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21 May 2003
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Committee on Trade and Environment
Committee on Trade and Environment Special SessionOriginal:  English
OECD JOINT WORKING PARTY ON TRADE AND ENVIRONMENT:
ENVIRONMENTAL GOODS:
A COMPARISON OF THE APEC AND OECD LISTS
Information Note by the OECD Secretariat
The attached paper has been received from the OECD Secretariat and is being circulated to
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FOREWORD
This report has been prepared in response to a request from the Joint Working Party on Trade
and Environment (JWPTE). It was drafted by Ronald Steenblik in the Trade Policy Linkages Divisionof the Trade Directorate, under the supervision of Dale Andrew. The Secretary-General has agreed to
declassify the document under his responsibility, as recommended by the JWPTE, with the aim of
bringing information on this subject to the attention of a wider audience.
The report, which is also available in French, can be found on the OECD website at the
following address:  http://www.oecd.org/ trade and http://www.oecd.org/trade/envWT/CTE/W/228
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD ....................................................................................................................... ..................2
TABLE OF CONTEN TS .............................................................................................................. ........3
I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ......................................................................................................4
II. ENVIRONMENTAL GOODS: A COMPARISON OF THE APEC AND OECD
LISTS .......................................................................................................................... ...............5
A. I NTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................5
B. G ENESES OF THE TWO LISTS ........................................................................................................5
1. The OECD list ................................................................................................................ ...........6
2. The APEC  list................................................................................................................ ............7
Table 1 APEC’s EVSL for environmental good s: flexibility proposals by the sectoral
co-ordinator ............................................................................................................................... 9
C. C OMPARISON OF THE OECD AND APEC LISTS ........................................................................12
Table 2 Summary statistics of APEC and OECD lists of environmental goods ............................13
D. O THER LISTS ..............................................................................................................................1 4
E. C ONCLUSIONS ...........................................................................................................................14
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY............................................................................................................... ....16
Annex Table 1. The OECD’s illustrative product list of environmental goods ..............................17
Annex Table 2. Proposed product cover age under APEC’s EVSL initiative for
environmental goods ...............................................................................................................24
Annex Table 3. APEC’s EVSL proposal for chemicals: product list ..............................................33
Annex Table 5. Comparison of products c overed under APEC’s EVSL initiative for
environmental goods and the OECD’s illustrative list of environmental goods ...............35
Annex Table 6. Product coverage of list proposed by Japan in its 20 November 2002
submission to the WTO ..........................................................................................................50WT/CTE/W/228
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I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
1. Paragraph 31(iii) of the Doha Ministerial Declaration calls for negotiations on “the reduction
or, as appropriate, elimination of tariff and non-tariff barriers to environmental goods and services.”
“Environmental goods” were not further defined in the Doha declaration. However, a substantial
amount of work to identify the scope of environmental goods had already been undertaken by theOECD and APEC, culminating in two product lists of candidate goods, one from each organisation.
2. Counting only entries with corresponding Harm onized System (HS) codes, the OECD list
appears to be about 50% longer than the APEC list. However, when one eliminates multiple listings at
the 6-digit level, they are more similar in length : there are 132 unique HS codes in the OECD list,
compared with 104 in the APEC list. The composite list has 233 entries identified with an HS code,
covering 198 different goods. These magnitudes are small compared with the total numbers of lines
contained in WTO Members’ national tariff schedules, which range from less than 6 000 (in theschedules of Australia and India) to over 11 000 (in the schedules of Hungary, Korea, Mexico, and
Turkey). In all, less than 30% of the goods are common to both lists. The greatest areas of overlap are
found in the categories of air-pollution control, recycling, incineration, and measuring and monitoring
equipment.
3. In reviewing the developmental history of the OECD and APEC product lists of
environmental goods, it is clear that the two exercises were interlinked and informed each other. For
example, the drafters of the APEC list consciously based their categories of environmental goods in
large part on the work being undertaken at the ti me by the OECD/Eurostat informal working group on
the environment industry. However, the objectives of the two exercises differed, as did the procedures
for generating the lists.
4. The OECD list was the result of an exercise intended to illustrate, primarily for analytical
reasons, the scope of the “environment industry.” The selection of categories of goods could therefore
be broad, because there were no specific policy consequences of adding products to the list.
Moreover, the OECD’s larger list was created deductively: starting from general categories based on
the classifications appearing in the environment i ndustry manual, and adding more specific examples,
in order to produce an estimate of average tariffs on a previously undefined class of goods.
5. The APEC approach started with nominations — not unlike the request/offer procedures
traditionally used in trade negotiations — yielding a list of goods which was then arranged according
to an agreed classification system. Further, since the aim of the APEC list was to obtain more
favourable tariff treatment for environmental g oods, APEC member economies limited themselves to
considering only those specific goods that could be readily distinguished by customs agents and
treated differently for tariff purposes. For this reason, issues related to “like products”, products
defined by particular processes or production methods, and products defined by their life-cycle
impacts, were not addressed, with the result that some goods were left off the list that could be
included on the OECD list. This constraint of practicality could be relaxed in the OECD’s analysis
because its aim was merely to illustrate what could potentially be included.
6. Perhaps the most elementary observation to make from any comparison of the various lists of
environmental goods that have been produced to date is that the number of goods that could be
included in an eventually agreed list is potentially large. Clearly, both the OECD and the APEC lists
have helped frame the current WTO negotiations on environmental goods. But it is also clear that
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II. ENVIRONMENTAL GOODS: A COMPARISON OF THE APEC AND OECD LISTS
A. INTRODUCTION
7. Paragraph 31(iii) of the Doha Ministerial Declaration calls for negotiations on “the reduction
or, as appropriate, elimination of tariff and non-tariff barriers to environmental goods and services.”
“Environmental goods” were not further defined in the Doha declaration. However, a substantialamount of work to identify the scope of environmental goods had already been undertaken by the
OECD and APEC
1, culminating in two product lists of candidate goods, one from each organisation.
Though these lists were developed for purposes other than the WTO negotiations, and therefore have
to be regarded as only indicative, several countries have considered them to be useful starting points
for those negotiations. Indeed, in September 2002 the WTO Secretariat was requested to circulate the
two lists to the Negotiating Group on Market Access (NGMA), which is the WTO body conducting
negotiations on environmental goods2, and subsequently to the Committee on Trade and Environment
in Special Session (CTESS), with which the NGMA closely co-ordinates.3 Since then, Japan has
submitted a proposal which includes some goods from both of these lists.
B. GENESES OF THE TWO LISTS
8. The dynamic nature of their market, together w ith the role they can serve in strengthening
environmental protection, have made environmental goods obvious candidates for a trade-liberalisation initiative, one that could both benefit the environment and boost international trade. A
basic difficulty confronts trade negotiators, however: there is no well-defined sector known as “the
environmental goods sector.” Rather, environmental goods are spread across a wide range of
industrial and trade classification nomenclatures. In the words of one analyst, “This is less a sector
than an agglomeration of providers of many types of goods, services and technologies that are usually
integrated into production processes and are often hard to tease out as separate items” (US Office of
Technology Assessment, 1994, p. 149).
9. Specific end-of-pipe pollution abatement and clean-up technologies — such as catalytic
converters for automobile exhausts — are obvious candidates for any list of environmental goods. But
they are not the only goods used for environmental improvement. Classifying goods from outside thisnarrow area as “environmental” raises fundamental issues, however. Many goods that are used for
environmental protection and resource management potentially have other uses: pumps can be used in
a wastewater treatment facility, or in a variety of other industrial uses not related to environmental
remediation. Other goods may be considered “good for the environment” by virtue of their relative (as
opposed to absolute) performance in use — a criterion with the potential to render the definitionextremely broad, as almost all goods and technologies have substitutes that are cleaner or more
efficient. No attempt is made here to resolve these classification issues, but readers are advised to bear
them in mind when considering the product coverage of any list of environmental goods.
10. In the following two sub-sections, the geneses of the OECD and APEC lists are treated
separately. In fact, their developmental phases closely paralleled each other and intersected at several
points, the one exercise informing the other. That is not surprising, as six (eventually seven)
                                                     
1. Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation.
2. Under the negotiating structure adopted by the Trade Negotiations Committee in February 2002,
negotiations on market access for non-agricultural pr oducts were to take place in the Negotiating Group on
Market Access, and negotiations on services to take place in the Council for Trade in Services in Special
Session. Negotiations on trade and environment were to take place in the Committee on Trade and Environmentmeeting in Special Session.
3. The lists are contained, respectively, in WTO documents TN/MA/S/6 and TN/TE/W/18.WT/CTE/W/228
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countries4 were members of both organisations. However, the purposes that the lists were intended to
serve differed from the start. The OECD list was th e result of an exercise intended to illustrate,
primarily for analytical reasons, the scope of the “environment industry.” The selection of categories
of goods could therefore be broad, because there were no specific policy consequences of adding
products to the list. By contrast, the APEC list resulted from policy discussions directed toward
anticipated changes in tariffs. And whereas the OECD list was meant to be indicative, particularly as a
framework for undertaking economic analyses in gene ral, and of trade flows and tariff barriers in
particular, the APEC list — for which the negotiation process came to an end before full consensus
was reached — was the direct result of negotiated offers in the context of a trade-liberalisation
initiative.
1. The OECD list
11. OECD interest in the environmental goods and se rvices arose initially as part of its work on
environmental policy and industrial competitiveness. A report prepared by the Industry Committee in
1992 described market developments in the environment industry and the role of environmental
policies (OECD, 1992). A subsequent report (OEC D, 1996a) expanded and deepened the analysis,
collected available data, and showed a clear need  for improving information on the industry and
undertaking further analysis.
12. Publication of these results prompted numerous  questions. What had been the record in
exporting environmental technologies? Could the impact on industrial competitiveness due to the
application of cleaner technologies be measured? How could environmental and economic policy be
modified to encourage and support growth, job creation and trade in goods and services of the
environment industry? It soon became apparent that answering these questions would requireaddressing major statistical and methodological difficulties related to problems of industry
delimitation and data availability.
13. In 1994 the US Government (the Environmenta l Protection Agency and the Department of
Commerce) hosted a meeting of experts in Washington, D.C. The main aim of this meeting was to
identify ways in which more-comprehensive and consistent information could be collected — particularly on production, employment, trade, investment and R&D — so as to provide a solid
foundation for policy analysis (OECD, 1996b). Before statistics could be gathered, however, a clearer
definition and classification of the environmental goods and services industry had to be developed. To
this end, the OECD, in collaboration with Eurostat (the Statistical Office of the European
Communities), formed an Informal Working Group on the Environment Industry composed of expertsfrom OECD countries who, as part of their work at national ministries for economics or industry,
national statistical offices, or public or private research institutes, were responsible for collecting and
analysing data on the environmental goods and services industry.
14. At its first meeting in Luxembourg, in Ap ril 1995, the OECD/Eurostat Informal Working
Group agreed on an interim definition of, and classification system for, the environment industry
(OECD, 1996c). After considering various alternat ives, the Working Group agreed on the following
definition:
The environmental goods and services industry consists of activities
which produce goods and services to measure, prevent, limit,
minimise or correct environmental damage to water, air and soil, as
well as problems related to waste, noise and eco-systems. This
                                                     
4.Australia, Canada, Japan, Korea (which joined the OECD late in 1996), Mexico, New Zealand and
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includes cleaner technologies, products and services that reduce
environmental risk and minimise pollution and resource use.
15. The Working Group went on to add, “For cleaner technologies, products and services, despite
their importance, there is currently no agreed methodology which allows their contribution to be
measured in a satisfactory way” (OECD/Eurostat, 1999, p. 10). This limitation is why, for example,
products defined in terms of their energy efficiency  were not included in the original OECD list.
16. The definition and classification were tested during 1996 and 1997 by collecting new data and
re-organising available data in OECD countries. In the mean time, Canada, the Commission of the
European Communities, France and the United States started using the OECD/Eurostat classification
to design and carry out new surveys and studies on the environment industry.
17. During 1997 the OECD/Eurostat Informal Work ing Group continued to refine and improve
its interim definition and classification system. Meanwhile, the OECD’s Joint Working Party onTrade and Environment (JWPTE) began to take an  interest in the subject. The OECD/Eurostat
Informal Working Group was concentrating on defining relevant industry activities covering both
goods and services, to improve analysis and develop coherent, comparable statistics for national
surveys, whereas the JWPTE’s interest was on developing a framework for future trade liberalisation
efforts in the environmental goods and services (EGS) sector. In the absence of any internationallyagreed product list of environmental goods, an attempt was made to develop such a list — identified
by 6-digit HS (Harmonized System) trade nomenclature product numbers — and arranged according
to the groups, categories and sub-categories of environmental goods that had been developed by the
Informal Working Group. Inherent in the nature of  the OECD/Eurostat classification system, it was
possible to identify a greater number of HS product numbers for the six sub-categories of group A(“Pollution Management”), than for the two sub-categories of group B (“Cleaner Technologies and
Products”) or the ten sub-categories of group C (“ Resources Management”). The final list, which is
reproduced in Annex Table 1 to this document, was completed in 1998 and published subsequently in
both a working paper of the JWPTE (OECD, 1999a) and the final report of the Informal Working
Group (OECD/Eurostat, 1999b). It was also reproduced, unchanged, in the publication Environmental
Goods and Services: The Benefits of Further Global Trade Liberalisation  (OECD, 2001).
