Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) amending Regulation (EC) No 1657/93 temporarily suspending the autonomous Customs Tariff duties on certain industrial products intended to equip the free zones of the Azores and Madeira
Date: 1994-09-07
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Azores, CCT duties, Madeira, free zone, industrial product, suspension of customs duties

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN  COMMUNITIES 

COM(94) 349 final 
Brussels, 07.09.1994 

94/0191 (CNS) 

Proposal  for a 

COUNCIL REGULATION  (EC) 

amending Regulation (EC) No 1657/93 
temporarily  suspending  the autonomous Customs Tariff duties 
on certain  industrial  products  intended  to equip the free zones 
of the Azores and Madeira 

(presented by the Commission) 

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM 

1.  As part of the special measures taken by the Community to assist 
Madeira and the Azores, the Council adopted Regulation  (EEC) 
No 1657/93 of 24 June 1993(1) temporarily suspending the autonomous 
Common Customs Tariff duties on certain industrial products intended 
to equip the free zones of the Azores and Madeira.  It applies until 
31.12.2000. 

2.  In a letter to the Commission, dated 7 February  1994, the Portuguese 

authorities requested the suspension of CCT duties on capital goods 
imported into Madeira, other than those provided  for by Regulation 
(EEC) No 1657/93.  The products included in the Portuguese request 
are intended to equip firms established  in the island's free zone. 
The grounds given for the request are the increase in the number of 
these firms and the diversification of economic activities in 
Madeira's free zone. 

3.  In view of the objectives of the Poseima programme, it seems 

justifiable to grant a suspension of CCT duties on the products 
listed in the Portuguese request.  Widening the scope of Regulation 
(EEC) No 1657/93 will help to give a further boost to economic 
activities in the free zone of Madeira and thereby stimulate the 
region's production system. 

Since, however, the same Community tariff measures should be applied 
to regions with similar socio-economic characteristics, the measure 
in question should be adopted for the free zones of both Madeira and 
the Azores. 

(1) OJ N° L 158, 30.06.1993, p.l, 

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D r a ft  proposal 

COUNCIL  (EC) 

for  a 
REGULATION 

of  . . . 

amending Regulation  (EC) No 1657/93 
temporarily suspending  the autonomous Customs Tariff duties 
on certain  industrial  products  intended  to equip the free zones 
of the Azores and Madeira 

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, 

Having regard  to the Treaty establishing  the European Community, and  in 
particular  Article 28 thereof, 

Having  regard  to the proposal  from the Commission, 

Having  regard  to the opinion of  the European Parliament,1 

Whereas Council  Regulation  (EEC) No 1657/93 of 24 June 19932  introduces 
a temporary  suspension of the autonomous Customs Tariff duties on 
certain  industrial  products  intended  to equip the free zones of the 
Azores and Madeira; 

Whereas the Portuguese authorities have asked  for the suspension of 
autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties on capital  goods other  than 
those covered by the above Regulation  (EEC) No 1657/93; whereas the 
grounds for  this request  are the  increase  in the number of firms 
operating  in the free zone of Madeira and the diversification of  local 
economic activities; 

Whereas Council  Decision 91/315/EEC of 26 June 1991 acknowledges the 
role of  the free zones  in the economic development of the areas in 
question and highlights the advisability of adopting specific customs 
measures to help boost  these free zones; 

1 
2  OJ No L 158, 30.6.1993, p 

Whereas  it transpires from the  information provided by the Portuguese 
authorities that since the entry  into force of Regulation  (EEC) No 
1657/93, new economic activities are starting up  in the free zone of 
Madeira; whereas capital  goods are needed  to maintain  these activities; 
whereas  it therefore seems Justified  to suspend Common Customs Tariff 
duties on these products when they are  imported  into Madeira and the 
Azores for  the free zones of these regions; whereas the Annex  to 
Regulation  (EEC) No 1657/93 should be amended accordingly, 

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: 

Article 1 

The Annex  to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1657/93 shall  be amended  in 
line with  the Annex  to this Regulation. 

