HSN code · Customs Tariff of India · GST rate
30024200 is the 8-digit HSN code for “Vaccines, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms (excluding yeasts) and similar products: Vaccines for veterinary medicine”: tariff item 3002 42 00 under heading 3002 of the Customs Tariff of India. The GST rate depends on the goods: the entries for this code carry 5%, 18% or nil. Search a code or product below, or copy the code for your invoice.
This code
Chapter 30Heading 3002Sub-heading 3002 42Tariff item 3002 42 00
Vaccines, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms (excluding yeasts) and similar products: Vaccines for veterinary medicine
Tariff item 3002 42 00 · Heading 3002 · Chapter 30, Customs Tariff of India
The code
What the code covers in the Customs Tariff of India, and the GST rate entries that apply to it.
300242008 digits: 30 + 02 + 42 + 003002 42 00Vaccines for veterinary medicineHow to read it
An HSN code is built in layers. Each pair of digits narrows the one before it: 2 digits = chapter, 4 = heading, 6 = sub-heading, 8 = tariff item in the Customs Tariff of India.
The broadest layer. Chapter 30 covers pharmaceutical products. It sits in Section VI, products of the chemical or allied industries.
Human blood; animal blood prepared for therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic uses; antisera, other blood fractions and immunological products, whether or not modified or obtained by means of biotechnological processes; vaccines, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms (excluding yeasts) and other similar products; cell cultures, whether or not modified;.
3002 42 is the 6-digit level of this tariff item. Between the heading and the item the Customs Tariff prints the line “Vaccines, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms (excluding yeasts) and similar products”.
Vaccines for veterinary medicine. The full 8-digit code used in the Customs Tariff of India and on invoices that show the complete HSN.
Unit of quantity: kg.
GST rate
11 entries of the GST rate notifications name this code's heading or particular goods in its chapter, and they carry 5%, 18% or nil. No single rate is stated for 30024200 here; read each entry's official description against your goods.
| Entry | Tariff column, as printed | Description, as printed | GST rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entries that cite 3002; 3002, 3006 (this code's heading) | |||
| Schedule I, S. No. 231Notification No. 9/2025-Integrated Tax (Rate)Central Tax: Notification No. 9/2025-Central Tax (Rate) | 3002 | Animal blood prepared for therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic uses; antisera and other blood fractions and modified immunological products, whether or not obtained by means of biotechnological processes; toxins, cultures of micro-organisms (excluding yeasts) and similar products; cell cultures whether or not modified | 5%IGST 5% · CGST 2.5% · SGST/UTGST 2.5%From 22 September 2025 |
| Schedule I, S. No. 232Notification No. 9/2025-Integrated Tax (Rate)Central Tax: Notification No. 9/2025-Central Tax (Rate) | 3002, 3006 | Animal or Human Blood Vaccines | 5%IGST 5% · CGST 2.5% · SGST/UTGST 2.5%From 22 September 2025 |
| S. No. 114Notification No. 10/2025-Integrated Tax (Rate) (exemption)Central Tax: Notification No. 10/2025-Central Tax (Rate) | 3002 | Human Blood and its components | Nilexempt · IGST, CGST and SGST/UTGST nilFrom 22 September 2025 |
| Entries for particular goods in chapter 30 | |||
| Schedule I, S. No. 224Notification No. 9/2025-Integrated Tax (Rate)Central Tax: Notification No. 9/2025-Central Tax (Rate)Column (2) of this entry is being checked against the Gazette copy. | 2906 11 10, 30, 3301 | Following goods from Natural Menthol namely:- a. Menthol and menthol crystals, b. Peppermint (Mentha Oil), c. Fractionated / de-terpenated mentha oil (DTMO) d. De-mentholised oil (DMO), e. Spearmint oil f. Mentha piperita oil | 5%IGST 5% · CGST 2.5% · SGST/UTGST 2.5%From 22 September 2025 |
