EU tariff chapter 05

PRODUCTS OF ANIMAL ORIGIN, NOT ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED OR INCLUDED. 9 headings and 21 eight-digit codes, with conventional duty rates from free to 5.1 per cent.

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 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 0511 covers, inter alia, horsehair and horsehair waste, whether or not put up as a layer with or without supporting material.

Headings and duty rates

Heading 0501 00 00

CN codeDescriptionConventional dutySupplementary unit
0501 00 00Human hair, unworked, whether or not washed or scoured; waste of human hairFree

Heading 0502

Pigs', hogs' or boars' bristles and hair; badger hair and other brush making hair; waste of such bristles or hair:

CN codeDescriptionConventional dutySupplementary unit
0502 10 00Pigs', hogs' or boars' bristles and hair and waste thereofFree
0502 90 00OtherFree

Heading 0504 00 00

CN codeDescriptionConventional dutySupplementary unit
0504 00 00Guts, bladders and stomachs of animals (other than fish), whole and pieces thereof, fresh, chilled, frozen, salted, in brine, dried or smokedFree

Heading 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:

CN codeDescriptionConventional dutySupplementary unit
0505 10Feathers of a kind used for stuffing; down:
0505 10 10RawFree
0505 10 90OtherFree
0505 90 00OtherFree

Heading 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:

CN codeDescriptionConventional dutySupplementary unit
0506 10 00Ossein and bones treated with acidFree
0506 90 00OtherFree

Heading 0507

Ivory, tortoiseshell, 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:

CN codeDescriptionConventional dutySupplementary unit
0507 10 00Ivory; ivory powder and wasteFree
0507 90 00OtherFree

Heading 0508 00

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:

CN codeDescriptionConventional dutySupplementary unit
0508 00 10Red coral (Corallium rubrum)Free
0508 00 90OtherFree

Heading 0510 00 00

CN codeDescriptionConventional dutySupplementary unit
0510 00 00Ambergris, 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 preservedFree

Heading 0511

Animal products not elsewhere specified or included; dead animals of Chapter 1 or 3, unfit for human consumption:

CN codeDescriptionConventional dutySupplementary unit
0511 10 00Bovine semen(60)Freep/st
Other:
0511 91Products of fish or crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates; dead animals of Chapter 3:
0511 91 10Fish wasteFree
0511 91 90OtherFree
0511 99Other:
0511 99 10Sinews or tendons; parings and similar waste of raw hides or skinsFree
Natural sponges of animal origin:
0511 99 31RawFree
0511 99 39Other5.1 %
0511 99 85Other(70)Free
  • (60) Straw (corresponds to the quantity needed for an insemination).
  • (70) Statistical TARIC codes: see Annex 10.

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