Heading 1301 · Chapter 13

Shellac and similar products; plant gums, natural resins, gum resins and oleoresins

This heading covers shellac and similar products, together with vegetable carbohydrate gums, natural resins, gum resins and oleoresins such as balsams.

For example

Shellac
Gum arabic
Natural pine resin
Balsam

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Lac; natural gums, resins, gum-resins, balsams and other natural oleoresins

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Step 1 · Section II Vegetable products
Is the product a living plant or flower; an edible vegetable, root, tuber, fruit or nut; coffee, tea, maté or a spice; cereal; a milling product, malt, starch, inulin or wheat gluten; a seed, plant for industrial or medical use, straw or fodder plant; shellac, a carbohydrate gum, natural resin, plant sap or plant extract; or a vegetable plaiting material or another vegetable product not listed elsewhere?
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Step 2 · Chapter 13 Lac; gums, resins and other vegetable saps and extr… 8 of 9 chapters in section II
Is it shellac or a similar product, a plant carbohydrate gum, natural resin, gum resin or oleoresin, or is it a plant sap or extract, pectin substance, agar-agar or another plant-based mucilage or gelling agent?
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Step 3 · Heading 1301 Lac; natural gums, resins, gum-resins, balsams and … 1 of 2 headings under chapter 13
Is it gum arabic?

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1301 Lac; natural gums, resins, gum-resins, balsams and other natural oleoresins you are here 0.0%
1302 Vegetable saps and extracts; pectic substances, pectinates and pectates; agar-agar and other mucilages and thickeners derived from vegetable products, whether or not modified, 0.0–19.2%

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