| Schedule I, S. No. 225Notification No. 9/2025-Integrated Tax (Rate)Central Tax: Notification No. 9/2025-Central Tax (Rate) | 30 | Insulin, Cyclosporin, Desferrioxamine injection or deferiprone, Oral re-hydration salts | 5%IGST 5% · CGST 2.5% · SGST/UTGST 2.5%From 22 September 2025 |
| Schedule I, S. No. 226Notification No. 9/2025-Integrated Tax (Rate)Central Tax: Notification No. 9/2025-Central Tax (Rate) | 30 or any Chapter | All Drugs and medicines including their salts and esters and diagnostic test kits; formulations manufactured from bulk drugs [other than those specified at nil at S. No. 113 of notification No. 10/2025-Integrated Tax (Rate) dated 17th September, 2025] | 5%IGST 5% · CGST 2.5% · SGST/UTGST 2.5%From 22 September 2025 |
| Schedule I, S. No. 227Notification No. 9/2025-Integrated Tax (Rate)Central Tax: Notification No. 9/2025-Central Tax (Rate) | 30 | Diagnostic kits for detection of all types of hepatitis | 5%IGST 5% · CGST 2.5% · SGST/UTGST 2.5%From 22 September 2025 |
| Schedule I, S. No. 228Notification No. 9/2025-Integrated Tax (Rate)Central Tax: Notification No. 9/2025-Central Tax (Rate) | 30 | Medicaments (including veterinary medicaments) used in bio-chemic systems | 5%IGST 5% · CGST 2.5% · SGST/UTGST 2.5%From 22 September 2025 |
| Schedule I, S. No. 229Notification No. 9/2025-Integrated Tax (Rate)Central Tax: Notification No. 9/2025-Central Tax (Rate) | 30 | Medicaments (including those used in Ayurvedic, Unani, Siddha, Homeopathic or Bio-chemic systems), manufactured exclusively in accordance with the formulae described in the authoritative books specified in the First Schedule to the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 (23 of 1940) or Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of India or the United States of America or the United Kingdom or the German Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia, as the case may be, and sold under the name as specified in such books or pharmacopoeia | 5%IGST 5% · CGST 2.5% · SGST/UTGST 2.5%From 22 September 2025 |
| Schedule II, S. No. 38Notification No. 9/2025-Integrated Tax (Rate)Central Tax: Notification No. 9/2025-Central Tax (Rate)Column (2) of this entry is being checked against the Gazette copy. | 29061190, 30, 3301 | Following goods made from other than natural menthol, namely:- a. Menthol and menthol crystals, b. Peppermint (Mentha Oil) c. Fractionated / de-terpenated mentha oil (DTMO) d. De-mentholised oil (DMO) e. Spearmint oil f. Mentha piperita oil | 18%IGST 18% · CGST 9% · SGST/UTGST 9%From 22 September 2025 |
| S. No. 113Notification No. 10/2025-Integrated Tax (Rate) (exemption)Central Tax: Notification No. 10/2025-Central Tax (Rate) | 30 or any other Chapter | Drugs or medicines listed in Annexure I | Nilexempt · IGST, CGST and SGST/UTGST nilFrom 22 September 2025 |
Each entry applies only to the goods it describes. If none describes your goods, the entry for goods not specified elsewhere applies: Schedule II, S. No. 639, 18%: “Goods which are not specified in Schedule I, III, IV, V, VI or VII”.
Rates are IGST on inter-State supplies; on supplies within a State the same rate is split equally between CGST and SGST/UTGST, under Notification No. 9/2025-Central Tax (Rate) with the same S. Nos. Exemptions: Notification No. 10/2025-Central Tax (Rate).
On your invoice
Notification No. 78/2020-Central Tax dated 15.10.2020 sets the minimum number of HSN digits on B2B tax invoices from 1 April 2021, by the business's aggregate turnover in the previous year.
Businesses with aggregate turnover up to ₹5 crore in the previous year show at least the heading, 3002, on B2B tax invoices.
Above ₹5 crore, at least the sub-heading, 300242, goes on B2B tax invoices.