18. It must be stressed that the OECD list was meant to be illustrative rather than definitive,
particularly for use in analysing levels of tariff protection. As the “Note” to the list published in the
OECD/Eurostat (1999b) Manual  explains, “The list is not exhaustive; not all environmental goods are
covered. Some environmental goods have no equivalent HS commodity code. Some HS commoditycodes include goods which may not be environmental goods.” It is with respect to the last point where
some of the most important differences between  the OECD and APEC lists are to be found. In
producing the OECD list, no attempt was made to go  beyond the 6-digit (sub-heading) HS codes and
identify only those goods that could be considered “environmental”. By contrast, as described below,
the APEC list was produced through an essentially “bottom up” process, and includes many “ex-
headings” (nationally defined tariff lines) of goods falling under more aggregate commodity
descriptions.
2. The APEC list
19. The roots of the APEC list of environmental goods trace back to a November 1995 meeting in
Osaka, Japan, wherein APEC Leaders agreed to identify industries in which the progressive reduction
of tariffs could have a positive impact on trade and on economic growth in the Asia-Pacific region, or
for which there was regional industry support for early liberalisation. A year later, at their meeting inSubic Bay, Philippines, APEC Leaders issued more-precise instructions, directing MinistersWT/CTE/W/228
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responsible for trade5 to “identify sectors where early voluntary liberalisation would have a positive
impact on trade, investment and economic growth in the individual APEC economies as well as in the
region and submit recommendations on how this can be achieved.”
20. At their May 1997 meeting in Montreal, APEC Trade Ministers directed officials to identify
possible sectors that might be candidates for early voluntary liberalisation. Following this invitation, awide variety of APEC economies put forward 62 sectorally based nominations, in total covering more
than 40 sectors, for initial consideration at a subs equent meeting of senior officials held in August.
Most proposals were supported by several economies, but few were supported by all (Yamazawa and
Scollay, 2003). Environmental goods and services, as a distinct category, was proposed by four
economies — Canada, Japan, Chinese Taipei and the United States — drawing on the original
working OECD definition of the environmental sector to guide initial classification work (Dee et al. ,
1998). Ultimately, a total of nine economies proposed goods under this category.
21. By the time of the November 1997 APEC leaders’ meeting in Vancouver, the nominations
had been arranged into 41 sectors. Out of that meeting, a subset of 15 sectors emerged as clearly
enjoying the greatest support for EVSL among member economies. These fifteen sectors were then
further divided into two tiers. The first tier comprise d nine sectors identified for fast-track treatment:
environmental goods and services, fish and fish products, forest products, medical equipment andinstruments, energy, toys, gems and jewellery, chemicals, and a telecommunications mutual-
recognition agreement. The second tier comprised those sectors (oilseeds and oilseed products, food,
rubber, fertilisers, automotive and civil aircraft) that APEC member economies deemed would require
more preparatory work before they would be ready for implementation.
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22. Acting on the decisions of Leaders and Ministers in Vancouver, senior officials instructed
sectoral co-ordinators to finalise agreements or arrangements that would include, in addition to market
opening, elements of facilitation and economic and technical co-operation. Building on extensive
work as undertaken in the fall of 1997, including extensive inter-sessional work, two further rounds of
experts’ meetings were held in Penang and Kuala Lumpur to further develop the Vancouver proposals
in advance of the June 1998 Kuching meeting of APEC  Trade Ministers. By the time of this meeting
of Ministers, a framework for addressing EVSL, including draft product lists, end tariff rates and
timetables, had been worked out. Both at Kuching and in subsequent meetings in 1998, including in
Kuantan, work continued to further develop each of the proposals. A copy of the revised, consolidated
list of environmental goods (also known as the “Kua ntan version”) is attached to this document as
Annex Table 2. This is the list that would eventually be transmitted to the WTO.
                                                     
5.Hereinafter simply “Trade Ministers”.
6.Proposals for the second tier of sectors were further developed for assessment and review by APEC
Ministers at the Kuching meeting in June 1998 (Dee et al. , 1998).WT/CTE/W/228
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Table 1 APEC’s EVSL for environmental goods:  flexibility proposals by the sectoral 
co-ordinator
Schedule target Implementation schedule
Preferred outcome Tariffs eliminated over 4 years, in 4 equal cuts, with the first cut taking place six
months after conclusion of the agreement, subject to the completion of domestic
legislative procedures, and subsequent cuts taking place by 1 January 2001, 2002
and 2003.
Minimum conformity Industrialised Economies: 90% of tariff lines to be reduced to 0% by 1 January
2003.
Developing Economies: 80% of tariff lines to be reduced to 0% by 1 January
2003.
Flexibility Industrialised Economies: any remaining non-zero tariff lines to be reduced to
0% by 1 January 2005.
Developing Economies: the first tranche (at least half) of any remaining non-zero
tariff lines to be reduced to 0% by 1 January 2005; the last tranche of non-zerotariff lines to be reduced to 0% by 1 January 2007
Sources:  Sectoral co-ordinator for environmental goods and services, “report on
agreements/arrangements for market opening, facilitation and other measures”, 11 November 1998;Government of New Zealand, “Preparations for the 1999 Ministerial Conference — APEC’s
‘Accelerated Tariff Liberalisation’ (ATL) Initiative — Communication from New Zealand”,
Document no. WT/GC/W/138 (26 January 1999) , World Trade Organization, Geneva.
23. Because environmental goods are not defined as a sector in the HS nomenclature,
liberalisation by necessity had to be pursued on a product-specific basis (Oxley, 1999). Proceeding
from the OECD definition of what activities form part of an environmental industry, APEC
economies identified, by HS codes, a positive list of products to be covered under the agreement.
Tariffs for these specified products were, in principle, to be completely eliminated by 1 January
2003.
7 However, in recognition of the need to deal with product-specific concerns raised by individual
economies in each sector, some flexibility was allowed. In the case of environmental goods,
elimination of some tariffs could be delayed until 2005 for a small number of products, or by 2007 in
the case of developing economies (Table 1).
24. This negotiating context gave rise to a certain amount of caution on the part of some
economies, who may not have wanted to see items with high tariffs be targeted for liberalization. Inaddition, some economies were quite sensitive to the “dual use” issue. They reasoned that, while some
items might have a use, even an important use, in an environmental context, they might also be used
in other industries, with the result that the effects of tariff liberalisation would not be limited to the
environment sector. Further, even where HS tariff lines contained items that were essential to the
environment industry, there might also be other products that fell within the same 6 or 8 digit tariff
heading that were not so environmentally-focused.
                                                     
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25. The APEC economies found ways to address many of these concerns through, for example,
(1) the inclusion of a 6-digit heading if the products were predominantly environmental, or so central
to environmental uses that their exclusion was abso lutely necessary; or (2) the specification of an “ex-
heading” where APEC economies essentially wished  to provide duty-free treatment to a specific
product. In the latter cases, it would have been left up to individual economies to specify how that
product would be reflected in their own national tariff schedules. All of these issues tended to make
economies more cautious about inclusion of HS headings and products, and made the APEC list
shorter than it otherwise might have been.
26. Notably absent from the consolidated list of environmental goods were chemicals used for
processes such as water purification or waste-water treatment. Chemicals were left off the
environmental goods list, not because they were regarded as non-essential for environmental
protection and remediation, but because APEC Members wanted to avoid entangling the EVSL
initiative for environmental goods with the one for ch emicals, particularly as the EVSL initiative for
chemicals called only for harmonising tariff rates (Annex Tables 3 and 4). The proposal for EVSL of
chemicals had a longer history, beginning with the Uruguay Round’s Chemical Tariff Harmonization
Agreement (CTHA), to which several APEC economies had already become signatories as part of
their Uruguay Round tariff commitments (Box 1).
27. The logic of avoiding overlap between EVSL lists was not applied to goods from the medical
equipment and instruments sector, 36 of which are included in the environmental goods list under the
category for monitoring and analysis equipment.8 There is also some overlap between the list for
energy and the list for environmental goods, but it is smaller, with only 17 tariff lines common at the
6-digit level, of which 10 refer to different ex-headings.
28. During the remainder of 1998 additional technical experts’ meetings took place to elaborate
the details of the various EVSL frameworks. The resultant proposal, presented to Trade Ministers and
APEC Leaders at their annual meetings in Kuala Lumpur in November 1998, was a comprehensive
package that included undertakings on four elements: tariffs; services; non-tariff measures; and
economic and technical co-operation (Ecotech). While noting the progress made in 1998 in finalisingthe EVSL package, Ministers could not agree to move forward on its tariff elements. A decision was
therefore taken to refer the tariff elements of the EVSL proposals to the WTO, for possible adoption
on a binding basis by the full WTO membership. In so doing, the Ministers also pledged to work
“constructively to achieve critical mass in the WTO necessary for concluding agreement in all 9 [first-
tier EVSL] sectors.”
9 Malaysia, as APEC Chair, communicated this outcome to the WTO General
Council in December 1998.
29. New Zealand, as APEC Chair for 1999, later circulated two papers to the WTO Members,
explaining the history of the EVSL initiative, and providing details on the liberalisation targets,
flexibility approaches, and the positions reached by APEC economies for each sector by the time of
the Kuala Lumpur Ministerial and Leaders’ meetings. The expectation was that the tariff elements of
the “Accelerated Tariff Liberalisation” (ATL) initiative — as the EVSL initiative became known in
the WTO — would be advanced as a whole for consideration and adoption at the Third WTOMinisterial Conference in Seattle (December 1999). Due to the complicated nature of the Seattle
Ministerial, however, little progress was made on the package.
                                                     
8 Several products included on the list (particularly under HS headings 9027 and 9031) also form part
of the schedule of commitments entered into by Parties to the WTO’s Information Technology Agreement,
several of whom are also members of APEC.
9 The APEC Ministers also noted that “This process of expanding participation beyond APEC will not
prejudice the position of APEC members with respect to the agenda and modalities to be agreed at the ThirdWTO Ministerial Conference.”WT/CTE/W/228
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Box 1.  The EVSL initiative for chemicals
Chemicals such as hydrated lime and magnesium dioxide are used in many environmental processes,
such as water purification, waste-water treatment and air-pollution control. They were left off APEC’s
Early Voluntary Sectoral Liberalization (EVSL) initiative for environmental goods because they were
covered under a separate EVSL initiative for chemicals.
The chemicals EVSL initiative — later to become part of the Accelerated Tariff Liberalization (ATL)
initiative — had its origins in the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations. In 1991, chemical
associations from several countries proposed that chemical tariffs be harmonised at 0%, 5.5% or
6.5%, depending on the class of the chemical product. The harmonisation initiative covered all of HS
Chapters 28-39, except for a handful of items that were considered to be part of the Uruguay Round
agricultural negotiations. The industry proposal became the basis for the Uruguay Round Chemical
Tariff Harmonization Agreement (CTHA), to which about two-dozen countries became signatories.*
Since then, several other countries have adopted the CTHA as part of their WTO accession
commitments, and others still in the process of acceding have signalled their willingness to undertake
the CTHA commitments. Currently, over 30 (mainly OECD member) countries are now in the
process of implementing the CTHA, with more to join once their accession negotiations are
completed.
When APEC Ministers called for the nomination of sectors for Early Voluntary Sectoral
Liberalization in mid-1997, the United States and Singapore each nominated the full range of products
covered by the CTHA and the tariff rates agreed to in the Uruguay Round for those products.
Australia and Hong Kong, China joined with the United States and Singapore to co-sponsor a broad
chemical initiative. Several other proposals were also received for subsectors of the chemical sector,
and fertilisers was selected by APEC Ministers as a separate sector for liberalisation beyond that
provided in the CTHA.
* At the end of the Uruguay Round, the CTHA encompassed the Quad (Canada, the European
Commission (on behalf of the 12 EU Member States) Japan, and the United States), Korea, Norway,
Singapore and Switzerland. In 1995 this number increased with the addition of three new Member
states to the European Union.
Source:  Government of New Zealand, “Preparations for the 1999 Ministerial Conference — APEC’s
‘Accelerated Tariff Liberalisation’ (ATL) Initiative — Communication from New Zealand —
Addendum”, Document no. WT/GC/W/138/Add.1 ( 22 April 1999), World Trade Organization,
Geneva.
30. Meanwhile, work on other aspects of the EVSL initiatives — namely, reducing non-tariff
barriers, facilitating trade, and encouraging economic and technical co-operation — has continued
within APEC. For example, APEC members have been encouraged to submit and support proposals
for economic and technical co-operation projects that will facilitate trade in environmental goods. AnAPEC Cleaner Production Strategy
10 has been developed and approved that includes a list of generic,
illustrative activities for implementing the strategy: (i) cleaner-production training modules;
(ii) sector-based demonstration projects and case studies; (iii) technical conferences and seminars;
(iv) environmental management systems (e.g. ISO 14001) workshops and training activities; (v) study
tours and cleaner-production fellowships; (vi) technical exchanges; (vii) electronic information
exchanges; (viii)  use of industrial-extension support sy stems to promote cleaner production among
                                                     
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SMEs; and (ix) development of guidebooks and manuals. In 2003, the APEC Secretariat plans to
study the impacts on APEC economies of measures to liberalise and facilitate trade in environmental
services.
