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24 No.
GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE
ACCORD GENERAL SUR LES TARIFS DOUANIERS ET LE COMMERCE ccrocT/^o/»^ ,c SECRET/279/Add.l5
ACUERDO GENERAL SOBRE ARANCELES ADUANEROS Y COMERCIO 26 J a n u« ry 1990
Original: English/ anglais/ inglés
ARTICLE XXVII1:5 NEGOTIATIONS
Schedule 1 - Conmonwealth of Australia
Addendum
The following conrunication, dated 17 January 1990, has been received by the secretariat.
The Delegations of Australia and the United States of America have concluded their Article XXVIII negotiations under SECRET/279 for the modification or withdrawal of concessions provided for in Schedule I -Australia specified in CCCN terms and contained in TAR/113, amended by TAR/113/Add.l, as set out in the report attached.
Signed for the Delegation Signed for the Delegation of the of Australia United States of America
16 January 1990
NEGOCIATIONS AU TITRE DU PARAGRAPHE 5 DE L'ARTICLE XXVIII
Liste I - Commonwealth d'Australie
Addendum
Le secrétariat a reçu la comnunication ci-après en date du 17 janvier 1990.
Les délégations de l'Australie et des Etats-Unis d'Amérique ont terminé les négociations au titre de l'article XXVIII engagées à la suite de la comnunication portant la cote SECRET/279 en vue de la modification ou du retrait de concessions reprises dans la Liste I - Australie fondée sur la NCCD, qui avait été distribuée sous couvert du document TAR/113, modifié,par le document TAR/113/Add.l; les résultats de ces négociations sont indiqués dans le rapport ci-joint.
Signé au nom de la délégation Signé au nom de la délégation des de l'Australie Etats-Unis d'Amérique
16 janvier 1990
NEGOCIACIONES EN VIRTUD DEL PARRAFO 5 DEL ARTICULO XXVIII
Lista I - Comnonwealth de Australia
Addendum
La Secretarfa ha recibido la siguiente comunicaciôn, de fecha 17 de enero de 1990.
Las delegaciones de Australia y de los Estados Unidos de America nan concluido, con los resultados que se indican en el informe adjunto, las negociaciones por ellas entabladas en virtud del articulo XXVIII para la modificaciôn o retirada -anunciada en el documento SECRET/279- de las concesiones inscritas en la Lista I - Australia expresadas conforme a la NCCA segûn constan en el documento TAR/113 modificado por el documento TAR/113/Add.l.1
Firmado en nombre de la delegaciôn Firmado en nombre de la delegaciôn de Australia de los Estados Unidos de America
16 de enero de 1990
English only/Anglais seulement/Inglés solamente
SECRET/279/Add.l5 Page 2
Results of Negot Modification or
Schedule of Negotiated
: the
with
:iations under Withdrawal of
Commonwealth i
the United
Article XXVIII Concessions
of Australia
in for the
Initia]
States of America
the
iy
Changes in Schedule I - Commonwealth of Australia
A. Concessions to be withdrawn
All previous concessions in Schedule I.
D. New concessions on items not in existing schedule
MARGIN OF PREFERENCE:
For purposes of Article I and Article II of
this Agreement, the margin of preference under
a tariff classification properly applicable to
any product shall not be increased above the
level actually in existence on 1 January 1973,
or as subsequently negotiated;
provided that in certain circumstances the
introduction of a 10% margin in lieu of a
previously existing 7.5% margin shall be
permissible, and
provided further that this concession shall not
preclude adjustments of a minor order necessary
to achieve simplified or reasonable tariff
drafting, when such adjustments shall result
in a margin no higher than 10%.
