1301 20 — Natural gum Arabic

1301 Shellac natural unpeeled; natural gums, resins, gummismols and sludge (e.g. balms): 1301 20 – gum arabic 1301 90 – other

(I) Untreated natural shellac. It is a resinous substance formed on some species of tropical trees by insects belonging to the same family as cochineal and hermes. The most important commercial types of raw natural shellac are: (A) Stoklac, usually consisting of branches, a shellac more or less thick layer is deposited on a cat of ryats; it is dark red in color and is the most intensively colored species of raw natural shellac. (B) Grain shellac, crushed crude natural shellac, separated from the branches usually by washing, in which part of its coloring substance is removed. (C) Shellac, also known as layered, plate-shaped or slug, which is obtained by melting and filtration, which cleans it. It takes the form of thin vitreous.

Flakes of amber or reddish color. A similar disc-shaped product is known as "disc-shaped shellac." This type of shellac is used mainly for the preparation of varnishes, in the electrical industry and for the production of scorch. (D) Residual shellac (or pomegranate shellac), which is obtained from residues of shellac preparation. Unrefined natural shellac can also be discolored or bleached and can sometimes be presented as twisted coils. The sap of some oriental trees which forms a resistant film in the air (known as "Chinese" or "Japanese" varnish) is excluded (heading 1302). (II) Natural gums, resins, gumsmoles and bait. Natural gums, resins, gumsmoles and bait are secretions of plants that can harden in air. There is often no distinction between these terms. These products have the following characteristics: (A) True gums have no smell, taste and are more or less soluble in water, forming adhesive substances. They burn without melting or smelling. (B) Resins are not created in water, have a weak smell, are poor conductors of electric current and acquire a negative charge. When heated, they become softer and melt more or less completely, when burned, they burn, forming a smoking flame and a characteristic smell. (C) Gummismoles, as their name indicates, consist of natural mixtures of gums and resins in varying proportions and are therefore partially soluble in water; usually have a sharp characteristic smell and taste. (D) The resin consists of resins with a high content of essential oils. Balms are resin, characterized by a high content of benzoic and cinnamon compounds. The main products are: (1) Gumiarabic (from various acacia) (sometimes also called Nile, Aden or Senegalese comedies); Tragacanth (derived from some varieties of Astragalus); Basra gum; anacardine gum (cashew gum); Indian gum; some so-called "native" gums from various species of Rosaceae, such as cherry, plum, apricot, peach or almonds. (2) Fresh resin (in liquid form) from pine (including terpentine), fir or other coniferous trees (unpeeled or peeled), as well as coniferous resin (spruce resin, etc.), drying when cut on a tree and containing plant impurities. (3) Copal (and Ndian, Brazilian, Congolese, etc.), including fossil kopal; cowry resin; dammara; mastics; elemi; sandarak; "dragon blood," or the red resin of a dragon tree. (4) Gummigut; gummiammoniac; asafethida; scamonium; milkweed juice; galban; opopanax resin; frankincense, or incense; myrrh; acaroid; guaica tree resin. (5) Resin benzoin; sterax, or storax (solid or liquid); Toluan balm; Peruvian balm; Canadian balm; Copai balm; mecca balm; tapsi balm.

(6) Cannabis resin (crude or purified), obtained from the cannabis plant. (This resin is a narcotic drug – see the list at the end of Chapter 29.) The natural gums, resins, gum-resins and oleoresins covered by this heading may be crude, washed, purified, bleached, crushed or powdered. However, these products are excluded from this heading when they have been treated with water under pressure, with mineral acids or by heat; for example: gums and gum-resins rendered water-soluble by treatment with water under pressure (heading 1302), gums rendered soluble by treatment with sulphuric acid (heading 3506), and resins heat-treated to render them soluble in drying oils (heading 3806). The heading also excludes: (a) amber (heading 2530); (b) medicaments containing natural balsams, and various prepared medicaments known as balsams (heading 3003 or 3004); (c) lac-dye, a colouring matter extracted from lac (heading 3203); (d) resinoids (extracted from products of this heading) and extracted oleoresins (heading 3301); (e) tall oil (sometimes known as "liquid rosin") (heading 3803); (f) gum spirits of turpentine (heading 3805); (g) rosin, resin acids, rosin spirit and rosin oils, resinates, rosin pitch, brewers' pitch and similar products based on rosin (Chapter 38).

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Machine translation. The original is the Russian text of the EAEU tariff, and customs goes by it; this translation is for understanding only and has no legal force.

1. Heading 1302 covers, inter alia, extracts of licorice, pyrethrum, aloe, hops and opium.

This heading does not include:

(a) Licorice extract having a sucrose content greater than 10 % by weight or prepared in the form of confectionery (heading 1704);

(b) Malt extract (heading 1901);

(c) extracts of coffee, tea or mate or Paraguayan tea (heading 2101);

(d) plant juices or extracts constituting alcoholic beverages (Chapter 22);

(e) camphor, glycyrrhizine or other products of heading 2914 or 2938;

(f) Poppy straw concentrates containing not less than 50 % by weight of alkaloids (heading 2939);

(g) medicaments of heading 3003 or 3004 or blood type reagents (heading 3822);

(h) tannins or colouring extracts (heading 3201 or 3203);

(ij) essential oils, concretes, absolutes, resinoids, extracted essential oils, aqueous distillates or aqueous solutions of essential oils or finished products based on fragrant substances used in the manufacture of beverages (Chapter 33); or

(k) natural rubber, balata, gutta percha, guayula, chicle or similar natural resins (heading 4001).