HS code 0508: Coral and similar materials, unworked or simply
Heading 0508 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
0508Coral 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
Place in the nomenclature: 05 Products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included > 0508
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
- Subheadings (6 digits)
- 1
- CN codes (8 digits)
- 2
Subheadings and CN codes in heading 0508
- 0508 00Coral 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
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 10 Red coral (Corallium rubrum)
- 0508 00 90 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.