C. COMPARISON OF THE OECD AND APEC LISTS
31. Annex Table 5 combines the OECD and APEC  lists of environmental goods into one
composite list, to facilitate comparison. Goods have been organised according to the categories and
sub-categories used in the OECD/Eurostat scheme and, within those sub-categories, ordered by 6-
digit HS nomenclature sub-headings. In most cases, categories used in the APEC list correspond to
those in the OECD list,11 and hence the assignment of goods fr om the APEC list to OECD categories
is straight-forward, though for a few goods assumptio ns had to be made as to which sub-categories
they should be assigned. Also, in nine cases (see endnote to table), goods from the APEC list have
been assigned here to OECD categories other than those to which they appear in the original APEClist. An example is ozone, an ex-heading under HS sub-heading 8543.89: in the APEC list it appears
under the category of waste-water management; for the purposes of compiling a composite list it has
been assigned also to potable water treatment.
32. Counting only entries with corresponding HS code s, the OECD list appears to be about 50%
longer than the APEC list (Table 2). However, when one eliminates multiple listings at the 6-digitlevel, they are more similar in length: there are 132 unique HS codes in the OECD list, compared with
104 in the APEC list. The composite list has 233 en tries identified with an HS code, covering 198
different goods. These magnitudes are small compared with the total numbers of lines contained in
WTO Members’ national tariff schedules, which range from less than 6 000 (in the schedules of
Australia and India) to over 11 000 (in the schedules of Hungary, Korea, Mexico, and Turkey).
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33. Strictly speaking, the two lists do not overlap much at the level of six-digit HS codes. In all,
less than 30% of the goods in the combined list are common to both lists, and about half of the goods
on either list can be found on the other. The greatest areas of overlap are found in the categories of
recycling equipment (OECD sub-category A.3.6), incineration equipment (sub-category A.3.7), and
measuring and monitoring equipment (sub-category A.6.1). Even then, for about one-quarter of the
common goods, the APEC list refers to one or tw o specific goods, rather than to all the goods
contained within the tariff line. For example, the OECD product list refers to “Parts for spark-ignition
internal combustion piston engines”, whereas the APEC list covers only the ex-heading category of
industrial mufflers.
                                                     
11.The exception is the APEC category “Other Recycling Systems” (ORS), which corresponds to the
OECD sub-category “3.6 Recycling Equipment” under the general category of “3. Solid Waste Management”.
12.WTO Secretariat, “WTO Members’ Tariff Profiles”, WTO Doc. No. TN/MA/S/4/Rev.1, Geneva.WT/CTE/W/228
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Table 2 Summary statistics of APEC and OECD lists of environmental goods
Statistic Number or %
OECD list
  Total HS subheadings 164
  Unique HS subheadings 132
APEC list
  Total HS subheadings 109
  Unique HS subheadings 104
  — of which qualified by ex-Heading specification 44
Composite list
  Total HS subheadings 233
  Unique HS subheadings 198  Tariff lines common to both the OECD and APEC lists 54
  — of which qualified by ex-Heading specification 13
  Percentage overlap (54 out of 198) 27 %
Source:  Annex Table 5 to this document.
34. One reason for the surprising lack of overlap is a difference of emphasis. Under the category
Heat/energy savings and management , the OECD list specifies 14 tariff lines and the APEC list only
3. The OECD list contains 5 tariff lines each under the sub-categories Hazardous waste storage and
treatment equipment  and Waste collection equipment ; the APEC list contains none. On the other hand,
the APEC list contains a much larger number of goods under the category Environmental monitoring,
analysis and assessment , including some goods not mentioned in the OECD list, such as gas and
electricity meters. Almost all of the goods contained in the OECD list under this category appear also
on the APEC list.
35. Another reason for the small degree of overlap is the omission of some tariff lines from the
APEC list because the particular goods were already included on lists prepared for other EVSLinitiatives — notably that for chemicals. Thus, whereas particular chemicals, such as chlorine,
hydrogen peroxide and magnesium hydroxide, all falling within HS chapters 28 through 39, are
sprinkled across the OECD product list under categories ranging from air-pollution control to
renewable energy (in the case of methanol), with mo st listed under waste-water management, they are
with one exception
13 entirely absent from the APEC list fo r environmental goods. However, all of the
chemicals appearing on the OECD list were covered by APEC’s separate EVSL proposal for
chemicals (see paragraph 17, above), which was more encompassing.
                                                     
13.The exception relates to two products listed under HS code 3926.90 (Other articles of plastics and
articles of other materials of headings 3901 to 3914; other): bio-film medium that consists of woven fabric
sheets that facilitate the growth of bio-organisms; and rotating biological contactor consisting of stacks of large(HDPE) plates that facilitate the growth of bio-organi sms. The APEC list includes these under the category of
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36. In several cases, the APEC list provides greater specificity for goods that are mentioned in the
OECD list but for which no HS codes were provided. Examples are trash compactors and parts for
trash compactors (corresponding to the OECD’s sub-category “compactors”), electromagnets (OECD:
“magnetic separators”), inflatable oil-spill recovery  barges (OECD: “oil spillage cleanup equipment”),
wind-powered electric generating sets (OECD: “w ind turbines”), and hydraulic turbines and water
wheels (OECD: “hydroelectric plant”). No doubt had th e OECD gone into greater detail in these sub-
categories the degree of overlap between the two lists would have been greater.
37. Notably, the APEC list includes some specific products — including several goods from or
for agriculture — corresponding to categories of goods suggested by the OECD but for which not
only no HS codes were specified but no concrete product examples were provided. For example, New
Zealand had nominated biodegradable erosion-control matting and ecologically-safe ground covers
(both ex-headings of HS code 4601.20), as well as hot-water weed-killing systems (an ex-heading ofHS code 8436.80), for EVSL. All three of these items are classified in the APEC list as relating to
waste-water management. (Under the OECD list they  would more logically be classified as goods
used to make agriculture more sustainable.) Similarly, Canada nominated booms or socks consisting
of ground cobs of corn (maize) contained in a textile covering (an ex-heading of HS code 2302.10) as
an environmental good used in remediation and cleanup.
D. O
THER LISTS
38. In November 2002 Japan submitted a list of environmental goods as part of a broader
proposal on market access for non-agricultural products communicated to the NGMA and CTESS
(reproduced in this document as Annex Table 6).14 Japan’s list, which contains 166 entries
(corresponding to 157 unique HS codes), incorporates many goods from both the OECD and theAPEC lists, plus an additional 30 products that do not appear on either list. Most of the newly
proposed products appear under the heading “Cleaner Technology and Products”, and almost all are
less-polluting or more energy- or resource-efficient versions of similar goods covered by the same 4-
or 6-digit HS codes. Examples include “inverter type air conditioners” (an ex-heading under HS
heading 8415), “ultrasonic dish-washing machines” and “dish-washing machines capable of savingdetergents” (ex-headings under HS code 8422.11), and “double-hulled oil tankers” (an ex-heading
under HS code 8901.20).
39. Other candidate lists of environmental goods are currently under preparation by several other
WTO Members and are expected to be submitted to the NGMA and CTESS during 2003. In all
likelihood, these lists, too, will incorporate goods from both the OECD and the APEC lists, as well as
propose some new ones. The variation reflects to some extent national priorities in the negotiations on
trade in goods in general. But it also reflects differences in views regarding which goods countries
consider to be truly “environmental”.
E. C
ONCLUSIONS
40. In reviewing the developmental history of the OECD and APEC product lists of
environmental goods, it is clear that the two exercises were interlinked and informed each other. For
example, the drafters of the APEC list consciously based their categories of environmental goods inlarge part on the work being undertaken at the ti me by the OECD/Eurostat informal working group on
the environment industry.
15 At the broad level, therefore, the two lists are quite similar.
                                                     
14.Government of Japan, “Market Access for Non-Agricultural Products — Communication from
Japan”, WTO document no. TN/MA/W/15 & TN/TE/W/17, 20 November 2002, World Trade Organization,Geneva.
15.See WTO document no. WT/GC/W/138.Add.1 (22 April 1999).WT/CTE/W/228
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41. However, the objectives of the two exercises differed, as did the procedures for generating the
lists. The OECD’s larger list was created deductively: starting from general categories based on
classifications appearing in the environment indus try manual, and adding more specific examples,
where available, in order to produce an estimate of average tariffs16 on a previously undefined class of
goods. The APEC approach started with nominations — not unlike the request/offer procedurestraditionally used in trade negotiations — yielding a list of goods which was then arranged according
to an agreed classification system.
42. It is important also to understand the APEC list in the context of the larger Early Voluntary
Sectoral Liberalisation (EVSL) initiative with which it was associated. Environmental goods
constituted only one of 15 sectors falling under the EVSL initiative, and one of 9 when it was referred
to the WTO and became part of the Accelerated Tariff Liberalisation (ATL) initiative. Neither the
APEC nor the OECD exercise sought to ex clude any particular categories of goods a priori . However,
because of the broad coverage of the EVSL initiative and its segmentation into distinct sectors, each
with a different set of liberalisation target dates and rates,  certain goods such as chemicals, which
clearly are necessary for limiting or correcting environmental damage, were not included in the EVSL
initiative for environmental goods. This was more apt to be the case the further the liberalisation
targets for other sectors diverged from those for environmental goods.
43. Further, since the aim of the APEC list was to obtain more favourable (different) tariff
treatment for environmental goods, APEC member economies limited themselves to considering only
those specific goods that could be readily distinguished by customs agents and treated differently for
tariff purposes. For this reason, issues related to “like products”, products defined by particular
processes or production methods, and products defined by their life-cycle impacts, were notaddressed, with the result that some goods were left off the list that may have been included in the
OECD list. This constraint of practicality could be  relaxed in the OECD analytical study because its
aim was to illustrate what could potentially be included.
44. Perhaps the most elementary observation to make from any comparison of the various lists of
environmental goods that have been produced to date is that the number of goods that could beincluded in an eventually agreed list is potentially large. Clearly, both the OECD and the APEC lists
have helped frame the current WTO negotiations on environmental goods. But it is also clear that
many, if not most, WTO members regard the lists as just that: helpful but not definitive.
