WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  TN/MA/W/37/Add.2 
21 April 2005 
 (05-1650) 
Negotiating Group on Market Access Original:   English 
 
  
MARKET ACCESS FOR NON-AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS 
 
Communication from the United Arab Emirates
 
 
Addendum  
 
 
 The following communication, dated 21 April 2005, is being circulated at the request of the 
delegation of the United Arab Emirates. 
 
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  Elimination of low tariffs 
 
  As exposed in our previous communication of 20 May 2003 (ref.TN/MA/W/37) and of 28 May 2004 (ref. TN/MA/W/37/Add.1), the United Arab Emirates is highly interested in the concept of elimination of low tariffs a nd would like to underline again the importance it attaches to a 
definition for low tariffs at a rate not under 6%.  
 
Zero for zero sectoral proposal on raw materials 
 
 
 Following our communication of 20 May 2003 (ref.TN/MA/W/37) and of 28 May 2004 
(ref. TN/MA/W/37/Add.1), and the various plurilatera l and bilateral meetings which took place in the 
course of the last months to discuss both the Sectoral Approach and the liberalization of raw 
materials; the United Arab Emirates presents below a preliminary list of raw materials as a basis for 
further discussion, and invites all interested partie s to make their comments and suggestions in order 
to progress on these discussions which are important for a comprehensive and balanced achievement of the Doha Round.  TN/MA/W/37/Add.2 
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WTO NAMA 
Raw Materials Sectoral Initiative 
Possible Tariff Lines for Inclusion 
 
Tariff 
Item 
Number 
(HS2002)  
Descriptions of Product 
2515 MARBLE, TRAVERTINE, ECAU SSINE AND OTHER CALCAREOUS 
MONUMENTAL OR BUILDING STONE OF AN APPARENT SPECIFIC 
GRAVITY OF 2.5 OR MORE, AND ALABASTER, WHETHER OR NOT ROUGHLY TRIMMED OF MERELY CUT, BY SAWING OR OTHERWISE, INTO BLOCKS OF SLABS OF A RECTANGULAR SHAPE.  
  
2516 GRANITE PORPHYRY, BASALT, SANDSTONE AND OTHER 
MONUMENTAL OR BUILDING STONE, WHETHER OF NOT ROUGHLY 
TRIMMED OR MERELY CUT, BY SAWING OR OTHERWISE, INTO 
BLOCKS OR SALBS OF A RECTANGULAR (INCLUDING SQUARE) SHAPE 
  
2519 NATURAL MAGNESIUM CARBONATE (MAGNESITE); FUSED 
MAGNESIA; DEAD-BURNED (SINTER ED) MAGNESIA, WHETHER OF 
NOT CONTAINING SMALL QUANTITIES OF OTHER OXIDES ADDED 
BEFORE SINTERING; OTHER MAGNESIUM OXIDE, WHETHER OR NOT 
PURE. 
  
2523 PORTLAND CEMENT, ALUMINOUS CEMENT, SLAG CEMENT, 
SUPERSULPHATE CEMENT AND SIMILAR HYDRAULIC CEMENTS, 
WHETHER OR NOT COLOURED OR IN THE FORM OF CLINKERS.  
  
2601 IRON ORES AND CONCENTRATES, INCLUDING ROASTED IRON 
PYRITES: 
  
2601.1  Iron ores and concentrates 
  
2601.11 Non-agglomerated  
  
2602.00 MANGANESE ORES AND CONCENTRATES, INCLUDING FERRUGINOUS 
MANGANESE ORES AND CONCENTRATES WITH A MANGANESE 
CONTENT OF 20% OR MORE, CALCULATED ON THE DRY WEIGHT.  
  
2603.00 COPPER ORES AND CONCENTRATES  
2604.00 NICKEL ORES AND CONCENTRATES 
2605.00 COBALT ORES AND CONCENTRATES 
2606.00 ALUMINIUM ORES AND CONCENTRATES 
2607.00 LEAD ORES AND CONCENTRATES 
2608.00 ZINC ORES AND CONCENTRATES 
2609.00 TIN ORES AND CONCENTRATES 
2610.00 CHROMIUM ORES AND CONCENTRATES 
2611.00 TUNGSTEN ORES AND CONCENTRATES 
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 Tariff 
Item 
Number 
(HS2002)  
Descriptions of Product 
2707 OILS AND OTHER PRODUCTS OF THE DISTILLATION OF HIGH 
TEMPERATURE COAL TAR; SIMILAR PRODUCTS IN WHICH THE WEIGHT OF THE AROMATIC CONSTITUENTS EXCEEDS THAT OF THE NON-AROMATIC CONSTITUENTS.  
  
