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HSN Chapter 44: Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal

Every heading of Chapter 44 with its GST rate and basic customs duty. Open a heading for the eight-digit codes, export policy and RoDTEP.

Checked against the official files on 2 October 2026
Headings21

Four-digit headings in this chapter.

Customs Tariff · First Schedule · Ch. 44
Eight-digit codes259

Tariff items under those headings.

Customs Tariff · First Schedule · Ch. 44
GST rates in the chapter5% / 18%

Rates at which the rate Schedules, as amended to April 2026, name these headings.

Notfn 9/2025-CT (Rate)
Basic customs duty5% / 10%

Standard tariff rates across the chapter, with Finance Act changes applied.

CBIC tariff · 30 June 2024
Chapter 44

Headings in HSN Chapter 44

The GST column shows the rate or rates at which Notification 9/2025-Central Tax (Rate) names the heading; a heading named nowhere takes the residual 18%. The duty column is the basic customs duty in the Customs Tariff.

HeadingDescriptionGST rateBasic customs dutyCodes
4401Fuel wood, in logs, in billets, in twigs, in faggots or in similar forms; wood in chips or particles; sawdust and wood waste and scrap, whether or not agglomerated in logs, briquettes…5% / 18%5%11
4402Wood charcoal (including shell or nut charcoal), whether or not agglomerated5% / 18%5%4
4403Wood in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or sapwood, or roughly squared5% / 18%5%47
4404Hoopwood; split poles; piles, pickets and stakes of wood, pointed but not sawn lengthwise; wooden sticks, roughly trimmed but not turned, bent or otherwise worked, suitable for the…5% / 18%10%4
4405Wood wool; wood flour5% / 18%10%1
4406Railway or tramway sleepers (crossties) of wood5% / 18%10%4
4407Wood sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or end-jointed, of a thickness exceeding 6 mm5% / 18%10%23
4408Sheets for veneering (including those obtained by slicing laminated wood), for plywood or for similar laminated wood and other wood, sawn lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed…5% / 18%10%15
4409Wood (including strips and friezes for parquet flooring, not assembled) continuously shaped (tongued, grooved, rebated, chamfered, v-jointed, beaded, moulded, rounded or the like) along any…5% / 18%10%8
4410Particle board, oriented strand board (osb) and similar board (for example, waferboard) of wood or other ligneous materials, whether or not agglomerated with resins or other organic binding…5% / 18%10%13
4411Fibre board of wood or other ligneous materials, whether or not bonded with resins or other organic substances5% / 18%10%17
4412Plywood, veneered panels and similar laminated wood5% / 18%10%43
4413Densified wood, in blocks, plates, strips or profile shapes5% / 18%10%1
4414Wooden frames for paintings, photographs, mirrors or similar objects5% / 18%10%2
4415Packing cases, boxes, crates, drums and similar packings, of wood; cable-drums of wood; pallets, box pallets and other load boards, of wood; pallet collars of wood5% / 18%10%2
4416Casks, barrels, vats, tubs and other coopers’ products and parts thereof, of wood, including staves5% / 18%10%4
4417Tools, tool bodies, tool handles, broom or brush bodies and handles, of wood; boot or shoe lasts and trees, of wood5% / 18%10%1
4418Builders’ joinery and carpentry of wood, including cellular wood panels, assembled flooring panels, shingles and shakes5% / 18%10%22
4419Tableware and kitchenware, of wood5% / 18%10%7
4420Wood marquetry and inlaid wood; caskets and cases for jewellery or cutlery, and similar articles, of wood; statuettes and other ornaments, of wood; wooden articles of furniture not falling…5% / 18%10%4
4421Other articles of wood5% / 18%10%26

Where a heading shows more than one rate, the rate depends on the description of the goods. Open the heading to read the entries.

Official documents behind this page

  1. Notification No. 9/2025-Central Tax (Rate), 17 September 2025GST rate Schedules I to VI, in force from 22 September 2025, as amended by Notification No. 19/2025-Central Tax (Rate) of 31 December 2025 (Schedule VII omitted from 1 February 2026) and No. 01/2026 of 30 April 2026.
  2. Customs Tariff, First ScheduleCBIC Customs Tariff as on 30 June 2024, with the First Schedule amendments of the Finance (No. 2) Act, 2024, the Finance Act, 2025 and the Finance Act, 2026 applied.

Disclaimer: This guide is general information based on the law and notifications in force when it was last updated. It is not professional advice for your case — rates, thresholds and due dates change, so check the current position or speak to our CA team before you act on it.

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Short, direct answers to the 2 questions readers ask most on this topic.

Chapter 44 (Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal) has 21 four-digit headings and 259 eight-digit tariff items in the Customs Tariff.

Find the four-digit heading that describes the product, open it, and match the product to the entry of Notification No. 9/2025-Central Tax (Rate) shown there. If no entry names the goods, the residual 18% entry applies unless the goods are exempt.