Code 1302 39 · Heading 1302

Other plant mucilages and gelling agents, modified or not

This covers plant mucilages and gelling agents, whether modified or not. It excludes agar-agar and products made from carob, carob seeds or guar seeds.

For example

A modified plant-based gelling agent, not agar-agar and not made from carob, carob seeds or guar seeds
An unmodified plant mucilage, not agar-agar and not made from carob, carob seeds or guar seeds

See the official tariff text

Official tariff text

Mucilages and thickeners derived from vegetable products, whether or not modified (excl. from locust beans, locust bean seeds, guar seeds and agar-agar)

How we got to this code

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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 39 Mucilages and thickeners derived from vegetable pro… 9 of 9 subheadings under heading 1302
Is it a plant mucilage or gelling agent, modified or not, that is not agar-agar and is not made from carob, carob seeds or guar seeds?

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Import duty on the codes below: 0.0%

Only one code below

1302 39 00

Mucilages and thickeners derived from vegetable products, whether or not modified (excl. from locust beans, locust bean seeds, guar seeds and agar-agar)

Duty free

This subheading has one 8-digit code, so that is the code to use.

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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 0.0%
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) you are here 0.0%

Selling to Norway, Great Britain and the United States

What they charge on arrival.

Norway, Great Britain and the United States use their own tariff lines under the 6-digit HS code. The rates below are what their customs charge on goods arriving from the EU. Match the goods against each country's own wording before you rely on a rate.

Norway

Duty free

Their lines1 Norwegian line

13.02.3900 Other

Norwegian tariff data checked Sept. 13, 2026.

Great Britain

Duty free

Their lines1 British line

1302 39 00 00 Other

Northern Ireland follows other rules.

UK tariff data checked Sept. 13, 2026.

United States

10.0%

Estimated from published US measures

Their lines2 US lines
Entry dateSept. 17, 2026

1302.39.00.10 Vegetable saps and extracts; pectic substances, pectinates and pectates; agar-agar

The US importer of record files the entry.

US tariff data checked Sept. 16, 2026.

See the 1 Norwegian line

Selling to Norway

Norway splits the 6-digit category its own way, so these are Norway's own lines under it, not this EU code. Check your product against their wording; what Norwegian customs charges is shown per line.

13.02.3900

Other

Ordinary duty

Duty free

Norwegian tariff data version 1.5/1.2, last checked Sept. 13, 2026.

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

See the 1 British line

Selling to Great Britain

What UK customs charges when goods like these arrive in Great Britain.

1302 39 00 00

Other

Ordinary duty

Duty free

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

UK tariff data version v4.0.1599, last checked Sept. 13, 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).

See the 2 US lines

Selling to the United States

What US customs charges when goods like these arrive from the EU. The US importer of record files the entry and pays the duty.

1302.39.00.10

Vegetable saps and extracts; pectic substances, pectinates and pectates; agar-agar and other mucilages and thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from vegetable products, Mucilages and thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from vegetable products, Other, Carrageenan

General rate

3.2%

From the EU

10.0% Estimated from published US measures US headings applied: 9903.05.39 Section 301 forced-labour action, 91 FR 47318 (memorandum 91 FR 47717), U.S. note 52 to subchapter III of chapter 99
1302.39.00.90

Vegetable saps and extracts; pectic substances, pectinates and pectates; agar-agar and other mucilages and thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from vegetable products, Mucilages and thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from vegetable products, Other

General rate

3.2%

From the EU

10.0% Estimated from published US measures US headings applied: 9903.05.39 Section 301 forced-labour action, 91 FR 47318 (memorandum 91 FR 47717), U.S. note 52 to subchapter III of chapter 99

Worked out for an entry on Sept. 17, 2026.

US tariff schedule 2026HTSRev19, last checked Sept. 16, 2026.

Last change we recorded: Revision 19 (2026), Sept. 16, 2026.

Anti-dumping and countervailing duties, US import taxes and customs fees are not included.

The descriptions above are the US tariff texts, which the United States publishes in English only.

Source: the US International Trade Commission's Harmonized Tariff Schedule (hts.usitc.gov), public domain, and the measures published in the Federal Register.

This is a planning estimate from the US Harmonized Tariff Schedule (revision shown) and the published Federal Register measures as of the date shown, for a shipment of EU origin. It is not a customs entry, legal advice or a broker's opinion, and tariffs.help is not a US-licensed customs broker. The US importer of record or their broker confirms the classification, origin, value and the duty due before filing.

Duty rates shown here are estimates, read from official EU / Danish, Norwegian and UK tariff data for orientation only. Confirm the current rate with Toldstyrelsen, 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.