38 HSN Code: Miscellaneous Chemical Products
HSN Chapter 38 represents Miscellaneous Chemical Products under GST classification. This code helps businesses identify Miscellaneous Chemical Products correctly for billing, taxation, and trade purposes. With HSN Chapter 38, companies can avoid errors in invoices, simplify compliance, and enable hassle-free import/export of Miscellaneous Chemical Products.
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Sub Chapters under HSN Chapter 38
Following Sub Chapters fall under HSN Chapter 38:
| Sub Chapter | New GST Rate | Old GST Rate | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18% | 18% | Artificial graphite; colloidal or semicolloidal graphite; preparations based on graphite or other carbon in the form of pastes, blocks, plates or other semi-manufactures | |
| 18% | 18% | Activated carbon; activated natural mineral products; animal black, including spent animal black | |
| 18% | 18% | Tall Oil, whether or not refined | |
| 18% | 18% | Residual lyes for the manufacture of wood pulp, whether or not concentrated, desugared or chemically treated, including lignin sulphonates, but excluding tall oil of heading 3803 | |
| 18% | 18% | Gum, 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 paracymene; pine oil containing alphaterpineol as the main constituent | |
| 18% | 18% | Rosin and resin acids, and derivatives thereof; rosin spirit and rosin oils; run gums | |
| 18% | 18% | Wood tar; wood tar oils; wood creosote; wood naphtha; vegetable pitch; brewers’ pitch and similar preparations based on rosin, resin acids or on vegetable pitch | |
| 5% | 12% | Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, anti-sprouting products and plant-growth regulators, disinfectants and similar products, put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles (for example, sulphur-treated bands, wicks and candles, and fly-papers) | |
| 18% | 18% | Finishing 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 | |
| 18% | 18% | Pickling 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 for welding electrodes or rods | |
| 18% | 18% | Anti-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 | |
| 18% | 18% | Prepared rubber accelerators; compound plasticisers for rubber or plastics, not elsewhere specified or included; antioxidising preparations and other compound stabilisers for rubber or plastics | |
| 18% | 18% | Preparations and charges for fire-extinguishers; charged fire-extinguishing grenades | |
| 18% | 18% | Organic composite solvents and thinners, not elsewhere specified or included; prepared paint or varnish removers | |
| 18% | 18% | Reaction initiators, reaction accelerators and catalytic preparations, not elsewhere specified or included | |
| 5% | 5% | Refractory cements, mortars, concretes and similar compositions, including dolomite ramming mix, other than products of heading 3801 | |
| 18% | 18% | Mixed alkylbenzenes and mixed alkylnaphthalenes, other than those of heading 2707 or 2902 | |
| 5% | 12% | Chemical elements doped for use in electronics, in the form of discs, wafers or similar forms; chemical compounds doped for use in electronics | |
| 18% | 18% | Hydraulic 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 | |
| 18% | 18% | Anti-freezing preparations and prepared de-icing fluids | |
| 18% | 18% | Prepared culture media for development or maintenance of micro-organism (including viruses and the like) or of plant human or animal cells | |
| 5% | 12% | Diagnostic or laboratory reagents on a backing, prepared diagnostic or laboratory reagents whether or not on a backing, whether or not put up in the form of kits, other than those of heading 3006; certified reference materials | |
| 18% | 18% | Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids; acid oils from refining; industrial fatty alcohols | |
| 18% | 18% | Prepared 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 | |
| 18% | 18% | Residual products of the chemical or allied industries, not elsewhere specified or included; municipal waste; sewage sludge; other wastes specified in note 6 to this chapter | |
| 5% | 12% | Biodiesel and mixtures thereof, not containing or containing less than 70 % by weight of petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals | |
| 18% | 18% | Mixtures containing halogenated derivatives of methane, ethane or propane, not elsewhere specified or included |
Artificial graphite; colloidal or semicolloidal graphite; preparations based on graphite or other carbon in the form of pastes, blocks, plates or other semi-manufactures
Activated carbon; activated natural mineral products; animal black, including spent animal black
Residual lyes for the manufacture of wood pulp, whether or not concentrated, desugared or chemically treated, including lignin sulphonates, but excluding tall oil of heading 3803
Gum, 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 paracymene; pine oil containing alphaterpineol as the main constituent
Rosin and resin acids, and derivatives thereof; rosin spirit and rosin oils; run gums
Wood tar; wood tar oils; wood creosote; wood naphtha; vegetable pitch; brewers’ pitch and similar preparations based on rosin, resin acids or on vegetable pitch
Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, anti-sprouting products and plant-growth regulators, disinfectants and similar products, put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles (for example, sulphur-treated bands, wicks and candles, and fly-papers)
Finishing 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
Pickling 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 for welding electrodes or rods
Anti-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
Prepared rubber accelerators; compound plasticisers for rubber or plastics, not elsewhere specified or included; antioxidising preparations and other compound stabilisers for rubber or plastics
Preparations and charges for fire-extinguishers; charged fire-extinguishing grenades
Organic composite solvents and thinners, not elsewhere specified or included; prepared paint or varnish removers
Reaction initiators, reaction accelerators and catalytic preparations, not elsewhere specified or included
Refractory cements, mortars, concretes and similar compositions, including dolomite ramming mix, other than products of heading 3801
Mixed alkylbenzenes and mixed alkylnaphthalenes, other than those of heading 2707 or 2902
Chemical elements doped for use in electronics, in the form of discs, wafers or similar forms; chemical compounds doped for use in electronics
Hydraulic 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
Anti-freezing preparations and prepared de-icing fluids
Prepared culture media for development or maintenance of micro-organism (including viruses and the like) or of plant human or animal cells
Diagnostic or laboratory reagents on a backing, prepared diagnostic or laboratory reagents whether or not on a backing, whether or not put up in the form of kits, other than those of heading 3006; certified reference materials
Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids; acid oils from refining; industrial fatty alcohols
Prepared 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
Residual products of the chemical or allied industries, not elsewhere specified or included; municipal waste; sewage sludge; other wastes specified in note 6 to this chapter
Biodiesel and mixtures thereof, not containing or containing less than 70 % by weight of petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals
Mixtures containing halogenated derivatives of methane, ethane or propane, not elsewhere specified or included
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