4101.50.50.00 - Other

This HTS category, 4101.50.50.00, encompasses raw hides and skins of bovine animals, including buffalo, that are whole and weigh more than 16 kilograms. These hides and skins are preserved through methods such as salting, drying, liming, or pickling, but importantly, they have not undergone tanning, parchment dressing, or any further preparation that would fundamentally alter their nature into leather. This includes hides that may have been dehaired or split.

The distinguishing factor for this specific "Other" subcategory, compared to its sibling 4101.50.40.00, is the absence of vegetable pretanning. While both categories fall under whole bovine hides and skins exceeding 16 kilograms that are preserved but not tanned, the sibling category specifically identifies hides that have undergone a preliminary vegetable tanning treatment. This classification, 4101.50.50.00, therefore applies to those preserved bovine hides meeting the weight and whole hide criteria, but which have not received any form of tanning, including vegetable pretanning.

As this is a leaf node within the HTS, there are no further subcategories to introduce. The classification is definitive at this level, covering the residual range of preserved, whole bovine hides exceeding 16 kilograms that do not fit into more specifically defined categories, such as those which have undergone vegetable pretanning.