Article 2 

This Regulation shall  enter  into force on the day following  its 
publication  in the Official  Journal of the European Communities. 

This Regulation shall  be binding  in its entirety and directly  applicable 
in a 11 Member States. 

Done at Brussels, 

For  the CounciI 

The President 

Order No 

CN code 

Description 

ANNEX 

18.0300 

6804 

18.0302 

7308 

Millstones,  grindstones,  grinding  wheels  and  the  like,  without  frameworks,  for  grinding, 
sharpening,  polishing,  trueing  or  cutting,  hand-sharpening  or  polishing  stones,  and 
parts  thereof,  of  neutral  stone,  of  agglomerated  natural  or  artificial  abrasives,  or  of  cera 
mics,  with  or  without  parts  of  other  materials 

Structures  (excluding  prefabricated  buildings  of  heading  No  9406)  and  parts  of  struc 
tures  (for  example,  bridges  and  bridge-sections,  lock-gates,  towers,  lattice  masts,  roofs, 
roofing  frameworks,  doors  ant)  windows  and  their  frames  and  thresholds  for  doors, 
shutter,  balustrades,  pillars  and  columns),  or  iron  or  steel  ;  plates,  rods,  angles,  shapes, 
sections,  tubes  and  the  like,  prepared  for  use  in  structures,  of  iron  or  steel 

18.0304 

7309 00 

Reservoirs,  tanks,  vats  and  similar  containers  for  any  material  (other  than  compressed 
or  liquefied  gas),  of  iron  or  steel,  of  a  capacity  exceeding  300  litres,  whether  or  not 
lined  or  heat-insulated,  but  not  fitted  with  mechanical  or  thermal  equipment 

18.0306 

7310 other than 
7310 21 10 

Tanks,  casks,  drums,  cans,  boxes  and  similar  containers,  for  any  material  (other  than 
compressed  or  liquefied  gas),  of  iron  or  steel,  of  a  capacity  not  exceeding  300  litres, 
whether  or  not 
thermal 
lined  or  heat-insulated,  but  not  fitted  with  mechanical  or 
equipment,  other  than  cans  of  a  kind  used  for  preserving  food  and  drink 

18.0308 

7311 00 

Containers  for  compressed  or  liquefied  gas,  of  iron  or  steel 

18.0310 

7322 

18.0312 

7610 

Radiators  for  central  heating,  not  electrically  heated,  and  parts  thereof,  of  iron  or  steel  ; 
air  heaters  and  hot  air  distributors  (including  distributors  which  can  also  distribute 
fresh  or  conditioned  air),  not  electrically  heated,  incorporating  a  motor-driven  fan  or 
blower,  and  parts  thereof,  of  iron  or  steel 

Aluminium  structures  (excluding  prefabricated  buildings  of  heading  No  9406)  and 
parts  of  structures  (for  example,  bridges  and  bridge-sections,  towers,  lattice  masts,  roofs, 
thresholds  for  doors, 
roofing  framework,  doors  and  windows  and 
balustrades,  pillars  and  columns)  ;  aluminium  plates,  rods,  profiles,  tubes  and  the  like, 
prepared  for  use  in  structures 

their  frames  and 

18.0314 

7611 00 00 

Aluminium  reservoirs,  tanks,  vats  and  similar  containers,  for  any  material  (other  than 
compressed  or  liquefied  gas), of  a  capacity  exceeding  300  litres,  whether  or  not  lined  or 
hest-insulated,  but  not  fitted  with  mechanical  or  thermal  equipment 

18.0316 

7612 

Aluminium  casks,  drums,  cans,  boxes  and  similar  containers  (including  rigid  or  collap 
sible  tubular  containers),  for  any  material  (other  than  compressed  or  liquefied  gas),  of  a 
capacity  not  exceeding  300  litres,  whether  or  not  heat-insulated,  but  not  fitted  with 
mechanical  or  thermal  equipment 

