RESTRICTEDORGANISATION MONDIALE
DU COMMERCEG/MA/TAR/RS/87
19 septembre 2002
(02-4921)
Comité de l'accès aux marchés Original:  anglais
RECTIFICATIONS DES LISTES DE CONCESSIONS TARIFAIRES
Liste CXXXIX – République de Bulgarie
La Mission permanente de la République de Bulgarie a fait parvenir au Secrétariat la
communication ci-après, datée du 8 août 2002.
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Se référant à la Liste CXXXIX – Concessions tarifaires et engagements de la République de
Bulgarie jointe au GATT de 1994 et conformément a ux procédures de modification et de rectification
des listes de concessions tarifaires prévues par la décision du 26 mars 1980, la République de Bulgarie
communique ci-joint des projets de modification en vue d'une rectification de la Liste CXXXIX, qui
visent à remédier à une erreur technique.
Le projet de rectification est reproduit dans l'annexe.1  Il ne modifie pas la portée des
concessions accordées par la République de Bulgarie lors de son accession à l'OMC.
La rectification vise à remédier à des erreurs techniques dans les taux consolidés finals relatifs
aux positions tarifaires 401023000 et 401024000 qui se sont produites lors de l'introduction des
modifications du SH 1996 dans la Liste.
L'annexe contient des notes explicatives détaillées et un tableau présentant le projet de
rectification.
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Si aucune objection n'est notifiée au Secrétariat dans un délai de trois mois à compter de la
date du présent document, les rectifications et modifications apportées à la Liste CXXXIX
- République de Bulgarie seront considérées comme approuvées et seront formellement certifiées.
                                                     
1 En anglais seulement.G/MA/TAR/RS/87
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ATTACHMENT
Rectification to 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 Marrakesh 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 rate 15%; implementation period in accordance with Note 3* to Section II
“Other products” of the Schedule;
• tariff item number 40109900 “other conveyor or transmission 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 belts, of a circumference exceeding 60 cm
but not exceeding 150 cm”: initial bound rate 25%; final bound rate 10%; implementation period
in accordance with Note 3;
• tariff item number ex401023000 “endless synchronous 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 belts, of a circumference exceeding 150 cm
but not exceeding 198 cm”: initial bound rate 25%; final bound rate 10%; implementation period
in accordance with Note 3;
• tariff item number ex401024000 “endless 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 boundrate 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 original concession and with the scheme of reduction
prescribed in Note 3 (i.e. reduction to 15%). The final bound rates for the above products should read
“15%” instead of “10%” (see the table below).
                                                     
* 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”.G/MA/TAR/RS/87
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That change does not alter the scope of the concessions granted by the Republic of Bulgaria on the
products concerned upon accession to the WTO.
2. Draft rectification to Schedule CXXXIX of the Republic of Bulgaria
Tariff item
number
HS96/CN98Description of products CN98 Initial
bound
rateFinal
bound
rateINR on the
concessionImplementation
period from/to
34 7 8 9 1 0
4010 Conveyor or transmission belts or
belting, of vulcanized rubber
- Transmission belts or belting
401023000 -- Endless synchronous belts, of a
circumference exceeding 60 cm but
not exceeding 150 cm25 15 See Note 3
ex401023000 Of a width exceeding 20 cm 25 15 CA See Note 3
401024000 -- Endless synchronous belts, of a
circumference exceeding 150 cm but
not exceeding 198 cm25 15 See Note 3
ex401024000 Of a width exceeding 20 cm 25 15 CA See Note 3
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