US HTS chapter 15

Short title: Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils; prepared edible fats; waxes.

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21 headings

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Heading	Description	Lines
1501	Pig fat (including lard) and poultry fat, other than that of heading 0209 or 1503	6
1502	Fats of bovine animals, sheep or goats, other than those of heading 1503	4
1503	Lard stearin, lard oil, oleostearin, oleo-oil and tallow oil, not emulsified or mixed or otherwise prepared	1
1504	Fats and oils and their fractions, of fish or marine mammals, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified	10
1505	Wool grease and fatty substances derived therefrom (including lanolin)	3
1506	Other animal fats and oils and their fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified	1
1507	Soybean oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified	6
1508	Peanut (ground-nut) oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified	2
1509	Olive oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified	24
1510	Other oils and their fractions, obtained solely from olives, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified, including blends of these oils and fractions with oils or fractions of heading 1509	7
1511	Palm oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified	2
1512	Sunflower-seed, safflower or cottonseed oil, and fractions thereof, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified	12
1513	Coconut (copra), palm kernel or babassu oil, and fractions thereof, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified	6
1514	Rapeseed, colza or mustard oil, and fractions thereof, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified	15
1515	Other fixed vegetable or microbial fats and oils (including jojoba oil) and their fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified	18
1516	Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their fractions, partly or wholly hydrogenated, inter-esterified, re-esterified or elaidinized, whether or not refined, but not further prepared	5
1517	Margarine; edible mixtures or preparations of animal, vegetable or microbial fats or oils or of fractions of different fats or oils of this chapter, other than edible fats or oils or their fractions of heading 1516	20
1518	Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their fractions, boiled, oxidized, dehydrated, sulfurized, blown, polymerized by heat in vacuum or in inert gas or otherwise chemically modified, excluding those of heading 1516; inedible mixtures or preparations of animal, vegetable or microbial fats or oils or of fractions of different fats or oils of this chapter, not elsewhere specified or included	3
1520	Glycerol, crude; glycerol waters and glycerol lyes	1
1521	Vegetable waxes (other than triglycerides), beeswax, other insect waxes and spermaceti, whether or not refined or colored	7
1522	Degras; residues resulting from the treatment of fatty substances or animal or vegetable waxes	1

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Source: USITC, Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States – 2026 HTS Revision 20, effective 28 September 2026. The schedule at USITC

Not shown: the additional duties of Chapter 99 (such as Section 301 and Section 232), anti-dumping and countervailing duties, quotas and the legal notes.

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