HSN chapter guide
Chapter 15 — Animal/vegetable fats & oils
126 eight-digit tariff lines. Rates below are from the Indian Customs Tariff First Schedule. Use the AI HSN classifier if you only have a product description. Reviewed by the CustomsAI compliance desk · 24 August 2026.
Chapter notes
- This Chapter does not cover: (a) Pig fat or poultry fat of heading 02.09; (b) Cocoa butter, fat or oil (heading 18.04); (c) Edible preparations containing by weight more than 15% of the products of heading 04.05 (generally Chapter 21); (d) Greaves (heading 23.01) or residues of headings 23.04 to 23.06; (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 40.02).
- Heading 15.09 does not apply to oils obtained from olives by solvent extraction (heading 15.10).
- Heading 15.18 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.
- Soap-stocks, oil foots and dregs, stearin pitch, glycerol pitch and wool grease residues fall in heading 15.22.
Sample 8-digit lines
| HSN | Description | BCD |
|---|---|---|
| 1501 10 00 | Lard | 30% |
| 1501 20 00 | Other pig fat | 30% |
| 1501 90 00 | Other | 30% |
| 1502 10 10 | Mutton tallow | 15% |
| 1502 10 90 | Other | 15% |
| 1502 90 10 | Unrendered fats | 15% |
| 1502 90 20 | Rendered fats or solvent extraction fats | 15% |
| 1502 90 90 | Other | 15% |
| 1503 00 00 | LARD STEARIN, LARD OIL, OLEOSTEARIN, OLEO-OIL AND TALLOW OIL, NOT EMULSIFIED OR MIXED OR OTHERWISE PREPARED | 30% |
| 1504 10 10 | Cod liver oil | 30% |
| 1504 10 91 | Squid liver oil | 30% |
| 1504 10 99 | Other | 30% |
| 1504 20 10 | Fish body oil | 30% |
| 1504 20 20 | Fish lipid oil | 30% |
| 1504 20 30 | Sperm oil | 30% |
| 1504 20 90 | Other | 30% |
| 1504 30 00 | Fats and oils and their fractions, of marine mammals | 30% |
| 1505 00 10 | Wool alcohol (including lanolin alcohol) | 30% |
| 1505 00 20 | Wool grease, crude | 30% |
| 1505 00 90 | Other | 30% |
| 1506 00 10 | Neats Foot oil and fats from bone or waste | 30% |
| 1506 00 90 | Other | 30% |
| 1507 10 00 | Crude oil, whether or not degummed | 10% |
| 1507 90 10 | Edible grade | 32.5% |
| 1507 90 90 | Other | 45% |
| 1508 10 00 | Crude oil | 35% |
| 1508 90 10 | Deodorized (Salad Oil) | 35% |
| 1508 90 91 | Edible grade | 35% |
| 1508 90 99 | Other | 35% |
| 1509 20 00 | Extra virgin olive oil | 35% |
| 1509 30 00 | Virgin olive oil | 35% |
| 1509 40 00 | Other virgin olive oils | 35% |
| 1509 90 10 | Edible grade | 35% |
| 1509 90 90 | Other | 35% |
| 1510 10 00 | Crude olive pomace oil | 15% |
| 1510 90 10 | Refined olive pomace oil | 35% |
| 1510 90 90 | Other | 35% |
| 1511 10 00 | Crude oil | 10% |
| 1511 90 10 | Refined bleached deodorised palm oil | 32.5% |
| 1511 90 20 | Refined bleached deodorised palmolein | 32.5% |