HSN Code and GST Tax rate for products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included under section-1 chapter-5
If the trader’s trades for products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included then they will have to use the HSN CODE for products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included in the invoice or in the GST Returns for identifications of the products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included.
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HSN code list
1- According to the chapter-5 of section-1 covers all products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included except:
- Edible products (other than guts, bladders, and stomachs of animals, whole and pieces thereof, and animal blood, liquid or dried);
- Hides or skins (including fur skins) other than goods of heading 0505 and parings and similar waste of rawhides or skins of heading 0511 (Chapter 41 or 43);
- Animal textile materials, other than horsehair and horsehair waste (Section XI); or
- Prepared knots or tufts for broom or brush making (heading 9603).
2- For the purposes of heading 0501, the sorting of hair by length (provided the root ends and tip ends respectively are not arranged together) shall be deemed not to constitute working.
3- Throughout this Schedule, elephant, hippopotamus, walrus, narwhal and wild boar tusks, rhinoceros horns and the teeth of all animals are regarded as “ivory”.
4- Throughout the Schedule, the expression “horsehair” means hair of the manes or tails of equine or bovine animals. Heading 0511 covers, inter alia, horsehair, and horsehair waste, whether or not put up as a layer with or without supporting material.
NOTE– In this Chapter, the expressions “wild animal” and “wildlife” have the meanings respectively assigned to them in clauses (36) and (37) of section 2 of the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 (53 of 1972); and the expression “wild bird” means any bird specified in Schedules to that Act.
HSN Code for products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included
GOODS DESCRIPTION | HSN CODE Chapter/Heading/ Sub-heading/ Tariff item |
Human hair, unworked, whether or not washed or scoured; waste of human hair | 0501 |
Pigs’, hogs’ or boars’ bristles and hair; badger hair and other brush making hair; waste of such bristles or hair | 0502 |
Omitted | 0503 |
Guts, bladders, and stomachs of animals (other than fish), whole and pieces thereof, fresh, chilled, frozen, salted, in brine, dried or smoked | 0504 |
Skins 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 feathers | 0505 |
Bones and horn-cores, unworked, defatted, simply prepared (but not cut to shape), treated with acid or de-gelatinized powder and waste of these products | 0506 |
Ivory, tortoiseshell, 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 products | 0507 |
Coral and similar materials, unworked or simply prepared but not otherwise worked; shells of mollusks, crustaceans or echinoderms and cuttle-bone, unworked or simply prepared but not cut to shape, powder and waste thereof | 0508 |
Omitted | 0509 |
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 | 0510 |
Animal products not elsewhere specified or included; dead animals of Chapter 1 or 3, unfit for human consumption | 0511 |
GST Tax rate for products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included
GOODS DESCRIPTION | HSN CODE Chapter/Heading/ Sub-heading/ Tariff item | GST TAX RATE |
Human hair, unworked, whether or not washed or scoured; waste of human hair | 0501 | NIL |
Pigs’, hogs’ or boars’ bristles and hair; badger hair and other brush making hair; waste of such bristles or hair | 0502 | 5% |
Omitted | 0503 | NA |
All goods [other than fresh or chilled] and put up in unit container and, – (a) bearing a registered brand name; or (b) bearing a brand name on which an actionable claim or enforceable right in a court of law is available other than those where any actionable claim or enforceable right in respect of such brand name has been foregone voluntarily], subject to the conditions as in the ANNEXURE. | 0504 | 5% |
All goods, fresh or chilled | 0504 | NIL |
All goods [other than fresh or chilled] other than those put up in unit container and, – (a) bearing a registered brand name; or (b) bearing a brand name on which an actionable claim or enforceable right in a court of law is available [other than those where any actionable claim or enforceable right in respect of such brand name has been foregone voluntarily], subject to the conditions as in the ANNEXURE I ] | 0504 | NIL |
Skins 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 feathers | 0505 | 5% |
Bones and horn-cores, unworked, defatted, simply prepared (but not cut to shape), treated with acid or de-gelatinized powder and waste of these products | 0506 | NIL |
Ivory, tortoise-shell, whalebone and whalebone hair, horns, unworked or simply prepared but not cut to shape; powder and waste of these products | 0507 (except 0507 90) | 5% |
All goods i.e. Hoof meal; horn meal; hooves, claws, nails and beaks; antlers; etc. | 0507 90 | NIL |
Coral and similar materials, unworked or simply prepared but not otherwise worked; shells of mollusks, crustaceans or echinoderms and cuttle-bone, unworked or simply prepared but not cut to shape, powder and waste thereof | 0508 | 5% |
Omitted | 0509 | NA |
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 | 0510 | 5% |
Animal products not elsewhere specified or included; dead animals of Chapter 1 or 3, unfit for human consumption, other than semen including frozen semen. | 0511 | 5% |
Semen including frozen semen | 0511 | NIL |
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