                                                     
16.For the latest information on tariffs, see the table at http://www.oecd.org/env.WT/CTE/W/228
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and facilitation”. Available from http://www. apec2003.org/eng/apecthai/thaiandapec_Ippii.htmlWT/CTE/W/228
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ANNEXES
Annex Table 1. The OECD’s illustrative product list of environmental goods
Category and product description HS code
A. POLLUTION MANAGEMENT
1. Air pollution control
1.1 Air-handling equipment
Vacuum pumps 841410
Compressors of a kind used in refrigerating equipment 841430
Air compressors mounted on a wheeled chassis for towing 841440Other air or gas compressors or hoods 841480
Parts for air or gas compressors, fans or hoods 841490
1.2 Catalytic converters
Filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for gases 842139
Parts for filtering or purifying machinery 842199
1.3 Chemical recovery systems
Limestone flux 252100
Slaked (hydrated) lime 252220Magnesium hydroxide and peroxide 281610
Activated earths
Filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for gases* 842139
Parts for filtering or purifying machinery* 842199
1.4 Dust collectors
Filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for gases* 842139
Parts for filtering or purifying machinery* 842199
1.5 Separators/precipitators
Other glass fibre products 701990Machinery for liquefying air or other gases 841960
Other machinery for treatment of materials by change of temperature 841989
Filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for gases* 842139
Parts for filtering or purifying machinery* 842199
1.6 Incinerators, scrubbers
Other furnaces, ovens, incinerators, non-electric 841780
Filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for gases* 842139
Parts for filtering or purifying machinery* 842199
Industrial or laboratory electric resistance furnaces 851410
Industrial or laboratory induction or dielectric furnaces 851420Other industrial or laboratory electric furnaces and ovens 851430
Parts, industrial or laboratory electric furnaces 851490
1.7 Odour control equipment
Parts for sprayers for powders or liquids 842490WT/CTE/W/228
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Category and product description HS code
2. Wastewater management
  2.1 Aeration systems
  Compressors of a kind used in refrigerating equipment* 841430
  Air compressors mounted on a wheeled chassis for towing* 841440  Other air or gas compressors or hoods* 841480
  Parts for air or gas compressors, fans or hoods* 841490
  2.2 Chemical recovery systems
  Limestone flux* 252100
  Slaked (hydrated) lime* 252220
  Chlorine 280110
  Anhydrous ammonia 281410
  Sodium hydroxide solid. 281511  Sodium hydroxide in aqueous solution 281512
  Magnesium hydroxide and peroxide* 281610
  Activated earths*
  Aluminium hydroxide 281830
  Manganese dioxide 282010  Manganese oxides (other) 282090
  Lead monoxide 282410
  Sodium sulphites 283210
  Other sulphites 283220
  Phosphinates and phosphonates 283510  Phosphates of triammonium 283521
  Phosphates of monosodium or disodium 283822
  Phosphates of trisodium 283523
  Phosphates of potassium 283524
  Calcium hydrogenorthophosphate 283525  Other phosphates of calcium 283526
  Other phosphates (excl, polyphosphates) 283529
  Activated carbon 380210
  Water filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus 842121
  Other machinery for purifying liquids 842129  Parts for filtering or purifying machinery* 842199
  2.3 Biological recovery systems
  2.4 Gravity sedimentation systems
  Flocculating agents
  2.5 Oil/water separation systems
  Other centrifuges 842119
  Parts of centrifuges 842191  Water filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus* 842121
  Other machinery for purifying liquids* 842129
  Parts for filtering or purifying machinery* 842199WT/CTE/W/228
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Category and product description HS code
  2.6 Screens/strainers
  Other articles of plastic 392690
  Water filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus* 842121
  Other machinery for purifying liquids* 842129
  Parts for filtering or purifying machinery* 842199
  2.7 Sewage treatment
Flocculating agents
Woven pile & chenille fabrics of other textile materials 580190
Tanks, vats, etc. > 300l 730900
Tanks, drums, etc. >50 l < 300 l 731010
Cans < 50 l, closed by soldering or crimping 731021Other cans < 501l 731029
Hydraulic turbines 8410 00 - 13
Parts for hydraulic turbines 841090
Incinerators, non-elec* 841780
Weighing machines capacity <30 kg 842381Weighing machines capacity >30 kg <500 kg 842382
Weighing machines 842389
Parts for sprayers for powders or liquids* 842490
Industrial/lab electric resistance furnaces* 851410
Industrial/lab induction, dielectric furnaces* 851420
Industrial/lab electric furnaces & ovens, nes* 851430
 Parts, indl & lab elec furnaces* 851490
2.8 Water pollution control, wastewater reuse equipment2.9 Water handling goods and equipment
Articles of cast iron 732510
Root control equipment
Positive displacement pumps, hand operated 841320
Other reciprocating positive displacement pumps 841350
Other rotary positive displacement pumps 841360
Other centrifugal pumps 841370
Other pumps 841381
Valves, pressure reducing 848110
Valves, check 848130
Valves, safety 848140
Other taps, cocks, valves, etc. 848180
Instruments for measuring the flow or level of liquids 902610Instruments for measuring or checking pressure 902620
3. Solid waste management
3.1 Hazardous waste storage and treatment equipment
Other articles of cement, concrete 681099
Other articles of lead 780600Other electric space heating and soil heating apparatus 851629
Lasers 901320
Vitrification equipment*
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Category and product description HS code
Household & toilet articles of plastic 392490
Brooms, hand 960310
Brushes as parts of machines, appliances 960350
Mechanical floor sweepers 980390
Trash bin liners (plastic)
3.3 Waste disposal equipment
Compactors
Refuse disposal vehicles
Polypropylene sheeting, etc. 392020
3.4 Waste handling equipment3.5 Waste separation equipment
Magnetic separators
  3.6 Recycling equipment
  Magnetic separators*
  Machinery to clean, dry bottles, etc. 842220
  Other mixing or kneading machines for earth, stone, sand, etc. 847439  Other machines for mixing/grinding, etc. 847982
  Other machines, nes, ha ving individual functions 847989
  Tire-shredding machinery
  3.7 Incineration equipment
  Other furnaces, ovens, incinerators, non-electric* 841780
  Parts of furnaces, non-electric 841790
  Industrial or laboratory electric resistance furnaces* 851410
  Industrial or laboratory induction or dielectric furnaces* 851420  Other industrial or laboratory electric furnaces and ovens* 851430
  Parts, industrial or laboratory electric furnaces* 851490
  4. Remediation and cleanup
  4.1 Absorbents
  4.2 Cleanup
  Other electric space heating and soil heating apparatus* 851629
  Lasers* 901320
  Vitrification equipment*
  4.3 Water treatment equipment
  Surface active chemicals (not finished detergents)
  Oil spillage cleanup equipment
  Other electrical machines and apparatus with one function 854389WT/CTE/W/228
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Category and product description HS code
  5. Noise and vibration abatement
  5.1 Mufflers/silencers
  Parts for spark-ignition internal combustion piston engines 840991
  Parts for diesel or semi-diesel engines 840999
  Silencers and exhaust pipes, motor vehicles 870892
  5.2 Noise deadening material
  5.3 Vibration control systems
  5.4 Highway barriers
  6. Environmental monitoring, analysis and assessment
  6.1 Measuring and monitoring equipment
  Thermometers, pyrometers, liquid-filled 902511
  Other thermometers, pyrometers 902519
  Hydrometers, barometers, hygrometers, etc. 902580
  Other instruments for measuring liquids or gases 902680  Parts of instruments for measuring, checking liquids or gases 902690
  Instruments for analysing gas or smoke 902710
  Chromatographs, etc. 902720
  Spectrometers, etc. 902730
  Exposure meters 902740
  Other instruments using optical radiation 902750
  Other instruments for physical or chemical analysis 902780  Parts for instruments, incl. microtomes 902790
  Ionising radiation measuring & detecting instruments 903010
  Other optical instruments 903149
  Other measuring or checking instruments 903180
  Manostats 903220
  Hydraulic/pneumatic automatic regulate, control instruments 903281
  Other automatic regulate, control instruments 903289
  Auto emissions testers
  Noise measuring equipment
  6.2 Sampling systems  6.3 Process and control equipment
  Thermostats 903210
  Electrical process control equipment
  On-board monitoring/control
  6.4 Data acquisition equipment  6.5 Other instruments/machinesWT/CTE/W/228
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Category and product description HS code
  B. CLEANER TECHNOLOGIES AND PRODUCTS
  1. Cleaner/resource efficient technologies and processes
  Electrochemical apparatus / plant
  Extended cooking (pulp)
  Oxygen delignification
  Ultrasonic cleaning  Fluidised bed combustion
  2. Cleaner/resource efficient products
  CFC substitutes
  Hydrogen peroxide 280110  Peat replacements (e.g. bark)
  Water-based adhesives
  Paints and varnishes, in aqueous medium, acrylic or vinyl 320910
  Other paints and varnishes, in aqueous medium 320990
  Double-hulled oil tankers  Low-noise compressors
  C. RESOURCES MANAGEMENT GROUP
  1. Indoor air pollution control  2. Water supply
  2.1 Potable water treatment
  2.2 Water purification systems
  Chlorine* 280110
  2.3 Potable water supply and distribution
  Water, incl. natural or artificial mineral water 220100
  Distilled and conductivity water 285100
  Ion exchangers (polymer) 391400
  3. Recycled materials
  3.1 Recycled paper
  3.2 Other recycled products
  4. Renewable energy plant
  4.1 Solar
  Instantaneous gas water heaters 841911
  Other instantaneous or storage water heaters, non-electric 841919  Photosensitive semiconductor devices, incl. solar cells 854140WT/CTE/W/228
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Category and product description HS code
  4.2 Wind
  Windmills
  Wind turbines
  4.3 Tidal  4.4 Geothermal  4.5 Other
  Methanol 290511
  Ethanol 220710
  Hydroelectric plant
  5. Heat/energy savings and management
  Catalysts 381500
  Multiple walled insulating units of glass 700800
  Other glass fibre products* 701990
  Heat exchange units 841950  Parts for heat exchange equipment 841990
  Heat pumps
  District heating plant
  Waste heat boilers
  Burners: fuel other than oil or gas  Fluorescent lamps, hot cathode 853931
  Electric cars
  Fuel cells
  Gas supply, production and calibrating metres 902810
  Liquid supply, production and calibrating metres 902820  Thermostats* 903210
 6. Sustainable agriculture and fisheries
 7. Sustainable forestry 8. Natural risk management
 Satellite imaging
 Seismic instruments
 9. Eco-tourism
 10. Other
   * Indicates that the HS code appears previously in the table.WT/CTE/W/228
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Environ.
activity1 HS No. ex2HS 6-digit description Additional product specification
1 R/C 2302.10 exBran, sharps and other residues, whether or not in the form of
pellets, derived from the sifting, milling or other working ofcornBooms or socks consisting of ground corn cobs
contained in a textile covering
2 WWM 3926.90 exOther articles of plastics and articles of other materials of
headings 3901 to 3914; otherBio-film medium that consists of woven fabric
sheets that facilitate the growth of bio-organisms.
3 WWM 3926.90 exOther articles of plastics and articles of other materials of
headings 3901 to 3914; otherRotating biological contactor consisting of stacks
of large (HDPE) plates that facilitate the growth ofbio-organisms.
4 WWM 4601.20 ex Mats, matting, and screens of vegetable materials Erosion control matting (biodegradable)
5 WWM 4601.20 ex Mats, matting, and screens of vegetable materials Ecologically safe ground covers (biodegradable)
6 WWM 5603.14 exNon-wovens, whether or not impregnated, coated, covered or
laminated: of manmade filaments; weighing more than 150g/m2Fabric of polyethylene/polypropylene/nylon for
filtering wastewater.
7 WWM 5911.90 exTextile products and articles, for technical uses, specified in
note 7 to this chapter; otherEnvironmental protection cloth
8 M/A 6902.10 exRefractory bricks, blocks, tiles and similar refractory ceramic
constructional goods, other than those of siliceous fossil mealsor similar siliceous earths; containing by weight, singly ortogether, more than 50% of the elements Mg, Ca or Cr,expressed as MgO, CaO or Cr
2O3Industrial incineration
9 M/A 6902.20 exRefractory bricks, blocks, tiles and similar refractory ceramic
constructional goods, other than those of siliceous fossil meals
or similar siliceous earths; containing by weight more than 50%of alumina (Al
2O3), of silica (SiO 2) or of a mixture or
compound of these productsIndustrial incinerationWT/CTE/W/228
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activity1 HS No. ex2HS 6-digit description Additional product specification
10 M/A 6902.90 exRefractory bricks, blocks, tiles and similar refractory ceramic
constructional goods, other than those of siliceous fossil mealsor similar siliceous earths; otherIndustrial incineration
11 M/A 6903.10 exOther refractory ceramic goods (for example, retorts, crucibles,
muffles, nozzles, plugs, supports, cupels, tubes, pipes, sheathsand rods), other than those of siliceous fossil meal or of similarsiliceous earths; containing by weight more than 50% of
graphite or other carbon or of a mixture of these productsLaboratory refractory equipment
12 M/A 6903.20 exOther refractory ceramic goods (for example, retorts, crucibles,
muffles, nozzles, plugs, supports, cupels, tubes, pipes, sheathsand rods), other than those of siliceous fossil meal or of similarsiliceous earths; containing by weight more than 50% ofalumina (Al
2O3) or of a mixture or compound of alumina and
silica (SiO 2)Laboratory refractory equipment
13 M/A 6903.90 exOther refractory ceramic goods (for example, retorts, crucibles,
muffles, nozzles, plugs, supports, cupels, tubes, pipes, sheathsand rods), other than those of siliceous fossil meal or of similarsiliceous earths; otherLaboratory refractory equipment
14 M/A 6909.19 exCeramic wares for laboratory, chem ical or other technical uses;
otherLaboratory equipment
15 M/A 7017.10Laboratory, hygienic or pharmaceutical glassware, whether or
not graduated or calibrated; of fused quartz or other fused silica
16 M/A 7017.20Laboratory, hygienic or pharmaceutical glassware, whether or
not graduated or calibrated; of other glass having a linear
coefficient of expansion not exceeding 5 X 10
-6 per Kelvin
within a temperature range of 0 C - 300 C
17 M/A 7017.90Laboratory, hygienic or pharmaceutical glassware, whether or
not graduated or calibrated; other
18 APC 8404.10Auxiliary plant for use with boilers of heading No. 8402 or
8403 (for example, economizers, super-heaters, soot removers,gas recoverers)WT/CTE/W/228
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activity1 HS No. ex2HS 6-digit description Additional product specification
19 APC 8404.20 Condensers for steam or other vapour power units
20 APC 8405.10 exProducer gas or water gas generators, with or without their
purifier; acetylene gas generators and similar water process gas
generator, with or without their purifiersInclude only those with purifiers.
