HSN Code and GST Tax rate for Pharmaceutical products under section-6 chapter-30
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When HSN Code is required for Pharmaceutical products?
If the trader’s trades for Pharmaceutical products then they will have to use the HSN CODE for the Pharmaceutical products in the invoice or in the GST Return for identifications of the Pharmaceutical products.
According to the chapter-30 of section-6 – Notes
This Chapter does not cover:
(a) foods or beverages (such as dietetic, diabetic or fortified foods, food supplements, tonic beverages, and mineral waters), other than nutritional preparations for intravenous administration (Section IV);
(b) Preparations, such as tablets, chewing gum or patches (transdermal systems) intended to assist smokers to stop smoking ( heading 2106 or 3824);
(c) plasters specially calcined or finely ground for use in dentistry (heading 2520);
(d) aqueous distillates or aqueous solutions of essential oil, suitable for medicinal uses (heading3301);
(e) preparations of headings 3303 to 3307, even if they have therapeutic or prophylactic properties;
(f) soap or other products of heading 3401 containing added medicaments;
(g) preparations with a basis of plaster for use in dentistry (heading 3407); or
(h) blood albumin not prepared for therapeutic or prophylactic uses (heading 3502).
HSN Code for Pharmaceutical products
GOODS DESCRIPTION | HSN CODE Chapter/ Heading |
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Glands and other organs for organo-therapeutic uses, dried, whether or not powdered; extracts of glands or other organs or of their secretions for organo-therapeutic uses; heparin and its salts; other human or animal substances prepared for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, not elsewhere specified or included | 3001 |
Human blood; animal blood prepared for therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic uses; antisera, other blood fractions, and immunological products, whether or not modified or obtained by means of biotechnological processes; vaccines, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms (excluding yeasts) and similar products ; | 3002 |
Medicaments (excluding goods of heading 3002, 3005 or 3006) consisting of two or more constituents which have been mixed together for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, not put up in measured doses or in forms or packings for retail sale | 3003 |
Medicaments (excluding goods of heading 3002, 3005 or 3006) consisting of mixed or unmixed products for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, put up in measured doses (including those in the form of transdermal administration systems) or in forms or packings for retail sale | 3004 |
Wadding, gauze, bandages and similar articles (for example, dressings, adhesive plasters, poultices), impregnated or coated with pharmaceutical substances or put up in forms or packings for retail sale for medical, surgical, dental or veterinary purposes | 3005 |
Pharmaceutical goods specified in Note 4 to this chapter | 3006 |
GST Tax rate for Pharmaceutical products
GOODS DESCRIPTION | HSN CODE Chapter/ Heading | GST TAX RATE |
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Glands and other organs for organo-therapeutic uses, dried, whether or not powdered; extracts of glands or other organs or of their secretions for organo-therapeutic uses; heparin and its salts; other human or animal substances prepared for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, not elsewhere specified or included | 3001 | 12% |
Human blood; animal blood prepared for therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic uses; antisera, other blood fractions, and immunological products, whether or not modified or obtained by means of biotechnological processes; vaccines, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms (excluding yeasts) and similar products ; | 3002 | |
Human Blood and its components | 3002 | NIL |
Animal blood prepared for therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic uses; antisera and other blood fractions and modified immunological products, whether or not obtained by means of biotechnological processes; toxins, cultures of micro-organisms (excluding yeasts) and similar products | 3002 | 12% |
Animal or Human Blood Vaccines | 3002, 3006 | 5% |
Medicaments (excluding goods of heading 3002, 3005 or 3006) consisting of two or more constituents which have been mixed together for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, not put up in measured doses or in forms or packings for retail sale | 3003 | 12% |
Medicaments (excluding goods of heading 3002, 3005 or 3006) consisting of mixed or unmixed products for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, put up in measured doses (including those in the form of transdermal administration systems) or in forms or packings for retail sale | 3004 | 12% |
Wadding, gauze, bandages and similar articles (for example, dressings, adhesive plasters, poultices), impregnated or coated with pharmaceutical substances or put up in forms or packings for retail sale for medical, surgical, dental or veterinary purposes | 3005 | 12% |
Pharmaceutical goods specified in Note 4 to this chapter | 3006 | |
All types of contraceptives | 3006 | NIL |
Pharmaceutical goods specified in Note 4 to this Chapter [i.e. Sterile surgical catgut, similar sterile suture materials (including sterile absorbable surgical or dental yarns) and sterile tissue adhesives for surgical wound closure; sterile laminaria and sterile laminaria tents; sterile absorbable surgical or dental haemostatics; sterile surgical or dental adhesion barriers, whether or not absorbable; Waste pharmaceuticals] [other than contraceptives] | 3006 | 12% |
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