18.0318 

7613 00 00 

Aluminium  containers  for  compressed  or  liquefied  gas 

18.0320 

8202 

18.0322 

8203 

18.0324 

8204 

18.0326 

8205 

Hand  saws  ,  blades  for  saws  of  all  kinds  (including  slitting,  slotting  or  toothless  saw 
blades) 

Files,  rasps,  pliers  (including  cutting  pliers),  pincers,  tweezers,  metal  cutting  shears, 
pipe-cutters,  bolt  croppers,  perforating  punches  and  similar  hand 

tools 

Hand-operating  spanners  and  wrenches  (including 
torque  meter  wrenches  but  not 
including  tap  wrenches)  ;  interchangeable  spanner  sockets,  with  or  without  handles 

Hand  tools  (including  glaziers'  diamonds),  not  elsewhere  specified  or  included  -  bl 
lamps  ;  vices,  clamps  and  the  like,  other  than  accessories  for  and  parts  of,  m â c h '^ 
tools  ;  anvils  ;  portable  forges  ;  hand  or  pedal-operated  grinding  wheels  with  fn 
' "* 
frame-
works 

w' th 

Order No 

CN  code 

Description 

H^ 

18.0328 

8207 

Interchangeable  tools  for  hand  tools,  whether  or  not  power-operated,  or  for  machine-
tools  (for  example,  for  pressing,  stamping,  punching, 
threading,  drilling, 
boring,  broaching,  miling,  turning  or  screw  driving),  including  dies  for  drawing  or 
extruding  metal,  and  rock  drilling  or  earth  boring 

tapping, 

tools 

18.0330 

8208  other  than 
8208 40 00 

Knives  and  cutting  blades,  for  machines  or  for  mechanical  appliances  other  than  agri 
cultural,  horticultural  or  forestry  machines 

18.0332 

8209 00 

18.0334 

8210 00 

18.0336 

8303 00 

18.0338 

8304 00 00 

Plates,  sticks,  tips  and  the  like  for  tools,  unmounted,  of  sintered  metal  carbides  or 
cermets 

Hand-operated  mechanical  appliances,  weighing  10  kg  or  less,  used  in  the  preparation, 
conditioning  or  serving  of  food  or  drink 

Armoured  or  reinforced  safes,  strong-boxes  and  doors  and  safe  deposit 
strong-rooms,  can  or  deed  boxes  and  the  like,  of  base  metal 

lockers  for 

Filing  cabinets,  card-index  cabinets,  paper  trays,  paper  rests,  pen  trays,  office-stamp 
stands  and  similar  office  or  desk  equipment,  of  base  metal,  other  than  office  furniture 
of  heading  No  9403 

18.0340 

8402 

Steam  or  other  vapour  generating  boilers  (other  than  central  heating  hot  water  boilers 
capable  also  of  producing  low  pressure  steam)  ;  super-heated  water  boilers 

18.0342 

8403 

Central  heating  boilers  other  than  those  of  heading  No  8402 

18.0344 

8404 

Auxiliary  plant  for  use  with  boilers  of  heading  No  8402  or  8403  (for  example,  econo 
mizers,  super-heaters,  soot  removers,  gas  recoveres)  ;  condensers  for  steam  or  other 
vapour  power  units 

18.0346 

8405 

Producer  gas  or  water  gas  generators,  with  or  without  their  purifiers  ;  acetylene  gas 
their  purifiers 
generators  and  similar  water  process  gas  generators,  with  or  without 

18.0348 

8406 

Steam  turbines  and  other  vapour 

turbines 

18.0350 

8407 

Spark-ignition  reciprocating  or  rotary  internal  combustion  piston  engines 

18.0352 

8408 

18.0354 

8409 

Compression-ignition 
engines) 

internal  combustion  piston  engines 

(diesel  or 

semi-diesel 

Parts  suitable  for  use  solely  or  principally  with  the  engines  of  heading  No  8407  or 
8408 

