Code 1518 00 91 · Subheading 1518 00
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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 animal or vegetable fats, oils and their fractions that have been boiled, oxidised, dehydrated, treated with sulphur, blown, heat-polymerised in vacuum or an inert gas, or otherwise chemically modified. It excludes products under 1516 and linoxyn.
For example
Official tariff text
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 (excl. those of heading 1516 and linoxyn [oxidised linseed oil])
Classification complete
1518 00 91
The spaces only make the code easier to read. Customs declarations normally use the unspaced form, 15180091.
Compare the sibling codes at this level before you settle on this one.
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.
Trade-defence measures, such as anti-dumping duty, may apply to goods originating in China; any country except Canada and United States; Argentina; Canada; Indonesia; United States; any country; any country except Argentina, Canada, China, Indonesia and United States; 3 more origins.
The duty depends on the producer or exporter, so two shipments of the same goods can be charged differently.
This is recorded on a more detailed code below this one, so it may not cover your goods.
Check this code in the official EU TARIC databasePreferential 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); 50 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 Andorra, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, San Marino and Switzerland; European Union; Japan.
Document or certificate conditions are recorded. Customs may ask for:
What Norwegian customs charges when goods like these are imported into Norway.
15.18.0011
For feed purpose
15.18.0021
Tung oil and other similar wood oils; oiticica oil
15.18.0031
Siccative oils
15.18.0041
Linseed oil, boiled
15.18.0051
Linoxyn
15.18.0099
Other
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.
1518 00 91 21
Consigned from Canada
1518 00 91 29
Other
1518 00 91 33
Blends containing by weight 20% or less of fatty-acid mono-alkyl esters and/or paraffinic gasoil obtained from synthesis and/or hydro-treatment, of non-fossil origin
1518 00 91 80
Other
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).
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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.
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Codes that sit close to this one, for when the material itself could be different.
That heading covers fats and oils that are wholly or partly hydrogenated, inter-esterified, re-esterified or elaidinised; this code excludes products under 1516.
That code is specifically for linoxyn, described as oxidised linseed oil; this code excludes linoxyn.
That code also describes chemically modified animal or vegetable fats, oils and fractions, but is the other entry for such products in the tariff tree.
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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