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Protocol 15

on the definition of Portuguese basic duties for certain products

1 . For the products mentioned below , the basic duties on which the Portuguese Republic shall effect the successive reductions provided for in Article 190 shall be those indicated opposite each of them :

CCT heading No * Description * Basic duty ( % ) *

1 * 2 * 3 *

ex 34.02 * Organic surface-active agents , surface-active preparations , and washing preparations , whether or not containing soap : * *

* - Sodium dodecan-1-yl sulphate * 20 *

* - Triethanolamine dodecan-1-yl sulphate * 20 *

* - Sulphonic acid , sodium alkylbenzenesulphonate and ammonium alkybenzenesulphonate * 20 *

* - Mixtures and preparations of sodium sulphate , dodecan-1-yl and triethanolamine sulphate * 20 *

38.19 * Chemical products and preparations of the chemical or allied industries ( including those consisting of mixtures of natural products ) , not elsewhere specified or included ; residual products of the chemical or allied industries , not elsewhere specified or included : * *

* Q . Foundry core binders based on synthetic resins * 20 *

* ex X . Other : * *

* - Refractory coatings of a kind used in foundries to improve the surface of cast-iron pieces * 20 *

* - Anti-sealing and similar preparations for boilers and for treatment of industrial refrigeration water * 20 *

39.01 * Condensation , polycondensation and polyaddition products , whether or not modified or polymerized , and whether or not linear ( for example , phenoplasts , aminoplasts , alkyds , polyallyl esters and other unsaturated polyesters , silicones ) : * *

* C . Other : * *

* II . Aminoplasts : * *

* ex a ) In one of the forms mentioned in Note 3 ( a ) and ( b ) to this Chapter : * *

* - Urea , resins , modified with furfuryl alcohol , in etherified solutions , used in foundries * 20 *

* III . Alkyds and other polyesters : * *

* ex b ) Other : * *

* - Saturated poly(ethylene terephthalate ) , other than black polymers , in one of the forms mentioned in Note 3 ( a ) and ( b ) to this Chapter , prepared for moulding or extrusion * 20 *

* - Powdered , containing additives and pigments , used for thermosetting coatings or paints * 20 *

* ex VII . Other : * *

* - Epoxy ( ethoxyline ) resins , powdered , containing additives and pigments , used for thermosetting coatings or paints * 20 *

CCT heading No * Description * Basic duty ( % ) *

39.02 * Polymerization and copolymerization products ( for example , polyethylene , polytetrahaloethylenes , polyisobutylene , polystyrene , polyvinyl chloride , polyvinyl acetate , polyvinyl chloroacetate and other polyvinyl derivatives , polyacrylic and polymethacrylic derivatives , coumaroneindene resins ) : * *

* C . Other : * *

* VII . Polyvinyl chloride : * *

* ex a ) In one of the forms mentioned in Note 3 ( a ) and ( b ) to this Chapter : * *

* - In microsuspension * 20 *

* ex X . Copolymers of vinyl chloride with vinyl acetate * *

* - Preparations for the moulding of gramophone records * 20 *

40.06 * Unvulcanized natural or synthetic rubber , including rubber latex , in other forms or states ( for example , rods , tubes and profile shapes , solutions and dispersions ) ; articles of unvulcanized natural or synthetic rubber ( for example , coated or impregnated textile thread , rings and discs ) : * *

* ex B . Other : * *

* - Patches for repairing tubes or tyres * 20 *

40.07 * Vulcanized rubber thread and cord , whether or not textile covered , and textile thread covered or impregnated with vulcanized rubber : * *

* ex A . Vulcanized rubber thread and cord , whether or not textile covered : * *

* - Thread , uncovered , of round cross-section * 20 *

48.07 * Paper and paperboard , impregnated , coated , surface-coloured , surface-decorated or printed ( not constituting printed matter within Chapter 49 ) , in rolls or sheets : * *

* ex D . Other : * *

* - Flocked paper and paperboard * 10 *

56.01 * Man-made fibres ( discontinuous ) , not carded , combed or otherwise prepared for spinning : * *

