WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  WT/COMTD/N/4/Add.4 
12 March 2009 
 (09-1249) 
Committee on Trade and Development Original:   English 
  
 
GENERALIZED SYSTEM OF PREFERENCES 
 
Notification by the European Communities
 
 
Addendum  
 
 
 The following communication, dated 4 March 2009, is being circulated at the request of the 
European Communities.  It contains a notificati on by the European Communities under paragraph 2 of 
the Enabling Clause of their revised GSP Scheme, wh ich entered into force on 1 January 2009 and is 
founded on the following two legal instruments:  
 
• Council Regulation (EC) No 732/2008 of 22 July  2008 applying a scheme of generalised 
tariff preferences for the period from 1 Janua ry 2009 to 31 Decembe r 2011 and amending 
Regulations (EC) No 552/97, (EC) No 1933/2006 and Commission Regulations (EC) 
No 1100/2006 and (EC) No 964/2007 (published in  the Official Journal of the European 
Communities (OJ) L L211, 6.8.2008, p. 1); 
 
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• Commission Decision (EC) No 938/2008 of 9 December 2008 on the list of the beneficiary 
countries which qualify for the special incentive arrangement for sustainable development and 
good governance, provided for in Council Regul ation (EC) No 732/2008 applying a scheme 
of generalised tariff preferences for the pe riod from 1 January 2009 to 31 December 2011 
(OJ L 334, 12.12.2008, p. 90). 
 
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  1. The previous scheme of the EU's Generalized System of Preferences 
 
The European Union's (EU) Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) is the system of 
preferential trading arrangements through which the EU  extends preferential ac cess to its markets to 
developing countries. 
 
In 1968, the United Nations Conferen ce on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) 
recommended the creation of a 'Generalised System  of Tariff Preferences' under which developed 
countries would grant trade preferences to all developing countries.  The EU was the first to implement a GSP scheme in 1971.  The EU's GSP grants either duty-free access or a tariff reduction 
to products imported from 176 GSP beneficiary countries and territories. 
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  The EU's GSP is the most widely used of a ll developed-country GSP systems.  In 2007, EU 
imports under the GSP totalled €58.6 billion. 
 The GSP scheme is implemented following a cycle of ten years in order to adjust it to the 
changing environment of the multilateral trading sy stem.  The present cycle began in 2006 and will 
expire in 2015.  The first GSP scheme of the present cycle was established by Council Regulation 
(EC) No 980/2005
1, which entered into force on 1 January 20 06 and expired on 31 December 2008.  
This Regulation was notified to the Worl d Trade Organization (WTO) on 29 March 2006 
(WT/COMTD/N/4/Add.3). 
 
The previous GSP Regulation first introduced a scheme of three arrangements which replaced 
the five arrangements that had existed until then:   (i) the general arrangement, which provides autonomous preferences to 176 developing 
countries and territories; 
 
 (ii) the Special Incentive Arrangement for Sustainable Development and Good 
Governance (known as the GSP+), which o ffers additional preferences to support 
vulnerable developing countries in their ra tification and implementation of relevant 
international conventions in these fields;  and 
 
 (iii) the Everything But Arms arrangement, which provides duty-free, quota-free access 
for all Least-Developed Countries (LDCs). 
 To ensure the continuity of the GSP sche me, a new Regulation covering the period from 
1 January 2009 to 31 December 2011 was adopted by the Council of the European Union on 
22 July 2008 (Council Regulation (EC) No 732/2008), which replaced Regulation (EC) No 980/2005. 
 
2. The new GSP Regulation: continuity of substance with some technical updates 
The new GSP Regulation started to apply as fro m 1 January 2009, renewing for a further 
three years (from 1 January 2009) the three separate arrangements of the scheme and ensuring that its 
substance remains unchanged in order to ensure c ontinuity in the implementation of the guiding 
principles for the GSP during the 10-year period 2006-15.  
 
At the same time, the new Regulation implem ents a number of technical changes in the 
scheme, either to simplify the language or to take acc ount of evolutions in rele vant trade data over the 
most recent period. In addition, for countries which do not yet meet the GSP+ qualifying criteria, the 
new Regulation provides an additional opportunity fo r applications to the additional preferences in 
mid-2010 (see below point 4). 
 The Community's Combined Nomenclature as last  updated end 2008 counts 9568 tariff lines, 
of which 2405 carry a zero MFN tariff. The table be low gives an overview of the product coverage of 
the respective arrangements.  
 
 General Arrangement GSP+ EBA 
Covered products 6244 6336 7140 
 
                                                      
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  3. General arrangement 
The general arrangement remains unchanged from the previous Regulation, presently 
covering 6244 tariff lines on which the EU grants st andard preferential treatment to 176 beneficiary 
developing countries or territories. 
 
The GSP covered products are split into  non-sensitive and sensitive products:  
 
 - Non-sensitive products (just below 3200 and representing slightly more than half of 
the products covered) enjoy duty-free access; 
 
 - Sensitive products (a mixture of agricultura l, textile, clothing, apparel, carpets and 
footwear items) benefit from a tariff reduction of 3.5 percentage points on ad valorem  
duties compared to the standard most favoured nation (MFN) tariff or a 30 per cent reduction in those duties calculated on a specifi c basis.  For textiles and clothing, the 
reduction is 20 per cent of the ad valorem  MFN duty rate. 
 
In terms of country coverage, tariff preference s under the general arrangements are granted to 
all beneficiary countries which are not classified by the World Bank as high income countries during three consecutive years and which are not sufficiently  diversified in their exports.  The latter is 
considered to be the case when the va lue of imports for the five largest sections of a country's imports 
into the EU covered by the GSP represent more th an 75 per cent of the total GSP-covered imports 
from that beneficiary country into the EU.  As a consequence, 176 countries or territories are included 
as beneficiaries of the GSP.  They are listed in Annex 1 of Regulation 732/2008. 
 Two countries (Myanmar and Belarus) remain temporarily withdrawn from GSP preferences 
on the basis of Council Regulations (EC) No 552/97
2 and No 1933/20063 respectively, as the reasons 
for their withdrawal still persist. 
 In line with Article 3(2) of the GSP Regul ation 980/2005, the Republic of Moldova is 
removed from the GSP beneficiary list as this  country benefits, as from March 2008, from 
autonomous trade preferences granted by the Community  which cover all the preferences provided by 
the GSP scheme
4.  In this respect, the WTO General Council adopted a waiver on 7 May 2008 
(WT/L/722). 
 In accordance with the same Article 3(2), Chile is also removed from the GSP beneficiary list 
as all of the tariff preferences granted to Chile unde r the Community’s GSP have been incorporated 
into the amendment of the A ssociation Agreement with Chile
5. 
 
4. Special incentive arrangement for sust ainable development and good governance 
(GSP+) 
The GSP+ currently covers 6336 tariff lines (whi ch include textiles and clothing, vegetable 
products and prepared foodstuffs) and, as in the previ ous Regulation, offers ad ditional, more generous 
preferences for countries (considered as "vulnera ble") which ratify and implement international 
standards in the fields of human rights, core labour standards, sustainable development and good 
governance, namely 16 core human and labour right s UN/ILO conventions and 11 conventions related 
to the environment and good governance principles, listed in Annex 3 of the Regulation. 
                                                      
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Unlike in the previous Regulation, which incor porated some transitional provisions in this 
respect, all 27 conventions listed in the Regulation must now have been ratified and implemented in 
order for the GSP+ to be granted to beneficiary c ountries.  An additional opportunity for applications 
has been created in mid-2010, half-way through the life of the Regulation, for countries which do not 
yet meet the GSP+ qualifying criteria (in order for th em to receive benefits from July 2010 onwards). 
 Existing GSP+ beneficiary countries were required to re-apply by 31 October 2008 in order to 
benefit from the arrangement from 1 Ja nuary 2009 until 31 December 2011
6, as their status under the 
previous Regulation would lapse on 31 December 2008. 
 
Having received the individual countries' applica tions to the GSP+, the Commission analysed 
them and established the following list of benefici aries:  Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bolivia, Colombia, 
Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Georgia, Gu atemala, Honduras, Mongolia, Nicaragua, Peru, 
Paraguay, Sri Lanka and Venezuela. 
 
Regarding the final list of beneficiaries,  the following comments are to be made: 
 
 - The vulnerability criteria remain unchanged from the previous Regulation.  In order 
to be considered as "vulnerable", countries need to (a) not be classified by the World Bank as a high-income country during three consecutive years, and have the 
five largest sections of its GSP-covered imports into the Community represent more 
than 75 per cent in value of its total GSP-covered imports;  and (b) have the 
GSP-covered imports into the Community re present less than 1 per cent in value of 
the total GSP-covered imports into the Community; 
 
 - There are three new beneficiaries of the GSP+ in comparison with the previous 
period, namely Armenia, Azerbaijan and Paraguay; 
  - The GSP Regulation provides that the speci al incentive arrangement for sustainable 
development and good governance granted under the previous Regulation shall 
continue to be granted from 1 January 2009 to any country still subject to an 
investigation initiated under Article 18(2) of that Regulation, until the date of 
conclusion of such investigation under the new Regulation; 
  - Accordingly, with regard to the investiga tions previously initiated with respect to the 
protection of the freedom of association and the right to organise in El Salvador and 
with respect to the effective implementati on of certain human rights conventions in 
Sri Lanka, the special incentive arrangeme nt for sustainable development and good 
governance granted under the GSP Regulation sh all continue to be granted to those 
countries until the date of conclusion of the respective investigations.  
 
5. Everything but Arms 
The EBA gives the 50 LDC countries
7 duty free access to the EU for 7140 tariff lines (which 
do not include arms and armaments).  There are also  transitional provisions for imports of rice and 
                                                      
6 Fore more information on the application procedure followed, please visit 
http://ec.europa.eu/trade/issues/global/gsp/index_en.htm   
7 For Cape Verde, no longer classified by the UN as an LDC, a transitional period has been established 
to alleviate any adverse effects caused by the removal of the tariff preferences granted under this arrangement.  
Cape Verde shall, therefore, be allowed to continue to  benefit from the preferences  granted under the special 
arrangement for least developed countries, until the end of 2010.  (Commission Regulation (EC) No 1547/2007  WT/COMTD/N/4/Add.4 
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  sugar, which will be fully liberalized by Octobe r 2009.  Until then, transitional and expanding duty 
free quotas are established.  From October 2009 onwa rds, the EBA will thus grant full 100 per cent 
duty-free and quota-free market access for all products from all LDCs (except for the imports of arms 
and ammunitions). 
 
As regards sugar an adjustment compared to  the previous Regulation is made in the 
liberalisation timetable.  In order to ensure cohere nce with the EU marketing year (which now begins 
on 1 October every year rather than 1 July) and the results of recent Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) negotiations with ACP count ries (many of which are also LDCs), full 
liberalisation of sugar imports from LDCs will now  take place on 1 October 2009 instead of 1 July.  
Furthermore, a minimum price arrangement for sugar is incorporated, again so as to ensure coherence 
with the results of EPA negotiations.  This  minimum price arrangement will apply from 
1 October 2009 to 30 September 2012.  
6. Updates to the graduation mechanism 
The most important changes in the new GSP Regulation result from the operation of the 
graduation mechanism, which trigge rs either a removal or a re-establishment of tariff preferences 
whenever an individual country's performance on the EU market over three years exceeds or falls below a set threshold.  These calculations are made on the basis of the Product Sections established in 
the Harmonised System. 
 
The graduation mechanism is only relevant fo r GSP and GSP+ preferences; LDC market 
access under EBA is not at all affected 
 Under the EU's GSP scheme, gr aduation only takes place if a country achieves sustained 
competitiveness across a relatively wide range of pr oducts and concerns imports from countries that 
are competitive on the Community market, and th erefore no longer need the GSP to boost their 
exports to the EU.  At the same ti me this helps ensure that the benefits of the scheme continue to be 
targeted in particular towards those beneficiaries most in need of preferential market access to support 
their sustainable development through pa rticipation in international trade. 
 According to the mechanism, graduation applies when the average imports of a section from a 
country exceed 15 per cent of GSP imports of th e same products from all GSP beneficiary countries 
during three years (the threshold for textiles and clot hing is 12.5 per cent).  It applies for the whole 
period of a GSP Regulation.  This mechanism, how ever, does not apply to a beneficiary country in 
respect of any section which represents more than 50 per cent in value of all GSP-covered imports 
into the EU originating from that country. 
 
As a result of the re-calculations made on trade data for the period 2004-06, GSP tariff 
preferences have been be re- established for six countries (de-graduation) and removed for one 
(graduation), in the following beneficiar y country and product group combinations: 
                                                                                                                                                                    
 
of 20 December 2007 establishing a transitional period for withdrawing the Republic of Cape Verde from the 
list of beneficiary countries of the special arrangement for least developed countries, as set out in Council Regulation (EC) No 980/2005 applying a scheme of generalised tariff preferences). 
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De-graduation 
(re-establishment of preferences) Graduation 
(removal of preferences) 
 
− Algeria , Section V ( Mineral products ); 
− India , Section XIV ( Jewellery, pearls, 
precious metals and stones ); 
− Indonesia , Section IX ( Wood and articles of 
wood ); 
− Russia , Section VI ( Products of the chemical 
or allied industries ) and Section XV ( Base 
metals ); 
− South Africa , Section XVII ( Transport 
equipment ); 
− Thailand , Section XVII ( Transport 
equipment ). 
  
− Vietnam , Section XII ( Footwear, headgear, 
umbrellas, sun umbrellas, artificial flowers, 
etc). 
 
 
Statistics underlying these decisions are attached in Annex VII.  
 
7. Temporary withdrawal 
Any of the GSP arrangements may be temporar ily withdrawn for serious and systematic 
violations of core human and labour rights conven tions and on a number of other grounds such as 
unfair trading practices and serious shortcomings in  customs controls.  In addition, GSP+ benefits 
may be temporarily withdrawn if the national legi slation of a GSP+ beneficiary country no longer 
incorporates the relevant conventions or if that  legislation is not effectively implemented. 
 
This measure is exceptional and has been applied most recently in December 2006 in respect 
of Belarus on the grounds of serious and systema tic violations of labour rights.  Temporary 
withdrawal is always preceded by a Commission investigation.  
Two investigations are currently ongoing in rela tion to GSP+ – one in respect of El Salvador 
on non-incorporation of ILO core standards and an other in respect of Sri Lanka on non-effective 
implementation of certain human rights conventions. 
 
8. Statistics: the GSP in the context of the EU's overall trade policy 
GSP trade statistics are included as annexes to this report and include 2007 trade data, the 
most recent year for which statistics are availabl e.  In general, these statistics indicate that: 
 
 - In 2007, the total GSP preferential imports amounted to 58.6 billion Euro, with the 
largest users being India (€11.7b), Br azil (€4.4b), Thailand (€4.2b), Bangladesh 
(€3.6b), Vietnam (€3.2b), Indonesia (€3.0b), Malaysia (€2.7b), Pakistan (€2.6b) and the Ukraine (€2.2b) (see Annex V); 
 
 - The most important product sections for GSP in 2007 were Textiles and Clothing 
(€13.1b), Machinery (€5.8b), Mineral Products (€5.1b), Plastics and Rubber (€4.5b), Base Metals (€3.8b), Footwear (€3.6b) a nd Animals & Animal Products (€3.5b) (see 
Annex VI); 
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   - The largest individual beneficiaries in  terms of nominal MFN duties otherwise due 
were Bangladesh (€417m), India (€343m ), Thailand (€145m), Brazil (€142m), 
Ecuador (€121m), Vietnam (€110m) and Sri Lanka (€107m); 
 
 - The total nominal EU duty loss in 2007 under the three regimes can be roughly 
estimated at about €2.5 billion; based on 2007 trade data, the total value of 
preferences under the standard scheme – in  terms of duty foregone if the same 
imports had been declared for MFN treatment  – is estimated at over €1.5 billion per 
year; 
 
 - The new Regulation will offer additional pr eferences to developing countries of an 
approximate net value of at least €160 million, largely as the result of the operation of the graduation mechanism.  
 
 - The utilisation rate in 2007 of the st andard GSP arrangement was 45 per cent, the 
GSP+ utilization rate was 78 per cent and the utilisation rate under EBA was 
47 per cent.  However, these utilisation rates are negatively affected by the availability for many beneficiary countri es of alternative preferential arrangements 
such as free trade agreements or autonomous trade preferences.  For this reason, the 
EU considers it essential also to assess the combined effects of its multilateral, 
bilateral and autonomous trade polic y instruments (see Annex IV).  
 
 - The top GSP beneficiary countries record far higher GSP utilisation rates, as most of 
these countries have not or not yet conclude d alternative preferential arrangements 
with the EU.  Utilisation data for 2007 fo r the top 20 GSP beneficiary countries (as 
calculated end 2008) are as follows:  India 82,3 per cent, Brazil 68,3 per cent, 
Thailand 60,1 per cent, Bangladesh 71,3 per cent, Vietnam 62,0 per cent, Indonesia 
60,8 per cent, Malaysia 57,2 per cent, Paki stan 86,0 per cent, Ukraine 72,2 per cent, 
Saudi Arabia 63,8 per cent, Russia 16,0 pe r cent, China 61,0 per cent, Argentina 
82,1 per cent, Sri Lanka 69,0 per cent, South Africa 18,6 per cent, Philippines 
55,5 per cent, Ecuador 92,4 per cent, UAE 45,7 per cent, Lybia 30,4 per cent, Peru 91,2 per cent.  
 
 - The GSP scheme has proven to be effectiv e, as the value of preferential imports under 
it increased in 2007 to €58.6 billion (an increase by 12 pre cent over 2006, which in 
turn showed an increase of 10 per cent ove r 2005).  The GSP proved as well to be 
efficient in promoting exports to the EU from countries that most need it, as GSP 
imports from least developed countries and the GSP+ beneficiaries increased in 2006 
respectively by 35 per cent and 15 per cent.  In 2007 they increased by a further 10 per cent for the GSP+, to reach a total of € 4.9 bio, and remained  broadly stable for 
the LDCs (at € 4.3 bio). 
 
Annexes 
 
 - Annex I :  Council Regulation (EC) N° 732/2008 of 22 July 2008 
 - Annex II:  Commission Decision (EC) N° 938/2008 of 9 December 2008 
 - Annex III : Guide to Internet resources on the EU's Generalised System of 
Preferences (GSP) 
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  Statistical Annexes 
 
 - Annex IV :  Imports into the EU – by country and tariff treatment 
 - Annex V :  Imports into the EU by top 20 GSP beneficiary countries - by product 
section and chapter 
 - Annex VI :  Top preferential imports under the EU's GSP – by product section and by 
product 
 - Annex VII :  Statistics on graduation and de-graduation  WT/COMTD/N/4/Add.4 
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  ANNEX I 
 
COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) N° 732/2008 OF 22 JULY 2008  
 
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COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) NO 732/2008 
of 22 July 2008 
 
applying a scheme of generalised tariff pref erences for the period from 1 January 2009 
to 31 December 2011 and amending Regulations (EC) No 552/97, (EC) No 1933/2006 and 
Commission Regulations (EC) No 1100/2006 and (EC) No 964/2007 
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, 
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Europ ean Community, and in particular Article 133 
thereof,  Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,  
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament
1, 
 Whereas:  
(1) Since 1971, the Community has granted trad e preferences to developing countries, in 
the framework of its scheme of generalised tariff preferences. 
(2) The Community's common commercial polic y is to be consistent with and to 
consolidate the objectives of development po licy, in particular the eradication of 
poverty and the promotion of sustainabl e development and good governance in the 
developing countries.  It is to comply with  WTO requirements, and in particular with 
the GATT 'enabling clause' of 1979 according to which WTO Members may accord 
differential and more favourable tr eatment to developing countries. 
(3) The Communication of 7 July 2004 from the Commission to the Council, the 
European Parliament and the European  Economic and Social Committee, entitled 
'Developing countries, international trade a nd sustainable development:  the function 
of the Community's generalised system of preferences (GSP) for the 10-year period 
from 2006 to 2015', sets out the guidelines for the application of the scheme of 
generalised tariff preferences for the period 2006 to 2015. 
(4) Council Regulation (EC) No 980/2005
2 applies the scheme of generalised tariff 
preferences until 31 December 2008.  Ther eafter, the scheme should continue to 
apply until 31 December 2011, in  accordance with the guidelines. 
                                                      
1 Opinion delivered on 5 June 2008 following non-compulsory consultation (not yet published in the 
Official Journal). 
2 Council Regulation (EC) No 980/2005 of 27 June 2005 applying a scheme of generalised tariff 
preferences (OJ L 169, 30.6.2005, p. 1).  Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 55/2008 (OJ L 20, 
24.1.2008, p. 1). WT/COMTD/N/4/Add.4 
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  (5) The scheme of generalised tariff preferences (hereinafter referred to as the scheme) 
should consist of a general arrangement, granted to all beneficiary countries and 
territories, and two special arrangements taking account of the various development 
needs of countries in similar economic situations. 
(6) The general arrangement should be grante d to all those beneficiary countries which 
are not classified by the World Bank as high-income countries and which are not 
sufficiently diversified in their exports. 
(7) The special incentive arrangement for su stainable development and good governance 
is based on the integral concept of sustainable development, as recognised by international conventions and instrume nts such as the 1986 UN Declaration on the 
Right to Development, the 1992 Rio Decl aration on Environment and Development, 
the 1998 ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, the 2000 UN Millennium Declaration, and the 2002 J ohannesburg Declaration on Sustainable 
Development. 
(8) Consequently, additional tariff preferen ces should be granted to those developing 
countries which, due to a lack of diversifi cation and insufficient integration into the 
international trading system, are vulnerable while assuming the special burdens and responsibilities resulting from the ratification and effective implementation of core 
international conventions on human and la bour rights, environmental protection and 
good governance. 
(9) These preferences should be designed to promote further economic growth and, 
thereby, to respond positively to the need fo r sustainable development.  Under this 
arrangement, the ad valorem  tariffs should therefore be suspended for the beneficiary 
countries concerned, as well as the speci fic duties, unless combined with an ad 
valorem  duty. 
(10) Developing countries which fulfil the criteria for being eligible for the special 
incentive arrangement for sustainable de velopment and good governance should be 
able to benefit from the additional tariff pr eferences if, upon their application, the 
Commission confirms their qualification by 15 December 2008.  The countries which already benefit from the special arrangeme nt for sustainable development and good 
governance should renew their applications. 
(11) The Commission should monitor the eff ective implementation of the international 
conventions in accordance with their r espective mechanisms and should assess the 
relationship between the additional tariff preferences and the promotion of sustainable development. 
(12) The special arrangement for the least-d eveloped countries should continue to grant 
duty-free access to the Community market for products originating in the least-
developed countries, as recognised and classified by the UN.  For a country no longer 
classified by the UN as a least-developed co untry, a transitional period should be 
established, to alleviate any adverse e ffects caused by removal of the tariff 
preferences granted under this arrangement. 
(13) To ensure coherence with the market  access provisions for sugar in the Economic 
Partnership Agreements, the duty free acce ss for sugar should apply from 1 October 
2009 and the tariff quota for products under subheading 17011110 as opened under 
the special arrangement for the least de veloped countries s hould be extended until  WT/COMTD/N/4/Add.4 
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  30 September 2009 with a pro rata increase in its volume.  In addition, for the period 
between 1 October 2009 and 30 Septembe r 2012 the importer of products under 
heading 1701 should undertake to purchase su ch products at a price not lower than a 
minimum price. 
(14) For the general arrangement, there s hould be continued differentiation of the 
preferences between 'non-sensitive' products and 'sensitive' products, to take account 
of the situation of the sectors manufacturing the same products in the Community. 
(15) Tariff duties on non-sensitive products shoul d continue to be suspended, while duties 
on sensitive products should enjoy a tariff reduc tion, in order to ensure a satisfactory 
utilisation rate while at the same time  taking account of the situation of the 
corresponding Community industries. 
(16) Such a tariff reduction should be sufficiently  attractive, in order to motivate traders to 
make use of the opportunities offered by  the scheme.  Therefore, as far as the ad 
valorem  duties are concerned, the general reduc tion should be by a flat rate of 3,5 
percentage points from the 'most favoured nation' duty-rate, while such duties for 
textiles and textile goods should be reduced by 20 per cent.  Specific duties should be 
reduced by 30  per cent.  Where a minimum duty is specified, that minimum duty should not apply. 
(17) Where the preferential duty-rates, cal culated in accordance with Regulation (EC) 
No 980/2005, provide for a higher tariff re duction, such rates should continue to 
apply. 
(18) Duties should be suspended totally, wher e the preferential treatment for an individual 
import declaration results in an ad valorem  duty of 1 per cent or less or in a specific 
duty of EUR 2 or less, since the cost of collecting such duties might be higher than 
the revenue gained. 
(19) For the sake of coherence in the Co mmunity's commercial policy, a beneficiary 
country should not benefit from both the sch eme and a preferential trade agreement, 
if that agreement covers all the preferenc es provided for by the present scheme to that 
country. 
(20) Graduation should be based on criteria re lated to sections of the Common Customs 
Tariff.  The graduation of a section for a beneficiary country should be applied when 
the section meets the criteria for graduati on during three consecutive years, in order 
to increase predictability and fairness of gra duation by eliminating the effect of large 
and exceptional variations in the import statistics. 
(21) The rules of origin concerning the defin ition of the concept of originating products, 
the procedures and the methods of administ rative cooperation related thereto, laid 
down in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 of 2 July 1993 laying down 
provisions for the implementation of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 
establishing the Community Customs Code
3, should apply to the tariff preferences 
provided for by this Regulation, in order to ensure that the benefit of this scheme goes 
only to those beneficiary countries which the scheme is intended to benefit. 
                                                      
3 OJ L 253, 11.10.1993, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 214/2007 (OJ L 62, 
1.3.2007, p. 6). WT/COMTD/N/4/Add.4 
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  (22) The reasons for temporary withdrawal should include serious and systematic 
violations of the principles laid down in certain international conventions concerning 
core human rights and labour rights or related to the environment or good governance, so as to promote the objectives of  those conventions and to ensure that 
no beneficiary country receives unfair adva ntage through continuous violation of 
those conventions. 
(23) Due to the political situation in Myanma r and in Belarus, the temporary withdrawal 
of all tariff preferences in respect of impor ts of products originating in Myanmar or 
Belarus should be maintained. 
(24) Where necessary, references in other Co mmunity legislation should be updated to 
refer to this Regulation.  Council Regul ations (EC) No 552/97 of 24 March 1997 
temporarily withdrawing access to generalised tariff preferences from the Union of Myanmar
4, No 1933/2006 of 21 December 200 6 temporarily withdrawing access to 
the generalised tariff preferences from the Republic of Belarus5 and Commission 
Regulations (EC) No 1100/2006 of 17 July 2006 laying down, for the marketing 
years 2006/2007, 2007/08 and 2008/2009, detailed rules for the opening and 
administration of tariff quotas for raw cane-sugar for refining, originating in least developed countries, as well as detailed rules applying to the importation of products 
under tariff heading 1701 originating in least developed countries
6 and (EC) 
No 964/2007 of 14 August 2007 laying down detailed rules for the opening and administration of the tariff quotas for rice originating in the least developed countries 
for the marketing years 2007/2008 and 2008/2009
7 should therefore be amended 
accordingly. 
(25) The measures necessary for the implementa tion of this Regulation should be adopted 
in accordance with Council Decision 1999/468/ EC of 28 June 1999 laying down the 
procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission8, 
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: 
CHAPTER I 
 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
 
Article 1 
 
1. The scheme of generalised tariff preferences (hereinafter referred to as the scheme) shall 
apply in accordance with this Regulation. 
2. This Regulation provides for the following tariff preferences: 
(a) a general arrangement; 
                                                      
