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Code 1516 20 96 · Subheading 1516 20

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Modified peanut, cottonseed, soybean and sunflower oils, plus certain other oils with less than 50% free fatty acids

This is a complete 8-digit customs code. There is no further code choice to make below it.

This code covers vegetable oils and oil fractions that are wholly or partly hydrogenated, inter-esterified, re-esterified or elaidinised, including refined oils. It includes the named peanut, cottonseed, soybean and sunflower oils, and other oils with a free-fatty-acid content of less than 50% by weight, but excludes packages with a net weight of <= 1 kg and the other exclusions stated in the title.

For example

  • Hydrogenated peanut oil in bulk form
  • Partly hydrogenated soybean oil in a package with a net weight greater than 1 kg
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Official tariff text

Groundnut, cotton-seed, soya-bean or sunflower-seed oil and their fractions (excl. those of subheading 1516.20.95); other oils and their fractions containing < 50% by weight of free fatty acids, in immediate packings with a net content of > 1 kg or otherwise prepared (excl. palm kernel, illipe, coconut "copra", rapeseed or copaiba oils, and oils of subheading 1516.20.95)

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1516 20 96

Modified peanut, cottonseed, soybean and sunflower oils, plus certain other oils with less than 50% free fatty acids

The spaces only make the code easier to read. Customs declarations normally use the unspaced form, 15162096.

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Trade measures to be aware of

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.

  • Lower duty for goods from some countries

    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); 45 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 database

  • Restrictions and paperwork

    Import restrictions are recorded for goods originating in any country; Ukraine; Japan; any country except Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland.

    Document or certificate conditions are recorded. Customs may ask for:

    • Product not subjected to the provisions of Regulation (EU) 2024/1157
    • Movement document as mentioned in Regulation (EU) 2024/1157 – Article 5 and Annex IB
    • Information document accompanying shipments of waste as mentioned in Regulation (EU) 2024/1157 – Article 18 and Annex VII
    • Notification document as mentioned in Regulation (EU) 2024/1157 - Article 5 and Annex IA
    • Goods not originating from or destined to Crimea or Sevastopol (Articles 2 and 2b.1 of Council Regulation (EU) No 692/2014)
    • Invoice declaration or origin declaration made out by any exporter on invoice or any other commercial document
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    • Movement certificate EUR.1
    • Goods not originating from or not destined for the non-government controlled areas of Ukraine in the oblasts of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia
    • The products are accompanied by a declaration issued before 1.6.2013 in accordance with the Implementing Regulation (EU) No 996/2012 and stating that the products have left Japan before 1.7.2013
    • The products left Japan before 2.6.2013 and comply with Implementing Regulation (EU) No 996/2012
    • Products which left Japan before 28 March 2011
    • Declaration for the import into the European Union of feed and food originating in or consigned from Japan (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 322/2014)
    • The products are accompanied by a declaration issued before 1 November 2012 in accordance with the Implementing Regulation (EU) No 284/2012 and stating that the products have left Japan before 1 December 2012
    • The products left Japan before 30.10.2012 and comply with Implementing Regulation (EU) No 284/2012
    • Common Health Entry Document for Feed and Food of Non-Animal Origin (CHED-D) (as set out in Part 2, Section D of Annex II to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1715 (OJ L 261))
    • Declaration for the import into the European Union of feed and food originating in or consigned from Japan (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 322/2014); the products left Japan before 9 January 2016
    • Declaration for the import into the European Union of feed and food originating in or consigned from Japan (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 996/2012) which was issued before 1 April 2014; the products left Japan from 1 April 2014 but before 1 May 2014
    • Goods not concerned by Regulation (EU) 2018/848 (organic products)
    • Certificate of inspection for organic products
    Check this code in the official EU TARIC database

EU tariff measure data version 2026-08-03-tullverket.

Export to Norway

What Norwegian customs charges when goods like these are imported into Norway.

  • 15.16.2012

    For fish feed

    Ordinary duty
    3,91 NOK per kg
    Goods of EU origin
    The ordinary rate applies. Norway lists no separate rate for goods from the EU.

  • 15.16.2019

    Other

    Ordinary duty
    3,91 NOK per kg
    Goods of EU origin
    The ordinary rate applies. Norway lists no separate rate for goods from the EU.

  • 15.16.2020

    Hydrogenated castor oil

    Ordinary duty
    Duty free
    Goods of EU origin
    Duty free You need documentation of EU origin to use this rate.

  • 15.16.2099

    Other

    Ordinary duty
    14.4%
    Goods of EU origin
    Duty free You need documentation of EU origin to use this rate.

Norwegian tariff data version 1.5/1.2, last checked Aug. 3, 2026.

Contains data from Norwegian Customs (data.toll.no), licensed under CC BY 4.0, adapted for display.

Export to the United Kingdom

What UK customs charges when goods like these are imported into the UK.

  • 1516 20 96 00

    Groundnut, cotton-seed, soya-bean or sunflower-seed oils; other oils containing less than 50|% by weight of free fatty acids and excluding palm kernel, illipe, coconut, colza, rapeseed or copaiba oils

    Ordinary duty
    8.0%
    Goods of EU origin
    Duty free You need documentation of EU preferential origin to use this rate.

These rates apply in Great Britain. Different rules may apply for goods entering Northern Ireland.

UK tariff data version v4.0.1576, last checked Aug. 3, 2026.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Source: UK Department for Business and Trade (data.api.trade.gov.uk).

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