About Chapter 08
Chapter 08 of the Harmonized System of Nomenclature (HSN) is titled “Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruit or melons”. It is part of Section II, Vegetable Products, together with Chapter 06 (live trees and other plants, bulbs, roots and the like), Chapter 07 (edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers), Chapter 09 (coffee, tea, mate and spices), Chapter 10 (cereals), Chapter 11 (products of the milling industry; malt; starches; inulin), Chapter 12 (oil seeds and oleaginous fruits, miscellaneous grains), Chapter 13 (lac; gums, resins and other vegetable saps and extracts) and Chapter 14 (vegetable plaiting materials).
The chapter is divided into 14 headings, from 0801 (coconuts, brazil nuts and cashew nuts, fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled) to 0814 (peel of citrus fruit or melons, fresh, frozen, dried or provisionally preserved in brine). The headings with the most codes that people search for are dates, figs, pineapples, avocados, guavas, mangoes, and mangosteens, fresh or dried (0804), other fruit, fresh (0810), fruit, dried, other than that of headings 0801 to 0806 (0813), other nuts, fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled (0802) and melons (including watermelons) and papaws (papayas), fresh (0807).
Note 2 classifies chilled fruit and nuts in the same heading as the corresponding fresh fruit and nuts, and Note 1 leaves inedible nuts and fruits out of the chapter.
Every heading is listed below. Under each are the codes that have their own page on Laabam One, 18 codes in this chapter, each with its full classification: its chapter, heading and sub-heading, and the codes beside it.
Every code in this chapter begins with 08: four digits make a heading, six a sub-heading, and eight a tariff item of India's Customs Tariff. How many of those digits a GST tax invoice shows depends on the business, not the goods: under Notification No. 78/2020 – Central Tax, from 1 April 2021, four digits where aggregate turnover in the previous financial year was up to ₹5 crore, and six above it. Up to ₹5 crore, the code may be left off invoices to unregistered buyers.
No GST rate is shown here. GST rates were revised in September 2025, and a rate appears on this site only once it has been checked against the CBIC rate notifications.
Sources: ITC(HS) Chapter 08, DGCI&S (title, headings and notes); Notification No. 78/2020 – Central Tax (HSN digits on invoices).