Sector guide · 22 lines

Exporting wool to the European Union

Wool and animal hair, greasy, scoured, carded or combed, including tops, and their waste (headings 5101 to 5105).

Exporting wool from Argentina to the European Union covers 22 lines of the Combined Nomenclature 2026. Under the EU-Mercosur Agreement, 22 enter duty-free today. Data as of 30 October 2026, from the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement and the Combined Nomenclature 2026.

Lines covered

The guide takes every line of the Combined Nomenclature in force that starts with these codes, 22 lines in all. Each one has its own sheet.

  • 5101 · Wool, not carded or combed · 5 lines
  • 5102 · Fine or coarse animal hair, not carded or combed · 6 lines
  • 5103 · Waste of wool or of fine or coarse animal hair, including yarn waste but excluding garnetted stock · 4 lines
  • 5104 · Garnetted stock of wool or of fine or coarse animal hair · 1 line
  • 5105 · Wool and fine or coarse animal hair, carded or combed (including combed wool in fragments) · 6 lines

Source Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1926, Annex I (Combined Nomenclature 2026)

The duty under the agreement

What each line pays today to enter the European Union from Argentina under the agreement, counted line by line with the same calculation as its sheet.

  • 16lines enter duty-free with or without the agreement
  • 6lines enter duty-free thanks to the agreement

Line by line

Grouped by heading. The code opens the sheet, with the year-by-year schedule and the source of every figure.

5101 · Wool, not carded or combed · 5 lines
LineToday under the agreementWithout itReaches 0Quota
5101 11 00 Wool › Shorn woolCompare with other products (5101 11 00)0%0%··
5101 19 00 Wool › Greasy, including fleece-washed wool › OtherCompare with other products (5101 19 00)0%0%··
5101 21 00 Wool › Shorn woolCompare with other products (5101 21 00)0%0%··
5101 29 00 Wool › Degreased, not carbonised › OtherCompare with other products (5101 29 00)0%0%··
5101 30 00 Wool › CarbonisedCompare with other products (5101 30 00)0%0%··
5102 · Fine or coarse animal hair, not carded or combed · 6 lines
LineToday under the agreementWithout itReaches 0Quota
5102 11 00 Fine or coarse animal hair › Of Kashmir (cashmere) goatsCompare with other products (5102 11 00)0%0%··
5102 19 10 Fine or coarse animal hair › Of angora rabbitCompare with other products (5102 19 10)0%0%··
5102 19 30 Fine or coarse animal hair › Of alpaca, llama or vicunaCompare with other products (5102 19 30)0%0%··
5102 19 40 Fine or coarse animal hair › Of camel (including dromedary) or yak, or of angora, Tibetan or similar goatsCompare with other products (5102 19 40)0%0%··
5102 19 90 Fine or coarse animal hair › Of rabbit (other than angora rabbit), hare, beaver, nutria or muskratCompare with other products (5102 19 90)0%0%··
5102 20 00 Coarse animal hairCompare with other products (5102 20 00)0%0%··
5103 · Waste of wool or of fine or coarse animal hair, including yarn waste but excluding garnetted stock · 4 lines
LineToday under the agreementWithout itReaches 0Quota
5103 10 10 Waste of wool or of fine or coarse animal hair › Not carbonisedCompare with other products (5103 10 10)0%0%··
5103 10 90 Waste of wool or of fine or coarse animal hair › CarbonisedCompare with other products (5103 10 90)0%0%··
5103 20 00 Waste of wool or of fine or coarse animal hair › Other waste of wool or of fine animal hairCompare with other products (5103 20 00)0%0%··
5103 30 00 Waste of coarse animal hairCompare with other products (5103 30 00)0%0%··
5104 · Garnetted stock of wool or of fine or coarse animal hair · 1 line
LineToday under the agreementWithout itReaches 0Quota
5104 00 00 Garnetted stock of wool or of fine or coarse animal hairCompare with other products (5104 00 00)0%0%··
5105 · Wool and fine or coarse animal hair, carded or combed (including combed wool in fragments) · 6 lines
LineToday under the agreementWithout itReaches 0Quota
5105 10 00 Wool and fine or coarse animal hair › Carded woolCompare with other products (5105 10 00)0%2%··
5105 21 00 Wool and fine or coarse animal hair › Combed wool in fragmentsCompare with other products (5105 21 00)0%2%··
5105 29 00 Wool tops and other combed wool › OtherCompare with other products (5105 29 00)0%2%··
5105 31 00 Wool and fine or coarse animal hair › Of Kashmir (cashmere) goatsCompare with other products (5105 31 00)0%2%··
5105 39 00 Fine animal hair, carded or combed › OtherCompare with other products (5105 39 00)0%2%··
5105 40 00 Coarse animal hair, carded or combedCompare with other products (5105 40 00)0%2%··

Sources EU-Mercosur Agreement, Appendix 2-A-1 (EU schedule) · Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1926, Annex I (Combined Nomenclature 2026)

Tariff-rate quotas

No line of this sector has a quota of the agreement for Argentina. Each reduction applies to any quantity.

Requirements

The requirements loaded for the lines of the sector, with how many each one covers. Each sheet has the detail for its line.

RequirementTypeLinesNorm
Official control at an EU border control post · Handled in TRACES NT · sistema de control de partidas de la Unión EuropeaSanitary15Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/632

What Access2Markets lists in the EU

The requirements the European Commission's Access2Markets database assigns to the 22 lines checked.

RequirementLines
Health control of products of animal origin not intended for human consumption22
Labelling of textiles22
Restriction on the use of certain chemical substances in textile and leather products21
CITES - Endangered Species Protection11
Prohibition on imports of cat and dog furs and products containing such fur6
Voluntary - Products from organic production5
Waste control4

Source Access2Markets

What the European Union imports

In 2025 the European Union imported €917.0 million from outside the Union in 22 lines of this sector. From Argentina, €61.8 million (6.7% of the total). That is 0.8% of everything the European Union bought from Argentina in 2025.

The lines where Argentina sells the most

LineEU importsFrom ArgentinaTop supplier
5105 29 00 Wool tops and other combed wool › OtherCompare with other products (5105 29 00)€254.4 million€52.5 million (2nd)China
5101 11 00 Wool › Shorn woolCompare with other products (5101 11 00)€190.6 million€5.3 million (5th)Australia
5102 19 30 Fine or coarse animal hair › Of alpaca, llama or vicunaCompare with other products (5102 19 30)€9.0 million€2.1 million (2nd)Peru
5105 39 00 Fine animal hair, carded or combed › OtherCompare with other products (5105 39 00)€74.9 million€1.2 million (6th)Peru
5103 10 10 Waste of wool or of fine or coarse animal hair › Not carbonisedCompare with other products (5103 10 10)€5.3 million€332,491 (5th)China
5105 21 00 Wool and fine or coarse animal hair › Combed wool in fragmentsCompare with other products (5105 21 00)€2.0 million€178,975 (2nd)China
5101 21 00 Wool › Shorn woolCompare with other products (5101 21 00)€64.1 million€163,044 (9th)New Zealand
5102 20 00 Coarse animal hairCompare with other products (5102 20 00)€2.2 million€28,879 (8th)China
5102 19 10 Fine or coarse animal hair › Of angora rabbitCompare with other products (5102 19 10)€705,724€4,140 (2nd)China
5101 29 00 Wool › Degreased, not carbonised › OtherCompare with other products (5101 29 00)€6.7 million€2,141 (12th)United Kingdom

The totals leave out the trade Eurostat publishes as confidential.

Source Eurostat · Comext (DS-045409), 2025

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