Meesho HSN code list, category by category.
Every Meesho listing asks for an HSN code, and that code sets the GST rate on the invoice and in your returns. Here are the headings sellers reach for most, plus how to confirm the exact one for your product.
The Meesho HSN code list is not a Meesho list at all, it is the GST tariff, so sarees sit in chapters 50 to 55 by fibre, kurtis in 6104 or 6204, imitation jewellery in 7117 and footwear in 6402 to 6404. Pick the chapter by what the product physically is, narrow to six digits on the tariff, then confirm the rate separately on cbic-gst.gov.in before you publish the listing.
- HSN is a government classification, not a Meesho field; the same product keeps the same code everywhere.
- Garments split by construction first: knitted goes to chapter 61, woven to chapter 62.
- Sarees and unstitched fabric follow the fibre, chapters 50 to 55, so 5407 synthetic and 5208 cotton.
- Since 22 September 2025, garments and made-ups are 5 per cent up to Rs 2,500 a piece and 18 per cent above.
- Confirm every code and rate on cbic-gst.gov.in; a wrong code means a wrong invoice and a return mismatch.
Two digits, four digits, six digits
An HSN code is read left to right, widest first. Get the chapter right and the rest is a short walk down the tariff.
Common Meesho categories and their usual HSN heading
Use this as a shortlist, not an answer. Every row needs verifying against the actual product on the GST portal, because fibre, construction and price all move the code or the rate.
| Category | Usual HSN heading | Commonly applied GST | Verify on the GST portal |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sarees, synthetic or blended | 5407 | 5 or 18 by value | Fibre decides the chapter |
| Sarees, cotton | 5208 | 5 or 18 by value | Woven cotton fabric heading |
| Unstitched fabric, silk | 5007 | 5 or 18 by value | Chapters 50 to 55 by fibre |
| Kurtis and dresses, knitted | 6104 | 5 or 18 by value | Knitted or crocheted garments |
| Kurtis and dresses, woven | 6204 | 5 or 18 by value | Not knitted or crocheted |
| Men's shirts, knitted | 6105 | 5 or 18 by value | Woven shirts sit at 6205 |
| T-shirts and vests | 6109 | 5 or 18 by value | Knitted t-shirts, singlets |
| Kids wear, knitted | 6111 | 5 or 18 by value | Babies' garments; woven at 6209 |
| Imitation jewellery | 7117 | 3 per cent | Not precious metal jewellery |
| Footwear, rubber or plastic | 6402 | 5 or 18 by price band | Leather uppers at 6403 |
| Footwear, textile upper | 6404 | 5 or 18 by price band | Confirm the upper material |
| Handbags and wallets | 4202 | 18 per cent | Trunks, cases, pouches too |
| Bedsheets and bed linen | 6304 | 5 or 18 by value | Made-ups follow garment bands |
| Curtains and blinds | 6303 | 5 or 18 by value | Interior textile furnishings |
| Blankets and travelling rugs | 6301 | 5 or 18 by value | Made-up textile article |
| Towels and toilet linen | 6302 | 5 or 18 by value | Bed, table and kitchen linen |
| Plastic kitchenware | 3924 | 18 per cent | Tableware, household articles |
| Steel kitchenware | 7323 | 18 per cent | Table and kitchen articles |
| Cosmetics and skincare | 3304 | 18 per cent | Beauty and make-up preparations |
| Hair care | 3305 | 18 per cent | Shampoos, oils, preparations |
| Toys | 9503 | 5, 12 or 18 by type | Electronic toys differ |
| Mobile cases and accessories | 3926 or 8517 | 18 per cent | Plastic case vs electronic part |
| Watches | 9102 | 18 per cent | Wrist watches, non precious |
| Home decor, ceramic | 6913 | 12 or 18 per cent | Statuettes, ornamental ware |
| Home decor, wood | 4420 | 12 or 18 per cent | Inlaid wood, ornaments |
| Home decor, metal | 8306 | 12 or 18 per cent | Statuettes, frames, bells |
| Stationery, paper | 4820 | 18 per cent | Registers, notebooks, diaries |
Where a row says 5 or 18 by value, that is the garment and made-up rate structure in force since 22 September 2025: 5 per cent where the sale value is up to Rs 2,500 per piece and 18 per cent above that. Footwear is banded on price in the same spirit. The rate can change with a notification, so the last column is the real instruction on every line.
The mistakes that cost money, ranked
Almost every HSN problem a seller hits is one of a handful of shapes, and none of them are exotic.
