Heading 1521

Vegetable waxes (other than triglycerides), beeswax, other insect waxes and spermaceti, whether or not refined or coloured.

2 subheadings

Subheadings

Vegetable waxes (other than triglycerides), beeswax, other insect waxes and spermaceti, whether or not refined or coloured. - Vegetable waxes

1 tariff items

1521.90

Vegetable waxes (other than triglycerides), beeswax, other insect waxes and spermaceti, whether or not refined or coloured. - Other

1 tariff items

Explanatory Notes

Vegetable waxes (other than triglycerides), beeswax, other insect waxes and spermaceti, whether or not refined or coloured

Source: eu_cn_en (EUR-Lex 02019XC0329(02)-20250113)

Vegetable waxes In addition to the products described in the HS Explanatory Note to heading 1521 , part (I), this subheading includes coffee wax which occurs naturally in all parts of the coffee shrub (beans, parchment skin, leaves, etc.) and is a by-product of the manufacture of decaffeinated coffee. It is black, has a coffee-like smell and is used in the manufacture of certain cleaning products.

Source: eu_cn_en (EUR-Lex 02019XC0329(02)-20250113)

Raw This subheading includes waxes in natural combs.

Source: eu_cn_en (EUR-Lex 02019XC0329(02)-20250113)

Other This subheading includes waxes, pressed or refined, whether or not bleached or coloured.

Source: eu_cn_en (EUR-Lex 02019XC0329(02)-20250113)

Chapter 15 Notes (4)

1. 1. 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...

2. 2. Heading 15.09 does not apply to oils obtained from olives by solvent extraction (heading 15.10).

3. 3. 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.

4. 4. Soap-stocks, oil foots and dregs, stearin pitch, glycerol pitch and wool grease residues fall in heading 15.22.

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