Antibiotics
In plain English
This category covers organic chemicals known as antibiotics. The specific types are divided into groups based on their chemical structure, including penicillins, streptomycins, tetracyclines, chloramphenicol, and erythromycin, along with their respective salts and derivatives. Any antibiotics that do not fit into these specific structural categories are placed in a separate group for items not elsewhere classified.
6-digit subheadings (6)
Official HS 2022 subheading texts. National tariff schedules subdivide these further (8-10 digit lines) and set the actual duty rates.
Antibiotics; penicillins and their derivatives with a penicillanic acid structure; salts thereof
Antibiotics; streptomycins and their derivatives; salts thereof
Antibiotics; tetracyclines and their derivatives; salts thereof
Antibiotics; chloramphenicol and its derivatives; salts thereof
Antibiotics; erythromycin and its derivatives; salts thereof
Antibiotics; n.e.c. in heading no. 2941
Chapter 29 classification notes
Frequent misclassification in this chapter
Finished medicaments: Chapter 30 (3004). Agricultural pesticides: Chapter 38 (3808) when formulated; raw active ingredients may be Chapter 29. Essential oils: Chapter 33 when perfumery-grade.
Classification certainty
The 6-digit level shown here is the internationally harmonised layer. Duty rates attach to national 8-10 digit tariff lines, which differ by country — use the duty calculator for lane estimates. For binding certainty, request a ruling from the destination customs authority.
Binding tariff ruling databaseOther headings in Chapter 29
- 2901 — Acyclic hydrocarbons
- 2902 — Cyclic hydrocarbons
- 2903 — Halogenated derivatives of hydrocarbons
- 2904 — Sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives of hydrocarbons; wheth…
- 2905 — Acyclic alcohols and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitro…
- 2906 — Alcohols; cyclic, and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitr…
- 2907 — Phenols; monophenols, polyphenols, and phenol-alcohols
- 2908 — Phenols or phenol-alcohols; halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitr…
- 2909 — Ethers, ether-alcohols, ether-phenols, ether-alcohol-phenols, alcohol …
- 2910 — Epoxides, epoxyalcohols, epoxyphenols and epoxyethers; with a three-me…
- 2911 — Acetals and hemiacetals; whether or not with other oxygen function, an…
- 2912 — Aldehydes, whether or not with other oxygen function; cyclic polymers …
- 2913 — Aldehydes; halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivative…
- 2914 — Ketones and quinones; whether or not with other oxygen function, and t…
- 2915 — Acids; saturated acyclic monocarboxylic acids and their anhydrides, ha…
- 2916 — Acids; unsaturated acyclic monocarboxylic, cyclic monocarboxylic, thei…
- 2917 — Acids; polycarboxylic acids, their anhydrides, halides, peroxides and …
- 2918 — Acids; carboxylic acid with additional oxygen function and their anhyd…
- 2919 — Esters; phosphoric, and their salts, including lactophosphates, their …
- 2920 — Esters of other inorganic acids of non-metals (other than of hydrogen …
- 2921 — Amine-function compounds
- 2922 — Oxygen-function amino-compounds
- 2923 — Quaternary ammonium salts and hydroxides; lecithins and other phosphoa…
- 2924 — Carboxyamide-function compounds; amide-function compounds of carbonic …
- 2925 — Carboxyimide-function compounds (including saccharin and its salts) an…
- 2926 — Nitrile-function compounds
- 2927 — Diazo-, azo- or azoxy-compounds
- 2928 — Organic derivatives of hydrazine or of hydroxylamine
- 2929 — Nitrogen-function compounds, n.e.c. in chapter 29
- 2930 — Organo-sulphur compounds
- 2931 — Other organo-inorganic compounds
- 2932 — Heterocyclic compounds with oxygen hetero-atom(s) only
- 2933 — Heterocyclic compounds with nitrogen hetero-atom(s) only
- 2934 — Nucleic acids and their salts, whether or not chemically defined; othe…
- 2935 — Sulphonamides
- 2936 — Provitamins, vitamins; natural or reproduced by synthesis (including n…
- 2937 — Hormones, prostaglandins, thromboxanes and leukotrienes, natural or re…
- 2938 — Glycosides, natural or reproduced by synthesis, and their salts, ether…
- 2939 — Alkaloids; natural or reproduced by synthesis, and their salts, ethers…
- 2940 — Sugars, chemically pure, other than sucrose, lactose, maltose, glucose…
- 2942 — Organic compounds; n.e.c. in chapter 29