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Section II
Vegetable Products

Note

1.

In this Section the term "pellets" means products which have been agglomerated either directly by compression or by the addition of a binder in a proportion not exceeding 3 per cent by mass.

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).

Heading CD Description Unit General EU EFTA SADC MERCOSUR AfCFTA
13.02 Vegetable saps and extracts; pectic substances, pectinates and pectates; agar-agar and other mucilages and thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from vegetable products:
1302.1 - Vegetable saps and extracts:
1302.11 2 -- Opium kg 12% free 12% free 12% 4,8%
1302.12 9 -- Of liquorice kg 12% free free free 12% 4,8%
1302.13 5 -- Of hops kg free free free free free free
1302.14 -- Of ephedra:
1302.14.10 9 --- Suitable for pharmaceutical purposes imported from Switzerland kg 15% free free free 15% 6%
1302.14.20 6 --- Other, suitable for pharmaceutical purposes kg 15% free 15% free 15% 6%
1302.14.90 7 --- Other kg 25% free free free 25% 10%
1302.19 -- Other:
1302.19.05 4 --- Vanilla oleoresin (vanilla extract) kg free free free free free free
1302.19.07 0 --- Of pyrethrum or of the roots of plants containing rotenone kg free free free free free free
1302.19.11 9 --- Other, suitable for pharmaceutical purposes imported from Switzerland kg 15% free free free 15% 6%
1302.19.12 7 --- Other, suitable for pharmaceutical purposes kg 15% free 15% free 15% 6%
1302.19.14 3 --- Of the species Aspalathus linearis (Rooibos/Red bush) kg 25% free free free 25% 10%
1302.19.90 9 --- Other kg 25% free free free 25% 10%

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