Chapter 38 HSN codes: other chemical products

Miscellaneous chemical products. Every heading in chapter 38 with its GST rate; search any 8-digit code below.

Rates checked · from the official GST notifications

    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 38 and their GST

    HSNDescriptionGST
    3801Artificial graphite, colloidal or semi-colloidal graphite, preparations based on graphite or other carbon in the form of pastes, blocks, plates or other semi-manufactures4 tariff items18%
    3802Activated carbon; activated natural mineral products; animal black, including spent animal black5 tariff items18%
    3803Tall oil, whether or not refined1 tariff item18%
    3804Residual lyes from the manufacture of wood pulp, whether or not concentrated, desugared or chemically treated, including lignin sulphonates, but excluding tall oil of heading 38023 tariff items18%
    3805Gum, 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 para-cymene, pine oil containing alpha-terpineol as the main constituent8 tariff items18%
    3806Rosin and resin acids, and derivatives thereof; rosin spirit and rosin oils; run gums6 tariff items18%
    3807Wood tar, wood tar oils, wood creosote, wood naphtha, vegetable pitch, brewers' pitch and similar preparations based on rosin, resin acids or on vegetable pitch3 tariff items18%
    3808Insecticides, 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, sulphurtreated bands, wicks and candles, and fly-papers)104 tariff items5% or 18%
    3809Finishing agents, dye carriers to accelerate the dyeing or fixing of dye-stuffs 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 included14 tariff items18%
    3810Pickling 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 rods5 tariff items18%
    3811Anti-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 oils5 tariff items18%
    3812Prepared rubber accelerators; compound plasticisers for rubber or plastics, not elsewhere specified or included; anti-oxidising preparations and other compound stabilisers for rubber or plastics12 tariff items18%
    3813Preparations and charges for fire-extinguishers; charged fire-extinguishing grenades6 tariff items18%
    3814Organic composite solvents and thinners, not elsewhere specified or included; prepared paint or varnish removers10 tariff items18%
    3815Reaction initiators, reaction accelerators and catalytic preparations, not elsewhere specified or included5 tariff items18%
    3816Refractory cements, mortars, concretes and similar compositions, including dolomite ramming mix, other than products of heading 38001 tariff item5% or 18%
    3817Mixed alkylbenzenes and mixed alkylnaphthalenes, other than those of heading 2707 or 29023 tariff items18%
    3818Chemical elements doped for use in electronics, in the form of discs, wafers or similar forms, chemical compounds doped for use in electronics4 tariff items5% or 18%
    3819Hydraulic 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 minerals2 tariff items18%
    3820Anti-freezing preparations and prepared de-icing fluids1 tariff item18%
    3821Prepared culture media for development or maintenance of micro-organism (including viruses and the like) or of plant human or animal cells1 tariff item18%
    3822Diagnostic 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 materials11 tariff items5%
    3823Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids; acid oils from refining; industrial fatty alcohols13 tariff items18%
    3824Prepared 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 included58 tariff items18%
    3825Residual products of the chemical or allied industries, not elsewhere specified or included, municipal waste, sewage sludge, other wastes specified in note 6 to this chapter9 tariff items0% or 18%
    3826Biodiesel and mixtures thereof, not containing or containing less than 70 % by weight of petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals1 tariff item5% or 18%
    3827Mixtures containing halogenated derivatives of methane, ethane or propane, not elsewhere specified or included19 tariff items18%

    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.

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    What chapter 38 covers

    Chapter 38 of the tariff is "Miscellaneous chemical products". It has 27 four-digit headings and 314 eight-digit tariff items, such as 3801 (Artificial graphite, colloidal or semi-colloidal graphite,), 3802 (Activated carbon; activated natural mineral products;), 3803 (Tall oil, whether or not refined).

    GST rates in chapter 38

    Most of its tariff items are taxed at 18%. By tariff item: 184 at 18%, 11 at 5%. For 119 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 38 goods?

    Most of its tariff items are taxed at 18%. Of the 314 eight-digit codes in chapter 38, 184 at 18%, 11 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 3801?

    Heading 3801 is "Artificial graphite, colloidal or semi-colloidal graphite, preparations based on graphite or other carbon in the form of pastes, blocks, plates or other semi-manufactures". GST: 18%.

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