18.0356 

8413 

Pumps  for  liquids,  whether  or  not  fitted  with  a  measuring  device  ;  liquid  elevators 

18.0358 

8414 

18.0360 

8415 

Air  or  vacuum  pumps,  air  or  other  gas  compressors  and  fans  ;  ventilating  or  recycling 
hoods  incorporating  a  fan,  whether  or  not  fitted  with 

filters 

Air  conditioning  machines,  comprising  a  motor-driven  fan  and  elements  for  changing 
the 
the  humidity 
temperature  and  humidity, 
cannot  be  separately  regulated 

those  machines 

including 

in  which 

18.0362 

8416 

Furnace  burner  for  liquid  fuel,  for  pulverized  solid  fuel  or  for  gas  ;  mechanical  stokers, 
including  their  mechanical  grates,  mechanical  ash  dischargers  and  similar  appliances 

18.0364 

8417 

Industrial  or  laboratory  furnaces  and  ovens,  including 

incinerators,  non-electric 

18.0366 

8418 

18.0368 

8419 

18.0370 

8420 

8.0372 

8421 

Refrigerators,  freezers  and  other  refrigerating  or  freezing  equipment,  electric  or  other  ; 
heat  p u m ps  other  than  air  conditioning  machines  of  heading  No  8415 

Machinery,  plant  or  laboratory  equipment,  whether  oi  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,  evapo 
rating,  vapourizing,  condensing  or  cooling  other  than  machinery  or  plant  of  a  kind 
used  for  domestic  purposes  ;  instantaneous  or  storage  water  heaters,  non-electric 

Calendering  or  other  rolling  machines,  other  than  for  metals  or  glass,  and  cylinders 
therefor 

Centrifuges,  including  centrifugal  dryers  ;  filtering  or  purifying  machinery  and  appa 
ratus,  for  liquids  or  gases 

Order No 

C.N code 

Description 

18.0374 

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  containers  ;  other  packing  or  wrapping  machinery,  machinery  for  serating 
beverages 

18.0376 

8423 other than 
8423 10 10 

Weighing  machinery  (excluding  balances  of  a  sensitivity  of  5  eg  or  better),  including 
weight  operated  counting  or  checking  machines  ;  weighing  machine  weights  of  all 
kinds  other  than  household  scales  ; 

18.0378 

8423  other than 
8424 81 10 

Mechanical  appliances  (whether  or  not  hand-operated)  for  projecting,  dispersing  or 
spraying  liquids  or  powders  ; fire  extinguishers,  whether  or  not  charges  ; spray  guns  and 
similar  appliances  ;  steam  or  sand  blasting  machines  and  similar 
jet  projecting 
machines  other  than  watering  appliances 

18.0380 

8425 

Pulley  tackle  and  hoists  other 

than  skip  hoists  ,  wine lies  and  capstans  ;  jacks 

I8.(H82 

8426 

Ships'  derricks,  cranes,  including  cable  cranes,  mobile  lifting  frames,  straddle  carriers 
and  works  (rucks  fitted  with  a  crane 

18.0384 

8427 

Fork-lift 

trucks  ;  other  works  trucks  fitted  with  lifting  or  handling  equipment 

18.0386 

8428 

18.0388 

8437 

18.0390 

8438 

Other  lifting,  handling,  loading  or  unloading  machinery  (for  example,  lifts,  escalators, 
conveyors,  teleferics 

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  legumi 
nous  vegetables,  other  than  farm-type  machinery 

Machinery,  not  specified  or  included  elsewhere  in  this  chapter,  for  the  industrial  prepa 
ration  or  manufacture  of  food  or  drink,  other  than  machinery  for  the  extraction  or 
preparation  of  animal  or  fixed  vegetable  fats  or  oils 

18.0392 

8439 

Machinery  for  making  pulp  of  fibrous  cellulosic  material  or  for  making  or  finishing 
paper  or  paperboard 

