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Chapter 5: Products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included

Section I — Live animals; animal products

9 headings · 26 total HS codes

Classification Notes for Chapter 5

Note 1. This Chapter does not cover: a. Edible products (other than guts, bladders and stomachs of animals, whole and pieces thereof, and animal blood, liquid or dried); b. Hides or skins (including furskins) other than goods of 0505 and parings and similar waste of raw hides or skins of 0511 (Chapter 41 or 43); c. Animal textile materials, other than horsehair and horsehair waste (Section XI); or d. Prepared knots or tufts for broom or brush making (9603). 2. For the purposes of 0501.00.00, the sorting of hair by length (provided the root ends and tips ends respectively are not arranged together) shall be deemed not to constitute working. 3. Throughout this Schedule, elephant, hippopotamus, walrus, narwhal and wild board tusks, rhinoceros horns and the teeth of all animals are regarded as "ivory". 4. Throughout this Schedule, "horsehair" means hair of the manes or tails of equine or bovine animals. 0511 covers, inter alia, horsehair and horsehair waste, whether or not put up as a layer with or without supporting material.

Heading	Description	General Rate	Sub-codes	FTAs
0501	Human hair, unworked, whether or not washed or scoured; waste of human hair	0%	1	16 FTAs
0502	Pigs', hogs' or boars' bristles and hair; badger hair and other brush making hair; waste of such bristles or hair	0%	2	16 FTAs
0504	Guts, bladders and stomachs of animals (other than fish), whole and pieces thereof, fresh, chilled, frozen, salted, in brine, dried or smoked	0%	4	17 FTAs
0505	Skins and other parts of birds, with their feathers or down, feathers and parts of feathers (whether or not with trimmed edges) and down, not further worked than cleaned, disinfected or treated for preservation; powder and waste of feathers or parts of feathers	0%	2	16 FTAs
0506	Bones and horn-cores, unworked, defatted, simply prepared (but not cut to shape), treated with acid or degelatinised; powder and waste of these products	0%	2	17 FTAs
0507	Ivory, tortoise-shell, whalebone and whalebone hair, horns, antlers, hooves, nails, claws and beaks, unworked or simply prepared but not cut to shape; powder and waste of these products	0%	2	16 FTAs
0508	Coral and similar materials, unworked or simply prepared but not otherwise worked; shells of molluscs, crustaceans or echinoderms and cuttle-bone, unworked or simply prepared but not cut to shape, powder and waste thereof	0%	1	17 FTAs
0510	Ambergris, castoreum, civet and musk; cantharides; bile, whether or not dried; glands and other animal products used in the preparation of pharmaceutical products, fresh, chilled, frozen or otherwise provisionally preserved	0%	1	17 FTAs
0511	Animal products not elsewhere specified or included; dead animals of chapter 1 or 3, unfit for human consumption	0%	6	16 FTAs

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