HSN chapter guide
Chapter 05 — Other 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
| HSN | Description | BCD |
|---|---|---|
| 0501 00 10 | Human hair, unworked, whether or not washed or scoured | 30% |
| 0501 00 20 | Waste of human hair | 30% |
| 0502 10 10 | Pigs’, hogs’ or boars’ bristles and hair | 30% |
| 0502 10 20 | Waste of pigs’, hogs’ or boars’ bristles and hair | 30% |
| 0502 90 10 | Badger hair and other brush making hair | 30% |
| 0502 90 20 | Yak tail hair | 30% |
| 0502 90 90 | Other | 30% |
| 0504 00 10 | Guts of cattle for natural food casings | 30% |
| 0504 00 20 | Guts of sheep and goats for natural food casings | 30% |
| 0504 00 31 | Of wild animals | 30% |
| 0504 00 39 | Other | 30% |
| 0504 00 41 | Of wild animals | 30% |
| 0504 00 49 | Other | 30% |
| 0504 00 51 | Of wild animals | 30% |
| 0504 00 59 | Other | 30% |
| 0505 10 10 | Of wild birds | 30% |
| 0505 10 90 | Other | 30% |
| 0505 90 10 | Peacock tail and wing feather (trimmed or not) | 30% |
| 0505 90 21 | Of wild birds | 30% |
| 0505 90 29 | Other | 30% |
| 0505 90 31 | Of wild birds | 30% |
| 0505 90 39 | Other | 30% |
| 0505 90 91 | Of wild birds | 30% |
| 0505 90 99 | Other | 30% |
| 0506 10 11 | Of wild animals | 30% |
| 0506 10 19 | Other | 30% |
| 0506 10 21 | Of wild animals | 30% |
| 0506 10 29 | Other | 30% |
| 0506 10 31 | Of wild animals | 30% |
| 0506 10 39 | Other | 30% |
| 0506 10 41 | Of wild animals | 30% |
| 0506 10 49 | Other | 30% |
| 0506 90 11 | Of wild animals | 30% |
| 0506 90 19 | Other | 30% |
| 0506 90 91 | Of wild animals | 30% |
| 0506 90 99 | Other | 30% |
| 0507 10 10 | Ivory | 30% |
| 0507 10 20 | Ivory powder and waste | 30% |
| 0507 90 10 | Hoof meal | 30% |
| 0507 90 20 | Horn meal | 30% |