Description of Goods
Vitamins and their derivatives, unmixed :Vitamin B6 and its derivatives
Chapter
29 - Organic chemicals
Sub Chapter
2936 - Provitamins and vitamins, natural or reproduced by synthesis (including natural concentrates), derivatives thereof used primarily as vitamins, and intermixtures of the foregoing, whether or not in any solvent
CGST
2.5% or 9%
SGST
2.5% or 9%
IGST
5% or 18%
CESS
0%
5% when supplied as a drug or medicine, including as a bulk drug (active pharmaceutical ingredient, API), with its salts and esters; 18% for other uses. CBIC has not yet clarified whether bulk drugs get the 5% rate; 2026 advance rulings of the Customs Authority for Advance Rulings (CAAR), Mumbai, allowed 5% on imported APIs. Source: Notification 9/2025-Central Tax (Rate), Schedule I, S. No. 226; Schedule II, S. No. 36.