Once you have the code
Match the rate to the code
The code and the rate are separate lookups, and a single heading can carry two rates depending on value. Confirm both before the first invoice goes out.
Get the GST basics straight
Registration, the composition question, input credit and what Meesho collects on your behalf all sit upstream of the HSN field on a listing.
File what you collected
The rate on your listings has to be the rate in your returns. Getting HSN right is what makes GSTR-1 a copy job rather than a reconstruction.
Six steps, in this order
Work top down. Most wrong codes come from starting at the six digit level and searching a keyword instead of choosing a chapter first.
Write down what the item physically is, not how you market it. A kurti is a women's garment; a bedsheet is a made-up textile article; a phone cover is either a plastic article or an electronic accessory. The tariff classifies substance, not brand words, so strip out every adjective before you search.
Chapters are the two digit level and they are the biggest decision. Textiles run 50 to 63, with 50 to 55 covering fabric by fibre, 61 covering knitted garments and 62 covering woven ones. Plastics sit in 39, iron and steel articles in 73, jewellery in 71, footwear in 64. Getting the chapter right eliminates most wrong answers.
Inside the chapter, the four digit heading names the item. Within chapter 62, 6204 is women's suits and dresses while 6206 is blouses and shirts. Read the full heading text rather than guessing from a keyword match, because two headings can both look plausible until you read the exclusions.
The six and eight digit levels split by fibre, material or use. This is where a cotton version and a man made fibre version of the same garment part company. Use the searchable tariff on cbic-gst.gov.in and read the sub heading text in full before you pick one.
The code and the rate are two separate lookups. Once you have the code, check the rate notification that applies to it, because a single heading can carry more than one rate depending on value or type. Garments and made-ups are the classic example, where the rate turns on the price per piece.
Record the code against your internal SKU so the same product carries the same HSN on every marketplace and in every invoice. A product that is 6204 on Meesho and 6104 on another channel guarantees a reconciliation problem later, and it is the kind of inconsistency a return scrutiny picks up quickly.
The HSN field on a Meesho listing looks like a formality and behaves like a tax decision. It sets the rate the buyer is charged, the rate you remit, and the number that has to match when your returns are read against your sales. Getting it right once, per product, is cheap. Getting it wrong quietly, across a few hundred listings, is not.
Why Meesho asks for an HSN code on every listing
HSN stands for Harmonised System of Nomenclature, an international product classification that India uses inside GST. Every good sold in the country falls somewhere in it, and the code you choose decides the GST rate that applies. Meesho collects the code from you at catalog time because Meesho generates the tax invoice for each sale on your behalf, and it cannot work out the rate without knowing what the product is in tariff terms. So the field is not Meesho asking you for paperwork, it is Meesho asking you to make the classification call that only you can make, because only you know what the item is actually made of.
The consequence flows in two directions. Forward, the code sets the rate printed on the buyer’s invoice. Backward, the same code and rate have to appear in your GSTR-1, where outward supplies are reported with an HSN summary. If your listings say one thing and your return says another, you have created a discrepancy that sits in the system waiting to be noticed. That is why a seller who lists on Meesho, AJIO and Amazon should carry one code per product across all three: the tariff does not change by marketplace, and a product classified two ways is a mismatch you built yourself. Our GST guide for Meesho sellers covers the registration and filing side that sits around this.
Where the HSN field sits in the Meesho catalog form
In the Supplier Panel you will usually meet the field twice. On a single catalog upload, it appears in the tax or compliance block of the product form, typically next to the GST rate, after you have chosen the category and filled the product attributes. On a bulk upload, it is a column in the category template, and because the template is per category, its exact header wording varies; you will usually see something like HSN Code alongside a GST or tax rate column. Either way it is a product level field rather than a variation level one, so every size and colour of the same design carries the same code.
One practical habit saves a lot of rework. Keep the HSN code and the rate recorded against your own internal SKU in your own sheet, not only in the panel. Then a new catalog upload is a lookup rather than a fresh decision, a second marketplace inherits the same code automatically, and a rate change means editing one column instead of hunting through listings. If you are still settling your SKU scheme, the SKU ID guide explains why that one internal code is worth keeping clean.
