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THE CUSTOMS TARIFF ACT, 1975 (SCHEDULE)
SECTION III. ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE FATS AND OIL AND THEIR CLEAVAGE PRODUCTS, PREPARED EDIBLE FATS, ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE WAXES

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THE FIRST SCHEDULE TO THE CUSTOMS TARIFF ACT, 1975

SECTION III

ANIMAL, VEGETABLE OR MICROBIAL FATS AND OILS AND THEIR CLEAVAGE PRODUCTS; PREPARED EDIBLE FATS; ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE WAXES

CHAPTER 15

Animal, vegetable or microbial 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 0209;

(b) cocoa butter, fat or oil (heading 1804);

(c) edible preparations containing by weight more than 15% of the products of heading 0405 (generally Chapter 21);

(d) greaves (heading 2301) or residues of headings 2304 to 2306;

(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 4002).

2. Heading 1509 does not apply to oils obtained from olives by solvent extraction (heading 1510).

3. Heading 1518 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 1522.

Sub-heading Notes:-

    1. For the purposes of sub-heading 1509 30, virgin olive oil has a free acidity expressed as oleic acid not exceeding 2.0 g/ 100 g and can be distinguished from the other virgin olive oil categories according to the characteristics indicated in the Codex Alimentarius Standard 33-1981.

    2. For the purposes of sub-headings 1514 11 and 1514 19, the expression "low erucic acid rape or colza oil" means the fixed oil which has an erucic acid content of less than 2% by weight.";

SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES :

1. In this Chapter, "edible grade" in respect of a goods (i.e. edible oil) specified in Appendix B to the Prevention of Food Adulteration Rules, 1955, means the standard of quality specified for such goods in that Appendix.

2. In this Chapter, "fixed vegetable oil" means oils which cannot easily be distilled without decomposition, which are not volatile and which cannot be carried off by superheated steam (which decomposes and saponifies them).

