HSN code · Customs Tariff of India · No longer a tariff item
38089340 is no longer a tariff item in the Customs Tariff of India. The Finance Act 2025, Third Schedule, replaced tariff item 3808 93 40 (“Plant growth regulators”) with effect from 1 May 2025; 3 lines under sub-heading 3808 93 now take its place. The lines, and how to choose between them, are below.
Status of this code
Not a tariff item in the current Customs Tariff of India
The change
The Finance Act schedule that replaced the line, with its date, and what is in force now.
In the CBIC edition as on 30 June 2024 of the Customs Tariff of India, tariff item 3808 93 40 read Plant growth regulators
, under heading 3808 (“Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, anti-sprouting products and plant-growth regulators, disinfectants and similar products, put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles (for example, sulphur-treated bands, wicks and candles, and fly-papers)”).
The Act substituted the tariff lines (“for tariff item 3808 93 40 and the entries relating thereto, the following shall be substituted”). 3808 93 40 is not among the lines it inserted, so the code stopped being a tariff item on 1 May 2025.
The 3 lines listed below share the goods. Each has its own GST rate entries, shown on its page.
Where the goods went
3 tariff items of the Customs Tariff of India share the goods of 38089340. Grouped as the tariff prints them. All sit under sub-heading 3808 93 (“Herbicides, anti-sprouting products and plant-growth regulators”) of heading 3808.
3808 93 413808 93 423808 93 49Each line is quoted from the Customs Tariff of India as printed. These lines are listed by code and wording only.
Choosing a line
Match your goods to the official wording. Only the Customs Tariff's own words are used below; nothing is added to them.
Goods specified in Supplementary Note 12 to this Chapter→
3808 93 41Goods specified in Supplementary Note 13 to this Chapter→
3808 93 42Other(goods of this group not named in another line) →
3808 93 49Pick the line whose wording names your goods.
A line reading “Other” takes the goods of its group that no other line in the group names. Specific lines come before “Other”.
The group headed “Plant growth regulators” carries the wording of the old line 3808 93 40; goods that matched the old line fall in one of its lines.
GST rates are not repeated here: each current code's page shows its own GST rate entries.
About this page
The old line and its wording are taken from the CBIC edition as on 30 June 2024. The change is the Finance Act 2025, Third Schedule, with effect from 1 May 2025. The current lines are taken from the Customs Tariff with the Finance Act changes applied.
This is reference information on a code that is no longer a tariff item. 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 re-opens this page for an update.
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