1520 00 000 0 — Glycerol, crude; glycerol waters and glycerol lyes
Glycerol, crude; glycerol waters and glycerol lyes
Names come in English where the EU Combined Nomenclature publishes them — chapters, headings and subheadings, whose first six digits are the same Harmonized System; deeper EAEU detail is a machine translation, marked as such. Official texts — tariff notes, measures, lists and classification rulings — are the original: customs and your broker go by that wording. Where we show a machine translation of them, it is marked; where our quality check rejected one, the Russian stays.
Machine translation. The original is the Russian text of the EAEU tariff, and customs goes by it; this translation is for understanding only and has no legal force.
This is the base rate. A tariff quota, a preference for the country of origin and a tariff exemption lower it; anti-dumping and special duties are paid on top of it
EEC Council Decision No. 80 of 14.09.2021
None: russian bans and restrictions, dual use, EAEU non-tariff regulation, trade defence measures — duty on top of the tariff, tariff quota.
Whether a measure applies to your goods depends on their characteristics and the shipping documents
The general import rate in Russia: Tax Code of Russia, Art. 164(3) (Federal Law No. 425-FZ of 28.11.2025). This code is not named on the 10% VAT list (Decree No. 908) or the exemption list (No. 1042). The list of medical goods No. 688 is not checked here.
Where it sits in the nomenclature
Section III. Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
- 15Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
- 1520Glycerol, crude; glycerol waters and glycerol lyes
- 1520 00Glycerol, crude; glycerol waters and glycerol lyes
- 1520 00 00Glycerol, crude; glycerol waters and glycerol lyes
- 1520 00 000 0you are here
Explanatory notes to heading 1520 3 paragraphs
Machine translation from Russian. The original is the EEC explanatory note, and that is what a classification dispute is argued from; the translation is for understanding and has no legal force.
1520 Glycerin raw; glycerol water and glycerol lye
Raw glycerol is a product with a thickness of less than 95% (in terms of dry matter). It can be obtained by breaking down fats or oils or synthetic eskies from propylene. It varies in quality depending on the method of production, for example: (1) obtained by hydrolysis with water, acids or more lochs, - a sweetish liquid of a pleasant smell, in color from yellowish to brown; (2) obtained from glycerin alkali - a pale yellow liquid with an unpleasant odor and astringent taste; (3) obtained from the residues of soap making - a blackish-y yellow liquid with a sweet taste (sometimes resembling garlic if with more impurities) and a more or less unpleasant odor (4) - a large amount of organic and an unpleasant odor. Raw glycerol can also be obtained by transesterification of oils or fats with other alcohols. This heading also includes glycerin water, which is a by-product of the production of fatty acids, and glycerin lye, which is a by-product of soap making. This heading does not cover: (a) glycerin of a purity of 95% or more (in terms of dry matter) (heading 2905); (b) glycerin prepackaged as a medicinal product or with additives of pharmaceutical substances (heading 3003 or 3004);
(c) flavoured glycerin or glycerol with cosmetic additives (Chapter 33).
Official text adopted by a Recommendation of the EEC Board
Notes to chapter 15 — Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes 10 items
Notes
English text as published in Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2021/1832 (Combined Nomenclature). The EAEU tariff and the EU nomenclature copy these notes from the same convention. For a Russian declaration the binding version is the Russian one: Annex to Decision No 80 of the EEC Council of 14 September 2021.
1. This chapter does not cover:
(a) pig fat or poultry fat of heading 0209;
(b) cocoa butter, fat and 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.
Subheading notes
English text as published in Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2021/1832 (Combined Nomenclature). The EAEU tariff and the EU nomenclature copy these notes from the same convention. For a Russian declaration the binding version is the Russian one: Annex to Decision No 80 of the EEC Council of 14 September 2021.
1. For the purposes of subheading 1509 30, virgin olive oil has a free acidity expressed as oleic acid not exceeding 2,0 g/ 100 g and can be distinguished from the other virgin olive oil categories according to the characteristics indicated in the Codex Alimentarius Standard 33-1981.
