About Chapter 05
Chapter 05 of the Harmonized System of Nomenclature (HSN) is titled “Products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included”. It is part of Section I, Live Animals & Animal Products, together with Chapter 01 (live animals), Chapter 02 (meat and edible meat offal), Chapter 03 (fish and crustaceans) and Chapter 04 (dairy produce; birds' eggs; natural honey).
The chapter is divided into 9 headings, from 0501 (human hair, unworked, whether or not washed or scoured; waste of human hair) to 0511 (animal products not elsewhere specified or included). The headings with the most codes that people search for are skins and other parts of birds, with their feathers or down (0505) and coral and similar materials, unworked or simply prepared but not otherwise worked (0508).
Every heading is listed below. Under each are the codes that have their own page on Laabam One, 2 codes in this chapter, each with its full classification: its chapter, heading and sub-heading, and the codes beside it.
Every code in this chapter begins with 05: four digits make a heading, six a sub-heading, and eight a tariff item of India's Customs Tariff. How many of those digits a GST tax invoice shows depends on the business, not the goods: under Notification No. 78/2020 – Central Tax, from 1 April 2021, four digits where aggregate turnover in the previous financial year was up to ₹5 crore, and six above it. Up to ₹5 crore, the code may be left off invoices to unregistered buyers.
No GST rate is shown here. GST rates were revised in September 2025, and a rate appears on this site only once it has been checked against the CBIC rate notifications.
Sources: Notification No. 78/2020 – Central Tax (HSN digits on invoices).