* ex A . Synthetic textile fibres : * *

* - Of polyesters , with a length of less than 65 mm and tenacity of more than 53 cN/tex * 16 *

59.03 * Bonded fibre fabrics , similar bonded yarn fabrics , and articles of such fabrics , whether or not impregnated or coated : * *

* ex B . Other : * *

* - Bonded fibre fabrics and similar bonded yarn fabrics , in the piece or simply cut to rectangular shape , flocked * 10 *

* - Bonded fibre fabrics and similar bonded yarn fabrics , in the piece or simply cut to rectangular shape , weighing not less than 17 g per m2 and not more than 80 g per m2 * 20 *

ex 59.08 * Textile fabrics impregnated , coated , covered or laminated with preparations of cellulose derivatives or of other artificial plastic materials : * *

* - Unimpregnated , flocked with polyvinyl chloride * 10 *

* - Unimpregnated , other than textile-faced flocked with preparations of cellulose derivatives or of other artificial plastic materials with the exception of polyurethane * 10 *

CCT heading No * Description * Basic duty ( % ) *

ex 59.12 * Textile fabrics otherwise impregnated or coated ; painted canvas being theatrical scenery , studio back-cloths or the like : * *

* - Flocked * 10 *

ex 70.06 * Cast , rolled , drawn or blown glass ( including flashed or wired glass ) , in rectangles , surface ground or polished , but not further worked : * *

* - Float glass , not being wired glass , other than ground but not further worked , more than 2 mm and not more than 10 mm in thickness * 16 *

70.08 * Safety glass consisting of toughened or laminated glass , shaped or not : * *

* ex B . Other : * *

* - Laminated glass for vehicles or boats * 20 *

ex 70.13 * Glassware ( other than articles falling within heading No 70.19 ) of a kind commonly used for table , kitchen , toilet or office purposes , for indoor decoration , or for similar uses : * *

* - Of soda glass gathered mechanically , other than cut or otherwise decorated drinking glasses , sterilizing bottles and articles of toughened glass * 10 *

73.13 * Sheets and plates , of iron or steel , hot-rolled or cold-rolled : * *

* ex B . Other sheets and plates : * *

* IV . Clad , coated or otherwise surface-treated : * *

* ex d ) Other ( for example , copper-plated , artificially oxidized , lacquered , nickel-plated , varnished , clad , parkerized , printed ) : * *

* - Coated with polyvinyl chloride * 20 *

73.38 * Articles of a kind commonly used for domestic purposes , sanitary ware for indoor use , and parts of such articles and ware , of iron or steel ; iron or steel wool ; pot scourers and scouring or polishing pads , gloves and the like , or iron or steel : * *

* B . Other : * *

* ex II . Other : * *

* - Bathtubs , of sheets or plates of iron or steel not more than 3 mm in thickness , enamelled * 20 *

74.03 * Wrought bars , rods , angles , shapes and sections , of copper ; copper wire : * *

* ex B . Other : * *

* - Bars and rods of round cross-section , of unalloyed copper , coiled * 20 *

* - Wire of round cross-section , of unalloyed copper * 20 *

ex 83.01 * Locks and padlocks ( key , combination or electrically operated ) , and parts thereof , of base metal ; frames incorporating locks , for handbags , trunks or the like and parts of such frames , of base metal keys for any of the foregoing articles , of base metal ; keys for any of the foregoing articles , of base metal : * *

* - Lock cases , cylinders and springs , carriers and cams , obtained by sintering * 20 *

CCT heading No * Description * Basic duty ( % ) *

84.10 * Pumps ( including motor pumps and turbo pumps ) for liquids , whether or not fitted with measuring devices ; liquid elevators of bucket , chain , screw , band and similar kinds : * *

* B . Other pumps : * *

* II . Other : * *

* ex a ) Pumps : * *

* - Centrifugal pumps , submersible , other than metering pumps * 20 *

84.12 * Air conditioning machines , self-contained , comprising a motor-driven fan and elements for changing the temperature and humidity of air : * *

