Export Steatite (soap stone, etc.) block from India
Export policy, GST, RoDTEP and Duty Drawback for ITC-HS 25261010, taken from the notifications that set them. Unit of quantity: ---.
Can you export it?
What India ships
India exported $256k under ITC-HS 25261010 in FY 2025-26. That is up 56.1% on the previous year. National total across every state; it does not say which countries bought it.
What India pays back
GST—GST 5% (Schedule I, HSN 2526)
Where this code sits
- 25Chapter
- Salt; sulphur; earths, stone; plastering materials, lime and cement
- 2526Heading
- Natural steatite; whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape; talc
- 252610Subheading
- Steatite; natural, (not crushed or powdered), whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape; talc
- 25261010Tariff line
- Steatite (soap stone, etc.) block
The first six digits are the same in every country you ship to. The last two are India's alone.
What your buyer pays
Import duty, VAT and trade-agreement eligibility depend on where you ship. Run this line against 80 markets — or price a single one — in the toolkit.
Other lines under HS 252610
Export values from Trade Intelligence and Analytics (TIA) Portal, DGCIS — Department of Commerce, Government of India, USD million. Tariff line and export policy from DGFT ITC(HS) 2022. GST from Notification 9/2025-Integrated Tax (Rate). RoDTEP from DGFT Appendix 4R. Duty Drawback from CBIC 77/2023-Cus (N.T.). Bundled and updated periodically, never fetched live — rates change by notification, so confirm before you ship or file. Nothing here is legal or tax advice.