4 OJ L 85, 27.3.1997, p. 8. 
5 OJ L 405, 30.12.2006, p. 35. 
6 OJ L 196, 18.7.2006, p. 3. 
7 OJ L 213, 15.8.2007, p. 26. 
8 OJ L 184, 17.7.1999, p. 23. Decision as amended by Decision 2006/512/EC (OJ L 200, 22.7.2006, 
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  (b) a special incentive arrangement for sust ainable development and good governance; 
and 
(c) a special arrangement for the least-developed countries. 
Article 2 
 For the purposes of this Regulation: 
 
(a) 'Common Customs Tariff duties' means the duti es specified in Part Two of Annex I to 
Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987 on the tariff and statistical 
nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff9, except those duties set up within 
the framework of tariff quotas; 
(b) 'section' means any of the sections of th e Common Customs Tariff as laid down by 
Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87.  Section XI sh all be treated as being made up of two 
separate sections, with Section XI(a) comprising Chapters 50-60 of the Common 
Customs Tariff, and Section XI(b) co mprising Chapters 61-63 of the Common 
Customs Tariff; 
(c) 'beneficiary countries and territories' mean s countries and territories listed in Annex I 
to this Regulation. 
Article 3 
1. A beneficiary country shall be removed from th e scheme when it has been  classified by the 
World Bank as a high-income country during three c onsecutive years, and when the value of imports 
for the five largest sections of its  imports covered by the GSP into the Community represents less than 
75 per cent of the total GSP-covered imports from that beneficiary country into the Community. 
2. When a beneficiary country benefits from a pr eferential trade agreement with the Community 
which covers all the preferences provided for by the present scheme to that country, it shall be 
removed from the list of beneficiary countries. 
The Commission shall inform the Committee referred to in Article 27 about the preferences provided 
by the preferential trade agreement refe rred to in the first subparagraph. 
 3. The Commission shall notify the beneficiary coun try concerned of its removal from the list of 
beneficiary countries. 
Article 4 
 
 The products included in the arrangements referre d to in Article 1(2)(a) and (b) are listed in 
Annex II. 
                                                     
 
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  Article 5 
1. The tariff preferences provided shall apply to im ports of products included in the arrangement 
enjoyed by the beneficiary country in which they originate. 
2. For the purposes of the arrangements referred to in Article 1(2), the rules of origin concerning 
the definition of the concept of originating products , the procedures and the methods of administrative 
cooperation related thereto, shall be those laid down in Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93. 
3. Regional cumulation within the meaning and provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93 
shall also apply where a product used in further manufacture in a country belonging to a regional 
group originates in another country of the grou p, which does not benefit from the arrangements 
applying to the final product, provided that both countries benefit from regional cumulation for that 
group. 
CHAPTER II 
 
ARRANGEMENTS AND TARIFF PREFERENCES 
 
SECTION 1 
 
General arrangement 
Article 6 
 
1. Common Customs Tariff duties on products liste d in Annex II as non-sensitive products shall 
be suspended entirely, except for agricultural components. 
2. Common Customs Tariff ad valorem  duties on products listed in Annex II as sensitive 
products shall be reduced by 3,5 percentage points. For products from Sections XI(a) and XI(b), this 
reduction shall be 20 per cent. 
3. Where preferential duty-rates, calculated in accordance with Article 7 of Regulation (EC) 
No 980/2005, on the Common Customs Tariff ad valorem  duties applicable on 25 August 2008, 
provide for a tariff reduction, for the products referred  to in paragraph 2 of this Article, of more than 
3,5 percentage points, those pref erential duty-rates shall apply. 
4. Common Customs Tariff specific duties, othe r than minimum or maximum duties, on 
products listed in Annex II as sensitive pr oducts shall be reduced by 30 per cent. 
5. Where Common Customs Tariff duties on products listed in Annex II as sensitive products 
include ad valorem  duties and specific duties, the sp ecific duties shall not be reduced. 
6. Where duties reduced in accord ance with paragraphs 2 and 4 specify a maximum duty, that 
maximum duty shall not be reduced. Where such dut ies specify a minimum duty, that minimum duty 
shall not apply. 
7. The tariff preferences referred to in paragraphs  1, 2, 3 and 4 shall not apply to products from 
sections in respect of which those tariff preferences  have been removed, for the country of origin 
concerned, in accordance with Article 13 and Artic le 20(8) as listed in column C of Annex I. 
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  SECTION 2 
 
Special incentive arrangem ent for sustainable development and good governance 
Article 7 
 
1. Common Customs Tariff ad valorem  duties on all products listed in Annex II which originate 
in a country included in the special incentive a rrangement for sustainable development and good 
governance shall be suspended. 
2. Common Customs Tariff specific duties on produ cts referred to in paragraph 1 shall be 
suspended entirely, except for products for which the Common Customs Tariff duties include 
ad valorem  duties.  For products with CN code 17041090, the specific duty shall be limited 
to 16 per cent of the customs value. 
3. For a beneficiary country, the special incentiv e arrangement for sustainable development and 
good governance shall not include products from the sections for which, according to column C of 
Annex I, these tariff preferences have been withdrawn. 
Article 8 
 
1. The special incentive arrangeme nt for sustainable development and good governance may be 
granted to a country which: 
(a) has ratified and effectively implemented all the conventions listed in Annex III; 
(b) gives an undertaking to maintain the ra tification of the conventions and their 
implementing legislation and measures, and accepts regular monitoring and review of its implementation record in accordance w ith the implementation provisions of the 
conventions it has ratified;  and 
(c) is considered to be a vulnerable country as defined in paragraph 2. 
2. For the purposes of this Section a vulnerable country means a country: 
(a) which is not classified by the World Bank as a high-income country during three 
consecutive years, and of which the five largest sections of its GSP-covered imports into the Community represent more than 75 pe r cent in value of its total GSP-covered 
imports;  and 
(b) of which the GSP-covered imports into th e Community represent less than 1 per cent 
in value of the total GSP-cove red imports into the Community. 
The data to be used are: 
 
(a) for the purpose of Article 9(a)(i) — those available on 1 September 2007, as an 
annual average over three consecutive years; 
(b) for the purpose of Article 9(a)(ii) — t hose available on 1 September 2009, as an 
annual average over three consecutive years. WT/COMTD/N/4/Add.4 
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  3. The Commission shall keep under review th e status of ratification and effective 
implementation of the conventions listed in Annex III by examining available information from relevant monitoring bodies.  The Commission shall inform the Council if this information indicates 
that there has been a diversion, by a beneficiary country, from the effective implementation of any of 
the conventions. 
In time for discussion on the next Regulation, the Commission shall present, to the Council, a 
summary report on the status of ratification and available recommendations by relevant monitoring 
bodies. 
Article 9 
 
1. Without prejudice to paragraph 3, the special incentive arrangement for sustainable 
development and good governance shall be gr anted if the following conditions are met: 
(a) a country or territory listed in Annex I has made a request to that effect either: 
(i) by 31 October 2008, to be granted the special incentive arrangement as from 
1 January 2009; 
  o r  
 
(ii) by 30 April 2010, to be granted the special incentive arrangement as from 
1 July 2010; 
  and 
 
(b) an examination of the request shows that th e requesting country or territory fulfils the 
conditions laid down in Article 8(1) and (2). 
2. The requesting country shall submit its request  to the Commission in writing, and shall 
provide comprehensive information concerning the ra tification of the conventions referred to in 
Annex III, the legislation and measures to implemen t the provisions of the conventions effectively, 
and its commitment to accept and comply fully with  the monitoring and review mechanism envisaged 
in the relevant conventions  and related instruments. 
3. Those countries which were granted the speci al incentive arrangement for sustainable 
development and good governance under Regulation (E C) No 980/2005 shall also submit a request, in 
accordance with paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Ar ticle.  Countries granted the special incentive 
arrangement for sustainable development and good governance on the basis of a request under 
paragraph 1(a)(i) shall not be required to  submit a request under paragraph 1(a)(ii). 
Article 10 
 
1. The Commission shall examine the request accomp anied by the information referred to in 
Article 9(2).  When examining the request the Commission shall take account of the findings of the 
relevant international organisations and agencies.  It may ask the requesting country any questions 
which it considers relevant, and may verify the info rmation received with the requesting country or 
with any other relevant sources.  WT/COMTD/N/4/Add.4 
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  2. After having examined the request the Commi ssion shall decide in accordance with the 
procedure referred to in Article 27(4) whether to  grant the requesting coun try the special incentive 
arrangement for sustainable de velopment and good governance. 
3. The Commission shall notify the requesting country of a decision taken in accordance with 
paragraph 2.  Where a country is granted the special  incentive arrangement, it shall be informed of the 
date on which that decision enters into for ce.  The Commission shall publish a notice in the Official 
Journal of the European Union , listing the countries benefiting from the special incentive 
arrangement for sustainable de velopment and good governance: 
(a) by 15 December 2008, for a request under Article 9(1)(a)(i);  or 
(b) by 15 June 2010 for a request under Article 9(1)(a)(ii). 
4. Where the requesting country is not gran ted the special incentive arrangement, the 
Commission shall give the reasons, if that country so requests. 
5. The Commission shall conduct all relations with  a requesting country concerning the request 
acting in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 27(4). 
6. The special incentive arrangement for sustai nable development and good governance granted 
under Council Regulation (EC) No 980/2005 shall conti nue to be granted from 1 January 2009 to any 
country still subject to an investigation initiated unde r Article 18(2) of that Regulation, until the date 
of conclusion of such inves tigation under this Regulation. 
SECTION 3 
 
Special arrangement for the least-developed countries 
Article 11 
1. Without prejudice to paragraphs 2 and 3, th e Common Customs Tariff duties on all products 
from Chapters 1 to 97 of the Harmonised System ex cept those from Chapter 93 thereof, originating in 
a country which according to Annex I benefits from the special arrangement for the least-developed 
countries, shall be suspended entirely. 
2. The Common Customs Tariff duties on the products under tariff heading 1006 shall be 
reduced by 80 per cent until 31 August 2009, and suspended entirely with effect from 1 September 2009. 
3. The Common Customs Tariff duties on the products under tariff heading 1701 shall be 
reduced by 80 per cent until 30 September 2009, and suspended entirely with effect from 
1 October 2009. 
4. For the period from 1 October 2009 to 30 Se ptember 2012 the importer of products under 
tariff heading 1701 shall undertake to purchase such products at a minimum price not lower than 
90 per cent of the reference price (on a cif basi s) set in Article 3 of Council Regulation (EC) 
No 318/2006 of 20 February 2006 on the common orga nisation of the markets in the sugar sector
10 for 
the relevant marketing year. 
                                                      
10 OJ L 58, 28.2.2006, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1260/2007 
(OJ L 283, 27.10.2007, p. 1). WT/COMTD/N/4/Add.4 
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  5. Until Common Customs Tariff duties on the pr oducts under tariff head ings 1006 and 1701 are 
entirely suspended in accordance with paragraphs 2 a nd 3, a global tariff quota  at zero duty shall be 
opened for every marketing year for products un der tariff heading 1006 and subheading 17011110 
respectively, originating in the countries benefiti ng from this special arrangement.  The tariff quotas 
for the marketing year 2008/2009 shall be equal to  6694 tonnes, husked rice equivalent, for products 
under tariff heading 1006 and 204735 tonnes, white sugar equivalent, for products under subheading 
17011110. 
6. For the period from 1 October 2009 to 30 Septem ber 2015, imports of products under tariff 
heading 1701 shall require an import licence. 
7. The Commission shall adopt detailed rules for implementing the provisions referred to in 
paragraphs 4, 5 and 6 of this Article in accordan ce with the procedure referred to in Article 195 of 
Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 of 22 Oc tober 2007 establishing a common organisation of 
agricultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agricultural products (Single CMO 
Regulation)
11. 
8. When a country is excluded by the UN from the list of the least-developed countries, it shall 
be withdrawn from the list of the beneficiaries of this arrangement.  The removal of a country from 
the arrangement and the establishment of a transitiona l period of at least three years shall be decided 
by the Commission, in accordan ce with the procedure referred to in Article 27(4). 
Article 12 
 
 Article 11(3) and (5) that refer to produc ts under tariff subheading 17011110 shall not apply 
to products originating in countries benefiting from the preferences referred to in this section and 
released for free circulation in the French overseas departments. 
 
SECTION 4 
 
Common provisions 
 
Article 13 
 
1. The tariff preferences referred to in Articles 6 and 7 shall be removed, in respect of products 
originating in a beneficiary country of a section, when the average value of Community imports from 
that country of products included in the section c oncerned and covered by the arrangement enjoyed by 
that country exceeds 15 per cent of the value of Community imports of the same products from all 
beneficiary countries and territories over three consecu tive years, on the basis of the most recent data 
available on 1 September 2007. For each of the Sec tions XI(a) and XI(b), the threshold shall be 
12,5 per cent. 
2. The sections removed in accordance with paragraph 1 are listed in column C of Annex I.  The 
sections thus removed shall remain so for the period of  application of this Regulation as referred to in 
Article 32(2). 
3. The Commission shall notify a beneficiary country of the removal of a section. 
                                                      
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  4. Paragraph 1 shall not apply to a beneficiary co untry in respect of any section which represents 
more than 50 per cent in value of all GSP-covered imports into the Community originating from that 
country. 
5. The statistical source to be used for the purpose of this Article shall be Eurostat’s external 
trade statistics. 
Article 14 
 
1. Where the rate of an ad valorem  duty for an individual import declaration reduced in 
accordance with this Chapter is 1 per cent or less, that duty shall be suspended entirely. 
2. Where the rate of a specific duty for an indi vidual import declaration reduced in accordance 
with the provisions of this Chapter is EUR 2 or  less per individual euro amount, that duty shall be 
suspended entirely. 
3. Subject to paragraphs 1 and 2, the final rate of preferential duty calculated in accordance with 
this Regulation shall be rounded down to the first decimal place.  
CHAPTER III 
 
TEMPORARY WITHDRAWAL AND SAFEGUARD PROVISIONS 
 
SECTION 1 
 
Temporary withdrawal 
 
Article 15 
 
1. The preferential arrangements provided for in this Regulation may be withdrawn temporarily, 
in respect of all or of certain products originating in a beneficiary country, for any of the following 
reasons: 
(a)  the serious and systematic violation of pr inciples laid down in the conventions listed 
in Part A of Annex III, on the basis of th e conclusions of the relevant monitoring 
bodies; 
(b) the export of goods made by prison labour; 
(c) serious shortcomings in customs controls on the export or transit of drugs (illicit 
substances or precursors), or failure to comply with international conventions on 
money-laundering; 
(d) serious and systematic unfair trading practic es which have an adverse effect on the 
Community industry and which have not been addressed by the beneficiary country.  For those unfair trading practices which are prohibited or actionable under the WTO Agreements, the application of this Article shall be based on a previous determination 
to that effect by the competent WTO body; 
(e) the serious and systematic infringement of the objectives of regional fishery 
organisations or arrangements of which the Community is a member concerning the conservation and management of fishery resources. WT/COMTD/N/4/Add.4 
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  2. Without prejudice to paragraph 1, the special incen tive arrangement referred to in Section 2 of 
Chapter II may be withdrawn temporarily, in respect of all or of certain products included in this 
arrangement and originating in a beneficiary country, in particular if the national legislation no longer 
incorporates those conventions referred to in Annex I II which have been ratified in fulfilment of the 
requirements of Article 8(1) and (2) or if that  legislation is not effectively implemented. 
3. The preferential arrangements provided for in th is Regulation shall not be withdrawn pursuant 
to paragraph 1(d) in respect of products which are subject to anti-dumping or countervailing measures 
under Regulations (EC) No 384/96
12 or (EC) No 2026/9713, for the reasons which justify those 
measures.  
Article 16 
 
1. The preferential arrangements provided for in this Regulation may be withdrawn temporarily, 
in respect of all or of certain products origin ating in a beneficiary country, in cases of fraud, 
irregularities or systematic failure to comply with or to ensure compliance with the rules concerning 
the origin of the products and with the procedur es related thereto, or failure to provide the 
administrative cooperation as required for the im plementation and policing of the arrangements 
referred to in Article 1(2). 
2. The administrative cooperation referred to in paragraph 1 requires, inter alia , that a 
beneficiary country: 
(a) communicate to the Commission and upda te the information necessary for the 
implementation of the rules of origin and the policing thereof; 
(b) assist the Community by carrying out, at the request of the customs authorities of the 
Member States, subsequent verification of  the origin of the goods, and communicate 
its results in time; 
(c) assist the Community by allowing the Commission, in coordination and close 
cooperation with the competent authorities of the Member States, to conduct 
Community administrative and investigative cooperation missions in that country, in order to verify the authenticity of documen ts or the accuracy of information relevant 
for granting the benefit of the arrange ments referred to in Article 1(2); 
(d) carry out or arrange for appropriate inquiries to identify and prevent contravention of 
the rules of origin; 
(e) comply with or ensure compliance with th e rules of origin in respect of regional 
cumulation, within the meaning of Regulation (EEC) No 2454/93, if the country benefits therefrom; 
(f) assist the Community in the verification of conduct where there is the presumption of 
origin-related fraud. The existence of fraud may be presumed where imports of 
                                                     
 
12 Council Regulation (EC) No 38 4/96 of 22 December 1995 on protection against dumped imports 
from countries not members of the European Community (OJ L 56, 6.3.1996, p. 1). Regulation as last amended 
by Regulation (EC) No 2117/2005 (OJ L 340, 23.12.2005, p. 17). 
13 Council Regulation (EC) No 2026/97 of 6 October 1997 on protection against subsidized imports 
from countries not members of the European Community (OJ L 288, 21.10.1997, p. 1). Regulation as last 
amended by Regulation (EC) No 461/2004 (OJ L 77, 13.3.2004, p. 12).  WT/COMTD/N/4/Add.4 
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  products under the preferential arrangeme nts provided for in this Regulation 
massively exceed the usual levels of the beneficiary country’s exports. 
3. The Commission may suspend the preferential arra ngements provided for in this Regulation, 
in respect of all or of certain products originatin g in a beneficiary country, where it considers that 
there is sufficient evidence that temporary withdrawal would be justified for the reasons referred to in 
paragraphs 1 and 2, provided that it has first: 
(a) informed the Committee referred to in Article 27; 
(b) called on the Member States to take such precautionary measures as are necessary, in 
order to safeguard the Community's financ ial interests and/or secure compliance by 
the beneficiary country with its obligations;  and 
(c) published a notice in the Official Journal of the European Union  stating that there are 
grounds for reasonable doubt about the app lication of the preferential arrangements 
and/or compliance by the beneficiary count ry with its obligations, which may call 
into question its right to continue to enjo y the benefits granted by this Regulation. 
The Commission shall inform the beneficiary countr y concerned of any decision taken in accordance 
with this paragraph, before it becomes effective.   The Commission shall also notify the Committee 
referred to in Article 27.  4. Any Member State may refer a decision taken in  accordance with paragraph 3 to the Council 
within one month.  The Council, acting by a qualifie d majority, may take a different decision within 
one month. 
5. The period of suspension shall not exceed six months.  On conclusion of the period, the 
Commission shall decide either to terminate the suspension after informing the Committee referred to 
in Article 27 or to extend the period of suspension in accordance with the pr ocedure referred to in 
paragraph 3 of this Article. 
6. Member States shall communicate to the Commission all relevant information that may 
justify the suspension of preferences or its extension. 
 
Article 17 
 
1. Where the Commission or a Member State receives information that may justify temporary 
withdrawal and where the Commission or a Member State considers that there are sufficient grounds 
for an investigation, it shall inform the Committee referred to in Article 27 and request consultations. 
The consultations shall take  place within one month. 
2. Following the consultations, the Commission may decide, within one month and in 
accordance with the procedure referred to in Ar ticle 27(5), to initiate an investigation. 
 
Article 18 
 
1. Where the Commission decides to in itiate an investigation, it shall publish a notice in the 
Official Journal of the European Union  announcing the investigation, and notify the beneficiary 
country concerned thereof.  The notice shall provide  a summary of the information received, and state 
that any relevant information should be sent to th e Commission.  It shall specify the period, which 
may not exceed four months from the date of publica tion of the notice, within which interested parties 
may make their views known in writing. WT/COMTD/N/4/Add.4 
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  2. The Commission shall provide the beneficiary country concerned with every opportunity to 
cooperate in the investigation. 
3. The Commission shall seek all information it considers necessary, including the available 
assessments, comments, decisions, recommendations and conclusions of the relevant supervisory 
bodies of the UN, the ILO and other competent inte rnational organisations.  These shall serve as the 
point of departure for the investigation into whethe r temporary withdrawal is justified for the reason 
referred to in Article 15(1)(a).  The Commission may verify the information received with economic 
operators and the beneficiary country concerned. 
4. The Commission may be assisted by officials of the Member State on whose territory 
verification might be sought, if that Member State so requests. 
5. Where information requested by the Commission is not provided within the period specified 
in the notice announcing the investigation, or the in vestigation is significantly impeded, findings may 
be made on the basis of the facts available. 
6. The investigation shall be completed within  one year. The Commission may extend this 
period, in accordance with the pro cedure referred to in Article 27(5). 
 
Article 19 
 
1. The Commission shall submit a report on its fi ndings to the Committee referred to in 
Article 27. 
2. Where the Commission considers that the findings do not justify temporary withdrawal, it 
shall decide, in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 27(5), to terminate the 
investigation.  In that case, the Co mmission shall publish a notice in the Official Journal of the 
European Union , announcing the termination of the investig ation and setting out its main conclusions. 
3. Where the Commission considers that the findi ngs justify temporary withdrawal for the 
reason referred to in Article 15(1)(a), it shall decide , in accordance with the procedure referred to in 
Article 27(5), to monitor and evaluate the situati on in the beneficiary country concerned for a period 
of six months.  The Commission shall notify the beneficiary country concerned of this decision and shall publish a notice in the Official Journal of the European Union , announcing that it intends to 
submit a proposal to the Council for temporary wit hdrawal, unless, before the end of the period, the 
beneficiary country concerned makes a commitment to  take the measures necessary to conform, in a 
reasonable period of time, with the conventi ons referred to in Part A of Annex III. 
4. Where the Commission considers temporary withdrawal to be necessary, it shall submit an 
appropriate proposal to the Council, which shall decide  within two months by a qualified majority.  In 
the case referred to in paragraph 3, the Commission shall submit its proposal at the end of the period 
referred to in that paragraph. 
5. Where the Council decides on temporary withdrawal, such decision shall enter into force six 
months after it is taken, unless the Council, following an appropriate proposal by the Commission 
decides before then that the reas ons justifying it no longer prevail.  WT/COMTD/N/4/Add.4 
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  SECTION 2 
 
Safeguard clause 
 
Article 20 
 
1. Where a product originating in a beneficiary country is imported on terms which cause, or 
threaten to cause, serious difficulti es to a Community producer of like or directly competing products, 
normal Common Customs Tariff duties on that product may be reintroduced at any time at the request of a Member State or on the Commission's initiative. 
2. The Commission shall take a formal decision, w ithin a reasonable period of time, to initiate 
an investigation.  Where the Commi ssion decides to initiate an inves tigation, it shall publish a notice, 
in the Official Journal of the European Union , announcing the investigation.  The notice shall provide 
a summary of the information received, and state any relevant information to be sent to the 
Commission.  It shall specify the period, which shall not exceed four months from the date of 
publication of the notice, within which interested  parties may make their views known in writing. 
3. The Commission shall seek all information whic h it deems necessary, and may verify the 
information received with the beneficiary country con cerned and any other releva nt source.  It may be 
assisted by officials of the Member State on whose territory verification might be sought, if that 
Member State so requests. 
4. In examining whether there are serious diffi culties, the Commission shall take account, 
inter alia , of the following factors concerning Commun ity producers, where the information is 
available: 
(a) market share; 
(b) production; 
(c) stocks; 
(d) production capacity; 
(e) bankruptcies; 
(f) profitability; 
(g) capacity utilisation; 
(h) employment; 
(i) imports; 
(j) prices. 
5. The investigation shall be completed within si x months from the date of publication of the 
notice referred to in paragraph 2.  The Commission may, in the case of exceptional circumstances and 
after consultation of the Committee referred to in Ar ticle 27, extend this period in accordance with the 
procedure referred to in Article 27(5). WT/COMTD/N/4/Add.4 
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  6. The Commission shall take a decision within one month, in accordance with the procedure 
referred to in Article 27(5).  Such decision shall ente r into force within one month from the date of its 
publication in the Official Journal of the European Union . 
7. Where exceptional circumstances requiring immediate action make an investigation 
impossible, the Commission may, after informing th e Committee referred to in Article 27, take any 
preventive measure which is strictly necessary. 
8. The Commission, on 1 January of each year during the period of application of this 
Regulation as referred to in Artic le 32(2), on its own initiative or at the request of a Member State and 
after informing the Committee referred to in Article 27, shall remove the preferences referred to in 
Article 6 and 7 with respect to the products from Section XI(b) where imports of those products, as 
referred to in Article 13(1), orig inating in a beneficiary country: 
(a) increase by at least 20 per cent in quan tity (by volume), as compared with the 
previous calendar year;  or 
(b) exceed 12,5 per cent of the value of Community imports of products from 
Section XI(b) from all countries and territo ries listed in Annex I during any period of 
twelve months. 
This provision shall not apply to countries be nefiting from the special arrangement for the 
least-developed countries referred to in Article 11, nor  to countries with a share of imports into the 
Community, as defined in Article 13(1), not exceeding 8 per cent.  The removal of the preferences shall take effect two months after the date of publi cation of the Commission’s decision to this effect in 
the Official Journal of the European Union . 
 
Article 21 
 
 Where imports of products incl uded in Annex I to the Treaty ca use, or threaten to cause, 
serious disturbance to Community markets, in partic ular to one or more of the outermost regions, or 
these markets' regulatory mechanisms, the Commission,  on its own initiative or at the request of a 
Member State, may suspend the preferential arrange ments in respect of the products concerned after 
consulting the management committee for th e relevant common market organisation. 
 
Article 22 
 1. The Commission shall inform the beneficiary country concerned as soon as possible of any 
decision taken in accordance with Article 20 or 21 be fore it becomes effective.  The Commission shall 
also notify the Council and the Member States thereof. 
2. Any Member State may refer a decision taken in accordance with Article 20 or 21 to the 
Council within one month.  The Council, acting by qu alified majority, may adopt a different decision 
within one month.  WT/COMTD/N/4/Add.4 
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  SECTION 3 
 
Surveillance measures in the agricultural sector 
 
Article 23 
 
1. Without prejudice to Article 20, products from Chapters 1 to 24 of the Common Customs 
Tariff originating in beneficiary countries, may be subject to a special surveillance mechanism, in 
order to avoid disturbances to the Community’s market.  The Commission, on its own initiative or at the request of a Member State, shall decide on the products to which this surveillance mechanism 
shall be applied. 
2. In the case of application of Article 20 to products from Chapters 1 to 24 of the Common 
Customs Tariff originating in beneficiary countries,  the periods mentioned in  Article 20(2) and (5) 
shall be reduced to two months in the following cases: 
(a) when the beneficiary country concerned does not ensure compliance with the rules of 
origin or does not provide the administrative cooperation referred to in Article 16;  or 
(b) when imports of products from Chapters  1 to 24 under the preferential arrangements 
granted under this Regulation massively exceed  the usual levels of exports from the 
beneficiary country concerned. 
SECTION 4 
 
Common provision 
 
Article 24 
 
 Nothing in this Chapter shall affect the appli cation of safeguard clauses  adopted as part of the 
Common Agricultural Policy under Article 37 of the Treaty, or as part of the Common Commercial 
Policy under Article 133 of the Treaty, or any other safeguard clauses which may be applied. 
 