21 N/V 8409.91 exParts suitable for use solely or principally with the engines of
heading No. 8407 or 8408; suitable for use solely or principallywith spark-ignition internal combustion piston engines.Industrial mufflers
22 APC 8409.99 exParts suitable for use solely or principally with the engines of
heading No. 8407 or 8408; otherIndustrial mufflers
23 REP 8410.11Hydraulic turbines and water wheels of a power not exceeding
1,000 kW
24 REP 8410.12Hydraulic turbines and water wheels of a power exceeding
1,000 kW but not exceeding 10,000 kW
25 REP 8410.13Hydraulic turbines and water wheels of a power exceeding
10,000 kW
26 REP 8410.90 Hydraulic turbines and water wheels; parts, including regulators
27 WWM 8413.60 exPumps for liquids, whether or not fitted with a measuring
device; other rotary positive displacement pumpsSubmersible mixer pump to circulate water in
wastewater treatment process; sewage pumps,
screw type
28 WWM 8413.70 exPumps for liquids, whether or not fitted with a measuring
device; other centrifugal pumpsCentrifugal pumps lined to prevent corrosion;
centrifugal sewage pumps
29 PWT 8413.81 exPumps for liquids, whether or not fitted with a measuring
device; other pumpsWind turbine pump
30 M/A 8414.10 Vacuum pumps
31 APC 8414.59Fans (and blowers) other than table, floor, window, ceiling or
roof fans with a self contained electric motor of an output notexceeding 125WWT/CTE/W/228
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activity1 HS No. ex2HS 6-digit description Additional product specification
32 M/A 8414.80Air or vacuum pumps, air or other gas compressors and fans;
ventilating or recycling hoods incorporating a fan, whether ornot fitted with filters; other
33 S/H 8417.80 exIndustrial or laboratory furnaces and ovens, including
incinerators, non-electric; other than bakery ovens and furnaces
for treatment of oresWaste Incinerators
34 S/H 8417.90 exParts of Industrial or Laboratory Furnaces and Ovens, Including
Incinerators, Non-electricParts of waste incinerators
35 REP 8419.19 ex Other instantaneous or storage water heaters, non-electric Solar Water Heaters
36 M/A 8419.40 Distilling or rectifying plant37 H/E 8419.50 Heat exchange units38 M/A 8419.60 Machinery for liquefying air or other gases
39 M/A 8421.19Centrifuges, including centrifugal dryers, other than cream
separators and clothes-dryers
40 WWM 8421.21Filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for liquids: for
filtering or purifying water
41 WWM 8421.29Filtering or Purifying Machinery and Apparatus For Liquids;
other
42 APC 8421.39Filtering or Purifying Machinery and Apparatus For Gases;
other
43 M/A 8421.91 ex Parts of Centrifuges, Including Centrifugal DryersCentrifuges, Accessories & Parts; except clothes
dryers and clothes dryer furniture
44 APC 8421.99Parts of filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for
liquids or gases
45 ORS 8422.20 Machinery for cleaning or drying bottles or other containers
46 WWM 8428.33 exOther continuous-action elevators and conveyors, for goods or
materials; other, belt typeBelt-type above ground conveyor used to transfer
solids or slurries between plants
47 WWM 8436.80 exOther agricultural, horticultural, forestry, poultry-keeping or
bee-keeping machineryHot water weed killing systemWT/CTE/W/228
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activity1 HS No. ex2HS 6-digit description Additional product specification
48 S/H 8462.91 exMachine tools for working metal, other than punching or
notching and combined punching and shearing; hydraulicpressesShredders/balers for metals; hydraulic
49 S/H 8472.90 ex Other office machines Paper shredders
50 S/H 8474.10 ex Sorting, screening, separating or washing machinesMachines of a kind for use in screening and
washing coal
51 ORS 8474.10 ex Sorting, screening, separating or washing machines Waste foundry sand reclamation equipment
52 ORS 8474.32 ex Machines for mixing mineral substances with bitumen Asphalt recycle equipment
53 WWM 8479.82 exMixing, kneading, crushing, grinding, screening, sifting,
homogenizing emulsifying or stirring machinesAgitator for wastewater treatment
54 ORS 8479.82 exMixing, kneading, crushing, grinding, screening, sifting,
homogenizing emulsifying or stirring machinesOther than kneading machinery
55 S/H 8479.89 exMachines and mechanical appliances having individual
functions, not elsewhere specified or included in this chapter,otherRadioactive waste press
56 WWM 8479.89 exMachines and mechanical appliances having individual
functions, not elsewhere specified or included in this chapter,otherTrash compactors
57 PWT 8479.90 exParts of Machines and mechanical appliances having individual
functions, not elsewhere specified or included in this chapter,otherParts of trash compactors
58 REP 8502.31 Generating sets, electric,  wind-powered
59 S/H 8505.90 ex Electro-magnets; other, including parts Electromagnet
60 S/H 8514.10 exIndustrial or Laboratory Fu rnaces and Ovens; electric,
resistance heatedWaste incinerators or other waste treatment
apparatus
61 S/H 8514.20 exIndustrial or Laboratory Fu rnaces and Ovens; electric,
induction or dielectricWaste incinerators or other waste treatment
apparatus
62 S/H 8514.30 ex Industrial or Laboratory Furnaces and Ovens, electric, otherWaste incinerators or other waste treatment
apparatus
63 S/H 8514.90 exParts of industrial or laborat ory electric furnaces and ovens or
other laboratory induction or dielectric heating equipmentParts of Waste incineratorsWT/CTE/W/228
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activity1 HS No. ex2HS 6-digit description Additional product specification
64 REP 8541.40 exPhotosensitive semiconductor devices, including photovoltaic
cells whether or not assembled in modules or made up intopanels; light emitting diodesSolar cells
65 WWM 8543.89 exElectrical machines and apparatus, having individual functions,
not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter; otherOzone production system
66 R/C 8907.10 ex Inflatable rafts Inflatable oil spill recovery barges
67 R/C 8907.90 ex Other floating structures Pollution protection booms
68 M/A 9015.40 Photogrammeterical surveying instruments and appliances
69 M/A 9015.80Other surveying, hydrographic , oceanographic, hydrological,
meteorological or geophysical instruments and appliances,excluding compasses
70 M/A 9015.90 exParts and accessories of su rveying, hydrological,
meteorological,  or geophysical instruments and appliances,
excluding compassesPhotogrammetric instruments; parts and
accessories for articles of subheading 9015.40
71 M/A 9022.29Apparatus based on the use of X-rays or of alpha, beta or
gamma radiations for other than medical, surgical, dental orveterinary uses
72 M/A 9022.90 exApparatus based on the use of X-rays or of alpha, beta or
gamma radiations  for other than medical, surgical, dental or
veterinary usesParts and accessories for goods of
subheading 9022.29
73 M/A 9025.11Thermometers and pyrometers, not combined with other
instruments: liquid-filled, for direct reading
74 M/A 9025.19Thermometers and pyrometers, not combined with other
instruments: other than liquid-filled, for direct reading
75 M/A 9025.80Hydrometers and similar floating instruments, thermometers
pyrometers, barometers, hygrometers, and psychrometers,recording or not, and  any co mbination of these instruments
76 M/A 9025.90Parts and Accessories for Hydrometers and similar floating
instruments, thermometers pyrometers, barometers,
hygrometers, and psychrometers, recording or not, and any
combination of these instrumentsWT/CTE/W/228
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activity1 HS No. ex2HS 6-digit description Additional product specification
77 M/A 9026.10Instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking the flow
or level of liquid
78 M/A 9026.20 Instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking pressure
79 M/A 9026.80 Other instruments and apparatus80 M/A 9026.90 Parts and accessories for articles of subheading 902681 M/A 9027.10 Gas or smoke analysis apparatus
82 M/A 9027.20 Chromatographs and electrophoresis instruments
83 M/A 9027.30Spectrometers,  Spectrophotometers and Spectrographs Using
Optical Radiations (Ultraviolet, Visible, Infrared)
84 M/A 9027.40 Exposure Meters
85 M/A 9027.50Other instruments and apparatus using optical radiations (UV,
visible, IR)
86 M/A 9027.80Other instruments and apparatus for physical or chemical
analysis
87 M/A 9027.90 Microtomes ; parts and accessories
88 M/A 9028.10 Gas Meters89 M/A 9028.20 Liquid Meters90 M/A 9028.30 Electricity Meters
91 M/A 9028.90 Parts and accessories for articles of subheading 9028
92 M/A 9030.10Instruments and apparatus for measuring or detecting ionising
radiations
93 M/A 9030.20 Cathode-ray Oscilloscopes and Cathode-ray Oscillographs94 M/A 9030.31 Multimeters
95 M/A 9030.39Other instruments and apparatus, for measuring or checking
voltage, current, resistance or power, without a recording
deviceWT/CTE/W/228
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activity1 HS No. ex2HS 6-digit description Additional product specification
96 M/A 9030.83Other instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking
electrical quantities, with a recording device
97 M/A 9030.89Other Instruments and Apparatus for Measuring or Checking
Electrical Quantities
98 M/A 9030.90 exParts and accessories (for nominated articles of subheading
9030)
99 M/A 9031.10 Machines for Balancing Mechanical Parts
100 M/A 9031.20 Test Benches
101 M/A 9031.30 Profile Projectors
102 M/A 9031.80Other Measuring or Checking Instruments, Appliances and
Machines, not elsewhere specified in this chapter
103 M/A 9031.90 exParts and accessories (for nominated articles of subheading
9031)
104 M/A 9032.10 Thermostats
105 M/A 9032.20 Manostats106 M/A 9032.81 Hydraulic and Pneumatic Instruments and Apparatus107 M/A 9032.89 Automatic Regulating or Controlling Instruments, other108 M/A 9032.90 Parts and accessories
109 M/A 9033.00Parts and Accessories (Not Speci fied or Included Elsewhere in
this Chapter) for Machines, Appliances, Instruments or
Apparatus of Ch. 90WT/CTE/W/228
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Page 32Table endnotes:
1.  Abbreviations:
APC = Air Pollution Control
H/E = Heat/Energy Management
M/A= Monitoring/Analysis
N/V = Noise/vibration abatement
ORS = Other Recycling Systems
PWT = Potable Water TreatmentR/C = Remediation/cleanup
S/H = Solid/Hazardous Waste
WWM = Waste Water Management
2.  An “ex” in the column indicates that only the “ex-heading” product (described in the last column) is being nominated.
Source:  World Trade Organization, “List of Environmental Goods — Paragr aph 31 (iii) — Note by the Secretariat”, Document no. TN/TE/W/1 8
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Page 33Annex Tables 3 and 4 respectively list the tariff nominations contained in the EVSL proposal for chemicals (supported by the Un ited States, Singapore,
Australia, and Hong Kong, China), and these were specified for the APEC Leader’s Meeting in November 1997 (reproduced in Dee et al. , 1998). The tariff
nominations were put forward as HS (harmonised system) codes common to the customs tariff schedules of each country. Two-digit nominations mean that the
entire chapter has been proposed; four-digit nominations relate to specific sub-chapters.
Annex Table 3. APEC’s EVSL proposal for chemicals: product list
HS
codeItem description (exclusions)
28 Inorganic chemicals; organic or inorganic compounds of precious metals, of rare earth metals, of radioactive elements or of i sotopes
29 Organic chemicals (but excluding HS code 2905 43, mannitol, and 44,  D-glucitol (sorbitol))
30 Pharmaceutical products
31 Fertilisers
32 Tanning or dyeing extracts; tannins and their derivatives; dyes, pigments and other colouring matter; paints and varnishes; p utty and other mastics; inks
33 Essential oils and resinoids; perfumery, cosmetic or toilet preparations (but excluding HS code 3301: essential oils, includi ng concretes and absolutes; resinoids;
oleoresins; extracts obtained by enfleurage of maceration; other terpenic and aqueous solutions)
34 Soap, organic surface active agents, washing pr eparations, lubricatin g preparations, waxes
3506 Prepared glues and other adhesives, put up for retail sale, not exceeding a net weight of 1 kg3507 Enzymes; prepared enzymes not elsewhere specified or included
36 Explosives; pyrotechnic products; matches; pyrophoric alloys; certain combustible preparations
37 Photographic or cinematographic goods38 Miscellaneous chemical products (but excluding HS code 3809.10, finishing agents with a basis of amylaceous substances; and H S code 3823.23, sorbitol other
than that of subheading 2095.44)
39 Plastics and articles thereofWT/CTE/W/228
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Page 34Annex Table 4. APEC’s EVSL for chemicals: flex ibility proposals by the sectoral co-ordinator
Target
End tariff rates CTHA harmonised rates (i.e., 0% to 6.5%)
End dates for implementation By 2001 for rates below or equal to 10%; by 2004 for other rates
Minimum conformity 80% of tariff lines to reach CHTA rates (0% to 6.5%) by 2004Flexibility 45.  For the remaining 20% of tariff lines:
46. • 15% to CHTA rates by 2006
47. • 5% (not exceeding 10% of imports) to CHTA rates by 2008
• Applied tariff rates of 20% or more to be reduced to 10% by 2004WT/CTE/W/228
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Page 35Annex Table 5. Comparison of products covered under APEC’s EVSL initiative for environmental goods and the OECD’s illustrative list of
environmental goods
List coverage HS Code  1/Product description Additional product specification
OECD APEC2
A. POLLUTION MANAGEMENT
1 Air pollution control
X 8404.10 Auxiliary plant for use with boilers of heading No. 8402 or 8403 (for
example, economizers, super-heaters, soot removers, gas recoverers)
X (ex) 8405.10 Producer gas or water gas generators, with or without their purifier;
acetylene gas generators and similar water process gas generator, with orwithout their purifiersInclude only those with purifiers.
