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Chapter 13
Lac; Gums, Resins and Other Vegetable Saps and Extracts

Note

1.

Heading 13.02 applies, inter alia, to liquorice extract and extract of pyrethrum, extract of hops, extract of aloes and opium.

The heading does not apply to the following:

(a)

liquorice extract containing more than 10 per cent by mass of sucrose or put up as confectionery (heading 17.04);

(b)

malt extract (heading 19.01);

(c)

extracts of coffee, tea or maté (heading 21.01);

(d)

vegetable saps or extracts constituting alcoholic beverages (Chapter 22);

(e)

camphor, glycyrrhizin or other products of heading 29.14 or 29.38;

(f)

concentrates of poppy straw containing not less than 50 per cent by mass of alkaloids (heading 29.39);

(g)

medicaments of heading 30.03 or 30.04 or blood-grouping reagents (heading 30.06);

(h)

tanning or dyeing extracts (heading 32.01 or 32.03);

(ij)

essential oils, concretes, absolutes, resinoids, extracted oleoresins, aqueous distillates or aqueous solutions of essential oils or preparations based on odoriferous substances of a kind used for the manufacture of beverages (Chapter 33); or

(k)

natural rubber, balata, gutta-percha, guayule, chicle or similar natural gums (heading 40.01).

Rates as at
HeadingDescriptionGeneral
13.01Lac; natural gums, resins, gum-resins and oleoresins (for example, balsams):
1301.20Gum Arabicfree
1301.90Otherfree
13.02Vegetable saps and extracts; pectic substances, pectinates and pectates; agar-agar and other mucilages and thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from vegetable products:
1302.1Vegetable saps and extracts:
1302.11Opium12%
1302.12Of liquorice12%
1302.13Of hopsfree
1302.14.10Suitable for pharmaceutical purposes imported from Switzerland15%
1302.14.20Other, suitable for pharmaceutical purposes15%
1302.14Of ephedra:
1302.14.90Other25%
1302.19.05Vanilla oleoresin (vanilla extract)free
1302.19Other:
1302.19.07Of pyrethrum or of the roots of plants containing rotenonefree
1302.19.14Of the species Aspalathus linearis (Rooibos/Red bush)25%
1302.19.12Other, suitable for pharmaceutical purposes15%
1302.19.11Other, suitable for pharmaceutical purposes imported from Switzerland15%
1302.20Pectic substances, pectinates and pectatesfree
1302.19.90Other25%
1302.3Mucilages and thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from vegetable products:
1302.31Agar-agarfree
1302.32.20Modified8,5%
1302.32Mucilages and thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from locust beans, locust bean seeds or guar seeds:
1302.32.10Not modifiedfree
1302.39.20Modified8,5%
1302.39.10Not modifiedfree
1302.39Other:

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