CHAPTER IV 
 
PROCEDURAL PROVISIONS 
 
Article 25 
 
The Commission shall, in accordance with the pr ocedure referred to in Article 27(5), adopt 
amendments to the Annexes to this Regulation made necessary: 
 
(a) by amendments to the Combined Nomenclature; 
(b) by changes in the international status or classification of countries or territories; 
(c) by the application of Article 3(2); 
(d) if a country has reached the thresholds set out in Article 3(1); 
(e) for the establishment of the list of be neficiary countries in accordance with 
Article 10. 
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  Article 26 
 
1. Within six weeks of the end of each quarter,  Member States shall send the Eurostat their 
statistical data on products placed under the customs procedure of release for free circulation during that quarter under the tariff preferences provide d for in this Regulation according to Council 
Regulation (EC) No 1172/95
14 and Commission Regulation (EC) No 1917/200015.  These data, 
supplied by reference to the Combined Nomenclature  codes and, where applicable, the TARIC codes, 
shall show, by country of origin, the values, quantities and any supplementary units required in 
accordance with the definitions in Council Regula tion (EC) No 1172/95 and Commission Regulation 
(EC) No 1917/2000. 
2. In accordance with Article 308(d) of Regula tion (EEC) No 2454/93, Member States shall 
forward to the Commission, at its request, details of the quantities of products released for free 
circulation under the tariff preferences provided for in this Regulation, during the previous months. 
These data shall include the products  referred to in paragraph 3. 
3. The Commission shall, in close cooperation w ith Member States, monitor the imports of 
products with CN codes 0603, 08030019, 1006, 160414, 16041931, 16041939, 16042070, 1701, 
1704, 18061030, 18061090, 200290, 210320, 21069059,  21069098 and 6403, in order to determine 
whether the conditions referred to in Articles 20 and 21 are fulfilled.  
Article 27 
 1. Without prejudice to Article 11(7), the Commission shall be assisted by a Generalised 
Preferences Committee (hereinafter  referred to as the Committee). 
2. The Committee may examine any matter relating to the application of this Regulation, raised 
by the Commission or at the request of a Member State. 
3. The Committee shall examine the effects of the scheme, on the basis of a report from the 
Commission covering the period since 1 January 2006.  This report shall cover all of the preferential 
arrangements referred to in Article 1(2), and sha ll be presented in time for the discussion on the next 
Regulation. 
4. Where reference is made to this paragraph,  Articles 5 and 7 of Decision 1999/468/EC shall 
apply. 
The period laid down in Article 5(6) of Deci sion 1999/468/EC shall be set at three months. 
 
5. Where reference is made to this paragraph,  Articles 3 and 7 of Decision 1999/468/EC shall 
apply. 
                                                     
 
14 Council Regulation (EC) No 1172/95 of 22 May 1995 on the statistics relating to the trading of 
goods by the Community and its Member States with non-member countries (OJ L 118, 25.5.1995, p. 10). Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1882/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council 
(OJ L 284, 31.10.2003, p. 1). 
15 Commission Regulation (EC) No 1917/2000 of 7 September 2000 laying down certain provisions for 
the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 1172/95 as regards statistics on external trade (OJ L 229, 
9.9.2000, p. 14). Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1949/2005 (OJ L 312, 29.11.2005, p. 10).  WT/COMTD/N/4/Add.4 
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  CHAPTER V 
 
AMENDMENTS TO REGULATIONS (EC) NO 552/97, (EC) NO 1933/2006,  
(EC) NO 1100/2006 AND (EC) NO 964/2007 
 
Article 28 
 
 Regulation (EC) No 552/97 is  hereby amended as follows: 
  1. in Article 1, the words: 'Regulation (EC) No 3281/94 and Regulation (EC) No 1256/96' 
shall be replaced by the words 'Council Regula tion (EC) No 732/2008 of 22 July 2008 
applying a scheme of generalised tariff preferences for the period from 1 January 2009 to 31 December 2011
16. 
  2. in Article 2, the words 'Article 9(1), first indent, of Regulation (EC) No 3281/94 and 
Article 9(1), first indent, of Regulation (EC)  No 1256/96' shall be replaced by the words 
'Article 15(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 732/2008'. 
 
Article 29 
 
 In Regulation (EC) No 1933/2006, the words in  Article 1 'Regulation (EC) No 980/2005' shall 
be replaced by the words 'Council Regulation (EC) No 732/2008 of 22 July 2008 applying a scheme 
of generalised tariff preferences for the pe riod from 1 January 2009 to 31 December 2011
17 
 
Article 30 
  Regulation (EC) No 1100/2006 is  hereby amended as follows: 
 
1. in the first indent of Article 1, the words 'Article 12(5) of Regulation 
(EC) No 980/2005' shall be replaced by the words 'Article 11(5) of Council Regulation (EC) No 732/2008 of 22 July 2008 applying a scheme of generalised tariff preferences for the period from 1 January 2009 
to 31 December 2011
18 
2. in the second indent of Article 1, the words 'Article 12(4) and (5) of 
Regulation (EC) No 980/2005' shall be replaced by the words 'Article 11(3) and (5) of Regulation (EC) No 732/2008'; 
3. in Article 3(1), the first and sec ond subparagraphs shall be replaced by 
the following: 'The following global tariff quotas at zero duty, expressed as 
"white-sugar" equivalent, shall be open ed for imports of raw cane-sugar for 
refining of CN code 17011110, originating in a country which, according to Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 732/2008, benefits from the special 
arrangement for least developed countries: 
  - 178030,75 tonnes for the marketing year from 1 October 2007 to 30 September 2008, 
  204735 tonnes for the marketing year from 1 October 2008 to 30 September 2009. 
   - The quotas shall bear the order numbers 09.4361 and 09.4362, respectively.'; 
                                                     
 
16 OJ L 211, 6.8.2008, p. 1'; 
17 OJ L 211, 6.8.2008, p. 1'. 
18 OJ L 211, 6.8.2008, p. 1'; WT/COMTD/N/4/Add.4 
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4. Article 3(2) shall be amended as follows: 
(a) the first subparagrah shall be replaced by the following: 
'2. For imports, other than those referred to in paragraph 1, of products of tariff heading 1701 or iginating in least developed 
countries, the Common Customs Tariff (CCT) duties, as well as the 
additional duties referred to in  Article 27 of Regulation (EC) 
No 318/2006 and subject to Article 36 of Regulation (EC) No 951/2006, shall be reduced in accordance with Article 11(3) of 
Regulation (EC) No 732/2008 by 50 % on 1 July 2007, by 80 % on 
1 July 2008, and suspended entirely with effect from 1 October 
2009.'; 
(b) in point (c) of the third subparagraph, the word 'June' shall be 
replaced by the word 'September'; 
(c) point (d) of the third subparagraph is deleted; 
 5. in Article 5(7)(d), the words 'the approved operator's pledge' shall be replaced by the words 
'the applicant's pledge'; 
  6. in Article 5(8)(a), the words 'Annex I to  Regulation (EC) No 980/2005' shall be replaced by 
the words 'Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 732/2008'; 
 
 7. in the first indent of Article 5(8)(c),  the words 'Article 12(5) of Regulation (EC) 
No 980/2005' shall be replaced by the words 'Art icle 11(5) of Regulation (EC) No 732/2008'; 
  8. in the second indent of Article 5(8)(c),  the words 'Article 12(4) of Regulation (EC) 
No 980/2005' shall be replaced by the words 'Art icle 11(3) of Regulation (EC) No 732/2008'; 
 
 9. In Article 10(2), the words 'Article 12( 4) of Regulation (EC) No 980/2005' shall be 
replaced by the words 'Article 11(3) of Regulation (EC) No 732/2008'. 
 
Article 31 
  Regulation (EC) No 964/2007 is hereby amended as follows: 
  1. in the first subparagraph of Article 1(1) , the words 'Article 12(5) of Regulation (EC) 
No 980/2005' are replaced by the words 'Article 11(5) of Council Regulation (EC) No 732/2008 of 22 July 2008 applying a scheme of generalised tariff preferences for the 
period from 1 January 2009 to 31 December 2011
19. 
  2. In the second subparagraph of Article 1( 1), the words 'Annex I to Regulation (EC) 
No 980/2005' are replaced by the words 'Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 732/2008'. 
 
                                                     
 
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  CHAPTER VI 
 
FINAL PROVISIONS 
 
Article 32 
 
1. This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following its publication in the Official 
Journal of the European Union . 
2. It shall apply from 1 January 2009 until 31 Dece mber 2011.  However, the expiry date shall 
not apply to the special arrangement for the least-dev eloped countries, nor, to the extent that they are 
applied in conjunction with that arrangement, to  any other provisions of this Regulation. 
  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. 
 
Done at Brussels, 22 July 2008.          F o r  t h e  C o u n c i l  
         The President  
         B. KOUCHNER 
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 BENEFICIARY COUNTRIES
1 AND TERRITORIES OF THE COMMUNITY'S SCHEME 
OF GENERALISED TARIFF PREFERENCES 
 
Council Regulation - ANNEX I   
 
Column A:  alphabetical code, in accordance with the nomen clature of countries and territories for the 
external trade statistics of the Community 
Column B:  name of the country or territory 
Column C:  section(s) in respect of which the tariff pref erences have been removed, for the beneficiary 
country concerned (Article 13) 
Column D:  country included in the special arrangement fo r the least developed countries (Article 11) 
Column E:  country included in the special incentive arrangement for sustainable development and good 
governance (Article 7) 
 
A B C D E 
AE United Arab 
Emirates     
AF Afghanistan   X  
AG Antigua and 
Barbuda     
AI Anguilla     
AM Armenia     
AN Netherlands 
Antilles     
AO Angola   X  
AQ Antarctica     
AR Argentina     
AS American Samoa     
AW Aruba     
AZ Azerbaijan     
BB Barbados     
BD Bangladesh   X  
BF Burkina Faso   X  
BH Bahrain     
BI Burundi   X  
BJ Benin   X  
BM Bermuda     
BN Brunei Darussalam     
BO Bolivia     
S-IV Prepared foodstuffs; beverages, spirits and vinegar; 
tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes   BR Brazil 
S-IX Wood and articles of wo od; wood charcoal; cork and 
articles of cork; manufactures of straw, of esparto or 
of other plaiting materials; basket ware and wickerwork   
BS Bahamas     
BT Bhutan   X  
BV Bouvet Island     
BW Botswana     
BY Belarus     
BZ Belize     
                                                      
1 This list includes countries which may have been suspended temporarily from the Community's GSP 
or which may not have complied with the requirements for administrative cooperation (a precondition for goods 
to be granted the benefit of tariff preferences).  Th e Commission or the competent authorities of the country 
concerned will provide an updated list.  WT/COMTD/N/4/Add.4 
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 A B C D E 
CC Cocos Islands (or 
Keeling Islands)     
CD Congo, Democratic 
Republic of   X  
CF Central African 
Republic   X  
CG Congo     
CI Côte d'Ivoire     
CK Cook Islands     
CM Cameroon     
S-VI Products of the chemical or allied industries   
S-VII Plastics and articles th ereof; rubber and articles 
thereof   
S-VIII Raw hides and skins, leather, furskins and articles 
thereof; saddlery and harne ss; travel goods, handbags 
and similar containers; articles of animal gut (other 
than silkworm gut)   
S-IX Wood and articles of wo od; wood charcoal; cork and 
articles of cork; manufactures of straw, of esparto or 
of other plaiting materials; basketware and wickerwork   
S-XI(a) Textiles; S-XI(b) Textile articles   
S-XII Footwear, headgear, umbrellas, sun umbrellas, 
walking sticks, seat-sticks, whips, riding-crops and parts thereof; prepared feathers and articles made 
therewith; artificial flowers;  articles of human hair   
S-XIII Articles of stone, plas ter, cement, asbestos, mica or 
similar materials; ceramic products; glass and 
glassware   
S-XIV Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious 
stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal, and articles thereof; imitation jewellery; coin   
S-XV Base metals and articles of base metal   
S-XVI Machinery and mechani cal appliances; electrical 
equipment; parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television im age and sound recorders 
and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such 
articles   
S-XVII Vehicles, aircraft, vesse ls and associated transport 
equipment   
S-
XVIII Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, 
checking, precision, medical  or surgical instruments 
and apparatus; clocks and watches; musical 
instruments; parts an d accessories thereof   CN China, People's 
Republic of 
S-XX Miscellaneous manufactured articles   
CO Colombia     
CR Costa Rica     
CU Cuba     
CV Cape Verde   X  
CX Christmas Islands     
DJ Djibouti   X  
DM Dominica     
DO Dominican 
Republic     
DZ Algeria     
EC Ecuador     WT/COMTD/N/4/Add.4 
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 A B C D E 
EG Egypt     
ER Eritrea   X  
ET Ethiopia   X  
FJ Fiji     
FK Falkland Islands     
FM Micronesia, 
Federated States of     
GA Gabon     
GD Grenada     
GE Georgia     
GH Ghana     
GI Gibraltar     
GL Greenland     
GM Gambia   X  
GN Guinea   X  
GQ Equatorial Guinea   X  
GS South Georgia and 
South Sandwich 
Islands     
GT Guatemala     
GU Guam     
GW Guinea-Bissau   X  
GY Guyana     
HM Heard Island and 
McDonald Islands     
HN Honduras     
HT Haiti   X  
ID Indonesia S-III Animal or vegeta ble fats and oils and their cleavage 
products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes   
IN India S-XI(a) Textiles   
IO British Indian 
Ocean Territory     
IQ Iraq     
IR Iran     
JM Jamaica     
JO Jordan     
KE Kenya     
KG Kyrgyzstan     
KH Cambodia   X  
KI Kiribati   X  
KM Comoros   X  
KN St Kitts and Nevis     
KW Kuwait     
KY Cayman Islands     
KZ Kazakhstan     
LA Lao People's 
Democratic Republic   X  
LB Lebanon     
LC St Lucia     
LK Sri Lanka     
LR Liberia   X  
LS Lesotho   X  
LY Libyan Arab 
Jamahiriya      WT/COMTD/N/4/Add.4 
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 A B C D E 
MA Morocco     
MG Madagascar   X  
MH Marshall Islands     
ML Mali   X  
MM Myanmar   X  
MN Mongolia     
MO Macao     
MP Northern Mariana 
Islands     
MR Mauritania   X  
MS Montserrat     
MU Mauritius     
MV Maldives   X  
MW Malawi   X  
MX Mexico     
MY Malaysia S-III Animal or vegeta ble fats and oils and their cleavage 
products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable 
waxes   
MZ Mozambique   X  
NA Namibia     
NC New Caledonia     
NE Niger   X  
NF Norfolk Island     
NG Nigeria     
NI Nicaragua     
NP Nepal   X  
NR Nauru     
NU Niue     
OM Oman     
PA Panama     
PE Peru     
PF French Polynesia     
PG Papua New Guinea     
PH Philippines     
PK Pakistan     
PM St Pierre and 
Miquelon     
PN Pitcairn     
PW Palau     
PY Paraguay     
QA Qatar     
RU Russian Federation     
RW Rwanda   X  
SA Saudi Arabia     
SB Solomon Islands   X  
SC Seychelles     
SD Sudan   X  
SH Saint Helena     
SL Sierra Leone   X  
SN Senegal   X  
SO Somalia   X  
SR Suriname     
ST São Tomé and 
Príncipe   X  
SV El Salvador     
SY Syrian Arab     WT/COMTD/N/4/Add.4 
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 A B C D E 
Republic 
SZ Swaziland     
TC Turks and Caicos 
Islands     
TD Chad   X  
TF French Southern 
Territories     
TG Togo   X  
TH Thailand S-XIV Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious 
stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal, and articles thereof; imitation jewellery; coin   
TJ Tajikistan     
TK Tokelau     
TL Timor-Leste   X  
TM Turkmenistan     
TN Tunisia     
TO Tonga     
TT Trinidad and 
Tobago     
TV Tuvalu   X  
TZ Tanzania   X  
UA Ukraine     
UG Uganda   X  
UM United States Minor 
Outlying Islands     
UY Uruguay     
UZ Uzbekistan     
VC St Vincent and the 
Grenadines     
VE Venezuela     
VG Virgin Islands, 
British     
VI Virgin Islands, US     
VN Vietnam S-XII Footwear, headgear, umbrellas, sun umbrellas, 
walking sticks, seat-sticks, whips, riding crops and 
parts thereof; prepared feathers and articles made therewith; artificial flowers;  articles of human hair   
VU Vanuatu   X  
WF Wallis and Futuna     
WS Samoa   X  
YE Yemen   X  
YT Mayotte     
ZA South Africa     
ZM Zambia   X  
ZW Zimbabwe     
 
 
 
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 LIST OF PRODUCTS INCLUDED IN THE ARRANGEMENTS REFERRED TO IN 
ARTICLE 1(2)(A) AND (B) 
 
Council Regulation – ANNEX II  
 
 
Notwithstanding the rules for the interpretation of the Combined Nomenclature, the description of the 
products is to be considered as indicative, the tari ff preferences being determined by the CN codes.  
 Where 'ex' CN codes are indicated, the tariff prefer ences are to be determined by the CN code and the 
description, together. 
 Entry of products with a CN code marked with an asterisk is subject to the conditions laid down in the 
relevant Community provisions.  
The column 'Sensitive/non-sensitive' refers to th e products included in the general arrangement 
(Article 6) and in the special incentive arrangement  for sustainable development and good governance 
(Article 7).  These products are listed as being either NS (non-sensitive, for the purposes of 
Article 6(1)) or S (sensitive, for the purposes of Article 6(2)).  For reasons of simplification, the products are liste d in groups.  These may include products for which 
Common Customs Tariff duties are exempted or suspended. 
  
CN code Description Sensitive/
non-
sensitive 
01011090 Live, pure-bred breeding asses and other S 
01019019 Live horses, other than pure-bred breeding animals, other than for slaughter S 
01019030 Live asses, other than pure-bred breeding animals S 
01019090 Live mules and hinnies S 
01042010 * Live, pure-bred breeding goats S 
01061910 Live domestic rabbits S 
01063910 Live pigeons S 
020500 Meat of horses, asses, mules or hinnies, fresh, chilled or frozen S 
02068091 Edible offal of horses, asses, mules or hinnies, fresh or chilled, other than for the 
manufacture of pharmaceutical products S 
02069091 Edible offal of horses, asses, mules or hinnies, frozen, other than for the 
manufacture of pharmaceutical products S 
02071491 Livers, frozen, of fowls of the species Gallus domesticus  S 
02072791 Livers, frozen, of turkeys S 
02073689 Livers, frozen, of ducks, geese or guinea fowls, other than fatty livers of ducks or 
geese S 
ex02081 Other meat and edible meat offal, fresh, chilled or frozen, excluding products 
under subheading 02089055 (except for the products under subheading 02089070 
to which the footnote shall not apply) S 
02089070 Frogs' legs NS 
02109910 Meat of horses, salted, in brine or dried S 
02109959 Offal of bovine animals, salted, in brine, dried or smoked, other than thick skirt 
and thin skirt S 
02109960 Offal of sheep or goats, salted, in brine, dried or smoked S 
                                                      
1 The arrangement referred to in Section 1 of Chapter II shall not apply to the products under this 
heading. WT/COMTD/N/4/Add.4 
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 CN code Description Sensitive/
non-
sensitive 
02109980 Offal, salted, in brine, dried or smoked, other than poultry liver, other than of 
domestic swine, of bovine animals or of sheep or goats S 
ex Chapter 32 Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and ot her aquatic invertebrates, except for 
products under subheading 03011090 S 
03011090 Live, ornamental saltwater fish NS 
04031051 
04031053 
04031059 
04031091 04031093 
04031099 Yogurt, flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa S 
04039071 
04039073 04039079 
04039091 
04039093 
04039099 Buttermilk, curdled milk and cream, kephir and other fermented or acidified milk 
and cream, flavoured or containing  added fruit, nuts or cocoa S 
04052010 
04052030 Dairy spreads, of a fat content, by weight, of 39 % or more but not exceeding 
75 % S 
04070090 Birds' eggs, in shell, fresh, preserved or cooked, other than of poultry S 
040900003 Natural honey S 
04100000 Edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included S 
05119939 Natural sponges of animal origin, other than raw S 
ex Chapter 6 Live trees and other plants; bulbs,  roots and the like; cut flowers and ornamental 
foliage, except for products under subheading 06049140 S 
06049140 Conifer branches, fresh NS 
0701 Potatoes, fresh or chilled S 
070310 Onions and shallots, fresh or chilled S 
07039000 Leeks and other alliaceous vegetables, fresh or chilled S 
0704 Cabbages, cauliflowers, kohlrabi, kale  and similar edible brassicas, fresh or 
chilled S 
0705 Lettuce ( Lactuca sativa ) and chicory ( Cichorium  spp.), fresh or chilled S 
0706 Carrots, turnips, salad beetroot, salsify,  celeriac, radishes and similar edible roots, 
fresh or chilled S 
ex07070005 Cucumbers, fresh or chilled, from 16 May to 31 October S 
0708 Leguminous vegetables, shelled or unshelled, fresh or chilled S 
07092000 Asparagus, fresh or chilled S 
07093000 Aubergines (eggplants), fresh or chilled S 
07094000 Celery other than celeriac, fresh or chilled S 
07095100 
070959 Mushrooms, fresh or chilled, excluding the products under subheading 07095950 S 
07096010 Sweet peppers, fresh or chilled S 
07096099 Fruits of the genus Capsicum  or of the genus Pimenta , fresh or chilled, other than 
sweet peppers, other than for the manufact ure of capsicin or capsicum oleoresin 
dyes and other than for the industrial manufacture of essential oils or resinoids S 
07097000 Spinach, New Zealand spinach and or ache spinach (garden spinach), fresh or 
chilled S 
                                                      
2 For the products under subheading 030613, the duty shall be 3,6 per cent under the arrangement 
referred to in Section 2 of Chapter II. 
3 The arrangement referred to in  Section 1 of Chapter II shall not apply to the product of this 
subheading.  WT/COMTD/N/4/Add.4 
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 CN code Description Sensitive/
non-
sensitive 
07099010 Salad vegetables, fresh or chilled, other than lettuce ( Lactuca sativa ) and chicory 
(Cichorium  spp.) S 
07099020 Chard (or white beet) and cardoons, fresh or chilled S 
07099031 * Olives, fresh or chilled, for us es other than the production of oil S 
07099040 Capers, fresh or chilled S 
07099050 Fennel, fresh or chilled S 
07099070 Courgettes, fresh or chilled S 
ex07099080 Globe artichokes, fresh or chilled, from 1 July to 31 October S 
07099090 Other vegetables, fresh or chilled S 
ex0710 Vegetables (uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water), frozen, except 
for the product of subheading 07108085 S 
071080854 Asparagus (uncooked or cooked by st eaming or boiling in water), frozen S 
ex0711 Vegetables provisionally preserved (for example, by sulphur dioxide gas, in brine, 
in sulphur water or in other preservative solutions), but unsuitable in that state for 
immediate consumption, excluding the products under subheading 07112090 S 
ex0712 Dried vegetables, whole, cut, sliced, broken or in powder, but not further 
prepared, excluding olives and the products under subheading 07129019 S 
0713 Dried leguminous vegetables, shelle d, whether or not skinned or split S 
07142010 * Sweet potatoes, fresh, whole, and intended for human consumption NS 
07142090 Sweet potatoes, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not sliced or in the form 
of pellets, other than fresh and whole and intended for human consumption S 
07149090 Jerusalem artichokes and similar roots and tubers with high inulin content, fresh, 
chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not sliced or in the form of pellets; sago pith NS 
08021190 
08021290 Almonds, fresh or dried, whether or  not shelled, other than bitter S 
08022100 
08022200 Hazelnuts or filberts ( Corylus  spp.), fresh or dried, whether or not shelled S 
08023100 
08023200 Walnuts, fresh or dried, whether or not shelled S 
08024000 Chestnuts ( Castanea  spp.), fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled S 
08025000 Pistachios, fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled NS 
08026000 Macadamia nuts, fres h or dried, whether or no t shelled or peeled NS 
08029050 Pine nuts, fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled NS 
08029085 Other nuts, fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled NS 
08030011 Plantains, fresh S 
08030090 Bananas, including plantains, dried S 
08041000 Dates, fresh or dried S 
08042010 
08042090 Figs, fresh or dried S 
08043000 Pineapples, fresh or dried S 
08044000 Avocados, fresh or dried S 
ex080520 Mandarins (including tangerines and satsumas), and clementines, wilkings and 
similar citrus hybrids, fresh or dried, from 1 March to 31 October S 
08054000 Grapefruit, including pomelos, fresh or dried NS 
08055090 Limes ( Citrus aurantifolia, Citrus latifolia ), fresh or dried S 
08059000 Other citrus fruit, fresh or dried S 
ex08061010 Table grapes, fresh, from 1 January to 20 July and from 21 November 
to 31 December, excluding grap es of the variety Emperor ( Vitis vinifera  cv.) from 
1 to 31 December S 
08061090 Other grapes, fresh S 
                                                      
4 The arrangement referred to in  Section 1 of Chapter II shall not apply to the product of this 
subheading. WT/COMTD/N/4/Add.4 
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 CN code Description Sensitive/
non-
sensitive 
ex080620 Dried grapes, excluding products under subheading ex08062030 in immediate 
containers of a net capacity exceeding 2 kg S 
08071100 
08071900 Melons (including watermelons), fresh S 
08081010 Cider apples, fresh, in bulk, from 16 September to 15 December S 
08082010 Perry pears, fresh, in bulk , from 1 August to 31 December S 
ex08082050 Other pears, fresh, from 1 May to 30 June S 
08082090 Quinces, fresh S 
ex08091000 Apricots, fresh, from 1 January to 31 May and from 1 August to 31 December S 
08092005 Sour cherries ( Prunus cerasus ), fresh S 
ex08092095 Cherries, fresh, from 1 January to 20 May and from 11 August to 31 December, 
other than sour cherries ( Prunus cerasus ) S 
ex080930 Peaches, includ ing nectarines, fresh, from 1 January to 10 June and from 
1 October to 31 December S 
ex08094005 Plums, fresh, from 1 January to 10  June and from 1 Octo ber to 31 December S 
08094090 Sloes, fresh S 
ex08101000 Strawberries, fresh, from 1 January to 30 April and from 1 August 
to 31 December S 
081020 Raspberries, blackberries, mulberries and loganberries, fresh S 
08104030 Fruit of the species Vaccinium myrtillus , fresh S 
08104050 Fruit of the species Vaccinium macrocarpon  and Vaccinium corymbosum , fresh S 
08104090 Other fruits of the genus Vaccinium , fresh S 
08105000 Kiwifruit, fresh S 
08106000 Durians, fresh S 
08109050 
08109060 
08109070 Black-, white- or redcurrants and gooseberries, fresh S 
08109095 Other fruit, fresh S 
ex0811 Fruit and nuts, uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water, frozen, 
whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter, except for 
products under subheadings 081110 and 081120 S 
0811105 and 
0811206 Strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, mulberries, loganberries, black-, white- 
and redcurrants, and gooseberries S 
ex0812 Fruit and nuts, provisionally preserved (for example, by sulphur dioxide gas, in 
brine, in sulphur water or in other preservative solutions), but unsuitable in that 
state for immediate consumption, except for products under subheading 08129030 S 
08129030 Papaws (papayas) NS 
08131000 Apricots, dried S 
08132000 Prunes S 
08133000 Apples, dried S 
08134010 Peaches, includin g nectarines, dried S 
08134030 Pears, dried S 
08134050 Papaws (papayas), dried NS 
08134095 Other fruit, dried, other than that of headings 0801 to 0806 NS 
08135012 Mixtures of dried fruit (other than that of headings 0801 to 0806) of papaws 
(papayas), tamarinds, cashew apples, lych ees, jackfruit, sapodillo plums, passion 
fruit, carambola or pitahaya, but not containing prunes S 
                                                      
