HSN chapter guide

Chapter 05Other animal products

69 eight-digit tariff lines. Rates below are from the Indian Customs Tariff First Schedule. Use the AI HSN classifier if you only have a product description. Reviewed by the CustomsAI compliance desk · 24 August 2026.

Chapter notes

  • 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 05.05 and parings and similar waste of raw hides or skins of heading 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 96.03).
  • 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.
  • Throughout the Nomenclature, elephant, hippopotamus, walrus, narwhal and wild boar tusks, rhinoceros horns and the teeth of all animals are regarded as "ivory".
  • Throughout the Nomenclature, 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.

Sample 8-digit lines

HSNDescriptionBCD
0501 00 10Human hair, unworked, whether or not washed or scoured30%
0501 00 20Waste of human hair30%
0502 10 10Pigs’, hogs’ or boars’ bristles and hair30%
0502 10 20Waste of pigs’, hogs’ or boars’ bristles and hair30%
0502 90 10Badger hair and other brush making hair30%
0502 90 20Yak tail hair30%
0502 90 90Other30%
0504 00 10Guts of cattle for natural food casings30%
0504 00 20Guts of sheep and goats for natural food casings30%
0504 00 31Of wild animals30%
0504 00 39Other30%
0504 00 41Of wild animals30%
0504 00 49Other30%
0504 00 51Of wild animals30%
0504 00 59Other30%
0505 10 10Of wild birds30%
0505 10 90Other30%
0505 90 10Peacock tail and wing feather (trimmed or not)30%
0505 90 21Of wild birds30%
0505 90 29Other30%
0505 90 31Of wild birds30%
0505 90 39Other30%
0505 90 91Of wild birds30%
0505 90 99Other30%
0506 10 11Of wild animals30%
0506 10 19Other30%
0506 10 21Of wild animals30%
0506 10 29Other30%
0506 10 31Of wild animals30%
0506 10 39Other30%
0506 10 41Of wild animals30%
0506 10 49Other30%
0506 90 11Of wild animals30%
0506 90 19Other30%
0506 90 91Of wild animals30%
0506 90 99Other30%
0507 10 10Ivory30%
0507 10 20Ivory powder and waste30%
0507 90 10Hoof meal30%
0507 90 20Horn meal30%

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