HS Code 1513Coconut (copra), palm kernel or babassu oil and their fractions; whether or not refined but not chemically modified

What HS code 1513 covers

This heading is for oil taken from coconuts, palm kernels and babassu nuts. Dried coconut kernel is called copra, so trade papers often say copra oil instead of coconut oil. The oil can be crude or refined. It can also be split into parts called fractions, and those parts stay in the heading too.

The test that matters sits at the end of the heading wording: not chemically modified. Oil that was only pressed, cleaned or refined can be classified here. If a chemical process changed the make-up of the oil, it belongs in another heading.

You may see the same heading called HSN code 1513 or HTS code 1513. The four-digit number is the same. It belongs to the vegetable oils group inside [Chapter 15 fats and oils HS codes](/hs-codes/15).

Crude or refined: picking the right 1513 code

Two things decide the code. The first is the plant: coconut, or palm kernel and babassu. The second is the state of the oil: crude, or anything other than crude. This is also the difference between 151311 and 151319, and between 151321 and 151329.

Here is the short guide:

• Coconut, crude: 151311.

What heading 1513 does not cover

Many buyers ask whether palm oil sits here. It does not. Palm oil has its own place in [HS 1511 palm oil](/hs-codes/15/1511). Heading 1513 takes only the kernel kind, made from the seed inside the fruit.

Oil that has been hydrogenated or inter-esterified is not a 1513 product either. That goes to [HS 1516 hydrogenated fats and oils](/hs-codes/15/1516). Oil that has been boiled, oxidised, dehydrated or changed in another chemical way goes to [HS 1518 chemically modified oils](/hs-codes/15/1518).

Other fixed vegetable oils that are not named in their own heading, such as jojoba oil, are in [HS 1515 other fixed vegetable oils](/hs-codes/15/1515). Oils from other crops have their own headings, for example [HS 1507 soya-bean oil](/hs-codes/15/1507) and [HS 1512 sunflower and cotton-seed oil](/hs-codes/15/1512).

If you are still unsure, try the [HS code classifier](/hs-classifier) before you put a code on an invoice.

Coconut oil importers and exporters under HS 1513

A code tells you what the goods are. It does not tell you who trades them. For that you need shipment records.

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