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C0M(94) 318 final 
Brussels, 13.07.1994 
94/0171 (ACC) 
Proposal for a 
COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) 
applying to South Africa some of the advantages granted by 
the Community to developing countries 
under the scheme of generalized tariff preferences 
(presented by the Commission) 
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Explanatory memorandum 
On 19 April, in the context of the joint action adopted in December 
last year, the Council approved the basis for future relations between 
the European Union and a new, democratic and multiracial South Africa. 
On that occasion the Union stressed that its decisions should be seen 
as sending a strong political signal to South Africa's incoming 
government and to its people: the EU is South Africa's principal donor, 
notably via the special programme. 
The relations with South Africa mapped out by the CounciI.encompass the 
short and medium terms. In the short term a package of initial 
measures is planned comprising autonomous measures and an offer to come 
to a swift conclusion of a simple formula agreement. In the medium 
term the EU has offered to negotiate in the overall context of our 
long-term relations with South Africa if its government so requests. 
As part of short-term package of measures covering aspects of trade, 
development and political dialogue the Community has said it is 
prepared to examine rapidly a suitable formula enabling South Africa to 
benefit from the generalized system of preferences. 
This proposal takes account of South Africa's special characteristics, 
the interests of the other countries in the region and those of the 
Member States, and the principles governing the revised GSP due to take 
effect on 1 January 1995. 
The Commission recently set out the basic principles for the review of 
the Community scheme of generalized tariff preferences1, but as the 
operational scheme based on those principles is still being drawn up it 
considers that a scheme should be proposed for South Africa that can be 
approved and put into effect as soon as possible. It is therefore 
proposing for the remainder of the current preferential scheme, and 
without prejudice to the future scheme, that the benefit of 
preferential access defined under this scheme be accorded in respect of 
the industrial products listed in the Regulation below. In this way, 
the Commission is seeking to give effective support for the growth of 
South African exports and provide a stimulus for increased productive 
investment in that country. 
This proposal fits in with the framework established by the Union and 
meets the request reiterated by the South African authorities during 
the Commission's fact-finding mission on 29 and 30 June-, it also sends 
an important political signal at this juncture to the new government 
and dovetails with the efforts to foster regional ties in southern 
Africa, a matter to be discussed at the conference in Berlin on 5 and 6 
September. 
The Council is asked to adopt the attached proposal at its meeting of 
18 and 19 July. 
Such is the purpose of this proposal for a Council Regulation. 
1 Document C0M(94) 212 final of 1.6.1994. 
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Proposal for a 
Counc iI ReguI at i on No -.. 
applying to South Africa some of the advantages granted by 
the Community to developing countries 
under the scheme of generalized tariff preferences 
THE COUNCIL Of THE EUROPEAN UNION, 
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic 
Community, and in particular Article 113 thereof, 
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, 
Whereas South Africa's state of development and the deterioration of its 
economy warrant the granting of the benefit of generalized preferences 
to enable it to step up its exports in order to give a spur to its 
economic development, foster its industrialization and increase its 
growth rate; 
Whereas, bearing in mind the progress made in reviewing the Community 
scheme, the benefit of the generalized preferences arrangements should 
now be extended to a number of industrial products originating in South 
Africa, 
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: 
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Article 1 
The benefit of the arrangements provided for in Article 1 of Council 
Regulation (EEC) No 3831/90 shall be granted in respect of the products 
originating In South Africa listed in the Annex to this Regulation. 
Article 2 
The line "388 South Africa" shall be added to Part A of Annex III to 
Council Regulation (EEC) No 3831/90. 
Article 3 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its 
publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities. 
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable 
in all Member States. 
Done at Brussels, 
For the CounciI 
The President 
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Annexe 
List of products 
originating in South Africa 
for which the benefit of preferences is granted 
CN Code Description of goods 
2519 90 10 Magnesium oxide, other than calcined natural 
magnesium carbonate 
2522 00 00 Quicklime, slaked lime and hydraulic lime, other 
than calcium oxide and hydroxide of heading No 2825 
2523 Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag cement, 
supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, 
whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers 