1.1 Air-handling equipment
X X 8414.10 Vacuum pumps
X 8414.30 Compressors of a kind used in refrigerating equipmentX 8414.40 Air compressors mounted on a wheeled chassis for towing
X 8414.59 Fans (and blowers) other than table, floor, window, ceiling or roof fans with
a self contained electric motor of an output not exceeding 125W
X X 8414.80 Other air or gas compressors or hoods
X 8414.90 Parts for air or gas compressors, fans or hoods
1.2 Catalytic converters
X X 8421.39 Filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for gases
X X 8421.99 Parts for filtering or purifying machinery
1.3 Chemical recovery systems
X 2521.00 Limestone flux
X 2522.20 Slaked (hydrated) lime
X 2816.10 Magnesium hydroxide and peroxide
X Activated earthsX X 8421.39 * Filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for gasesX X 8421.99 * Parts for filtering or purifying machinery
1.4 Dust collectors
X X 8421.39 *† Filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for gases
X X 8421.99 *† Parts for filtering or purifying machinery
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X 7019.90 Other glass fibre products
X X 8419.60 Machinery for liquefying air or other gasesX 8419.89 Other machinery for treatment of materials by change of temperatureX X 8421.99 *† Parts for filtering or purifying machinery
1.6 Incinerators, scrubbers
X X (ex) 8417.80 Other furnaces, ovens, incinerators, non-electric waste incinerators
X X 8421.39 *† Filtering or Purifying Machin ery and Apparatus For Gases; other
X X 8421.99 *† Parts of filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for liquids or gases
X X (ex) 8514.10 Industrial or laboratory electric resistance furnaces Waste incinerators or other waste
treatment apparatus
X X (ex) 8514.20 Industrial or laboratory induction or dielectric furnaces Waste incinerators or other waste
treatment apparatus
X X (ex) 8514.30 Other industrial or la boratory electric furnaces and ovens Waste incinerators or other waste
treatment apparatus
X X (ex) 8514.90 Parts, industrial or laborator y electric furnaces Parts of waste incinerators
1.7 Odour control equipment
X 8424.90 Parts for sprayers for powders or liquids
2 Wastewater management
2.1 Aeration systems
X 8414.30 * Compressors of a kind used in refrigerating equipment
X 8414.40 * Air compressors mounted on a wheeled chassis for towingX X 8414.80 *† Other air or gas compressors or hoodsX 8414.90 * Parts for air or gas compressors, fans or hoods
X (ex)
38543.89 † Electrical machines and apparatus, having individual functions, not specified
or included elsewhere in this chapter; otherOzone production system
2.2 Chemical recovery systems
X 2521.00 * Limestone flux
X 2522.20 * Slaked (hydrated) lime
X 2801.10 Chlorine
X 2814.10 Anhydrous ammoniaX 2815.11 Sodium hydroxide solidX 2815.12 Sodium hydroxide in aqueous solutionX 2816.10 * Magnesium hydroxide and peroxideX * Activated earthsWT/CTE/W/228
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X 2818.30 Aluminium hydroxide
X 2820.10 Manganese dioxideX 2820.90 Manganese oxides (other)X 2824.10 Lead monoxideX 2832.10 Sodium sulphitesX 2832.20 Other sulphites
X 2835.10 Phosphinates and phosphonates
X 2835.21 Phosphates of triammoniumX 2835.22 Phosphates of monosodium or disodiumX 2835.23 Phosphates of trisodiumX 2835.24 Phosphates of potassiumX 2835.25 Calcium hydrogenorthophosphate
X 2835.26 Other phosphates of calcium
X 2835.29 Other phosphates (excl. polyphosphates)X 3802.10 Activated carbonX X 8421.21 Water filtering or purifying machinery and apparatusX X 8421.29 Other machinery for purifying liquidsX X 8421.99 Parts for filtering or purifying machinery
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2.4 Gravity sedimentation systems
X Flocculating agents
2.5 Oil/water separation systems
X X 8421.19 Other centrifuges
X X 8421.21 *† Water filtering or purifying machinery and apparatusX X 8421.29 *† Other machinery for purifying liquidsX X 8421.91 Parts of centrifugesX X 8421.99 * Parts for filtering or purifying machinery
2.6 Screens/strainers
X X (ex) 3926.90 Other articles of plastics and articles of other materials of headings 3901 to
3914; other(1) Bio-film medium that consists of
woven fabric sheets that facilitate thegrowth of bio-organisms.
Other articles of plastics and articles of other materials of headings 3901 to
3914; other(2) Rotating biological contactor
consisting of stacks of large (HDPE)
plates that facilitate the growth of bio-
organisms.
X (ex) 5603.14 Non-wovens, whether or not impregnated, coated, covered or laminated: of
manmade filaments; weighing more than 150 g/m2Fabric of polyethylene, polypropylene,
or nylon for filtering wastewater.
X X 8421.21 *† Filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for liquids: for filtering or
purifying water
X X 8421.29 *† Filtering or Purifying Machin ery and Apparatus For Liquids; other
X X 8421.99 *† Parts for filtering or purifying machinery
2.7 Sewage treatment
X Flocculating agents
X 5801.90 Woven pile & chenille fabrics of other textile materials
X (ex) 5911.90 Textile products and articles, for technical uses, specified in note 7 to this
chapter; otherEnvironmental protection cloth
X 7309.00 Tanks, vats, etc. > 300 litres
X 7310.10 Tanks, drums, etc. >50 litres <300 litresX 7310.21 Cans < 50 litres, closed by soldering or crimpingX 7310.29 Other cans < 50 litresWT/CTE/W/228
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X 8410.00 Hydraulic turbines 00
X X 8410.11 Hydraulic turbines 11X X 8410.12 Hydraulic turbines 12X X 8410.13 Hydraulic turbines 13X X 8410.90 Parts for hydraulic turbinesX X 8417.80 * Incinerators, non-electric
X 8423.81 Weighing machines capacity <30 kg
X 8423.82 Weighing machines capacity >30 kg <500 kgX 8423.89 Weighing machinesX 8424.90 * Parts for sprayers for powders or liquids
X (ex) 8428.33 Other continuous-action elevators and conveyors, for goods or materials;
other, belt typeBelt-type above ground conveyor used
to transfer solids or slurries betweenplants
X (ex) 8479.82 Mixing, kneading, crushing, grinding, screening, sifting, homogenizing
emulsifying or stirring machinesAgitator for wastewater treatment
X X (ex) 8514.10 *† Industrial/lab electric resistan ce furnaces Waste incinerators or other waste
treatment apparatus
X X (ex) 8514.20 *† Industrial/lab induction, dielect ric furnaces Waste incinerators or other waste
treatment apparatus
X X (ex) 8514.30 *† Industrial/lab electric furnaces & ovens, n.e.c. Waste incinerators or other waste
treatment apparatus
X X (ex) 8514.90 *† Parts, industrial/lab el ectric furnaces Parts of waste incinerators
2.8 Water pollution control, wastewater reuse equipmentWT/CTE/W/228
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2.9 Water handling goods and equipment
X 7325.10 Articles of cast iron
X 8413.20 Root-control equipment
X 8413.50 Positive displacement pumps, hand operated [centrifugal pumps]X X (ex) 8413.60 Pumps for liquids, whether or not fitted with a measuring device; other
rotary positive displacement pumpsSubmersible mixer pump to circulate
water in wastewater treatment process;
sewage pumps, screw type
X X (ex) 8413.70 Pumps for liquids, whether or not fitted with a measuring device; other
centrifugal pumpsCentrifugal pumps lined to prevent
corrosion; centrifugal sewage pumps
X 8413.81 Other pumps
X 8481.10 Valves, pressure reducingX 8481.30 Valves, checkX 8481.40 Valves, safetyX 8481.80 Other taps, cocks, valves, etc.
X X 9026.10 Instruments for measuring the flow or level of liquids
X X 9026.20 Instruments for measuring or checking pressure
3 Solid waste management
3.1 Hazardous waste storage and treatment equipment
X 6810.99 Other articles of cement, concrete
X 7806.00 Other articles of leadX 8516.29 Other electric space heating and soil heating apparatus
X 9013.20 Lasers
X Vitrification equipment
3.2 Waste collection equipment
X 3924.90 Household & toilet articles of plastic
X 9603.10 Brooms, hand
X 9603.50 Brushes as parts of machines, appliancesX 9603.90 Mechanical floor sweepersX Trash bin liners (plastic)
3.3 Waste disposal equipment
X 3920.20 Polypropylene sheeting, etc.WT/CTE/W/228
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OECD APEC2
X (ex) 8462.91 Machine tools for working metal, other than punching or notching and
combined punching and shearing; hydraulic pressesShredders/balers for metals; hydraulic
X (ex) 8472.90 Other office machines Paper shredders
X Compactors
X (ex)38479.89 Machines and mechanical appliances having individual functions, not
elsewhere specified or included in this chapter, otherTrash compactors
X (ex)48479.90 Parts of Machines and mechanical appliances having individual functions,
not elsewhere specified or included in this chapter, otherParts of trash compactors
X Refuse-disposal vehicles
3.4 Waste handling equipment
3.5 Waste separation equipment
X (ex) 8474.10 Sorting, screening, separating or washing machines Machines of a kind for use in screening
and washing coal
X (ex) 8505.90 Electro-magnets; other, including parts Electromagnet
X Magnetic separators
3.6 Recycling equipment
X X 8422.20 Machinery for cleaning or drying bottles or other containers
X (ex) 8474.10 † Sorting, screening, separating or washing machines Waste foundry sand reclamation
equipment
X (ex) 8474.32 Machines for mixing mineral substances with bitumen Asphalt recycle equipment
X 8474.39 Other mixing or kneading machines for earth, stone, sand, etc.X X (ex) 8479.82 Mixing, kneading, crushing, grinding, screening, sifting, homogenizing
emulsifying or stirring machinesOther than kneading machinery
X X (ex) 8479.89 † Machines and mechanical appliances having individual functions, not
elsewhere specified or included in this chapter, otherRadioactive waste press
X * Magnetic separators
X Tire-shredding machinery
3.7 Incineration equipment
X (ex)
56902.10 Refractory bricks, blocks, tiles and similar refractory ceramic constructional
goods, other than those of siliceous fossil meals or similar siliceous earths;containing by weight, singly or together, more than 50% of the elements Mg,Ca or Cr, expressed aIndustrial incinerationWT/CTE/W/228
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X (ex)56902.20 Refractory bricks, blocks, tiles and similar refractory ceramic constructional
goods, other than those of siliceous fossil meals or similar siliceous earths;
containing by weight more than 50% of alumina (Al2O3), of silica (SiO2) orof a mixture or compoundIndustrial incineration
X (ex)
56902.90 Refractory bricks, blocks, tiles and similar refractory ceramic constructional
goods, other than those of siliceous fossil meals or similar siliceous earths;
otherIndustrial incineration
X X (ex) 8417.80 *† Industrial or laboratory furnaces and ovens, including incinerators, non-
electric; other than bakery ovens and furnaces for treatment of oresWaste Incinerators
X X (ex) 8417.90 Parts of Industrial  or Laboratory Furnaces and Ovens, Including Incinerators,
Non-electricParts of waste incinerators
X X (ex) 8514.10 *† Industrial or Laboratory Furnaces and Ovens; el ectric, resistance heated Waste incinerators or other waste
treatment apparatus
X X (ex) 8514.20 *† Industrial or Laboratory Furn aces and Ovens; electric, induction or diel ectric Waste incinerators or other waste
treatment apparatus
X X (ex) 8514.30 *† Industrial or Laboratory Furnaces and Oven s, electric, other Waste incinerators or other waste
treatment apparatus
X X (ex) 8514.90 *† Parts of indust rial or laboratory electric furnaces and ovens or other
laboratory induction or dielectric heating equipmentParts of waste incinerators
4 Remediation and cleanup
4.1 Absorbents
X (ex) 2302.10 Bran, sharps and other residues, whether or not in the form of pellets,
derived from the sifting, milling or other working of cornBooms or socks consisting of ground
corn cobs contained in a textilecovering
4.2 Cleanup
X 8516.29 Other electric space heating and soil heating apparatus
X 9013.20 * LasersX Vitrification equipmentWT/CTE/W/228
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4.3 Water treatment equipment
X Surface active chemicals (not finished detergents)
X X (ex) 8543.89 † Other electrical machines and apparatus with one function Ozone production system
X (ex) 8907.10 Inflatable rafts Inflatable oil spill recovery bargesX (ex) 8907.90 Other floating structures Pollution protection booms
X Oil spillage cleanup equipment
5 Noise and vibration abatement
5.1 Mufflers/silencers
X X (ex) 8409.91 Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the engines of heading No.
