HSN chapter guide
Chapter 51 — Wool & animal hair
105 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
- Throughout the Nomenclature: (a) 'Wool' means the natural fibre grown by sheep or lambs; (b) 'Fine animal hair' means the hair of alpaca, llama, vicuna, camel (including dromedary), yak, Angora, Tibetan, Kashmir or similar goats (but not common goats), rabbit (including Angora rabbit), hare, beaver, nutria or musk-rat; (c) 'Coarse animal hair' means the hair of animals not mentioned above, excluding brush-making hair and bristles (heading 05.02) and horsehair (heading 05.11).
Sample 8-digit lines
| HSN | Description | BCD |
|---|---|---|
| 5101 11 00 | Shorn wool | 2.5% |
| 5101 19 00 | Other | 2.5% |
| 5101 21 00 | Shorn wool | 2.5% |
| 5101 29 00 | Other | 2.5% |
| 5101 30 00 | Carbonised | 2.5% |
| 5102 11 10 | Marine Angora | 5% |
| 5102 11 90 | Other | 5% |
| 5102 19 10 | Marine Angora | 5% |
| 5102 19 90 | Other | 5% |
| 5102 20 10 | Goat hair (other than Angora) | 5% |
| 5102 20 90 | Other (excluding pig and boar bristles) | 5% |
| 5103 10 10 | Noils of wool | 5% |
| 5103 10 90 | Other | 10% |
| 5103 20 10 | Waste of sheep's and lamb's wool | 5% |
| 5103 20 20 | Yarn waste | 5% |
| 5103 20 90 | Other | 5% |
| 5103 30 00 | Waste of coarse animal hair | 10% |
| 5104 00 10 | Shoddy wool | 10% |
| 5104 00 90 | Other | 10% |
| 5105 10 00 | Carded wool | 10% |
| 5105 21 00 | Combed wool in fragments | 10% |
| 5105 29 10 | Wool tops | 2.5% |
| 5105 29 90 | Other | 10% |
| 5105 31 00 | Of Kashmir (cashmere) goats | 10% |
| 5105 39 00 | Other | 10% |
| 5105 40 00 | Coarse animal hair, carded or combed | 10% |
| 5106 10 10 | Shoddy woollen yarn | 10% |
| 5106 10 20 | Munga woollen yarn | 10% |
| 5106 10 90 | Other | 10% |
| 5106 20 10 | Shoddy woollen yarn | 10% |
| 5106 20 20 | Munga woollen yarn | 10% |
| 5106 20 90 | Other | 10% |
| 5107 10 10 | Worsted hosiery yarn | 10% |
| 5107 10 20 | Worsted knitted yarn | 10% |
| 5107 10 30 | Worsted weaving yarn | 10% |
| 5107 10 40 | Woollen carpet yarn | 10% |
| 5107 10 90 | Other | 10% |
| 5107 20 10 | Worsted hosiery yarn | 10% |
| 5107 20 20 | Worsted knitted yarn | 10% |
| 5107 20 30 | Worsted weaving yarn | 10% |