HS Code Range: 4701.00.00 to 4707.90.00

This chapter includes:

• Chemical/mechanical pulp (for paper manufacturing)
  
  

• Fibrous pulp from bamboo, straw, or bagasse
  
  

• Waste paper & scrap (newspaper, kraft, corrugated, etc.)
  
  

• Pulp for hygienic, tissue, printing, and packaging uses
  
  

🔹 4701 – Mechanical Wood Pulp

4701.00.00 Mechanical wood pulp (groundwood)

🔹 4702 – Chemical Wood Pulp, Dissolving Grades

4702.00.00 Sulphite/sulphate process pulp, dissolving

✅ Used for producing viscose rayon, cellophane, and speciality paper.

🔹 4703 – Chemical Wood Pulp, Other Than Dissolving Grades

4703.21.00 Non-coniferous, unbleached

4703.29.00 Other, non-dissolving, bleached/unbleached

✅ Core raw material for printing paper, writing sheets, kraft bags.

🔹 4704 – Chemical Wood Pulp, Soda or Sulphate Process (e.g., Kraft Pulp)

4704.21.00 Bleached coniferous

4704.29.00 Other bleached

4704.90.00 Unbleached/partially bleached

✅ Majorly used for packaging board, carton boxes, and kraft liners.

🔹 4705 – Semi-Chemical Wood Pulp

4705.00.00 Semi-chemical pulp (e.g., NSSC, CMP)

✅ Cheaper alternative used in corrugated cardboard.

🔹 4706 – Pulps of Other Fibrous Cellulosic Material

4706.10.00 Cotton linters

4706.20.00 Pulp of bamboo, bagasse, straw, rags

4706.30.00 Recovered (waste) paper pulp

✅ In demand for eco-paper, handmade paper, recycled stationery

🔹 4707 – Waste and Scrap of Paper or Paperboard

4707.10.00 Unsorted waste paper

4707.20.00 Waste from newsprint

4707.30.00 Kraft paper/board waste

4707.90.00 Other paper waste (cartons, magazines, used books)

✅ India imports significant amounts of waste paper for recycling mills.