Ipecac dried rhizome and roots
Ipecac dried rhizome and roots for pharmaceutical or medicinal use
HSN 1211 90 43 (Ipecac dried rhizome and roots) is not covered by a Bureau of Indian Standards Quality Control Order and carries no Partner Government Agency clearance requirement at the tariff-line level. Import follows the standard customs procedure: Importer-Exporter Code (IEC), bill of entry, commercial invoice, packing list. Other medicinal plant material in Chapter 12 — particularly material destined for pharmaceutical manufacture or classified in a more processed form — may attract oversight from drug-regulatory authorities at the chapter or end-use level.
Although this tariff line carries no product-specific compliance, ipecac is a pharmacologically active botanical with a documented regulatory history in India's drug control framework; importers should confirm that the end-use application does not independently trigger licensing under drugs and cosmetics legislation. Re-classification by customs — for instance, to a processed extract or a finished pharmaceutical preparation — would retrospectively impose the compliance regime applicable to that line, including detention pending the relevant licence. Verify the product's physical form, processing state, and intended use against the customs tariff before relying on the absence of compliance here.