0505 90 00 · Other
This subheading includes:
1. skins and other parts of birds (heads, wings, necks, etc.) with their feathers or down, intended, for example, for the manufacture of head-dress accessories;
2. skins of birds without tectrices, especially the part of goose skin known as ‘swan skin’, used mainly for the manufacture of pompons;
3. large feathers from the wing or tail or other parts of the plumage, unusable for stuffing, particularly because of their size and the rigidity of their scapes;
4. ornamental parts intended, after working, for the manufacture of trimmings for head-dresses, for artificial flowers, etc. Such parts are, for example, feathers of ostrich, egret, heron, pheasant, marabou, ibis, peacock, bird of paradise, flamingo, jay, humming bird, magpie, vulture, gull and stork;
5. feathers, generally of a uniform length, used for the manufacture of feather dusters and feather brushes;
6. certain well defined parts of feathers such as the quills and the scapes, whether or not split (for example, for the manufacture of tooth picks, fishing tackle), barbs cut from the scape or attached to a thin shaving of the scape, whether or not with trimmed edges (pulled feathers). However, if despite any processing undergone these retain the character of feathers for stuffing, they fall in subheading 0505 10 10 or 0505 10 90.
This subheading also includes products known as ‘gerissene Hahnenhälse’ which are the scapes of feathers, trimmed except for their fine end portions, which retain small plumes or barbs which the trimming process has been unable to remove;
7. powders (or meal) and waste of feathers or of parts of feathers.