18.0394 

8440 

Book-binding  machinery,  including  book-sewing  machines 

I 8.0 $96 

8441 

Other  machinery  lor  making  up  paper  pulp,  papei  oi  paperboard,  including  cutting 
machines  of  all  kinds 

18.0398 

8443 

Printing  machinery  ;  machines 

tor  uses  ancillary  to  printing 

18.0400 

8444 00 

Machines  for  extruding,  drawing,  texturing  or  cutting  man-made 

textile  materials 

18.0402 

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 

18.0404 

8446 

Weaving  machines  (looms) 

18.0406 

8447 

18.0408 

8448 

Knitting  machines,  stitch-bonding  machines  and  machines  for  making  gimped  yarn 
tulle,  lace,  embroidery,  trimmings,  braid  or  net  and  machines  for 

tufting 

Auxiliary  machinery  for  use  with  machines  of  heading  No  8444,  8445,  8446  or  8447 
(for  example,  dobbies,  Jacquards,  automatic  stop  motions,  shuttle  changing  mecha 
nisms);  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,  caid  clothing,  combs,  extruding  nipples,  shuttles,  hcalds  and  heald-
frames,  hosiery  needles) 

18.0410 

8450 

Household  or  laundry-type  washing  machines,  including  machines  which  both  wash 
and  dry 

Order No 

CN-code 

Description 

18.0412 

8451 

18.0414 

8452 

18.0416 

8453 

18.0418 

8456 

Machinery  (other  than  machines  of  heading  No  8450)  for  washing,  cleaning,  wringing, 
drying  ironing,  pressing  (including  fusing  presses),  bleaching,  dyeing,  dressing,  fini 
shing,  coating  or  impregnating  textile  yarns,  fabrics  or  made-up  textile  articles  and 
machines  for  applying  the  paste  to  the  base  fabric  orother  support  used  in  the  manu 
facture  of  floor  coverings  such  as  linoleum  ;  machines  for  reeling,  unreeling,  folding, 
cutting  or  pinking  textile  fabrics 

Sewing  machines,  other  than  book-sewing  machines  of  heading  No  8440  ;  furniture, 
bases  and  covers  specially  designed  for  sewing  machines  ,  sewing  machine  needles 

Machinery  for  preparing,  tanning  or  working  hides,  skins  or  leather  or  for  making  or 
than  sewing 
repairing  footwear  or  other  articles  of  hides,  skins  or 
machines 

leather,  other 

Machine-tools  for  working  any  material  by  removal  of  material,  by  laser  or  other  light 
or  photon  beam,  ultrasonic,  electro-discharge,  electrochemical,  electron  beam,  ionic-
beam  or  plasma  arc  processes 

18.0420 

8457 

Machining  centres,  unit  construction  machines 
transfer  machines,  for  working  metal 

(single  station)  and  multi-station 

18.0422 

8458 

Lathes  for  removing  metal 

18.0424 

8459 

18.0426 

8460 

18 0428 

8461 

18.0430 

8462 

18.0432 

8463 

18.0434 

8464 

18.0436 

8465 

Machine-tools  (including  way-type  unit  head  machines)  for  drilling,  boring,  milling, 
threading  or  taping  by  removing  metal,  other  than 

lathes  of  heading  No  8458 

Machine-tools  for  deburring,  sharpening,  grinding,  honing,  lapping,  polishing  or  other-, 
wise  finishing  metal,  sintered  metal  carbides  or  cermets  by  means  of  grinding  stones, 
abrasives  or  polishing  products,  other  than  gear  cutting,  gear  grinding  or  gear  finishing 
machines  of  heading  No  8461 

