HS Chapter 05

Products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified

9 headings · 18 HS codes. Choose a 4-digit heading to see its tariff lines.

Heading 0501 Human hair; unworked, whether or not washed or scoured; waste of human hair 1 codes Heading 0502 Pigs', hogs' or boars' bristles and hair; and waste thereof 2 codes Heading 0504 Guts, bladders and stomachs of animals (other than fish); whole and pieces thereof, fresh, chilled, frozen, salted, in brine, dried or smoked 1 codes Heading 0505 Skins and other parts of birds with feathers, down; feathers, down and parts thereof; not further worked than cleaned, disinfected, treated for preservation; powder, waste and parts of feathers 2 codes Heading 0506 Bones and horn-cores, unworked, defatted, simply prepared (but not cut to shape), treated with acid or degelatinised; powder and waste of these products 3 codes Heading 0507 Ivory, tortoise-shell, whalebone and whalebone hair, horns, antlers, hooves, nails, claws and beaks unworked or simply prepared, not cut to shape; waste and powder of these products 2 codes Heading 0508 Coral and similar materials, unworked or simply prepared, shells of molluscs, crustaceans or echinoderms and cuttle-bone, not cut to shape powder and waste thereof 1 codes Heading 0510 Ambergris, castoreum, civet and musk; cantharides; bile, dried or not glands, other animal products used in preparation of pharmaceutical products, fresh chilled, frozen or otherwise provisionally preserved 2 codes Heading 0511 Animal products not elsewhere specified or included; dead animals of chapter 1 or 3, unfit for human consumption 4 codes

Recorded imports

Between December 2025 and May 2026, NBR recorded commercial imports worth BDT 911,011,401 (3,114,270 kg) under this chapter, across 11 of its 18 tariff lines. The remaining 7 recorded no commercial import in that window.

Month	Lines with imports	Net weight	Assessable value
December 2025	8	190,449 kg	BDT 253,484,488
January 2026	6	196,941 kg	BDT 162,297,240
February 2026	7	1,006,715 kg	BDT 188,116,709
March 2026	5	524,022 kg	BDT 130,472,904
April 2026	6	733,704 kg	BDT 57,662,821
May 2026	6	462,439 kg	BDT 118,977,239

The largest lines by assessable value in May 2026:

05111000 — Bovine Semen — BDT 52,180,231
05119100 — Products Of Fish, Crus.,Mollus.,Other Aquatic, Invet Dead Anim.Of Chapt. 3 — BDT 23,716,464
05010000 — Human Hair And Waste, Unworked — BDT 22,129,213
05119910 — Animal Products, Nes; ...,Unfit For Human Consun. Wrapped/canned upto 2.5 kg — BDT 20,225,322
05080000 — Coral; Shells Of Molluscs, Crustaceans, Unworked — BDT 672,816

Bonded imports. A further BDT 6,371,493,211 (724,754 kg) entered under the bonded-warehouse regime over the same months — duty-free inputs imported against an undertaking to re-export them. That is 87.5% of everything imported under this chapter: most of this trade never pays the duty rates shown above.

Import figures: NBR Import Statements (IM-4 commercial, IM-7 bonded), December 2025 – May 2026. Assessable value is the customs value on which duty is charged, not the retail or invoice price.

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