0510 00 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

0510 Ambra gray, beaver, civet and musk stream; scabs; bile, including dry; glands and other animal products used in the manufacture of pharmaceutical products, fresh, chilled, ice cream or otherwise processed for short-term storage

Ambergris is a substance secreted by the sperm whale, in the form of rounded masses composed of concentric layers, weighing up to several hundred kilograms. It has a waxy consistency and gives off a pleasant odour when rubbed. Its colour ranges from ash-grey to black, and its density is lower than that of water. Ambergris should not be confused with yellow amber (succinite), which is a mineral resin and falls in heading 2530. Castoreum is a resinous substance, brown, reddish or yellowish in colour, with a bitter taste and an acrid odour. It is secreted by beavers and is found in the skin glands (usually paired) in which it is produced. These are skin pouches 5 – 10 cm long. Civet is produced by the civet cat, or African civet, an animal of the cat family; it is a resinous substance, brown with a golden tinge or plain brown, of pasty and oily consistency, with a strong odour closely resembling that of natural musk. Musk, secreted by a member of the deer family, the musk deer, is usually found in the skin glands (flat and hairless on one side and convex with whitish hair on the other) in which it is produced. It is dark brown in colour and has a pungent

55 smells. This musk is not to be confused with artificial musk (xylene, ambrett, etc.) included in Chapter 29. Spanks are beetles that are used mainly as a skin-exciting or anti-irritant. Usually presented in dried or powdered form. This heading also covers (1) glands and other products of animal origin used in the manufacture of organotherapeutic products and unsuitable in nature or in the manner in which they are packaged for consumption (pancreas, testes, ovaries, gallbladders, thyroid gland, pituitary gland, etc.), fresh, chilled or ice creamed or otherwise processed for short-term storage to protect against spoilage during transport or storage (for example, in glycerol, acetone or alcohol). In dried or extracted form, these products are not included (heading 3001). (See, however, note 1 (a) to this groat of food.) (2) Bile, including dry bile extract not included, heading 3001. This heading also excludes snake or bee venom packed in dried flakes in soldered vials (heading 3001).

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.