es
SECRET/279/Add.l5 Page 3
0 . New c o n c e s s i o n s on i t ems n o t jr. e x i s t i n g schedv.le ( c o n t i n u e d )
PART I - MOST FAVOURED NATION TARIFF
Tariff Iten Number
05.04
24.02
ex
27.10
-
ex
28.03
ex
30.05
ex
38.07
ex
40.09
Description of Products
Guts, bladders and stomachs of animals (other than fish), whole and pieces thereof
Manufactured .tobacco: tobacco extracts and essences
Cigarettes
Petroleum oils, other than crude, and oils, other than crude, obtained from bituminous minerals; preparations that do not fall within any other item and that contain not less than 70% by weight of petroleum oil, or of oil obtained from bituminous minerals, where the oil is the basic constituent of such a preparation
In bulk or in packs exceeding 4.6 litres
- Mineral turpentine - except for use as fuel
- Liquid paraffin of pharmaceutical quality
- Lubricating oils containing 2% or less by weight of additives
Carbon (including carbon black)
Gas carbon black
Other pharmaceutical goods
Dental alloys
Spirits of turpentine and other terpenic solvents produced by the distillation or other treatment of coniferous woods; crude dipentene; sulphite turpentine; pine oil, other than oil not rich in terpineol
Spirits of turpentine
Tubes and pipes of unhardened vulcanised rubber
Rate of Duty
Free
$6.83Ag
Free
Free
$0,012/1
Free
22.5%
Free
40%
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D* New c o n c e s s i o n s on i t ems n o t in e x i s t i n g schedu le ( c o n t i n u e d )
PART I - MOST FAVOURED NATION TARIFF
T a r i f f I t e n Number
4 0 . 1 0
ex
55.03
5 8 . 0 9
70.08
7 0 . 0 9
ex
7 3 . 2 0
ex
7 3 . 3 3
7 3 . 3 5
ex
7 3 . 4 0
ex
Description of Products Rate of Duty
Transmission, conveyor or elevator belts or belting, of vulcanised rubber
Transmission belts and belting - except reinforced solely
with metal
Cotton waste (including pulled or garnetted rags), not carded or combed
Tulle and other net fabrics (other than woven, knitted or crocheted fabrics), figured; hand or mechanically made lace, (other than knitted fabrics} in the piece, in strips or in motifs
Safety glass consisting of toughened or laminated glass, whether shaped or not
Glass mirrors (including rear-view mirrors), whether or not framed or backed
Rear-view mirrors for motor vehicles
Tube and pipe fittings (including joints, elbows, unions and flanges), of iron or steel
Of steel - except; . bends:
. elbows;
. flanges
Needles for hand sewing (including =mbroidery), hand carpet needles and land knitting needles, bodkins, rrochet hooks, and the like, and =mbroidery stilettos, of iron or teel
Springs and leaves for springs, of iron or steel
For vehicles
Other goods made of iron or steel
Parts or fittings of a kind used solely or principally in ships, boats or other vessels
37 .5%
$0.026Ag
10%
37 .5%
37 .5%
30%
35%
37 .5%
45%
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0 . New concessions on items not in e x i s t i n g schedv.le (continued)
PART I - MOST FAVOURED NATION TARIFF
Tariff Item Number
82.03
ex
82.05
ex
82.06
82.11
ex
Description of Products
Hand tools, as follows: Pliers (including cutting pliers), pincers, tweezers, tinmen's snips, bolt croppers and the like; perforating punches; pipe cutters; spanners; wrenches (not including tap wrenches); files; rasps
- except: . bolt croppers; . files ; . pipe cutters; . rasps
Interchangeable tools for hand tools, for machine tools or for power-operated hand tools (including such tools for pressing, stamping, drilling, tapping, threading, boring broaching, milling, cutting, turning, dressing, morticing or screw driving), including dies for wire drawing, extrusion dies for metal, and rock drilling bits
Screwing tools, being dies, taps or chasers
Sockets of a kind used for fastening nuts
Knives and cutting blades, for machines or for mechanical appliances
Razors and razor blades (including razor blade blanks, whether or not in strips); blades and heads for electric shavers
Safety razors
Rate of Duty
35%
40%
35%
45%
12.5%
SECRET/279/Add.l5 Page 6 D* New concessions on items rot in existing schedvle (continued)
PART I - MOST FAVOURED NATION TARIFF
Tariff Item Number
83.02
ex
84.05
ex
84.06
ex
84.10
ex
Description of Products
Base metal fittings and mountings suitable for furniture, doors, staircases, windows, blinds, coach-work, saddlery, trunks, caskets and the like (including automatic door closers); base metal hat-racks, hat-pegs , brackets and the like
Specially designed for coachwork
Steam and other vapour power units, whether or not incorporating boilers
- except steam turbines for use with turbogenerators or turbo-alternators
Internal combustion piston engines
Engines for highway motor vehicles of items 87.01, 87.02 or 87.03 and parts therefor
- except . carburettors; . fuel injection equipment for compression ignition engines;
. piston pins;
. piston rings;
. valves Carburettors
- except for use with motorcycles
Pumps (including motor pumps and turbo pumps) for liquids, whether or not fitted with measuring devices; liquid elevators of the bucket, chain, screw or band kind or of a similar kind
Pumps specially designed for the mining cr metallurgical industries
- except pulp pumps used in conjunction with ore dressing machines
