HS chapter 05: Products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified
Chapter 05 of the EU Combined Nomenclature 2026, with the official text of every heading in it and their 6-digit subheadings.
Official description
05PRODUCTS OF ANIMAL ORIGIN, NOT ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED OR INCLUDED
- Headings (4 digits)
- 9
- Subheadings (6 digits)
- 15
- CN codes (8 digits)
- 21
Headings in chapter 05
- 0501 00 Human hair, unworked, whether or not washed or scoured; waste of human hair
- 0502 10 Pigs', hogs' or boars' bristles and hair and waste thereof
- 0502 90 Other
- 0504 00 Guts, bladders and stomachs of animals (other than fish), whole and pieces thereof, fresh, chilled, frozen, salted, in brine, dried or smoked
- 0505 10 Feathers of a kind used for stuffing; down
- 0505 90 Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Bones and horn-cores and their powder and waste, unworked, defatted, simply prepared, treated with acid or degelatinised (excl. cut to shape)
- 0506 10 Ossein and bones treated with acid
- 0506 90 Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Ivory, tortoiseshell, whalebone and whalebone hair, horns, antlers, hooves, nails, claws and beaks, unworked or simply prepared; powder and waste of these products (excl. cut to shape)
- 0507 10 Ivory; ivory powder and waste
- 0507 90 Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Coral and similar materials, shells of molluscs, crustaceans or echinoderms, cuttle-bone, powder and waste thereof, unworked or simply prepared but not otherwise worked or cut to shape
- 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
- 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
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Animal products n.e.s.; dead animals of all types, unfit for human consumption
- 0511 10 Bovine semen
- 0511 91 Other | Products of fish or crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates; dead animals of Chapter 3
- 0511 99 Other | Other
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Source
Source: EU Combined Nomenclature 2026 (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1926), © European Union, https://eur-lex.europa.eu/. Reformatted by WISEPIM: indent dashes removed and parent lines joined. Only the Official Journal is authentic.