5 The arrangement referred to in  Section 1 of Chapter II shall not apply to the product of this 
subheading. 
6 The arrangement referred to in  Section 1 of Chapter II shall not apply to the product of this 
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08135015 Other mixtures of dried fruit (other than that of headings 0801 to 0806), not 
containing prunes S 
08135019 Mixtures of dried fruit (other than that of headings 0801 to 0806), containing 
prunes S 
08135031 Mixtures exclusively of tropical nuts of headings 0801 and 0802 S 
08135039 Mixtures exclusively of nuts of headings 0801 and 0802, other than of tropical 
nuts S 
08135091 Other mixtures of nuts and dried fruits of Chapter 8, not containing prunes or figs S 
08135099 Other mixtures of nuts and dried fruits of Chapter 8 S 
08140000 Peel of citrus fruit or melons (including watermelons), fresh, frozen, dried or 
provisionally preserved in brine, in sulphur water or in other preservative solutions NS 
ex Chapter 9 Coffee, tea, maté and spices, except the products under subheadings 09011200, 
09012100, 09012200, 09019090 and 09042010, headings 09050000 and 09070000, and subheadings 09109190, 09109933, 09109939, 09109950 and 
09109999 NS 
09011200 Coffee, not roasted, decaffeinated S 
09012100 Coffee, roasted,  not decaffeinated S 
09012200 Coffee, roaste d, decaffeinated S 
09019090 Coffee substitutes containing coffee in any proportion S 
09042010 Sweet peppers, dried, neither crushed nor ground S 
09050000 Vanilla S 
09070000 Cloves (whole fruit, cloves and stems) S 
09109190 Mixtures of two or more products under different headings of headings 0904 
to 0910, crushed or ground S 
09109933 
09109939 09109950 Thyme; bay leaves S 
09109999 Other spices, crushed or ground, other than mixtures of two or more products 
under different headings of headings 0904 to 0910 S 
ex10089090 Quinoa S 
1105 Flour, meal, powder, flakes, gr anules and pellets of potatoes S 
11061000 Flour, meal and powder of the dried leguminous vegetables of heading 0713 S 
110630 Flour, meal and powder of products from Chapter 8 S 
11082000 Inulin S 
ex Chapter 12 Oil seeds and oleag inous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit, except for 
products under subheadings 12092100, 12092380, 12092950, 12092980, 
12093000, 12099110, 12099190 and 12099991; industrial or medicinal plants, 
except for products under heading 1210 and subheading 12119030, and excluding products under subheadings 121291 and 12129920; straw and fodder S 
12092100 Lucerne (alfalfa) seed, of a kind used for sowing NS 
12092380 Other fescue seed, of a kind used for sowing NS 
12092950 Lupine seed, of a kind used for sowing NS 
12092980 Seeds of other forage plants, of a kind used for sowing NS 
12093000 Seeds of herbaceous plants cultivated pr incipally for their flowers, of a kind used 
for sowing NS 
12099110 
12099190 Other vegetable seeds, of a kind used for sowing NS WT/COMTD/N/4/Add.4 
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12099991 Seeds of plants cultivated principally for their flowers, of a kind used for sowing, 
other than those of subheading 12093000 NS 
12107 Hop cones, fresh or dried, whether or not ground, powdered or in the form of 
pellets; lupulin S 
12119030 Tonquin beans, fresh or dried, whether or not cut, crushed or powdered NS 
ex Chapter 13 Lac; gums, resins and other vegetable saps and extracts, except for products under 
subheading 13021200 S 
13021200 Vegetable saps and extracts, of liquorice NS 
15010090 Poultry fat, other than that of heading 0209 or 1503 S 
15020090 Fats of bovine animals, sheep or goats, other than those of heading 1503 and other 
than for industrial uses other than the manufacture of foodstuffs for human consumption S 
15030019 Lard stearin and oleostearin, other than for industrial uses S 
15030090 Lard oil, oleo-oil and tallow oil, not emulsified or mixed or otherwise prepared, 
other than tallow oil for industrial uses other than the manufacture of foodstuffs 
for human consumption S 
1504 Fats and oils and their fractions, of fish or marine mammals, whether or not 
refined, but not chemically modified S 
15050010 Wool grease, crude S 
1507 Soya-bean oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically 
modified S 
1508 Groundnut oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically 
modified S 
15111090 Palm oil, crude, other than for technical or industrial uses other than the 
manufacture of foodstuffs for human consumption S 
151190 Palm oil and its fractions, whether or not refined but not chemically modified, 
other than crude oil S 
1512 Sunflower-seed, safflower or cotton-seed oil and fractions thereof, whether or not 
refined, but not chemically modified S 
1513 Coconut (copra), palm-kernel or babassu oil and fractions thereof, whether or not 
refined, but not chemically modified S 
1514 Rape, colza or mustard oil and fractions thereof, whether or not refined, but not 
chemically modified S 
1515 Other fixed vegetable fats and oils (including jojoba oil) and their fractions, 
whether or not refined, but not chemically modified S 
ex1516 Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, partly or wholly 
hydrogenated, inter-esterified, re-esterified or elaidinised, whether or not refined, but not further prepared, except for products under subheading 15162010 S 
15162010 Hydrogenated castor oil, so called ‘opal-wax’ NS 
1517 Margarine; edible mixtures or preparations  of animal or vegetable fats or oils or of 
fractions of different fats or  oils of Chapter 15, other than edible fats or oils or 
their fractions of heading 1516 S 
151800 Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, boiled, oxidised, dehydrated, 
sulphurised, blown, polymerised by heat in vacuum or in inert gas or otherwise chemically modified, excluding those of heading 1516; inedible mixtures or 
preparations of animal or vegetable fats or oils or of fractions of different fats or 
oils of Chapter 15, not else where specified or included S 
15219099 Beeswax and other insect waxes, whether or not refined or coloured, other than 
raw S 
15220010 Degras S 
                                                      
7 The arrangement referred to in Section 1 of Chapter II shall not apply to the products under this 
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15220091 Oil foots and dregs; soapstocks, other than containing oil having the 
characteristics of olive oil S 
16010010 Sausages and similar products, of liver, and food preparations based on liver S 
16022010 Goose or duck liver, prepared or preserved S 
16024190 Ham and cuts thereof, prepared or preserved, of swine other than of domestic 
swine S 
16024290 Shoulders and cuts thereof, prepared or preserved, of swine other than of domestic 
swine S 
16024990 Other prepared or preserved meat or meat offal, including mixtures, of swine 
other than of domestic swine S 
160250318 
160250959 Other prepared or preserved meat or meat offal, cooked, of bovine animals, 
whether or not in airtight containers S 
16029031 Other prepared or preserved meat or meat offal, of game or rabbit S 
16029069 
16029072 
16029074 
16029076 16029078 
16029099 Other prepared or preserved meat or meat offal, of sheep or goats or other 
animals, not containing unc ooked bovine meat or offal and not containing meat or 
meat offal of domestic swine S 
16030010 Extracts and juices of meat, fish or crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic 
invertebrates, in immediate packings  of a net content not exceeding 1 kg S 
1604 Prepared or preserved fish; caviar and caviar substitutes prepared from fish eggs S 
1605 Crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates, prepared or preserved S 
17025000 Chemically pure fructose S 
17029010 Chemically pure maltose S 
170410 Sugar confectionery (including white chocolate), not containing cocoa S 
Chapter 18 Cocoa and cocoa preparations S 
ex Chapter 19 Preparations of cer eals, flour, starch or  milk; pastrycooks' products, except for 
products under subheadings 19012000 and 19019091 S 
19012000 Mixes and doughs for the preparation of bakers' wares of heading 1905 NS 
19019091 Other, containing no milk fats, sucrose, isoglucose, glucose or starch or 
containing less than 1,5 % milk fat, 5 % sucrose (including invert sugar) or 
isoglucose, 5 % glucose or starch, excluding food preparations in powder form of 
goods of headings 0401 to 0404 NS 
ex Chapter 20 Preparations of vegetables, fruit, nuts or other parts of plants, except for products 
under heading 2002 and subheadings 20058000, 20082019, 20082039, ex200840 
and ex200870 S 
200211 Tomatoes, prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid S 
2005800012 Sweetcorn ( Zea mays  var. saccharata ), prepared or preserved otherwise than by 
vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen, ot her than products under heading 2006 S 
20082019 
20082039 Pineapples, otherwise prepared or pres erved, containing added spirit, not 
elsewhere specified or included NS 
                                                      
8 The arrangement referred to in  Section 1 of Chapter II shall not apply to the product of this 
subheading. 
9 The arrangement referred to in  Section 1 of Chapter II shall not apply to the product of this 
subheading. 
10 For the products under subheading 17041090, the specific duty shall be limited to 16 % of the 
customs value, under the arrangement referred to in Section 2 of Chapter II. 
11 The arrangement referred to in Section 1 of Chap ter II shall not apply to the products under this 
heading. 
12 The arrangement referred to in Section 1 of Chapter II shall not apply to the product of this 
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ex20084013 Pears, otherwise prepared or preserved, whether or not containing added sugar or 
other sweetening matter or spirit, not el sewhere specified or included (except for 
products under subheadings 20084011, 20084021, 20084029 and 20084039, to 
which the footnote shall not apply) S 
ex20087014 Peaches, including nectarines, otherwise prepared or preserved, whether or not 
containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or spirit, not elsewhere 
specified or included (except for products under subheadings 20087011, 
20087031, 20087039 and 20087059, to which the footnote shall not apply) S 
ex Chapter 21 Miscellaneous edible preparations, except for products under subheadings 210120 
and 21022019, and excluding products under subheadings 210610, 21069030, 
21069051, 21069055 and 21069059 S 
210120 Extracts, essences and concentrates, of tea or maté, and preparations with a basis 
of these extracts, essences or concentr ates, or with a basis of tea or maté NS 
21022019 Other inactive yeasts NS 
ex Chapter 22 Beverages, spirits and vinegar, except for products under heading 2207, and 
excluding products under subheadings 22041011 to 22043010 and subheading 220840 S 
220715 Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of 80 % vol or 
higher; ethyl alcohol and other spirits, denatured, of any strength S 
23025000 Residues and wastes of a similar kind, whether or not in the form of pellets, 
resulting from the grinding or ot her working of leguminous plants S 
23070019 Other wine lees S 
23080019 Other grape marc S 
23080090 Other vegetable materials and vegetable waste, vegetable residues and by-
products, whether or not in the form of pellets, of a kind used in animal feeding, 
not elsewhere specified or included NS 
23091090 Other dog or cat food put up for retail sale, other than containing starch or 
glucose, glucose syrup, maltodextrine or maltodextrine syrup of subheadings 
17023050 to 17023090, 17024090, 17029050 and 21069055 or milk products S 
23099010 Fish or marine mammal solubles, of a kind used in animal feeding NS 
23099091 Beetpulp with added molasses, of a kind used in animal feeding S 
23099095 
23099099 Other preparations of a kind used in animal feeding, whether or not containing by 
weight 49 % or more of choline chloride on an organic or inorganic base S 
Chapter 24 Tobacco and manuf actured tobacco substitutes S 
25199010 Magnesium oxide, other than calcined natural magnesium carbonate NS 
2522 Quicklime, slaked lime and hydraulic lime, other than calcium oxide and 
hydroxide of heading 2825 NS 
2523 Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag cement, supersulphate cement and 
similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers NS 
Chapter 27 Mineral fuels, mi neral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous 
substances; mineral waxes NS 
2801 Fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine NS 
28020000 Sulphur, sublimed or precipitated; colloidal sulphur NS 
ex2804 Hydrogen, rare gases and other non-metals, excluding products under subheading 
28046900 NS 
2806 Hydrogen chloride (hydrochloric acid); chlorosulphuric acid NS 
280700 Sulphuric acid; oleum NS 
                                                      
13 The arrangement referred to in Section 1 of Chapter II shall not apply to the product of this 
subheading. 
14 The arrangement referred to in Section 1 of Chapter II shall not apply to the product of this 
subheading. 
15 The arrangement referred to in Section 1 of Chap ter II shall not apply to the products under this 
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28080000 Nitric acid; sulphonitric acids NS 
2809 Diphosphorus pentaoxide; phosphoric acid; polyphosphoric acids, whether or not 
chemically defined NS 
28100090 Oxides of boron, other than diboron trioxide; boric acids NS 
2811 Other inorganic acids and other inorganic oxygen compounds of non-metals NS 
2812 Halides and halide oxides of non-metals NS 
2813 Sulphides of non-metals; commercial phosporus trisulphide NS 
2814 Ammonia, anhydrous or in aqueous solution S 
2815 Sodium hydroxide (caustic soda); potassium hydroxide (caustic potash); peroxide 
of sodium or potassium S 
2816 Hydroxide and peroxide of magnesium; oxides, hydroxides and peroxides, of 
strontium or barium NS 
28170000 Zinc oxide; zinc peroxide S 
281810 Artificial corundum, whether or not chemically defined S 
2819 Chromium oxides and hydroxides S 
2820 Manganese oxides S 
2821 Iron oxides and hydroxides; earth colours containing by weight 70 % or more of 
combined iron evaluated as Fe 2O3 NS 
28220000 Cobalt oxides and hydroxides; commercial cobalt oxides NS 
28230000 Titanium oxides S 
2824 Lead oxides; red l ead and orange lead NS 
ex2825 Hydrazine and hydroxylamine and their inorganic salts; other inorganic bases; 
other metal oxides, hydroxides and peroxides, except for products under 
subheadings 28251000 and 28258000 NS 
28251000 Hydrazine and hydroxylamine and their inorganic salts S 
28258000 Antimony oxides S 
2826 Fluorides; fluorosilicates, fluoroaluminates and other complex fluorine salts NS 
ex2827 Chlorides, chloride oxides and chloride hydroxides, except for products under 
subheadings 28271000 and 28273200; bromides and bromide oxides; iodides and iodide oxides NS 
28271000 Ammonium chloride S 
28273200 Aluminium chloride S 
2828 Hypochlorites; commercial calcium hypochlorite; chlorites; hypobromites NS 
2829 Chlorates and perchlorates; bromates and perbromates; iodates and periodates NS 
ex2830 Sulphides, except for products under subheading 28301000; polysulphides, 
whether or not chemically defined NS 
28301000 Sodium sulphides S 
2831 Dithionites and sulphoxylates NS 
2832 Sulphites; thiosulphates NS 
2833 Sulphates; alums; peroxosulphates (persulphates) NS 
28341000 Nitrites S 
28342100 
283429 Nitrates NS 
2835 Phosphinates (hypophosphites), phosphonates (phosphites) and phosphates; 
polyphosphates, whether or not chemically defined S 
ex2836 Carbonates, except for products under subheadings 28362000, 28364000 and 
28366000; peroxocarbonates (percarbona tes); commercial ammonium carbonate 
containing ammonium carbamate NS 
28362000 Disodium carbonate S 
28364000 Potassium carbonates S 
28366000 Barium carbonate S 
2837 Cyanides, cyan ide oxides and complex cyanides NS 
2839 Silicates; commercial alkali metal silicates NS 
2840 Borates; peroxoborates (perborates) NS WT/COMTD/N/4/Add.4 
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ex2841 Salts of oxometallic or peroxometallic acids, except for the product of subheading 
28416100 NS 
28416100 Potassium permanganate S 
2842 Other salts of inorganic acids or peroxoacids (including aluminosilicates, whether 
or not chemically defined), other than azides NS 
2843 Colloidal precious metals; inorganic or organic compounds of precious metals, 
whether or not chemically defined; amalgams of precious metals NS 
ex28443011 Cermets containing uranium depleted in U-235 or compounds of this product, 
other than unwrought NS 
ex28443051 Cermets containing thorium or compounds of thorium, other than unwrought NS 
28459090 Isotopes other than those of heading 2844, and compounds, inorganic or organic, 
of such isotopes, whether or not chemically defined, other than deuterium and 
compounds thereof, hydrogen and compounds thereof enriched in deuterium or 
mixtures and solutions containing these products NS 
2846 Compounds, inorganic or organic, of rare-earth metals, of yttrium or of scandium 
or of mixtures of these metals NS 
28470000 Hydrogen peroxide, whether or not solidified with urea NS 
28480000 Phosphides, whether or not chemically defined, excluding ferrophosphorus NS 
ex2849 Carbides, whether or not chemically defined, except for products under 
subheadings 28492000 and 28499030 NS 
28492000 Silicon carbide, whether or not chemically defined S 
28499030 Carbides of tungsten, whether or not chemically defined S 
ex285000 Hydrides, nitrides, azides, silicides and borides, whether or not chemically 
defined, other than compounds which are also carbides of heading 2849, except 
for products under subheading 28500070 NS 
28500070 Silicides, whether or not chemically defined S 
28520000 Compounds, inorganic or organic, of mercury, excluding amalgams NS 
285300 Other inorganic compounds (including distilled or conductivity water and water 
of similar purity); liquid air (whether or not rare gases have been removed); 
compressed air; amalgams, other than amalgams of precious metals NS 
2903 Halogenated derivatives of hydrocarbons S 
ex2904 Sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives of hydrocarbons, whether or not 
halogenated, except for products under subheading 29042000 NS 
29042000 Derivatives containing only nitro or only nitroso groups S 
ex2905 Acyclic alcohols and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated 
derivatives, except for the product of subheading 29054500, and excluding 
products under subheadings 29054300 and 290544 S 
29054500 Glycerol NS 
2906 Cyclic alcohols and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated 
derivatives NS 
ex2907 Phenols, except for products under subheadings 29071590 and ex29072200; 
phenol-alcohols NS 
29071590 Naphthols and their salts, other than 1-naphthol S 
ex29072200 Hydroquinone (quinol) S 
2908 Halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives of phenols or phenol-
alcohols NS 
2909 Ethers, ether-alcohols, ether-phenols, ether-alcohol-phenols, alcohol peroxides, 
ether peroxides, ketone peroxides (whether  or not chemically defined), and their 
halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives S 
2910 Epoxides, epoxyalcohols, epoxyphenols and epoxyethers, with a three-membered 
ring, and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives NS 
29110000 Acetals and hemiacetals,  whether or not with othe r oxygen functio n, and their 
halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives NS  WT/COMTD/N/4/Add.4 
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ex2912 Aldehydes, whether or not with other oxygen function; cyclic polymers of 
aldehydes; paraformaldehyde, except for the product of subheading 29124100 NS 
29124100 Vanillin (4-hydroxy -3-methoxybenzaldehyde) S 
29130000 Halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives of products under 
heading 2912 NS 
ex2914 Ketones and quinones, whether or not with other oxygen function, and their 
halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives, except for products 
under subheadings 29141100, 29142100 and 29142200 NS 
29141100 Acetone S 
29142100 Camphor S 
29142200 Cyclohexanone and methylcyclohexanones S 
2915 Saturated acyclic monocarboxylic acids  and their anhydrides, halides, peroxides 
and peroxyacids; their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives S 
ex2916 Unsaturated acyclic monocarboxylic acids, cyclic monocarboxylic acids, their 
anhydrides, halides, peroxides and peroxyacids, and their halogenated, 
sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives, except for products under 
subheadings ex29161100, 291612 and 291614 NS 
ex29161100 Acrylic acid S 
291612 Esters of acrylic acid S 
291614 Esters of methacrylic acid S 
ex2917 Polycarboxylic acids, their anhydrides, halides, peroxides and peroxyacids and 
their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated  or nitrosated de rivatives, except for 
products under subheadings 29171100, 29171210, 29171400, 29173200, 
29173500 and 29173600 NS 
29171100 Oxalic acid, its salts and esters S 
29171210 Adipic acid and its salts S 
29171400 Maleic anhydride S 
29173200 Dioctyl orthophthalates S 
29173500 Phthalic anhydride S 
29173600 Terephthalic acid and its salts S 
ex2918 Carboxylic acids with additional oxygen function and their anhydrides, halides, 
peroxides and peroxyacids; their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated 
derivatives, except for products under subheadings 29181400, 29181500, 
29182100, 29182200 and 29182910 NS 
29181400 Citric acid S 
29181500 Salts and esters of citric acid S 
29182100 Salicylic acid and its salts S 
29182200 o-Acetylsalicylic acid, its salts and esters S 
29182910 Sulphosalicylic acids, hydroxynaphthoic acids; their salts and esters S 
2919 Phosphoric esters and their salts, including lactophosphates; their halogenated, 
sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives NS 
2920 Esters of other inorganic acids of non-metals (excluding esters of hydrogen 
halides) and their salts; their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives NS 
2921 Amine-function compounds S 
2922 Oxygen-function amino-compounds S 
2923 Quaternary ammonium salts and hydroxides; lecithins and other 
phosphoaminolipids, whether or not chemically defined NS 
ex2924 Carboxyamide-function compounds and amide-function compounds of carbonic 
acid, except for products under subheading 29242300 S 
29242300 2-Acetamidobenzoic  acid (N-acetylanthranilic acid) and its salts NS 
2925 Carboxyimide-function compounds (including saccharin and its salts) and imine-
function compounds NS 
ex2926 Nitrile-function compounds, except for the product of subheading 29261000 NS WT/COMTD/N/4/Add.4 
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29261000 Acrylonitrile S 
29270000 Diazo-, azo- or azoxy-compounds S 
29280090 Other organic derivatives of hydrazine or of hydroxylamine NS 
292910 Isocyanates S 
29299000 Other compounds with other nitrogen function NS 
29302000 29303000 ex29309085 Thiocarbamates and dithiocarbamates, and thiuram mono-, di- or tetrasulphides; 
dithiocarbonates  (xanthates) NS 
29304090 
29305000 
29309013 29309016 
29309020 
ex29309085 Methionine, captafol (ISO), methamidophos (ISO), and other organo-sulphur 
compounds other than dith iocarbonates (xanthates) S 
293100 Other organo-inorganic compounds NS 
ex2932 Heterocyclic compounds with oxygen hetero-atom(s) only, except for products 
under subheadings 29321200, 29321300 and 29322100 NS 
29321200 2-Furaldehyde (furfuraldehyde) S 
29321300 Furfuryl alcohol and tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol S 
29322100 Coumarin, methylcoumarins and ethylcoumarins S 
ex2933 Heterocylic compounds with nitrogen hetero-atom(s) only, except for the product 
of subheading 29336100 NS 
29336100 Melamine S 
2934 Nucleic acids and their salts, whet her or not chemically defined; other 
heterocyclic compounds NS 
29350090 Other sulphonamides S 
2938 Glycosides, natural or reproduced by synthesis, and their salts, ethers, esters and 
other derivatives NS 
ex29400000 Sugars, chemically pure, other th an sucrose, lactose, maltose, glucose and 
fructose, and except for rhamnose, raffinose and mannose; sugar ethers, sugar acetals and sugar esters, and their salts, ot her than products under heading 2937, 
2938 or 2939 S 
ex29400000 Rhamnose, raffinose and mannose NS 
29412030 Dihydrostreptomycin, its salts, esters and hydrates NS 
29420000 Other organic compounds NS 
310216 Mineral or chemical fertilisers, nitrogenous S 
310310 Superphosphates S 
3105 Mineral or chemical fertilisers containi ng two or three of the fertilising elements 
nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium; othe r fertilisers; goods of Chapter 31 in 
tablets or similar forms or in packages of a gross weight not exceeding 10 kg S 
ex Chapter 32 Tanning or dyeing extracts; tannins and their derivatives; dyes, pigments and 
other colouring matter; paints and varnishes; putty and other mastics; inks; except for products under headings 3204 and 3206, and excluding products under 
subheadings 32012000, 32019020, ex32019090 (tanning extracts of eucalyptus), 
ex32019090 (tanning extracts derived from gambier and myrobalan fruits) and ex32019090 (other tanning extracts of vegetable origin) NS 
3204 Synthetic organic colouring matter, whether or not chemically defined; 
preparations as specified in note 3 to Chapter 32 based on synthetic organic colouring matter; synthetic organic products of a kind used as fluorescent 
brightening agents or as luminophores, whether or not chemically defined S 
                                                      