8407 or 8408; suitable for use solely or principally with spark-ignition internalcombustion piston engines.Industrial mufflers
X 8409.99 Parts for diesel or semi-diesel engines
X 8708.92 Silencers and exhaust pipes, motor vehicles
5.2 Noise deadening material
5.3 Vibration control systems
5.4 Highway barriers
6 Environmental monitoring, analysis and assessment
6.1 Measuring and monitoring equipment
X (ex) 6903.10 Other refractory ceramic goods (for example, retorts, crucibles, muffles,
nozzles, plugs, supports, cupels, tubes, pipes, sheaths and rods), other than
those of siliceous fossil meal or of similar siliceous earths; Containing by
weight more than 50 % of graphite or other carbon or of a mixture of theseproductsLaboratory refractory equipment
X (ex) 6903.20 Other refractory ceramic goods (for example, retorts, crucibles, muffles,
nozzles, plugs, supports, cupels, tubes, pipes, sheaths and rods), other thanthose of siliceous fossil meal or of similar siliceous earths; Containing byweight more than 50 % of alumina (Al2O3) or of a mixture or compound of
alumina and of silica (SiO2)Laboratory refractory equipment
X (ex) 6903.90 Other refractory ceramic goods (for example, retorts, crucibles, muffles,
nozzles, plugs, supports, cupels, tubes, pipes, sheaths and rods), other than
those of siliceous fossil meal or of similar siliceous earths; otherLaboratory refractory equipmentWT/CTE/W/228
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X (ex) 6909.19 Ceramic wares for laboratory, chemical or other technical uses; other Laboratory equipment
X 7017.10 Laboratory, hygienic or pharmaceutical glassware, whether or not graduated or
calibrated; of fused quartz or other fused silica
X 7017.20 Laboratory, hygienic or pharmaceutical glassware, whether or not graduated or
calibrated; of other glass having a linear coefficient of expansion not
exceeding 5 x 10-6 per Kelvin within a temperature range of 0 ºC to 300 ºC
X 7017.90 Laboratory, hygienic or pharmaceutical glassware, whether or not graduated or
calibrated; other
X 8414.10 Vacuum pumps
X 8414.80 Air or vacuum pumps, air or other gas compressors and fans; ventilating or
recycling hoods incorporating a fan, whether or not fitted with filters; other
X 8419.40 Distilling or rectifying plant
X 8419.60 Machinery for liquefying air or other gases
X 8421.19 Centrifuges, including centrifugal dryers, other than cream separators and
clothes-dryers
X (ex) 8421.91 Parts of Centrifuges, Including Centrifugal Dryers Centrifuges, Accessories & Parts;
except clothes dryers and clothes
dryer furniture
X 9015.40 Photogrammeterical surveying instruments and appliances
X 9015.80 Other surveying, hydrographic, o ceanographic, hydrolog ical, meteorological
or geophysical instruments and appliances, excluding compasses
X (ex) 9015.90 Parts and accessories of survey ing, hydrological, meteorological,  or
geophysical instruments and appliances, excluding compassesPhotogrammetric in struments; parts
and accessories for articles of
subheading 9015.40
X 9022.29 Apparatus based on the use of X-rays or of alpha, beta or gamma radiations for
other than medical, surgical, dental or veterinary uses
X (ex) 9022.90 Apparatus based on the use of X-rays or of alpha, beta or gamma radiations
for other than medical, surgical, dental or veterinary usesParts and accessories for goods of
subheading 9022.29
X X 9025.11 Thermometers and pyrometers, not combined with other instruments: liquid-
filled, for direct reading
X X 9025.19 Thermometers and pyrometers, not combined with other instruments: other
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X X 9025.80 Hydrometers and similar floating instruments, thermometers pyrometers,
barometers, hygrometers, and psychrometers, recording or not, and  any
combination of these instruments
X 9025.90 Parts and Accessories for Hydrom eters and similar floating instruments,
thermometers pyrometers, barometers, hygrometers, and psychrometers,
recording or not, and any combination of these instruments
X 9026.10 † Instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking the flow or level of
liquid
X 9026.20 † Instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking pressure
X X 9026.80 Other instruments and apparatusX X 9026.90 Parts and accessories for articles of subheading 9026X X 9027.10 Gas or smoke analysis apparatusX X 9027.20 Chromatographs and electrophoresis instruments
X X 9027.30 Spectrometers,  Spectrophotometers and Spectrographs Using Optical
Radiations (Ultraviolet, Visible, Infrared)
X X 9027.40 Exposure Meters [including sound-level meters]
X X 9027.50 Other instruments and apparatus using optical radiations (UV, visible, IR)
X X 9027.80 Other instruments and apparatus for physical or chemical analysis
X X 9027.90 Microtomes; parts and accessories
X 9028.10 Gas Meters
X 9028.20 Liquid Meters
X 9028.30 Electricity MetersX 9028.90 Parts and accessories for articles of subheading 9028
X X 9030.10 Instruments and apparatus for measuring or detecting ionising radiations
X 9030.20 Cathode-ray Oscilloscopes and Cathode-ray Oscillographs
X 9030.31 Multimeters
X 9030.39 Other instruments and apparatus, for measuring or checking voltage, current,
resistance or power, without a recording device
X 9030.83 Other instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking electrical
quantities, with a recording device
X 9030.89 Other Instruments and Apparatus for Measuring or Checking Electrical
Quantities
X (ex) 9030.90 Parts and accessories (for nominated articles of subheading 9030)
X 9031.10 Machines for Balancing Mechanical PartsX 9031.20 Test BenchesWT/CTE/W/228
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X 9031.30 Profile Projectors
X 9031.49 Other optical instrumentsX X 9031.80 Other Measuring or Checking Instruments, Appliances and Machines, not
elsewhere specified in this chapter
X (ex) 9031.90 Parts and accessories (for nominated articles of subheading 9031)
X X 9032.20 ManostatsX X 9032.81 Hydraulic and Pneumatic Instruments and Apparatus
X X 9032.89 Automatic Regulating or Controlling Instruments, other
X 9032.90 Parts and accessoriesX 9033.00 Parts and Accessories (Not Specified or Included Elsewhere in this Chapter)
for Machines, Appliances, Instruments or Apparatus of Ch. 90
X Auto emissions testers
6.2 Sampling systems
6.3 Process and control equipment
X X 9032.10 Thermostats
X Electrical process control equipmentX On-board monitoring/control
6.4 Data acquisition equipment
6.5 Other instruments/machines
B CLEANER TECHNOLOGIES AND PRODUCTS
1 Cleaner/resource efficient t echnologies and processes
X Electrochemical apparatus / plant
X Extended cooking (pulp)X Oxygen delignificationX Ultrasonic cleaningX Fluidised bed combustion
2 Cleaner/resource efficient products
X CFC substitutes
X 2847.00
6Hydrogen peroxide
X Peat replacements (e.g. bark)X Water-based adhesivesX 3209.10 Paints and varnishes, in aqueous medium, acrylic or vinylX 3209.90 Other paints and varnishes, in aqueous mediumWT/CTE/W/228
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X Double-hulled oil tankers
X Low-noise compressors
C RESOURCES MANAGEMENT GROUP
1 Indoor air pollution control
2 Water supply
2.1 Potable water treatment
2.2 Water purification systems
X 2801.10 * Chlorine
X (ex)38543.89 † Electrical machines and apparatus, having individual functions, not specified
or included elsewhere in this chapter; otherOzone production system
2.3 Potable water supply and distribution
X 2201.00 Water, incl. natural or artificial mineral water
X 2851.00 Distilled and conductivity water
X 3914.00 Ion exchangers (polymer)
3 Recycled materials
3.1 Recycled paper
3.2 Other recycled products
4 Renewable energy plant
4.1 Solar energy
X 8419.11 Instantaneous gas water heaters
X X (ex) 8419.19 Other instantaneous or storage water heaters, non-electric Solar Water HeatersX X (ex) 8541.40 Photosensitive semiconductor devices, including photovoltaic cells whether or
not assembled in modules or made up into panels; light emitting diodesSolar cells
4.2 Wind energy
X Windmills
X Wind turbines
X (ex) 8413.81 Pumps for liquids, whether or not fitted with a measuring device; other pumps Wind turbine pump
X 8502.31 Generating sets, electric,  wind-powered
4.3 Tidal energy
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4.5 Other
X 2207.10 Ethanol
X 2905.11 MethanolX Hydroelectric plant
X 8410.11 † Hydraulic turbines and water wheels of a power not exceeding 1,000 kW
X 8410.12 † Hydraulic turbines and water wheels of a power exceeding 1,000 kW but not
exceeding 10,000 kW
X 8410.13 † Hydraulic turbines and water wheels of a power exceeding 10,000 kW
X 8410.90 † Hydraulic turbines and water wheels; parts, including regulators
5 Heat/energy savings and management
X 3815.00 Catalysts
X 7008.00 Multiple walled insulating units of glassX 7019.90 * Other glass fibre products
X 8404.20 Condensers for steam or other vapour power units
X (ex) 8409.99 Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the engines of heading No.
8407 or 8408; otherIndustrial mufflers
X X 8419.50 Heat exchange units
X 8419.90 Parts for heat exchange equipmentX Heat pumpsX District heating plantX Waste heat boilers
X Burners: fuel other than oil or gas
X 8539.31 Fluorescent lamps, hot cathodeX Electric carsX Fuel cellsX X 9028.10 † Gas supply, production and calibrating metresX X 9028.20 † Liquid supply, production and calibrating metres
X 9032.10 * Thermostats
6 Sustainable agriculture and fisheries
X (ex)
34601.20 Mats, matting, and screens of vegetable materials (1) Erosion control matting
(biodegradable)
(2) Ecologically safe ground covers
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X (ex)38436.80 Other agricultural, horticultural, forestry, poultry-keeping or bee-keeping
machineryHot-water weed killing system
7 Sustainable forestry
8 Natural risk management
8.1 Satellite imaging
8.2 Seismic instruments
9 Eco-tourism
10 Other
Table endnotes:
1.  A single asterisk (*) indicates that the HS code appears prev iously in the OECD list; a cross (†) indicates that the HS cod e appears previously in the APEC list.
2.  An “ex” in the column indicates that only the “ex-heading” product (described in the last column) is being nominated.
3. Classified under “Waste Water Management” in the APEC list.
4. Classified under “Potable Water Treatment” in the APEC list.
5. Classified under “Monitoring/Analysis” in the APEC list.
6. Originally listed as 2801.10 in the OECD list.
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Category, HS code Product description Add. product specification
1.  Pollution Management
1.1  Air Pollution Control
2521.00 Limestone flux; limestone and other calcareous stone, of a kind used for the manufacture of lime or
cement
7019.90 Glass fibres other than slivers, rovings, yarn, chopped strands, webs, mats, thin sheets, mattresses,
boards and similar non-woven productsex Separators, Precipitators
8404.10 Auxiliary plant for use with boilers of heading No. 84.02 or 84.03
8404.20 Condensers for steam or other vapour power units8405.10 Producer gas or water gas generators, with or without their purifiers; acetylene gas generators and
similar water process gas generators, with or without their purifiersex Include only those with purifiers
8414.10 Vacuum pumps
8414.30 Compressors of a kind used in refrigerating equipment8414.40 Air compressors mounted on a wheeled chassis for towing8414.59 Fans other than table, floor, wall, window, ceiling or roof fans, with a self-contained electric motor of
an output not exceeding 125 W
8414.80 Air or Vacuum pumps, air or vacuum compressors and fans; other
8414.90 Parts of  HS headings 84148419.40 Distilling or rectifying plant8419.60 Machinery for liquefying air or other gases8419.89 Machinery, plant or laboratory equipment, whether or not electrically heated (excluding furnaces,
ovens and other equipment of heading 85.14), for the treatment of materials by a process involving a
change of temperature such as heating, cooking, roasting, distilling, rectifying, sterilising, pasteurising,
steaming, drying, evaporating, vaporising, condensing or cooling, other than machinery or plant of akind used for domestic purposes; instantaneous or storage water heaters, non-electric.ex Machinery for treatment of
materials by change of
temperature
8421.39 Filtering or Purifying Machiner y and Apparatus For Gases; other
8421.99 Parts of Centrifuges, Including Centrifugal Dryers
8424.90 Parts of Mechanical appliances for projecting, dispersing or spraying liquids or powders; fire
extinguishers, whether or not charged; spray guns and similar machines and similar jet projectingmachines.
