RESTRICTEDWORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/MA/TAR/RS/87
19 September 2002
(02-4921)
Committee on Market Access Original:  English
RECTIFICATIONS OF SCHEDULES OF TARIFF CONCESSIONS
Schedule CXXXIX – Republic of Bulgaria
The following communication, dated 8 August 2002, has been received from the Permanent
Mission of Bulgaria.
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With reference to Schedule CXXXIX – Tariff Concessions and Commitments of the Republic
of Bulgaria attached to the GATT 1994 and pursuant to the Procedures for Modification and
Rectification of Schedules of Tariff Concessions contained in a Decision of 26 March 1980, the
Republic of Bulgaria hereby communicates draft changes for a rectification of Schedule CXXXIX tocorrect a technical error.
The draft rectification is listed in the attachment
1.  It does not alter the scope of the
concessions granted by the Republic of Bulgaria upon its accession to the WTO.
The rectification aims to correct technical errors in the final bound rates of tariff item
numbers 401023000 and 401024000 that occurred at the time of introduction of HS 1996 changes into
the Schedule.
Detailed explanatory notes and a table with the draft rectification are contained in the
attachment.
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If no objection is notified to the Secretariat within three months from the date of this
document, the rectifications and modifications to Schedule CXXXIX – Republic of Bulgaria - will bedeemed to be approved and will be formally certified.
                                                     
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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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