Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes

 
Chapter 15
Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes

 

Notes.
1. -This Chapter does not cover:
(a) Pig fat or poultry fat of heading No.02.09;
(b) Cocoa butter, fat or oil (heading No.18.04);
(c) Edible preparations containing by weight more than 15% of the products of heading No.04.05 (generally Chapter 21);  
(d) Greaves (heading No.23.01) or residues of headings Nos.23.04 to 23.06;
(e) Fatty acids, prepared waxes, medicaments, paints, varnishes, soap, perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations, supphonated oils or other goods of Section Άτ; or
(f) Factice derived from oils (heading No.40.02).
2. -Heading No.15.09 does not apply to oils obtained from olives by solvent extraction (heading No.15.10).
3. -Heading No.15.18 does not cover fats or oils or their fractions, merely denatured, which are to be classified in the heading appropriate to the corresponding undenatured fats and oils and their fractions.
4. -Soap-stocks, oil foots and dregs, stearin pitch, glycerol pitch and wool grease residues fall in heading No.15.22.

 

Tariff No. Base Rate (%) Import Duty Rate (%) Article Description
M.F.N. Gen. M.F.N. Gen.
15.01         Pig fat (including lard) and poultry fat, other than that of heading No.02.09 or 15.03:
         
1501.0000 25 35 12 35 Pig fat (including lard) and poultry fat, other than that of heading No.02.09 or 15.03
         
15.02         Fats of bovine animals, sheep or goats, other than those of heading No.15.03:
         
1502.0010 50 70 8 70 ---Raw
1502.0090 20 30 8 30 ---Other
15.03         Lard stearin, lard oil, oleostearin, oleooil and tallow oil, not emulsified or mixed or otherwise prepared:
         
         
1503.0000 20 30 14 30 Lard stearin, lard oil, oleostearin, oleooil and tallow oil, not emulsified or mixed or otherwise prepared
         
         
15.04         Fats and oils and their fractions, of fish or marine mammals, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified:
         
         
1504.1000 20 30 14 30 -Fish-liver oils and their fractions
1504.2000 40 50 23 50 -Fats and oils and their fractions, of fish, other than liver oils
         
1504.3000 40 50 23 50 -Fats and oils and their fractions, of marine mammals
         
15.05         Wool grease and fatty substances derived therefrom (including lanolin):
         
1505.1000 50 70 32 70 -Wool grease, crude
1505.9000 50 70 32 70 -Other
15.06         Other animal fats and oils and their fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified:
         
         
1506.0000 50 70 32 70 Other animal fats and oils and their fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified
         
         
15.07         Soya-bean oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified:
         
1507.1000 160 190 *121.6 190 -Crude oil whether or not degummed
1507.9000 160 190 *121.6 190 -Other
15.08         Ground-nut oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified.
         
1508.1000 75 100 *75 100 -Crude oil
1508.9000 75 100 *75 100 -Other
15.09         Olive oil its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemicaly modified:
         
1509.1000 20 30 17 30 -Virgin
1509.9000 20 30 17 30 -Other
15.10         Other oils and their fractions, obtained solely from olives, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified, including blends of these oils or fractions with oils or fractions of heading No.15.09
         
         
         
         
1510.0000 20 30 17 30 Other oils and their fractions, obtained solely from olives, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified, including blends of these oils or fractions with oils or fractions of heading No.15.09
         
         
         
         
15.11         Palm oil and its fractions, whether or not palm oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified:
         
1511.1000 30 60 *30 60 -Crude oil
          --Other
1511.9010 30 60 *30 60 --Palm olein
1511.9020 30 60 *30 60 --Palm stearin
1511.9090 30 60 *30 60 --Othet
15.12         Sunflower-seed, safflower or cotton-seed oil and fractions thereof, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified:
         
         
          -Sunflower-seed or safflower oil and fractions thereof:
         
1512.1100 120 160 *91.2 160 --Crude oil
1512.1900 120 160 *91.2 160 --Other 
          -Cotton-seed oil and its fractions:
1512.2100 50 70 30 70 --Crude oil, whether or not gossypol has been removed
         
1512.2900 50 70 30 70 --Other 
15.13         Coconut (copra), palm kernel or babassu oil an dfractions thereof, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified:
         
         
          -Coconut (copra) oil and its fractions:
1513.1100 30 40 20 40 --Crude oil
1513.1900 30 40 20 40 --Other 
          -Palm kernel or babassu oil and fractions thereof:
1513.2100 30 40 10 40 --Crude oil
1513.2900 30 40 20 40 --Other 
15.14         Rape, colza or mustard oil and fractions thereof, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified:
         
         
          -Crude oil:
1514.1010 133.6 170 100 170 ---Rape oil 
1514.1090 133.6 170 100 170 ---Mustard oil 
1514.9000 133.6 170 *100 170 -Other
15.15         Other fixed vegetable fats and oils (including jojoba oil) and fractions thereof, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified:
         
         
          -Linseed oil and its fractions:
1515.1100 20 30 16 30 --Crude oil
1515.1900 20 30 16 30 --Other 
          -Maize (corn)oil and its fractions:
1515.2100 120 160 *91.2 160 --Crude oil
1515.2900 120 160 *91.2 160 --Other 
1515.3000 50 70 18 70 -Castor oil and its fractions
1515.4000 50 70 20 70 -Tung oil and its fractions
1515.5000 15 20 12 20 -Sesame oil and its fractions
1515.6000 50 70 24 70 -Jojoba oil and its fractions
1515.9000 50 70 36 70 -Other
15.16         Anmial or vegetable fats and oil and fractions thereof, partly or wholly hydrogenated, inter-esterified, reesterified or elaidinized, whether or not refined, but not further prepared:
         
         
         
1516.1000 50 70 33 70 -Animal fats and oils and fractions thereof 
1516.2000 50 70 40 70 -Vegetable fats and oils and fractions thereof
15.17         Margarine; edible mixtures or preparations of animal or vegetable fats or oils or of fractions of different fats or oils of this Chapter, other than edible fats or oils or their fractions of heading No.15.16
         
         
         
         
1517.1000 60 80 38 80 -Margarine, excluding liquid margarine
1517.9000 50 70 40 70 -Other
15.18         Animal or vegetable fats and oils and fractions thereof, boiled, oxidized, dehydrated, sulphurized, blown, polymerized by heat in vacuum or in inert gas or otherwise chemically modified, excluding those of heading No.15.16; inedible mixtures or preparations of animal or vegetable fats or oils or of fractions of different fats or oils of this Chapter, not elsewhere specified or included:
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
1518.0000 50 70 34 70 Animal or vegetable fats and oils and fractions thereof, boiled, oxidized, dehydrated, sulphurized, blown, polymerized by heat in vacuum or in inert gas or otherwise chemically modified, excluding those of heading No.15.16; inedible mixtures or preparations of animal or vegetable fats or oils or of fractions of different fats or oils of this Chapter, not elsewhere specified or included
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
15.20         Glycerol, crude; glycerol waters and glycerol lyes:
         
1520.0000 40 50 20 50 Glycerol, crude; glycerol waters and glycerol lyes
15.21         Vegetable waxes (other than triglycerides), beeswax, other insect waxes and spermaceti, whether or not refined or coloured: 
         
         
1521.1000 60 80 20 80 -Vegetable waxes
1521.9000 60 80 20 80 -Other
15.22         Degras; residues resulting from the treatment of fatty substances or animal or vegetable waxes:
         
         
1522.0000 40 50 28 50 Degras; residues resulting from the treatment of fatty substances or animal or vegetable waxes:
         

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