RESTRICTEDWORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONWT/COMTD/W/47/Add.1
25 January 1999
(99-0260)
Committee on Trade and Development Original:  English
COMMUNICATION FROM THE ARAB REPUBLIC OF EGYPT
Addendum
The following communication has been received from the Permanent Mission of the Arab
Republic of Egypt.
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MINISTRY OF TRADE AND SUPPLY
External Trade Sector
Offer by the Arab Republic of Egypt to Assist the Least-Developed
Countries in the Multilateral World Trade System
1. Tariff reductions of 10 to 20 per cent on the Customs duties currently applied (Annex 1).
2. Exemption of raw materials from customs duty (Annex 2).  These reductions or exemptions
(Annexes 1 and 2) will be applied through the GSTP.
3. A 10 per cent reduction in the tariff ceiling for industrial goods that Egypt undertook to apply
in the schedules containing our market access commitments presented during the Uruguay Round
(Annex 3).
4. A 50 per cent reduction in the rent charged to LDCs for the space allocated to them at the
international fairs organized in Egypt by the Egyptian Fairs Authority.
5. A number of officials specialized in trade transactions will be invited to receive training in
Egypt and Egyptian experts with experience in the implementation of Egypt's own development
projects will be made available to implement projects in those countries.
6. We propose to host a conference or symposium in cooperation with the World Trade
Organization, UNCTAD and the International Trade Centre to study all the issues and problemsrelating to the accession of developing countries, and particularly the LDCs, to the World Trade
Organization (GATT).WT/COMTD/W/47/Add.1
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ANNEX 1
Raw Materials
10-20 Per Cent Reduction in the Present Customs Tariff
Customs Code Description Percentage Reduction
01 04 20 00 goats 20%
01 06 00 20 bees 20%
02 01 10 00 carcasses and half-carcasses 20%
02 04 10 00 carcasses and half-carcasses of
lamb, fresh or chilled20%
02 04 21 00 other meat of sheep, fresh or
chilled carcasses and half-carcasses20%
02 05 00 00 meat of horses, asses, mules or
hinnies, fresh, chilled or frozen20%
02 06 80 10 other fresh or chilled offal of sheep
or goats20%
03 01 91 00 other live fish, trout (salmo trutto,
oncorhynchus apache, etc.)20%
03 02 50 00 tunas (of the genus thunnus)
skipjack excluding livers and roes)20%
03 02 62 00 other fish, excluding livers and
roes:  Haddock20%
03 02 70 00 livers and roes 20%
03 03 33 00 flat fish:  plaice, excluding livers
and roes20%
04 02 10 10 milk and cream in powder of fat
content, by weight not exceeding
1.5% for infants20%
04 02 29 10 milk and cream in powder of fat
content, by weight exceeding 1.5%(half fat)20%
04 07 00 10 bird's eggs, in shell for hatching 10%
04 06 10 00 fresh (unripened or uncured)
cheese, including whey cheese andcurd20%
05 10 00 00 ambergris, castoreum, etc. whether
or not dried; glands and other
animal products used in thepreparation of pharmaceuticalproducts, fresh, chilled, frozen20%
07 13 32 00 beans of the species vigna mungo
(L) hepper or vigna radiata (L)20%
10 08 10 00 buckwheat 20%
10 08 20 00 millet 20%
11 04 19 00 rolled or flaked grains;  other
cereals excluding barley and oats10%
11 04 30 00 germ of cereals, whole, rolled,
flaked or ground10%
12 03 00 00 copra 20%
12 07 60 00 safflower seeds 20%
12 07 92 00 other;  shea nuts (karite nuts) 20%
12 09 22 00 clover (trifolium spp.) seed 20%WT/COMTD/W/47/Add.1
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Customs Code Description Percentage Reduction
12 13 00 00 cereal straw and husks, unprepared,
whether or not chopped, ground,
pressed or in the form of pellets10%
12 14 10 00 lucerne (alfalfa) meal and pellets 20%
14 02 91 00 other vegetable materials of a kind
used primarily as stuffing or aspadding10%
15 19 12 00 oleic acid 20%
23 03 10 00 residues of starch manufacture and
similar residues20%
23 03 20 00 beet-pulp, bagasse and other waste
or sugar manufacture20%
23 06 20 00 oil cake and other solid residues
whether or not ground in the form
of pellets resulting from theextraction of linseed20%
25 02 00 00 unroasted iron pyrites 20%
25 09 00 00 chalk 20%
25 22 10 00 quicklime 10%
25 22 30 00 hydraulic lime 10%
25 25 30 00 mica waste 10%
27 01 12 00 bituminous coal 20%
27 01 20 00 briquettes, ovoids and similar solid
fuels manufactured from coal20%
27 02 10 00 lignite, whether or not pulverised,
but not agglomerated20%
28 01 30 00 fluorine; bromine 10%
28 05 22 00 alkaline-earth metals:  strontium
and barium10%
28 10 00 00 oxides of boron; boric acids 10%
28 25 10 10 hydrazine 20%
28 25 30 00 vanadium oxides and hydroxides 10%
28 30 30 00 cadmium sulphide 10%
28 34 22 00 nitrates:  Of bismuth 10%
28 36 70 00 lead carbonate 10%
28 39 00 00 silicates 10%
28 42 00 00 other salts of inorganic acids or
peroxoacides, excluding azides10%
