HSN chapter 05

HSN chapter 05: Products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified

11 headings and 72 8-digit tariff items. HSN codes in this chapter start with 05.

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Headings in chapter 05

0501Human hair, unworked, whether or not washed or scoured; waste of human hair · 2 items 0502Pigs', hogs' or boars' bristles and hair; badger hair and other brush making hair; waste of such bristles or hair. · 5 items 0503Horsehair And Horsehair Waste, Whether Or Not Put Up As A Layer With Or Without Supporting Material · 1 items 0504All goods [other than fresh or chilled] other than pre-packaged and labelled. · 8 items 0505Skins 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 fea · 9 items 0506All goods i.e. Bones and horn-cores, unworked, defatted, simply prepared (but not cut to shape), treated with acid or gelatinised; powder and waste of these products · 12 items 0507Ivory, Tortoise-Shell, Whalebone And · 10 items 0508Coral 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. · 6 items 0509Natural Sponges Of Animal Origin · 2 items 0510Ambergris, 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. · 5 items 0511Semen including frozen semen · 12 items

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