HS code 0506: Bones and horn-cores, unworked, defatted, simply prepared
Heading 0506 of the EU Combined Nomenclature 2026, in chapter 05, with the official text of every 6-digit subheading and 8-digit CN code below it.
Official description
0506Bones and horn-cores, unworked, defatted, simply prepared (but not cut to shape), treated with acid or degelatinised; powder and waste of these products
Place in the nomenclature: 05 Products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included > 0506
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)
- Subheadings (6 digits)
- 2
- CN codes (8 digits)
- 2
Subheadings and CN codes in heading 0506
- 0506 10Ossein and bones treated with acid
- 0506 10 00 Ossein and bones treated with acid
- 0506 90Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Bones and horn-cores and their powder and waste, unworked, defatted, degelatinised or simply prepared (excl. ossein and bones treated with acid and cut to shape)
- 0506 90 00 Other
The first 6 digits are the Harmonized System, shared worldwide: a US HTS code that starts with the same 6 digits sits under the same subheading. The last 2 digits are the EU's own CN split.
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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.