* ex B . Other : * *

* - Other than parts * 20 *

84.15 * Refrigerators and refrigerating equipment ( electrical and other ) : * *

* C . Other : * *

* ex I . Refrigerators of a capacity of more than 340 litres : * *

* - Weighing more than 200 kg each , excluding parts * 15 *

* ex II . Other : * *

* - Refrigerators and deep-freeze storage units of the chest or cabinet type , weighing not more than 200 kg each , excluding parts * 15 *

ex 84.20 * Weighing machinery ( excluding balances of a sensitivity of 5 cg or better ) including weight-operated counting and checking machines ; weighing machine weights of all kinds : * *

* - Electronic hopper scales or scales for discharging a pre-determined weight of material into a bag or container and other electronic instruments weighing out a constant amount , programmable , excluding parts * 20 *

* - Electronic machines for weighing and labelling prepacked products , excluding parts * 20 *

* - Electronic weighbridges with capacities over 5 000 kg , excluding parts * 20 *

* - Electronic shop scales with digital display , excluding parts * 20 *

* - Electronic weighing machines and platforms , with digital display , other than personal weighing scales , excluding parts * 20 *

84.41 * Sewing machines ; furniture specially designed for sewing machines ; sewing machine needles : * *

* A . Sewing machines ; furniture specially designed for sewing machines : * *

* ex III . Parts ; furniture specially designed for sewing machines : * *

* - Sewing machine parts , obtained by sintering * 20 *

ex 84.42 * Machinery ( other than sewing machines ) for preparing , tanning or working hides , skins or leather ( including boot and shoe machinery ) : * *

* - Press-cutters for hides , skins , furskins , or leather excluding parts * 20 *

CCT heading No * Description * Basic duty ( % ) *

84.53 * Automatic data-processing machines and units thereof : magnetic or optical readers , machines for transcribing data onto data media in coded form and machines for processing such data , not elsewhere specified or included : * *

* ex B . Other : * *

* - Integrated operational digital units comprising , as a set , at least one central unit and one input and outpout unit , for use in industrial systems for production and distribution and use of electrical energy * 20 *

* - Modulator/demodulator ( Modem ) units for data transmission * 20 *

84.59 * Machines and mechanical appliances , having individual functions , not falling within any other heading of this Chapter : * *

* E . Other : * *

* ex II . Other machines and mechanical appliances : * *

* - Injection moulding machines , extrusion moulding machines , grinders and blow moulding machines , for the rubber and artificial plastics industry * 20 *

84.62 * Ball , roller or needle roller bearings : * *

* - Rings for bearings , obtained by sintering intended for cycles * 20 *

84.63 * Transmission shafts , cranks , bearing housings , plain shaft bearings , gears and gearing ( including friction gears and gear-boxes and other variable speed gears ) , flywheels , pulleys and pulley blocks , clutches and shaft couplings : * *

* B . Other : * *

* ex II . Other : * *

* - Plain shaft bearings , obtained by sintering : * *

* - Weighing not more than 500 g each * 20 *

* - For gears , self-lubricating , of bronze or iron * 20 *

85.01 * Electrical goods of the following descriptions : generators , motors , converters ( rotary or static ) , transformers , rectifiers and rectifying apparatus , inductors : * *

* B . Other machines and apparatus : * *

* I . Generators , motors , ( whether or not equipped with speed reducing , changing or step-up gear ) and rotary converters : * *

* ex b ) Other : * *

* - Generating sets with internal combustion engines , of an output of not more than 750 kVA , including sets whose performance is not expressed in kW or kVA , weighing more than 100 kg each * 20 *

* - AC generators , weighing more than 100 kg each and of an output of not more than 750 kVA * 20 *

* - DC motors and generators , weighing more than 100 kg each , excluding motors and other generators whose performance is not expressed in kW or kVA * 20 *

* - Rotary converters , weighing more than 100 kg each * 20 *

CCT heading No * Description * Basic duty ( % ) *

85.01 ( cont'd ) * ex II . Transformers , static converters , rectifiers and rectifying apparatus ; inductors : * *