Tariff Item

Description of goods Unit Rate of duty
Standard Preferential Areas
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5)
1501 PIG FATS (INCLUDING LARD) AND POULTRY FAT, OTHER THAN THAT OF HEADING 0209 OR 1503      
1501 10 00 - Lard kg. 30% -
1501 20 00 - Other pig fat kg. 30% -
1501 90 00 - Other kg. 30% -
1502 FATS OF BOVINE ANIMALS , SHEEP OR GOATS, OTHER THAN THOSE OF HEADING 1503      
1502 10 - Tallow:      
1502 10 10 --- Mutton tallow kg. 15% -
1502 10 90 --- Other kg. 15% -
1502 90 - Other:      
1502 90 10 --- Unrendered fats kg. 15% -
1502 90 20 --- Rendered fats or solvent extraction fats kg. 15% -
1502 90 90 --- Other kg. 15% -
1503 00 00 LARD STEARIN, LARD OIL, OLEOSTEARIN, OLEO-OIL AND TALLOW OIL, NOT EMULSIFIED OR MIXED OR OTHERWISE PREPARED kg. 30% -
1504 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:      
1504 10 10 --- Cod liver oil kg. 30% -
  --- Other :      
1504 10 91 ---- Squid liver oil kg. 30% -
1504 10 99 ---- Other kg. 30% -
1504 20 - Fats and oils and their fractions of fish, other than liver oils :      
1504 20 10 --- Fish body oil kg. 30% -
1504 20 20 --- Fish lipid oil kg. 30% -
1504 20 30 --- Sperm oil kg. 30% -
1504 20 90 --- Other kg. 30% -
1504 30 00 - Fats and oils and their fractions, of marine mammals kg. 30% -
1505 WOOL GREASE AND FATTY SUBSTANCES DERIVED THEREFROM (INCLUDING LANOLIN)      
1505 00 - Wool grease and fatty substances derived therefrom (including lanolin) :      
1505 00 10 --- Wool alcohol (including lanolin alcohol) kg. 30% -
1505 00 20 --- Wool grease, crude kg. 30% -
1505 00 90 --- Other kg. 30% -
1506 OTHER ANIMAL FATS AND OILS AND THEIR FRACTIONS, WHETHER OR NOT REFINED, BUT NOT CHEMICALLY MODIFIED      
1506 00 - Other animal fats and oils and their fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified :      
1506 00 10 --- Neats Foot oil and fats from bone or waste kg. 30% -
1506 00 90 --- Other kg. 30% -
1507 SOYA-BEAN OIL AND ITS FRACTIONS, WHETHER OR NOT REFINED, BUT NOT CHEMICALLY MODIFIED      
1507 10 00 - Crude oil, whether or not degummed kg. 45% 35%
1507 90 - Other :      
1507 90 10 --- Edible grade kg. 45% 35%
1507 90 90 --- Other kg. 45% 35%
1508 GROUND-NUT OIL AND ITS FRACTIONS, WHETHER OR NOT REFINED, BUT NOT CHEMICALLY MODIFIED      
1508 10 00 - Crude oil kg. 100% 90%
1508 90 - Other :      
1508 90 10 --- Deodorized (Salad Oil) kg. 100% 90%
  --- Other :      
1508 90 91 ---- Edible grade kg. 100% 90%
1508 90 99 ---- Other kg. 100% 90%
1509 OLIVE OIL AND ITS FRACTIONS, WHETHER OR NOT REFINED, BUT NOT CHEMICALLY MODIFIED      
1509 20 00 - Extra virgin olive oil kg. 45% 35%
1509 30 00 - Virgin olive oil kg. 45% 35%
1509 40 00 - Other virgin olive oils kg. 45% 35%
1509 90 - Other :      
1509 90 10 --- Edible grade kg. 40% 30%
1509 90 90 --- Other kg. 40% 30%
1510 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 1509      
1510 10 00 - Crude olive pomace oil kg. 45% 35%
1510 90 - Other:      
1510 90 10 - - - Refined olive pomace oil kg. 45% 35%
1510 90 90 - - - Other kg. 45% 35%
1511 PALM OIL AND ITS FRACTIONS, WHETHER OR NOT REFINED, BUT NOT CHEMICALLY MODIFIED      
1511 10 00 - Crude oil kg. 100% 90%
1511 90 - Other :      
1511 90 10 --- Refined bleached deodorised palm oil kg. 100% 90%
1511 90 20 --- Refined bleached deodorised palmolein kg. 100% 90%
1511 90 30 --- Refined bleached deodorised palm stearin kg. 100% 90%
