Customs - Tariff Book
Notes
1.
This Chapter does not cover the following:
(a)
edible products (excluding guts, bladders and stomachs of animals, whole and pieces thereof, and animal blood, liquid or dried);
(b)
hides or skins (including furskins) (excluding 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 (excluding 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 this Schedule, elephant, hippopotamus, 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 05.11 covers, inter alia, horsehair and horsehair waste, whether or not put up as a layer with or without supporting material.
| Heading | Description | General |
|---|---|---|
| 0501.00 | Human hair, unworked, whether or not washed or scoured; waste of human hair | free |
| 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 | free |
| 0502.90 | Other | free |
| 0504.00 | Guts, bladders and stomachs of animals (excluding fish), whole and pieces thereof, fresh, chilled, frozen, salted, in brine, dried or smoked: | |
| 0504.00.10 | Sausage casings | free |
| 0504.00.90 | Other | free |
| 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 | free |
| 0505.90 | Other: | |
| 0505.90.10 | Of ostriches | free |
| 0505.90.90 | Other | free |
| 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 | free |
| 0506.90 | Other: | |
| 0506.90.10 | Unworked, defatted or simply prepared (but not cut to shape) | free |
| 0506.90.90 | Other | free |
| 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: | |
| 0507.10.10 | Tusks of the African elephant (Loxodonta Africana); ivory powder and waste thereof | free |
| 0507.10.20 | Horns of the white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum), black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis); ivory powder and waste thereof | free |
| 0507.10.90 | Other | free |
| 0507.90 | Other | free |
| 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: | |
| 0508.00.05 | Shells, of abalone | free |
| 0508.00.10 | Other shells, unworked or simply prepared but not cut to shape | free |
| 0508.00.90 | Other | free |
| 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 | free |
| 05.11 | Animal products not elsewhere specified or included; dead animals of Chapter 1 or 3, unfit for human consumption: | |
| 0511.10 | Bovine semen | free |
| 0511.9 | Other: | |
| 0511.91 | Products of fish or crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates; dead animals of Chapter 3: | |
| 0511.91.15 | Products of fish or crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates (excluding fish ova), unworked or simply prepared | free |
| 0511.91.90 | Other | free |
| 0511.99 | Other: | |
| 0511.99.05 | Ostrich eggshells (unworked) | free |
| 0511.99.10 | Sinews and tendons | free |
| 0511.99.15 | Bloodmeal; animal semen; parings and similar waste of raw hides and skins | free |
| 0511.99.80 | Other animal products, unworked or simply prepared | free |
| 0511.99.90 | Other | free |
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