Many businesses show the full 30024200, the tariff item itself.
Rate history
Rate depends on the goods
Notification No. 9/2025-Integrated Tax (Rate) and No. 9/2025-Central Tax (Rate) dated 17.09.2025 (as corrected 18.09.2025), which superseded Notification No. 1/2017-Integrated Tax (Rate) dated 28.06.2017; exemptions under Notification No. 10/2025. The 11 entries in force from this date are listed in the GST rate section above.
Earlier rates under Notification 1/2017 are not shown here
Notification No. 1/2017-Integrated Tax (Rate) dated 28.06.2017 applied until it was superseded by Notification 9/2025.
Related codes
Heading 3002, human blood; animal blood prepared for therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic uses; antisera, other blood fractions and immunological products, whether or not modified or obtained by means of biotechnological processes; vaccines, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms (excluding yeasts) and other similar products; cell cultures, whether or not modified;. The codes below sit closest to 30024200 in the Customs Tariff of India: the other tariff items under heading 3002. Each is shown in the official wording and has its own page with its GST rate entries. Use the search above for any other code.
30024910Tariff item 3002 49 1030024990Tariff item 3002 49 9030025100Tariff item 3002 51 0030029010Tariff item 3002 90 1030029090Tariff item 3002 90 9030021240Tariff item 3002 12 4030021290Tariff item 3002 12 9030021300Tariff item 3002 13 0030024200, this page's code, is tariff item 3002 42 00 under the same heading.
Questions
It depends on the goods: 11 entries of the rate notifications name this code's heading or particular goods in its chapter, and they carry 5%, 18% or nil: Schedule I, S. No. 231 (5%); Schedule I, S. No. 232 (5%); Notification 10/2025-Integrated Tax (Rate), S. No. 114 (nil); Schedule I, S. No. 224 (5%); Schedule I, S. No. 225 (5%); Schedule I, S. No. 226 (5%); Schedule I, S. No. 227 (5%); Schedule I, S. No. 228 (5%); Schedule I, S. No. 229 (5%); Schedule II, S. No. 38 (18%); Notification 10/2025-Integrated Tax (Rate), S. No. 113 (nil). Each entry applies only to the goods it describes; if none describes your goods, Schedule II, S. No. 639 (18%) applies. The full wording of every entry is in the GST rate section above.
At least 4 digits if your aggregate turnover in the previous year was up to ₹5 crore, and at least 6 digits above ₹5 crore, on B2B tax invoices (Notification No. 78/2020-Central Tax dated 15.10.2020, from 1 April 2021). For this code that is 3002 or 300242; many businesses use the full 30024200.
Tariff item 3002 42 00 of the Customs Tariff of India, First Schedule: “Vaccines for veterinary medicine”, under the line “Vaccines, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms (excluding yeasts) and similar products”, heading 3002 (“Human blood; animal blood prepared for therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic uses; antisera, other blood fractions and immunological products, whether or not modified or obtained by means of biotechnological processes; vaccines, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms (excluding yeasts) and other similar products; cell cultures, whether or not modified;”), in chapter 30 (pharmaceutical products), Section VI (products of the chemical or allied industries). Unit of quantity: kg.
About this page
The section, chapter, heading, sub-heading and tariff item on this page are taken from the Customs Tariff of India, First Schedule (Customs Tariff Act, 1975), CBIC edition as on 30 June 2024, with the tariff-line changes of the Finance (No. 2) Act 2024, Finance Act 2025 and Finance Act 2026 applied. The GST entries are taken from Notification No. 9/2025-Integrated Tax (Rate) and No. 9/2025-Central Tax (Rate) dated 17.09.2025 (as corrected 18.09.2025), as amended by Notifications 19/2025 and 01/2026; exemptions: Notification No. 10/2025.
This is reference information for classification and invoicing. It is not advice on how your own goods should be classified, and the official tariff and notifications prevail if the two ever differ. A change in the tariff or in a rate notification re-opens this page for an update.
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