Chapter 19 HSN codes: bakery and cereal foods

Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; pastrycooks' products. Every heading in chapter 19 with its GST rate; search any 8-digit code below.

Rates checked October 2026 · from the official GST notifications

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Rates from the CBIC notifications (9/2025, 10/2025 and 19/2025 for goods; 11/2017 as amended by 15/2025 for services), checked October 2026. Calculate GST

Headings in chapter 19 and their GST

HSN	Description	GST
1901	Malt extract, food preparations of flour, groats, meal, starch or malt extract, not containing cocoa or containing less than 40% by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included, food preparations of goods of headings 0401 to 0404, not containing cocoa or containing less than 5% by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included5 tariff items	0% or 5%
1902	Pasta, whether or not cooked or stuffed (with meat or other substances) or otherwise prepared, such as spaghetti, macaroni, noodles, lasagne, gnocchi, ravioli, cannelloni, couscous, whether or not prepared8 tariff items	5%
1903	Tapioca and substitutes therefor prepared from starch, in the form of flakes, grains, pearls, siftings or in similar forms1 tariff item	5%
1904	Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products (for example, corn flakes), cereals [other than maize (corn)] in grain form or in the form of flakes or other worked grains (except flour, groats and meal), pre-cooked or otherwise prepared, not elsewhere specified or included9 tariff items	0% or 5%
1905	Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa, communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products14 tariff items	0% or 5%

Where a heading shows two rates, its codes or its goods differ: tap the heading to see each 8-digit code and the condition for each rate.

Other chapters

What chapter 19 covers

Chapter 19 of the tariff is "Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; pastrycooks' products". It has 5 four-digit headings and 37 eight-digit tariff items, such as 1901 (Malt extract, food preparations of flour, groats, meal,), 1902 (Pasta, whether or not cooked or stuffed (with meat or other), 1903 (Tapioca and substitutes therefor prepared from starch, in).

GST rates in chapter 19

Most of its tariff items are taxed at 5%. By tariff item: 9 at 5%. For 28 of them the rate depends on how the goods are described or sold (for example the sale price, or whether they are pre-packaged and labelled), so the finder shows each option with its condition.

Questions

What is the GST rate for chapter 19 goods?

Most of its tariff items are taxed at 5%. Of the 37 eight-digit codes in chapter 19, 9 at 5%; the rest depend on the description. Check the exact code in the table: some headings have more than one rate.

What is HSN code 1901?

Heading 1901 is "Malt extract, food preparations of flour, groats, meal, starch or malt extract, not containing cocoa or containing less than 40% by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included, food preparations of goods of headings 0401 to 0404, not containing cocoa or containing less than 5% by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included". GST: 0% or 5%.