The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For manufacture of edible animal oils and fats, that activity is 10403.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
10403 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for manufacture of edible animal oils and fats: a sub-class of class 1040, manufacture of vegetable and animal oils and fats, within division 10, manufacture of food products. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 10Group 104Class 1040Sub-class 10403
Manufacture of edible animal oils and fats
Sub-class 10403 · Class 1040 · Group 104 · Division 10 · Section C, NIC 2008
The code
Where the code sits in the National Industrial Classification 2008, from section to sub-class, in the official wording.
104035 digits: 10 + 4 + 0 + 3NIC 2025 · Notice dated 16 October 2026
On 18 November 2025 the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation released NIC 2025, which uses 6-digit codes aligned with the UN's ISIC Revision 5. This page shows the NIC 2008 code 10403. The matching NIC 2025 code will be added here once it is mapped from MoSPI's official concordance.
How to read it
An NIC code is built in layers. Each digit narrows the one before it: the division, the group, the class, and finally the 5-digit sub-class. Divisions themselves are grouped under lettered sections.
The broadest numbered layer. Division 10 covers manufacture of food products. It sits in section C, manufacturing.
Manufacture of vegetable and animal oils and fats.
Manufacture of vegetable and animal oils and fats. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Manufacture of edible animal oils and fats. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
10403 is a sub-class of class 1040, manufacture of vegetable and animal oils and fats. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class excludes:
- - rendering and refining of lard and other edible animal fats, see 1010
- - wet corn milling, see 1062
- - production of essential oils, see 2029
- - treatment of oil and fats by chemical processes, see 2029
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 10403 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For manufacture of edible animal oils and fats, that activity is 10403.
The company incorporation form asks for the main industrial activity of the proposed company by NIC code.
Not GST. GST registration does not use NIC codes; goods and services there are classified by HSN and SAC codes.
Choosing the right code
10403 is for manufacture of edible animal oils and fats. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: the other sub-classes of class 1040. Each has its own page with the official wording.
10405Class 1040 · another sub-class of the same class10406Class 1040 · another sub-class of the same class10409Class 1040 · another sub-class of the same class10401Class 1040 · another sub-class of the same class10402Class 1040 · another sub-class of the same classClass 1040 has 8 sub-classes in NIC 2008, including 10403. 5 of the others are shown here.
Questions
Manufacture of edible animal oils and fats, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 1040, manufacture of vegetable and animal oils and fats.
Class 1040, manufacture of vegetable and animal oils and fats, has 8 sub-classes in NIC 2008. Besides 10403, those with a page here are: 10405 (Manufacture of non-edible animal oil and fats); 10406 (Manufacture of oil cakes & meals incl. residual products, e.g.); 10409 (Manufacture of other vegetable oil, animal oil and fats n.e.c); 10401 (Manufacture of hydrogenated oil and vanaspati ghee); 10402 (Manufacture of vegetable oils and fats excluding corn oil).
In Udyam Registration, which asks for the business activity by NIC code, and in the SPICe+ company incorporation form, which asks for the main industrial activity by NIC code. GST registration does not use NIC codes.
About this page
The section, division, group, class and sub-class on this page, and the explanatory note for class 1040, are taken word for word from the official document “National Industrial Classification (All Economic Activities) 2008”, Central Statistical Organisation, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India.
This is reference information on the classification of a business activity. It is not advice on which code your own business should declare, and the official NIC document prevails if the two ever differ. A change in the classification, including the MoSPI concordance to NIC 2025, re-opens this page for checking.
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