ex 2704 00 Coke and semi coke of coal, of lignite or of peat, 
whether or not agglomerated; retort carbon, 
excluding products falling within subheadings 
2704 00 19 et 2704 00 30 
2707 10 10 Benzole, for use as a power or heating fuel 
2707 20 10 Toluole, for use as a power or heating fuel 
2707 30 10 Xylole, for use as a power or heating fuel 
'2707 50 10 Other aromatic hydrocarbon mixtures of which 65 % 
or more by volume,( including losses) distils at 
250 *C by the ASTM D 86 method, for use as a 
power or heating fuel 
2707 60 00 Phenols 
2707 91 00 Creosot oils 
2707 99 11 Crude light oils of which 90 % or more by 
2707 99 19 volume distils at temperatures of up to 200 "C 
2707 99 50 Basic products 
2707 99 99 Other 
Light oils: 
2710 00 11 - For undergoing a specific process 
2710 00 15 -For .undergoing chemical transformation by a 
process other than those specified in respect of 
subheading 2710 00 11 
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Medium oils: 
2710-00 41 - For undergoing a specific process 
2710 00 45 - For undergoing chemical transformation by a 
process other than.those specified in respect of 
subheading 2710 00 41 
Gas olIs : 
2710 00 61 - For undergoing a specific process 
2710 00 65 -For undergoing chemical transformation by a 
process, other than those specified in respect of 
subheading 2710 00 61 
FueI o iI s ; 
2710 00 71 - For undergoing à a specific process 
2710 00 72 - For undergoing chemical transformation by a 
process other than those specified in respect of 
subheading 2710 00 71 
ex 2711 Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons, 
excluding products falling within subheading 
2711 12 19 
2712 Petroleum jelly; paraffin wax, microcrystaiIine 
petroleum wax, slack wax, ozokerite, lignite wax, 
peat wax, other mineral waxes, and similar products 
obtained by synthesis or by other processes, 
whether or not coloured 
2713 90 90 - Other 
2715 00 00 Bituminous mixtures based on natural asphalt, on 
natural bitumen, on petroleum bitumen, on mineral 
tar or on mineral tar pitch (for example, 
bituminous mastics, cut-backs) 
2809 Diphosphorus pentaoxide; phosphoric acid and 
poIyphosphor i c ac i ds 
2820 Manganese ox i des 
2833 Sulphates; alums; peroxosulphates (persulphates) 
ex 2844 30 11 Cermets other than raw, waste and scraps 
ex 2844 30 51 
2901 10 10 
2926 20 00 
2926 90 
2934 
ex 2936 
ex 2937 
ex 2939 
ex 2941 
ex CHAPTER 30 
3203 00 90 
CHAPTER 33 
ex CHAPTER 34 - 3 -
Cermets other than raw, waste and scraps 
Saturated acyclic hydrocarbons, for use as power or 
heating fuel 
- 1-Cyanoguanidine (dicyandiamide) 
- Other 
Other heterocyclic compounds 
Provitamins and vitamins, natural or reproduced by 
synthesis (including natural concentrates), 
derivatives thereof used primarily as vitamins, and 
intermixtures of the foregoing, whether or not in 
any solvent, excluding products falling within 
subheadings 2936 22 00, 2936 27 00, 2936 28 00 et 
2936 29 90 
Hormones, natural or reproduced by synthesis; 
derivatives thereof, used primarily as hormones; 
other steroids used primarily as hormones, 
excluding products falling within subheadings 
2937 21 00 and 37 29 10 
Vegetable alkaloids, natural or reproduced by 
synthesis, and their salts, ethers, esters and 
other derivatives, excluding products falling 
within subheading 2939 90 11 
Antibiotics, excluding products falling within 
subheadings 2941 30 00 et 2941 40 00 
PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS, excluding products 
falling within subheadings 3001 20 10, 3001 90 10, 
3001 90 91, 3002 10 95 et 3002 90 10 
Colouring matter of animal origin and preparations 
based thereon 
ESSENTIAL OILS AND RESINOIDS; PERFUMERY, COSMETIC 
OR TOILET PREPARATIONS 
SOAP, ORGANIC SURFACE-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, excluding 
products fa 11ing within subheadings 3402 et 3403 
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3706 10 99 
3706 90 51 
3706 90 91 
3706 90 99 
3806 
3808 
3812 
3815 
3822 00 00 
3823 Cinematographic film, exposed and 
whether or not incorporating sound 
consisting only of sound track: 
- Of a width of 35 mm or more : 
— Other: 
Other positives 
Newsreels 
Other, of a width of: 
Of less than 10 mm developed, 
track or 
Of 10 mm or more 
Rosin and resin acids, and derivatives therof; 
rosin spirit and rosin oils; run gums; 
Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, 
anti-sprouting products and plant-growth 
regulators, disinfectants and similar products, put 
up in forms or packings for retail sale or as 
preparations or articles (for example, sulphur-
treated bands, wicks and candles, and fly-papers) 
Prepared rubber accelerators; compound plasticisers 
for rubber or plastics, not elsewhere specified or 
included; anti-oxidising preparations and other 
compound stabilisers for rubber or plastics 
Reaction initiators, reaction accelerators and 
catalytic preparations, not elsewhere specified or 
included 
Composite diagnstic or laboratory reagents, other 
than those of heading No 3002 or 3006 
Prepared binders for foundry moulds or cores; 
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 
4206 Articles of gut (other than silkworm gut), 
goldbeater's skin, of bladders or of tendons of 
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4302 30 Whole skins, 
assembled and pieces or cuttings thereof, 
4303 Articles of apparel, clothing accessories and other 