* - Static converters , weighing more than 100 kg each , and rectifiers and rectifying apparatus , other than specially designed for welding * 20 *

* - Three-phase transformers , without liquid dielectric , of an output of not less than 50 kVA and not more than 2 500 kVA * 20 *

85.04 * Electric accumulators : * *

* B . Other : * *

* ex II . Other accumulators : * *

* - Nickel-cadmium accumulators not hermetically closed * 20 *

85.12 * Electric instantaneous or storage water heaters and immersion heaters ; electric soil heating apparatus and electric space heating apparatus ; electric hair dressing appliances ( for example , hair dryers , hair curlers , curling tong heaters ) and electric smoothing irons ; electro-thermic domestic appliances ; electric heating resistors , other than those of carbon : * *

* ex C . Electric hair dressing appliances ( for example , hair dryers , hair curlers , curling tong heaters ) : * *

* - Hair driers , excluding drying hoods * 20 *

85.13 * Electrical line telephonic and telegraphic apparatus ( including such apparatus for carrier-current line systems ) : * *

* ex B . Other : * *

* - Automatic electronic telephone sets excluding parts thereof * 20 *

85.15 * Radiotelegraphic and radiotelephonic transmission and reception apparatus ; radio-broadcasting and television transmission and reception apparatus ; ( including receivers incorporating sound recorders or reproducers ) and television cameras ; radio navigational aid apparatus , radar apparatus and radio remote control apparatus : * *

* A . Radiotelegraphic and radiotelephonic transmission and reception apparatus ; radio-broadcasting and television transmission and reception apparatus ( including receivers incorporating sound recorders or reproducers ) and television cameras : * *

* I . Transmitters : * *

* ex b ) Other : * *

* - Using the HF and MF bands * 20 *

* II . Transmitter-receivers : * *

* ex b ) Other : * *

* - Using the VHF band * 20 *

* - Portable mounts for VHF transmitterreceivers * 20 *

* III . Receivers , whether or not incorporating sound recorders or reproducers : * *

* b ) Other : * *

* ex 2 . Other : * *

* - Radiotelegraphic and radiotelephonic receivers using the VLF , LF , MF and HF bands * 20 *

CCT heading No * Description * Basic duty ( % ) *

ex 85.16 * Electric traffic control equipment for railways , roads or inland waterways and equipment used for similar purposes in port installations or upon airfields : * *

* - Excluding equipment for railways and parts * 20 *

85.17 * Electric sound or visual signalling apparatus ( such as bells , sirens , indicator panels , burglar and fire alarms ) , other than those of heading No 85.09 or 85.16 : * *

* ex B . Other : * *

* - Excluding burglar , fire and similar alarms and parts * 20 *

85.19 * Electrical apparatus for making and breaking electrical circuits , for the protection of electrical circuits , or for making connections to or in electrical circuits ( for example , switches , relays , fuses , lightning arresters , surge suppressors , plugs , lampholders and junction boxes ) ; resistors , fixes or variable ( including potentiometers ) , other than heating resistors ; printed circuits ; switchboards ( other than telephone switchboards ) and control panels : * *

* ex A . Electrical apparatus for making and breaking electrical circuits , for the protection of electrical circuits or for making connections to or in electrical circuits : * *

* - For industrial applications , other than apparatus for making connections in electrical circuits : * *

* - Rated at 1 000 V or more : * *

* - Make-and-break and isolating switches , including switches for breaking circuits under load rated at not less than 1 kV but less than 60 kV * 20 *

* - Fuses rated at not less than 6 kV and up to and including 36 kV , of the HJ type * 20 *

* - Rated at less than 1 000 V : * *

* - NH-type fuses * 20 *

* - Switches from 63 A up to 1 000 A , threeor four-pole , double breaking * 20 *

* ex D . Switchboard and control panels : * *

* - Fitted with apparatus and instruments : * *

* - For industrial applications other than for telecommunications and instrument applications : * *

* - Not less than 1 000 V , including removable cells with switches or circuit breakers for metal clad transformers * 20 *

