| Sl. No. | Chapters | Products under the following chapters are not eligible for incentive under MEIS |
| 1 | Chapter-01 | Live animals |
| 2 | Chapter-02 | Meat and edible meat offal |
| 3 | Chapter-10 | Cereals |
| 4 | Chapter-24 | Tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes |
| 5 | Chapter-25 | Salt; sulphur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement |
| 6 | Chapter-26 | Ores, slag and ash |
| 7 | Chapter-27 | Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes |
| 8 | Chapter-31 | Fertilizers |
| 9 | Chapter-34 | Soap, organic surface-active agents, washing preparations, lubricating preparations, artificial waxes, prepared waxes, polishing or scouring preparations, candles and similar articles, modelling pastes, “dental waxes” and dental preparations with a basis of plaster |
| 10 | Chapter-43 | Furskins and artificial fur; manufactures thereof |
| 11 | Chapter-47 | Pulp of wood or of other fibrous cellulosic material; recovered (waste and scrap) paper or paperboard |
| 12 | Chapter-77 | (reserved for possible future use) |