art ides of furskin 
4404 
4405 00 00 
4406 
ex 4407 Hoopwoocf; split poles; piles, pickets and stakes of 
wood, pointed but not sawn lengthwise; wooden 
sticks, roughly trimmed but not turned, bent or 
otherwise worked, suitable for the manufacture of 
walking-sticks, umbrellas, tool handles or the 
like; chipwood and the like 
Wood wool; wood flour 
Railway or tramway sleepers (cross-ties) of wood 
Wood sawn or chipped lengthwise, si iced or peeled, 
whether or not planed, sanded or finger-jointed, of 
a thickness exceeding 6 mm, excluding products 
falling within subheadings 4407 10 71, 4407 10 91, 
4407 10 93, 4407 10 99, 4407 21 60, 
4407 21 80, 4407 22 60, 4407 22 80, 
4407 91 90, 4407 92 90, 4407 99 91, 
4407 99 99, 4407 21 70, 
4407 23 90, 
4407 99 93, 
ex 4408 Veneer sheets and sheets for plywood (whether or 
not spliced)and other wood sawn lengthwise, sliced 
or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or finger-
jointed, of a thickness not exceeding 6 mm, 
excluding products falling within subheadings 
4408 10 91 and 4408 90 91 
4409 
4414 00 Wood (including strips and 
fIoori ng not asssembIed) 
(tongued, grooved, rebated, 
beaded, moulded, rounded or 
its edges or faces, whether 
or finger-jointed 
Wooden frames for paintings, 
or similar objects friezes for parquet 
cont i nuousI y shaped 
chamfered, V-jointed, 
thelike) along any of 
or not planed, sanded 
photographs, mirrors 
4416 00 00 Casks, barrels, vats, tubs and other coopers' 
products and parts thereof, of wood, including 
staves 
4417 00 Tools, tool bodies, tool handles, broom or brush 
bodies and handles, of wood; boot or shoe lasts and 
trees, of wood 
4418 50 00 Shingles and shakes 
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ex 4419 Tableware and kitchenware, of wood, excluding 
products falling within subheading 4419 00 10 
ex 4420 Wood marquetry and inlaid wood; caskets and cases 
for jewellery or cutlery, and similar articles, of 
wood; statuettes and other ornaments, of wood; 
wooden articles of furniture not falling in Chapter 
94, excluding products falling within subheadings 
4420 90 11 and 4420 90 19 
Other articles of wood: 
4421 10 00 - Clothes hangers 
- Other: 
— Other: 
4421 90 91 Of fibreboard 
4502 00 00 Natural cork, debacked or roughly squared, or in 
rectangular (including square) blocks, plates, 
sheets or strip (including sharp-edged blanks for 
corks or stoppers) 
4503 Articles of natural cork 
ex 4504 Agglomerated cork (with or without a binding 
substance) and articles of agglomerated cork, 
excluding products falling within subheading 
4504 90 10 
ex CHAPTER 48 
4903 00 00 
4905 10 00 
4907 00 10 
4907 00 99 
4908 
4909 00 PAPER AND PAPERB0ARD; ARTICLES OF PAPER PULP, OF 
PAPER OR OF PAPERBOARD, excluding products falling 
within subheading 4823 90 10) 
Children's picture, drawing or colouring books 
Globes 
Postage, revenue and similar stamps 
- Other: 
— Other 
Transfers (decalcomanias) 
Printed or illustrated postcards; printed cards 
bearing personal greetings, messages or 
announcements, whether or not illustated, with or 
without envelopes or trimmings 
4910 00 00 Calendars of any kind, printed, including calendar 
blocks 
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ex 4911 Other printed matter, including . printed pictures 
and photographs, excluding products falling within 
subheading 4911 91 10 
ex CHAPTER 65 Headgear and parts thereof, excluding products 
falling within subheadings 6502 00 00 and 
6504 00 00 
CHAPTER 67 PREPARED FEATHERS AND DOWN AND ARTICLES MADE OF 
FEATHERS OR OF DOWN; ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS; ARTICLES OF 
HUMAN HAIR 
CHAPTER 68 ARTICLES OF STONE, PLASTER, CEMENT, ASBESTOS» MICA 
OR SIMILAR MATERIALS 
7202 99 19 Ferro-phosphorus containing by weight 15 % or more 
of phosphorus 
7205 Granules and powders, of pig iron, spiegeleisen, 
iron or steel 
Semi-finished products of iron or of non-alloy 
steel: 
- Containing by weight, less than 0,25 % of 
carbon: 
—Of rectangular (including square) cross-
section, the width measuring less than twice 
the thickness 
7207 11 90 Forged 
—Other, of rectangular (other than square) 
cross-section: 
7207 12 90 -—• Forged 
— Other: 
Of circular or polygonal cross-section: 
7207 19 T9 Forged 
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7207 19 90 Other 
7207 20 19 
7207 20 59 
ex 7207 20 90*90 
7208 90 90 
7209 90 90 
7210 11 90 
7210 12 90 
7210 20 90 
7210 31 90 - Containing by weight 0,25 % or more of carbon: 
—Of rectangular (including square) cross-
section, the width of which measuring less than 
twice the thickness: 
Forged 
— Of circular or polygonal cross-section: 
•— Forged 
— Other 
Flat-rolled products of iron or non-alloy steel, of 
a width of 600 mm or more , hot-rolled, not clad, 
plated or coated: 
- Other: 
— Other 
Flat-rolled products of iron or non-alloy steel, of 
a width of 600 mm or more, cold-rolled (cold-
reduced), not clad, plated or coated: 
- Other: 
— Other 
Flat-rolled products of iron or non-alloy steel, of 
a width of 600 mm or more, clad, plated or coated: 
- Plated or coated with tin: 
— Of a thickness of 0,5 mm or more : 
Other 
— Of a thickness of less than 0,5 mm: 
Other 
- Plated or coated with lead, including terne-plate: 
— Other 
- Electrolytically plated or coated with zinc: 
— Of steel of a thickness of less than 3 mm and 
having a minimum yield point of 275 MPa or of a 
thickness of 3 mm or more and having a minimum 