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3206 Other colouring matter; preparations as specified in note 3 to Chapter 32, other 
than those of heading 3203, 3204 or 3205; inorganic products of a kind used as luminophores, whether or not chemically defined S 
Chapter 33 Essential oils and resinoids; perf umery, cosmetic or toilet preparations NS 
Chapter 34 Soap, organic su rface-active agents, washing preparations, lubricating 
preparations, artificial waxes,  prepared waxes, polishing or scouring preparations, 
candles and similar articles, modelling pastes, ‘dental waxes’ and dental 
preparations with a basis of plaster NS 
3501 Casein, caseinates and other casein derivatives; casein glues S 
35029090 Albuminates and other albumin derivatives NS 
350300 Gelatin (including gelatin in rectangular (including square) sheets, whether or not 
surface-worked or coloured) and gelatin derivatives; isinglass; other glues of 
animal origin, excluding casein glues of heading 3501 NS 
35040000 Peptones and their derivatives; other protein substances and their derivatives, not 
elsewhere specified or included; hide powder, whether or not chromed NS 
35051050 Starches, esterifi ed or etherified NS 
3506 Prepared glues and other prepared adhesives, not elsewhere specified or included; 
products suitable for use as glues or adhesives, put up for retail sale as glues or 
adhesives, not exceeding a net weight of 1 kg NS 
3507 Enzymes; prepared enzymes not  elsewhere specified or included S 
Chapter 36 Explosives; pyrotechnic products; matches; pyrophoric alloys; certain 
combustible preparations NS 
Chapter 37 Photographic or cinematographic goods NS 
ex Chapter 38 Miscellaneous chemical products, except for products under headings 3802 
and 381700, subheadings 38231200 and 38237000, and heading 3825, and excluding the products under subheadings 380910 and 382460 NS 
3802 Activated carbon; activated natural mineral products; animal black, including 
spent animal black S 
381700 Mixed alkylbenzenes and mixed alkylnaphthalenes, other than those of heading 
2707 or 2902 S 
38231200 Oleic acid S 
38237000 Industrial fatty alcohols S 
3825 Residual products of the chemical or allied industries, not elsewhere specified or 
included; municipal waste; sewage sludge; other wastes specified in note 6 to 
Chapter 38 S 
ex Chapter 39 Plastics and articl es thereof, except for products under headings 3901, 3902, 3903 
and 3904, subheadings 39061000, 39071000, 390760 and 390799, headings 3908 
and 3920, and subheadings 39219019 and 39232100 NS 
3901 Polymers of ethylene, in primary forms S 
3902 Polymers of propylene or of other olefins, in primary forms S 
3903 Polymers of styrene, in primary forms S 
3904 Polymers of vinyl chloride or of other halogenated olefins, in primary forms S 
39061000 Poly(methyl methacrylate) S 
39071000 Polyacetals S 
390760 Poly(ethylene terephthalate) S 
390799 Other polyesters, other than unsaturated S 
3908 Polyamides in primary forms S 
3920 Other plates, sheets, film, foil and strip, of plastics, non-cellular and not 
reinforced, laminated, supported or similarly combined with other materials S 
39219019 Other plates, sheets, film, foil and stri p, of polyesters, other than cellular products 
and other than corrugated sheets and plates S 
39232100 Sacks and bags (including cones), of polymers of ethylene S 
ex Chapter 40 Rubber and ar ticles thereof, except for pr oducts under heading 4010 NS 
4010 Conveyor or transmission belts or belting, of vulcanised rubber S WT/COMTD/N/4/Add.4 
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 CN code Description Sensitive/
non-
sensitive 
ex4104 Tanned or crust hides and skins of bovine (including buffalo) or equine animals, 
without hair on, whether or not split, but not further prepared, excluding the products under subheadings 41044119 and 41044919 S 
ex410631 
410632 Tanned or crust hides and skins of swine, without hair on, in the wet state 
(including wet-blue), split but not further prepared, or in the dry state (crust), 
whether or not split, but not further prepared, excluding the products under 
subheading 41063110 NS 
4107 Leather further prepared after tanning or crusting, including parchment-dressed 
leather, of bovine (including buffalo) or equine animals, without hair on, whether or not split, other than leather of heading 4114 S 
41120000 Leather further prepared after tanning or crusting, including parchment-dressed 
leather, of sheep or lamb, without wool on, whether or not split, other than leather of heading 4114 S 
ex4113 Leather further prepared after tanning or crusting, including parchment-dressed 
leather, of other animals, without wool or  hair on, whether or not split, other than 
leather of heading 4114, except for products under subheading 41131000 NS 
41131000 Of goats or kids S 
4114 Chamois (including combination chamois) leather; patent leather and patent 
laminated leather; metallised leather S 
41151000 Composition leather with a basis of leather or leather fibre, in slabs, sheets or 
strip, whether or not in rolls S 
ex Chapter 42 Articles of leather; saddlery and harness; travel goods, handbags and similar 
containers; articles of animal gut (other than silkworm gut); except for products under headings 4202 and 4203 NS 
4202 Trunks, suitcases, vanity cases, execu tive-cases, briefcases, school satchels, 
spectacle cases, binocular cases, camera cases, musical instrument cases, gun 
cases, holsters and similar containers; travelling-bags, insulated food or beverages 
bags, toilet bags, rucksacks, handbags, shopping-bags, wallets, purses, map-cases, 
cigarette-cases, tobacco-pouches, tool ba gs, sports bags, bottle-cases, jewellery 
boxes, powder boxes, cutlery cases and similar containers, of leather or of 
composition leather, of sheeting of plastics,  of textile materials, of vulcanised 
fibre or of paperboard, or wholly or mainly covered with such materials or with paper S 
4203 Articles of apparel and clothing accessori es, of leather or of composition leather S 
Chapter 43 Furskins and artificial fur; manufactures thereof NS 
ex Chapter 44 Wood and articles of wood, except for products under headings 4410, 4411, 4412, 
subheadings 441810, 44182010, 44187100, 44201011, 44209010 and 44209091; 
wood charcoal NS 
4410 Particle board, oriented strand board (OSB) and similar board (for example, 
waferboard) of wood or other ligneous materials, whether or not agglomerated with resins or other organic binding substances S 
4411 Fibreboard of wood or other ligneous materials, whether or not bonded with 
resins or other organic substances S 
4412 Plywood, veneered panels and similar laminated wood S 
441810 Windows, French windows and their frames, of wood S 
44182010 Doors and their frames and thresholds, of tropical wood as specified in additional 
note 2 to Chapter 44 S 
44187100 Assembled flooring panels for mosaic floors, of wood S 
44201011 
44209010 
44209091 Statuettes and other ornaments, of tropical wood as specified in additional note 2 
to Chapter 44; wood marquetry and inlaid wood; caskets and cases for jewellery 
or cutlery, and similar articles, and wooden articles of furniture not falling in Chapter 94, of tropical wood as specified in additional note 2 to Chapter 44 S 
ex Chapter 45 Cork and articles of cork, except for products under heading 4503 NS 
4503 Articles of natural cork S  WT/COMTD/N/4/Add.4 
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 CN code Description Sensitive/
non-
sensitive 
Chapter 46 Manufactures of straw, of esparto or of other plaiting materials; basketware and 
wickerwork S 
Chapter 50 Silk S 
ex Chapter 51 Wool, fine or coarse animal hair, excluding the products under heading 5105; 
horsehair yarn and woven fabric S 
Chapter 52 Cotton S 
Chapter 53 Other vegetable textile fibres; paper yarn and woven fabrics of paper yarn S 
Chapter 54 Man-made filaments; strip and the like of man-made textile materials S 
Chapter 55 Man-made staple fibres S 
Chapter 56 Wadding, felt and nonwovens; special yarns; twine, cordage, ropes and cables and 
articles thereof S 
Chapter 57 Carpets and other textile floor coverings S 
Chapter 58 Special woven fabr ics; tufted textile fabrics; lace; tapestries; trimmings; 
embroidery S 
Chapter 59 Impregnated, coated, covered or laminated textile fabrics; textile articles of a kind 
suitable for industrial use S 
Chapter 60 Knitted or crocheted fabrics S 
Chapter 61 Articles of apparel and clot hing accessories, knitted or crocheted S 
Chapter 62 Articles of apparel and clothi ng accessories, not knitted or crocheted S 
Chapter 63 Other made-up textile articles; sets; worn clothing and worn textile articles; rags S 
Chapter 64 Footwear, gaiters and the like; parts of such articles S 
Chapter 65 Headgear and parts thereof NS 
Chapter 66 Umbrellas, sun umbrellas, walking sticks, seat-sticks, whips, riding-crops and 
parts thereof S 
Chapter 67 Prepared feathers and down and articles made of feathers or of down; artificial 
flowers; articles of human hair NS 
Chapter 68 Articles of stone, plaster, ceme nt, asbestos, mica or similar materials NS 
Chapter 69 Ceramic products S 
Chapter 70 Glass and glassware S 
ex Chapter 71 Natural or cultured pearls, preci ous or semi-precious stones, precious metals, 
metals clad with precious metal, and ar ticles thereof; imitation jewellery; coin; 
except for products under heading 7117 NS 
7117 Imitation jewellery S 
7202 Ferro-alloys S 
Chapter 73 Articles of iron or steel NS 
Chapter 74 Copper an d articles thereof S 
75051200 Bars, rods and profiles, of nickel alloys NS 
75052200 Wire, of nickel alloys NS 
75062000 Plates, sheets, strip an d foil, of nickel alloys NS 
75072000 Nickel tube or pipe fittings NS 
ex Chapter 76 Aluminium and articles thereof, excluding the products under heading 7601 S 
ex Chapter 78 Lead and articles thereof, excluding the products under heading 7801 S 
ex Chapter 79 Zinc and articles thereof, excluding the products under headings 7901 and 7903 S 
ex Chapter 81 Other base metals; cermets; articles thereof, excluding the products under 
subheadings 81011000, 81019400, 81021000, 81029400, 81041100, 81041900, 
81072000, 81082000, 81083000, 8109200 0, 81101000, 81122190, 81125100, 
81125900, 811292 and 81130020 S 
Chapter 82 Tools, implements, cutlery, spoons and forks, of base metal; parts thereof, of base 
metal S 
Chapter 83 Miscellaneous articles of base metal S 
ex Chapter 84 Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances, and parts thereof, 
except for products under subheadings 84011000 and 84072110 NS 
84011000 Nuclear reactors S 
84072110 Outboard motors, of a cy linder capacity not exceeding 325 cm3 S WT/COMTD/N/4/Add.4 
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 CN code Description Sensitive/
non-
sensitive 
ex Chapter 85 Electrical machinery and equipm ent and parts thereof; sound recorders and 
reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such article s, except for products un der subheadin gs 85165000, 
85176939, 85177015, 85177019, 851920, 851930, 85198111 to 85198145, 
85198185, 85198911 to 85198919, headings 8521, 8525 and 8527, subheadings 852849, 852859 and 852869 to 852872, heading 8529 and subheadings 854011 
and 854012 NS 
85165000 Microwave ovens S 
85176939 Reception apparatus for radio-telephony or radio telegraphy, other than portable 
receivers for calling, alerting or paging S 
85177015 
85177019 Aerials and aerial reflectors of all kinds, other than aerials for radio-telegraphic or 
radio-telephonic apparatus; parts suitable for use therewith S 
851920 
851930 Apparatus operated by coins, banknotes, bank cards, tokens or by other means of 
payment; turntables (record-decks) S 
85198111 to 
85198145 Sound-reproducing apparatus (including cassette-players), not incorporating a 
sound-recording device S 
85198185 Other magnetic tape recorders incorporating sound-reproducing apparatus, other 
than cassette-type S 
85198911 to 
85198919 Other sound-reproducing apparatus, not incorporating a sound-recording device S 
8521 Video recording or reproducing apparatus, whether or not incorporating a video 
tuner S 
8525 Transmission apparatus for radio-broadcasting or television, whether or not 
incorporating reception appara tus or sound-recording or  -reproducing apparatus; 
television cameras; digital cameras and video camera recorders S 
8527 Reception apparatus for ra dio-broadcasting, whether or not combined, in the same 
housing, with sound-recording or -reproducing apparatus or a clock S 
852849 
852859 
852869 to 852872 Monitors and projectors, not incorporating television-reception apparatus, other 
than of a kind used solely or principally in an automatic data-processing system of 
heading 8471; reception apparatus for tele vision, whether or not incorporating 
radio-broadcast receivers or sound- or vi deo-recording or -reproducing apparatus S 
8529 Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of headings 8525 to 
8528 S 
854011 
85401200 Cathode ray television picture tubes, including video monitor cathode ray tubes, 
colour, or black-and-white or other monochrome S 
Chapter 86 Railway or tramway locomotives, rolling stock and parts thereof; railway or 
tramway track fixtures and fittings and parts thereof; mechanical (including 
electromechanical) traffic-sign alling equipment of all kinds NS 
ex Chapter 87 Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories 
thereof, except for products under headings 8702, 8703, 8704, 8705, 870600, 
8707, 8708, 8709, 8711, 871200 and 8714 NS 
8702 Motor vehicles for the transport of ten or more persons, including the driver S 
8703 Motor cars and other motor vehicles pr incipally designed for the transport of 
persons (other than those of heading 8702), including station wagons and racing 
cars S 
8704 Motor vehicles for the transport of goods S 
8705 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 workshops, mobile radiological units) S 
870600 Chassis fitted with engines, for the motor vehicles of headings 8701 to 8705 S 
8707 Bodies (including cabs), for the motor vehicles of headings 8701 to 8705 S 
8708 Parts and accessories of the motor vehicles of  headings 8701 to 8705 S  WT/COMTD/N/4/Add.4 
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 CN code Description Sensitive/
non-
sensitive 
8709 Works trucks, self-propelled, not fitted with lifting or handling equipment, of the 
type used in factories, warehouses, dock areas or airports for short-distance transport of goods; tractors of the type used on railway-station platforms; parts of 
the foregoing vehicles S 
8711 Motorcycles (including mopeds) and cycles  fitted with an auxiliary motor, with or 
without sidecars; sidecars S 
871200 Bicycles and other cycles (including delivery tricycles), not motorised S 
8714 Parts and accessories of vehicl es of headings 8711 to 8713 S 
Chapter 88 Aircraft, spacecraft, and parts thereof NS 
Chapter 89 Ships, boats and floating structures NS 
Chapter 90 Optical, photographic , cinematographic, measuring,  checking, precision, medical 
or surgical instrument s and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof S 
Chapter 91 Clocks and watches and parts thereof S 
Chapter 92 Musical instruments; part s and accessories of such articles NS 
ex Chapter 94 Furniture; bedding, mattresses, mattress supports, cushions and similar stuffed 
furnishings; lamps and lighting fittings, not elsewhere specified or included; 
illuminated signs, illuminated nameplates and the like; prefabricated buildings, 
except for products under heading 9405 NS 
9405 Lamps and lighting fittings including se archlights and spotlights and parts thereof, 
not elsewhere specified or included; illuminated signs, illuminated nameplates 
and the like, having a permanently fixe d light source, and parts thereof not 
elsewhere specified or included S 
ex Chapter 95 Toys, games and sports requisites; parts and accessories thereof; except for 
products under subheadings 95030030 to 95030099 NS 
95030030 to 
95030099 Other toys; reduced-size (scale) models and similar recreational models, working 
or not; puzzles of all kinds S 
Chapter 96 Miscellaneous manufactured articles NS WT/COMTD/N/4/Add.4 
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  CONVENTIONS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 8 
 
Council Regulation - ANNEX III
 
 
PART A 
 
Core human and labour rights UN/ILO Conventions 
1. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 
2. International Covenant on Ec onomic, Social and Cultural Rights 
3. International Convention on the Elimina tion of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 
4. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women 
5. Convention Against Torture and other Cr uel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or 
Punishment 
6. Convention on the Rights of the Child 7. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide 
8. Convention concerning Minimum Age for Admission to Employment (No 138) 
9. Convention concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the 
Worst Forms of Child Labour (No 182) 
10. Convention concerning the Abo lition of Forced Labour (No 105) 
11. Convention concerning Forced or Compulsory Labour (No 29) 12. Convention concerning Equal Remuneration for Men and Women Workers for Work of 
Equal Value (No 100) 
13. Convention concerning Discrimination in Resp ect of Employment and Occupation (No 111) 
14. Convention concerning Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise 
(No 87) 
15. Convention concerning the Application of the Principles of the Right to Organise and to 
Bargain Collectively (No 98) 
16. International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid. 
 
PART  B 
Conventions related to the enviro nment and to governance principles 
17. Montreal Protocol on Substan ces that Deplete the Ozone Layer 
18. Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and 
Their Disposal 
19. Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants 20. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora 
21. Convention on Biological Diversity 
22. Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety 
23. Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations  Framework Convention on Climate Change 
24. United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (1961) 25. United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances (1971) 26. United Nations Convention against Illicit Tr affic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic 
Substances (1988) 
27. United Nations Convention against Corruption (Mexico).  WT/COMTD/N/4/Add.4 
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  ANNEX II 
 
COMMISSION DECISION (EC) N° 938/2008 OF 9 DECEMBER 2008  
 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUr iServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2008:334:0090:0091:EN:PDF  
 
COMMISSION DECISION  
 
of 9 December 2008 
 
on the list of the beneficiary countries which qua lify for the special incentive arrangement for 
sustainable development and good governance,  provided for in Council Regulation (EC) 
No 732/2008 applying a scheme of generalized tariff preferences fo r the period from 
1 January 2009 to 31 December 2011 
 
(notified under document number C(2008) 8028) 
(2008/938/EC) 
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,  
 
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 732/ 2008 of 22 July 2008 applying a scheme of 
generalized tariff preferences fo r the period from 1 January 2009 to 31 December 2011 and amending 
Regulations (EC) No 552/97, (EC) No 1933/2006 and Commission Regulations (EC) No 1100/2006 
and (EC) No 964/2007 (
1), and in particular Article 10(2) thereof,  
 
Whereas:   (1) Regulation (EC) No 732/2008 provides for the granting of a special incentive arrangement for 
sustainable development and good governance to developing countries which satisfy certain 
requirements established under its Articles 8 and 9.  
 
(2) Each developing country wishing to avail it self of the special incentive arrangement had to 
submit a request to that effect by 31 Octobe r 2008, accompanied by comprehensive information 
concerning ratification of the relevant conventio ns, the legislation and measures to implement 
effectively the provisions of the conventions and its  commitment to accept and comply fully with the 
monitoring and review mechanism envi saged in the relevant conventions and related instruments.  To 
be granted the request, the requesting country also h as to be considered to be a vulnerable country as 
defined in Article 8(2) of Regulation (EC) No 732/2008.   (3) The Commission has examined  the requests made, in accordance with the provisions of 
Article 10(1) of Regulation (EC) No 732/2008, an d has established the list of beneficiary countries 
which fulfil the criteria.  Accordingly, the special  incentive arrangement should be granted to those 
countries from 1 January 2009 to 31 December 2011.   (4) In accordance with Article 10(6) of Regula tion (EC) No 732/2008, the fulfilment of criteria 
which are also subject of the pending inv estigations with regard to Sri Lanka (
2) and El Salvador (3) 
                                                      
1 OJ L 211, 6.8.2008, p. 1.  
2 OJ L 277, 18.10.2008, p. 34.  
3 OJ L 108, 18.4.2008, p. 29.  WT/COMTD/N/4/Add.4 
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  initiated by the Commission pursuant to Article  18(2) of Council Regulation (EC) 980/2005 (4), is 
being examined in the course of these investigations.   (5) Timely publication of this Decision in the Official Journal of the European Union should ensure that the obligation pursuant to Article 10( 3) of Regulation (EC) No 732/2008, to publish a 
notice in the Official Journal of the European Union listing the countries be nefiting from the special 
incentive arrangement for sustainable development and good governance as from 1 January 2009, is 
met.   (6) The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with  the opinion of the 
Generalized Preferences Committee,  
 HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:   
Article 1 
 
 The following developing countries shall bene fit from the special incentive arrangement for 
sustainable development and good governance pr ovided for in Regulation (EC) No 732/2008 from 
1 January 2009 to 31 December 2011:   (AM) Armenia (HN) Honduras  
(AZ) Azerbaijan (LK) Sri Lanka  
(BO) Bolivia (MN) Mongolia (CO) Colombia (NI) Nicaragua (CR) Costa Rica (PE) Peru (EC) Ecuador (PY) Paraguay 
(GE) Georgia  (SV) El Salvador 
(GT) Guatemala  (VE) Venezuela  
Article 2 
 
 This Decision is addressed to: the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Azerbaijan, the 
Republic of Bolivia, the Republic of Colombia, the Republic of Costa Rica, the Republic of Ecuador, 
the Republic of El Salvador, Georgia, the Re public of Guatemala, the Republic of Honduras, 
Mongolia, the Republic of Nicaragua, the Republic of Paraguay, the Re public of Peru, the Democratic 
Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka and th e Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.  
 
 
Done at Brussels, 9 December 2008. 
 
         F o r  t h e  C o m m i s s i o n   
        C a t h e r i n e  A S H T O N           M e m b e r  o f  t h e  C o m m i s s i o n  
 
                                                     
 
4 OJ L 169, 30.6.2005, p. 1.   WT/COMTD/N/4/Add.4 
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  ANNEX III 
 
Guide to Internet Resources on the EU's Generalised System of Preferences (GSP)  
 
 
I. THE EU'S GSP SCHEME 
 – Overview of the GSP scheme: Trade Vo lumes under GSP and Value of Preferences, 
graduation and degraduation, list of vulne rable countries, list of GSP+ countries for 
2009-2011, list of international c onventions to qualify for GSP+ 
 – GSP Key legislation and policy documents , GSP technical amendments and related 
information 
 – Everything But Arms (EBA) initiative:  Overview and list of beneficiary countries 
HTTP ://EC.EUROPA .EU/TRADE /ISSUES /GLOBAL /GSP/INDEX _EN.HTM  
II. EU EXPORT HELPDESK  
The Export Helpdesk is an online service, provi ded by the European Commission, to facilitate 
market access for developing coun tries to the European Union.  
This free and user-friendly service provides rele vant information such as requirements and 
taxes, import tariffs, customs documents, rules of or igin and trade statistics required by developing 
country exporters interested in supplying the EU market.  It also provides the possibility to lodge 
detailed information requests about real-life situations encountered by exporters.  
The Export Helpdesk is available in English, French, Spanish and Port uguese (just click on 
the top right-hand side). 
http://exporthelp.europa.eu   
 
User guide to help you navigate th rough the export helpdesk database: 
http://exporthelp.europa.eu/userguides/userguide_en.pdf   
III. COMBINED NOMENCLATURE (CN) 
The CN is comprised of the Harmonized System  (HS) nomenclature with further Community 
subdivisions.  The basic regulation is Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87  on the tariff and 
statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff.  
An updated version of the Annex I to the Combined Nomenclature  Regulation is published as 
a Commission Regulation every year in the L-seri es of the Official Journal of the European 
Communities.  
2009 version of the Combined Nomenclature (entry into force:  1 January 2009):  
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/JOHtml.do?uri=OJ:L:2008:291:SOM:en:HTML  WT/COMTD/N/4/Add.4 
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  More information on the Combined Nomenclature:  
http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/customs /customs_duties/tariff_aspects/combined_nome
nclature/index_en.htm   
 
IV. THE ONLINE CUSTOMS TARIFF DATABASE – TARIC 
Overview of electronic databases on Community taxation and customs:  
http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_custo ms/common/databases/index_en.htm   
 
TARIC database on the Integrated Community Tariff: http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/dds/tarhome_en.htm
 
 
Public site providing information and downloadab le tariff data in tabular form, extracted from 
the Taric database.  Click 'Library' and then select  'Duties and related files'.  The data are updated 
monthly. 
http://circa.europa.eu/Public /irc/taxud/taric_data/home   
 
V. RULES OF ORIGIN 
The Commission has prepared a guide on how to interpret and implement the rules of origin 
that determine whether or not goods produced in th e beneficiary countries are eligible for preferential 
tariff treatment under the EU's Scheme of Genera l System of Preferences (GSP) for developing 
countries 
Guide for traders on GSP rules of origin: 
http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/resour ces/documents/guide-cont ents_annex_1-en.pdf  
 
Annex II  - The legal texts 
http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/r esources/documents/ guide-annex_2-en.pdf  
 Annex III
 - The list of qualifying operations and the introductory notes  
http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/r esources/documents/ guide-annex_3-en.pdf  
 Annex IV
 - Proofs of origin, Form A, invoice declaration, EUR 1  
http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/r esources/documents/ guide-annex_4-en.pdf  
 
VI. EC TRADE DATA 
 External trade statistical data:  Comprehe nsive database of statistics on EU imports and 
exports:  
− Statistics on the EU and its main trading partners 
http://ec.europa.eu/trade/issues/bilateral/data.htm
  
 
− EUROSTAT External Trade webpage 
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/pag e?_pageid=0,1136217, 0_45571464&_dad=portal&
_schema=PORTAL   
 
− User Guide on the Statistics on the Trading of Goods 
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/IT Y_OFFPUB/KS-BM-06-001/EN/KS-BM-06-001-
EN.PDF   
  WT/COMTD/N/4/Add.4 
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  − EUROSTAT Data Explorer 
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/pag e?_pageid=0,1136217, 0_45571467&_dad=portal&
_schema=PORTAL    
> click "External trade detailed data" and th en "Adjusted EU-EXTRA Imports by tariff 
regime, by CN8" to access the Data Explorer fo r preferential import data at 8-digit level. 
> click the "Demo Tour" for an online introduction to the various possibilities offered by this 
tool  
− EUROSTAT COMEXT database (trade data by HS  2/4/6/8 digits are presently updated to 
December 2008; data on preferential imports are updated to December 2007;) 
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/newxtweb/
 
 
VII. GSP MAIN LEGISLATION FOR 2009-2011 
− Council Regulation (EC) N° 732/2008 of 22 July 2 008 applying a scheme of generalised tariff 
preferences for the period from 1 January 2009 to 31 December 2011 and amending Regulations (EC) No 552/97, (EC) No 1933/2006 and Commission Regulations (EC) No 1100/2006 and (EC) No 964/2007 ( published in Official Journal of the European Communities 
(OJ) L L211, 6.8.2008, p. 1); 
 
 http://eurlex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUr iServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2008:211:0001:0039:EN:PDF
 
 
− Commission Decision (EC) N° 938/2008 of 9 December 2008 on the list of the beneficiary 
countries which qualify for the special incentive arrangement for sustainable development and 
good governance, provided for in Council Regulation (EC) No 732/2008 applying a scheme of 
generalised tariff preferences for the peri od from 1 January 2009 to 31 December 2011. 
 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUr iServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2008:334:0090:0091:EN:PDF   
  WT/COMTD/N/4/Add.4 
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Imports into the EU – by country and by tariff treatment  
2007 data – in thousands of €  
Imports under GSP Imports under other preferences 
(where applicable) Total Imports 
  GSP rate = 0 GSP rate > 0 PREF rate = 0 PREF rate > 
0 Imports at MFN 
= 0 
  Imports at MFN 
> 0 
  Unallocated 
  Total 
imports 
at zero 
rate 
  Total 
imports at 
zero or 
preferential 
rate  Alphabetic
al code 
  