Rate of Duty
37.5%
35%
45%
40%
15%
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J). New c o n c e s s i o n s on i t ems n o t in e x i s t i n g s c h e d u l e ( c o n t i n u e d )
PART I - MOST FAVOURED NATION TARIFF
Tariff Iten Number
84.11
ex
84.15
ex
84.17
ex
Description of Products
Air pumps, vacuum pumps and air or gas compressors (including motor and turbo pumps and compressors, and free-piston generators for gas turbines): fans, blowers and the like
Compressors for refrigerating equipment - over 3.75kW
Other - except: . fans, blowers and
the like; . inflators of the hand or foot operated types;
. pumps and compressors for liquefaction of gases
Refrigerators and refrigerating equipment (whether electrical or other)
Airconditioning equipment; Condensers; Evaporators; Domestic refrigerators and freezers (and combinations thereof)
- except parts for domestic electrical refrigerators and electrical freezers
Machinery, plant and similar laboratory equipment, whether or not electrically heated, for the treatment of materials by a process involving a change of temperature, not being machinery or plant of a kind used for domestic purposes; instantaneous or storage water heaters, non-electric
Electric heating and cooking apparatus - stoves, ranges and cookers of a kind commonly used for preparing food
Rate of Duty
47.5%
27.5%
47. 5%
35%
SECRET/279/Add.l5 Page 8 D. New concessions on items not in e x i s t i n g schedule (cont inued)
PART I - MOST FAVOURED NATION TARIFF
Tariff Iten Number
84.18
ex
84.21
ex
84.22
ex
84. 24
ex
Description of Products
Centrifuges; filtering and purifying machinery and apparatus (other than filter funnels, milk strainers and the like), for liquids or gases
Filters and purifiers - for engines of highway motor vehicles of item 87.01, 87.02 or 87.03
- except for fuel injection equipment for compression ignition engines
- for refrigerant gases
Mechanical appliances (whether or not hand operated) for projecting, dispersing or spraying liquids or powders; fire extinguishers (whether charged or not); spray guns and similar appliances; steam or sand blasting machines and similar jet-projecting machines
Hydraulic guns for dislodging minerals
Windscreen washers
Spray guns for spraying paints, enamels, lacquers, varnishes and the like - Imported separately
Lifting, handling, loading or unloading machinery, telphers and conveyors, not being machinery falling within 84.23
Lifting devices being tipping mechanisms for incorporation in lorries
Agricultural and horticultural machinery for soil preparation or cultivation; lawn and sports ground rollers
Disc cultivators; Disc harrows - except discs imported
separately j Planting and seeding machines
Rate of Duty
45%
47.5%
15%
37. 5%
45%
37.5%
25% 25%
D.
SECRET/279/Add.l5 Page 9
New concessions on items not in existing schedvle (continued)
PART I - MOST FAVOURED NATION TARIFF
Tariff Item Number
Description of Products Rate of Duty
84.25
ex
84.34
ex
84.35
ex
84.38
ex
Harvesting and threshing machinery; straw and fodder presses; hay or grass mowers; winnowing and similar cleaning machines for seed, grain or leguminous vegetable and egg-grading and other grading machines for agricultural produce (other than machinery of a kind used in the bread grain milling industry falling within 84.29)
Metal parts for strippers, strippei harvesters, reaper threshers or other harvesters for seeds, grain or leguminous vegetables
Machinery, apparatus and accessories for type-founding or type-setting; machinery (other than the machine-tools falling within 84.45, 84.46 or 84.47) for preparing or working printing blocks, plates or cylinders; printing type, impressed flongs and matrices, printing blocks, plates and cylinders; blocks, plates, cylinders and lithographic stones, planed, grained, polished or otherwise prepared for printing purposes
Type-composing machines
Other printing machinery; machines for uses ancillary to printing
Printing machinery - web printing presses — 25.4 tonnes or less in weight
Auxiliary machinery for use with machines of a kind falling within 84.37; parts and accessories of a kind used solely or principally with machines falling within this item or 84.36 or 84.37
Shuttles
20%
12.5%
27.5%
12.5%
SECRET/279/Add.l5 Page 10 p. New concessions on items rot in existing schedvle (continued)
PART I - MOST FAVOURED NATION TARIFF
Tariff Item Nurr.be r
84.40
ex
84.51
ex
84.52
ex
Description of Products
Machinery for washing, cleaning, drying, bleaching, dyeing, dressing, finishing or coating textile yarns, fabrics or made up textile articles (including laundry and dry-cleaning machinery); fabric folding, reeling or cutting machines; machines of a kind used in the manufacture of linoleum or other floor coverings for applying the paste to the base fabric or other supports; machines of a kind used for printing a repetitive design, repetitive words or overall colour on textiles, leather, wallpaper, wrapping paper, linoleum or other materials, and engraved or etched plates, blocks or rollers therefor
Domestic type laundry machines - except washing machines
Typewriters, other than typewriters incorporating calculating mechanisms; cheque-writing machines