yield point of 355 MPa: 
Other 
y 
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— Other: 
7210 39 90 Other 
- Otherwise plated or coated with zinc: 
— corrugated: 
7210 41 90 Other 
— Other: 
7210 49 90 Other 
- Plated or coated with chromium oxides or with 
chromium and chromium oxides: 
7210 50 90 — Other 
— Plated or coated with aluminium: 
7210 60 90 — Other 
- Painted, varnished or coated with plastics: 
7210 70 90 — Other 
- Other: 
7210 90 10 — Sivered, gilded, platinum-plated or enamelled: 
— Other: 
7210 90 90 Other 
7211 30 31 
7211 30 39 
7211 30 50 Flat-rolled products of iron or non-alloy steel, of 
a width of less than 600 mm, not clad, plated or 
coated: 
- Not further worked than cold-rolled (cold-
- reduced), of a thickness of less than 3 mm and 
having a minimum yield point of 275 MPa or of a 
thickness of 3 mm or more and having a minimum 
yield point of 355 MPa: 
— Of a width not exceeding 500 mm: 
-— containing by weight less than 0,25 X of 
carbon: 
—~ "Electrical" 
Other 
containing by weight 0,25 X or more but less 
than 0,6 X of carbon 
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- Other, not further worked than cold-rolled (cold-
reduced: 
— containing by weight less than 0,25 % of 
carbon: 
Of a width not exceeding 500 mm: 
Other: 
7211 41 95 "Electrical" 
7211 41 99 Other 
— Other: 
—— Of a width not exceeding 500 mm: 
7211 49 91 Containing by weight 0,25 X or more, but 
less than 0,6 X of carbon 
- Other: 
— Of a width exceeding 500 mm: 
7211 90 19 Other 
7211 90 90 — Of a width not exceeding 500 mm: . 
Flat-rolled products of iron or non-alloy steel, of 
a width of less than 600 mm, clad, plated or 
coated: 
- Plated or coated with tin: 
— Other: 
Of a width exceeding 500 mm : 
7212 10 93 Other 
7212 10 99 Of a width not exceeding 500 mm 
- Electrolytical.ly plated or coated with zinc: 
— Of steel of a thickness of less than 3 mm and 
having a minimum yield point of 275 MPa or of 
a thickness of 3 mm or more and having a 
minimum yield point of 355 MPa: 
Of a width exceeding 500 mm: 
7212 21 19 Other 
— Other: 
7212 21 90 Of a width not exceeding 500 mm 
- Other: 
Of a width exceeding 500 mm: 
7212 29 19 Other 
7212 29 90 Of a width not exceeding 500 mm 
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- Otherwise plated or coated with zinc: 
— Of a width exceeding 500 mm: 
7212 30 19 Other 
7212 30 90 — Of a width not exceeding 500 mm 
- Painted, varnished or coated with plastics: 
— Other: 
Of a width exceeding 500 mm: 
7212 40 93 —- Other 
Of a width not exceeding 500 mm: 
7212 40 95 Plated or coated with chromium oxides or 
with chromium and chromium oxides, 
varnished 
7212 40 98 Other 
- Otherwise plated or coated: 
— Of a width exceeding 500 mm: 
7212 50 10 Silvered, gilded, platinum-plated, or 
enamelied 
Lead-coated: 
7212 50 39 Other 
Other: 
7212 50 59 Other 
— Of a width not exceeding 500 mm: 
7212 50 71 Tinned and printed 
7212 50 73 Plated or coated with chromium oxides or 
with chromium and chromium oxides 
72T2 50 75 —- Plated or coated with copper 
7212 50 85 —- Lead-coated 
7212 50 91 Plated or coated with chromium or nickel 
Plated or coated with aluminium: 
7212 50 93 —— Plated or coated with aluminium-zinc 
alloys 
7212 50 97 Other 
7212 50 98 Other 
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7212 60 19 - Clad: 
— Of a width exceeding 500 mm 
Other 
— Of a width not exceeding 500 mm : 
Not further worked than surface-treated: 
7212 60 93 Other 
7212 60 99 Other 
Other bars and rods of iron or non-alloy steel, not 
further worked than forged, hot-rolled, hot-drawn or 
hot-extruded, but including those twisted after 
rolling: 
7214 10 00 - Forged 
Other bars and rods of iron or non-alloy steel: 
7215 20 - Other, not further worked than cold-formed or 
cold-finished, containing by weight less than 
0,25 X of carbon 
7215 30 00 - Other, not further worked than cold-formed or 
cold-finished, containing by weight 0,25 X or 
more but less than de 0,6 X of carbon 
- Other: 
7215 90 90 — Other 
Wire of iron or non-alloy steel: 
- containing by weight 0,6 X or more of carbon: 
7217 31 00 — Not plated or coated, whether or not polished 
7217 32 00 — Plated or coated with zinc 
7217 33 00 — Plated or coated with other base metals 
7217 39 00 — Other 
Flat-rolled products of stainless steel, of a width 
less than 600 mm: 
- Other.: 
— Of a width not exceeding 500 mm: 
Not further worked than surface-treated, 
including cladding: 
7220 90 39 Other 
8402 Steam or other vapour generating boilers (other 
than central heating hot water boilers capable also 
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of producing 
water boilers low pressure steam); super-heated 
8403 
8404 
8405 Central heating boilers other than those of 
heading No 8402 
Auxiliary plant for use with boilers of heading No 
8402 or 8403 (for example, economizers, super­
heaters, soot removers, gas recoverers); condensers 
for steam or other vapour power units 
Producer gas or water gas generators, with or 
without their purifiers; acetylene gas generators 
and similar water process gas generators, with or 
without their purifiers 
ex 8412 Other engines and motors, excluding products 
falling within subheadings 8412 10 10, 8412 21 10, 
8412 29 10, 8412 31 10, 8412 39 10, 8412 80 91 and 
8412 90 10 
ex 8413 
i 
ex 8414 51 
ex 8414 59 
8414 60 00 
ex 8414 90 Pumps for liquids, whether or not fitted with a 
measuring device; liquid elevators, excluding 
