HS chapter 50: Silk
Chapter 50 of the EU Combined Nomenclature 2026, with the official text of every heading in it and their 6-digit subheadings.
Official description
50SILK
- Headings (4 digits)
- 7
- Subheadings (6 digits)
- 9
- CN codes (8 digits)
- 24
Headings in chapter 50
- 5001 00 Silkworm cocoons suitable for reeling
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Raw silk "non-thrown"
- 5002 00 Raw silk (not thrown)
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Silk waste, incl. cocoons unsuitable for reeling, yarn waste and garnetted stock
- 5003 00 Silk waste (including cocoons unsuitable for reeling, yarn waste and garnetted stock)
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Silk yarn (excl. that spun from silk waste and that put up for retail sale)
- 5004 00 Silk yarn (other than yarn spun from silk waste) not put up for retail sale
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Yarn spun from silk waste (excl. that put up for retail sale)
- 5005 00 Yarn spun from silk waste, not put up for retail sale
- 5006 00 Silk yarn and yarn spun from silk waste, put up for retail sale; silkworm gut
- 5007 10 Fabrics of noil silk
- 5007 20 Other fabrics, containing 85 % or more by weight of silk or of silk waste other than noil silk
- 5007 90 Other fabrics
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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.