Consider a random vector
$\textbf{U}$
whose distribution function coincides in its upper tail with that of an Archimedean copula. We report the fact that the conditional distribution of
$\textbf{U}$
, conditional on one of its components, has under a mild condition on the generator function independent upper tails, no matter what the unconditional tail behavior is. This finding is extended to Archimax copulas.