products falling within subheadings 8413 19 10, 
8413 20 10, 8413 30 10, 8413 50 10, 8413 60 10, 
8413 70 10, 8413 81 10 and 8413 91 10 
Table, floor, wall, window, ceiling or roof fans, 
with a self-contained electric motor of an output 
not exceeding 125 W, excluding products falling 
within subheading 8414 51 10 et 8414 59 10 
Hoods having a maximum horizontal side not 
exceeding 120 cm 
Parts, excluding products falIing within subheading 
8414 90 10 
ex 8415 Air conditioning machines, comprising a motor-
driven fan and elements for changing the 
temperature and humidity, including those machines 
in which the humidity cannot be separately 
regulated, excluding products falling within 
subheadings 8415 81 10, 8415 82 10, 8415 83 10 and 
8415 90 10 
8416 Furnace burners for liquid fuel, for pulverized 
solid fuel or for gas; mechanical stokers, 
including their mechanical grates, mechanical ash 
dischargers and similar appliances 
8417 Industrial or laboratory furnaces 
including incinerators, non electric and ovens, 
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ex 8419 
8420 Machinery, plant or laboratory equipment, whether 
or not electrically heated, for the treatment of 
materials by a process involving a change of 
temperature such as heating, cooking, roasting, 
distilling, rectifying, sterilizing, pasteurizing, 
steaming, drying, evaporating, vaporizing, 
condensing or cooling, other than machinery and 
plant of a kind used for domestic purposes; 
instantaneous or storage water heaters, non­
electric, excluding products falling within 
subheadings 8419 50 10, 8419 81 10 and 8419 90 10 
Calendering or other rolling machines, other than 
for metals or glass, and cylinders therefor 
8421 11 00 
8421 12 00 
ex 8421 21 
ex 8421 23 
ex 8421 29 
ex 8421 31 
ex 8421 39 Cream separators 
Clothes-dryers 
Filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for 
liquids, excluding products falling within 
subheadings 8421 21 10, 8421 23 10 and 8421 29 10 
Filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for 
gases, excluding products falling within suheadings 
8421 31 10 and 8421 39 10 
8421 91 00 
8421 99 00 Parts 
8422 Dish-washing machines; machinery for cleaning or 
drying bottles or other containers; machinery for 
filling, closing, sealing, capsuling or labelling 
bottles, cans, boxes, bags or other coontainers; 
other packing or wrapping machinery; machinery for 
aerating beverages 
8423 Weighing machinery (excluding balances of a 
sensitivity of 5 eg or better), including weight 
operated counting or checking machines-, weighing 
machines weights of all kinds 
ex 8424 Mechanical appliances (whether or not hand-
operated) for projecting, dispersing or spraying 
liquids or powders; fire extinguishers, whether or 
not charged; spray guns and similar appliances; 
steam or sand blasting machines and similar jet 
projecting machines, excluding products fallaing 
within subheading 8424 10 10 
ex 8425 Pulley tackle and hoists other than skip hoists; 
winches and capstans; jacks, excluding products 
falling within subheadings 8425 11 10, 8425 19 10, 
8425 31 10, 8425 39 10, 8425 42 10 and 8425 49 10 
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ex 8426 Ships' derricks; cranes, including cable cranes; 
mobile lifting frames, staddle carriers and work 
trucks fitted with a crane, excluding products 
falling within subheading 8426 99 10 
ex 8428 Other lifting, handling, loading or unloading 
machinery (for example, lifts, escalators, 
conveyors, teleferics), excluding products falling 
within subheadings 8428 10 10, 8428 20 10, 
8428 33 10, 8428 39 10 and 8428 90 10 
8429 Self-propelled bulldozers, angledozers, graders, 
levellers, scrapers, mechanical shovels, 
excavators, shovel loaders, tamping machines and 
road rol1ers 
8430 Other moving, grading, levelling, scraping, 
excavating, tamping, compacting, extracting or 
boring machinery, for earth, minerals or ores; pile 
drivers and pile-extractors; snow-ploughs and 
snowblowers 
8431 Parts suitable for use solely or principally with 
the machinery of heading Nos 8425 to 8430 
8432 Agricultural, horticultural or forestry machinery 
for soil preparation or cultivation; lawn or 
sports-ground rollers 
8433 Harvesting or threshing machinery, including straw 
or fodder balers; grass or hay mowers; machines for 
cleaning, sorting or grading eggs, fruit or other 
agricultural produce, other than machinery of 
heading No 8437 
8434 
8435 Milking machines and dairy machinery 
Presses, crushers and similar machinery used in the 
manufacture of wine, cider, fruit juices or similar 
beverages 
8436 Other agricultural, horticultural, forestry, 
poultry-keeping or bee-keeping machinery, including 
germination plant fitted with mechanical or thermal 
equipment; poultry incubators and brooders 
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8437 Machines for cleaning, sorting or grading seed, 
grain or dried leguminous vegetables; machinery 
used in the milling industry or for the working of 
cereals or dried leguminous vegetables, other than 
farm-type machinery 
8438 Machinery, not specified or included elsewhere in 
this chapter, for the industrial preparation or 
manufacture of food or drink, other than machinery 
for the extraction or preparation of animal or 
fixed vegetable fats or oils 
8439 Machinery for making pulp of fibrous cellulosic 
material or for making or finishing paper or 
paperboard 
