HS Code 2304Oil-cake and other solid residues; whether or not ground or in the form of pellets, resulting from the extraction of soya-bean oil

What HS code 2304 covers

Soya beans are crushed or treated with a solvent to remove their oil. What remains is a dry, solid mass. Customs calls it oil-cake. It can be sold as loose ground material or pressed into small pellets. Both forms are classified together.

Most of this material goes into animal feed, which is why it sits among the fodder headings. In daily trade you will see it written as soybean meal, soya meal or oil-cake pellets. Customs forms use the formal wording instead. Search with both names, or you may miss records.

You may also see the label HSN code 2304. India and some other markets use HSN for the same goods. The first four digits match the Harmonized System.

HS code 230400 and national tariff digits

The code 230400 is where the World Customs Organization stops. Nothing below it is set at the international level, so there is no WCO choice to make between subcodes.

Many countries add more digits for their own tariffs. They may use them to separate meal made by pressing from meal made by solvent extraction, or to mark different protein levels. These extra digits differ from one country to the next. Check the tariff of the country you ship to before you file.

If you are unsure whether your goods belong here, test the code with the HS code classifier.

2304 vs 2305 vs 2306: choosing the right oil-cake heading

These three headings use almost the same words. The one thing that separates them is the oil the cake came from. Ask which crop was pressed, then pick the heading:

• 2304: cake from soya-bean oil.
• 2306: cake from other vegetable or microbial fats and oils, other than those covered by 2304 or 2305.

Find buyers and suppliers of soya-bean oil-cake

Once you know your code, the next step is to see who trades it. Start with import data and export data, then move to buyer data and supplier data to see the companies behind the shipments.

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Other headings in Chapter 23

If soya-bean cake is not what you ship, a neighbouring heading may fit better:

• 2301: flours and pellets of meat, fish or other aquatic animals, unfit for human consumption.
• 2302: bran and other residues from milling cereals or leguminous plants.
• 2303: starch residues, beet-pulp, bagasse, and brewing or distilling waste.
• 2307: wine lees and argol.
• 2309: prepared animal feed.