* - 1 000 V or less * 20 *

85.23 * Insulated ( including enamelled or anodized ) electric wire , cable , bars , strip and the like ( including co-axial cable ) , whether or not fitted with connectors : * *

* ex B . Other : * *

* - Wires and cables for power distribution rated at 60 kV or less , not ready for connectors to be fitted or already provided with connectors , insulated with polyethylene , excluding winding wire * 20 *

* - copper winding wire , lacquered , varnished or enamelled , of a diameter of 0,40 mm or more but not more than 1,20 mm ( class F , grade I and II ) * 20 *

CCT heading No * Description * Basic duty ( % ) *

87.02 * Motor vehicles for the transport of persons , goods or materials ( including sports motor vehicles , other than those of heading No 87.09 ) : * *

* A . For the transport of persons , including vehicles designed for the transport of both passengers and goods : * *

* I . With either a spark ignition or a compression ignition engine : * *

* ex b ) Other : * *

* - With four-wheel drive , a ground clearance of more than 205 mm , an unladen weight of more than 1 350 kg and less than 1 900 kg , a total laden weight of 1 950 kg or more and less than 3 600 kg , a spark ignition engine of a cylinder capacity of more than 1 560 cm3 and less than 2 900 cm3 or a compressed ignition engine of a cylinder capacity of more than 1 980 cm3 and less than 2 500 cm3 * 20 *

* B . For the transport of goods or materials : * *

* II . Other : * *

* a ) With either a spark ignition or a compression ignition engine : * *

* 1 . Motor lorries with either a spark ignition engine of a cylinder capacity of 2 800 cm3 or more or a compression ignition engine of a cylinder capacity of 2 500 cm3 or more : * *

* ex bb ) Other : * *

* - With four-wheel drive , a ground clearance of more than 205 mm , an unladen weight of more than 1 350 kg and less than 1 900 kg , a total laden weight of 1 950 kg or more and less than 3 600 kg , a spark ignition engine of a cylinder capacity of less than 2 900 cm3 * 20 *

* 2 . Other : * *

* ex bb ) Other : * *

* - With four-wheel drive , ground clearance of more than 205 mm , an unladen weight of more than 1 350 kg and less than 1 900 kg , a total laden weight of 1 950 kg or more and less than 3 600 kg , a spark ignition engine of a cylinder capacity of more than 1 560 cm3 and less than 2 900 cm3 or a compression ignition engine of a cylinder capacity or more than 1 980 cm3 and less than 2 500 cm3 * 20 *

87.06 * Parts and accessories of the motor vehicles falling within heading No 87.01 , 87.02 or 87.03 : * *

* B . Other : * *

* ex II . Other : * *

* - Pistons and rod guides for shock absorbers , obtained by sintering * 20 *

* - Parts and accessories , obtained by sintering other than parts and accessories for bodies , complete gearboxes , complete rear-axles with differentials , wheels , parts of wheels and wheel accessories , non-driving axles and disc-brake pad assemblies * 20 *

* - Wheel-balancing weights * 20 *

CCT heading No * Description * Basic duty ( % ) *

87.12 * Parts and accessories of articles falling within heading No 87.09 , 87.10 or 87.11 : * *

* ex B . Other : * *

* - Toothed wheels , obtained by sintering * 20 *

ex 90.17 * Medical , dental , surgical and veterinary instruments and appliances ( including electro-medical apparatus and ophthalmic instruments ) : * *

* - Syringes of plastic materials * 20 *

90.28 * Electrical measuring , checking , analysing or automatically controlling instruments and apparatus : * *

* A . Electronic instruments and apparatus : * *

* II . Other : * *

* ex b ) Other : * *

* - Regulators * 20 *

* - Checking and automatically controlling instruments used in industrial systems for the generation , distribution and use of electric power * 20 *

* B . Other : * *

* ex II . Other : * *

* - Regulators * 20 *

2 . In respect of matches falling within heading No 36.06 and tinder falling within subheading ex 36.08 B of the Common Customs Tariff , coming from the Community , the basic duty shall be zero .