Electric
Calculating machines; accounting machines, cash registers, postage-franking machines, ticket-issuing machines and similar machines, incorporating a calculating device
Rate of Duty
Other - except : cash registers;
postage franking machines
- electric
45%
7.5%
7.5%
10%
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0* Ne'v c o n c e s s i o n s on i t ems r o t i n e x i s t i n g schedv.le ( c o n t i n u e d )
PART I - MOST FAVOURED NATION TARIFF
Tariff Item Number
84.54
ex
84.55
ex
Description of Products
Other office machines (including hectograph or stencil-duplicating machines, addressing machines, coin-sorting machines, coin-counting and wrapping machines, pencil-sharpening machines, perforating and stapling machines)
Coin-counting machines
Parts and accessories (other than covers, carrying cases and the like) of a kind used solely or principally with machines of a kind falling within 84.51, 84.52, 84.53 or 84.54
For machines falling within item 84.51 - electric
For machines falling within item 84.52 - cash registers
- other - except postaqe frankinq
machines - - electric
- - non-electric
For machines falling within item 84.53
Rate of Duty
10%
15%
10%
7.5%
10%
7.5%
SECRET/279/Add.l5 Page 12 I). New concessions on items not in existing schedr.le (continued)
PART I - MOST FAVOURED NATION TARIFF
Tariff Iten Number
Description of Products Rate of Duty
84.59
ex
84.60
84.61
ex
84.63
ex
Machines and mechanical appliances having individual functions, not falling within any other item in this Chapter
Parts or fittings of a kind used solely or principally in ships, boats or other vessels
- except : . sound signalling apparatus;
. windscreen wipers
Moulding boxes for metal foundry; moulds of a kind used for metal (other than ingot moulds), for metal carbides, for glass, for ceramic pastes, concrete, cement or other mineral materials, for rubber or for artificial plastic materials
Taps, cocks, valves and similar appliances, for pipes, boiler shells tanks, vats and the like, including pressure reducing valves and thermostatically controlled valves
For refrigerators or refrigerating equipment
Transmission shafts, cranks, bearing housings, plain shaft bearings, gears and gearing (including friction gears and gear-boxes and other variable speed gears), flywheels, pulleys and pulley blocks, clutches and shaft couplings
For engines of highway motor vehicles of items 87.01, 87.02 or 87.03
- except for fuel injection equipment for compression ignition engines
45%
45%
47. 5%
45%
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J). New concessions on items not in existing schedule (continued)
PART I - MOST FAVOURED NATION TARIFF
Tariff Iten Number
Description of Products Rate of Duty
85.01
ex
85.08
ex
85.09
ex
85.11
ex
Electrical goods as follows: generators, motors, converters (whether rotary or static), transformers, rectifiers (includinq metal tank -mercury arc rectifiers) and rectifying apparatus, inductors
Transformers for radio, television or audio amplifiers
Electrical starting and ignition equipment for internal combustion engines (including ignition magnetos, magneto-dynamos, ignition coils, starter motors, sparking plugs and glow plugs); "generators (dynamos and alternators) and cut-outs of a kind used in conjunction with such engines
Glow plugs; Heating coils
Electrical lighting and signalling equipment and electrical windscreen wipers, defrosters and demisters, foi cycles or motor vehicles
Lighting and signalling equipment for highway motor vehicles of items 87.01, 87.02 or 87.03
- except: . lampware for interior lighting;
. sealed beam lamps;
. spot lamps
Windscreen wipers
Industrial and laboratory electric furnaces, ovens and induction and dielectric heating equipment; electric or laser operated welding, brazing, soldering or cutting machines and apparatus
Industrial and laboratory electric furnaces, ovens and induction and dielectric heating equipment
45%
45%
37.5%
37.5%
45%
279/Add.l5 age 14 p . New concessions on items not in exis t ing schedule (continued)
PART I - MOST FAVOURED NATION TARIFF
Tariff Item Number
85.12
ex
85.19
ex
Description of Products
Electric instantaneous or storage water heaters and immersion heaters: electric soil heating apparatus and electric space heating apparatus: electric hair dressing appliances (including hair dryers, hair curlers curling tong heaters) and electric smoothing irons: electro-thermic domestic appliances: electric heating resistors, other than those of carbon
Stoves, ranges, ovens, cookers, grillers, boiling plates, boiling rings and the like, including heating resistors therefor
Other - except: . smoothing irons;
. hair dryers as used on human beings;
. heating cable;
. parts for kettles, space-heating apparatus, toasters
Electrical apparatus for making and breaking electrical circuits, for the protection of electrical circuits or for making connexions to or in electrical circuits (including switches, relays, fuses, lightning arresters, surge suppressors, plugs, lamp-holders and junction boxes); resistors, fixed or variable (including potentiometers), other than heating resistors; printed circuits; switchboards (other than telephone switchboards) and control panels