1511 90 90 --- Other kg. 100% 90%
1512 SUNFLOWER SEED, SAFFLOWER OR COTTON SEED OIL AND THEIR FRACTIONS THEREOF, WHETHER OR NOT REFINED, BUT NOT CHEMICALLY MODIFIED      
  - Sunflower seed or safflower oil and fractions thereof :      
1512 11 -- Crude oil:      
1512 11 10 --- Sunflower seed oil kg. 100% 90%
1512 11 20 --- Safflower seed oil (kardi seed oil) kg. 100% 90%
1512 19 -- Other :      
1512 19 10 --- Sunflower oil, edible grade kg. 100% 90%
1512 19 20 --- Sunflower oil, non-edible grade (other than crude oil) kg. 100% 90%
1512 19 30 - - - Safflower oil, edible grade kg. 100% 90%
1512 19 40  - - - Safflower oil, non-edible grade kg. 100% 90%
1512 19 90 --- Other kg. 100% 90%
  - Cotton-seed oil and its fractions:      
1512 21 00 -- Crude oil, whether or not gossypol has been removed kg. 100% 90%
1512 29 -- Other :      
1512 29 10 --- Edible grade kg. 100% 90%
1512 29 90 --- Other kg. 100% 90%
1513 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 00 -- Crude oil kg. 100% 90%
1513 19 00 -- Other kg. 100% 90%
  - Palm kernel or babassu oil and fractions thereof :      
1513 21 -- Crude Oil :      
1513 21 10 --- Palm kernel oil kg. 100% 90%
1513 21 20 --- Babassu oil kg. 100% 90%
1513 29 -- Other:      
1513 29 10 --- Palm kernel oil and its fractions kg. 100% 90%
1513 29 20 --- Babassu oil and its fractions edible grade kg. 100% 90%
1513 29 30 --- Babassu oil and its fractions, other than edible grade kg. 100% 90%
1513 29 90 --- Other kg. 100% 90%
1514 RAPE, COLZA OR MUSTARD OIL AND ITS FRACTIONS THEREOF, WHETHER OR NOT REFINED , BUT NOT CHEMICALLY MODIFIED      
  - Low erucic acid rape or colza oil and its fractions :      
1514 11 -- Crude oil:      
1514 11 10 --- Colza oil kg. 75% 65%
1514 11 20 --- Rape oil kg. 75% 65%
1514 11 90 --- Other kg. 75% 65%
1514 19 -- Other :      
1514 19 10 --- Refined colza oil of edible grade kg. 75% 65%
1514 19 20 --- Refined rapeseed oil of edible grade kg. 75% 65%
1514 19 90 --- Other kg. 75% 65%
  - Other :      
1514 91 -- Crude oil :      
1514 91 10 --- Colza oil kg. 75% 65%
1514 91 20 --- Mustard oil kg. 75% 65%
1514 91 90 --- Rapeseed oil kg. 75% 65%
1514 99 -- Other:      
1514 99 10 --- Refined colza oil of edible grade kg. 75% 65%
1514 99 20 --- Refined mustard oil of edible grade kg. 75% 65%
1514 99 30 --- Refined rapeseed oil of edible grade kg. 75% 65%
1514 99 90 --- Other kg. 75% 65%
1515 OTHER FIXED VEGETABLE OR MICROBIAL FATS AND OILS (INCLUDING JOJOBA OIL) AND THEIR FRACTIONS, WHETHER OR NOT REFINED, BUT NOT CHEMICALLY MODIFIED      
  - Linseed oil and its fractions :      
1515 11 00 -- Crude oil kg. 100% 90%
1515 19 -- Other:      
1515 19 10 --- Edible grade kg. 100% 90%
1515 19 90 --- Other kg. 100% 90%
  - Maize (Corn) oil and its fractions:      
1515 21 00 -- Crude oil kg. 100% 90%
1515 29 -- Other :      
1515 29 10 --- Edible grade kg. 100% 90%
1515 29 90 --- Other kg. 100% 90%
1515 30 - Castor oil and its fractions:      
1515 30 10 --- Edible grade kg. 100% 90%
1515 30 90 --- Other kg. 100% 90%
1515 50 - Seasame oil and its fractions:      
1515 50 10 --- Crude oil kg. 100% 90%
  --- Other :      
1515 50 91 ---- Edible grade kg. 100% 90%
1515 50 99 ---- Other kg. 100% 90%
1515 60 00 - Microbial fats and oils and their fractions kg. 100% 90%
1515 90 - Other :      
1515 90 10 --- Fixed vegetable oils, namely the following:

