CHAPTER 15
Animal or vegetable 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.
5. In relation to the products of heading 1507 or 1508 or 1509 or 1510 or 1511or 1512 or 1513 or 1514 or 1515 or 1518; or sub-heading 1516 20 or 1517 90; or tariff item 1517 10 10 or 1517 10 21 or 1517 10 29, labelling or relabelling of containers or repacking
[OLD- labelling or relabelling of containers and repacking
] from bulk packs to retail packs or the adoption of any other treatment to render the product marketable to the consumer, shall amount to ‘manufacture’.
(In note 5, the words "labelling or relabelling of containers or repacking" has been substituted vide
NTF. NO. 11/2008-CE(N.T.), DT. 01/03/2008)
6. In relation to refined edible vegetable oils falling under headings 1507 to 1515, the process of refining, that is to say, any one or more of the processes, namely, treatment of crude oil with an alkali, bleaching and deodorisation, shall amount to ‘manufacture’.
(Note 6 has been inserted vide Finance Bill 2005-2006)SUB-HEADING NOTEFor 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 NOTES1. 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).