Valve sockets for radio, television or audio-amplifiers
Rate of Duty
40%
45%
45%
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X). New concessions on items not in e x i s t i n g schedule (cont inued)
PART I - MOST FAVOURED NATION TARIFF
Tariff Item Number
85.21
ex
87. Ol
ex
87.02
ex
Description of Products
Thermionic, cold cathode and photo-cathode valves and tubes (including vapour or gas filled valves and tubes, cathode-ray tubes, television camera tubes and mercury arc rectifying valves and tubes); photocells; diodes, transistors and similar semi-conductor devices; light emitting diodes; electronic microcircuits; mounted piezoelectric crystals
Deflection coils (yokes), being parts for cathode-ray tubes, imported separately
Tractors (other than those falling within 87.07), whether or not fitted with power take-off, winches or pulleys
Tractors designed for operation solely or principally on the highway
- Assembled, for articulated vehicles, having a gross vehicle weight rating of 10.16 tonnes or more
Motor vehicles for the transport of persons, goods or materials (including sports motor vehicles, other than those falling within 87.09)
Assembled vehicles, operated by self-contained power, having a gross vehicle weight rating of iO.ie tonnes or more
- except: . air-cushion vehicles;
. rock buggies, dumpers, shuttle dumpers, tailgate dumpers and the like
Rate of Duty
45%
22.5%
22.5%
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D . New c o n c e s s i o n s on I tems r o t i n e x i s t i n g schedv.le ( c o n t i n u e d )
PART I - MOST FAVOURED NATION TARIFF
Tariff Iten Number
87.03
ex
87.06
ex
87.07
ex
Description of Products
Special purpose motor lorries and vans (including breakdown lorries, fire-engines, fire-escapes, road sweeper lorries, snow-ploughs, spraying lorries,.crane lorries, searchlight lorries, mobile workshops and mobile radiological units), but not including motor vehicles falling within 87.02
Assembled vehicles having a gross vehicle weight rating of 10.16 tonnes or more
- except: . air-cushion vehicles;
. cranes;
. dredging or excavating machines;
. fire engines
Parts and accessories for motor vehicles of a kind falling within 87.01, 87.02 or 87.03
- except: . for fire enqines; . for tractors designee fcr operation off the highway
Works trucks, mechanically propelled, of a kind used in factories, warehouses, dock areas or airports for short distance transport or handling of goods (including platform trucks, fork-lift trucks and straddle carriers); tractors of a kind used on railway station platforms; parts for such trucks and tractors
Parts for works trucks
Rate of Duty
22.5%
37.5%
45%
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D. New c o n c e s s i o n s on i t e m s vet i n e x i s t i n g schecV.le ( c o n t i n u e d )
PART I - MOST FAVOURED NATION TARIFF
Tariff Iten Number
87.14
ex
88.01
88.02
88.04
90.07
ex
Description of Products
Other vehicles (including trailers), not mechanically propelled, and parts therefor
Semi-trailers of assembled articulated highway motor vehicles
Rate of Duty
having a gross vehicle weight rating of 10.16 tonnes or more (imported with and for use with their prime movers)
Parts
Balloons and airships
Flying machines, gliders and kites: rotochutes
Parachutes and parts therefor and accessories thereto
Photographic cameras: photographic flashlight apparatus and flashbulbs other than discharge lamps falling within 85.20
Cameras
- except: . of the type used within the graphic arts industries for the productior of line, continuous tone and half-tone images:
. parts and accessories
Tripods
22.5%
45%
10%
10%
10%
Free
30c/c
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p . New c o n c e s s i o n s on i t ems n o t i n ex i s t i r . ; ; schedv.le ( c o n t i n u e d )
PART I - MOST FAVOURED NATION TARIFF
Tariff Iten Number
90.08
ex
90.09
ex
90.19
ex
Description of Products
Cinematographic cameras, projectors, sound recorders and sound reproducers: any combination of these articles
Cameras with or without sound recorders
- except: . parts and accessories:
. surveillance (security system) cameras
Image projectors (other than cinematographic projectors): photographic, but not cinematographic, enlargers and reducers
Image projectors:
- except: . desiqned for the projection of slide film or film strip transparencies:
. microfilm readers:
. microfilm reader-printers:
. parts
- Overhead projectors
- Other
Orthopaedic appliances, surgical belts, trusses and the like: splints and other fracture appliances: artificial limbs, eyes, teeth and other artificial parts of the body: hearing aids and other appliances which are worn or carried, or implanted in the body, to compensate for a defect or disability
Hearing aids
Rate of Duty
Free
15%
10%
15%
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D» New c o n c e s s i o n s on i t ems n o t i n e x i s t i n g schedv. le ( c o n t i n u e d )
PART I - MOST FAVOURED NATION TARIFF
Tariff Iten Number
90.23
90.24
ex
90.26
ex
(cont'd)
Description of Products
Hydrometers and similar instruments; thermometers, pyrometers, barometers, hygrometers, psychrometers, recording or not: any combination of these instruments.