  Name of the 
Country or Territory 
  
  
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) = 
[(2)+(4)
+(6)]/(1
) (10) = 
[∑(2)to(6)] 
/(1) 
1 AE U.A.Emirates 5,933,456.43 1,014,955.41 196,648.59     3,268,655.52 1,292,620.15 160,576.76 72.2% 75.5% 
2 AF Afghanistan 18,996.22 509.25       13,796.69 4,617.29 72.99 75.3% 75.3% 
3 AG Antigua and 
Barbuda 190,552.12 193.39 1,219.56 2,152.05 3.68 180,227.87 6,054.96 700.61 95.8% 96.5% 
4 AI Anguilla 176.07 3.59       168.53 2.44 1. 51 97.8% 97.8% 
5 AM Armenia 353,412.05 153,869.55 2,360.41     165,857.70 30,998.82 325.57 90.5% 91.1% 
6 AN Netherlands Antilles 236,743. 79 1.02 4.35 78,651.62 3. 72 118,744.00 22,125.85 17, 213.23 83.4% 83.4% 
7 AO Angola 3,287,073.70     13,833.39   3,232,211.46 27,918.43 13,110.42 98.8% 98.8% 
8 AQ Antarctica 636.42         234.50 401.92 0.00 36.8% 36.8% 
9 AR Argentina 8,499,736.72 509,027.73 924,023.59     5,084,421.61 1,789,479.07 192,784.72 65.8% 76.7% 
10 AS American Samoa 8,380.23         8,336.33 37.89 6.01 99.5% 99.5% 
11 AW Aruba 225,798.13 19,332.17   37,053.46   158,961.39 7,292.54 3,158.57 95.4% 95.4% 
12 AZ Azerbaijan 7,377,115.81 21,824.59 9,041.04     7,241,090.24 94,420.28 10,739.66 98.5% 98.6% 
13 BB Barbados 38,899.74 19.83 5.76 20,579.37 86.74 12,414.85 5,757.75 35.44 84.9% 85.1% 
14 BD Bangladesh 5,110,025.95 3,559,368.99       101,493.55 1,059,714.48 389,448.93 71.6% 71.6% 
15 BF Burkina Faso 28,960.17 40.26   4,926.05 11.96 23,187.61 345.50 448.79 97.2% 97.3% 
16 BH Bahrain 876,677.41 204,055.39 119,904.82     260,108.99 274,517.78 18,090.43 52.9% 66.6% 
17 BI Burundi 39,141.94 19.31   389.91   37,327.63 1,275.68 129.41 96.4% 96.4% 
18 BJ Benin 53,661.00     2,001.05 67.34 41,575.32 9,373.95 643.34 81.2% 81.3% 
19 BM Bermuda 136,449.33         135,620.15 828.90 0.28 99.4% 99.4% 
20 BN Brunei Darussalam 67,698.57   1,231.95     8,211.33 58,248.88 6.41 12.1% 13.9% 
21 BO Bolivia 171,401.91 24,405.01 312.87     140,465.70 6,014.30 204.03 96.2% 96.4% 
22 BR Brazil 32,134,009.76 2,383,118.72 1,986,212.97     20,680,735.03 6,342,577.29 741,365.75 71.8% 78.0% 
23 BS Bahamas 659,668.34 2,151.61 329.54 37,043.46   613,776.71 2,117.14 4,249.88 99.0% 99.0% 
24 BT Bhutan 1,058.70 138.26       704.98 215.46 0.00 79.6% 79.6% 
25 BV Bouvet Island 270.88         189.74 81.14 0.00 70.0% 70.0% 
26 BW Botswana 880,739.65 0.05   8,864.44 40,221.63 827,862.17 3,104.85 686.51 95.0% 99.6% 
27 BY Belarus 4,351,583.83 96,754.38 127,799.83     3,658,475.11 446,705.75 21,848.76 86.3% 89.2% 
28 BZ Belize 90,261.71 38.25 184.80 71,044.98 405.23 6,774.30 11,657.98 156.17 86.3% 86.9% 
29 CC Cocos Islands(or 
Keeling Isl.) 611.70         337.04 272.69 1.97 55.1% 55.1% 
30 CD Congo (Dem. Rep.) 711,375.72 457.97   4,247.91 219.16 701,551.78 1,479.45 3,419.45 99.3% 99.3% 
31 CF Central African 
Republic 50,540.70     67.70   50,305.21 152.73 15.06 99.7% 99.7% 
32 CG Congo 307,644.16     11,280.63 182.82 284,771.38 10,754.99 654.34 96.2% 96.3% 
33 CI Ivory Coast 2,725,546.00 543.30 7,546.32 727,869.76 837.72 1,869,651.51 15,138.00 103,959.39 95.3% 95.6% 
34 CK Cook Islands 1,517.34 4.57   54.13   901.20 557.44 0.00 63.3% 63.3%  
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35 CL Chile 12,372,201.19 7,680.95 15,883.28 1,704,777.21 488,634.81 9,486,220.56 479,459.90 189,544.48 90.5% 94.6% 
36 CM Cameroon 2,464,490.12 141.29 29.88 302,267.33 130.66 2,071,901.11 24,708.97 65,310.88 96.3% 96.3% 
37 CN China 230,607,384.8
3 642,017.64 1,257,292.69     106,147,521.13 120,505,433.55 2,055,119.82 46.3% 46.9% 
38 CO Colombia 3,928,097.22 529,252.46 57,847.36     2,580,253.56 718,542.40 42,201.44 79.2% 80.6% 
39 CR Costa Rica 2,998,143.20 452,590.67 2,177.12     1,715,442.96 660,856.64 167,075.81 72.3% 72.4% 
40 CU Cuba 311,044.68 8,989.93 152,126.07     73,533.61 60,744.56 15,650.51 26.5% 75.4% 
41 CV Cape Verde 18,527.38     14,937.41 1.12 1,557.62 1,881.65 149.58 89.0% 89.0% 
42 CX Christmas Island 326.40         50.72 62.19 213.49 15.5% 15.5% 
43 DJ Djibouti 4,472.60 51.75   246.08   3,362.72 498.16 313.89 81.8% 81.8% 
44 DM Dominica 11,126.21   3.29 5,159.57 34.14 3,670.52 2,115.72 142.97 79.4% 79.7% 
45 DO Dominican 
Republic 791,307.76 4,883.87 1,279.91 202,625.50 667.09 474,791.13 73,790.22 33,270.04 86.2% 86.5% 
46 DZ Algeria 15,252,367.41 355.43 3,004.50 1,349,692.88 59.59 13,520,783.30 257,226.88 121,244.83 97.5% 97.5% 
47 EC Ecuador 1,775,941.32 634,350.13 220,997.20     155,586.84 691,991.61 73,015.54 44.5% 56.9% 
48 EG Egypt 6,886,735.38 114,744.14 80,070.14 2,305,953.12 146,791.73 3,695,162.72 350,862.03 193,151.50 88.8% 92.1% 
49 ER Eritrea 5,212.35     2,669.58   2,094.33 438.46 9.98 91.4% 91.4% 
50 ET Ethiopia 320,287.89 3,551.07   65,122.20 155.19 224,251.13 16,957.95 10,250.35 91.5% 91.5% 
51 FJ Fiji 99,289.92 131.00 210.00 91,452.43   4,126.61 308.02 3,061. 86 96.4% 96.6% 
52 FK Falkland Islands 108,371.43     100,983.45   4,148.62 3,187.82 51.54 97.0% 97.0% 
53 FM Fed.Micronesia 207.96   33.01 48.81   0.84 125.30 0.00 23.9% 39.7% 
54 GA Gabon 754,023.54 758.54   125,080.75 254.55 617,503.42 7,949.59 2,476.69 98.6% 98.6% 
55 GD Grenada 4,319.86 53.04   846.82 4.26 3,184.89 203.01 27.84 94.6% 94.7% 
56 GE Georgia 474,925.33 81,953.64 18.70     336,848.28 38,695.89 17,408.82 88.2% 88.2% 
57 GH Ghana 1,115,661.04 1,386.14 916.62 309,204.27 4,019.05 760,531.88 13,361.58 26,241.50 96.0% 96.5% 
58 GI Gibraltar 202,645.05   0.50     150,961.24 43,709.03 7,974.28 74.5% 74.5% 
59 GL Greenland 306,040.15     271,420.75   23,343.28 10,914.30 361.82 96.3% 96.3% 
60 GM Gambia 10,300.10 460.61   5,183.41   3,075.89 526.12 1,054.07 84.7% 84.7% 
61 GN Guinea 477,702.06 1.01   3,478.68   473,003.91 579.50 638.96 99.7% 99.7% 
62 GQ Equatorial Guinea 2,168,199.97     140,357.34   2,013,868.07 11,336.47 2,638.09 99.4% 99.4% 
63 GS South Georgia & 
S.Sandwich Is. 53.11         1.47 51.53 0.11 2.8% 2.8% 
64 GT Guatemala 335,610.07 113,888.03 14,208.87     165,834.84 35,418.24 6,260.09 83.3% 87.6% 
65 GU Guam 834.60 1.31 2.94     411.81 414.77 3.77 49.5% 49.9% 
66 GW Guinea Bissau 1,322.20 6.35   146.18   1,057.06 112.18 0.43 91.5% 91.5% 
67 GY Guyana 202,460.22 1.96 101.91 113,856.50 34,074.53 49,889.54 2,187.10 2,348.68 80.9% 97.8% 
68 HM Heard Island & 
McDonald Islan. 5.84           5.84 0.00 0.0% 0.0% 
69 HN Honduras 435,089.96 51,200.19 44,619.51     269,397.50 34,398.22 35,474.54 73.7% 83.9% 
70 HT Haiti 29,048.95 1,277.58   315.33   11,664.84 6,225.16 9,566.04 45.6% 45.6% 
71 ID Indonesia 12,690,637.67 1,126,381.23 1,910,865.85     6,497,313.49 2,387,018.64 769,058.46 60.1% 75.1% 
72 IN India 26,414,991.27 5,093,564.00 6,579,726.09     9,717,250.84 4,012,537.19 1,011,913.15 56.1% 81.0%  
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73 IO British Indian 
Ocean Territory 128.72   1.78     113.32 13.62 0.00 88.0% 89.4% 
74 IQ Iraq 6,789,455.28   16.29     6,787,554.33 1,689.65 195.01 100.0% 100.0% 
75 IR Iran 13,869,960.01 257,345.43 285,760.59     13,039,266.46 178,913.59 108,673.94 95.9% 97.9% 
76 JM Jamaica 506,248.45 103.10 92.56 444,280.25 1,320.13 17,828.32 21,916.78 20,707.31 91.3% 91.6% 
77 JO Jordan 215,908.86 9,055.42 1,010.47 48,008.62 1,697.70 110,595.49 35,352.86 10,188.30 77.7% 78.9% 
78 KE Kenya 1,055,613.13 3,634.89 6,190.81 633,395.36 4,949.08 313,605.13 25,144.85 68,693.01 90.1% 91.1% 
79 KG Kyrgyz, Republic 23,099.17 438.43 2,364.97     17,302.95 2,649.17 343.65 76.8% 87.0% 
80 KH Cambodia 682,182.96 476,164.52       3,553.77 163,974.40 38,490.27 70.3% 70.3% 
81 KI Kiribati 507.09     20.86   474.04 11.49 0.70 97.6% 97.6% 
82 KM Comoros 9,320.02 241.65   1,978.45   6,705.05 366.00 28.87 95.8% 95.8% 
83 KN St.Kitts&Nevis 4,316.78 94.20 6.22 965. 33   1,618.94 1,626.83 5.26 62.0% 62.2% 
84 KW Kuwait 4,113,800.54 880,713.15 109,057.06     2,896,784.24 192,965.34 34,280.75 91.8% 94.5% 
85 KY Cayman Islands 88,118.50 77.48   17.90   75,811.12 12,210.67 1.33 86.1% 86.1% 
86 KZ Kazakhstan 13,238,937.74 506,538.03 109,434.44     12,038,515.02 567,935.51 16,514.74 94.8% 95.6% 
87 LA Lao (People's 
Democratic Republic) 129,522.64 89,796.59       12,112.99 19,468.94 8,144.12 78.7% 78.7% 
88 LB Lebanon 302,513.20 2,539.48 1,077.64 97,792.90 776.17 149,908.87 38,119.51 12,298.63 82.7% 83.3% 
89 LC St Lucia 47,139.49     37,865.34   1,545.33 7,665.92 62.90 83.6% 83.6% 
90 LK Sri Lanka 2,079,456.54 1,114,200.63 3,797.84     450,926.36 381,321.94 129,209.77 75.3% 75.4% 
91 LR Liberia 1,065,921.71         1,064,690.21 1,213.56 17.94 99.9% 99.9% 
92 LS Lesotho 123,412.82 776.13   771.32   121,144.45 720.92 0.00 99.4% 99.4% 
93 LY Libyan Arab 
Jamahiriya 25,346,357.86 608,968.58 145,189.83     24,228,847.96 346,584.83 16,766.66 98.0% 98.6% 
94 MA Morocco 7,923,447.56 5,423.20 59,225.02 5,501,661.36 328,849.57 1,219,364.38 590,189.20 218,734.83 84.9% 89.8% 
95 MD Moldova 718,275.07 269,143.43 4,467.68     277,998.41 97,725.43 68,940.12 76.2% 76.8% 
96 MG Madagascar 529,698.37 6,796.62   411,671.60 705.15 85,589.69 14,814.57 10,120.74 95.2% 95.3% 
97 MH Marshall Is. 999,396.25 9.94       997,611.05 1,775.26 0.00 99.8% 99.8% 
98 ML Mali 31,454.89 142.83   1,095.49 54.78 28,863.57 1,253.82 44.40 95.7% 95.9% 
99 MM Myanmar 260,430.43         74,268.48 184,641.77 1,520.18 28.5% 28.5% 
100 MN Mongolia 79,990.54 13,507.13       50,924.98 13,793.80 1,764.63 80.5% 80.5% 
101 MO Macao 500,400.43 278.93 24, 800.31     68,531.79 388,64 9.65 18,139.75 13.8% 18.7% 
102 MP North.Mariana 
Islands 2,024.46         52.96 1,971.44 0.06 2.6% 2.6% 
103 MR Mauritania 589,486.90 879.82   106,525.72   475,880.58 6,154.20 46.58 98.9% 98.9% 
104 MS Montserrat 1,009.42     80.61   738.16 190.65 0.00 81.1% 81.1% 
105 MU Mauritius 1,035,684. 55 210.53 1,153.34 862,37 7.94 1,731.77 78, 207.17 44,215.90 47,787. 90 90.8% 91.1% 
106 MV Maldives 48,442.82 44,863.42       216.75 3,217.01 145.64 93.1% 93.1% 
107 MW Malawi 206,611.54 1,545.39   150,761.84 7.15 28,147.25 4,360.75 21,789.16 87.3% 87.3% 
108 MX Mexico 11,833,703.03 35,617.20 20,417.17 2,859,954.28 76,925.54 7,260,458.26 1,049,282.77 531,047.81 85.8% 86.6% 
109 MY Malaysia 17,764,298.99 1,634,218.18 1,087,240.19     11,881,090.26 2,505,331.84 656,418.52 76.1% 82.2%  
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110 MZ Mozambique 1,392,897.10 1,887.69   921,281.54 527.56 52,343.72 5,664.56 411,192.03 70.0% 70.1% 
111 NA Namibia 960,506.37 128.26 11,503.96 466,273.53 30,723.97 405,708.14 36,797.17 9,371.34 90.8% 95.2% 
112 NC New Caledonia 659,152.72   5.14 7,710.43   649,184.83 2,217.03 35.29 99.7% 99.7% 
113 NE Niger 179,540.56 138.34   1,940.89 3.24 176,837.50 506.53 114.06 99.7% 99.7% 
114 NF Norfolk Island 35.78         35.75 0.03 0.00 99.9% 99.9% 
115 NG Nigeria 10,161,667.13 101,684.48 518.32 250,220.77 604.71 9,627,591.66 156,242.17 24,805.02 98.2% 98.2% 
116 NI Nicaragua 143,509.37 13,340.33 27,553.58     88,739.38 9,659.97 4,216.11 71.1% 90.3% 
117 NP Nepal 90,453.54 65,327.63   10.44   8,046.17 13,481.50 3,587.80 81.1% 81.1% 
118 NR Nauru 830.60     8.91   765.75 55.94 0.00 93.3% 93.3% 
119 NU Niue 75.48     38.97   0.34 12.25 23.92 52.1% 52.1% 
120 OM Oman 324,538.33 53,675.89 36,639.20     214,172.16 17,200.71 2,850.37 82.5% 93.8% 
121 PA Panama 616,811.72 89,906.71 20,046.07     267,817.92 235,450.41 3,590.61 58.0% 61.2% 
122 PE Peru 4,182,595.26 728,103.50 34,026.37     3,185,229.31 182,546.28 52,689.80 93.6% 94.4% 
123 PF French Polynesia 24,950.33   240.54 9,597.51   12,987.55 1,725.13 399.60 90.5% 91.5% 
124 PG Papua New Guinea 457,362.41   337.08 238,278.86   177,638.05 18,420.61 22,687.81 90.9% 91.0% 
125 PH Philippines 5,616,27 5.36 529,455.58 339,259. 52     3,919,898.50 670,50 9.45 157,152.31 79.2% 85.3% 
126 PK Pakistan 3,433,190.33 333,640.52 2,236,918.72     310,508.44 291,881.11 260,241.54 18.8% 83.9% 
127 PM St.Pierre and 
Miquelon 6,235.43 36.39 3.36 2,335.90   704.49 126.48 3,028.81 49.3% 49.4% 
128 PN Pitcairn 225.05 7.45   4.95   63.20 149.45 0.00 33.6% 33.6% 
129 PW Palau 94.07         85.65 8.42 0.00 91.0% 91.0% 
130 PY Paraguay 426,171.94 8,956.96 4,751.68     373,848.40 35,159.39 3,455.51 89.8% 90.9% 
131 QA Qatar 1,827,989.45 14,331.64 86,816.27     1,524,888.45 144,464.66 57,488.43 84.2% 89.0% 
132 RU Russian Federation 120,676,506.1
9 1,042,834.12 836,785.49     112,960,439.46 5,542,169.98 294,277.14 94.5% 95.2% 
133 RW Rwanda 36,079.96 56.85   371.56 26.84 35,355.78 123.03 145.90 99.2% 99.3% 
134 SA Saudi Arabia 18,281,438.71 1,119,535.07 950,227.21     15,189,452.32 201,355.30 820,868.81 89.2% 94.4% 
135 SB Solomon Islands 18,294.68 277.96   16,987.42   979.64 35.14 14.52 99.7% 99.7% 
136 SC Seychelles 164,747.27   301.27 153,825.59   9,016.07 1,009.91 594.43 98.8% 99.0% 
137 SD Sudan 141,670.69 1,158.44   22.77   121,422.05 17,575.13 1,492.30 86.5% 86.5% 
138 SH Saint Helena 1,314.73     384.05   653.33 277.35 0.00 78.9% 78.9% 
139 SL Sierra Leone 131,698.63 520.75   157.28   126,760.57 4,212.64 47.39 96.8% 96.8% 
140 SN Senegal 374,093.46 11,896.61   225,732.97 1,291.35 105,595.10 8,167.72 21,409.71 91.7% 92.1% 
141 SO Somalia 1,494.47     0.04   1,261.70 176.05 56.68 84.4% 84.4% 
142 SR Suriname 247,347.22 106.15 21.54 91,000.83 3,513.40 143,028.13 7,577.80 2,099.37 94.7% 96.1% 
143 ST Sao Tomé and 
Principe 4,342.38 34.03   195.61   3,725.31 249.46 137.97 91.1% 91.1% 
144 SV El Salvador 195,974.63 84,399.26       96,482.79 13,589.66 1,502.92 92.3% 92.3% 
145 SY Syrian Arab 
Republic 3,312,358.01 17,694.74 4,826.09 177,783.15 1,021.35 3,063,702.70 18,683.54 28,646.44 98.4% 98.6% 
146 SZ Swaziland 158,628.56 74.70 428.24 98,076.91 8,834.96 38,292.42 10,933.90 1,987.43 86.0% 91.9%  
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147 TC Turks and Caicos 
Islands 20,630.98   1.37 531.58   19,573.01 523.11 1.91 97.4% 97.5% 
148 TD Chad 30,143.66     7.90   29,807.17 328.59 0.00 98.9% 98.9% 
149 TF French Southern 
Territories 1,571.30     818.07   61.41 686.61 5.21 56.0% 56.0% 
150 TG Togo 138,630.76 631.56   12,648.72 69.31 121,913.95 2,317.92 1,049.30 97.5% 97.6% 
151 TH Thailand 16,533,396.78 2,178,051.24 2,040,358.21     6,254,574.44 5,342,317.97 718,094.92 51.0% 63.3% 
152 TJ Tadjikistan 253,293.15 7,906.83 16,343.29     114,818.47 113,185.91 1,038.65 48.5% 54.9% 
153 TK Tokelau 3,058.25 27.91 24.36     2,595.37 329.19 81.42 85.8% 86.6% 
154 TL Timor-Leste 2,118.84 13.66       1,956.54 72.72 75.92 93.0% 93.0% 
155 TM Turkmenistan 350,152.94 17,191.77 13,784.89     305,427.95 13,394.97 353.36 92.1% 96.1% 
156 TN Tunisia 8,961,992.04 40,637.68 26,993.47 5,260,769.66 13,817.14 2,796,695.22 416,925.10 406,153.77 90.4% 90.8% 
157 TO Tonga 869.52   34.82 470.78   156.36 203.20 4.36 72.1% 76.1% 
158 TT Trinidad and 
Tobago 849,071.76 414.59 1,578.79 264,499.71 34.64 537,763.20 27,064.29 17,716.54 94.5% 94.7% 
159 TV Tuvalu 172.69     19.29   121.74 31.66 0.00 81.7% 81.7% 
160 TZ Tanzania 381,618.70 3,502.35   205,927.68 23.86 138,253.14 6,085.35 27,826.32 91.1% 91.1% 
161 UA Ukraine 11,056,308.50 1,019,752.03 1,215,242.85     7,422,999.89 1,193,616.59 204,697.14 76.4% 87.4% 
162 UG Uganda 322,881.69 1,282.79   107,829.21 49.74 165,337.92 4,034.04 44,347.99 85.0% 85.0% 
163 UM US Minor Outlying 
Islands 516.23         364.21 85.97 66.05 70.6% 70.6% 
164 UY Uruguay 776,526.72 43,133.28 134,581.27     232,838.46 351,598.05 14,375.66 35.5% 52.9% 
165 UZ Uzbekistan 864,511.64 26,567.12 70,948.79     664,956.01 85,548.06 16,491.66 80.0% 88.2% 
166 VC St Vincent and the 
Grenadines 99,216.00     7,570.88 0.36 88,606.38 3,038.38 0.00 96.9% 96.9% 
167 VE Venezuela 5,258,162.61 260,449.53 35,876.56     4,710,525.41 165,661.01 85,650.10 94.5% 95.2% 
168 VG British Virgin 
Islands 122,935.74 25.40   400.04   116,543.50 5,665.56 301.24 95.1% 95.1% 
169 VI Virgin Islands, US 109,804.35 72.44 53.67     107,328.58 2,348.05 1.61 97.8% 97.9% 
170 VN Vietnam 7,843,218.89 729,333.11 2,480,102.84     2,446,847.99 1,443,997.46 742,937.49 40.5% 72.1% 
171 VU Vanuatu 3,332.14 10.86   429.00   1,521.32 521.24 849.72 58.9% 58.9% 
172 WF Wallis and Futuna 54.11         12.10 42.01 0.00 22.4% 22.4% 
173 WS Samoa 364.86     62.32   203.02 99.35 0.17 72.7% 72.7% 
174 YE Yemen 212,800.58 39,405.22       135,910.25 32,400.46 5,084.65 82.4% 82.4% 
175 YT Mayotte 3,081.81     1,027.27   1,621.29 429.65 3.60 85.9% 85.9% 
176 ZA South Africa 20,292,047.84 737,620.04 271,925.18 3,672,249.13 602,951.28 13,014,337.58 1,421,769.43 571,195.20 85.9% 90. 2% 
177 ZM Zambia 404,331.77 7,373.52   78,770.82 1,401.10 301,891.19 5,971.88 8,923.26 96.0% 96.3% 
178 ZW Zimbabwe 354,368.83 1,777.09 150.65 176,954.26 10,987.87 129,797.60 23,300.72 11,400.64 87.1% 90.2% 
             
  Total 759,867,788.8
0 32,158,220.96 26,478,756.71 31,748,337.88 1,809,766.44 486,814,220.90 167,201,142.96 13,657,342.95   
             
  GSP+ 23,393,984.75 4,460,690.65 465,949.73 0.00 0.00 14,492,474.24 3,285,665.80 689,204.33    
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(where applicable) Total Imports 
  GSP rate = 0 GSP rate > 0 PREF rate = 0 PREF rate > 
0 Imports at MFN 
= 0 
  Imports at MFN 
> 0 
  Unallocated 
  Total 
imports 
at zero 
rate 
  Total 
imports at 
zero or 
preferential 
rate  Alphabetic
al code 
  
  Name of the 
Country or Territory 
  
  
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) = 
[(2)+(4)
+(6)]/(1
) (10) = 
[∑(2)to(6)] 
/(1) 
  EBA 19,879,860.95 4,320,607.64 0.00 2,503,142.96 4,614.85 10,366,980.41 1,645,901.02 1,038,614.07   
             
  General 
Arrangement  49,389,729.65        
  GSP+  4,926,640.38        
  EBA  4,320,607.64        
             
  Total GSP  58,636,977.67        
 
  
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Imports into the EU by top 20 GSP beneficiary countries – by product section and tariff treatment  
2007 data – in thousands of € 
Products Imports under GSP   Alphabetical 
code 
  Name of the 
Country or 
Territory 
  
(per section) Total Imports 
  
GSP rate = 0 GSP rate > 0 Imports at MFN = 
0 
  Imports at 
MFN > 0 
  Total imports at 
zero rate 
  Total imports at 
zero or 
preferential rate 
  
            
IN India    Section I 512,591.83 2.66 397,728.79 45,336.19 11,558.91 8.8% 86.4%   
     Section II 970,003.76 18,695.85 127,885.07 612,690.21 148,434.76 65.1% 78.3%   
     Section III 122,41 6.98 5,269.24 72,422.92  36,615.15 6,044.37 34.2% 93.4%   
     Section IV 375,655.90 8,795.21 158,511.17 151,323.24 28,366.20 42.6% 84.8%   
     Section V 1,904,661.64 601,224.17   999,179.76 249,000.97 84.0% 84.0%   
     Section VI 2,654,522.90 216,754.89 244,968.25 1,999,453.11 106,185.02 83.5% 92.7%   
     Section VII 809,246.97 385,391.98 220,956.20 105,090.19 46,647.89 60.6% 87.9%   
     Section VIII 1,039,468.83 651,009.86 206,611.17 30,453.82 109,968.23 65.6% 85.4%   
     Section IX 57,855.82 12,727.96 2,788.45 38,918.47 1,864.01 89.3% 94.1%   
     Section X 105,448.37     105,444.50   100.0% 100.0%   
     Section XIa 1,588,711.10     146,926.51 1,439,856.80 9.2% 9.2%   
     Section XIb 4,639,997.94   4,013,907.87 78,004.08 321,161.24 1.7% 88.2%   
     Section XII 989,149.84 217,293.58 607,672.83 6,992.55 69,380.57 22.7% 84.1%   
     Section XIII 448,855.10 112,574.95 57,070.83 214,998.07 27,306.31 73.0% 85.7%   
     Section XIV 2,115,573.22     1,713,435.20 402,080.02 81.0% 81.0%   
     Section XV 3,386,861.73 954,567.29 155,436.71 1,848,488.32 311,289.60 82.8% 87.4%   
     Section XVI 2,812,745.69 1,213,250.94 3,979.09 1,060,795.59 440,069.49 80.8% 81.0%   
     Section XVII 1,078,004.42 393,670.70 304,359.03 147,863.13 201,746.18 50.2% 78.5%   
     Section XVIII 247,572.83 45,820.54 2,995.29 141,540.37 47,086.51 75.7% 76.9%   
     Section XIX 3,659.98     145.85 3,514.13 4.0% 4.0%   
     Section XX 540,758.52 256,514.18 2,432.42 222,401.19 40,975.98 88.6% 89.0%   
     Section XXI 11,227.90     11,155.34   99.4% 99.4%   
   26,414,991.27 5,093,564.00 6,579,726.09 9,717,250.84 4,012,537.19     
    11,673,290.09       
             
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code 
  Name of the 
Country or 
Territory 
  
(per section) Total Imports 
  
GSP rate = 0 GSP rate > 0 Imports at MFN = 
0 
  Imports at 
MFN > 0 
  Total imports at 
zero rate 
  Total imports at 
zero or 
preferential rate 
  
            
BR Brazil    Section I 1,767,154.90 25.65 114,217.10 126,029.25 1,449,292.47 7.1% 13.6%   
     Section II 5,804,424.04 12,144.83 174,421.96 4,821,023.09 728,043.01 83.3% 86.3%   
     Section III 410,691. 25 4,024.48 83,793.19 18,328.11 298,85 6.17 5.4% 25.8%   
     Section IV 4,265,253.86     2,304,621.84 1,880,164.95 54.0% 54.0%   
     Section V 6,096,183.73 199,584.23   5,882,080.53 562.27 99.8% 99.8%   
     Section VI 1,122,862.04 132,954.87 53,124.56 693,707.48 144,742.14 73.6% 78.4%   
     Section VII 635,723.97 200,482.47 188,006.49 85,986.29 36,122.41 45.1% 74.6%   
     Section VIII 604,208.43 24,048.00 333,590.16 221,999.64 13,453.75 40.7% 95.9%   
     Section IX 1,104,505.06     809,398.96 295,065.32 73.3% 73.3%   
     Section X 1,750,994.45     1,750,990.72   100.0% 100.0%   
     Section XIa 67,980.59   36,238.56 16,171.25 13,087.98 23.8% 77.1%   
     Section XIb 76,284.69   63,965.18 325.28 9,296.77 0.4% 84.3%   
     Section XII 466,911.67 52,818.20 307,054.09 29,178.96 48,770.51 17.6% 83.3%   
     Section XIII 214,842.72 101,235.51 47,168.85 18,705.28 21,129.79 55.8% 77.8%   
     Section XIV 151,797.74 16,440.76   130,621.41 4,629.91 96.9% 96.9%   
     Section XV 3,420,045.98 192,896.95 152,422.15 2,552,874.64 489,773.39 80.3% 84.7%   
     Section XVI 2,242,102.72 1,122,575.79 453.51 553,202.22 484,007.51 74.7% 74.8%   
     Section XVII 1,484,797.28 286,333.08 431,101.29 317,221.65 369,747.85 40.6% 69.7%   
     Section XVIII 124,571.80 18,568.56 289.79 68,762.13 33,871.02 70.1% 70.3%   
     Section XIX 7,111.93       7,111.93 0.0% 0.0%   
     Section XX 311,376.90 18,985.34 366.09 275,389.25 14,848.14 94.5% 94.7%   
     Section XXI 4,184.01     4,117.05   98.4% 98.4%   
   32,134,009.76 2,383,118.72 1,986,212.97 20,680,735.03 6,342,577.29     
    4,369,331.69       
             
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code 
  Name of the 
Country or 
Territory 
  
(per section) Total Imports 
  
GSP rate = 0 GSP rate > 0 Imports at MFN = 
0 
  Imports at 
MFN > 0 
  Total imports at 
zero rate 
  Total imports at 
zero or 
preferential rate 
  
            
TH Thailand    Section I 296,908.44 16.69 207,313.79 40,713.88 31,864.04 13.7% 83.5%   
     Section II 493,604.75 8,118.70 61,750.17 63,689.21 356,809.01 14.5% 27.1%   
     Section III 35,262.05 14,888.33 11,092.76 648.56 2,805.99 44.1% 75.5%   
     Section IV 1,326,159.24 122.02 481,281.29 88,849.46 718,690.03 6.7% 43.0%   
     Section V 131,828.72 108,899.70   13,595.54 5,888.89 92.9% 92.9%   
     Section VI 360,633.63 111,187.58 70,138.18 137,161.16 29,348.72 68.9% 88.3%   
     Section VII 1,381,838.01 422,410.39 148,655.33 580,352.55 177,883.99 72.6% 83.3%   
     Section VIII 86,742.98 30,791.34 11,385.80 3,358.48 35,721.55 39.4% 52.5%   
     Section IX 129,180.75 9,219.80 2,872.54 113,640.36 2,798.26 95.1% 97.3%   
     Section X 106,217.21     106,214.57   100.0% 100.0%   
     Section XIa 274,977.53   171,309.75 13,264.68 59,832.51 4.8% 67.1%   
     Section XIb 831,674.84   431,577.41 12,181.65 331,404.55 1.5% 53.4%   
     Section XII 314,896.32 10,810.57 164,977.22 2,186.58 39,385.37 4.1% 56.5%   
     Section XIII 175,212.32 23,016.18 98,602.70 13,604.99 29,071.50 20.9% 77.2%   
     Section XIV 1,050,894.15     308,990.77 741,879.20 29.4% 29.4%   
     Section XV 538,937.45 104,072.99 82,717.23 280,553.67 57,626.58 71.4% 86.7%   
     Section XVI 6,573,441.27 992,739.94 71,851.15 4,031,053.82 1,123,173.45 76.4% 77.5%   
     Section XVII 1,467,348.18     65,679.23 1,401,174.17 4.5% 4.5%   
     Section XVIII 467,274.79 193,908.40 1,195.44 128,254.85 139,512.69 68.9% 69.2%   
     Section XIX 22.71       22.71 0.0% 0.0%   
     Section XX 487,532.57 147,848.61 23,637.45 247,845.60 57,424.76 81.2% 86.0%   
     Section XXI 2,808.87     2,734.83   97.4% 97.4%   
   16,533,396.78 2,178,051.24 2,040,358.21 6,254,574.44 5,342,317.97     
    4,218,409.45       
             
