About Chapter 20
Chapter 20 of the Harmonized System of Nomenclature (HSN) is titled “Preparations of vegetables, fruit, nuts or other parts of plants”. It is part of Section IV, Prepared Foodstuffs, Beverages, Tobacco, together with Chapter 16 (preparations of meat, of fish, of crustaceans), Chapter 17 (sugars and sugar confectionery), Chapter 18 (cocoa and cocoa preparations), Chapter 19 (preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk), Chapter 21 (miscellaneous edible preparations), Chapter 22 (beverages, spirits and vinegar), Chapter 23 (residues and waste from the food industries) and Chapter 24 (tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes, products).
The chapter is divided into 9 headings, from 2001 (vegetables, fruit, nuts and other edible parts of plants) to 2009 (fruit or nut juices and vegetable juices, unfermented and not containing added spirit). The headings with the most codes that people search for are fruit, nuts and other edible parts of plants, otherwise prepared or preserved (2008), fruit or nut juices and vegetable juices, unfermented and not containing added spirit (2009), vegetables, fruit, nuts and other edible parts of plants (2001), tomatoes prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid (2002) and other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid (2005).
Under Note 2, fruit jellies, fruit pastes and sugar-coated almonds in the form of sugar confectionery are not classified in headings 2007 and 2008, and Note 1 leaves bakers' wares to heading 1905.
Every heading is listed below. Under each are the codes that have their own page on Laabam One, 10 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 20: 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 20, DGCI&S (title, headings and notes); Notification No. 78/2020 – Central Tax (HSN digits on invoices).