Animal originated products; not elsewhere specified or included
Chapter 05 of the Harmonised System covers Animal originated products; not elsewhere specified or included — 9 four-digit headings spanning human hair to ambergris, castoreum, civet and musk that customs authorities worldwide use to classify these goods and set duty.
- India exports 2024
- $272.8M
Source: UN Comtrade — India's reported merchandise exports to the world, 2024.
Sourcing this category from India
Chapter 05 gathers animal-origin products not elsewhere specified — bristles, gut, bones, horn, feathers and similar raw materials. India supplies inputs such as bone meal, horn and hair to industrial buyers, though volumes are niche. This chapter is used chiefly for precise classification of by-products that don't fit the food or hide chapters.
How to read this code
05 is the two-digit HS chapter for animal originated products. To clear customs your destination country extends it to a full 8–10 digit code and assigns the duty rate. India's preferential trade agreements (UAE CEPA, Australia ECTA, and others) can reduce or zero out that duty on many live animals & animal products lines — check our import guides for your market.
Headings under HS 05
The Harmonised System breaks Animal originated products; not elsewhere specified or included into these 9 headings. Drill down to the exact classification for your goods.
Human hair; unworked, whether or not washed or scoured; waste of human hair
Pigs', hogs' or boars' bristles and hair; and waste thereof
Guts, bladders and stomachs of animals (other than fish); whole and pieces thereof, fresh, chilled, frozen, salted, in brine, dried or smoked
Skins and other parts of birds with feathers, down; feathers, down and parts thereof; not further worked than cleaned, disinfected, treated for preservation; powder, waste and parts of feathers
Bones and horn-cores, unworked, defatted, simply prepared (but not cut to shape), treated with acid or degelatinised; powder and waste of these products
Ivory, tortoise-shell, whalebone and whalebone hair, horns, antlers, hooves, nails, claws and beaks unworked or simply prepared, not cut to shape; waste and powder of these products
Coral and similar materials, unworked or simply prepared, shells of molluscs, crustaceans or echinoderms and cuttle-bone, not cut to shape powder and waste thereof
Ambergris, castoreum, civet and musk; cantharides; bile, dried or not glands, other animal products used in preparation of pharmaceutical products, fresh chilled, frozen or otherwise provisionally preserved
Animal products not elsewhere specified or included; dead animals of chapter 1 or 3, unfit for human consumption
Top destinations for Chapter 05 exports
India's largest buyers of goods in this HS chapter in 2024, ranked by export value.
Chapter-level destination mix — your specific HS line may skew differently. Source: UN Comtrade, 2024.
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Indian exporters in this category
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