HSN code · Customs Tariff of India · No longer a tariff item
38089990 is no longer a tariff item in the Customs Tariff of India. The Finance Act 2025, Third Schedule, replaced tariff item 3808 99 90 (“Other”) with effect from 1 May 2025; 5 lines under sub-heading 3808 99 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 99 90 read Other
, 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 items 3808 99 10 and 3808 99 90 and the entries relating thereto, the following shall be substituted”). 3808 99 90 is not among the lines it inserted, so the code stopped being a tariff item on 1 May 2025.
The 5 lines listed below share the goods. Each has its own GST rate entries, shown on its page.
Where the goods went
5 tariff items of the Customs Tariff of India share the goods of 38089990. Grouped as the tariff prints them. All sit under sub-heading 3808 99 (“Other”) of heading 3808.
3808 99 113808 99 123808 99 913808 99 923808 99 99Each 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 15 to this Chapter→
3808 99 11Goods specified in Supplementary Note 16 to this Chapter→
3808 99 12Containing bromomethane (methyl bromide) or bromochloromethane→
3808 99 91Pesticides, not elsewhere specified or included→
3808 99 92Other(goods of this group not named in another line) →
3808 99 99Start with the group: the tariff divides these lines into 2 groups, each headed by its own wording. Pick the group that describes your goods, then the line within it.
A line reading “Other” takes the goods of its group that no other line in the group names. Specific lines come before “Other”.
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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