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WT/ACC/SPEC/KAZ/10/Rev.3 
26 September 2012 
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Working Party on the  
Accession of Kazakhstan  
  
 
 
WORKING PARTY ON THE ACCESSION OF  
KAZAKHSTAN TO THE WTO 
Market Access Negotiations on Trade in Goods:  Revised Draft Consolidated Schedule of Tariff 
Concessions and Commitments in HS 2007 and Co mparison with the Schedule of Concessions and 
Commitments on Goods of the Russian Federation (Schedule CLXV)1 in HS 2007 
 
 The Secretariat-chaired Informal Technical Verification Meeting on the Draft Consolidated 
Schedule of Tariff Concessions and Commitments in HS 2007 took place on Friday, 20 July 2012.  
As follow-up to the Verification Meeting, Kazakhs tan submitted a proposal to simplify the 246 tariff 
lines containing "multiple duties" on 12 September 20122.  Please find the revised tables reflecting 
Kazakhstan's proposal on these tariff lines in the:  
1) revised Draft Consolidated Schedule of Tariff Concessions and Commitments of 
Kazakhstan in HS 20023;  
2) revised Draft Consolidated Schedule of Tariff Concessions and Commitments on 
Agricultural Goods of Kazakhstan in HS 20074; 
3) revised Draft Consolidated Schedule of Tariff Concessions and Commitments on 
Non-agricultural Goods of  Kazakhstan in HS 20075;  
4) revised Table comparing the Draft Consolidated Schedule of Tariff Concessions and 
Commitments of Kazakhstan in HS 2007 w ith the Schedule of Tariff Concessions 
and Commitments of the Russian Federation (Schedule CLXV) in HS 2007;  
5) revised Correlation Table transposing the Draft Consolidated Schedule of Tariff 
Concessions and Commitments of Kaza khstan from HS 2002 to HS 2007; and 
6) Technical Note (Annex 1) explaining the methodology utilized by the Secretariat in 
the preparation of the Draft Consolidated Schedule of Tariff Concessions and Commitments of Kazakhstan in HS 2007. 
 
 This Draft Consolidated Schedule of Tariff Concessions and Commitmen ts of Kazakhstan is 
without prejudice to the rights of Members that  are still negotiating with the Delegation of 
Kazakhstan.  The results of these negotiations will be incorporated in the revised and updated Draft 
Consolidated Schedule of Tariff Concessions and Commi tments of Kazakhstan to be circulated by the 
Secretariat.   
                                                      
1 In English only. 
2 Based on this proposal, multiple duties for 74 tariff lines were simplified by retaining the lowest duty 
associated with individual tariff lin es.  For the remaining 172 tariff li nes with multiple duties, Kazakhstan 
retained only duties associated with tariff lines having more than US$100,000 imports for the years 2007, 2010 and 2011. 
3 Changes from the previous version (WT/ACC/SPEC/KAZ/10/Rev.1) are identified in the 
Technical Note. 
4 The changes are flagged in column "Secretariat Note". 
5 The changes are flagged in column "Secretariat Note". WT/ACC/SPEC/KAZ/10/Rev.3 
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   For ease of reference, this document is being forwarded by electronic mail.  The attached 
package consists of one Excel file.   
 Comments and questions on technical issues and pr oposals for strictly technical corrections, if 
any, should be addressed to Mr. Mustapha Se kkate, Mr. Dayong Yu and Ms. Nadia Ferdi in the 
Secretariat by Friday, 5 October 2012 at the latest. 
 In accordance with WTO Accession practice,  a WTO Secretariat-chaired Technical 
Verification Meeting will be convened on Monday , 8 October 2012.  A relevant notice will be 
forwarded by the Director of the Accessions Division.    WT/ACC/SPEC/KAZ/10/Rev.3 
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  ANNEX 1 
 
Transposition into HS 2007 Nomenclature and A lignment on the Nomenclature of the Schedule of 
Tariff Concessions and Commitments of the Ru ssian Federation (Schedule CLXV) in HS 2007 
 
Technical Note 
 
1. This Note details the contents of the attach ed Excel file as well as the methodology used by 
the Secretariat to prepare it.  It should be noted th at this file was not reviewed by the Delegation of 
Kazakhstan prior to circulation. 
 2. The file contains 6 worksheets: 
 
Table 1_HS02:  the revised Draft Consolidated Schedule of Tariff Concessions and 
Commitments of Kazakhstan in HS 2002; 
 
Table 2_HS07_Ag:  the draft HS 2007 Consolidation of Tariff Concessions and Commitments 
on Agricultural Goods; 
 
Table 3 _HS07_NAMA:  the draft HS2007 Consolidation of Tariff Concessions and 
Commitments on non-agricultural Goods;  
 
Table 4_Comparison:  the comparison with the tariff concessions in the Schedule of Tariff Concessions and Commitments of the Russian Federation (Schedule CLXV) in HS 2007; 
 
Table 5 Concordance_HS02_Col:  Correlation Ta ble between the revised Draft Consolidated 
Schedule of Tariff Concessions and Commitments  of Kazakhstan from HS 2002 to HS 2002 
collapsed;  
Table 6_Concordance_Col_HS07:  Correlation Table between HS 2002 collapsed and the 
Draft Consolidated Schedule of Tariff C oncessions and Commitments of Kazakhstan in 
HS 2007. 
 