Sarees and unstitched fabric: the fibre decides the chapter
Sarees confuse sellers because they feel like garments and classify like fabric. An unstitched saree is, in tariff terms, a length of woven fabric, and woven fabric is classified by what it is made of. That puts it in the 50 to 55 range: silk around 5007, cotton around 5208, and synthetic filament fabric around 5407. The colour, the print, the border and the price make no difference to the chapter. The fibre composition is the whole question, and it is the one detail a marketing description usually omits.
So before you choose, find out what the fabric actually is. A saree described as soft silk is very often polyester, and a georgette or chiffon saree is almost always man made fibre. If your supplier cannot tell you the composition, that is a sourcing problem before it is a tax problem, because the same uncertainty will show up in your product attributes and in return complaints. Where a saree is sold stitched, as a ready to wear garment, the classification can move out of the fabric chapters and into 61 or 62, so the construction matters alongside the fibre. Our sarees and kurtis selling guide goes into the category side of this.
Kurtis, dresses and shirts: knitted or woven, first
For made-up garments the first question is never the item, it is the construction. Chapter 61 covers garments that are knitted or crocheted; chapter 62 covers everything woven. The two chapters mirror each other almost heading for heading, which is exactly why the mistake is so easy: 6104 and 6204 are both women’s suits and dresses, 6105 and 6205 are both men’s shirts, 6106 and 6206 are both women’s blouses and shirts. Choose the wrong chapter and your code looks entirely plausible while being wrong.
A quick physical test settles it more reliably than a supplier’s description. Knitted fabric is made from loops of yarn, so it stretches, its cut edge tends to curl, and you can often see the loop structure if you stretch it. Woven fabric is made from threads crossing at right angles, so it resists stretch along the grain and frays at a cut edge. Jersey kurtis, most t-shirts and hosiery items are knitted. Cotton and rayon kurtis, most shirts, most dresses with a lining and almost all formal wear are woven. T-shirts have their own heading at 6109, kids and babies’ garments sit at 6111 knitted and 6209 woven, and where an item genuinely sits between two headings, read the heading notes rather than picking the nearer keyword.
The 2025 rate change, and why the price per piece now decides the rate
The GST revision effective 22 September 2025 restructured garments and textile made-ups around a value threshold. In the structure now in force, garments and made-ups attract 5 per cent where the sale value is up to Rs 2,500 per piece, and 18 per cent above that. This matters far more than it sounds, because it means one HSN code can carry two different rates across your own catalogue, and the deciding factor is a number you control: the price you list at.
| Item | Sale value per piece | GST rate applied |
|---|---|---|
| Kurti, woven (6204) | Rs 499 | 5 per cent |
| Designer kurta set (6204) | Rs 3,200 | 18 per cent |
| Bedsheet set (6304) | Rs 899 | 5 per cent |
| Imitation jewellery (7117) | Any | 3 per cent, value plays no part |
The practical trap is a listing that sits just under the threshold and then moves above it, or a bundle whose per piece value is not obvious. If you price a set at Rs 2,600 you have moved from 5 per cent to 18 per cent, which is a real difference to your margin if you were quietly assuming the lower rate. Read the exact notification wording on cbic-gst.gov.in for how value per piece is measured for your kind of product, and if you sell close to the boundary, take an accountant’s view rather than guessing.
Jewellery, footwear, homeware and everything else
Outside clothing the codes are mostly stable, and the deciding detail is the material. Imitation jewellery sits at 7117, which is the heading for jewellery that is not precious metal and not set with precious or semi precious stones, and the commonly applied rate is 3 per cent. The moment real gold or silver is involved, even as a thin plating declared as such, the classification question changes, so check the composition rather than the listing title. Our jewellery selling guide covers the category and quality side.
Footwear runs 6402 to 6404 and splits by the upper and outer sole material: rubber or plastic uppers around 6402, leather uppers around 6403, textile uppers around 6404. Like garments, footwear is rate banded on price, so the same code can attract different rates at different price points. Handbags, wallets and pouches sit at 4202. Bed linen is 6304, curtains 6303, blankets 6301, towels and toilet linen 6302, and all of them are textile made-ups, so they follow the garment style value bands rather than a flat rate.
Kitchen and homeware turn on the material: plastic tableware and household articles at 3924, steel table and kitchen articles at 7323, ceramic ornamental ware at 6913, wooden ornaments and inlaid wood at 4420, and metal statuettes, frames and similar decor at 8306. Cosmetics and make-up preparations are 3304 and hair preparations 3305, both commonly at 18 per cent. Toys are 9503, where the rate varies by type, and electronic toys are frequently treated differently from simple ones. Mobile cases are the classic borderline case: a plain moulded plastic back cover behaves like an article of plastic at 3926, while a powered or electronic accessory points at 8517, so read the tariff text for what the item does rather than where it is sold. Watches sit at 9102 and paper stationery, registers and notebooks at 4820. The home and kitchen selling guide has the operational side of these categories.
