1302.20
Pectic substances, pectinates and pectates
Vegetable saps and extracts; pectic substances, pectinates and pectates; agar-agar and other mucilages and thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from vegetable products
Where this code sits
- Section II · Chapter13 — LAC; GUMS; RESINS AND OTHER VEGETABLE SAPS AND EXTRACTSVEGETABLE PRODUCTS
- Heading1302 — Vegetable saps and extracts; pectic substances, pectinates and pectates; agar-agar and other mucilages and thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from vegetable products
- Subheading1302.20 — Pectic substances, pectinates and pectates
Six digits is as far as the international nomenclature goes, and it is the same six digits in every country that applies the Harmonized System. Your destination adds further digits of its own, and the rate lives on that national line — which is why the US lines below run to eight and ten digits, and why the lookups go to each authority's own tariff.
Duty rate
USITC Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States, Revision 18 (2026) · retrieved 13/09/2026
Measures in force on top of this rate
- Antidumping/countervailing duties not checked — they are administered separately, keyed to the exporter, and can exceed the tariff rate. Check for an order in force before relying on this total.
Paste 1302.20 into the lookup and follow it down to your national line.
US national lines under 1302.20
The United States subdivides this subheading into 1 line. They share a duty rate, so the classification below the subheading affects reporting rather than the amount.
| Line | Description | General | Preferential |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1302.20.00.00 | Pectic substances, pectinates and pectates | Free | — |
A blank General cell means the line states no rate of its own and takes the one above it — the line it is stated on is named, so the figure can be checked where it actually appears. Preferential rates are listed with the programme codes that grant them; the schedule offering a rate is not the same as your goods qualifying for it.
Preferential rates for 1302.20
No preference programme applies to these lines for any origin — the general rate is the rate, wherever the goods come from. That is worth knowing: there is nothing to claim here, so no certificate of origin will reduce the duty.
What chapter 13 excludes
A subheading's wording does not decide a classification — the legal notes do. These are the notes that push goods out of this chapter even when the description seems to fit.
The heading does not apply to:
- (a) Licorice extract containing more than 10 percent by weight of sucrose or put up as confectionery (heading 1704);
- (b) Malt extract (heading 1901);
- (c) Extracts of coffee, tea or maté (heading 2101);
- (d) Vegetable saps or extracts constituting alcoholic beverages (chapter 22);
- (e) Camphor, glycyrrhizin or other products of heading 2914 or 2938;
- (f) Concentrates of poppy straw containing not less than 50 percent by weight of alkaloids (heading 2939);
- (g) Medicaments of heading 3003 or 3004 or blood-grouping reagents (heading 3822);
- (h) Tanning or dyeing extracts (heading 3201 or 3203);
- (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 4001).
Legal notes that govern this code
Reproduced from the published tariff schedule. Section and chapter notes are binding and are part of the nomenclature itself; statistical notes are US reporting rules and are not classification law.
Section II notes VEGETABLE PRODUCTS
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 percent by weight.
Chapter 13 — Notes
Legal Notes of the Harmonized System. Binding, and part of the international nomenclature.
1. Heading 1302 applies, inter alia, to licorice extract and extract of pyrethrum, extract of hops, extract of aloes and opium.
The heading does not apply to:
(a) Licorice extract containing more than 10 percent by weight of sucrose or put up as confectionery (heading 1704);
(b) Malt extract (heading 1901);
(c) Extracts of coffee, tea or maté (heading 2101);
(d) Vegetable saps or extracts constituting alcoholic beverages (chapter 22);
(e) Camphor, glycyrrhizin or other products of heading 2914 or 2938;
(f) Concentrates of poppy straw containing not less than 50 percent by weight of alkaloids (heading 2939);
(g) Medicaments of heading 3003 or 3004 or blood-grouping reagents (heading 3822);
(h) Tanning or dyeing extracts (heading 3201 or 3203);
(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 4001).
Notes are reproduced from the published tariff schedule. They govern classification, but reading them is not the same as applying them to your goods — that is what a broker or a binding ruling is for.
Other chapters that mention heading 1302
An exclusion pointing into this heading from another chapter is as decisive as one in your own, and it is the one nobody finds by reading their own chapter.
1. Heading 1302 applies, inter alia, to licorice extract and extract of pyrethrum, extract of hops, extract of aloes and opium.
(3) Simple vegetable extracts of heading 1302, merely standardized or dissolved in any solvent;
(a) Natural oleoresins or vegetable extracts of heading 1301 or 1302;
Other subheadings under 1302
Importing 1302.20 into
Each guide covers how duty and tax are assessed there, the authority with jurisdiction, and what catches importers out.
Common questions
What is HS code 1302.20?
1302.20 covers Pectic substances, pectinates and pectates. It sits under heading 1302 (Vegetable saps and extracts; pectic substances, pectinates and pectates; agar-agar and other mucilages and thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from vegetable products) in chapter 13, lac; gums; resins and other vegetable saps and extracts.
What is the US duty rate for 1302.20?
The Column 1 General rate is Free, from US national line 1302.20.00.00. That is the rate before any preference you can claim, and it does not include antidumping or countervailing duties, which are administered separately and can exceed it.
What is excluded from chapter 13?
The heading does not apply to: (a) Licorice extract containing more than 10 percent by weight of sucrose or put up as confectionery (heading 1704); (b) Malt extract (heading 1901); (c) Extracts of coffee, tea or maté (heading 2101); (d) Vegetable saps or extracts constituting alcoholic beverages (chapter 22);