HS code 1512: Sunflower-seed, safflower or cotton-seed oil and fractions
Heading 1512 of the EU Combined Nomenclature 2026, in chapter 15, with the official text of every 6-digit subheading and 8-digit CN code below it.
Official description
1512Sunflower-seed, safflower or cotton-seed oil and fractions thereof, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified
Place in the nomenclature: 15 Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes > 1512
- Subheadings (6 digits)
- 4
- CN codes (8 digits)
- 9
Subheadings and CN codes in heading 1512
- 1512 11Sunflower-seed or safflower oil and fractions thereof | Crude oil
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Crude sunflower-seed or safflower oil
- 1512 11 10 For technical or industrial uses other than the manufacture of foodstuffs for human consumption
- 1512 11 91 Other | Sunflower-seed oil
- 1512 11 99 Other | Safflower oil
- 1512 19Sunflower-seed or safflower oil and fractions thereof | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Sunflower-seed or safflower oil and their fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified (excl. crude)
- 1512 19 10 For technical or industrial uses other than the manufacture of foodstuffs for human consumption
- 1512 19 90 Other
- 1512 21Cotton-seed oil and its fractions | Crude oil, whether or not gossypol has been removed
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Crude cotton-seed oil
- 1512 21 10 For technical or industrial uses other than the manufacture of foodstuffs for human consumption
- 1512 21 90 Other
- 1512 29Cotton-seed oil and its fractions | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Cotton-seed oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified (excl. crude)
- 1512 29 10 For technical or industrial uses other than the manufacture of foodstuffs for human consumption
- 1512 29 90 Other
The first 6 digits are the Harmonized System, shared worldwide: a US HTS code that starts with the same 6 digits sits under the same subheading. The last 2 digits are the EU's own CN split.
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Source
Source: EU Combined Nomenclature 2026 (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1926), © European Union, https://eur-lex.europa.eu/. Reformatted by WISEPIM: indent dashes removed and parent lines joined. Only the Official Journal is authentic.