Code 1515 60 99 · Subheading 1515 60
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This is a complete 8-digit customs code. There is no further code choice to make below it.
This code covers refined or unrefined microbial fats, oils and fractions that have not been chemically modified. It applies to solid products in packs with a net weight over 1 kg and to liquid products, excluding crude oils and products for technical or industrial use.
For example
Official tariff text
Microbial fats and oils and their fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified, solid in immediate packings of > 1 kg, and liquid (excl. for technical or industrial uses and crude oils)
Classification complete
1515 60 99
The spaces only make the code easier to read. Customs declarations normally use the unspaced form, 15156099.
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Classification decides the rate here: from 6.4% to 12.8%.
Besides the ordinary duty, the EU records these kinds of measure against this code. They are listed as signals only: whether one applies to your goods can depend on where they come from, who produced them, the exact product and the documents you present. No amounts are worked out here.
Preferential rates exist for goods originating in San Marino; Economic Partnership Agreements; CARIFORUM except Haiti; Comoros (excluding Mayotte), Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles and dependencies and Zimbabwe; Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Mozambique and Namibia; Western Sahara; GSP-EBA (Special arrangement for the least-developed countries - Everything But Arms); OCTs (Overseas Countries and Territories); 43 more origins. Whether you can use one depends on the origin rules for the goods and on the documentation you can show.
Check this code in the official EU TARIC databaseImport restrictions are recorded for goods originating in any country; Ukraine; any country except Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland; China.
Document or certificate conditions are recorded. Customs may ask for:
What Norwegian customs charges when goods like these are imported into Norway.
15.15.6000
Microbial fats and oils and their fractions
Contains data from Norwegian Customs (data.toll.no), licensed under CC BY 4.0, adapted for display.
What UK customs charges when goods like these are imported into the UK.
All 3 UK lines under this code
They all have the same duty rates shown here.
These rates apply in Great Britain. Different rules may apply for goods entering Northern Ireland.
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Source: UK Department for Business and Trade (data.api.trade.gov.uk).
Before you use the code
The code can be right while what you pay still changes, because of where the goods come from, when they arrive, or extra EU measures.
Worth comparing
Codes that sit close to this one, for when the material itself could be different.
That code covers crude microbial oils in solid retail packs over 1 kg or liquid crude microbial oils; this code excludes crude oils.
That code covers non-chemically modified microbial fats, oils and fractions for technical or industrial use; this code excludes such use.
That code covers non-chemically modified microbial fats, oils and fractions in solid packs with a net weight of 1 kg or less; this code covers solid packs over 1 kg.
Duty rates shown here are estimates, read from official EU / Danish, Norwegian and UK tariff data for orientation only. Confirm the current rate with SKAT, TARIC, Norwegian Customs or the UK Online Trade Tariff before you file. The rate you pay can also depend on the country of origin. These are base customs duties only: import VAT, excise duties, anti-dumping duties and safeguard or quota measures are not included.
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