PALM OIL MILL EFFLUENT. THIS IS A PRODUCT DERIVED FROM THE PROCESSING OF PALM OIL, WHEREBY FRUIT IS STEAMED AND PALM OIL IS EXTRACTED. A SMALL PERCENTAGE OF OIL IS DISCARDED ALONG WITH SOME WATER FROM THE STEAMING, AND THIS IS PUMPED TO EFFLUENT PONDS. THE PONDS ARE LEFT FOR A PERIOD OF TIME TO ALLOW THE OIL DISCARDED DURING THE STEAMING PROCESS TO RISE TO THE TOP. THE OIL ON THE TOP IS THEN SKIMMED, AND COMPRISES ABOUT 97% OIL AND 3% WATER WITH A FREE FATTY ACID CONTENT OF ABOUT 40%. ONCE IMPORTED, THE PALM OIL MILL EFFLUENT WILL BE USED TO MAKE BIODIESEL.

CLASSIFICATION HAS BEEN DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING:- GENERAL INTERPRETATIVE RULES (GIR)S: GIR 1 HAS BEEN USED TO CLASSIFY THIS PRODUCT BY THE TERMS OF HEADING 1518 - ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE FATS AND OILS AND THEIR FRACTIONS, BOILED, OXIDISED, DEHYDRATED, SULPHURISED, BLOWN, POLYMERISED BY HEAT IN VACUUM OR IN INERT GAS OR OTHERWISE CHEMICALLY MODIFIED, EXCLUDING THOSE OF HEADING NO. 1516; INEDIBLE MIXTURES OR PREPARATIONS OF ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE FATS OR OILS OR OF FRACTIONS OF DIFFERENT FATS OR OILS OF THIS CHAPTER, NOT ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED OR INCLUDED. CN CODE 15180091 - ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE FATS AND OILS AND THEIR FRACTIONS, BOILED, OXIDISED, DEHYDRATED, SULPHURISED, BLOWN, POLYMERISED BY HEAT IN VACUUM OR IN INERT GAS OR OTHERWISE CHEMICALLY MODIFIED, EXCLUDING THOSE OF HEADING NO. 1516. TARIC CODE 1518009180 - OTHER THAN ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED