Chapter 13
Lac; gums, resins, and other
vegetable saps and extracts
Notes.
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:
(a) Liquorice extract containing more than 10% by weight 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% by weight 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
Explanatory remarks to Chapter 13
1. Importation is subject to the observance of Article 16 of the Law on Foodstuffs and Beverages adopted in 1967.
2. The importation of opium is prohibited. Drug against Act and Incorporation of substances into it (1988/10/25) and Article 41 of the amendment Act (1997/11/08) approved by expediency council, import industrial (by case) subject to the approval of the ministry of health, treatment, and medical education.
3. The importation of hashish (cannabis extract) is prohibited.
4. The importation and exportation of resin tincture extract and hemp oil are prohibited.
5. The importation of coca extract and coca paste is prohibited.
6. Import and export of genetically transformed living creatures and transgenic products bound to save national, security, and biological legal provisions with the previous authorization of the Ministry of Agriculture- Jahad.
| Heading, Subheading No. | Description | Remark | Preferential Tariff | SUQ | Import duty | |
| 13 01 | Lac; natural gums, resins, gum-resins and oleoresins (for example, balsams). | |||||
| 1301 20 00 | - Gum Arabic | Kg | 5 | |||
| 1301 90 | - Other: | |||||
| 1301 90 10 | --- Barycheh | Kg | 5 | |||
| 1301 90 20 | --- Actone ( bitter, sweet) | Kg | 10 | |||
| 1301 90 30 | --- Turpentine | Kg | 5 | |||
| 1301 90 40 | --- Tragacanth | Kg | 5 | |||
| 1301 90 90 | --- Other | Kg | 5 | |||
| 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. | ||||||
| - Vegetable saps and extracts: | ||||||
| 1302 11 00 | -- Opium | * | Kg | 55 | ||
| 1302 12 00 | -- Of liquorice | Kg | 10 | |||
| 1302 13 00 | -- Of hops | Kg | 5 | |||
| 1302 14 00 | -- Of ephedra | Kg | 10 | |||
| 1302 19 00 | -- Other | Kg | 10 | |||
| 1302 20 00 | - Pectic substances, pectinates and pectates | Kg | 5 | |||
| - Mucilages and thickeners, whether or | ||||||
| not modified, derived from egetable | ||||||
| products: | ||||||
| 1302 31 00 | -- Agar-agar | Kg | 5 | |||
| 1302 32 00 | -- Mucilages and thickeners, whether or | |||||
| not modified, derived from locust beans, | Kg | 5 | ||||
| locust bean seeds or guar seeds | ||||||
| 1302 39 00 | -- Other | Kg | 5 |