About Chapter 68
Chapter 68 of the Harmonized System of Nomenclature (HSN) is titled “Articles of stone, plaster, cement, asbestos, mica or similar materials”. It is part of Section XIII, Stone, Cement, Ceramic & Glass, together with Chapter 69 (ceramic products) and Chapter 70 (glass and glassware).
The chapter is divided into 15 headings, from 6801 (setts, curbstones and flagstones, of natural stone (except slate)) to 6815 (articles of stone or of other mineral substances, not elsewhere specified or included). The headings with the most codes that people search for are millstones, grindstones, grinding wheels and the like, without frameworks, for grinding (6804), slag wool, rock wool and similar mineral wools (6806), articles of cement, of concrete or of artificial stone, whether or not reinforced (6810), worked monumental or building stone and articles thereof, other than goods of heading 6801 (6802) and natural or artificial abrasive powder or grain, on a base of textile material, of paper (6805).
Note 1 leaves the goods of Chapter 25 out of this chapter of articles, and sends lithographic stones to heading 8442, electrical insulators to heading 8546 and articles of Chapter 71 to that chapter.
Every heading is listed below. Under each are the codes that have their own page on Laabam One, 14 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 68: 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 68, DGCI&S (title, headings and notes); Notification No. 78/2020 – Central Tax (HSN digits on invoices).