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Notes:
1. 1. This Chapter does not cover :

1. Edible products (other than guts, bladders and stomachs of animals, whole and pieces thereof, and animal blood, liquid or dried);
2. Hides or skins (including furskins) other than goods of heading No. 05.05 and parings and similar waste of raw hides or skins of heading No. 05.11 (Chapter 41 or 43);
3. Animal textile materials, other than horsehair and horsehair waste (Section XI); or
4. Prepared knots or tufts for broom or brush making (heading No. 96.03).

2. For the purposes of heading No. 05.01, 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, walrus, narwhal and wild boar tusks, rhinoceros horns and the teeth of all animals are regarded as "ivory".

4. Throughout this Schedule, the expression "horsehair" means hair of the manes or tails of equine or bovine animals.

Heading No.	Sub-heading No.	Description of article	Rate of duty
			Standard	Preferential Areas
(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)
05.01	0501.00	Human hair, unworked, whether or not washed or scoured; waste of human hair	35%
05.02		Pigs', hogs' or boars' bristles and hair; badger hair and other brush-making hair; waste of such bristles or hair
	0502.10	- Pigs', hogs' or boars' bristles and hair and waste thereof	35%
	0502.90	- Other	35%
05.03	0503.00	Horsehair and horsehair waste, whether or not put up as a layer with or without supporting material	35%
05.04	0504.00	Guts, bladders and stomachs of animals (other than fish), whole and pieces thereof, fresh, chilled, frozen, salted, in brine, dried or smoked	35%
05.05		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
	0505.10	- Feathers of a kind used for stuffing; down	35%
	0505.90	- Other	35%
05.06		Bones and horn-cores, unworked, defatted, simply prepared (but not cut to shape), treated with acid or degelatinised; powder and waste of these products
	0506.10	- Ossein and bones treated with acid	35%
	0506.90	- Other	35%
05.07		Ivory, 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 products
	0507.10	- Ivory; ivory powder and waste	35%	15%
	0507.90	- Other	35%
05.08	0508.00	Coral 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	35%
05.09	0509.00	Natural sponges of animal origin	35%
05.10	0510.00	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	35%
05.11		Animal products not elsewhere specified or included; dead animals of Chapter 1 or 3, unfit for human consumption
	0511.10	- Bovine semen	35%
		- Others :
	0511.91	-- Products of fish or crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates; dead animals of Chapter 3	35%
	0511.99	-- Other	35%