1302

Analysis

Heading 1302 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule covers vegetable saps and extracts; pectic substances, pectinates and pectates; agar-agar and other mucilages and thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from vegetable products. It divides into 9 six-digit subheadings and 11 eight-digit tariff lines, with 16 ten-digit statistical suffixes below them.

6 of its 10 lines with a percentage rate are duty-free at the general rate (60%) and 4 are dutiable, from duty-free up to 3.8%. The median line pays duty-free.

1 of the lines carry specific or compound rates (per kilogram, per dozen and so on) rather than a percentage, so their burden depends on the unit value of the goods.

The largest subheadings are 1302.19 (other, 3 lines), 1302.11 (unnamed, 1 line), 1302.12 (unnamed, 1 line) and 1302.13 (unnamed, 1 line).

Its median rate of duty-free sits at the 31st percentile of the headings in chapter 13.

By Census's concordance, most of its statistical lines are made by Forest Nurseries and Gathering of Forest Products (113210), All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing (311999) and Medicinal and Botanical Manufacturing (325411). Those are the NAICS industries a US producer of these goods would report under.