Four digits, six digits, and what a wrong code actually costs
How many digits you report depends on your aggregate turnover, and the requirement has been tightened more than once, with smaller sellers historically allowed four digits on B2C supplies while larger ones report six. Because the thresholds have moved, the honest answer is to read the current requirement on the GST portal or ask your chartered accountant. What is stable is the direction of travel: more digits, more often. Recording six digits from the start costs you nothing and future proofs your sheet, whereas discovering later that four is no longer enough means revisiting every listing.
The cost of a wrong code is rarely dramatic on day one, which is exactly what makes it dangerous. Nothing in the panel rejects a plausible but incorrect code. The invoice simply carries the wrong rate, and you either collected less tax than you owed, which you will have to fund out of your own margin along with interest, or you collected more than you should, which is money taken from buyers that you now have to deal with correctly. Neither shows up as an error message. It shows up months later as a mismatch between what your marketplace sales imply and what your returns say, which is the kind of thing that turns into a notice. Fixing the listing is quick; fixing filed returns is not.
One more pattern worth naming: the same product classified differently on two marketplaces. It happens because each catalog was built at a different time by a different person from a different template. The tariff is national, so the product has exactly one correct code, and holding two is a reconciliation problem waiting to surface when someone compares your channels. Keep the code on the SKU, not on the listing, and the problem cannot arise. The ecommerce invoicing rules guide covers what the invoice itself has to carry once the rate is settled.
Sources & further reading
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Meesho HSN codes, answered
An HSN code is the Harmonised System of Nomenclature number that classifies your product for GST. Meesho asks for it on every listing because the code decides the GST rate that appears on the buyer's invoice and the rate you report in your own returns. It is a government classification, not a Meesho field, so the same product carries the same HSN code on Meesho, AJIO, Amazon and your offline sales.
Meesho does not publish a single master HSN list, and any PDF circulating outside the official portals can be out of date. The authoritative list is the customs tariff published on cbic-gst.gov.in, and the GST portal at gst.gov.in has a searchable HSN lookup inside the return filing screens. Treat a downloaded PDF as a starting shortlist and confirm the final code on one of those two sites.
There is no single code for clothes. Garments split first by whether they are knitted or woven, then by who wears them and what the item is. Knitted women's dresses and kurtis typically fall under 6104, the woven equivalents under 6204, knitted men's shirts under 6105 and woven ones under 6205, and t-shirts under 6109. Pick by construction first, then by item, then confirm the six or eight digit code on the tariff.
A kurti is a women's garment, so it sits in chapter 61 if it is knitted or crocheted and chapter 62 if it is woven. The usual headings are 6104 for knitted dresses and suits and 6204 for the woven versions. Some sellers classify a long straight kurti as a blouse or shirt style instead, which points at 6106 or 6206, so read the tariff description for the actual cut and fabric before you settle on a code.
A saree is usually treated as fabric rather than a made-up garment, so the chapter follows the fibre. Synthetic filament sarees typically sit under 5407, cotton under 5208 and silk under 5007. If the saree is sold stitched or as a ready-to-wear garment set, the classification can shift into chapters 61 or 62 instead, so the construction matters as much as the fibre.
Imitation jewellery normally falls under 7117, which is the heading for jewellery that is not made of precious metal or set with precious stones. The commonly applied GST rate on imitation jewellery is 3 per cent. If a piece contains real gold or silver, even in a small quantity, the classification moves out of 7117 and the rate changes, so check the actual composition rather than the marketing description.
The number of digits required depends on your aggregate turnover, and the requirement has tightened over time. Smaller sellers have historically been allowed four digits on B2C supplies while larger ones report six, and eight digits are used where the tariff itself is that granular. Because the thresholds change, read the current notification on cbic-gst.gov.in or ask your chartered accountant rather than copying what a neighbour uses.
The wrong code sets the wrong GST rate on the invoice, which means you either under collect tax and owe the difference with interest, or over collect it and irritate buyers. It also creates a mismatch between the rate on your Meesho sales and the rate in your GSTR-1, which is exactly the kind of discrepancy that draws a notice. Fix it on the listing and, if invoices have already gone out, take advice on correcting the returns.
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