Temperature gauges of a kind used with internal combustion engines
Other
Instruments and apparatus for measuring, checking or automatically controlling the flow, depth, pressure or other variables of liquids or gases, or for automatically controlling temperature (including pressure gauges, thermostats, level gauges, flow meters, heat meters and automatic oven draught regulators), not falling within 90.14
Gauges of a kind used solely or principally in motor vehicles
Other - except: . pressure qauqes:
. thermostats:
. pneumatic regulating and controlling devices:
. vacuum regulators for hospital reticulated suction systems
Gas, liquid and electricity supply or production meters: calibrating meters therefor
Gas meters
- except of the household supply kind
Rate of Duty
37.5%
17.5%
37.5%
17.5%
17.5%
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X). Nev? c o n c e s s i o n ? on i t ems n o t I?, e x i s t i n g s c h e ^ v l e ( c o n t i n u e d )
PART I - MOST FAVOURED NATION TARIFF
T a r i f f I tem Number
D e s c r i p t i o n of P r o d u c t s Rate of Duty
(90.26) Liquid meters
- except;
92.07
ex
24.01
inferential water meters; water meters of the positive kind up to and including lOO mm diameter in size (other than meter! constructed for measuring hot water in boiler houses or engine houses); of a kind commonly used in pumps installed for retailing petroleum oils
Electro-magnetic, electrostatic, electronic and similar musical instruments
Organs; Synthesizers
INITIAL NEGOTIATOR STATUS RETAINED IN COLUMN 7
Unmanufactured tobacco; tobacco refuse
Unmanufactured tobacco as follows: for cigars, cigarillos cheroots
unstemmed stemmed
For cigarettes, for fine cut tobacco suitable for the manufactur of cigarettes
unstemmed stemmed
For use in the manufacture of cigarettes or of fine cut tobacco
17.5%
7.5%
$0.55/kg SO.66/kg
$1.89/kg $2.00/kg
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D» New concessions on items not in existing schedule (continued)
PART I - MOST FAVOURED NATION TARIFF
Tariff Item Number
Description of Products Rate of Duty
tes,
55.01
84.52
ex
Suitable for the manufacture of cigaret being cigarettes or fine cut tobacco that will contain
Australian - grown tobacco leaf (the prescri bed -minimum requirement of Australian - grown tobacco leaf being not more than 50% by weight), as prescribed by by-law.
unstemmed stemmed
:or other smoking tobacco; tobacco refuse
unstemmed stemmed
- For use in the manufacture of
tobacco (not being tobacco for us|s in the manufacture of cigarettes) being tobacco that will contain
Australian - grown tobacco leaf (the prescribed minimum requiremeht of Australian - grown tobacco leaf being not more than 50% by weight), as prescribed by by-law.
unstemmed stemmed
Cotton, not carded or combed
Calculating machines; accounting machiijes, cash registers, postage-franking machines, ticet issuing machines and similar machines, incorporating a calculating device
Postage-franking machines
$1.575/kg $1.685/kg
$1 $1
43/kg 54/kg
$1.10/kg $1.21/kg
$0.026/kg
17.-5%
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PART I - MOST FAVOURED NATION TARIFF
Tariff Iten Number
Description of Products Rate of Duty
84.53
ex
84.55
ex
90.28
ex
Automatic data processing machines and units therefor; magnetic or optical readers, machines for transcribing data onto data, media in coded form and machines for processing such data, not falling within any other item
Other 7.5%
except . cathode-ray display terntnals, imported separately or otherwise
. power-supply units, imported separately, for automatic data processing machines
Parts and accessories (other than cove carrying cases and the like) of a kind used solely or principally with machin of a kind falling within 84.51, 84.52, 84.53 or 84.54
For postage-franking machines
Electrical measuring, checking, analysing or automatically controlling instruments and apparatus
s ,
s
17.5%
Counterparts of which 90.24, as follows:
fall within
Gauges of a kind used with internal combustion engines for indicating the amount of fuel in the fuel tank;
Other gauges of a kind used solely or principally in vehicles ;
Thermostats of a kind used witt electrically operated domestic appliances 37.5%
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SCHEDULE I - C0;j,;0N.7SALTH OF AUSTRALIA.
