Chapter 05 HSN codes: other animal products

Products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included. Every heading in chapter 05 with its GST rate; search any 8-digit code below.

Rates checked · from the official GST notifications

    Rates from the CBIC notifications (9/2025, 10/2025 and 19/2025 for goods; 11/2017 as amended by 15/2025 for services), checked October 2026. Calculate GST

    Headings in chapter 05 and their GST

    HSNDescriptionGST
    0501Human hair, unworked, whether or not washed or scoured; waste of human hair2 tariff items0%
    0502Pigs', hogs' or boars' bristles and hair; badger hair and other brush making hair; waste of such bristles or hair5 tariff items5%
    05031 tariff item18%
    0504Guts, bladders and stomachs of animals (other than fish), whole and pieces thereof, fresh, chilled, frozen, salted, in brine, dried or smoked8 tariff items0% or 5%
    0505Skins and other parts of birds, with their feathers or down, feathers and parts of feathers (whether or not with trimmed edges) and down, not further worked than cleaned, disinfected or treated for preservation; powder and waste of feathers or parts of feathers9 tariff items5%
    0506Bones and horn-cores, unworked, defatted, simply prepared (but not cut to shape), treated with acid or degelatinised, powder and waste of these products12 tariff items0%
    0507Ivory, tortoise-shell, whalebone and whalebone hair, horns, antlers, hooves, nails, claws and beaks, unworked or simply prepared but not cut to shape; powder and waste of these products10 tariff items0% or 5%
    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 thereof6 tariff items5%
    0509Omitted2 tariff items18%
    0510Ambergris, 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 preserved5 tariff items5%
    0511Animal products not elsewhere specified or included; dead animals of chapter 1 or 3, unfit for human consumption14 tariff items0% or 5%

    Where a heading shows two rates, its codes or its goods differ: tap the heading to see each 8-digit code and the condition for each rate.

    Other chapters

    What chapter 05 covers

    Chapter 05 of the tariff is "Products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included". It has 11 four-digit headings and 74 eight-digit tariff items, such as 0501 (Human hair, unworked, whether or not washed or scoured;), 0502 (Pigs', hogs' or boars' bristles and hair; badger hair and), 0503 ().

    GST rates in chapter 05

    Most of its tariff items are taxed at 5%. By tariff item: 27 at 5%, 22 at 0%, 3 at 18%. For 22 of them the rate depends on how the goods are described or sold (for example the sale price, or whether they are pre-packaged and labelled), so the finder shows each option with its condition.

    Questions

    What is the GST rate for chapter 05 goods?

    Most of its tariff items are taxed at 5%. Of the 74 eight-digit codes in chapter 05, 27 at 5%, 22 at 0%, 3 at 18%; the rest depend on the description. Check the exact code in the table: some headings have more than one rate.

    What is HSN code 0501?

    Heading 0501 is "Human hair, unworked, whether or not washed or scoured; waste of human hair". GST: 0%.

    Related tools