Code 0510 00 · Heading 0510

Ambergris, castoreum, civet, musk, Spanish flies, bile, and pharmaceutical-use animal glands or products, fresh, chilled, frozen or otherwise preliminarily preserved

This covers ambergris, castoreum, civet, musk, Spanish flies, bile, and glands or other animal products suitable for making pharmaceutical products. The goods must be fresh, chilled, frozen or otherwise preliminarily preserved; bile may also be dried.

For example

Dried bile
Fresh glands for making pharmaceutical products
Preliminarily preserved castoreum
Frozen Spanish flies

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Official tariff text

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

The path to this code

Every code is reached through these choices, one level at a time.

Step 4 of 4

Step 1 · Section I Live animals; animal products
Is it a live animal; meat or edible offal; a fish, crustacean, mollusc or other aquatic invertebrate; milk, a dairy product, bird egg, natural honey or another edible animal-origin product; or another product of animal origin?
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Step 2 · Chapter 05 Products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified … 5 of 5 chapters in section I
What kind of animal-origin product is it: human hair; brush-making bristles or hair; animal intestines, bladders or stomachs; bird skins, feathers or down; bones or horn cores; ivory, shells, horns, hooves, claws or beaks; corals or mollusc, crustacean or echinoderm shells; ambergris, glands or other products used to make pharmaceutical products; or another animal product, including a dead animal unfit for human consumption?
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Step 3 · Heading 0510 Ambra, bævergejl, civet og moskus; spanske fluer; g… 8 of 9 headings under chapter 05
Is it ambergris, castoreum, civet, musk, Spanish flies, bile, or an animal gland or other animal product usable for making pharmaceutical products, in the stated fresh, chilled, frozen, or provisionally preserved form?
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Step 4 · Subheading 0510 00 Ambergris, castoreum, civet and musk; cantharides; … 1 of 1 subheading under heading 0510
Is the product one of the listed animal substances, or a gland or other animal product suitable for making pharmaceutical products, and is it fresh, chilled, frozen or otherwise preliminarily preserved?

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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 Duty free Save

Export to Norway

What Norwegian customs charges when goods like these are imported into Norway.

05.10.0000

Ambergris, castoreum, civet and musk; cantharides; bile, whether or not dried; glands and other animal products used in the prearation of pharmaceutical products, fresh, chilled, frozen or otherwise provisionally preserved

Ordinary duty

Duty free

Goods of EU origin

Duty free You need documentation of EU origin to use this rate.

Norwegian tariff data version 1.5/1.2, last checked Aug. 3, 2026.

Contains data from Norwegian Customs (data.toll.no), licensed under CC BY 4.0, adapted for display.

Export to the United Kingdom

What UK customs charges when goods like these are imported into the UK.

0510 00 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

Ordinary duty

Duty free

Goods of EU origin

Duty free You need documentation of EU preferential origin to use this rate.

These rates apply in Great Britain. Different rules may apply for goods entering Northern Ireland.

UK tariff data version v4.0.1576, last checked Aug. 3, 2026.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Source: UK Department for Business and Trade (data.api.trade.gov.uk).

Duty rates shown here are estimates, read from official EU / Danish, Norwegian and UK tariff data for orientation only. Confirm the current rate with SKAT, TARIC, Norwegian Customs or the UK Online Trade Tariff before you file. The rate you pay can also depend on the country of origin. These are base customs duties only: import VAT, excise duties, anti-dumping duties and safeguard or quota measures are not included.