CHAPTER 5
PRODUCTS OF ANIMAL ORIGIN,
NOT ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED OR INCLUDED
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 0505 and parings and
similar waste of raw hides or skins of heading 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 (heading 9603).
2. For the purposes of heading 0501, 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 this Schedule, elephant, hippopotamus, walrus, narwhal and wild boar tusks
rhinoceros horns and the teeth of all animals are regarded as “ivory”
4. Throughout the Schedule, the expression “horsehair” means hair of the manes or tails of
equine or bovine animals. Heading 0511 covers, inter alia, horsehair and horsehair waste,
whether or not put up as a layer with or without supporting material.
SUPPLEMENTARY NOTE:
In this Chapter, the expressions “wild animal” and “wild life” have the meanings
respectively assigned to them in clauses (36) and (37) of section 2 of the Wild Life
(Protection) Act, 1972 (53 of 1972); and the expression “wild bird” means any bird
specified in Schedules to that Act.
Heading H.S. Code ITC(HS) Code Description Unit
No.
0501 HUMAN HAIR, UNWORKED,
WHETHER OR NOT WASHED OR
SCOURED; WASTE OF HUMAN
HAIR
0501 00 Human hair, unworked, whether or not
washed or scoured; waste of human
hair:
0501 00 10 Human hair unworked, whether or not KGS
washed or scoured
0501 00 20 Waste of human hair KGS
0502 PIGS, HOGS OR BOARS BRISTLES
AND HAIR; BADGER HAIR AND
OTHER BRUSH MAKING HAIR;
WASTE OF SUCH BRISTLES
OR HAIR
0502 10 Pigs', hogs' or boars' bristles and hair
and waste thereof:
0502 10 10 Pigs', hogs' or boars' bristles and hair KGS
0502 10 20 Waste of pigs' hogs' or boars' bristles and KGS
hair
0502 90 Other:
0502 90 10 Badger hair and other brush making hair KGS
0502 90 20 Yak tail hair KGS
0502 90 90 Other KGS
0504 GUTS, BLADDERS AND
STOMACHS OF ANIMALS (OTHER
THAN FISH), WHOLE AND PIECES
THEREOF, FRESH, CHILLED,
FROZEN, SALTED, IN BRINE,
DRIED OR
SMOKED
0504 00 Guts, bladders and stomachs of animals
(other than fish), whole and pieces
thereof, fresh, chilled, frozen, salted, in
brine, dried or smoked:
0504 00 10 Guts of cattle for natural food casings KGS
0504 00 20 Guts of sheep and goats for natural food KGS
casings
Guts of other animals for natural food
casings:
0504 00 31 Of wild animals KGS
0504 00 39 Other KGS
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No.
Guts other than for natural food casings:
0504 00 41 Of wild animals KGS
0504 00 49 Other KGS
Bladders and stomachs:
0504 00 51 Of wild animals KGS
0504 00 59 Other KGS
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 Of wild birds KGS
0505 10 90 Other KGS
0505 90 Other:
0505 90 10 Peacock tail and wing feather (trimmed or KGS
not)
Other feather (excluding for stuffing
purpose):
0505 90 21 Of wild birds KGS
0505 90 29 Other KGS
Powder and waste of feathers or parts of
feathers:
0505 90 31 Of wild birds KGS
0505 90 39 Other KGS
Skins and other parts:
0505 90 91 Of wild birds KGS
0505 90 99 Other KGS
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No.
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 Ossein and bones treated with acid:
Bones, including horn-cores, crushed:
0506 10 11 Of wild animals KGS
0506 10 19 Other KGS
Bone grist:
0506 10 21 Of wild animals KGS
0506 10 29 Other KGS
Ossein:
0506 10 31 Of wild animals KGS
0506 10 39 Other KGS
Bones, horn cones and parts thereof, not
crushed:
0506 10 41 Of wild animals KGS
0506 10 49 Other KGS
0507 IVORY, TORTOISE-SHELL,
WHALEBONE
AND WHALE-BONE 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 Ivory; ivory powder and waste:
0507 10 10 Ivory KGS
0507 10 20 Ivory powder and waste KGS
0507 90 Other:
0507 90 10 Hoof meal KGS
0507 90 20 Horn meal KGS
0507 90 30 Hooves, claws, nails and beaks KGS
0507 90 40 Antlers KGS
0507 90 50 Buffalo horns KGS
0507 90 60 Tortoise-shell KGS
0507 90 70 Claws and waste of tortoise shell KGS
0507 90 90 Other KGS
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No.
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 Coral and similar materials, unworked
or simply prepared but not otherwise
worked; shells of molluscs, crustaceans
or echinoderms and cuttlebone,
unworked or simply prepared but not cut
to shape, powder and waste thereof:
0508 00 10 Coral KGS
0508 00 20 Chanks KGS
0508 00 30 Cowries KGS
0508 00 40 Cuttlefish bones KGS
0508 00 50 Shells KGS
0508 00 90 Other KGS
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
0510 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:
0510 00 10 Bezoar, cow (goolochan) KGS
0510 00 20 Ox Gallstone KGS
0510 00 30 Placenta, frozen KGS
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No.
Other:
0510 00 91 Of wild animals KGS
0510 00 99 Other KGS
0511 ANIMAL PRODUCTS NOT
ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED OR
INCLUDED; DEAD ANIMALS OF
CHAPTER 1 OR 3, UNFIT FOR
HUMAN CONSUMPTION
0511 10 00 Bovine semen KGS
0511 91 Products of fish or crustaceans, molluscs
or other aquatic invertebrates; dead
animals of Chapter 3:
0511 91 10 Fish nails KGS
0511 91 20 Fish tails KGS
0511 91 30 Other fish waste KGS
0511 91 90 Other KGS
0511 99 Other:
Silkworm pupae:
0511 99 11 Artemia KGS
0511 99 19 Other KGS
Sinews and tendons:
0511 99 21 Of wild life KGS
0511 99 29 Other KGS
Other:
0511 99 91 Frozen semen, other than bovine KGS
Bovine embryo:
0511 99 92 Of wild life KGS
0511 99 99 Other KGS