REFERENCE TABLE
U . S . A .
ITEM
INITIAL
0 5 . 0 4
2 4 . 0 2
2 7 . 1 0
2 8 . 0 3
3 0 . 0 5
3 8 . 0 7
4 0 . 0 9
4 0 . 1 0
5 5 . 0 3
5 8 . 0 9
7 0 . 0 8
7 0 . 0 9
7 3 . 2 0
7 3 . 3 3
7 3 . 3 5
7 3 . 4 0
8 2 . 0 3
8 2 . 0 5
8 2 . 0 6
8 2 . 1 1
8 3 . 0 2
SCHEDULE
RATE
NEGOTIATOR ST;
F r e e
$ 6 . 8 3 / k g
F r e e
F r e e
$ 0 , 0 1 2 / 1
F r e e
2 2 . 5 %
F r e e
40%
3 7 . 5 %
$ 0 . 0 2 6 / k g
10%
3 7.5%
3 7 . 5 %
30%
35%
3 7 .5%
4 5%
35% .
40%
35%
45%
1 2 . 5 %
3 7 . 5 %
—i
COUNTRY
TUS RE
US
US
us us us
us us us us us us
us, CE-6 JP
us us us us us
us us us us us us us
NEGOTIATION
ITEM
TAINED
90A
22B1
229D1
229K1
229E 229K2
231E1
419B2
228E
4 0 . 0 9
326
432B
432C
5 8 . 0 9
359F
359F
7 3 . 2 0
219B
359F 359F
359F
219B
219A
219B
8 2 . 0 6 . 9 9 C
8 2 . 1 1
359F 359F
RATE
F r e e
$ 6 . 8 3 / k g
$ 0 . 0 0 2 / 1
F r e e
$ 0 . 0 1 2 / 1 $ 0 . 0 1 1 / 1
F r e e
22 .5%
F r e e
40%
37 .5% |
$ 0 . 0 2 6 / k g
F r e e
10%
3 7.5%
3 7.5%
30%
3 5% .
3 7 . 5 % 4 5%
4 5%
35%
40%
35%
45%
1 2 - 5 %
3 7 - 5 % 45%
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SCHEDULE I - COUîONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA.
REFERENCE TABLE
U . S . A .
SCHEDULE
ITEM
8 4 . 0 5
8 4 . 0 6
8 4 . 1 0
8 4 . 1 1
8 4 . 1 5
8 4 . 1 7
8 4 . 1 8
8 4 . 2 1
8 4 . 2 2
8 4 . 2 4
8 4 . 2 5
8 4 . 3 4
8 4 . 3 5
8 4 . 3 8
8 4 . 4 0
8 4 . 5 1
8 4 . 5 2
RATE
35%
45%
40%
15%
4 7 . 5 %
2 7 . 5 %
4 7 . 5 %
35%
45%
4 7 . 5 %
15%
3 7 . 5 %
45%
3 7 . 5 %
25%
20%
1 2 . 5 %
2 7 . 5 %
1 2 . 5 %
4 5%
7 . 5 %
7 . 5 %
10%
COUNTRY
US
us us us us us us
us us us us us
us us us us us
us
us us us
us us
NEGOTIATION
ITEM
8 4 . 0 5
1 7 8 J
1 7 8 J
170B3
175C
176N
175B1.B2 175C
8 4 . 1 7
1 7 8 J
175C
170B3
359F 359F
8 4 . 2 1
359F
84 .24
165A
169A1
169A2
169D 1 6 9 C l b
174V55
179A5
8 4 . 5 1 169A4
1169A3
169A3
RATE
35%
45%
40%
15%
4 7 . 5 %
2 7 . 5 %
4 7 . 5 %
35%
45%
4 7 . 5 %
15%
3 7 . 5 % 45%
4 5%
3 7 . 5 %
25%
20%
F r e e
1 2 . 5 %
2 7.5% 1 7 . 5 %
1 2 . 5 %
4 5%
7.5% 15%
7.5%
10%
J' SECRET/279/Add.l5 Page 25
SCHEDULE I - CCUIONiTEALTH OF AUSTRALIA.
REFERENCE TABLE
U . S . A .
