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Desi chickpeas, the smaller, darker and rougher-coated type, are classified by species and not by type. The dried, shelled chickpea line is 071320, and desi shares it with every other chickpea.
| HS code (6-digit) | Official description |
|---|---|
| 0713.20 | Vegetables, leguminous; chickpeas (garbanzos), 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 leguminous vegetables, shelled, whether or not skinned or split. Chickpeas, also called garbanzos, have their own subheading, 071320. The tariff does not split desi from kabuli, so a container of either variety is declared under the same six digits.
That makes the code useful for measuring total chickpea trade and poor for isolating desi. To separate it in shipment data, use the description text, where desi, chana, brown or black chickpea wording may appear, along with origin and declared unit value.
Splitting and skinning do not change the code. Chana dal, the split and polished form of desi chickpea, stays on 071320 because the heading says whether or not skinned or split. That is why the whole grain and the dal are sometimes counted together.
Flour, known as besan, is a milled product in a different chapter. Roasted, cooked or canned chickpeas leave chapter 7 for prepared vegetables or foods. Green fresh chickpeas in the pod are also outside this line. Nearby subheadings for other pulses in the same heading are peas at 071310, lentils at 071340, pigeon peas at 071360 and the residual 071390.
Pulses are a category where governments often change import windows, duties, quotas or fumigation rules, so treat the six-digit code as the start of the check and confirm the current national eight-digit line and conditions with the destination customs authority.
In customs records, look for consignees that mill dal, that trade in bulk or that repack for retail. The quantity per shipment and the packaging description help you tell full-container commercial buyers from small importers.
Dried, shelled chickpeas, including desi, are classified under 071320 in heading 0713. The tariff does not separate desi from kabuli.
No. The heading covers dried pulses whether or not skinned or split, so chana dal shares 071320 with the whole grain.
Flour is a milled product and is classified outside heading 0713, in the milled-products chapter. Do not declare it under the dried pulse line.
Search 071320, then filter by description words such as desi or chana, by origin and by unit value, since the code itself does not separate the varieties.
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