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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 No. 05.05 and parings and similar waste of raw hides or skins of heading No. 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 No. 96.03).

2. For the purposes of heading No. 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 this Schedule, elephant, walrus, narwhal and wild boar tusks, rhinoceros horns and the teeth of all animals are regarded as "ivory".

4. Throughout this Schedule, the expression "horsehair" means hair of the manes or tails of equine or bovine animals. 

Heading 
No. 
Sub-heading 
No. 
Description of article 
Rate of duty
     
Standard 
Preferential Areas
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
05.01  0501.00  Human hair, unworked, whether or not washed or scoured; waste of human hair 
30% 
   ... 
05.02    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 
30% 
.... 
  0502.90  - Other 
30% 
... 
05.03 0503.00  Horsehair and horsehair waste, whether or not put up as a layer with or without supporting material 
30% 
... 
05.04  0504.00  Guts, bladders and stomachs of animals (other than fish), whole and pieces thereof, fresh, chilled, frozen, salted, in brine, dried or smoked 
30% 
... 
05.05    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 
30% 
... 
  0505.90  - Other 
30% 
... 
05.06    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 
30% 
... 
  0506.90  - Other 
30% 
... 
05.07    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  - Ivory; ivory powder and waste 
35%
15% 
  0507.90  - Other 
30% 
... 
05.08 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 
30% 
... 
05.09 0509.00  Natural sponges of animal origin 
30% 
... 
05.10  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 
30% 
... 
05.11    Animal products not elsewhere specified or included; dead animals of Chapter 1 or 3, unfit for human consumption     
  0511.10  - Bovine semen 
30% 
...
    - Others :    
  0511.91  -- Products of fish or crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates; dead animals of Chapter 3 
30% 
... 
  0511.99  -- Other 
30% 
...