About Chapter 30
Chapter 30 of the Harmonized System of Nomenclature (HSN) is titled “Pharmaceutical products”. It is part of Section VI, Chemical Products, together with Chapter 28 (inorganic chemicals), Chapter 29 (organic chemicals), Chapter 31 (fertilisers), Chapter 32 (tanning or dyeing extracts; tannins and their derivatives), Chapter 33 (essential oils, perfumes, cosmetics), Chapter 34 (soap, organic surface-active agents, washing preparations), Chapter 35 (albuminoidal substances; modified starches; glues; enzymes), Chapter 36 (explosives; pyrotechnic products; matches; pyrophoric alloys), Chapter 37 (photographic or cinematographic goods) and Chapter 38 (miscellaneous chemical products).
The chapter is divided into 6 headings, from 3001 (glands and other organs for organo-therapeutic uses, dried) to 3006 (pharmaceutical goods specified in note 4 to this chapter). The headings with the most codes that people search for are medicaments in measured doses (3004), medicaments not in measured doses (3003), pharmaceutical goods specified in note 4 to this chapter (3006) and wadding, gauze and bandages (3005).
Note 1 keeps foods and beverages out of the chapter, among them dietetic, diabetic and fortified foods, food supplements, tonic beverages and mineral waters; only nutritional preparations for intravenous administration stay. Tablets, chewing gum and patches that help smokers stop go to heading 2106 or 3824.
Every heading is listed below. Under each are the codes that have their own page on Laabam One, 12 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 30: 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 30, DGCI&S (title, headings and notes); Notification No. 78/2020 – Central Tax (HSN digits on invoices).