MODIFICATIONS AND RECTIFICATIONS OF
SCHEDULE LXXX - EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
The following rectifications and modifications should be made to Schedule LXXX – European
Communities, distributed under cover of WT/Let/156:
Attachment
The correct 1997 base rates for the following headings are:
Base rate Final rate Implementation
8517.90.11 4.6% 0% 2000
8517.90.19 4.6% 0% 2000
8517.90.82 7.5% 0% 2000
8517.90.88 7.5% 0% 2000
8531.90.30 3.1% 0% 2000
8542.30.99 7.0% 0% 1999
8543.30.20 5.0% 0% 2000
The consequential changes for phasing are:
HS Base rate July 1997 1998 1999 2000
8517.90.11 4.6 3.4 2.3 1.1 0.0
8517.90.19 4.46 3.4 2.3 1.1 0.0
8517.90.82 7.5 5.6 3.8 1.9 0.0
8517.90.88 7.5 5.6 3.8 1.9 0.0
8531.90.30 3.1 2.3 1.6 0.8 0.0
8542.30.99
(insert)7.0 3.5 1.8 0.0 0.0
8543.30.20 5.0 3.8 2.5 1.3 0.0
The correct staging for the reductions from a base rate of 3.2% to 0% by the year 2000 for the
following headings are:
8536.69.10 3.2 2.4 1.6 0.8 0.0
8536.69.30 3.2 2.4 1.6 0.8 0.0The tariff numbers hereunder should be rectified as follows:
Revised Previous
842489.95 842489.80
846229.98 846229.99
847759.80 847759.90
847989.98 847989.95
847990.97 847990.98
851410.80 851410.90
851420.80 851420.90
851490.20 851490.10
851490.80 851490.90
852990.72 852990.70
852990.88 852990.89
853650.80 853650.90
854330.30 854330.20
854330.80 854330.90
854389.95 854389.90
854390.80 854390.90
Note: these changes should be carried through to the Annex dealing with phasing of
reductions.
All references to 8471.30.00, 8471.41.90, 8471.49.90, 8471.50, 8528.12.10, 8528.13.10 and
8543.89.17 should be deleted and replaced by the following:
Base
rateFinal
rateImplementation
8471.30
8471 30 10
8471 30 91
8471 30 99- Portable digital automatic data- processing
machines, machines, weighing not more than 10
kg, consisting of at least a central processing unit,
a keyboard and a display:
- - Capable of receiving and processing television,
telecommunication, audio and video signals
- - Other
- - - Capable of receiving and processing
television signals but having no other specific
subsidiary function
- - - Other3.5
5.0
14.0
3.50.0
0.0
0.0
0.02000
2000
2000
2000
8471 41
8471 41 10Other digital automatic data-processing machines
- - Comprising in the same housing at least a
central processing unit and an input and output
unit, whether or not combined
- - - (Unchanged)
- - - - Other
8471 41 30
8471 41 91
8471 41 99- - - - Capable of receiving and processing
television, telecommunication, audio and video
signals
- - - - Other
- - - - - Capable of receiving and processing
television signals but having no other specific
subsidiary function
Other5.0
14.0
3.50.0
0.0
0.02000
2000
2000Base
rateFinal
rateImplementation
8471 49
8471 49 10
8471 49 30- - - Other, presented in the form of systems
- - - - Unchanged)
- - - - Other
- - - - - Capable of receiving and processing
television, telecommunication, audio and video
signals 5.0 0.0 2000
8471 49 91
8471 41 99- - - - - Other
- - - - - - Capable of receiving and
processing television signals but having no other
specific subsidiary function
- - - - - - Other14.0
3.50.0
0.02000
2000
8471 50
8471 50 10
8471 50 30- Digital processing units other than those of
subheadings No 8471 41 and 8471 49, whether or
not containing in the same housing one or two of
the following types of unit: storage units, input
units, output units
- - (Unchanged)
- - Other
- - - Capable of receiving and processing
television, telecommunications, audio and video
signals
- - Other5.0 0.0 2000
8471 50 91
8471 50 99- - - - Capable of receiving and processing
television signals but having on other specific
subsidiary functions
- - - - Other14.0
3.50.0
0.02000
2000The results of these changes are:
Replace By
8528.12.10
8528.13.108471.30.91
41.91
49.91
50.91
8543.89.17 8471.30.10
41.30
49.30
50.30
8471.30.00 8471.30.99
8471 41.90 8471.41.99
8471.49.90 8471.49.99
8471.50.90 8471.50.99
The consequential changes for the Annex dealing with phasing require the insertion of the
following :
HS Base rate July 1997 1998 1999 2000
8471 30 10
8471 30 91
8471 30 995.0
14.0
3.53.8
10.5
2.62.5
7.0
1.81.3
3.5
0.90.0
0.0
0.0
8471 41 30
8471 41 91
8471 41 995.0
14.0
3.53.8
10.5
2.62.5
7.0
1.81.3
3.5
0.90.0
0.0
0.0
8471 49 30
8471 49 91
8471 49 995.0
14.0
3.53.8
10.5
2.62.5
7.0
1.81.3
3.5
0.90.0
0.0
0.0
8471 50 30
8471 50 91
8471 50 995.0
14.0
3.53.8
10.5
2.62.5
7.0
1.81.3
3.5
0.90.0
0.0
0.0
The following changes should be made to the tariff references against product descriptions in
Attachment B:
Computers etc. Replace by following reference: 8471.10.90 (unchanged), 8471 30 10, 8471.30.91,
8471.30.99, 8471.41.30, 8471.41.91, 8471.41.99, 8471.49.30, 8471.49.91,
8471.49.99, 8471.50.30, 8471.50.91, 8471.50.99
Network equipment replace 8471.50.90 by 8471.50.998543.89.79 Delete existing text and replace by the following:
- Apparatus enabling automatic data processing machines and units thereof to process audio
signals (sound cards); upgrade kits, for automatic data processing machines and units
thereof, put up for retail sale, consisting of, at least, speakers and/or microphone, and an
electronic assembly that enables the automatic data processing machine and units thereof to
process audio signals (sound cards).
8548.90.10 Delete existing text and replace by the following:
- Memories in multicombinational forms such as stack D-RAMs and modules
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