8440 Book-b i nd i ng 
machines machinery, including book-sewing 
8441 Other machinery for making up paper pulp, paper or 
paperboard, including cutting machines of all kinds 
8442 Machinery, apparatus and equipment (other than the 
machines-tools of heading Nos 8456 to 8465), for 
type-founding, type-setting, for preparing or 
making printing blocks, plates, cylinders or other 
printing components; printing type, blocks, plates, 
cylinders and other printing components; blocks, 
plates, cylinders and lithographic stones, prepared 
for printing purposes (for example, planed, grained 
or polished) 
8444 00 Machines for extruding, drawing, 
cutting man-made textile materials texturing or 
8445 Machines for preparing textile fibres; spinning, 
doubling or twisting machines and other machinery 
for producing textile yarns; textile reeling or 
winding (including weft-winding) machines and 
machines for preparing textile yarns for use on the 
machines of heading No 8446 or 8447 
8446 
8447 Weaving machines (looms) 
Knitting machines, stitch-bonding machines and 
machines for making gimped yarn, tulle, lace, 
embroidery, trimmings, braid or net and machines 
for tufting 
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8448 Auxiliary machinery for use with machines of 
heading No 8444, 8445, 8446 or 8447 (for example, 
dobbies, Jacquards, automatic stop motions, shuttle 
changing mechanisms); parts and accessories 
suitable 'for use solely or principally with 
the machines of this heading or of heading No 8444, 
8445, 8446 or 8447 (for example, spindles and 
spindle flyers, card clothing, combs, extruding 
nipples, shuttles, healds and heaid-frames, hosiery 
needles) 
8449 Machinery for the manufacture or finishing of felt 
or nonwovens in the piece or in shapes, including 
machinery for making felt hats; blocks for making 
hats 
8453 Machinery for preparing, tanning or working hides, 
skins or leather or for making or repairing 
footwear or other articles of hides, skins or 
leather, other than sewing machines 
8454 Converters, 
machines, of 
foundr ies ladles, ingot moulds and casting 
a kind used in metallurgy or in metal 
8464 Machine-tools for working stone, ceramics, 
concrete, asbestos-cement or like mineral materials 
or for cold working glass 
8465 Machine-tools (including machines for nailing, 
stapling, glueing or otherwise assembling) for 
working wood, cork, bone, hard rubber, hard 
plastics or similar hard materials 
8466 Parts and accessories suitable for use solely or 
principally with the machines of heading Nos 8456 
to 8465, including work or tool holders, self-
opening dieheads, dividing heads and other special 
attachments for machine-tools; tool holders for any 
type of tool for working in the hand 
ex 8471 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, excluding products falling 
within subheadings 8471 10 10, 8471 20 10, 
8471 91 10, 8471 92 10 and 8471 93 10 
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ex 8473 Parts and accessories (other than covers, carrying 
cases and the like) suitable for use solely or 
principally with machines of heading Nos 8469 to 
8472, excluding products falling within subheading 
8473 10 
8474 Machinery for sorting, screening, separating, 
washing, crushing, grinding, mixing or kneading 
earth, stone, ores or other.mineral substances, in 
solid (including powder or paste) form; machinery 
for agglomerating, shaping or moulding solid 
mineral fuels, ceramic paste, unhardened cements, 
plastering materials or other mineral products in 
powder or paste form; machines for forming foundry 
moulds of sand 
8475 Machines for assembling electric or electronic 
lamps, tubes or valves or flashbulbs, in glass 
envelopes; machines for manufacturing or hot 
working glass or glassware 
8476 Automatic goods-vending machines (for example, 
postage-stamp, cigarette, food or beverage 
machines), including money-changing machines 
8477 Machinery for working rubber or plastics or for the 
manufacture of products from these materials, not 
specified or included elsewhere in this chapter 
8478 Machinery for preparing or making up tobacco, not 
specified or included elsewhere in this chapter 
ex 8479 Machines and mechanical appliances having 
individual functions, not specified or included 
elsewhere in this chapter, excluding products 
falling within subheadings 8479 89 10 and 
8479 90 10 
8480 
8481 Moulding boxes for metal foundry; mould bases; 
moulding patterns; moulds for metal (other than 
ingot moulds), metal carbides, glass, mineral 
materials, rubber or plastics 
Taps, cocks, valves and similar appliances for 
pipes, boiler shells, tanks, vats or the like, 
including pressure-reducing valves and 
thermostatically controlled valves 
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8484 Gaskets and similar joints of metal sheeting 
combined with other material or of two or more 
layers of metal; sets or assortments of gaskets and 
similar joints, dissimilar in composition, put up 
in pouches, envelopes or similar packings 
8485 Machinery parts, not containing electrical 
connectors, insulators, coils, contacts or other 
electrical features, not specified or included 
elsewhere in this chapter 
8503 Parts and accessories suitable for use solely or 
principally with the machines of heading No 8501 
or 8502 
ex 8507 Electric accumulators, including separators 
therefor, whether or not rectangular (including 
square), excluding products falling within 
