ARMENIA COUNTRY COMMERCIAL GUIDE

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MARCH 1999
CHAPTER 6: TRADE REGULATIONS AND STANDARDS
6.1 TRADE BARRIERS, INCLUDING TARIFFS AND IMPORT TAXES
Customs Tariffs
All exports from Armenia are duty free. Armenia uses the Harmonized Code System for tariffclassification. Tariffs are in ad valorem terms and levied on C.I.F. values.  The import tariffschedule has rates of either 0 or 10 percent.  The ten percent tariff is levied on items consistingmainly of consumer goods and luxury  items.   
Customs Tariffs as of GOAM Customs Tariffs Law of May 12, 1997

CODE		SHORT DESCRIPTION					 AND       TARIFFS%

01. 		Live animals 	 			 				            0	 

02.		Meat and meat products							10

03.		Fish and crustaceans, mollusks and other aquatic invertebrates			10 

0301.		Fish, live									0

04.		Dairy products; bird's eggs; honey 	 					10

05.		Products of animal origin, not specified or included elsewhere 			10 

06.		Live trees, bulbs, other plants, their parts, cut flowers, and decorativegreens	10

07.		Edible vegetable, and certain roots and tubers					10

08.		Edible fruits and nuts; peel of citrus fruits andmelons				10

09.		Coffee, tea, mate, and spices		 					10

10.		Cereals										0 

11.		Products of the milling industry; malt; starches; insulin; wheat gluten		0 

12. 		Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruits;

		industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder					0 

1206 00.	Sunflower seeds, whether or not broken					10

13.		Gums, resins and other vegetable saps and extracts				0

1302.		Vegetable saps and extracts; pectic substances, pectinates and pectates; 

                         agar, and other mucilage and thickeners, whether or not modified,

                        derived from vegetable products					            10	

14.		Vegetable plaiting materials; vegetable products not elsewhere specified

                        or included									0

15. 		Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared 

                        edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes 				 		10

16. 		Preparations of meat, fish, crustaceans, mollusks and other aquatic 

                        invertebrates	 								0 

17.		Sugar and sugar confectionery							10 

18. 		Cocoa and cocoa products						           10

19. 		Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; pastrycooks' products	           0	 

1902.		Pasta, whether or not cooked or stuffed (with meat or other substances) or

                        otherwise prepared, such as spaghetti, macaroni, noodles, lasagna, gnocchi,

                         avioli, cannelloni: couscous, whether or not prepared				10			

1904.		Prepared foods obtained by swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products

                       (for example, corn flakes);cereals other than maize (corn), in grain form, 

                        pre-cooked or otherwise prepared.						10

1903.		Sweet biscuits: waffles and wafers						10

20.		Preparations of vegetables, fruit, nuts or other parts ofplants			10

21.		Miscellaneous edible preparations						10

2102.		Yeast (active or inactive); other single-sell microorganisms, dead (but not

                        including vaccines of heading No 3002);prepared bakingpowders		0

22.		Beverages, spirits and vinegar							10

2208.30 	.Whiskies								             0

23 .		Residues and waste from the food industries, prepared animalfodder		0

2309.10.	Dog and cat food for retail sale							10 

24.		Tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes					10

2401.		Tobacco, unmanufactured; tobacco refuse				 	0

25.		Salts, sulfur; earth and stone; plastering materials, lime, andcement		0

2501 00 910.	Salt suitable for humanconsumption						10

26.		Ores, slag and ash								0

27. 	            Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous

                        substances; mineral waxes							0

                        Inorganic chemicals, organic or inorganic compounds of 

                        precious or rare-earth metals; radioactive elements or isotopes			0

29.		Organic chemicals			 					0

30.		Pharmaceutical products							0 

31.		Fertilizers									0

32.		Tanning and dyeing extracts, tannins and their derivatives; dyes, pigments

                         and other coloring matter; paints and varnishes, putty and other mastics,inks	0                                   33.		Essential oil and resnoids, perfumery, cosmeticsand other beauty care products	0

34.		Soap, organic surface-active agents, washing preparations, lubricating 

                        preparations, artificial waxes, prepared waxes, polishing or scoringpreparations, 

