G/MA/TAR/RS/442  
 
25 July 2016  
(16-3932)  Page: 1/3  
Committee on Market Access  Original: English  
 
  RECTIFICATIONS AND MODI FICATIONS OF SCHEDULES 
SCHEDULE XCVIII – KINGDOM OF BAHRAIN 
The following communication, dated 12 July 2016, is being circulated at the request of the 
delegation of the Kingdom of Bahrain.   
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Pursuant to paragraph 2 of the "Procedures for Modi fication and Rectification of Schedules of Tariff 
Concessions"1, the Kingdom of Bahrain hereby requests the WTO Secretariat to rectify Bahrain’s 
Uruguay Round Schedule XCVIII2 which is necessary to correct a typographical error in HS Code 
for the products covered by the bound duty rates for tobacco products.   
As we have notified the WTO in 1999, the intention of the Kingdom of Bahrain was to bind “Raw 
and manufactured tobacco”, i.e. all tobacco products of the whole HS Chapter 24 at 100% ad valorem , yet it was inscribed in Bahrain’s Schedule XCVIII in a manner that the bound rate of 
100% ad valorem  is limited only to HS Heading 24.01.  
 With a view to eliminating any ambiguity, this rectification will make it clear that all tobacco 
products of the whole HS Chapter 24 are bound at the 100% level ad valorem. 
 This rectification does not alter the scope of the concessions that were offered by the Kingdom of Bahrain during the Uruguay Round. 
 
Therefore, the Kingdom of Bahrain requests the esteemed WTO Secretariat to rectify the Kingdom 
of Bahrain’s Schedule XCVIII by reflecting our Uruguay Round commitments of binding the whole 
HS Chapter 24 at 100% ad valorem in the Kingdom of Bahrain’s Schedule of Commitments for 
Goods. 
 
 
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 If no objection is notified to the Secretariat within three months from the date of this document, 
the rectifications and modifications to Schedule XC VIII – Kingdom of Bahrain will be deemed to be 
approved and will be formally certified. 
                                               
1 Decision of 26 March 1980 (BISD 27S/25). 
2 In English only.  
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- 2 - ANNEX 
Schedule XCVIII  -  BAHRAIN 
PART I  -  MOST-FAVOURED-NATION TARIFF 
SECTION I  -  Agricultural Products 
SECTION I - A  Tariffs 
 
HS2012 Description of the products Bound rate of duty Implementation Special Initial Other 
duties 
  Ad 
valorem Other period from/to safeguard negotiating right and 
charges 
  (%)      1 2  4 5 6 7 8 
24 Tobacco and manufactured tobacco 
substitutes       
2401 Unmanufactured tobacco; tobacco 
refuse.       
24011000 - Tobacco, not stemmed/stripped 100     0 
24012000 - Tobacco, partly or wholly 
stemmed/stripped 100     0 
24013000 - Tobacco refuse 100     0 
24013090 - - - Other 
 100     0 
2402 Cigars, cheroots, cigarillos and 
cigarettes, of tobacco or of tobacco substitutes.       
24021000 - Cigars, cheroots and cigarillos, 
containing tobacco 100     0 
24022000 - Cigarettes containing tobacco 100     0 
24029010  - - - Cigars of tobacco substitutes ( 
not containing tobacco or nicotine ) 
 100     0 
24029020 - - - Cigarettes of tobacco substitutes ( 
not containing tobacco or nicotine ) 100     0 
2403 Other manufactured tobacco and 
manufactured tobacco substitutes; “homogenised” or “reconstituted” tobacco; tobacco extracts and essences.       
 - Smoking tobacco, whether or not 
containing tobacco substitutes in any proportion       
24031100 -- Water pipe tobacco specified in 
Subheading Note 1 to this Chapter 100     0 
 - - - Other       
24031910 - - - Chopped or pressed tobacco for 100     0  
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- 3 - HS2012 Description of the products Bound rate of duty Implementation Special Initial Other 
duties 
  Ad 
valorem Other period from/to safeguard negotiating right and 
charges 
  (%)      1 2  4 5 6 7 8 
smoking (cigarettes)  
24031920 - - - Chopped or pressed tobacco for 
pipes 100     0 
24031930 - - - Chopped or pressed tunbac for 
retail sale 100     0 
24031990 - - - Other 100     0 
24039 - Other:       
24039100 - - “Homogenised” or “reconstituted” 
tobacco 100     0 
 - - Other:        
24039910 - - - Pressed or liquored tobacco for 
making snuff 100     0 
24039920 - - - Chopped or pressed tobacco for 
chewing 100     0 
24039930 - - - Snuff 100     0 
24039940 - - - Jirak 100     0 
24039950 - - - Tobacco extracts and essences 100     0 
24039990 - - - Other 100     0 
 
 
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