subheadings 8507 10 10, 8507 20 10, 8507 30 10, 
8507 40 10, 8507 80 10 and 8507 90 10 
8509 Electro-mechanical domestic appliances, with self-
contained electric motor 
8510 Shavers and hair 
electr ic motor clippers, with self-contained 
ex 8511 Electrical ign ition or starting equipment of a kind 
used for spark-ignition or compress ion-ignition 
internal combustion engines (for example, ignition 
magnetos, magneto-dynamos, ignition coils, sparking 
plugs and glow plugs, starter motors); generators 
(for example, dynamos, alternators) and cut-outs of 
a kind used in conjunction with such engines, 
excluding products falling within subheadings 
8511 10 10, 8511 20 10, 8511 30 10, 8511 40 10, 
8511 50 10 and 8511 80 10 
8515 Electric (including electrically heated gas), laser 
or other light or photon beam, ultrasonic, electron 
beam, magnetic pulse or plasma arc soldering, 
brazing or welding machines and apparatus, whether 
or not capable of cuting; electric machines and 
apparatus for hot spraying of metals or sintered 
metal carbides 
8517 Electrical apparatus for line telephony or line 
telegraphy, including such apparataus for carrier-
current Iine systems 
Magnetic tape recorders and other sound recording 
apparatus, whether or not incorporating a sound 
reproducing device: 
- Other: 
ex 8520 90 90 — Other, excluding 
recorders cinematographic sound 
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ex 8522 
8530 Parts and accessories of apparatus of heading 
Nos 8519 to 8521, excluding products falling within 
subheading 8522 90 10 
Electrical signalling, safety or traffic control 
equipment for railways, tramways, roads, inland 
waterways parking facilities, port installations or 
airfields (other than those of heading No 8608) 
8536 Electrical apparatus for switching or protecting 
electrical circuits,or for making connections to or 
in electrical circuits (for example, switches, 
relays, fuses, surge suppressors, plugs, sockets, 
lamp-holders, junction boxes), for a voltage not 
exceeding 1 000 V 
8538 Parts suitable for use solely or principally with 
the machinery of heading Nos 8535, 8536 or 8537 
8539 Electric filament or discharge lamps, including 
sealed-beam lamp units and ultraviolet or infra-red 
lamps-, arc-1 amps 
ex 8543 Electr ical 
i nd i v i duaI 
elsewhere 
falling 
8543 90 10 machines and apparatus, having 
functions, not specified or included 
in this chapter, excluding products 
within subheadings 8543 80 10 and 
ex 8544 
8545 Insulated (including enamelled or anodised) wire, 
cable (including coaxial cable) and other insulated 
electric conductors, whether or not fitted with 
connectors-,opt ical fibre cables, made up of 
individually sheated fibres, whether or not 
assembled with electric conductors or fitted with 
connectors, excluding products falling within 
subheading 8544 30 10 
Carbon electrodes, carbon brushes, lamp carbons, 
battery carbons and other articles of graphite or 
other carbon, with or without metal, of a kind used 
for electrical purposes 
CHAPTER 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 SIGNALLING 
EQUIPEMENT OF ALL KINDS 
8701 Tractors (other than tractors of heading No 8709) 
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8713 Invalid carriages, whether or not motorized or 
otherwise mechanical I y propel led 
ex CHAPTER 88 AIRCRAFT, SPACECRAFT, AND PARTS THEREOF, excluding 
products falling within subheadings 8801 10 10, 
8801 90 10, 8802 11 10, 8802 12 10, 8802 20 10, 
8802 30 10, 8802 40 10, 8803 10 10, 8803 20 10, 
8803 30 10, 8803 90 91 and 8805 20 10 
9001 Optical fibres and optical fibre bundles; optical 
fibre cables other than those of heading No 8544; 
sheets and plates of polarizing material; lenses 
(including contact lenses), prisms, mirrors and 
other optical elements, of any material, unmounted, 
other than such elements of glass not optically 
worked 
9003 Frames and mountings for spectacles, goggles or the 
like, and parts thereof 
9004 Spectacles, goggles and the like, corrective, 
protective or other 
9010 Apparatus and equipment for photographic (including 
cinematographic) laboratories (including apparatus 
for the projection of circuit patterns on 
sensitized semi-conductor materials), not specified 
or included elsewhere in this chapter; 
negatoscopes; projection screens 
9017 Drawing, marking-out or mathematical calculating 
instruments (for example, drafting machines, 
pantographs, protractors, drawing sets, slide 
rules, disc calculators); instruments for measuring 
length, for use in the hand (for example, measuring 
rods and tapes, micrometers, callipers), not 
specified or included elsewhere in this chapter 
9018 Instruments and appliances used in medical, 
surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including 
scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical 
apparatus and sight-testing instruments 
9019 Mecano-therapy appliances; massage apparatus; 
psychological aptitude-testing apparatus; ozone 
therapy, oxygen therapy, aerosol therapy, 
artificial respiration or other therapeutic 
respiration apparatus 
ex 9020 00 Other breathing appliances and gas masks, excluding 
protective masks having neither mechanical parts 
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9021 nor replaceable filters, excluding products 
falling within subheading 9020 00 10 
Orthopaedic appliances, including crutches, 
surgical belts and trusses; splints and other 