Machine-tools  for  planing,  shaping,  slotting,  broaching,  gcai  cutting,  gear  grinding  or 
gear  finishing,  sawing,  cutting-off  and  other  machine  tools  working  by  removing  metal, 
sintered  metal  carbides  or  cermets,  not  elsewhere  specified  or 

included 

Machine-tools  (including  presses)  for  working  metal  by  forging,  hammering  or  die-
s t a m p i n g;  machine-tools  (including  presses)  for  working  metal  by  bending,  folding 
straightening,  flattening,  shearing,  punching  or  notching  ;  presses  for  working  metal  or 
metal  carbides,  not  specified  above 

Other  machine-tools  for  working  metal,  sintered  metal  carbides  or  cermets,  without 
removing  material 

Machine-tools  for  working  stone,  ceramics,  concrete,  asbestos-cement  or  like  mineral 
materials  or  for  cold  working  glass 

Machine-tools  (including  machines  for  nailing,  stapling,  glueing  or  otherwise  assem 
bling)  for  working  wood,  cork,  hard  rubber,  hard  plastics  or  similar  hard  materials 

8466 

j Parts  and  accessories yuiuble  for  use  solely  or  principally  with 
(the  machines  of  heading  Nos  8456  to  8465 

18.0438 

8467 

Tools  for  working  in  the  hand,  pneumatic  or  with  sell  contained  non-electric  motor 

18.0440 

8468 

Machinery  and  apparatus  for  soldering,  brazing  or  welding,  whether  or  not  capable  of 
cutting,  other 
tempering 
those  of  heading  No  8 5 1 5;  gas-operated 
machines  and  appliances 

surface 

than 

Order No 

CN-code 

Description 

18.0442 

8469 

Typewriters  and  word-processing  machines 

18.0444 

8470 

Calculating  machines  ; accounting  machines,  postage-tranking  machines,  ticket-issuing 
machines  and  similar  machines,  incorporating  a  calculating  device  ,  cash 

registers 

18.0446 

8471 

18.0448 

8472 

8474 

8475 

Automatic  data  processing  machinesa  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 

Other  office  machines  (for example,  hectograph  or  stencil  duplicating  machines,  addrc-
singd  machines,  automatic  banknote  dispensers,  coin-sorting  machines,  coin-counting 
or  wrapping  machines,  pencil-sharpening  machines,  perforsting  or stapling  machines) 

Machinery  for  sorting,  screening,  separating,  washing,  cru 
shing,  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  mine 
ral  fuels,  ceramic  paste,  unhardened  cements,  plastering  mater 
ials  or  other  mineral  products  in  powder  or  paste  form; 
machines  for  forming  foundry  moulds  of  sand  . 

Machines  for  assembling  electric  or  electronic  lamps,  tubes  or 
valves  or  flashbulbs,  in  glass  envelopes;  machines  for  manufac 
turing or  hot  working glass  or glassware  . 

18.0450 

8477 

Machinery  for working  rubber  or  plastics  or for the  manufacture  of  products  from  these 
materials,  not  specified  or  included  elsewhere  in  this  chapter 

18.0452 

8478 

Machinery  for  preparing  or  making-up  tobacco,  not  specified  or  included  elsewhere  in 
this  chapter 

18.0454 

8480 

Moulding  boxes  for  metal  foundry  ; mould  bases  , moulding  patterns  , moulds  for  metal 
(other  than  ingot  moulds),  metal  carbides,  glass,  mineral  materials,  rubber  or  plastics 

18.0456 

8581 

Electric  motors  and  generators  (excluding  generating  sets) 

850* 

8504 

Parts  suitable  for  use solely  or  principally  with  the  machines  of 
heading No  8501  or 8502  . 

Electrical  transformers,  statk  converters  (for  example»  recti 
fiers)  and inductors . 