                        candles and similar articles, modeling pastes, dental waxes, and dental 

                        preparations based on plaster							0

35.		Albuminoidal substances; modified starches; glues;enzymes			0

36. 		Explosives; pyrotechnic products; matches; pyrophoric alloys, certain 

                         combustible preparations							0	

37.		Photo and cinematographic goods				 	            0

38.		Miscellaneous chemical products 					            0

39.		Plastics and articles thereof 		 					0

40.		Rubber and articles thereof							0

4011 10 000.	New pneumatic tires, of rubber of a kind used on passenger motorcars		10

4015 10 100.	Inner tubes, of rubber of a kind used on passenger motorcars			10

4015 19 100.	Gloves, except surgical								10

4015 19 900.	Other rubber gloves								10

4015 90 000.	Other rubber clothes								10 

4016 91 000.	Rubber rags, floor coverings andtablecloth					10

4016 92 000.	Rubber erasers									10 

41.		Raw hides and skins (other than furskins) and leather				0

42. 		Articles of leather; saddlery and harness; travel goods, handbags andsimilar

		containers; articles of animal gut (other than silkworm gut)			10

43.		Furskins and artificial fur , manufactures thereof 				0

4303.		Articles of apparel, clothing accessories and other articles of furskin		10

44.		Wood and articles of wood, wood charcoal					0

45.		Cork and articles of cork							10.

46. 		Manufactures of straw, of esparto or of other plaiting materials; basketwareand 

                         wicker-work									10 

47.		Cellulose, paper and paperboard waste or scrap 				0	

48.		Paper and paperboard, articles of paper pulp, of paper or paperboard 	           0

49. 		Printer books, newspapers, pictures and other products of the printing 

                         industry						 			0 

50.		Silk and silk products			 					10	

51.		Wool, fine or coarse animal hair; horsehair yarn and woven fabric	 	0

52. 		Cotton 							                                    0

53.		Other vegetable textile fibers; paper yarn and woven fabrics of paperyarn	0

54.		Man-made filaments 					 	                        0

5407.		Woven fabric of synthetic filament yarn 					         10

5408.		Woven fabrics of artificial filament yarn					         10

55. 		Man-made stapel fibers							0

5503.		Synthetic stapel fibers, not carded, combed or otherwise processed forspinning	10

56.		Wadding, special yarns; twine, cordage, ropes and cables and articles thereof	0

57.		Carpets and other textile floor coverings			 		10

58.		Special woven fabrics, tufted textile fabrics; tapestries; lace; trimmings;

                         embroidery		 				 		           10	

59. 		Impregnated, coated, covered or laminated textile fabrics, textile articles of a

                         kind suitable for industrialuse							0	

5904.		Linoleum, whether or not cut to shape; floor coverings consisting of acoating or 

                        covering applied on a textile backing, whether or not cut toshape		10

60.		Knitted or crocheted fabric							0

6001.		Pile fabrics including "long pile" fabrics and terry fabrics, knitted orcrocheted	10 		

6002.		Other knitted or crocheted fabrics						10

61.		Apparel articles and accessories, knitted or crocheted				10

62.		Apparel articles and accessories, not knitted or crocheted	 		10

62.		Other made-up textile articles; sets; worn clothing and worn textile articles;rags	10 

64.		Footwear									10

6406.		Parts of foot wear		 						0

65.		Headgear and parts thereof							10

66. 			Umbrellas, canes, whips, and parts thereof				10

67.		Downy products, artificial flowers	 					10 

68.		Products made from stone, plaster, gypsum, cement, asbestos, mica,etc.	10

6812 90.	Other fibers from processed asbestos 						0

6813 10.	Brake linings and pads								0

6813 90.	Other linings and pads from processed asbestos				0

69.		Ceramics products								0

70.		Glass and glassware		 					            0

7004.		Drawn and blown glass, in sheets, whether or not having an absorbent or

                        reflecting layer, but not otherwise worked 					10

7005.		Float glass and surface ground or polished glass, in sheets, whether or not	

                        having an absorbent or reflecting layer, but not otherwiseworked		10

7009.		Glass mirrors, whether or not framed, including rear-viewmirrors		10	

7013.		Glassware for table, kitchen, toilet, office, indoor decoration or similarpurposes	10

7016.		Paving blocks, slabs, bricks, squares, tiles and other articles of pressed or

		molded glass, whether or not wired, of a kind used for building or construction

                        purposes; glass cubes and other glass smallwares, whether or not on abacking, 

                        or mosaics or similar decorative purposes' leaded lights and the like;multicellular 

                       or foam glass in blocks, panels, plates, shells or similarforms			10

7018.		Glass beads, imitation pearls, imitation precious or semiprecious stones and

                        similar glass smallwares, and articles thereof other than imitation jewelry;glass 

