HS Code 1522Degras; residues resulting from the treatment of fatty substances or animal or vegetable waxes

What HS code 1522 covers

Heading 1522 is a catch-all for leftovers. It names two groups of goods. The first is degras. The second is residues from treating fatty substances, or from treating animal or vegetable waxes.

The key word is residue. These goods are what remains after a treatment step. They are not the clean fat, oil or wax itself. If your product is the fat or the wax, check the other headings in Chapter 15 first.

The Harmonized System, or HS, is the shared way customs offices name goods. The World Customs Organization, or WCO, keeps the list. This page follows the WCO nomenclature wording.

Where 1522 sits in the HS hierarchy

Harmonized system classification works like a tree. You start wide and narrow down. For this heading the path is short:

• Section III: fats, oils and waxes of animal or vegetable origin
• Chapter 15: fats and oils, their cleavage products, prepared edible fats and waxes
• Heading 1522: degras and residues
• Code 152200

HS code 152200 for degras

Many headings split into several codes. This one does not. If a product fits heading 1522, you use 152200. There is no second line to weigh.

So the real question is not which sub-line to pick. It is whether the goods belong in this heading at all. The next section helps you decide.

Countries often add extra digits for their own tariffs. Those national codes build on 152200. For duty details, check your own customs authority, or try the HS code classifier.

1522 vs related headings in Chapter 15

Some neighbouring headings sound close. Here is how the WCO wording tells them apart.

Heading 1521 covers vegetable waxes, beeswax, other insect waxes and spermaceti, whether or not refined or coloured. Those are the waxes themselves. Heading 1522 is for what is left after waxes or fats are worked on.

Heading 1505 covers wool grease and fatty substances made from it, including lanolin. Heading 1518 covers fats and oils that are boiled, oxidised, dehydrated or otherwise chemically modified. Heading 1520 covers crude glycerol, glycerol waters and glycerol lyes.

A simple rule helps. If the goods are a named fat, oil, wax or glycerol, check that heading first. If they are the leftover from processing, heading 1522 is the likely home.

Import export data and buyers for degras

Customs shipment records show who trades a product. For degras, that means finding importers and exporters filed under 152200.

EximDataX shows shipment-level import and export records from official customs sources. Coverage: 43 direct customs feeds plus 184 mirror-derived countries. Named buyers and named suppliers are available in 38 of the 43 direct markets. Most markets refresh weekly and some refresh daily. You can search by HS code to see who imports and exports a product, and book a free demo.

To start, open the import data or export data pages. You can also go to buyer data or supplier data and work from the code.