18.0458 

850» other than 
8508 80 80 

Electro-mechanical  tools  for  working  in  the  hand,  with  self-contained  electric  motor 
other  than  hedge  trimmers  and  lawn  edge  cutters 

18.0460 

8514 

Industrial  or  laboratory  electric  (including  induction  or  dielectric)  furnaces  and  ovens 
other 

industrial  or  laboratory  induction  or  dielectric  heating  equipment 

18.0462 

8515 

Electric  (including  electricalty  heated  gas),  lasser  or  other  light  or  photon  beam,  ultra 
sonic,  electron-  beam,  magnetic  pulse  or  plasma  arc  soldering,  brazing  or  welding 
machines  and  apparatus,  whether  or  not  capable  of  cutting  ;  electric  machines  and 
apparatus  for  hot  spraying  of  metals  or  sintered  metal  carbides 

18.0464 

8526 

Radar  apparatus,  radio  navigational  aid apparatus  and radio  remote  control  apparatus 

Description 

Electrical  machines  and  apparatus,  having  individual  functions, 
not  specified  or  included  elsewhere  in  this  Chapter  . 

Photocopying  apparatus  incorporating  an  optical  system  or  of  the  contact  type  and 
thermo-copying  apparatus 

Apparatus  and  equipment  for  photographic  (including  cinematographic)  laboratories 
(including  apparatus  for  the  projection  of  circuit  patterns  on  sensitised  semi-conductor 
materials),  not  specified  or  included  elsewhere  in  this  Chapter  ;  negatoscopes ;  projec 
tion  screens 

Drawing,  marking-out  mathematical  calculating  instruments  (for  example,  drafting 
machines,  pantographs,  protractors,  drawing  sets,  slide  rules,  disc  calculators) ;  instru 
ments  for  measuring  length,  for  use  in  the  hand  (for  example,  measuring  rods  and 
tapes,  micrometers,  callipers)  not  specified  or  included  elsewhere  in  this  chapter 

Machines  and  appliances  for  testing  the  hardness, strenght,  compressibility,  elasticity or 
other  mechanical  properties  of  materials  (for  example,  metals,  wood,  textiles,  paper, 
plastics) 

Hydrometers  and  similar  floating  instruments,  thermometers, 
pyrometers,  barometers,  hygrometers  and  psychrometers,  recor 
ding or  not,  and  any  combination  of  these  instruments  . 

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  headings  No  9014, 9015, 9028  or 9032 

Instruments  and  apparatus  for  physical  or  chemical  analysis  (for  example,  polarimeters 
refractometers,  spectrometers, gas or  smoke  analysis  apparatus) ; instruments  and  appar 
atus  for  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 

Gas,  liquid  or  electricity  supply  or  production  meters,  including  calibrating  meters 
therefore 

Oscilloscopes,  spectrum  analysers  and  other  instruments  and 
apparatus  for  measuring  or  checking  electrical  quantities, 
excluding  meters  of  heading  No  9028;  instruments  and  appar 
atus  for  measuring  or  detecting  alpha,  beta,  gamma,  X-ray, 
cosmic  or other  ionizing  radiations  . 

Measuring  or  checking  instruments,  appliances  and  machines, 
not  specified  or  included  elsewhere  in  this  chapter;  profile 
projectors  . 

Automatic  regulating  or  controlling  instruments  and  appar 
atus  . 

Parts  and  accessories  (not  specified  or  included  elsewhere  in 
this  Chapter)  for  machines,  appliances,  instruments  or  appar 
atus of  Chapter  90 

18.0480 

Prefabricated  buildings 

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FINANCIAL STATEMENT 

1.  BUDGET HEADING  INVOLVED: Chapter  12, Article 120 

2.  LEGAL BASIS: Article 28 of the Treaty 

3.  TITLE OF THE TARSFF MEASURE: Draft proposal  for a Council  (EC) 

Regulation amending Regulation  (EEC) No 1657 temporarily suspending 
the autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties on certain  industrial 
products  intended  to equip the free zones of the Azores and Madeira. 

4.  OBJECTIVE: To supply on favourable terms certain  industrial  products 

intended to equip the free zones of Azores and Madeira. 

5.  LOSS OF REVENUE: According  to the  information provided  by the 
Portuguese  authorities  the  loss of revenue for  the period  in 
question amounts to some ECU 1 114 752. 

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