2708 PITCH AND PITCH COKE, OBTAIN ED FROM COAL TAR OF FROM 
OTHER MINERAL TARS. 
  
2710 PETROLEUM OILS AND OILS OBTAINED FROM BITUMINOUS 
MINERALS, OTHER THAN CRUDE; PREPARATIONS NOT ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED OF INCLUDED, CONTAINING BY WEIGHT 70% OF MORE OF PETROLEUM OILS OR OILS OB TAINED FROM BITUMINOUS 
MINERALS, THESE OILS BEING THE BASIC.  
  
2711 PETROLEUM GASES AND OT HER GASEOUS HYDROCARBONS. 
  
2715.00 BITUMINOUS MIXTURE BASED ON NATURAL ASPHALT, ON NATURAL 
BITUMEN, ON PETROLEUM BITUMEN, ON MINERAL TAR OF MINERAL 
TAR PITCH (FOR EXAMPLE, BITUMINOUS MASTICS, CUT-BACKS) 
  
2818 ARTIFICIAL CORUNDUM, WHETHER OF NOT CHEMICALLY DEFINED; 
ALUMINIUM OXIDE; ALUMINIUM HYDROXIDE.  
  
2820 MANGANESE OXIDES. 
  
7101 PERALS, NATURAL OF CULTURED, SHETHER OR NOT WORKED OF 
GRADED BUT NOT STRUNG, MOUNTED OR SET; PEARLS, NATURAL OR 
CULTURED, TEMPORARILY STRUNG FOR CONVENIENCE OF 
TRANSPORT. 
  
7401 COPPER MATTES; CEMENT COPPER (PRECIPITATED COPPER): 
7401.10 - Copper mattes  
7401.20 - Cement copper (precipitated copper)  
  
7402.00 UNREFINED COPPER; COPP ERANODES FOR ELECTROLYTIC 
REFINING.   
  
7403 REFINED COPPER AND COPPER ALLOYS, UNWROUGHT: 
7403.1 Refined copper  :  
7403.11 - Cathodes and sections of cathodes  
7403.12 - Wire-bars 
7403.13 - Billets 
7403.19 - Other 
7403.2 - Copper alloys: 
7403.21 - Copper-zinc base alloys (brass) 
7403.22 - Copper-tin base alloys (bronze) 
7403.23 - Copper-nickel base alloys (cupro-nickel) or  copper-nickel-zinc base alloys (nickel 
silver) TN/MA/W/37/Add.2 
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 Tariff 
Item 
Number 
(HS2002)  
Descriptions of Product 
  
7403.29 - Other copper alloys (other than master alloys of heading 7405)  
  
7404.00 COPPER WASTE AND SCRAP 
  
7405.00 MASTRAL ALLOYS OF COPPER  
  
7406 COPPER POWDERS AND FLAKES:  
 
7406.10 -Powders of non-lamellar structure  
7406.20 -Powders of lamellar structure; flakes 
  
7601 UNWROUGHT ALUMINIUM  
7601.10 Aluminium, not alloyed 
7601.20 Aluminium alloys 
  
7602.00 ALUMINIUM WASTE SCRAP  
  
7603 ALUMINIUM POWDERS AND FLAKES :  
7603.10 -powders of non-lamellar structure  
7603.20 -powders of lamellar structure  
  
8104 MAGNESIUM AND ARTICLES THERE 
OF, INCLUDING WASTE AND SCRAP:  
8104.1 -Unwrought magnesium :  
8104.11   - Containing at least 99.8% by weight of magnesium 
8104.19   - Other 
8104.20 -waste and scrap 
8104.30 -raspings, turnings and granules, graded according to size; powders  
  
8111.00 MANGANESE AND ARTICLES THEREOF, INCLUDING WASTE AND 
SCRAP 
 
 
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