SCHEDULE
ITEM
8 4 . 5 4
8 4 . 5 5
8 4 . 5 9
8 4 . 6 0
8 4 . 6 1
8 4 . 6 3
8 5 . 0 1
8 5 . 0 8
8 5 . 0 9
8 5 . 1 1
8 5 . 1 2
8 5 . 1 9
8 5 . 2 1
8 7 . 0 1
8 7 . 0 2
8 7 . 0 3
8 7 . 0 6
RATE
10%
15%
10%
7 . 5 %
10%
7 . 5 %
45%
45%
4 7 . 5 %
45%
45%
45%
3 7 . 5 %
4 5%
40%
45%
4 5%
4 5%
2 2 . 5 %
2 2 . 5 %
2 2 . 5 %
3 7 . 5 %
COUNTRY
US
US
US
US
US
US
US
US
US
US
US
US
US
US
US
us
us
US AT
us us us us
NEGOTIATION
ITEM
1 6 9 A 3
169A4
1 6 9 B
1 6 9 A 3
1 6 9 A 3
1 6 9 A 3
3 5 9 F
84 . 6 0
1 7 5 C
1 7 8 J
1 8 0 E 7
1 8 0 E 1 3
1 7 9 A 5
3 5 9 F
1 7 9 A 5
1 7 9 A 1
1 7 9 A 2 , 3
1 7 9 A 5
3 5 9 F
1 8 0 E 6
1 8 0 E7
3 6 0 D 1
3 6 0 D 1
3 6 0 D 1
3 5 9 F
3 5 9 F
RATE
10%
15%
10%
7 . 5 %
10%
7 . 5 %
45%
45%
4 7 . 5 %
45%
45% o r $ 0 . 2 5 e a
45% o r $ 1 . 2 5 e a
45%
3 7 . 5 %
45% j
40%
45% o r $ 0 . 4 0 e a
45%
3 7 . 5 %
45% o r $ 0 , 0 2 9 e a
45% o r $ 0 . 2 5 e a
2 2 . 5 %
2 2 . 5 %
2 2 . 5 %
3 7 . 5 %
45%
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SCHEDULE I - COJJj.ION.VEALTK OF AUSTRALIA.
REFERENCE TABLE
U . S . A .
SCHEDULE
ITEM
8 7 . 0 7
8 7 . 1 4
8 8 . 0 1
8 8 . 0 2
8 8 . 0 4
9 0 . 0 7
9 0 . 0 8
9 0 . 0 9
9 0 . 1 9
9 0 . 2 3
9 0 . 2 4
9 0 . 2 6
9 2 . 0 7
INITIAL
2 4 . 0 1
1
RATE
45%
2 2 . 5 %
45%
10%
10%
10%
F r e e
30%
F r e e
15%
10%
15%
3 7.5%
1 7 . 5 %
37 .5%
1 7 . 5 %
17 .5%
7.5%
NEGOTIATOR STi
COUNTRY
US
us us us us us us us us us us us us us us us us us
^TUS RE
us
us
us
us
NEGOTIATION
ITELÏ
359F
360D1
359F
358A
358A
358A
9 0 . 0 7
9 0 . 0 7
9 0 . 0 8
9 0 . 0 9
9 0 . 0 9
180Alb
359F
176K2a ,b
359F
1 7 6 K 2 a , b
1 7 6 K 2 a , b
9 2 . 0 7
TAINED IN
23A
23B
19B1
19B2
19B3a
19B3b
19A1
19A2
RATE
45%
2 2 . 5 %
45%
10%
10%
10%
F r e e
30%
F r e e
15%
10%
15%
37 .5%
17 .5%
37 .5%
17 .5%
17 .5%
7.5%
COLUMN 7
$ 0 . 5 5 / k g
$ 0 . 6 6 / k g
$ 1 . 8 9 / k g
$ 2 . 0 0 / k g
$ 1 . 5 7 5 / k g
$ 1 . 6 8 5 / k g
$ 1 . 4 3 / k g
$ 1 . 5 4 / k g
SECRET/279/Add.l5 Page 27
SCHEDULE I - COîaiONiTEALTS OF AUSTRALIA.
REFERENCE TABLE
U,S , / \ ,
SCHEDULE
ITEM RATE COUNTRY
NEGOTIATION
ITEM RATE
5 5 . 0 1
8 4 . 5 2
8 4 . 5 3
8 4 . 5 5
9 0 . 2 8
US
US
US
US
US
US
19A3a
19A3b
432B 432C
169B 16901b
169A3
169A4 169C1b
359F
$1.10/kg
$1.21/kg
$0.026/kg $0.026/kg
1 7 . 5% 1 7 . 5 %
7.5%
17.5% 17.5%
37.5%
££>