 
Revised draft HS 2002 Consolidation of Ta riff Concessions and Commitments on Goods 
 
3. The Secretariat has used as a starting point for its work the revised draft consolidated 
Schedule of Tariff Concessions and Commi tments of Kazakhstan, in HS 2002 
(WT/ACC/SPEC/KAZ/10/Rev.1).  The following a dditional corrections were introduced in the 
version now distributed.  The information in bold is  to be added and information in strikethrough 
format has been deleted in the attached re vised draft Tariff Consolidation in HS 2002. 
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Product Code Product Description IBR FBR IP INR 
8704221000 motor vehicles, with compression-ignition internal 
combustion piston engine ""die sel or semi-diesel"" of a 
gross vehicle weight more than 5 tonnes but not more than 
20 tonnes, for the transport of highly radioactive materials 
[euratom] 15 5 10 3 EU,JP,US 
8704311000 New motor vehicles, with spark-ignition internal 
combustion piston engine, of a gross vehicle weight not 
more than 5 tonnes, of a cylinder capacity more than 
2.800 cm3, (excl. specially designed for the transport of 
highly radio) motor vehicles, with spark-ignition 
internal combustion piston engine, of a gross vehicle 
weight no more than 5 tonnes, for the transport of 
highly radioactive materials [euratom]  15 5 3 EU,JP,US 
8704313100 New motor vehicles for the transport of goods, with spark-
ignition internal combustion piston engine, of a gross 
vehicle weight not more than 5 tonnes, of a cylinder capacity more than 2.800 cm3, (excl. specially designed 
for the transport of highly radioactive materials ) 15 10 3 EU,JP, US 
 
Draft Consolidation of Tariff Concessions  and Commitments on Goods in HS 2007 
 
4. To facilitate the use of the Russian Federa tion HS02 to HS07 correlation table which provides 
the link with the Russian Federation schedule in HS 07 nomenclature the first step was the aggregation 
of the HS02 Schedule to the HS 6-digit subheading level for all tariff lines within one subheading 
having strictly identical concession informati on, i.e. same initial and final bound rates, 
implementation period, initial nego tiating rights (INR) and TRQs where applicable.  The result of this 
process is presented in table Concordan ce_HS02_Col in the attached Excel file. 
 
5. The second step consisted in linking  Table Concordance_HS02_Col to the 
Russian Federation's HS02 to HS07 correlation tabl e.  The result of this process is listed in 
Table Concordance_Col_HS07.  
 
6. In order to facilitate the verification of the correlation, the Secretariat has flagged in column 
Datasource four main categories of correlations. 
 
 "Automatic":   all tariff lines within individual HS 07 6-digit subheadings have the same 
concession information as they are created from one or more HS02 subheadings having 
identical concession information.  
 
 "RF's conc" :  individual distinct tariff lines in HS 07 are based on one or more HS02 tariff 
lines having the same concession information usi ng the Russian Federation Correlation Table. 
 
 "RF simplified" :  Individual distinct tariff lines in HS07 are based on more than one HS02 
tariff lines having different concession information.  All the INRs found in any of the 
underlying HS02 tariff lines were assigned to the new HS07 tariff line.  Only when there are 
differences in IBR, FBR or IP, instead of selecting one amongst the different possible values found in the Russian Federation Correlation Ta ble (and in the draft HS02 Goods Schedule), 
only the lowest and the highest values are kept, separ ated by a vertical bar "|".  This approach 
facilitated the alignment with the Russian Fede ration's goods Schedule nomenclature.  It also 
indicates cases where possible tariff line brea kouts may yet be introduced by the Delegation 
of Kazakhstan. 
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   "Manual" :  indicates the tariff lines where the Russ ian Federation's correlation could not be 
directly applied.  For those cases, the correla tions have been established by the Secretariat 
based on the product descriptions. 
 
 Comparison with the tariff concessions in the Sche dule of Tariff Concessions and Commitments of 
the Russian Federation (Schedule CLXV) in HS 2007 
 
7. The Table Comparison lists all HS07 tariff lin es with concession information from both the 
Kazakhstan draft HS07 Goods Schedule and the Russi an Federation Goods Schedule.  Flags were 
created to facilitate the comparison.  They indi cate for each tariff line and for individually initial 
bound rate (IBR), final bound rate (FBR) and im plementation period (IP) the following possible 
values: 
 
 "E" values are equal to corresponding ones in Russian Federation's Goods Schedule; 
 "L" the value is lower in Kazakhstan's draf t Goods Schedule than in its corresponding 
value in Russian Federation's Goods Schedul e.  In cases where duty ranges were used 
only the lower value was taken into account for the comparison; 
 "H" the value is higher in Kazakhstan's dr aft Goods Schedule than in its corresponding 
value in Russian Federation's Goods Schedule; 
 "D" values are not directly comparable between  both Schedules.  This is often to indicate 
different duty natures, e.g. comparing an ad valorem  duty of 55% on one side with, 
on the other side a non- ad valorem  mixed duty of "25, but not less than 0.3 € per kg".   
 
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