Code 1302 32 · Heading 1302

Plant gums and gelling agents from carob, carob seeds or guar seeds, including modified products

This code covers plant gums and gelling agents, whether modified or not, extracted from carob, carob seeds or guar seeds. The source must be one of these named plant materials.

For example

Carob-seed gum (locust bean gum)
Guar-seed gum (guar gum)

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Official tariff text

Mucilages and thickeners, derived from locust beans, locust bean seeds or guar seeds, whether or not modified

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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 1302 Vegetable saps and extracts; pectic substances, pec… 2 of 2 headings under chapter 13
Is it a plant sap or extract—opium, liquorice, hops, ephedra, or another plant extract—or is it pectin, agar-agar, or another plant mucilage or gelling agent, including a modified product made from a vegetable substance?
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Step 4 · Subheading 1302 32 Mucilages and thickeners, derived from locust beans… 8 of 9 subheadings under heading 1302
Is it extracted from carob or carob seeds, or is it extracted from guar seeds?

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Classification decides the rate here: from 0.0% to 11.2%.

1302 11 Opium 0.0%
1302 12 Extracts of liquorice (excl. that with a sucrose content by weight of > 10% or in the form of confectionery) 3.2%
1302 13 Extracts of hops 3.2%
1302 14 Saps and extracts of ephedra 0.0%
1302 19 Vegetable saps and extracts (excl. liquorice, hops, opium and ephedra) 0.0–3.0%
1302 20 Pectic substances, pectinates and pectates 11.2–19.2%
1302 31 Agar-agar, whether or not modified 0.0%
1302 32 Mucilages and thickeners, derived from locust beans, locust bean seeds or guar seeds, whether or not modified you are here No rate on file
1302 39 Mucilages and thickeners derived from vegetable products, whether or not modified (excl. from locust beans, locust bean seeds, guar seeds and agar-agar) 0.0%

Export to Norway

What Norwegian customs charges when goods like these are imported into Norway.

13.02.3200

Mucilages and thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from locust beans, locust beans seeds or guar seeds

Ordinary duty

Duty free

Goods of EU origin

Duty free You need documentation of EU origin to use this rate.

Norwegian tariff data version 1.5/1.2, last checked Aug. 9, 2026.

Contains data from Norwegian Customs (data.toll.no), licensed under CC BY 4.0, adapted for display.

Export to the United Kingdom

What UK customs charges when goods like these are imported into the UK.

All 2 UK lines under this code

They all have the same duty rates shown here.

Ordinary duty

Duty free

Goods of EU origin

Duty free You need documentation of EU preferential origin to use this rate.

These rates apply in Great Britain. Different rules may apply for goods entering Northern Ireland.

UK tariff data version v4.0.1576, last checked Aug. 9, 2026.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Source: UK Department for Business and Trade (data.api.trade.gov.uk).

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Duty rates shown here are estimates, read from official EU / Danish, Norwegian and UK tariff data for orientation only. Confirm the current rate with SKAT, TARIC, Norwegian Customs or the UK Online Trade Tariff before you file. The rate you pay can also depend on the country of origin. These are base customs duties only: import VAT, excise duties, anti-dumping duties and safeguard or quota measures are not included.