Chapter 13: Lac; gums, resins and other vegetable saps and extracts

What HS chapter 13 covers: Lac. All 2 headings and 34 tariff codes, with the official chapter notes. The first six digits are the same in every country.

Source: Turkish Ministry of Trade — Turkish Customs Tariff Schedule (TGTC), 2026 edition. Data last updated: 7 August 2026. Compiled from the official schedule for information only. Binding tariff information is issued by the customs administration.

What this chapter covers

This chapter covers lac together with natural gums and resins, vegetable saps and extracts, pectic substances and vegetable thickeners such as agar-agar. Heading 13.02 expressly takes in extracts of liquorice, pyrethrum, hops, aloes and opium. Many other extract-like goods stay in their own chapters, including coffee and tea extracts, malt extract, essential oils and tanning or dyeing extracts.

Lac (13.01)
Natural gums, resins, gum-resins and oleoresins such as balsams (13.01)
Vegetable saps and extracts, including extracts of liquorice, pyrethrum, hops, aloes and opium (13.02)
Pectic substances, pectinates and pectates (13.02)
Agar-agar and other mucilages and thickeners derived from vegetable products, whether or not modified (13.02)

Not covered by this chapter

Liquorice extract containing more than 10% sucrose by weight or put up as confectionery (17.04)
Malt extract (19.01)
Extracts of coffee, tea or mate (21.01)
Vegetable saps and extracts used in making alcoholic beverages (Chapter 22)
Camphor, glycyrrhizin and other products of headings 29.14 or 29.38
Poppy straw concentrate containing at least 50% alkaloids by weight (29.39)
Medicaments (30.03, 30.04) and blood-grouping reagents (38.22)
Tanning or dyeing extracts (32.01, 32.03)
Essential oils, resinoids, extracted oleoresins and odoriferous preparations used in beverage manufacture (Chapter 33)
Natural rubber, balata, gutta-percha, guayule, chicle and similar natural gums (40.01)
Pectic products and sugar mixtures containing more than 90% sugar by weight on a dry basis fall outside subheading 1302.20 (Chapter 17)

Chapter notes (official Turkish text)

1. 13.02 pozisyonu, diğerleri meyanında, meyan kökü hülasası, pire otu hülasası, şerbetçi otu hülasası,

sabır bitkisi hülasası ve afyon hülasasını da kapsar.

Aşağıda yazılı olanlar bu pozisyona dahil değildir:

(a) Ağırlık itibariyle % 10'dan fazla sakkaroz içeren veya şekercilik mamülleri olarak hazırlanmış

olan meyan kökü hülasası (17.04 pozisyonu);

(b) Malt hülasası (19.01 pozisyonu);

(d) Alkollü içecek yapımında kullanılan bitkisel özsu ve hülasalar (Fasıl 22);

(e) Kamfor (kafuru), glycyrrhizin veya 29.14 veya 29.38 pozisyonlarında yeralan diğer ürünler;

(f) Ağırlık itibariyle en az %50 alkoloid içeren haşhaş sapı konsantreleri (29.39 pozisyonu);

(g) 30.03 veya 30.04 pozisyonlarındaki ilaçlar veya kan gruplarının belirlenmesinde kullanılan

reaktifler (38.22 pozisyonu);

(h) Debagatte veya boyacılıkta kullanılan hülasalar; (32.01 veya 32.03 pozisyonları)

(ij) Uçucu yağlar rezinoitler, yağ reçinesi hülasası, uçucu yağların sulu damıtıkları veya sulu

çözeltileri veya içecek imalinde kullanılan türdeki kokulu maddeler esaslı müstahzarlar (Fasıl 33); veya

(k) Tabii kauçuk, balata, güta-perka, guayul, ciklet ve benzeri tabii sakızlar (40.01 pozisyonu).

Ek Not:

1. Kuru madde üzerinden hesaplandığında şeker oranı ağırlıkça %90'ı geçen pektik ürünler

ve şeker karışımları 1302.20 alt pozisyonundan hariç bırakılmış ve ürünün esas unsurunu şekerin

vermesi nedeniyle 17. fasılda sınıflandırılmışlardır.

Headings in this chapter

The first six digits of every code in this chapter are the same in every country that applies the Harmonized System. The chapter has 2 headings and 34 twelve-digit codes (2026 schedule).

13.01 — Lac; natural gums, resins, gum-resins and oleoresins (for example, balsams) — 9 twelve-digit tariff codes
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 — 25 twelve-digit tariff codes

Import duty rates across this chapter

The range is always computed WITHIN a single column: showing the EU column and the all-other-countries column as one range would misstate the duty. The binding rate depends on the twelve-digit code and the country of origin.

Source: annexes to the 2026 Import Regime Decree.

Customs duty — DÜ — 0% – 25% · codes with a row: 34 · List I, II, VII
Headings carrying the highest customs duty — 13.02 25% · 13.01 0%

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