chul moogra oil, mawra oil, kokam oil, tobacco seed oil, sal oil

kg. 100% 90%
1515 90 20 --- Fixed vegetable oils, namely the following:

neem seed oil, karanj oil, silk cotton seed oil, khakhon oil, water melon oil, kusum oil, rubber seed oil, dhup oil, undi oil, maroti oil, pisa oil, nahar oil

kg. 100% 90%
1515 90 30 --- Fixed vegetable oils, namely the following:

cardamom oil, chillies or capsicum oil, turmeric oil, ajwain seed oil, niger seed oil, garlic oil

kg. 100% 90%
1515 90 40 --- Fixed vegetable oils of edible grade namely the following: mango kernel oil, mahua oil, rice bran oil kg. 100% 90%
  --- Other :      
1515 90 91 ---- Edible grade kg. 100% 90%
1515 90 99 ---- Other kg. 100% 90%
1516 ANIMAL, VEGETABLE OR MICROBIAL 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 00 - Animal fats and oils and their fractions kg. 100% -
1516 20 - Vegetable fats and oils and their fractions:      
  --- Cotton Seed oil :      
1516 20 11 ---- Edible grade kg. 30% -
1516 20 19 ---- Other kg. 30% -
  --- Groundnut oil :      
1516 20 21 ---- Edible grade kg. 30% -
1516 20 29 ---- Other kg. 30% -
  --- Hydrogenated castor oil (opal-wax):      
1516 20 31 ---- Edible grade kg. 30% -
1516 20 39 ---- Other kg. 30% -
  --- Other:      
1516 20 91 ---- Edible grade kg. 30% -
1516 20 99 ---- Other kg. 30% -
1516 30 00 - Microbial fats and oils and their fractions kg. 100% -
1517 MARGARINE; EDIBLE MIXTURES OR PREPARATIONS OF ANIMAL, VEGETABLE OR MICROBIAL FATS OR OILS OR OF FRACTIONS OF DIFFERENT FATS OR OILS OF THIS CHAPTER, OTHER THAN EDIBLE FATS AND OILS OR THEIR FRACTIONS OF HEADING 1516      
1517 10 - Margarine, excluding liquid margarine:      
1517 10 10 --- Of animal origin kg. 30% -
  --- Of vegetable origin :      
1517 10 21 ---- Edible grade kg. 30% -
1517 10 22 ---- Linoxyn kg. 30% -
1517 10 29 ---- Other kg. 30% -
1517 90 - Other :      
1517 90 10 --- Sal fat (processed or refined) kg. 30% -
1517 90 30 --- Imitation lard of animal origin kg. 30% -
1517 90 40 --- Imitation lard of vegetable origin kg. 30% -
1517 90 90 --- Other kg. 30% -
1518 ANIMAL, VEGETABLE OR MICROBIAL 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 1516; INEDIBLE MIXTURES OR PREPARATIONS OF ANIMAL, VEGETABLE OR MICROBIAL FATS OR OILS OR OF FRACTIONS OF DIFFERENT FATS OR OILS OF THIS CHAPTER, NOT ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED OR INCLUDED      
1518 00 Omitted w.e.f. 01-01-2022      
  --- Lin seed oil:      
1518 00 11 ---- Edible grade kg. 30% -
1518 00 19 ---- Other kg. 30% -
  --- Castor oil, dehydrated :      
1518 00 21 ---- Edible grade kg. 30% -
1518 00 29 ---- Other kg. 30% -
  --- Other Vegetable oil and its fats:      
1518 00 31 ---- Edible grade kg. 30% -
1518 00 39 ---- Other kg. 30% -
1518 00 40 --- Other kg. 30% -
1520 00 00 GLYCEROL, CRUDE; GLYCEROL WATERS AND GLYCEROL LYES kg. 30% -
1521 VEGETABLE WAXES (OTHER THAN TRIGLYCERIDES), BEESWAX, OTHER INSECT WAXES AND SPERMACETI, WHETHER OR NOT REFINED OR COLOURED      
1521 10 - Vegetable Waxes :      
  --- Carnauba Waxes :      
1521 10 11 ---- Edible wax for waxing fresh fruits and vegetables kg. 30% -
1521 10 19 ---- Other kg. 30% -
1521 10 90 --- Other kg. 30% -
1521 90 - Other :      
1521 90 10 --- Beewax whether or not coloured kg. 30% -
1521 90 20 --- Shellac wax whether or not coloured kg. 30% -
1521 90 90 --- Other kg. 30% -
1522 DEGRAS: RESIDUES RESULTING FROM THE TREATMENT OF FATTY SUBSTANCES OR ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE WAXES      
1522 00 - Degras: residues resulting from the treatment of fatty substances or animal or vegetable waxes :      
1522 00 10 --- Degras kg. 30% -
1522 00 20 --- Soap stocks kg. 30% -
1522 00 90 --- Other kg. 30% -