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code 
  Name of the 
Country or 
Territory 
  
(per section) Total Imports 
  
GSP rate = 0 GSP rate > 0 Imports at MFN = 
0 
  Imports at 
MFN > 0 
  Total imports at 
zero rate 
  Total imports at 
zero or 
preferential rate 
  
            
BD Bangladesh    Section I 184,231.29 99,638.39   174.78 161.82 54.2% 54.2%   
     Section II 17,022.48 11,975.75   2,381.34 1,476.81 84.3% 84.3%   
     Section III 6.91 3.09     3.82 44.7% 44.7%   
     Section IV 14,998.72 9,419.00   474.45 195.04 66.0% 66.0%   
     Section V 21.26 0.14   21.12   100.0% 100.0%   
     Section VI 9,862.45 38.51   9,721.15 88.94 99.0% 99.0%   
     Section VII 7,547.75 5,183.58   156.92 244.77 70.8% 70.8%   
     Section VIII 74,008.86 62,399.72   9,056.51 1,341.40 96.6% 96.6%   
     Section IX 1,773.25 1,409.42   157.38 69.53 88.4% 88.4%   
     Section X 2,148.93     2,148.93   100.0% 100.0%   
     Section XIa 52,158.58 13,134.56   36,360.19 1,548.90 94.9% 94.9%   
     Section XIb 4,614,813.79 3,259,782.68   27,286.77 1,043,756.23 71.2% 71.2%   
     Section XII 71,720.77 58,728.38   117.53 5,165.89 82.0% 82.0%   
     Section XIII 17,177.10 16,166.32   1.26 928.12 94.1% 94.1%   
     Section XIV 115.30 8.95   97.34 8.20 92.2% 92.2%   
     Section XV 6,721.32 207.92   6,129.01 371.37 94.3% 94.3%   
     Section XVI 8,403.70 858.09   4,902.71 2,632.91 68.6% 68.6%   
     Section XVII 20,449.15 16,892.43   211.10 557.20 83.6% 83.6%   
     Section XVIII 3,518.55 1,850.89   1,358.35 278.83 91.2% 91.2%   
     Section XX 3,269.34 1,671.17   680.26 884.70 71.9% 71.9%   
     Section XXI 56.45     56.45   100.0% 100.0%   
   5,110,025.95 3,559,368.99 0.00 101,493.55 1,059,714.48     
    3,559,368.99       
             
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code Name of the 
Country or 
Territory Products Total Imports Imports under GSP Imports at MFN = 
0 Imports at 
MFN > 0 Total imports at 
zero rate   
    (per section)   GSP rate = 0 GSP rate > 0       Total imports at 
zero or 
preferential rate 
  
            
VN Vietnam    Section I 587,905.74 1,304.13 481,911.89 15,918.22 32,497.19 2.9% 84.9%   
     Section II 990,767.42 6,507.16 7,990.99 968,336.00 6,568.98 98.4% 99.2%   
     Section III 183.51   8.94 162.98 3.59 88. 8% 93.7%   
     Section IV 126,554.84 4.93 87,982.24 5,620.51 22,255.26 4.4% 74.0%   
     Section V 54,401.62 8.21   54,379.10 14.31 100.0% 100.0%   
     Section VI 17,281.48 2,334.79 1,890.45 10,629.24 2,298.15 75.0% 86.0%   
     Section VII 309,592.70 96,887.76 57,171.60 119,884.05 26,889.09 70.0% 88.5%   
     Section VIII 257,141.76 131,173.80 34,842.01 13,740.35 25,804.56 56.4% 69.9%   
     Section IX 121,816.95 60,469.61 3,331.31 47,280.29 4,799.16 88.5% 91.2%   
     Section X 9,890.59     9,890.49   100.0% 100.0%   
     Section XIa 66,882.68   41,379.77 3,935.86 18,481.65 5.9% 67.8%   
     Section XIb 1,227,141.31   158,779.25 9,328.68 954,525.11 0.8% 13.7%   
     Section XII 2,127,383.86 59,696.99 1,493,548.01 101,897.21 104,399.04 7.6% 77.8%   
     Section XIII 180,553.78 83,955.02 38,999.57 11,183.17 12,432.13 52.7% 74.3%   
     Section XIV 86,870.46 45,907.61   35,114.54 5,796.19 93.3% 93.3%   
     Section XV 226,989.21 90,784.65 49,662.67 55,001.47 24,385.36 64.2% 86.1%   
     Section XVI 524,947.14 41,694.48 406.55 318,207.98 89,029.11 68.6% 68.6%   
     Section XVII 57,702.76 9,492.14 8,313.15 3,498.02 33,652.49 22.5% 36.9%   
     Section XVIII 29,181.11 621.91 229.64 4,803.61 23,281.05 18.6% 19.4%   
     Section XIX 32.25       32.25 0.0% 0.0%   
     Section XX 838,857.61 98,489.92 13,654.80 656,932.99 56,852.79 90.1% 91.7%   
     Section XXI 1,140.11     1,103.23   96.8% 96.8%   
   7,843,218.89 729,333.11 2,480,102.84 2,446,847.99 1,443,997.46     
    3,209,435.95       
             
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code Name of the 
Country or 
Territory Products Total Imports Imports under GSP Imports at MFN = 
0 Imports at 
MFN > 0 Total imports at 
zero rate   
    (per section)   GSP rate = 0 GSP rate > 0       Total imports at 
zero or 
preferential rate 
  
            
ID Indonesia    Section I 165,596.57 9,167.58 105,189.67 5,767.19 4,803.97 9.0% 72.5%   
     Section II 295,957.47 2,803.83 4,009.18 287,250.07 1,361.94 98.0% 99.4%   
     Section III 1,210,569.07     291,155.30 892, 365.84 24.1% 24.1%   
     Section IV 391,768.12 27.79 133,140.74 152,864.48 53,281.40 39.0% 73.0%   
     Section V 1,900,927.52 1,495.66   1,899,415.57 15.71 100.0% 100.0%   
     Section VI 429,258.07 115,244.57 64,227.07 167,023.00 25,710.30 65.8% 80.7%   
     Section VII 900,348.58 237,664.02 54,438.06 573,155.52 17,514.86 90.1% 96.1%   
     Section VIII 65,840.40 15,292.60 12,831.25 16,799.64 11,492.47 48.7% 68.2%   
     Section IX 689,402.89     533,295.06 155,545.76 77.4% 77.4%   
     Section X 297,107.07     297,102.24   100.0% 100.0%   
     Section XIa 409,284.44   306,513.59 12,174.94 26,315.43 3.0% 77.9%   
     Section XIb 1,237,573.90   477,674.69 8,608.34 624,774.02 0.7% 39.3%   
     Section XII 673,083.62 50,715.10 343,219.50 1,645.74 102,279.82 7.8% 58.8%   
     Section XIII 98,637.89 36,772.96 41,455.66 4,362.75 9,906.58 41.7% 83.7%   
     Section XIV 46,615.44 28,780.17   10,410.71 6,973.82 84.1% 84.1%   
     Section XV 672,177.20 27,646.52 9,990.39 623,888.08 6,489.68 96.9% 98.4%   
     Section XVI 1,954,137.79 296,075.33 307,272.92 924,032.36 317,308.59 62.4% 78.2%   
     Section XVII 118,447.36 40,214.76 30,042.06 5,014.90 34,861.69 38.2% 63.5%   
     Section XVIII 186,796.11 48,676.09 191.26 21,863.96 65,795.49 37.8% 37.9%   
     Section XIX 13.28       13.28 0.0% 0.0%   
     Section XX 944,079.15 215,804.25 20,669.81 658,497.43 30,207.99 92.6% 94.8%   
     Section XXI 3,015.73     2,986.21   99.0% 99.0%   
   12,690,637.67 1,126,381.23 1,910,865.85 6,497,313.49 2,387,018.64     
    3,037,247.08       
             
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code Name of the 
Country or 
Territory Products Total Imports Imports under GSP Imports at MFN = 
0 Imports at 
MFN > 0 Total imports at 
zero rate   
    (per section)   GSP rate = 0 GSP rate > 0       Total imports at 
zero or 
preferential rate 
  
            
MY Malaysia    Section I 103,004.39 137.21 84,950.37 7,163.36 5,351.93 7.1% 89.6%   
     Section II 30,619.81 3,550.11 2,591.99 21,203.28 1,723.84 80.8% 89.3%   
     Section III 1,033,835.46     261,109.27 734, 049.35 25.3% 25.3%   
     Section IV 334,697.31 287.42 91,741.77 219,665.69 11,861.77 65.7% 93.1%   
     Section V 151,804.35 72,498.23   61,334.17 17,971.92 88.2% 88.2%   
     Section VI 591,736.19 289,269.84 45,264.02 139,442.52 43,026.22 72.4% 80.1%   
     Section VII 1,508,200.22 454,343.43 292,302.14 591,294.72 120,913.70 69.3% 88.7%   
     Section VIII 11,206.99 1,559.23 146.52 3,270.58 6,046.50 43.1% 44.4%   
     Section IX 586,910.03 29,605.50 93,256.96 439,764.93 19,999.03 80.0% 95.9%   
     Section X 69,411.91     69,411.91   100.0% 100.0%   
     Section XIa 88,820.47   63,202.25 2,781.69 12,215.81 3.1% 74.3%   
     Section XIb 239,095.07   84,246.36 54.37 115,059.99 0.0% 35.3%   
     Section XII 51,875.91 5,996.74 32,934.13 142.74 7,822.82 11.8% 75.3%   
     Section XIII 85,539.23 15,535.35 45,966.61 11,707.41 8,898.94 31.8% 85.6%   
     Section XIV 40,962.13 6,690.76   32,278.49 1,665.31 95.1% 95.1%   
     Section XV 499,924.83 143,976.35 36,536.53 231,255.56 78,426.33 75.1% 82.4%   
     Section XVI 11,083,110.90 503,049.99 115,143.91 9,037,641.41 1,156,497.99 86.1% 87.1%   
     Section XVII 208,450.95 36,897.52 81,297.62 20,563.09 64,061.54 27.6% 66.6%   
     Section XVIII 505,059.14 17,285.07 7.21 307,200.53 62,854.63 64.2% 64.2%   
     Section XIX 558.38     527.31 31.07 94.4% 94.4%   
     Section XX 539,313.29 53,535.43 17,651.80 423,115.20 36,853.15 88.4% 91.7%   
     Section XXI 162.03     162.03   100.0% 100.0%   
   17,764,298.99 1,634,218.18 1,087,240.19 11,881,090.26 2,505,331.84     
    2,721,458.37       
             
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code Name of the 
Country or 
Territory Products Total Imports Imports under GSP Imports at MFN = 
0 Imports at 
MFN > 0 Total imports at 
zero rate   
    (per section)   GSP rate = 0 GSP rate > 0       Total imports at 
zero or 
preferential rate 
  
            
PK Pakistan    Section I 17,436.38   3,519.16 12,122.92 9.49 69.5% 89.7%   
     Section II 101,523.37 6,088.13 3,463.73 34,024.86 50,788.36 39.5% 42.9%   
     Section III 43.42   41.13   1.80 0.0% 94.7%   
     Section IV 71,450.15 434.42 5,988.21 30,262.95 32,917.68 43.0% 51.3%   
     Section V 5,887.01     4,678.79 1,208.22 79.5% 79.5%   
     Section VI 5,076.09 1,356.31 266.05 1,113.63 1,728.77 48.7% 53.9%   
     Section VII 51,531.90 11,027.31 33,896.59 630.36 3,731.75 22.6% 88.4%   
     Section VIII 333,337.98 171,871.99 96,700.33 25,282.17 24,564.83 59.1% 88.2%   
     Section IX 339.55 28.92   303.37 6.50 97.9% 97.9%   
     Section X 2,816.94     2,816.94   100.0% 100.0%   
     Section XIa 788,739.64   587,345.15 64,214.82 78,078.42 8.1% 82.6%   
     Section XIb 1,696,337.43   1,470,629.96 5,607.36 65,223.90 0.3% 87.0%   
     Section XII 41,433.43 6,690.21 29,705.29 479.80 1,665.41 17.3% 89.0%   
     Section XIII 5,649.39 3,685.26 275.55 403.17 1,130.29 72.4% 77.2%   
     Section XIV 9,912.65 4,295.75   5,128.33 468.62 95.1% 95.1%   
     Section XV 52,750.05 19,903.16 4,869.59 18,368.28 8,618.21 72.6% 81.8%   
     Section XVI 42,835.98 2,310.63   31,774.96 7,352.90 79.6% 79.6%   
     Section XVII 7,699.99 3,685.94 19.43 1,349.97 1,226.90 65.4% 65.7%   
     Section XVIII 71,200.60 2,150.89 25.96 67,274.91 1,292.98 97.5% 97.5%   
     Section XIX 721.89       721.89 0.0% 0.0%   
     Section XX 126,365.71 100,111.60 172.59 4,597.09 11,144.19 82.9% 83.0%   
     Section XXI 100.78     73.76   73.2% 73.2%   
   3,433,190.33 333,640.52 2,236,918.72 310,508.44 291,881.11     
    2,570,559.24       
             
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UA Ukraine    Section I 14,019.22   22.74 10,277.88 3,713.53 73.3% 73.5%   
     Section II 405,969.98 9,626.54 26,777.58 310,989.22 56,288.74 79.0% 85.6%   
     Section III 501,09 5.23 885.78 460,38 6.83 13,067.91 22,415.11  2.8% 94.7%   
     Section IV 224,629.49 5.23 56,383.10 147,556.04 20,035.37 65.7% 90.8%   
     Section V 2,374,054.06 82,593.05   2,219,547.05 44,973.16 97.0% 97.0%   
     Section VI 822,140.15 52,096.19 326,030.86 351,610.60 57,921.80 49.1% 88.8%   
     Section VII 123,435.42 66,361.12 16,809.41 12,019.74 23,132.82 63.5% 77.1%   
     Section VIII 162,651.02 20,112.86 9,833.05 129,321.95 2,981.63 91.9% 97.9%   
     Section IX 481,387.92 41,717.79 53,772.10 369,476.94 12,907.42 85.4% 96.6%   
     Section X 49,234.54     49,153.58   99.8% 99.8%   
     Section XIa 35,434.14   11,621.76 3,025.84 20,039.84 8.5% 41.3%   
     Section XIb 402,952.20   144,536.72 2,465.41 232,391.44 0.6% 36.5%   
     Section XII 50,633.37 21,126.74 19,384.79 32.66 4,380.47 41.8% 80.1%   
     Section XIII 47,315.52 17,249.21 19,296.08 5,663.92 3,977.65 48.4% 89.2%   
     Section XIV 60,619.80 271.92   59,911.06 428.26 99.3% 99.3%   
     Section XV 4,056,495.60 215,846.49 69,365.19 3,214,354.16 481,023.65 84.6% 86.3%   
     Section XVI 944,115.32 350,338.11   401,348.58 176,890.05 79.6% 79.6%   
     Section XVII 169,315.48 96,587.85 819.29 53,489.98 15,501.95 88.6% 89.1%   
     Section XVIII 19,759.29 2,740.71   11,466.08 5,411.35 71.9% 71.9%   
     Section XIX 743.70     332.84 410.86 44.8% 44.8%   
     Section XX 107,850.74 42,192.44 203.35 55,450.87 8,791.49 90.5% 90.7%   
     Section XXI 2,456.31     2,437.58   99.2% 99.2%   
   11,056,308.50 1,019,752.03 1,215,242.85 7,422,999.89 1,193,616.59     
    2,234,994.88       
             
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SA Saudi Arabia    Section I 2,264. 15 28.45 2,031.89 51.36 74.07 3.5% 93.3%   
     Section II 3,613.70 102.65 466.55 1,094.48 1,923.50 33.1% 46.0%   
     Section III 474.64     459.69 9.08 96.9% 96.9%   
     Section IV 5,656.63   1,187.73 1,857.69 2,580.33 32.8% 53.8%   
     Section V 14,992,513.29 1,063,805.74   13,784,698.42 87,285.45 99.0% 99.0%   
     Section VI 1,315,758.78 4,385.23 299,879.30 803,135.02 46,576.22 61.4% 84.2%   
     Section VII 1,268,540.03 26,132.19 619,582.94 73,690.77 6,541.69 7.9% 56.7%   
     Section VIII 31,088.33 1,830.59 202.23 28,663.52 391.98 98.1% 98.7%   
     Section IX 422.82   24.13 357.61 21.45 84.6% 90.3%   
     Section X 5,402.75     5,399.32   99.9% 99.9%   
     Section XIa 12,166.75   7,797.60 829.95 746.17 6.8% 70.9%   
     Section XIb 2,963.07   29.60 55.05 2,778.36 1.9% 2.9%   
     Section XII 242.70     68.55 172.69 28.2% 28.2%   
     Section XIII 15,274.60 618.22 9,436.45 4,191.13 906.81 31.5% 93.3%   
     Section XIV 32,627.07     9,923.71 22,703.36 30.4% 30.4%   
     Section XV 129,501.42 17,339.11 9,588.79 98,548.06 3,959.69 89.5% 96.9%   
     Section XVI 323,760.17 3,526.95   297,689.81 14,465.36 93.0% 93.0%   
     Section XVII 64,721.80 11.61   13,275.86 4,462.46 20.5% 20.5%   
     Section XVIII 68,885.50 0.20   63,449.30 4,434.95 92.1% 92.1%   
     Section XIX 655.02     653.57 1.45 99.8% 99.8%   
     Section XX 4,559.02 1,754.13   1,012.98 1,320.23 60.7% 60.7%   
     Section XXI 346.47     346.47   100.0% 100.0%   
   18,281,438.71 1,119,535.07 950,227.21 15,189,452.32 201,355.30     
    2,069,762.28       
             
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RU Russian 
Federation    Section I 366,794.34   100,715.84 36,795.80 219,040.50 10.0% 37.5%   
     Section II 362,552.68 12,361.24 6,166.80 135,448.77 203,309.69 40.8% 42.5%   
     Section III 144,502.54   111,30 7.76 1,149.38 31, 935.67 0.8% 77.8%   
     Section IV 224,187.42 1,916.20 45,244.86 160,744.75 15,081.15 72.6% 92.7%   
     Section V 93,582,646.01 355,339.16   92,388,807.21 706,512.19 99.1% 99.1%   
     Section VI 4,301,075.86     2,832,387.94 1,429,634.33 65.9% 65.9%   
     Section VII 605,798.56 150,053.25 80,705.19 326,889.38 31,073.53 78.7% 92.1%   
     Section VIII 186,246.70 113.76 43,552.64 133,017.07 9,544.22 71.5% 94.9%   
     Section IX 2,535,784.57 15,869.33 313,910.14 2,126,631.61 73,301.03 84.5% 96.9%   
     Section X 567,330.46     567,099.06   100.0% 100.0%   
     Section XIa 72,255.31   55,240.25 8,362.94 7,312.49 11.6% 88.0%   
     Section XIb 56,584.75   18,245.81 176.64 37,867.90 0.3% 32.6%   
     Section XII 6,704.20 156.31 3,494.68 34.75 2,991.34 2.8% 55.0%   
     Section XIII 112,515.61 21,361.55 26,769.95 47,296.08 14,401.06 61.0% 84.8%   
     Section XIV 2,608,719.11 71,147.59   2,494,773.78 42,786.76 98.4% 98.4%   
     Section XV 13,236,160.52     10,961,720.51 2,246,432.53 82.8% 82.8%   
     Section XVI 899,852.32 256,287.60 607.95 312,738.39 295,143.90 63.2% 63.3%   
     Section XVII 514,920.21 95,842.40 29,148.98 276,841.17 99,787.99 72.4% 78.0%   
     Section XVIII 105,560.86 13,440.53 349.07 53,057.69 37,867.40 63.0% 63.3%   
     Section XIX 11,457.24     2.97 11,454.27 0.0% 0.0%   
     Section XX 148,345.59 48,945.20 1,325.57 69,980.96 26,692.03 80.2% 81.1%   
     Section XXI 26,511.33     26,482.61   99.9% 99.9%   
   120,676,506.19 1,042,834.12 836,785.49 112,960,439.46 5,542,169.98     
    1,879,619.61       
             
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CN China    Section I 1,537,982.77 320.49 262,233.26 421,705.93 789,270.08 27.4% 44.5%   
     Section II 1,395,449.12 160,849.73 300,721.89 613,989.48 272,795.42 55.5% 77.1%   
     Section III 84,185.35 3,383.11 8, 083.15 19,116.70 53,232.41  26.7% 36.3%   
     Section IV 1,280,843.33 5,164.59 686,254.39 188,914.03 318,236.54 15.2% 68.7%   
     Section V 1,950,619.24 472,299.72   1,400,304.75 25,351.84 96.0% 96.0%   
     Section VI 6,954,618.57     4,655,170.03 2,242,103.46 66.9% 66.9%   
     Section VII 6,329,284.20     300,910.43 6,006,139.64 4.8% 4.8%   
     Section VIII 5,625,858.52     82,379.45 5,487,851.86 1.5% 1.5%   
     Section IX 2,624,543.23     1,613,787.52 1,004,811.61 61.5% 61.5%   
     Section X 1,963,267.57     1,962,705.92   100.0% 100.0%   
     Section XIa 3,334,477.82     419,754.04 2,908,054.10 12.6% 12.6%   
     Section XIb 24,168,556.78     68,229.33 24,030,951.72 0.3% 0.3%   
     Section XII 7,289,840.72     85,807.81 6,979,031.21 1.2% 1.2%   
     Section XIII 4,319,081.01     634,392.61 3,653,838.51 14.7% 14.7%   
     Section XIV 2,195,269.19     976,706.90 1,217,878.93 44.5% 44.5%   
     Section XV 21,174,715.19     9,732,633.88 11,333,628.65 46.0% 46.0%   
     Section XVI 102,922,184.97     66,587,858.16 35,206,048.54 64.7% 64.7%   
     Section XVII 5,482,784.02     2,270,236.29 3,190,298.58 41.4% 41.4%   
     Section XVIII 5,251,858.70     1,461,814.83 3,774,774.77 27.8% 27.8%   
     Section XIX 25,781.34     719.96 25,061.38 2.8% 2.8%   
     Section XX 24,631,345.71     12,586,241.73 11,986,074.30 51.1% 51.1%   
     Section XXI 64,837.48     64,141.35   98.9% 98.9%   
   230,607,384.83 642,017.64 1,257,292.69 106,147,521.13 120,505,433.55     
    1,899,310.33       
             
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AR Argentina    Section I 1,192,033.95 23.04 512,557.19 66,284.70 582,661.55 5.6% 48.6%   
     Section II 1,542,113.04 21,533.34 84,556.61 639,032.57 709,998.41 42.8% 48.3%   
     Section III 229,95 0.15 2,153.28 90,666.51  9,819.99 125,43 3.78 5.2% 44.6%   
     Section IV 3,530,747.22 119,423.35 54,711.88 3,144,137.96 199,802.15 92.4% 94.0%   
     Section V 504,668.72 395.28   504,195.67 77.77 100.0% 100.0%   
     Section VI 264,802.92 69,479.08 6,964.22 145,838.60 10,944.62 81.3% 83.9%   
     Section VII 64,742.41 33,116.10 4,396.08 19,695.16 4,445.83 81.6% 88.4%   
     Section VIII 218,465.52 22,870.38 31,783.01 155,830.39 7,047.20 81.8% 96.3%   
     Section IX 61,530.42 312.23 1,585.87 58,763.70 826.39 96.0% 98.6%   
     Section X 25,514.48     25,514.45   100.0% 100.0%   
     Section XIa 97,087.36   1,714.59 48,399.06 46,960.88 49.9% 51.6%   
     Section XIb 9,746.28   7,855.02 32.88 1,775.81 0.3% 80.9%   
     Section XII 3,441.50 1,117.72 1,401.08 52.00 572.41 34.0% 74.7%   
     Section XIII 13,621.91 2,487.46 1,227.06 8,733.45 408.63 82.4% 91.4%   
     Section XIV 2,252.27 77.87   1,086.66 1,082.21 51.7% 51.7%   
     Section XV 263,954.87 16,673.75 6,997.40 200,389.79 30,180.37 82.2% 84.9%   
     Section XVI 192,185.31 90,004.85 21,001.36 30,063.70 44,798.15 62.5% 73.4%   
     Section XVII 246,602.68 121,082.56 95,646.54 8,077.39 14,455.24 52.4% 91.2%   
     Section XVIII 16,315.38 2,446.23 55.17 9,857.47 3,778.43 75.4% 75.7%   
     Section XIX 1,668.25       1,668.25 0.0% 0.0%   
     Section XX 14,377.99 5,831.21 904.00 4,967.05 2,560.99 75.1% 81.4%   
     Section XXI 3,914.09     3,648.97   93.2% 93.2%   
   8,499,736.72 509,027.73 924,023.59 5,084,421.61 1,789,479.07     
    1,433,051.32       
             
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LK Sri Lanka    Section I 110,182.47 104,575.92 1,428.61 2,413.10 1,411.76 97.1% 98.4%   
     Section II 115,764.34 15,066.16 19.92 97,401.92 3,043.10 97.2% 97.2%   
     Section III 645.96 231.41   2.92 20.91 36.3% 36.3%   
     Section IV 43,544.28 15,625.69 2,349.31 599.37 6,148.95 37.3% 42.7%   
     Section V 7,144.46 0.83   6,944.78 198.85 97.2% 97.2%   
     Section VI 12,261.69 5,629.00   4,263.86 1,580.61 80.7% 80.7%   
     Section VII 228,599.22 175,191.44   17,322.80 7,955.09 84.2% 84.2%   
     Section VIII 8,045.30 5,706.44   103.31 2,122.74 72.2% 72.2%   
     Section IX 4,196.18 633.65   3,374.72 150.15 95.5% 95.5%   
     Section X 11,413.04     11,413.04   100.0% 100.0%   
     Section XIa 34,680.38 11,123.68   16,898.45 2,945.60 80.8% 80.8%   
     Section XIb 1,056,293.43 658,581.53   17,971.19 324,874.23 64.0% 64.0%   
     Section XII 22,805.20 14,184.64   2,601.40 4,544.44 73.6% 73.6%   
     Section XIII 12,452.73 10,848.17   23.09 1,495.89 87.3% 87.3%   
     Section XIV 204,269.35 1,490.01   200,677.53 1,824.62 99.0% 99.0%   
     Section XV 19,781.29 5,661.97   12,817.89 1,277.74 93.4% 93.4%   
     Section XVI 87,874.50 32,111.66   33,203.11 14,100.88 74.3% 74.3%   
     Section XVII 43,983.22 25,315.22   5,443.50 4,458.28 69.9% 69.9%   
     Section XVIII 17,817.48 8,410.26   7,802.37 841.93 91.0% 91.0%   
     Section XX 37,652.88 23,812.95   9,599.72 2,326.17 88.7% 88.7%   
     Section XXI 49.14     48.29   98.3% 98.3%   
   2,079,456.54 1,114,200.63 3,797.84 450,926.36 381,321.94     
    1,117,998.47       
             
