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Black matpe is the trade name for a dried Vigna mungo bean, better known as urad or black gram. Its home in the tariff is subheading 071331, alongside mung beans.
| HS code (6-digit) | Official description |
|---|---|
| 0713.31 | Vegetables, leguminous; beans of the species vigna mungo (l.) hepper or vigna radiata (l.) wilczek, shelled, whether or not skinned or split, dried |
The first six digits are the same worldwide. Countries add their own further digits, and duty, licensing and statistics follow the national line, so confirm it in the destination tariff before quoting. Source: UN Comtrade HS nomenclature.
Heading 0713 covers dried, shelled leguminous vegetables, whether or not skinned or split. Subheading 071331 is written by botanical species: beans of the species Vigna mungo or Vigna radiata. Black matpe is Vigna mungo and green mung is Vigna radiata, so both are declared in the same six-digit line even though they are separate markets.
This means a code search cannot separate matpe from mung. You need the goods description, origin and unit value to tell them apart, and traders often write words like urad, black gram, matpe or maash there.
Whole black beans, split black beans and dehusked white-inside splits are all still within the same subheading, because the heading wording says whether or not skinned or split. Processing at that level does not change the code.
What does change it is turning the pulse into flour or meal, which leaves chapter 7 for the milled-products chapter, and cooking or canning, which moves it to prepared vegetables. Fresh beans still in pod are also outside heading 0713. Neighbouring pulses in the same heading include peas at 071310, chickpeas at 071320, kidney beans at 071333, lentils at 071340 and pigeon peas at 071360, with 071390 as the residual line.
A cargo of mixed pulses is not a matpe cargo; if a container carries several species, the invoice should list each with its own quantity so each can be classified. Seed-grade lots may be treated differently for import controls even when the tariff line is the same.
The national eight-digit line and the duty, quota or import-window conditions for pulses are set by each importing country and change often, so check the current schedule. In shipment data, read consignee, origin and the packaging description to see whether a shipment is whole beans or splits.
Black matpe, meaning dried Vigna mungo beans, falls under 071331 in heading 0713. That subheading also includes Vigna radiata, the green mung bean.
No. The heading covers dried leguminous vegetables whether or not skinned or split, so whole and split black matpe share 071331.
No. Milling the pulse into flour moves it out of heading 0713 into a different chapter. Do not declare flour under the dried pulse subheading.
Both are in 071331, so use the goods description and origin. Look for terms such as urad, black gram or matpe against mung, and compare unit values.
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