fracture appliances; arficial parts of the body; 
hearing aids and other appliances which are worn or 
carried, or implanted in the body, to compensate 
for a defect or disability 
9022 Apparatus based on the use of X-rays or of alpha, 
beta or gamma radiations, whether or not for 
medical, surgical, dental or veterinary uses, 
including radiography or radiotherapy apparatus, X-
rays tubes and other X-rays generators, high 
tension generators, control panels and desks, 
screens, examination or treatment tables, chairs 
and the I ike 
9023 00 Instruments, apparatus and models, designed for 
demonstrationaI purposes (for example, in education 
or exhibitions), unsuitable for other uses 
9024 Machines and appliances for testing hardness, 
strength, compressibility, elasticity or other 
mechanical properties of materials (for example, 
metals, wood, textiles, paper, plastics) 
ex 9025 Hydrometers and similar floating instruments, 
thermometers, pyrometers, barometers, hygrometers 
and psychrometers, recording or not, and any 
combination of these instruments, excluding 
products falling within suheadings 9025 11 10, 
9025 19 10, 9025 20 10, 9025 80 10 and 9025 90 10 
ex 9026 Instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking 
the flow, level, pressure or other variables of 
liquids or gases (for example, flow meters, level 
gauges, manometers, heat meters), excluding 
instruments and apparatus of heading No 9014, 9015, 
9028 or 9032, excluding products falling within 
suheadings 9026 10 10, 9026 20 10, 9026 80 10 and 
9026 90 10 
9027 Instruments and apparatus for physical or chemical 
analysis (for example, polar«meters, 
ref Tactometers, spectrometers, gas or smoke 
analysis apparatus); instruments and apparatus for 
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measuring or checking viscosity , porosity, 
expansion, surface tension or the like; instruments 
and apparatus for measuring or checking quantities 
of heat, sound or light (including exposure 
meters); microtomes 
9028 Gas, liquid or electricity supply or production 
meters, including calibrating meters thereof 
ex 9029 Revolution counters, production counters, 
taximeters, milometers, pedometers and the like; 
speed indicators and tachometers, other than those 
of heading No 9014 or 9015; stroboscopes, excluding 
products falling within suheadings 9029 10 10, 
9029 20 10 and 9029 90 10 
ex 9030 Oscilloscopes, spectrum analysers and other 
instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking 
electrical quantities, excluding meters of heading 
No 9028; instruments and apparatus for measuring or 
detecting alpha, beta, gamma, X-ray, cosmic or 
other ionizing radiations, m excluding products 
falling within subheadings 9030 10 10, 9030 20 10, 
9030 31 10, 9030 39 10, 9030 40 10, 9030 81 10, 
9030 89 10 and 9030 90 10 
ex 9031 Measuring or checking instruments, appliances and 
machines, not specified or included elsewhere in 
this chapter; profile projectors, excluding 
products falling within suheadings 9031 80 10 and 
9031 90 10 
ex 9032 Automatic regulating or controlling instruments and 
apparatus, excluding products falling within 
suheadings 9032 10 10, 9032 20 10, 9032 81 10, 
9032 89 10 and 9032 90 10 
9401 Seats (other than those of heading No 9402), 
whether ot not convertible into beds, and parts 
thereof 
9402 Medical, surgical, dental or veterinary furniture 
(for example, operating tables, examination tables, 
hospital beds with mechanical fittings, dentists' 
chairs); barbers' chairs and similar chairs, having 
rotating as well as both reclining and elevating 
movements; parts of the foregoing articles 
9403 
9406 00 Other furniture and parts thereof 
Prefabricated buildings 
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9501 00 
9502 
9504 
ex 9506 
9507 
ex CHAPTER 96 Wheeled toys designed to be ridden by children (for 
example, tricycles, scooters, pedal cars); dolls' 
carriages 
Dolls representing only human beings 
Articles for funfair; table or parlour games, 
including pintables, billiards, special tables for 
casino games and automatic bowling alley equipment 
Articles and equipment for general physical 
exercise, gymnastics, athletics, other sports 
(including table-tennis) or outdoor games, not 
specified or included elsewhere in this chapter; 
swimming pools and paddling pools, excluding 
products falling within suheadings 9506 69 10 and 
9506 99 10 
Fishing rods, fish-hooks and other line fishing 
tackle; fish landing nets, butterfly nets and 
similar nets; decoy "birds" (other than those of 
heading No 9208 or 9705) and similar hunting or 
shooting requisites 
MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURED ARTICLES, excluding 
products falling within suheadings 9601 90, 
9603 29, 9603 30, 9603 40 10 and 9603 90 91 
2$ 
Financial statement 
On the basis of imports from South Africa in 1992 of the industrial 
products covered by the proposal, the GSP offer for that country will be 
around ECU 400 million over twelve months. 
As the average of the customs duties applicable under the common customs 
tariff is 5.5%, and assuming that the average rate of utilization is 
70%, it is estimated that customs revenue not collected will amount to 
ECU 6.4 million over five months. This figure may be adjusted pro rata 
temporis in light of the preferential advantages actually accorded to 
South Africa. 
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