8509.10 Vacuum cleaners ex Jet-turn type cleanerWT/CTE/W/228
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1.2  Waste Water Management
7325.10 Other cast articles of iron or steel ;Of non-malleable cast iron8413.20 Hand pumps, other than those of subheading No. 8413.11 or 8413.198413.50 Other reciprocating positive displacement pumps
8413.60 Other rotary positive displacement pumps ex Submersible mixer pump to
circulate water in wastewatertreatment process; sewagepumps, screw type
8413.70 Other centrifugal pumps ex Centrifugal pumps lined to
prevent corrosion; centrifugal
sewage pumps
8421.19 Centrifuges, including centrifugal dryers, other than cream separators and clothes-dryers
8421.21 Filtering or purifying machinery and appara tus for liquids: for filtering or purifying water
8421.29 Filtering or Purifying Machiner y and Apparatus For Liquids; other
8421.91 Parts of Centrifuges, Including Centrifugal Dryers ex Centrifuges, Accessories &
Parts; except clothes dryers andclothes dryer furniture
8423.81 Weighing Machinery having a maximum weighing capacity not exceeding 30 kg8423.82 Weighing Machinery having a maximum weighing capacity exceeding 30 kg but not exceeding 5000
kg
8423.89 Other Weighing Machinery8428.33 Other lifting, handling, loading or unloading machinery (for example, lifts, escalators, conveyors,
teleferics) ;Otherex Belt-type above ground
conveyor used to transfer solidsor slurries between plants
8436.80 Other agricultural, horticultural, forestry, poultry-keeping or bee-keeping machinery, including
germination plant fitted with mechanical or thermal equipment; poultry incubators and brooders ;Otherex Hot water weed killing system
8479.82 Mixing, kneading, crushing, grinding, screening, sifting, homogenising, emulsifying or stirring
machinesex Other than kneading machinery
8479.89 Machines and mechanical appliances having indivisual functions, not specified or included elsewhere
in this Chapterex Trash compactors
8481.10 Pressure-reducing valves
8481.30 Check valves
8481.40 Safety or relief valves8481.80 Other valves8543.89 Parts of Electrical machines and apparatus, having individual functions, not specified or included
elsewhere in this Chapter.ex Ozone production systemWT/CTE/W/228
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1.3  Monitoring/Analysis
6909.19 Ceramic wares for laboratory, chemical or other technical uses; ceramic troughs, tubs and similar
receptacles of a kind used in agriculture; ceramic pots, jars and similar articles of a kind used for theconveyance or packing of goods ;Otherex Laboratory equipment
9015.40 Photogrammeterical surveying instruments and appliances
9015.80 Other surveying, hydrographic, oceanograph ic, hydrological, meteor ological or geophysical
instruments and appliances, excluding compasses
9015.90 Parts and accessories of survey ing, hydrological, mete orological,  or geophysical instruments and
appliances, excluding compasses
9022.29 Apparatus based on the use of X-rays or of alpha, beta or gamma radiations for other than medical,
surgical, dental or veterinary uses
9022.90 Apparatus based on the use of X-rays or of alpha, beta or gamma radiations  for other than medical,
surgical, dental or veterinary usesex Parts and accessories for goods
of subheading 9022.29
9025.11 Thermometers and pyrometers, not combined with other instruments: liquid-filled, for direct reading
9025.19 Thermometers and pyrometers, not combined with other instruments: other than liquid-filled, for direct
reading
9025.80 Hydrometers and similar floating instruments, thermometers pyrometers, barometers, hygrometers, and
psychrometers, recording or not, and  any combination of these instruments
9025.90 Parts and Accessories for Hydrometers and similar floating instruments, thermometers pyrometers,
barometers, hygrometers, and psychrometers, recording or not, and any combination of theseinstruments
9026.10 Instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking the flow or level of liquid9026.20 Instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking pressure
9026.80 Other instruments and apparatus
9026.90 Parts and accessories for articles of subheading 90269027.10 Gas or smoke analysis apparatus9027.20 Chromatographs and electrophoresis instruments9027.30 Spectrometers,  Spectrophotometers and Spectrographs Using Optical Radiations (Ultraviolet, Visible,
Infrared)
9027.40 Exposure Meters9027.50 Other instruments and apparatus using optical radiations (UV, visible, IR)9027.80 Other instruments and apparatus for physical or chemical analysis9027.90 Microtomes; parts and accessories9028.10 Gas Meters
9028.20 Liquid Meters
9028.30 Electricity Meters9028.90 Parts and accessories for articles of subheading 90289030.10 Instruments and apparatus for measuring or detecting ionising radiations9030.20 Cathode-ray Oscilloscopes and Cathode-ray OscillographsWT/CTE/W/228
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9030.31 Multimeters
9030.39 Other instruments and apparatus, for measuring or checking voltage, current, resistance or power,
without a recording device
9030.83 Other instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking electrical quantities, with a recording
device
9030.89 Other Instruments and Apparatus for Measuring or Checking Electrical Quantities
9030.90 Parts and accessories (for nominated articles of subheading 9030)9031.10 Machines for Balancing Mechanical Parts9031.20 Test Benches9031.30 Profile Projectors
9031.49 Other Measuring and Checking instruments, appliances and machines, not specified or included
elsewhere in this chapter
9031.80 Other Measuring or Checking Instruments, Appliances and Machines, not elsewhere specified in this
chapter
9031.90 Parts and accessories of Hs headings 90319032.10 Thermostats
9032.20 Manostats
9032.81 Hydraulic and Pneumatic Instruments and Apparatus9032.89 Automatic Regulating or Controlling Instruments, other9032.90 Parts and accessories9033.00 Parts and Accessories (Not Specifi ed or Included Elsewhere in this Chapter) for Machines, Appliances,
Instruments or Apparatus of Ch. 90
1.4  Solid Waste Management
6810.99 Articles of cement, of concrete or of artificial stone, whether or not reinforced ;Other7017.10 Laboratory, hygienic or pharmaceutical gl assware ;Of fused quartz or other fused silica
7017.20 Laboratory, hygienic or pharmaceutical glassware ;Of other glass having a linear coefficient of
expansion not exceeding 5 x 10 -6 per Kelvin within a temperature range of 0C to 300C
7017.90 Laboratory, hygienic or pharmaceutical glassware ;Other
7806.00 Other articles of lead8417.80 Industrial or laboratory furnaces and ovens, includ ing incinerators, non-electri c ;Other ex Waste Incinerators
8417.90 Parts of Industrial or laboratory furnaces and ovens, including incinerators, non-electric ex Waste Incinerators ;Parts
8462.91 Hydraulic presses ex Shredders/balers for metals;
hydraulic
8464.90 Machine-tools for working stone, ceramics, concrete, asbestos-cement or like mineral materials or for
cold working glass; Otherex Machine-tools for cold working
glass
8472.90 Other office machines (for example, hectograph or stencil duplicating machines, addressing machines,
automatic banknote dispensers, coin-sorting machines, coin-counting or wrapping machines, pencil-sharpening machines, perforating or stapling machines)  ;Otherex Paper shreddersWT/CTE/W/228
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8474.10 Sorting, screening, separating or washing machines ex Machines of a kind for use in
screening and washing coal
8474.39 Mixing or kneading machines : ex Mixing or kneading machines8475.29 Machines for manufacturing or hot working glass or grassware :Other8479.82 Mixing, kneading, crushing, grinding, screening, sifting, homogenising, emulsifying or stirring
machinesex Magnetic separator
8479.89 Machines and mechanical appliances having indivisual functions, not specified or included elsewhere
in this Chapter; Otherex Radioactive waste press
8479.90 Machines and mechanical appliances having indivisual functions, not specified or included elsewhere
in this Chapter; Partsex Parts of trash compactor
8480.50 Moulds for glass
8505.90 Electro-magnets; other, including parts ex Electromagnet8514.10 Industrial or Laboratory Furnaces  and Ovens; electric, resistance h eated ex Waste incinerators or other
waste treatment apparatus
8514.20 Industrial or Laboratory Furnaces an d Ovens; electric, induction or diel ectric ex Waste incinerators or other
waste treatment apparatus
8514.30 Industrial or Laboratory Furnaces and Ovens, electric, other ex Waste incinerators or other
waste treatment apparatus
8514.90 Parts of Industrial or Laboratory Furnaces and Ovens8516.29 Electric space heating apparatus an d electric soil heating apparatus ;Other ex Electric space heating and soil
heating apparatus
8705.90 Special-purpose motor vehicles, other than those principally designed for the transport of persons or
goods (for example, breakdown lorries, crane lorries, fire fighting vehicles, concrete-mixer lorries, road
sweeper lorries, spraying lorries, mobile workex Refuse disposal vehicles
9013.20 Lasers, other than laser diodes
9603.10 Brooms and brushes, consisting of twigs or other vegetable materials bound together, with or without
handles
9603.50 Other brushes constituting parts of machines, appliances or vehicles
9603.90 Brooms, brushes (including brushes constituting parts of machines, appliances or vehicles), hand-
operated mechanical floor sweepers, not motorised, mops and feather dusters; prepared knots and tufts
for broom or brush making; paint pads and rollers; squeeex Mechanical floor sweepers
1.5  Remediation/cleanup
8418 Refrigerators, freezers and other refrigerating or freezi ng equipment, electric or other; heat pumps other
than air conditioning machines of heading No. 84.15.ex Ion refrigerators able to dispose
of germs
8907.10 Inflatable rafts ex Inflatable oil-spill recovery
barges
8907.90 Other floating structures;Other ex Pollution protection booms
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8409.91 Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the engines of heading No. 84.07 or 84.08 ex Industrial mufflers
8409.99 Parts suitable for use solely or principally with spark-ignition internal combustion piston engines: ex Industrial muffler s
8708.92 Silencers and exhaust pipes
2.  Cleaner Technology and products
48 Paper and paperboard; articles of paper pulp, of paper or of paperboard ex Recycled paper
8415 Air conditioning machines, comprising a motor-driven fan and elements for changing the temperature
and humidity, including those machines in which the humidity cannot be separately regulated.ex Inverter type air conditioner
8415.90 Parts of Air conditioning machines ex Temperature controller
8418 Refrigerators, freezers and other refrigerating or freezi ng equipment, electric or other; heat pumps other
than air conditioning machines of heading No. 84.15.ex Non-flon [i.e., no HFC-134a]
refrigerator
8418 Refrigerators, freezers and other refrigerating or freezi ng equipment, electric or other; heat pumps other
than air conditioning machines of heading No. 84.15ex Inverter type air conditioner
8422.11 Dish washing machines; machinery for cleaning or drying bottles or other containers; machinery for
filling, closing, sealing or labelling bottles, cans, boxes, bags or other containers; machinery forcapsuling bottles, jars, tubes and similar containers; Householdtypeex Ultrasonic dish washing
machine
ex Dish washing machine capable
of saving detergents
ex Dish washing machine capable
of saving water
8450 Household or laundry-type washing machines, including machines which both wash and dry ex Ultrasonic washing machines
ex Washing machine capable of
saving detergents
ex Washing machine capable of
saving water
8471.70 Storage units ex DVD-ROM
8509.80 Electro-mechanical domestic appliances, with self-contained electric motor. ex Gabbage degrader
8516.50 Microwave ovens Resource efficient type
8516.60 Other ovens ; cookers, cooking plates, boiling rings, grillers and roasters ex IH electric cooker
8516.79 Electric instantaneous or storage water heaters an d immersion heaters; electric space heating apparatus
and soil heating apparatus; electro-thermic hair-dressing apparatus (for example, hair dryers, haircurlers, curling tong heaters) and hand dryers ; electric smoothing irons; other electro-thermic
appliances of a kind used for domestic purposes; electric heating resistors, other than those of heading
85.45;Otherex IH rice cookers
8528.30 Video projectors ex LCD TypeWT/CTE/W/228
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8526.91 Radar apparatus, radio navigational aid appara tus and radio remote control apparatus; Radio
navigational aid apparatus:ex Car navigation system capable
of receiving traffic jam
information
8528.12 Reception apparatus for television, whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or
video recording or reproducing apparatus ;Colorex PDP Type
ex LCD Type
8703.22 Motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of persons (other than those
of heading No. 87.02), including station wagons an d racing cars; Of a cylinder capacity exceeding
1,000 cc but not exceeding 1,500 ccex Hybrid Car
8703.90 Motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of persons (other than those
of heading No. 87.02), including station wagons and racing cars; Otherex Cars designed for defusing
nuisance
8901.20 Tankers ex Double-hulled oil tankers
9013.80 Flat panel displays devices (including LCD, Electro Luminescence, Plasma, Vacuum Fluorescence and
other technologies) for products falling within this agreement, and parts thereof.
3.  Resource Management
8410.11 Hydraulic turbines and water wheels of a power not exceeding 1,000 kW
8410.12 Hydraulic turbines and water wheels of a power exceeding 1,000 kW but not exceeding 10,000 kW
8410.13 Hydraulic turbines and water wheels of a power exceeding 10,000 kW
8410.90 Hydraulic turbines and water wheels; parts, including regulators
8413.81 Pumps for liquids, whether or not fitted with a measuring device; other pumps ex Pumps for windmills8413.81 Pumps for liquids, whether or not fitted with a measuring device; other pumps ex Heat Pumps8414.80 Pumps for airs, whether or not fitted with  a measuring device; other pumps ex Heat Pumps
8419.19  Instantaneous or storage water heaters, non-electric ;other ex Burner; fuel other than oil or gas
ex Solar Water Heaters
ex Waste heat boilers
8502.31 Electric generating sets and rotary converters ;Wind-powered8506.80 Primary cells and primary batteries ;Other ex Fuel Cells8516.10 Liquid pumps ex Water heating machine using
heating pumps
8541.40 Photosensitive semiconductor devices, including photovoltaic cells whether or not assembled in
modules or made up into panels; light emitting diodesex Solar electric generators
ex Solar panel
ex Solar cellsWT/CTE/W/228
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3.2  Heat/Energy savings and management
7008.00 Multiple-walled insulating units of glass8419.50 Heat exchange units8419.90 Parts of HS headings 8419 ex Heat exchange units ;Parts
8539.31 Electric filament or discharge lamps, including sealed beam lamp units and ultra-violet or infra-red
lamps; arc-lamps; Fluorescent, hot cathode
3.3  Other Recycling System
6309.00 Worn clothing and other worn articles
6310 Used or new rags, scrap twine, cordage, rope and cables and worn out articles of twine, cordage, rope
or cables, of textile materials.
8422.20 Machinery for cleaning or drying bottles or other containers8474.32 Machines for mixing mineral substances with bitumen ex Asphalt recycle equipment8479.82 Mixing, kneading, crushing, grinding, screening, sifting, homogenising, emulsifying or stirring
machinesex Other than kneading machines
Source:  Government of Japan, “Market Access for Non-Agricultural Produc ts — Communication from Japan”, WTO document code TN/MA/W/15 &
TN/TE/W/17,  20 November 2002, World Trade Organization, Geneva
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