SECTION I · Chapter 05
Products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included
Nomenclature and 2026 rates from the consolidated BT2026 tariff. SOURCE
Chapter notes (9)
Notes
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 heading 05.05 and parings and similar waste of raw hides or skins of heading 05.11 (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 (heading 96.03).
2. For the purposes of heading 05.01, the sorting of hair by length (provided the root ends and tip ends respectively are not arranged together) shall be deemed not to constitute working.
3. Throughout the Nomenclature, elephant, hippopotamus, walrus, narwhal and wild boar tusks, rhinoceros horns and the teeth of all animals are regarded as “ivory”.
4. Throughout the Nomenclature, the expression “horsehair” means hair of the manes or tails of equine or bovine animals. Heading 05.11 covers, inter alia, horsehair and horsehair waste, whether or not put up as a layer with or without supporting material.
| HS code | Description | Unit | Ordinary import duty | MFN | VAT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0501.00.00 | Human hair, unworked, whether or not washed or scoured; waste of human hair | kg | 7.5% | 5% | 8 / 10 (several rates) |
| 0502 | Pigs’, hogs’ or boars’ bristles and hair; badger hair and other brush making hair; waste of such bristles or hair | ||||
| 0502.10.00 | - Pigs’, hogs’ or boars’ bristles and hair and waste thereof | kg | 7.5% | 5% | * / 5 / 8 / 10 (several rates) |
| 0502.90.00 | - Other | kg | 7.5% | 5% | * / 5 / 8 / 10 (several rates) |
| 0504.00.00 | Guts, bladders and stomachs of animals (other than fish), whole and pieces thereof, fresh, chilled, frozen, salted, in brine, dried or smoked | kg | 4.5% | 3% | * / 5 / 8 / 10 (several rates) |
| 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 | ||||
| 0505.10 | - Feathers of a kind used for stuffing; down: | ||||
| 0505.10.10 | - - Duck feathers | kg | 7.5% | 5% | * / 5 / 8 / 10 (several rates) |
| 0505.10.90 | - - Other | kg | 7.5% | 5% | * / 5 / 8 / 10 (several rates) |
| 0505.90 | - Other: | ||||
| 0505.90.10 | - - Duck feathers | kg | 7.5% | 5% | * / 5 / 8 / 10 (several rates) |
| 0505.90.90 | - - Other | kg | 7.5% | 5% | * / 5 / 8 / 10 (several rates) |
| 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 | ||||
| 0506.10.00 | - Ossein and bones treated with acid | kg | 5% | 0% | 8 / 10 (several rates) |
| 0506.90.00 | - Other | kg | 5% | 0% | 8 / 10 (several rates) |
| 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 | ||||
| 0507.10.00 | - Ivory; ivory powder and waste | kg | 4.5% | 3% | * / 5 / 8 / 10 (several rates) |
| 0507.90 | - Other: | ||||
| 0507.90.20 | - - Tortoise-shell | kg | 7.5% | 5% | * / 5 / 8 / 10 (several rates) |
| 0507.90.90 | - - Other | kg | 4.5% | 3% | * / 5 / 8 / 10 (several rates) |
| 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 | ||||
| 0508.00.20 | - Shells of molluscs, crustaceans or echinoderms | kg | 7.5% | 5% | * / 5 / 8 / 10 (several rates) |
| 0508.00.90 | - Other | kg | 7.5% | 5% | * / 5 / 8 / 10 (several rates) |
| 0510.00.00 | 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 | kg | 5% | 0% | 8 / 10 (several rates) |
| 0511 | Animal products not elsewhere specified or included; dead animals of Chapter 1 or 3, unfit for human consumption | ||||
| 0511.10.00 | - Bovine semen | kg | 5% | 0% | * / 8 / 10 (several rates) |
| - Other: | |||||
| 0511.91 | - - Products of fish or crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates; dead animals of Chapter 3: | ||||
| 0511.91.10 | - - - Roes and milt | kg | 7.5% | 5% | * / 5 / 8 / 10 (several rates) |
| 0511.91.20 | - - - Artemia egg (Brine shrimp egg) | kg | 5% | 0% | * / 5 / 8 / 10 (several rates) |
| 0511.91.30 | - - - Fish skin | kg | 7.5% | 5% | * / 5 / 8 / 10 (several rates) |
| 0511.91.90 | - - - Other | kg | 7.5% | 5% | * / 5 / 8 / 10 (several rates) |
| 0511.99 | - - Other: | ||||
| 0511.99.10 | - - - Domestic animal semen | kg | 5% | 0% | * / 8 / 10 (several rates) |
| 0511.99.20 | - - - Silk worm eggs | kg | 5% | 0% | * / 8 / 10 (several rates) |
| 0511.99.30 | - - - Natural sponges | kg | 5% | 0% | * / 5 / 8 / 10 (several rates) |
| 0511.99.90 | - - - Other | kg | 5% | 0% | * / 5 / 8 / 10 (several rates) |