HSN code list by chapter
HSN Code List Chapter 25: Salt, earths and stone, lime and cement
Common salt is exempt. Cement was reduced to 18% from 22 September 2025. Marble, granite blocks and natural sand are generally taxed at 5%, and other minerals at 5% or 18%.
HSN headings in this chapter
2501
Salt (including table salt and denatured salt) and pure
2502
Unroasted iron pyrites
2503
Sulphur of all kinds, other than sublimed sulphur, precipated
2504
Natural graphite
2505
Natural sands of all kinds, whether or not coloured
2506
Quartz (other than natural sands)
2507
Kaolin and other kaolinic clays, whether or not calcined
2508
Other clays (not including expanded clays of heading 6806)
2509
Chalk
2510
Natural calcium phosphates, natural aluminium calcium
2511
Natural barium sulphate (barytes)
2512
Siliceous fossil meals
2513
Pumice stones
2514
Pumice stones
2515
Marble, travertine, ecaussine and other calcareous monumental
2516
Granite, porphyry, basalt, sandstone and other monumental
2517
Pebbles, gravel, broken or crushed stone, of a kind commonly
2518
Dolomite, whether or not calcined or sintered
2519
Natural magnesium carbonate (magnesite)
2520
Gypsum
2521
Limestone flux
2522
Quicklime, slaked lime and hydraulic lime, other than calcium
2523
Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag cement, supersulphate
2524
Asbestos
2525
Mica, including splittings
2526
Natural steatite, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely
2528
Natural borates and concentrates thereof
2529
Feldspar
2530
Mineral substances
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