0506 90 00 — Bones and horn-cores, unworked, defatted, simply prepared (but not cut to shape), treated with acid or degelatinised; powder and waste of these products: other

0506 Bones and horn shafts, untreated, fat-free, primary treated (without forming), or wrought with acid or degelatinized; powder and waste of these products: 0506 10 – ossein and bones treated with acid 0506 90 – other

The products of this heading are used mainly as carving material, for the manufacture of glue and gelatin or as fertilisers. This heading covers: (1) bones and horn-cores (the bony interior of horns), unworked or defatted (bones from which the fat has been removed by various methods of treatment); (2) bones simply prepared (but not cut to shape), i.e., merely having excess parts sawn off or cut (lengthwise or crosswise), sometimes followed by rough trueing or bleaching. The heading therefore excludes rectangular (including square) plates, sheets and other shapes, whether or not polished or otherwise worked, and articles obtained by moulding bone powder; all these goods fall in heading 9601 or in other more specific headings; (3) bones treated with acid, i.e., bones in which the calcareous part has been dissolved by hydrochloric, or muriatic, acid and which, while retaining their original shape, contain only the cellular tissue and cartilaginous parts (ossein), readily converted into gelatin; (4) degelatinised bones, from which the gelatin has been removed by steam treatment and which are usually in powder form (steamed bone meal); (5) powder and waste of bones (including crushed bone), e.g., those obtained in the course of working bone.

Notes

English text as published in Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2021/1832 (Combined Nomenclature). The EAEU tariff and the EU nomenclature copy these notes from the same convention. For a Russian declaration the binding version is the Russian one: Annex to Decision No 80 of the EEC Council of 14 September 2021.

1. This chapter does not cover:

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

(b) hides or skins (including furskins), other than goods of heading 0505 and parings and similar waste of raw hides or skins of heading 0511(Chapter 41 or 43);

(c) animal textile materials, other than horsehair and horsehair waste (Section XI); or

(d) 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 the nomenclature, elephant, hippopotamus, walrus, narwhal and wild boar tusks, rhinoceros horns and the teeth of all animals are regarded as ‘ivory’.

4. Throughout the nomenclature, 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.