SCHEDULE CXXXIX – REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA 
  
1. Explanatory notes 
 As per the original Schedule of Concessions  and Commitments on Goods attached to the 
Protocol for the Accession of Bulgaria to the Ma rrakesh Agreement Establishing the WTO, tariff item 
numbers ex40109100 and 40109900 (HS 1992) are bound as follows: 
 
• tariff item number ex40109100 “endless synchronous  transmission belts, of a circumference 
exceeding 60 cm but not exceeding 198 cm, of a width exceeding 20 cm”:  initial bound rate of 
duty 25%; final bound ra te 15%; implementation period in accordance with Note 3* to Section II 
“Other products” of the Schedule; 
 
• tariff item number 40109900 “other conveyor or tr ansmission belts or belting of vulcanized 
rubber”:  initial and final bound rate - 35%.  
  As a result of the changes to the Schedule related to the introduction of the Harmonized 
System Nomenclature 1996, tariff item numbers ex40109100 and ex40109900 were transposed into 
new tariff item numbers - 401023000 and 401024000. The latter were bound in the Tariff Schedule of 
the Republic of Bulgaria, certified on 26 February 2001, as follows: 
 
• tariff item number 401023000 “endless synchronous be lts, of a circumference exceeding 60 cm 
but not exceeding 150 cm”:  initial bound rate 25%; final boun d rate 10%; implementation period 
in accordance with Note 3; 
 
• tariff item number ex401023000 “endless synchronou s belts of a circumference exceeding 60 cm 
but not exceeding 150 cm, of a width exceeding 20 cm”:  initial bound rate 25 %; final bound rate 
10%; implementation period in accordance with Note 3; 
 
• tariff item number 401024000 “endless synchronous be lts, of a circumference exceeding 150 cm 
but not exceeding 198 cm”:  initial bound rate 25%; final boun d rate 10%; implementation period 
in accordance with Note 3; 
 
• tariff item number ex401024000 “e ndless synchronous belts of a circumference exceeding 150 cm 
but not exceeding 198 cm, of a width exceeding 20 cm”:  initial bound rate 25 %; final bound rate 
10%; implementation period in accordance with Note 3. 
  With the introduction of HS 1996 changes into  Schedule CXXXIX, technical errors occurred 
in the final bound rates for tariff item numbers  401023000 and 401024000, leading to discrepancies 
between the original and the new final bound rate , on the one side, and between the new final bound 
rate and the content of note 3, on the other side.    Therefore, the final bound rates for 401023000, ex401023000, 401024000 and ex401024000 
should be brought into conformity with the origin al concession and with the scheme of reduction 
prescribed in Note 3 (i.e. reduction to 15%). The fi nal bound rates for the above products should read 
“15%” instead of “10%” (see the table below).  That change does not alter the scope of the con cessions granted by the Republic of Bulgaria on the 
products concerned upon accession to the WTO.   
 
                                                     
 
* Note 3 reads: “Five years after accession the bound rate of duty will be 25% and ten years after accession it will be 
reduced to 15% in five  equal annual stages”.   
  
 
2. Rectification to Schedule CXXXIX of the Republic of Bulgaria 
Tariff item 
number 
HS96/CN98 Description of products CN98 Initial 
bound 
rate Final 
bound 
rate INR on the 
concession Implementation 
period from/to 
3 4 7 8 9 10 
4010 Conveyor or transmission belts or 
belting, of vulcanized rubber     
 - Transmission belts or belting     
401023000 -- Endless synchr onous belts, of a 
circumference exceeding 60 cm but not exceeding 150 cm 25 15  See Note 3 
ex401023000 Of a width exceeding 20 cm 25 15 CA See Note 3 
401024000 -- Endless synchr onous belts, of a 
circumference exceeding 150 cm but not exceeding 198 cm 25 15  See Note 3 
ex401024000 Of a width exceeding 20 cm 25 15 CA See Note 3 
 
 
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