waters

Heading 2202: Waters, including mineral waters and aerated waters

Heading 2203

Heading 2204: Wine of fresh grapes, including fortified wines

Heading 2205: Vermouth and other wine of fresh grapes flavoured with plants or aromatic substances

Heading 2206

Heading 2207: Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of 80% vol. or higher

Heading 2208: Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of less than 80% vol

Heading 2209: Vinegar and substitutes for vinegar obtained from acetic acid

Reading the duty column

The duty shown is the standard rate in the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975. It is not the whole bill and it is often not the rate a consignment is finally assessed at. On top of it sits the Social Welfare Surcharge at ten per cent of the duty under section 110 of the Finance Act, 2018, then 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.

Four things are outside every figure in this chapter, and each of them can move a Bill of Entry on its own. An exemption notification, which a great many consignments are assessed under and which this site does not apply. The Agriculture Infrastructure and Development Cess under section 124 of the Finance Act, 2021. A duty the schedule states per unit rather than as a percentage. And an anti-dumping, countervailing or safeguard duty on the line. The calculator works the whole stack.

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.

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For importers

Pay the basic customs duty line with a scrip, not cash.

Money locked before the scrip moves. Settlement the same business day.