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Heading in chapter 15 — Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products

Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, partly or wholly hydrogenated…

$109MIndia’s exports in 2025
88countries bought from India in 2025
1.6×change since 2013 ($69M)
5%of chapter 15 exports

India’s exports, year by year

US$, calendar years, all destinations combined. Source: UN Comtrade (India’s own reports).

Biggest buyers, 2025

  1. Netherlands
  2. USA
  3. Japan
  4. Bhutan
  5. Italy
  6. United Arab Emirates
  7. Germany
  8. Brazil
  9. Türkiye
  10. Denmark

Ranked by value. Country-by-country figures are not shown.

What's inside 1516

2 codes India exports
1516.20Vegetable fats and oils and their fractions$109M in 2025 — 100% of the total1516.10Animal fats and oils and their fractions$30K in 2025 — under 1% of the total

Other codes in chapter 15

1515Other fixed vegetable fats and oils$1.3B in 20251508Ground-nut oil and its fractions$345M in 20251512Sunflower seed, safflower or cotton seed oil and their fractions thereof$97M in 20251513Coconut (copra), palm kernel or babassu oil and fractions thereof$81M in 20251502Fats of bovine animals, sheep or goats , other than those of heading 1503$71M in 20251504Fats and oils and their fractions, of fish or marine mammals$63M in 20251518Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, boiled, oxidised, dehydrated…$62M in 20251507Soya-bean oil and its fractions$43M in 20251514Rape, colza or mustard oil and its fractions thereof$28M in 20251517Margarine$26M in 20251511Palm oil and its fractions$20M in 20251521Vegetable waxes (other than triglycerides), beeswax, other insect waxes and spermaceti$8.3M in 2025