2. For the purposes of subheadings 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.
Additional notes
Machine translation. The original is the Russian text of the EAEU tariff, and customs goes by it; this translation is for understanding only and has no legal force.
1. In subheadings and subheadings 1507 10, 1508 10, 1510 10, 1511 10, 1512 11, 1512 21, 1513 11, 1513 21, 1514 11, 1514 91, 1515 11, 1515 21, 1515 50 110 0, 1515 50 190 0, 1515 90 210 0, 1515 90 290 0, 1515 90 500 0 – 1515 90 690 0 and 1518 00 310 0:
(a) non-volatile oils of vegetable origin in liquid or solid form obtained by pressing shall be considered as “raw” unless they have undergone any other treatment than the following:
decantation within a normal period of time,
centrifugation or filtration, provided that only mechanical force such as gravity, pressure or centrifugal force (excluding any adsorption filtration process or any other physical or chemical process) has been used to separate the oils from their solid constituents;
(b) non-volatile oils of vegetable origin in liquid or solid form obtained by extraction shall continue to be considered “raw” if they cannot be distinguished by color, smell, taste or recognized special analytical properties from oils and fats of vegetable origin obtained under pressure;
(c) the term “raw oils” includes soybean oil refined with hydration and cotton oil purified from gossypol.
2. В субпозиции 1510 10 термин «масло оливковое из жмыха сырое» означает масло со следующими характеристиками:
(a) with one of the following wax content values:
(i) the wax content is greater than 350 mg/kg provided that the erythrodiol and uvaol content is greater than 4.5%; or
(ii) the wax content of more than 300 mg/kg but not more than 350 mg/kg provided that:
the total content of aliphatic alcohols more than 350 mg / kg, and
- the content of erythrodiol and uvaol is more than 3.5%;
(b) with a monopalmitate content of 2-glyceryl not exceeding 1.4%;
(c) the total content of transoleic isomers not exceeding 0.20 % and the total content of translinoleic + translinolenic isomers not exceeding 0.10 %.
3. Subheadings 1522 00 310 0 and 1522 00 390 0 do not include:
(a) residues from the treatment of fatty substances containing oil having an iodine index of less than 70 or more than 100;
(b) residues formed during the treatment of fatty substances containing oil having an iodine index greater than 70 or less than 100, the peak area of which, representing the retained volume of -sitosterol, is less than 93.0% of the total peak area of sterol.
Additional note of the Eurasian Economic Union
Machine translation. The original is the Russian text of the EAEU tariff, and customs goes by it; this translation is for understanding only and has no legal force.
1. In this group:
the term “packaging” means all types of packaging intended for packing, storing and transporting goods, including transport packagings forming an independent transport unit;
The term “net mass” means the mass of the product per packaging unit, excluding the mass of the packaging unit.
What import requires
Veterinary and sanitary control
Goods fall under supervision by their type and characteristics
Sanitary and epidemiological supervision (control)
rule for the whole chapter 15Пищевые продукты (продукты в натуральном или переработанном виде, употребляемые человеком в пищу), в том числе полученные с использованием генно-инженерно-модифицированных (трансгенных) организмов; Иная продукция (товары), в отношении которой одним из государств – членов Евразийского экономического союза введены временные санитарные мерыРешение Коллегии Евразийской экономической комиссии от 17.09.2019 № 154
Conformity assessment
May applyWhether the goods fall under a regulation depends on their name and characteristics. Check them against the list
- ТР ТС 002/2011Safety of high-speed rail transport
- 6810 99 000 0 — certificate of conformity
- ТР ТС 003/2011Safety of railway transport infrastructure
- 6810 99 000 0 — certificate of conformity
- ТР ТС 024/2011Technical regulations for oil and fat products
- Глицерин натуральный сырой — declaration of conformity
Checked: the consolidated list of Government Decree No. 2425 and the lists of 42 technical regulations out of 52 adopted. The others have no list by HS code, so see the full list of regulations.