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ZA South Africa Section I 258,538.46 40.68 197,160.97 429.08   40,915.03 19,579.67 16.0% 92.3% 
     Section II 1,236,344.03 8,501.77 21,181.14 139,945.05 515,175.11 48,062.29 414,109.98 15.9% 59.3% 
     Section III 3,703.65   38. 20 2,845.80 66.68 312.67 383.02 85.3% 88.1% 
     Section IV 557,831.36 50.11 18,331.83 149,081.82 48,706.20 14,239.15 276,237.80 29.3% 41.3% 
     Section V 4,071,547.73 14,107.27   4,921.13   4,051,224.19 1,238.59 100.0% 100.0% 
     Section VI 580,946.70 62,742.16 26,943.29 98,428.36   274,535.47 18,295.51 75.0% 79.6% 
     Section VII 179,710.66 24,614.25 592.67 90,241.93   30,074.74 22,420.20 80.6% 81.0% 
     Section VIII 95,128.44 7,018.96 117.00 17,129.71   65,694.18 5,013.22 94.4% 94.6% 
     Section IX 52,265.60 2,132.28 173.49 11,198.45   37,466.69 1,007.30 97.2% 97.5% 
     Section X 283,805.34         283,805.34   100.0% 100.0% 
     Section XIa 181,890.41   419.94 89,997.46   69,524.91 10,748.25 87.7% 87.9% 
     Section XIb 29,988.64   765.88 23,803.59   375.03 3,832.16 80.6% 83.2% 
     Section XII 5,720.38 152.45 93.54 2,580.84   342.10 1,244.28 53.8% 55.4% 
     Section XIII 78,788.85 1,250.64 519.79 49,520.46   14,843.05 6,085.19 83.3% 83.9% 
     Section XIV 6,059,396.71 272.36   6,355.40   6,050,252.30 2,455.67 100.0% 100.0% 
     Section XV 2,707,004.45 458,278.41 5,049.79 459,380.11   1,359,176.89 234,562.98 84.1% 84.3% 
     Section XVI 2,722,459.08 134,096.98 13.57 1,952,873.50   441,850.11 162,556.83 92.9% 92.9% 
     Section XVII 804,096.12     332,681.44 39,003.29 156,066.96 202,237.92 60.8% 65.6% 
     Section XVIII 79,302.81 1,094.30 19.16 8,235.16   39,760.95 28,869.23 61.9% 61.9% 
     Section XIX 773.55     193.90   76.18 503.47 34.9% 34.9% 
     Section XX 291,443.61 23,267.42 504.92 232,405.94   24,676.69 10,388.16 96.2% 96.4% 
     Section XXI 11,361.26         11,062.66   97.4% 97.4% 
   20,292,047.84 737,620.04 271,925.18 3,672,249.13 602,951.28 13,014,337.58 1,421,769.43   
    1,009,545.22       
             
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PH Philippines    Section I 33,031.31 1, 375.23 6,869.55 23,883.62 262.86 76.5% 97.3%   
     Section II 88,826.30 489.15 4,595.13 82,924.95 634.33 93.9% 99.1%   
     Section III 217,62 8.01 234.94 104,66 5.50 33,794.85 75,739.35  15.6% 63.7%   
     Section IV 169,727.42 34.72 111,388.44 4,824.19 43,859.42 2.9% 68.5%   
     Section V 48,953.50 46,101.46   2,846.43 4.66 100.0% 100.0%   
     Section VI 58,715.25 28,881.03 718.89 9,738.71 9,952.44 65.8% 67.0%   
     Section VII 82,741.98 65,386.83 2,318.23 3,285.29 9,614.01 83.0% 85.8%   
     Section VIII 22,322.67 12,616.49 3,520.14 139.83 5,529.28 57.1% 72.9%   
     Section IX 29,445.67 9,385.56 845.22 16,194.96 1,302.55 86.9% 89.7%   
     Section X 39,668.39     39,668.39   100.0% 100.0%   
     Section XIa 28,705.03   15,378.37 8,449.29 1,564.22 29.4% 83.0%   
     Section XIb 201,845.03   51,198.00 5,351.48 134,015.46 2.7% 28.0%   
     Section XII 17,935.36 3,662.87 7,700.17 138.45 5,783.41 21.2% 64.1%   
     Section XIII 14,027.41 5,763.71 3,146.68 1,706.08 2,271.91 53.3% 75.7%   
     Section XIV 46,653.60 29,441.53   12,293.15 3,462.02 89.5% 89.5%   
     Section XV 82,225.77 66,457.09 535.51 5,842.29 8,284.01 87.9% 88.6%   
     Section XVI 3,910,523.17 136,092.17 576.00 3,522,238.03 188,380.54 93.6% 93.6%   
     Section XVII 119,569.60 24,481.06 19,352.00 25,317.54 42,039.42 41.6% 57.8%   
     Section XVIII 273,403.68 39,227.39 1,742.45 67,548.22 129,238.55 39.1% 39.7%   
     Section XIX 228.52       228.52 0.0% 0.0%   
     Section XX 129,603.02 59,824.35 4,709.24 53,224.21 8,342.49 87.2% 90.9%   
     Section XXI 494.67     488.54   98.8% 98.8%   
   5,616,275.36 529,455.58 339,259.52 3,919,898.50 670,509.45     
    868,715.10       
             
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code Name of the 
Country or 
Territory Products Total Imports Imports under GSP Imports at MFN = 
0 Imports at 
MFN > 0 Total imports at 
zero rate   
    (per section)   GSP rate = 0 GSP rate > 0       Total imports at 
zero or 
preferential rate 
  
            
EC Ecuador    Section I 259,920.27 11,973.17 218,314.08 442.84 252.03 4.8% 88.8%   
     Section II 875,416.63 169,047.63   13,110.72 674,358.28 20.8% 20.8%   
     Section III 23,362.97 22,150.16    1,191.99 20.58 99.9% 99.9%   
     Section IV 532,569.43 413,883.95 2,683.12 77,357.35 13,861.70 92.2% 92.7%   
     Section V 27.38 13.35   7.88 4.23 77.5% 77.5%   
     Section VI 7,214.66 2,800.61   4,395.47 18.39 99.7% 99.7%   
     Section VII 244.31 155.93   9.76 62.59 67.8% 67.8%   
     Section VIII 4,846.31 694.24   4,092.13 58.71 98.8% 98.8%   
     Section IX 38,643.87 2,521.91   35,844.86 263.94 99.3% 99.3%   
     Section X 245.26     245.26   100.0% 100.0%   
     Section XIa 4,442.52 9.30   4,384.57 13.23 98.9% 98.9%   
     Section XIb 4,435.94 4,215.18   9.80 113.16 95.2% 95.2%   
     Section XII 2,518.55 656.13   1,728.96 132.90 94.7% 94.7%   
     Section XIII 579.90 481.65   16.40 80.65 85.9% 85.9%   
     Section XIV 670.59 479.89   3.29 183.61 72.1% 72.1%   
     Section XV 7,892.47 134.21   7,266.97 485.56 93.8% 93.8%   
     Section XVI 6,047.67 35.90   4,278.70 1,706.05 71.3% 71.3%   
     Section XVII 362.19 3.51   31.90 147.61 9.8% 9.8%   
     Section XVIII 654.80 103.60   439.10 102.02 82.9% 82.9%   
     Section XX 5,772.61 4,989.81   655.93 126.37 97.8% 97.8%   
     Section XXI 72.99     72.96   100.0% 100.0%   
   1,775,941.32 634,350.13 220,997.20 155,586.84 691,991.61     
    855,347.33       
             
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code Name of the 
Country or 
Territory Products Total Imports Imports under GSP Imports at MFN = 
0 Imports at 
MFN > 0 Total imports at 
zero rate   
    (per section)   GSP rate = 0 GSP rate > 0       Total imports at 
zero or 
preferential rate 
  
            
AE U.A.Emirates    Section I 93,955.86   5,444.08 75,790.98 11,537.24 80.7% 86.5%   
     Section II 9,041.72 467.85 33.99 7,788.73 728.73 91.3% 91.7%   
     Section III 64,152.57   2, 092.29 217.37 61,842.91 0.3% 3.6%   
     Section IV 16,860.98   2,933.40 8,979.26 4,351.90 53.3% 70.7%   
     Section V 1,928,279.51 856,117.10   672,991.34 363,779.90 79.3% 79.3%   
     Section VI 261,916.45 2,703.61 2,731.63 247,785.98 7,668.75 95.6% 96.7%   
     Section VII 158,074.88 25,851.35 53,363.24 7,015.71 55,661.90 20.8% 54.6%   
     Section VIII 16,207.38 1,074.10 66.98 11,009.73 4,048.79 74.6% 75.0%   
     Section IX 4,358.79     3,006.98 1,242.03 69.0% 69.0%   
     Section X 33,062.38     33,037.20   99.9% 99.9%   
     Section XIa 75,532.01   18,151.21 817.64 19,996.98 1.1% 25.1%   
     Section XIb 107,928.89   35,305.62 2,992.08 63,710.23 2.8% 35.5%   
     Section XII 4,803.26 1,611.63 1,897.29 75.30 1,152.53 35.1% 74.6%   
     Section XIII 109,986.05 2,495.91 67,642.62 2,595.09 12,825.18 4.6% 66.1%   
     Section XIV 1,394,762.75 37,383.11   1,238,799.24 117,669.92 91.5% 91.5%   
     Section XV 659,236.48 33,004.66 6,962.56 235,456.55 377,146.45 40.7% 41.8%   
     Section XVI 751,344.18 48,670.52 1.20 558,646.22 118,321.52 80.8% 80.8%   
     Section XVII 89,059.40 956.42   55,397.43 28,697.17 63.3% 63.3%   
     Section XVIII 93,580.94 368.23   60,354.69 31,562.32 64.9% 64.9%   
     Section XIX 229.03     84.65 144.38 37.0% 37.0%   
     Section XX 30,940.41 4,250.92 22.48 15,751.83 10,531.32 64.6% 64.7%   
     Section XXI 30,142.51     30,061.52   99.7% 99.7%   
   5,933,456.43 1,014,955.41 196,648.59 3,268,655.52 1,292,620.15     
    1,211,604.00       
             
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code Name of the 
Country or 
Territory Products Total Imports Imports under GSP Imports at MFN = 
0 Imports at 
MFN > 0 Total imports at 
zero rate   
    (per section)   GSP rate = 0 GSP rate > 0       Total imports at 
zero or 
preferential rate 
  
            
LY Libyan Arab 
Jamahiriya    Section I 620.29     46.57 0.72 7.5% 7.5%   
     Section II 34.98     3.80 28.55 10.9% 10.9%   
     Section III 2,449.39     2,449.39   100.0% 100.0%   
     Section IV 1,564.66       1,392.37 0.0% 0.0%   
     Section V 24,739,129.80 608,939.88   23,799,156.60 321,861.55 98.7% 98.7%   
     Section VI 314,859.32   113,212.05 195,122.66 1,035.53 62.0% 97.9%   
     Section VII 33,049.19 28.70 31,977.78 105.06 834.81 0.4% 97.2%   
     Section VIII 4,185.48     4,181.21 4.27 99.9% 99.9%   
     Section IX 2.80     2.80   100.0% 100.0%   
     Section X 158.95     158.95   100.0% 100.0%   
     Section XIa 341.72     340.38 1.34 99.6% 99.6%   
     Section XIb 52.39     0.17 52.22 0.3% 0.3%   
     Section XII 0.97       0.97 0.0% 0.0%   
     Section XIII 11.06       11.06 0.0% 0.0%   
     Section XIV 4,670.19     4,670.19   100.0% 100.0%   
     Section XV 230,994.44     214,495.02 15,367.25 92.9% 92.9%   
     Section XVI 8,307.31     6,380.48 1,911.82 76.8% 76.8%   
     Section XVII 938.90     285.62 602.51 30.4% 30.4%   
     Section XVIII 2,899.45     1,418.44 1,449.26 48.9% 48.9%   
     Section XX 2,072.82     16.87 2,030.60 0.8% 0.8%   
     Section XXI 13.75     13.75   100.0% 100.0%   
   25,346,357.86 608,968.58 145,189.83 24,228,847.96 346,584.83     
    754,158.41       
             
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code Name of the 
Country or 
Territory Products Total Imports Imports under GSP Imports at MFN = 
0 Imports at 
MFN > 0 Total imports at 
zero rate   
    (per section)   GSP rate = 0 GSP rate > 0       Total imports at 
zero or 
preferential rate 
  
            
PE Peru    Section I 139,327.89 116,316.52 11,409.49 7,215.92 1,104.72 88.7% 96.9%   
     Section II 546,036.99 174,268.96 21,771.29 299,620.42 36,016.50 86.8% 90.8%   
     Section III 76,609.39 200.36   76,388.98 11.44 100.0% 100.0%   
     Section IV 483,313.47 207,214.81 843.22 260,694.67 9,437.55 96.8% 97.0%   
     Section V 1,613,375.52     1,613,366.42 7.98 100.0% 100.0%   
     Section VI 77,383.30 59,940.77 2.37 8,780.17 1,829.28 88.8% 88.8%   
     Section VII 2,736.01 1,938.83   91.97 618.83 74.2% 74.2%   
     Section VIII 4,359.60 989.87   3,173.60 187.21 95.5% 95.5%   
     Section IX 7,303.13 24.01   7,256.47 22.28 99.7% 99.7%   
     Section X 699.94     699.94   100.0% 100.0%   
     Section XIa 43,433.87 23,650.04   2,486.03 13,984.63 60.2% 60.2%   
     Section XIb 92,715.60 81,747.80   1,061.74 7,113.35 89.3% 89.3%   
     Section XII 1,387.48 1,315.48   1.04 59.01 94.9% 94.9%   
     Section XIII 6,297.24 3,121.09   130.92 171.99 51.6% 51.6%   
     Section XIV 25,700.68 1,434.02   23,660.44 538.43 97.6% 97.6%   
     Section XV 1,041,296.22 53,555.10   867,478.95 106,539.76 88.5% 88.5%   
     Section XVI 13,369.12 188.68   8,737.80 4,354.48 66.8% 66.8%   
     Section XVII 260.52 41.89   102.79 83.23 55.5% 55.5%   
     Section XVIII 2,448.30 219.23   1,808.68 359.98 82.8% 82.8%   
     Section XX 4,308.61 1,936.04   2,241.14 105.63 96.9% 96.9%   
     Section XXI 232.38     231.22   99.5% 99.5%   
   4,182,595.26 728,103.50 34,026.37 3,185,229.31 182,546.28     
    762,129.87       
 
 
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  ANNEX VI 
 
Top preferential imports of the EU's GSP – by product section (top 10)
 
 
 
 
 
Top preferential imports of the EU's GSP – by chapter (top 20)  
 
   Imports under 
GSP  (€ 1,000) 
    
1. Chapter 61 Articles of appare l and clothing accessories, knitted 
or crocheted 6.266.274,47  
2. Chapter 27 Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their 
distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes 4.374.099,82 
3. Chapter 64 Footwear, gaiters and the like; parts of such articles 3.583.348,93  
4. Chapter 62  Articles of appa rel and clothing accessories, not 
knitted or crocheted 3.513.366,22  
5. Chapter 03 Fish and crust aceans, molluscs and other aquatic 
invertebrates 3.470.864,99  
6. Chapter 84 Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical 
appliances; parts thereof 3.457.802,65 
7. Chapter 39 Plastics and articles thereof 2.689.825,11 
8. Chapter 85 Electrical mach inery and equipment and parts 
thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television 
image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles 2.338.444,06 
9. Chapter 87 Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling-stock, 
and parts and accessories thereof 2.047.068,03 
10. Chapter 40 Rubber and articles thereof 1.763.758,03 
11. Chapter 63 Other made-up textile articles; sets; worn clothing 
and worn textile articles; rags 1.762.025,29 
12. Chapter 72 Iron and steel 1.419.639,22 
13. Chapter 08 Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruits or melons 1.292.041,95 
14. Chapter 42 Articles of leather; saddlery and harness; travel 
goods, handbags and similar containers; articles of 
animal gut (other than silkworm gut) 1.187.601,80 
15. Chapter 20 Preparations of vegetables, fruit, nuts or other parts 
of plants 1.173.150,23 
16. Chapter 29 Organic chemicals 1.145.963,19    Imports under 
GSP (€ 1,000) 
    
1. Section 11  Textiles  13.122.683,47 
2. Section 16  Machinery and mech anical appliances  5.796.246,71 
3. Section 5  Mineral products  5.080.354,51 
4. Section 7  Plastics and rubber  4.453.583,14 
5. Section 15  Base metals  3.764.350,54 
6. Section 12  Footwear, headgear, umbrellas and feathers  3.642.364,10 
7. Section 1  Live animals and animal products  3.532.553,00 
8. Section 4  Prepared foodstuffs products  3.297.022,14 
9. Section 6 Products of the chemical industries 2.806.384,93 
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   Imports under 
GSP  
(€ 1,000) 
17. Chapter 15 Animal or vegetabl e fats and oils and their cleavage 
products;  prepared edible fats;  animal or vegetable waxes 1.078.852,55 
18. Chapter 73 Articles of iron or steel 1.058.674,26 
19. Chapter 16 Preparations of m eat, of fish or of crustaceans, 
molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates 955.535,93 
20. Chapter 41 Raw hides and skins (other than furskins) and leather 813.117,38 
  
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Product Sections in respect of which tariff preferences have  been removed or re-establis hed (Art 13 of the Regulation)  
 
2007 data - in thousands of € 
Covered imports into EU (value) C overed imports into EU (% share) 
Product 
Section 
  
  Description of the 
Product Section 
  
  Alphabetical 
code 
  
  Name of the 
Country or 
Territory 
concerned 
(ranked by 
descending 
order of 
covered 
imports) 
  2004 
  2005 
  2006 
  Average 
2004-2006 
  2004 
  2005 
  2006 
  Average 
2004-
2006 
  Graduation 
Threshold 
for the 
Product 
Section 
  Removal /  
re-
establishment 
of preferences 
  
              
Section III Animal or vegetable 
fats and oils and their 
cleavage products; 
prepared edible fats; 
animal or vegetable 
waxes ID Indonesia 759,310 729,683 763,493 750,829 31.8% 27.0% 23.6% 27.5% 15% Removal 
    MY Malaysia 610,393 603,447 641,894 618,578 25.6% 22.3% 19.8% 22.6% 15% Removal 
                            
    Total covered 
imports    2,384,348 2,706,040 3,241,889 2,777,426 
            
              
Section IV Prepared foodstuffs; 
beverages, spirits and 
vinegar; tobacco and 
manufactured 
tobacco substitutes BR Brazil 1,068,291 1,179,631 1,133,692 1,127,205 21.0% 20.3% 15.4% 18.9% 15% Removal 
                            
    Total covered 
imports    5,087,100 5,810,990 7,361,636 6,086,576 
            
              
Section V Mineral Products DZ Algeria 1,070,223 1,167,347 1,333,438 1,190,336 15.4% 10.8% 11.1% 12.4% 15% Re-
establishment 
                            
    Total covered 
imports    6,949,500 10,808,769 12,012,955 9,923,741 
            
               
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Product 
Section 
  
  Description of the 
Product Section 
  
  Alphabetical 
code 
  
  Name of the 
Country or 
Territory 
concerned 
(ranked by 
descending 
order of 
covered 
imports) 
  2004 
  2005 
  2006 
  Average 
2004-2006 
  2004 
  2005 
  2006 
  Average 
2004-
2006 
  Graduation 
Threshold 
for the 
Product 
Section 
  Removal /  
re-
establishment 
of preferences 
  
Section VI Products of the 
chemical or allied 
industries CN China 2,532,612 3,345,805 4,115,547 3,331,321 26.8% 28.5% 30.9% 28.7% 15% Removal 
    
RU Russia 1,443,984 1,837,003 1,578,687 1,619,891 15.3% 15.7% 11.9% 14.3% 15% Re-
establishment 
                            
    Total covered 
imports    9,437,804 11,700,656 13,266,277 11,468,246 
            
              
Section VII Plastics and articles 
thereof; rubber and 
articles thereof CN China 3,490,568 4,381,823 4,998,478 4,290,290 47.1% 46.9% 45.3% 46.4% 15% Removal 
                            
    Total covered 
imports    7,410,972 9,342,906 11,034,168 9,262,682 
            
              
Section VIII Raw hides and skins, 
leather, furskins and 
articles thereof; 
saddlery and harness; 
travel goods, 
handbags and similar 
containers; articles of 
animal gut (other 
than silkworm gut) CN China 3,943,968 4,571,861 5,112,914 4,542,914 65.0% 67.7% 67.6% 66.8% 15% Removal 
                            
    Total covered 
imports    6,067,643 6,753,118 7,563,482 6,794,748 
            
               
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Product 
Section 
  
  Description of the 
Product Section 
  
  Alphabetical 
code 
  
  Name of the 
Country or 
Territory 
concerned 
(ranked by 
descending 
order of 
covered 
imports) 
  2004 
  2005 
  2006 
  Average 
2004-2006 
  2004 
  2005 
  2006 
  Average 
2004-
2006 
  Graduation 
Threshold 
for the 
Product 
Section 
  Removal /  
re-
establishment 
of preferences 
  
Section IX Wood and articles of 
wood; wood 
charcoal; cork and 
articles of cork; 
manufactures of 
straw, of esparto or 
of other plaiting 
materials; basketware 
and wickerwork CN China 454,129 608,738 744,878 602,582 22.4% 27.7% 31.0% 27.0% 15% Removal 
    BR Brazil 390,559 339,312 338,248 356,040 19.3% 15.4% 14.1% 16.3% 15% Removal 
    
ID Indonesia 246,754 272,874 184,706 234,778 12.2% 12.4% 7.7% 10.8% 15% Re-
establishment 
                            
    Total covered 
imports    2,023,622 2,203,325 2,398,922 2,208,623 
            
              
Section XI a Textiles CN China 1,700,092 2,184,156 2,546,024 2,143,424 28.9% 35.3% 36.9% 33.7% 12.5% Removal 
    IN India 1,225,105 1,263,732 1,411,293 1,300,043 20.8% 20.4% 20.6% 20.6% 12.5% Removal 
                            
    Total covered 
imports    5,882,671 6,187,411 6,899,794 6,323,292 
            
              
Section Xib Clothings CN China 12,617,678 18,574,973 20,792,231 17,328,294 36.0% 46.1% 45.6% 42.6% 12.5% Removal 
                            
    Total covered 
imports    35,049,106 40,292,783 45,596,998 40,312,962 
            
               
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Product 
Section 
  
  Description of the 
Product Section 
  
  Alphabetical 
code 
  
  Name of the 
Country or 
Territory 
concerned 
(ranked by 
descending 
order of 
covered 
imports) 
  2004 
  2005 
  2006 
  Average 
2004-2006 
  2004 
  2005 
  2006 
  Average 
2004-
2006 
  Graduation 
Threshold 
for the 
Product 
Section 
  Removal /  
re-
establishment 
of preferences 
  
Section XII Footwear; headgear; 
umbrellas, sun 
umbrellas, walking 
sticks, seat-sticks, 
whips, riding-crops 
and part thereof; 
prepared feathers and 
articles made 
therewith; artificial 
flowers; articles of 
human air CN China 3,957,011 6,047,463 6,750,759 5,585,078 42.7% 54.5% 55.0% 50.7% 15% Removal 
    VT Vietnam 2,178,945 2,119,691 2,111,055 2,136,564 23.5% 19.1% 17.2% 19.9% 15% Removal 
                            
    Total covered 
imports    9,272,106 11,097,859 12,273,576 10,881,180 
            
              
Section XIII Articles of stone, 
plaster, cement, 
asbestos, mica or 
similar materials; 
ceramic products; 
glass and glassware CN China 1,502,377 2,328,612 2,756,017 2,195,669 52.5% 63.6% 66.5% 60.9% 15% Removal 
                            
    Total covered 
imports    2,861,670 3,661,340 4,144,386 3,555,799 
            
               
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Product 
Section 
  
  Description of the 
Product Section 
  
  Alphabetical 
code 
  
  Name of the 
Country or 
Territory 
concerned 
(ranked by 
descending 
order of 
covered 
imports) 
  2004 
  2005 
  2006 
  Average 
2004-2006 
  2004 
  2005 
  2006 
  Average 
2004-
2006 
  Graduation 
Threshold 
for the 
Product 
Section 
  Removal /  
re-
establishment 
of preferences 
  
Section XIV Natural or cultured 
pearls, precious or 
semi-precious stones, 
precious metals, 
metals clad with 
precious metal and 
articles thereof; 
imitation jewellery; 
coin CN China 880,281 998,339 1,096,704 991,775 38.1% 35.7% 34.5% 36.1% 15% Removal 
    TH Thailand 568,143 629,385 702,600 633,376 24.6% 22.5% 22.1% 23.1% 15% Removal 
    
IN India 307,488 360,170 394,250 353,969 13.3% 12.9% 12.4% 12.9% 15% Re-
establishment 
                            
    Total covered 
imports    2,309,524 2,797,267 3,179,186 2,761,992 
            
              
Section XV Base metals and 
articles of base metal CN China 5,376,876 6,790,728 8,447,153 6,871,586 53.5% 53.7% 56.9% 54.7% 15% Removal 
    
RU Russia 935,056 1,400,386 1,309,542 1,214,995 9.3% 11.1% 8.8% 9.7% 15% Re-
establishment 
                            
    Total covered 
imports    10,050,236 12,645,676 14,845,612 12,513,841 
            
              
Section XVI Machinery and 
mechanical 
appliances; electrical 
equipment; parts 
thereof; sound 
recorders and 
reproducers, 
television image and 
sound recorders and 
reproducers, and 
parts and accessories 
of such articles CN China 20,887,766 25,446,133 31,226,371 25,853,423 59.6% 63.1% 64.6% 62.4% 15% Removal 
                             
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Product 
Section 
  
  Description of the 
Product Section 
  
  Alphabetical 
code 
  
  Name of the 
Country or 
Territory 
concerned 
(ranked by 
descending 
order of 
covered 
imports) 
  2004 
  2005 
  2006 
  Average 
2004-2006 
  2004 
  2005 
  2006 
  Average 
2004-
2006 
  Graduation 
Threshold 
for the 
Product 
Section 
  Removal /  
re-
establishment 
of preferences 
  
    Total covered 
imports    35,046,587 40,326,677 48,338,036 41,237,100 
            
              
Section XVII Vehicles, aircraft, 
vessels and 
associated transport 
equipment CN China 1,437,466 2,103,882 2,578,315 2,039,888 23.4% 27.0% 23.7% 24.7% 15% Removal 
    TH Thailand 824,096 1,064,522 1,138,887 1,009,168 13.4% 13.6% 10.5% 12.5% 15% Re-
establishment 
    
ZA South Africa 674,317 687,455 793,566 718,446 11.0% 8.8% 7.3% 9.0% 15% Re-
establishment 
                            
    Total covered 
imports    6,143,017 7,792,156 10,878,966 8,271,380 
            
              
Section XVIII Optical,photographic, 
cinematographic, 
measuring, checking, 
precision, medical or 
surgical, instruments 
and apparatus; clocks 
and watches; musical 
instruments; parts 
and accessories 
thereof CN China 3,448,636 3,907,951 4,609,288 3,988,625 69.2% 70.2% 71.2% 70.2% 15% Removal 
                            
    Total covered 
imports    4,983,578 5,566,882 6,473,719 5,674,726 
            
              
              
Section XX Miscellaneous 
manufactured articles CN China 8,626,214 9,877,054 10,523,969 9,675,746 80.6% 82.9% 83.1% 82.2% 15% Removal 
                            
    Total covered 
imports    10,702,499 11,914,420 12,664,223 11,760,380 
            
 
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