                         eyes other than prosthetic articles; statuettes and other ornaments of 

                         lamp-worked glass, other that imitation jewelry; glass microspheres not 

                         exceeding 1 mm in diameter							10

71.		Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious or metals,

                        metal clad with precious metal, and articles thereof; imitation jewelry; coin	0 

7101.		Pearls, natural or cultured, whether or not worked or graded but not strung,

                         mounted or set; ungraded pearls, natural or cultured, temporarily strung for

                         convenience of transport 							10

7113.		Articles of jewelry and parts thereof, of precious metal or of metal clad with

                         precious metal									10

7114.		Articles of goldsmith' or silversmith' wares and parts thereof, of preciousmetals 

                         or of metal clad with precious metal						10

7115.		Other articles of precious metal or of metal clad with preciousmetal		10

7117.		Imitation jewelry								10

7118.		Coin										10

72.		Iron and steel									0

73.		Articles of iron and steel							0

7323.		Table, kitchen or other household articles and parts thereof, of iron or steel;

                         iron or steel wool; pot scourers and scouring or polishing pads, gloves and

                         the like, of iron andsteel							10		

74.		Copper and articles thereof							0

75.		Aluminum and articles thereof							0

7615.		Table, kitchen or other household articles and parts thereof, of aluminum, pot

                        scourers and scouring pads or polishing pads, gloves and the like, of

                         aluminum; sanitary ware and parts thereof, ofaluminum				10

7616.		Other articles of aluminum							10

78.		Lead and articles thereof							0

79.		Zinc and articles thereof							0

80.		Tin and articles thereof								0

81.		Other base metals; cermets; articles thereof					0

82.		Tools, implements, cutlery, spoons and forks, of base metal; parts thereof of

                        base metal									0

8215.		Spoons, forks, ladles, skimmers, cake-servers, fish-knives, butter-knives,

                        sugar tongs and similar kitchen or tableware					10

83.		Miscellaneous articles of base metal						0

8303.		Armored or reinforced safes, strong-boxes and doors and safe depositlockers

                        for strong-rooms, cash or deed boxes and the like, of basemetal		10

84.		Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; partsthereof	0

8418 21.	Refrigerators, household type, compression type				10 

8418 22.	Refrigerators, household type, absorptiontype					10

8418 50.	Other refrigerating or freezing chests, display counters, showcases and similar

                        refrigerating or freezing furniture						10

8418 91.	Furniture designed to receive refrigerating or freezing equipment		           10

8418 99.	Other parts for refrigerating or freezing equipment				10

8472.		Other office machines (for example, hectograph or stencil duplicatingmachines,

                        addressing machines, automatic banknote dispensers, coin-sortingmachines,

                         coin-counting or wrapping machines, pencil-sharpening ,machines,perforating or 

                         stapling machines) 								10

85.		Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and

                        reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts

                        and accessories of such articles							0

8505.		Electric accumulators, including separators thereof, whether or notrectangular 

                       (including square)								10

9507 10 100.	Lead-acid, of kind used for starting piston engines, for use in civilaircraft	0

9507 20 100.	Other lead-acid accumulators for use in civilaircraft				0

8507 30 100.	Nickel-cadmium for use in civilaircraft						0

8507 40 100.	Nickel-iron for use in civil aircraft						0

8507 80 100.	Other accumulators								0

9507 90 100.	Parts, for use in civil aircraft							0

8509.		Electro-mechanical domestic appliances, with self-contained electricmotor	10

8517 10 100.	Electrical apparatus for line telephony or line telegraphy, including such

                         apparatus for carrier-current line system					10 

8519.		Turntables (record desks), record-players, cassette-players and othersound

                         reproducing apparatus, not incorporating a sound recordingdevice		10

8520.		Magnetic tape recorders and other sound recording apparatus, whether or not

                        incorporating a sound reproducing device					10

8520 90 100.	Magnetic tape recorders and other sound recording apparatus, whether ornot 	

                         incorporating a sound reproducing device for use in civilaircraft		0

8521.		Video recording or reproducing apparatus, whether or not incorporating avideo

                        tuner										10

8521 10 100.	Video recording and reproducing apparatus, for use in civilaircraft		0