28 48 90 00 phosphides, whether or not
chemically defined, excludingferrophosphorus10%
29 02 60 00 ethylbenzene 10%
29 12 00 00 aldehydes, whether or not with
other oxygen function:  Cyclic
polymers or aldehydes;
paraformaldehyde10%
29 15 23 00 cobalt acetates 10%
29 37 91 00 insulin and its salts 20%
31 05 40 00 ammonium
dihydrogenorthophosphate andmixtures thereof with diammoniumhydrogenorthophosphate10%WT/COMTD/W/47/Add.1
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Customs Code Description Percentage Reduction
37 02 56 10 film for colour photography
(polychrome):  Width exceeding
35 mm.20%
40 01 10 22 natural rubber latex, whether or not
pre-valcanised20%
40 02 11 19 latex (in primary forms) 20%
41 01 40 00  hides and skins of equine animals 20%
51 01 30 00 wool, not carded or combed –
carbonised20%
51 02 20 00 coarse animal hair 20%
51 03 10 00 noils of wool or of fine animal hair 20%
51 03 20 00 other waste of wool or of fine
animal hair20%
52 02 91 00 cotton waste; garnetted stock 20%
53 05 11 00 raw vegetable fibres of coconut
(coir)20%
55 05 20 00 waste of artificial fibres 10%
59 02 20 00 tyre cord fabric of high tenacity
yarn:  Of polyesters10%
70 02 32 10 glass in balls (tubes):  For the
manufacture of ampoules formedicaments10%
72 02 80 00 ferro-tungsten and
ferro-silico-tungsten20%
74 01 10 00 copper mattes 20%
74 01 20 00 cement copper (precipitated
copper)20%
74 03 12 00 refined copper: Wire-bars 20%
81 01 91 00 unwrought tungsten, including bars
and rods obtained simply bysintering; waste and scrap20%
81 04 20 00 waste and scrap of magnesium and
articles thereof20%
81 09 10 10 unwrought zirconium; waste and
scrap20%WT/COMTD/W/47/Add.1
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ANNEX 2
Goods To Be Exempted From Present Customs Duty
Tariff Code Description
26 01 iron ores and concentrates, including roasted iron pyrites
11 00 non-aggloberated iron ores and concentrates
12 00 aggloberated iron ores and concentrates
20 00 roasted iron pyrites
26 02 00 00 manganese ores and concentrates
26 03 00 00 copper ores and concentrates
26 04 00 00 nickel ores and concentrates
26 05 00 00 cobalt ores and concentrates
26 06 00 00 aluminium ores and concentrates
26 07 00 00 lead ores and concentrates
26 08 00 00 zinc ores and concentrates
26 09 00 00 tin ores and concentrates
26 10 00 00 chromium ores and concentrates
26 11 00 00 tungsten ores and concentrates
26 12 uranium or thorium ores and concentrates
      10 00 uranium ores and concentrates
      20 00 thorium ores and concentrates
26 13 molybdenum ores and concentrates
      10 00 roasted molybdenum ores and concentrates
      90 00 other molybdenum ores and concentrates
26 14 00 00 titanium ores and concentrates
26 15 00 00 niobium, tantalum, vanadium or zirconium ores and concentrates
      10 00 zirconium ores and concentrates
      90 00 other
26 16 precious metal ores and concentrates
      10 00 silver ores and concentrates
     90 00 other precious metal ores and concentrates
26 17 other ores and concentrates
      10 00 antimony ores and concentrates
      90 00 other
26 18 00 00 granulated slag (slag sand) from the manufacture of iron or steel
26 19 00 00 slag, dross (other than granulated slag), scalings and other waste
from the manufacture of iron or steel
26 20 ash and residues (other than from the manufacture of iron or
steel), containing metals or metal compounds
      11 00 ash and residues containing mainly zinc:  hard zinc spelter
      19 00 ash and residues containing mainly zinc:  other
      20 00 ash and residues containing mainly lead
      30 00 ash and residues containing mainly copper
      40 00 ash and residues containing mainly aluminium
      50 00 ash and residues containing mainly vanadium
      90 00 other
26 21 00 00 other slag and ash, including seaweed ash (kelp)
44 01 10 fuel wood, in logs, in billets, in twigs, in faggots or in similar
forms
44 02 wood charcoal (including shell or nut), whether or not
agglomeratedWT/COMTD/W/47/Add.1
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Tariff Code Description
44 03    wood in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or sapwood, or
roughly squared
45 01   natural cork, raw or simply prepared; waste cork; crushed,
granulated or ground cork
47 04    chemical wood pulp, sulphite, other than dissolving grades
53 03    jute and other textile bast fibres (excluding flax, true hemp and
ramie), raw or processed but not spun; tow and waste of thesefibres (including yarn waste and garnetted stock)
ANNEX 3
Goods on Which the Tariff Ceiling Is To Be Reduced
GATT Tariff Ceiling Tariff Ceiling Proposed for the
LDCs
Year 1995 Year 2000
100% 90% 80%
80% 70% 60%
70% 60% 50%
50% 40% 30%
The tariff ceiling on all the goods in the cate gories specified in the commitment schedules
presented by Egypt will be reduced by 10 per cent
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