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Section I
Live Animals; Animal Products

Notes

1.

Any reference in this Section to a particular genus or species of an animal, except where the context otherwise requires, includes a reference to the young of that genus or species.

2.

Except where the context otherwise requires, throughout this Schedule any reference to "dried" products also covers products which have been dehydrated, evaporated or freeze- dried.

Chapter 5
Products of Animal Origin, Not Elsewhere Specified or Included

Notes

1.

This Chapter does not cover the following:

(a)

edible products (excluding guts, bladders and stomachs of animals, whole and pieces thereof, and animal blood, liquid or dried);

(b)

hides or skins (including furskins) (excluding goods of heading 05.05 and parings and similar waste of raw hides or skins of heading 05.11) (Chapter 41 or 43);

(c)

animal textile materials (excluding horsehair and horsehair waste) (Section XI); or

(d)

prepared knots or tufts for broom or brush making (heading 96.03).

2.

For the purposes of heading 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, hippopotamus, 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 05.11 covers, inter alia, horsehair and horsehair waste, whether or not put up as a layer with or without supporting material.

Heading CD Description Unit General EU EFTA SADC
05.11 Animal products not elsewhere specified or included; dead animals of Chapter 1 or 3, unfit for human consumption:
0511.9 - Other:
0511.99 -- Other:
0511.99.05 5 --- Ostrich eggshells (unworked) kg free free free free

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