How it is done in practice
Valid documents in the EAEU unified register for subheading 1520 00: certificates 0, declarations 49.
- By technical regulation
- ТР ТС 024/201147ТР ТС 022/20115ТР ТС 021/20114ТР ТС 029/20123
- Schemes
- 1д403д84д1The letter after the scheme number shows the form: certification or declaration of conformity.
- Most active certification bodies
- РУП «Центр испытаний и сертификации ТООТ»ГУ «Республиканский центр гигиены, эпидемиологии и общественного здоровья»РУП «Научно-практический центр гигиены»
- Manufacturers outside the EAEU
- Lithuania4Poland4Brazil2China2France2Italy2
Manufacturers of these goods →Check a supplier’s document by its number →
Tariff preferences
The code is on the EAEU list of preferential goods: for goods originating in a beneficiary country the duty is lower
46 countries
Burkina Faso, Guinea, Eritrea, Congo - Kinshasa, Timor-Leste, Afghanistan, Mauritania, Yemen, Cambodia, Lesotho, Laos, Bangladesh, Nepal, Tanzania, Palestinian Territories, Angola, Benin, Burundi, Haiti, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Djibouti, Zambia, Kiribati, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Myanmar (Burma), Sudan, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Chad, South Sudan, Syria, Solomon Islands, Comoros, Togo, Tuvalu, Ethiopia, Somalia, Central African Republic
The preference requires a document of origin and compliance with the direct consignment rule; customs checks the right to it at declaration.
Payments on import
Duty for this code: 5%. On top of the duty, on import into Russia you pay VAT of 22% of the customs value including the duty (Article 160 of the Tax Code) and the customs processing fee — a fixed amount by value band. Customs value: the price of the goods, delivery to the border, local costs.
Import VAT in EAEU countries
- Russia22%Tax Code of Russia, Art. 164(3) (Federal Law No. 425-FZ of 28.11.2025)
- Kazakhstan16%Tax Code of Kazakhstan, Art. 503(1), from 01.01.2026
- Belarus20%Tax Code of Belarus, Art. 122
- Armenia20%Tax Code of the Republic of Armenia
- Kyrgyzstan12%Tax Code of the Kyrgyz Republic
Standard rate; each country has reduced rates and exemptions for some goods. The duty for the code above is the union one, the same for all
OKPD2 code
The match is set for the whole subheading, by the first six digits of the code
- 20.41.10 — Глицерин
Correspondence keys of the Russian Ministry of Economic Development, edition of 20.07.2023. The ministry’s caveat: Ключи отражают возможные соответствия между кодами на уровне первых шести знаков ТН ВЭД ЕАЭС (основанной на ГС) и кодами ОКПД 2 (основанного на КПЕС) по состоянию на 1 января 2022 года. Предлагаемые соответствия не являются исчерпывающими и предназначены для использования в качестве вспомогательного материала для облегчения работы по установлению возможных вариантов корреляции кодов классификаторов в отношении соответствующих категорий товаров.
Настоящие переходные ключи (сопоставительные таблицы) разработаны на основе данных агентства Евростат Комиссии Европейского союза по корреляции кодов Гармонизированной системы описания и кодирования товаров (ГС) 2022 года и Статистической классификации продукции по видам экономической деятельности в Европейском союзе (КПЕС) 2008 года. Ключи отражают возможные соответствия между кодами на уровне первых шести знаков ТН ВЭД ЕАЭС (основанной на ГС) и кодами ОКПД 2 (основанного на КПЕС) по состоянию на 1 января 2022 года. Предлагаемые соответствия не являются исчерпывающими и предназначены для использования в качестве вспомогательного материала для облегчения работы по установлению возможных вариантов корреляции кодов классификаторов в отношении соответствующих категорий товаров. Услуги не являются объектом классификации в ТН ВЭД ЕАЭС и не включены в переходные ключи. По мере внесения изменений в ОКПД 2 и ТН ВЭД ЕАЭС переходные ключи при необходимости подлежат актуализации.
The right code is in the HS code search.