Chapter 17 — Sugars and sugar confectionery

Nepal Customs Tariff 2026/27 import duty rates and 30 HS code lines for Sugars and sugar confectionery (Section IV — Prepared foodstuffs; beverages, spirits and vinegar; tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes; products, whether or not containing nicotine, intended for inhalation without combustion; other nicotine containing products intended for the intake of nicotine into the human body). Each code shows the general and SAARC customs duty; tap a code to open the full breakdown and landed-cost estimate.

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17.01 — Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form

HS code	Description	Unit	General duty	SAARC duty
1701.12.00	Beet sugar	kg	15%	6%
1701.13.10	Sakhhar (Gud)	kg	15%	15%
1701.13.20	Khanda sugar	kg	15%	15%
1701.13.90	Cane sugar specified in Subheading Note 2 to this Chapter — Other	kg	15%	15%
1701.14.10	Sakhhar (Gud)	kg	15%	15%
1701.14.20	Khanda sugar	kg	15%	15%
1701.14.90	Other cane sugar — Other	kg	15%	15%
1701.91.00	Containing added flavouring or colouring matter	kg	30%	30%
1701.99.10	Rock sugar or rock candy or sugar candy (Mishri)	kg	15%	15%
1701.99.20	Sugar Cube	kg	30%	30%
1701.99.90	Other	kg	15%	15%

17.02 — Other sugars, including chemically pure lactose, maltose,glucose and fructose, in solid form; sugar syrups not containing added flavouring or colouring matter; artificial honey, whether or not mixed with natural honey; caramel

HS code	Description	Unit	General duty	SAARC duty
1702.11.00	Containing by weight 99% or more lactose, expressed as anhydrous lactose, calculated on the dry matter	kg	10%	6%
1702.19.00	Lactose and lactose syrup — Other	kg	10%	6%
1702.20.00	Maple sugar and maple syrup	kg	10%	6%
1702.30.10	Glucose in liquid form	kg	10%	6%
1702.30.20	Glucose in solid form	kg	10%	6%
1702.30.30	Dextrose	kg	10%	6%
1702.40.10	Glucose in liquid form	kg	10%	6%
1702.40.20	Glucose in solid form	kg	10%	6%
1702.40.30	Dextrose	kg	10%	6%
1702.50.00	Chemically pure fructose	kg	10%	6%
1702.60.00	Other fructose and fructose syrup, containing in the dry state more than 50% by weight of fructose, excluding invert sugar	kg	10%	6%
1702.90.10	Chemically pure maltose	kg	10%	6%
1702.90.20	Artificial honey, whether or not mixed with natural honey	kg	10%	6%
1702.90.30	Caramel	kg	10%	6%
1702.90.90	Other, including invert sugar and other sugar and sugar syrup blends containing in the dry state 50% by weight of fructose — Other	kg	10%	6%

17.03 — Molasses resulting from the extraction or refining of sugar

HS code	Description	Unit	General duty	SAARC duty
1703.10.00	Cane molasses	kg	20%	20%
1703.90.00	Other	kg	20%	20%

17.04 — Sugar confectionery (including white chocolate), not containing cocoa

HS code	Description	Unit	General duty	SAARC duty
1704.10.00	Chewing gum, whether or not sugar-coated	kg	30%	30%
1704.90.00	Other	kg	30%	30%

Chapter 17 legal notes

Note. 1.- This Chapter does not cover : (a) Sugar confectionery containing cocoa (heading 18.06); (b) Chemically pure sugars (other than sucrose, lactose, maltose, glucose and fructose) or other products of heading 29.40; or (c) Medicaments or other products of Chapter 30. Subheading Notes. 1.- For the purposes of subheadings 1701.12, 1701.13 and 1701.14, “raw sugar” means sugar whose content of sucrose by weight, in the dry state, corresponds to a polarimeter reading of less than 99.5°. 2.- Subheading 1701.13 covers only cane sugar obtained without centrifugation, whose content of sucrose by weight, in the dry state, corresponds to a polarimeter reading of 69° or more but less than 93°. The product contains only natural anhedral microcrystals, of irregular shape, not visible to the naked eye, which are surrounded by residues of molasses and other constituents of sugar cane.

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