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 and oils or their fractions of heading 15.16 (heading 1517): importing markets

Fact sheet

Code

1517

Chapter

15 · Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes

Subheadings

2

What to know before exporting under heading 1517

Heading 1517 belongs to Chapter 15 and has two subheadings. It groups margarine and edible mixtures or preparations of fats and oils, or of their fractions, other than the edible fats and oils of heading 1516. Classification therefore depends on how the product is made and what it contains, not on its commercial name.

Before quoting, confirm the exact subheading of your product. Duties, import checks and statistics are applied at subheading level or at a more detailed national level. Two products that look alike on the shelf can fall under different codes if their composition differs.

The market table shows imports declared by each country from the world in 2024, not purchases from Spain. It indicates where demand is large, but it does not show how much of it is open to a Spanish supplier. To see Spain's own position in a market, compare these figures with the export data for the same code in UN Comtrade or Eurostat.

Several of the largest importers in the table are EU member states: Germany, France, the Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, Ireland, Sweden, Italy and Spain itself. For a company exporting from Spain, shipments to these countries move within the EU single market, so the customs duty questions that apply to non-EU destinations do not arise in the same way. Invoicing, VAT treatment and product labelling rules still need to be checked for each destination.

For destinations outside the EU, such as China, the United Kingdom, the United States, Brazil, Canada or South Korea, the duty depends on the subheading and on the agreement in force between the EU and that country. It is consulted for your exact code in Access2Markets, which also lists import requirements and formalities by product and destination.

Food products such as margarine usually face destination rules on labelling, composition and sanitary conditions. These vary by country and are set by each importing authority, so ask your buyer or check the official source for that market before producing a labelled batch.

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