Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products
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Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products
Common items in this chapter
- —Olive oil (1509)
- —Palm oil (1511)
- —Sunflower, safflower, cottonseed oils (1512)
- —Coconut, palm-kernel, babassu oils (1513)
- —Soybean oil (1507)
Classification notes
Anti-dumping duties common on palm oil and biodiesel feedstocks. Country-of-origin labelling strict in EU (Olive Oil Regulation 29/2012).
Frequent misclassification
Margarine: 1517, not 1509. Flavoured / infused oils move to Chapter 21 if food-ready. Biodiesel and fuel esters: Chapter 38 (3824.99), not Chapter 15.
Binding tariff ruling database
If you need certainty on classification, request a binding tariff ruling from your destination country's customs authority. The link below leads to the relevant ruling database.
Binding tariff ruling database