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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 per cent of the products of
 heading No. 04.05 (generally Chapter 21);

(d) Greaves (heading No. 23.01) or residues of Heading Nos. 23.04 to 23.06;

(e) Fatty acids, prepared waxes, medicaments, paints, varnishes, soap, perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations, sulphonated oils or other goods of Section VI; 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.
 
 
 
  

Heading No. 
Sub-heading 
No. 
Description of article 
Rate of duty 
     
Standard 
Preferential Areas
(1) 
(2) 
(3) 
(4) 
(5) 
15.01  1501.00  Pig fat (including lard) and poultry fat, other than that of heading No. 02.09 or 15.03 
30% 
... 
15.02  1502.00  Fats of bovine animals, sheep or goats, other than those of heading No. 15.03 
15% 
... 
15.03 1503.00  Lard stearin, lard oil, oleostearin, oleo-oil and tallow oil, not emulsified or mixed or otherwise prepared 
30% 
... 
15.04   Fats and oils and their fractions, of fish or marine mammals, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified     
  1504.10  - Fish-liver oils and their fractions 
30% 
... 
  1504.20  - Fats and oils and their fractions, of fish, other than liver oils 
30% 
... 
  1504.30  - Fats and oils and their fractions, of marine mammals 
30% 
... 
15.05   Wool grease and fatty substances derived therefrom (including lanolin)     
  1505.10  - Wool grease, crude 
35%
... 
  1505.90  - Other 
35% 
... 
15.06 1506.00  Other animal fats and oils and their fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified 
30% 
... 
15.07   Soya-bean oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified     
  1507.10  - Crude oil, whether or not degummed 
45% 
35% 
  1507.90  - Other 
45% 
35% 
15.08   Ground-nut oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified     
  1508.10  - Crude oil 
100% 
90% 
  1508.90  - Other 
100% 
90% 
15.09   Olive oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified     
  1509.10  - Virgin 
45% 
35% 
  1509.90  -Other 
40% 
30% 
15.10 1510.00  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 
45% 
35% 
15.11   Palm oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified     
  1511.10  - Crude oil 
100% 
90% 
  1511.90  - Other 
100% 
90% 
15.12   Sunflower-seed, safflower or cottonseed oil and fractions thereof, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified     
    - Sunflower-seed or safflower oil and fractions thereof:     
  1512.11  -- Crude oil 
100% 
90% 
  1512.19  -- Other 
100% 
90% 
    - Cotton-seed oil and its fractions :    
  1512.21  -- Crude oil, whether or not gossypol has been removed 
100% 
90% 
  1512.29  -- Other 
100% 
90% 
15.13   Coconut (copra), palm kernel or babassu oil and fractions thereof, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified     
    - Coconut (copra) oil and its fractions:    
  1513.11  -- Crude oil 
100% 
30% 
  1513.19  -- Other 
100% 
30% 
    - Palm kernel or babassu oil and fractions thereof:    
  1513.21  -- Crude oil 
100% 
90% 
  1513.29  -- Other 
100% 
90% 
15.14   Rape, colza or mustard oil and fractions thereof, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified     
  1514.10  - Crude oil 
75% 
25% 
  1514.90  -Other 
75% 
25% 
15.15   Other fixed vegetable fats and oils (including jojoba oil) and their fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified     
    - Linseed oil and its fractions :    
  1515.11  -- Crude oil 
100% 
90% 
  1515.19  --Other 
100% 
90% 
    - Maize (corn) oil and its fractions :    
  1515.21  -- Crude oil 
100% 
90% 
  1515.29  --Other 
100% 
90% 
  1515.30  - Castor oil and its fractions 
100% 
90% 
  1515.40  - Tung oil and its fractions 
100% 
90% 
  1515.50  - Sesame oil and its fractions 
100% 
90% 
  1515.60  - Jojoba oil and its fractions 
100% 
25% 
  1515.90  - Other 
100% 
90% 
15.16   Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, partly or wholly hydrogenated, inter-esterified, re-esterified or elaidinised, whether or not refined, but not further prepared 
 
 
  1516.10  - Animal fats and oils and their fractions 
30% 
... 
  1516.20  - Vegetable fats and oils and their fractions 
30% 
... 
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     
  1517.10  - Margarine, excluding liquid margarine 
30% 
... 
  1517.90  - Other 
30% 
... 
15.18 1518.00  Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, boiled, oxidised, dehydrated, sulphurised, blown, polymerised 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 
30% 
... 
15.19   Omitted     
15.20 1520.00  Glycerol, crude; glycerol waters and glycerol lyes 
30% 
.... 
15.21   Vegetable waxes (other than triglycerides), beeswax, other insect waxes and spermaceti, whether or not refined or coloured 
 
 
  1521.10  - Vegetable waxes 
30% 
... 
  1521.90  - Other 
30% 
... 
15.22 1522.00  Degras; residues resulting from the treatment of fatty substances or animal or vegetable waxes
30% 
...