HSN Code 251612

Reading code 251612

The first two digits (25) place this code in chapter 25 — Salt, Sulphur, Earths, Stone, Cement. Heading 2516 groups the product family, and the remaining digits pin down this specific 6-digit classification. Remember: you can never invent a shorter code by truncating a longer one — only codes that exist in the official tariff are valid.

Salt, natural stone, sand, gypsum, lime, and cement. Cement attracts the 28% slab — a major line item for construction businesses.

Parent heading

2516 — Granite, porphyry, basalt, sandstone and other monumental or building stone, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape

More specific codes under 251612

• 25161200 — Merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape

Related codes in heading 2516

• 251611 — Granite, porphyry, basalt, sandstone and other monumental or building stone, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape — crude or roughly trimmed
• 251620 — Granite, porphyry, basalt, sandstone and other monumental or building stone, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape — sandstone
• 251690 — Granite, porphyry, basalt, sandstone and other monumental or building stone, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape — other monumental or building stone