8523.		Prepared unrecorded media for sound recording or similar recording of other

                        phenomena									10

8524.		Records, tapes and other recorded media for sound or other similarlyrecorded

                        phenomena including matrices and masters for the production ofrecords	10

8527.		Reception apparatus for radio-telephone, radio-telegraphy or 

                         radio-broadcasting, whether or not combined, in the same housing, withsound

                         recording or reproducing apparatus or aclock					10

8527 90 100.	Reception apparatus for radio-telephone, radio-telegraphy or 

                        radio-broadcasting, whether or not combined, in the same housing, withsound

                        recording or reproducing apparatus or a clock, for use in civilaircraft		0

8528.		Television receivers (including video monitors and video projectors),whether

                        or not incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or videorecording

                        or reproducing apparatus							10

8529.		Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading 

8527 and 8528 			 	

8529 10 100.	Aerials and aerial reflectors of all kind, parts suitable for use therewith, foruse 

                        in civil aircraft									0

8529 90 100.	Other parts for use in civil aircraft 						0

8540.		Thermionic, cold cathode or photocathode valves and tubes (forexample

                        vacuum or vapor or gas filled valves and tubes, mercury arc rectifying valves

                         and tubes, cathode-ray tubes, television cameratubes)				10

86.		Railway or tramway locomotives, rolling-stock and parts thereof; railway or

                         tramway track fixtures and fittings and parts thereof; mechanical(including

                         electro-mechanical) traffic signaling equipment of allkinds			0

87.		Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling-stock, and parts and accessories

                        thereof										10

8701.		Tractors 		 							0

8703 90 100. 	With electric motors								0

8704.		Motor vehicles for the transport of goods					0

8713.		Invalid carriages, whether or not motorized or otherwise mechanicallypropelled	0

8714 20.	Parts and accessories for cycles and invalidcarriages				0

88.		Aircraft, spacecraft, and parts thereof						0

89.		Ships, boats and floating structures						0

90.		Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision,

                        medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessoriesthereof	0

9006.		Photographic (other than cinematographic) cameras; photographicflashlight

                         apparatus and flashbulbs other than discharge lamps of heading8539		10

9009.		Photocopying apparatus incorporating an optical system or of the contacttype

                        and thermo-copying apparatus							10

91.		Clocks and watches and parts thereof						10

9104 00 100.	instrument panel clocks and clocks of a similar type for vehicles,aircraft,

                        spacecraft or vessels								0

9108-9112.	Various parts for clocks and watches						0

9114.		Other clock and watch parts

92.		Musical instruments, parts and accessories of such articles			0

93.		Arms and ammunition; parts and accessories thereof				0

94.		Furniture; bedding, mattresses, mattress supports, cushions and similarstuffed

                        furnishing; lamps and lighting fittings, not elsewhere specified or included;

                        illuminated signs, illuminated name-plates and the like; prefabricatedbuildings	10

9401 10 100.	Seat of kind used for aircraft							0

9402.		Medical, surgical, dental or veterinary furniture (for example, operatingtables,

                        examination tables, hospital beds with mechanical fitting, dentist's chairs);

                        barbers' chairs and similar chairs, having rotating as well as both reclining and

                       elevating movements; parts of the foregoing articles				0

9403 20 100.	Other metal furniture, for use in civilaircraft					0

9405 10 100.	Chandeliers and other electric ceiling or wall lighting fittings, excludingthose of 

                        a  kind used for lighting public open spaces orthoroughfares			0

9405 60 100.	Illuminated signs, illuminated name-plates and thelike				0

9405 92 100.	Lamps parts of plastic								0

9405 99 100.	Parts for lamps and lighting fittings						0

9406.		Prefabricated buildings								0

95.		Toys, games and sports equipment; [arts and accessoriesthereof		0

9504.		Articles for arcade, table or parlor games, including pintables, billiards,

                          special tables for casino games and automatic bowling alleyequipment		10

9506.		Articles and equipment for general physical exercise, gymnastics,athletics,

                         other sports (including table-tennis) or outdoor games, not specified orincluded

                         elsewhere; swimming pools and paddlingpools					10

9508 00 000.	Roundabouts, swings, shooting galleries and other fairgroundamusements; 

                        traveling circuses, traveling menageries and travelingtheaters			10

96.		Miscellaneous manufactured articles						10

97.		Works of art, collectors' pieces and antiques					10
No duties are levied on: