Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) APPLYING A THREE-YEAR SCHEME OF GENERALIZED TARIFF PREFERENCES (1995-97) IN RESPECT OF CERTAIN INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS ORIGINATING IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Date: 1994-09-19
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: CCT duties, UN Conference on Trade and Development, developing countries, generalised preferences, industrial product, originating product

COMMISSION  OF  THE  EUROPEAN  COMVTUNITIES 

C0M(94) 337  final 

Brussels, 19. 09. 1994 

94/ 0209(ACC) 

94/ 0210(ACC) 

Proposal  for a 

COUNCIL REGULATION  (EC) 

APPLYING A THREE-YEAR SCHEME OF GENERALIZED 
TARIFF PREFERENCES  (1995-97) IN RESPECT OF 
CERTAIN  INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS ORIGINATING IN 
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES 

94/ 0209(ACC) 

Proposal  for a 

COUNCIL REGULATION  (EC) 

94/ O210(ACC) 

EXTENDING  INTO 1995 THE APPLICATION OF REGULATIONS (EEC) 
No 3833/90, (EEC) No 3835/90 AND (EEC) No 3900/91 APPLYING 
GENERAL I ZED 
TARIFF PREFERENCES  IN RESPECT OF CERTAIN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS 
ORIGINATING  IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES 

(presented by the Commission) 

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EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM 

Introduction 

This proposal  for a regulation translates  into legislative form, namely 
a  three-year  GSP  scheme,  the  principles  set  out  in  the  Commission's 
communication of 1 June on the role of  the GSP  in the decade 1995-2004. 
In  that  communication  the  Commission  noted  that  the  GSP's  role  as  a 
tool  of  development  needed  reinforcement,  though  it has  traditionally 
been  a  commercial  policy  instrument  under  Article 113. 

The Commission also pointed out  that since  there was  legal  uncertainty 
about  the compatibiIity of  present  and  future GSP provisions with  the 
GATT enabling clause there was a need for  informal soundings within the 
OECD, Unctad and the GATT with a view to examining the compatibility of 
the enabling clause and  the principles governing  the Unctad  GSP system 
with  the realities of world development  and  trade.  The Commission can 
confirm  that  such  soundings  have  begun  and  proposes  to  continue  them 
throughout  the process of adoption of the new scheme. 

In  view  of  the  time  needed  to  implement  the  tar if f icat ion  in  the 
agricultural,  fisheries  and  processed  agricultural  products  sectors 
resulting  from  the  Uruguay  Round,  the Commission  is proposing  a one-
year  extension of  the existing  regulations  for  agricultural, fisheries 
and  processed  agricultural  products  subject  to  a  number  of  specific 
improvements.  All  these products will  be  the subject  in the course of 
1995 of an additional  proposal  for a scheme  in  line with  the new ten-
year gui de Iines which will apply  in 1996 and 1997. 

Where  industrial  products  are  concerned,  the  proposal  mirrors  the 
guidelines  the  Commission  suggested  in  its  communication,  the  main 
points of which are outlined below: 

Furthermore, as regards petroleum products, the Commission reserves the 
right  to propose  tariff  suspension  measures  pursuant  to Article 28 of 
the  Treaty  where  such  measures  are  necessitated  by  the  Community's 
supply requirements. 

1. Principle of neutrality 

The  new  ten-year  scheme  assumes  that  the  level  of  liberalization 
will be neutral overall compared with the existing scheme as regards 
the  impact  of  the  preferential  margin  on  the  potential  volume  of 
preferential  trade. 

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In other words,  it will  not offer  additional  liberalization over  and 
above  that  achieved  under  the  Uruguay  Round  combined  with  the 
existing GSP, but  nor will  it attempt  to claw back  the Uruguay  Round 
element. 

The  offer  tops  up  this  neutral  base  with  special  incentive 
arrangements  providing  supplementary  preferences  consistent  with  the 
Community's  development  aims. Thus,  incentive arrangements constitute 
an additional offer  in relation  to the  initial overall  neutrality. 

Surveillance  will  be  used  to  ensure  that  these  neutrality  criteria 
are observed. 

2. Simplification  ftariffIcatlon) 

Volume  restrictions  in  the  form  of  fixed  amounts,  tariff  quotas or 
tariff  ceilings  are  replaced  by  tariff  modulation  reflecting  the 
sensitivity of different  sectors (products or groups of products), as 
established  in the  light of the final outcome of  the  Uruguay Round  in 
particular. 

To  this  end  three  lists  of  products  and  product  groups  have  been 
drawn up: 

-  sensitive products  to which  a preferential  duty of 80% of  the MFN 

duty  Is applied; 

-  semi-sensitive products to which a preferential duty of 40% of the 

MFN duty  is applied; 

-  non-sensitive products that are fully exempt  from duty. 

3. Stability 

The proposed scheme will  run for  three years. 

4. Transparency 

There  will  be  a  special  product/country  safeguard  clause.  It  is 
based on  the  test of  serious damage or  threat  of  serious damage.  A 
new committee will be set up to help administer  it. 

5. GSP graduation 

Graduation  involves  transferring  preferential  margins  from  the 
better-off developing countries  to the  less developed ones. 

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As announced  in the communication of 1 June, the Commission  proposes 
to  introduce  sector/country  graduation  on  the  basis  of  relative 
specialization, coupled with a development  weighting. 

The  development  weighting of  beneficiary  countries  is determined 
by  a  development  index  combining  a  country's  per  capita  income 
and  the  level  of  its  exports  as  compared  with  those  of  the 
Community. 

Relative  specialization  is determined  by  a  specialization  index 
based  on  the  ratio  of  a  beneficiary  country's  share  of  total 
Community  imports  in  general  to  its  share  of  total  Community 
imports  in  a  given  sector.  The  larger  the  sectoral  proportion 
compared  with  the  general  proportion,  the  greater  the 
specialization. 

By  combining  both  criteria  it  is  possible  to  adjust  the  crude 
results  of  the specialization  index  in terms of  the  sectors  to be 
excluded  in  line with  the  level of development. 

6. solidarity Mechanic 

The  sector/country  graduation  system  is therefore supplemented  by a 
"solidarity mechanism" applicable  in exceptional  circumstances, when 
beneficiary  countries  whose exports of  products  covered  by  the GSP 
in a given sector  exceed 25% of all beneficiaries' exports of  those 
products  in  that  sector  will  be  excluded  from  GSP  entitlement  for 
that sector  irrespective of their  level of development. 

7.  Phasing  in the graduation and solidarity provisions 

The new  provisions will  be phased  in gradually  to allow  traders  in 
the countries concerned  and  in the Community  time  to adjust  to the 
new  GSP  offer  and  thus  keep  within  the  framework  of  overall 
neutrality.  This means  that, where the countries have a per-capita 
GNP of more  than USD 6 000, the sectors/countries concerned will  be 
offered  100% of  their normal  preferential  margin  in the  first  year, 
50%  in the second  year, and no margin  in the  third.  Countries with 
a  per-capita  GNP  of  less  than  USD 6 000  will  be  offered  100% of 
their margin  in the first  two years and 50% in the third  year;  the 
margin will be discontinued as from  1 January 1998. 

The  solidarity  mechanism  will  not  be  applied  in  1995  but  will  be 
applied  in full  in 1996. 

At  any  rate,  application  of  the  abovementioned  mechanisms  may  not 
result  in  granting  to  the  countries  concerned  a  level  of 
preferential  access  which  is more  favourable  than  that  applied  in 
1993. 
In  1996  preferences  will  be  limited  to  half  the  margin 
applied  in 1995 for the countries  listed  in Annex VII. 

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8. Suspension of the G$P 

The behaviour  of beneficiary  countries may sometimes provide  grounds 
for  the  withdrawal  (total  or  partial)  of  preferences  on  a  scale 
commensurate  with  the  seriousness  of  the  problem.  The  following 
cases would  lead to suspension: 

-  fraud or failure to provide administrative cooperation; 

-  unfair  trading  practices,  including  discrimination  against  the 

Community; 

-  practice of any form of forced  labour; 

-  export of goods made by prison  labour; 

-  inadequate  controls  on  the  export  or  transit  of  drugs  (illicit 

substances or precursors) or on money  laundering; 

-  failure  to  comply  with  obligations  entered  into  in  the  Uruguay 

Round to meet agreed market-access objectives. 

Withdrawal would not be automatic but would follow "hearings", 

9. Special  Incentives 

The  Commission  is  proposing  that  the  general  GSP  regime  be 
supplemented  by special  incentive arrangements  in response  to social 
and environment concerns. 

So  that  beneficiaries  can  gradually  gear  their  own  development 
policies to the requirements of social  progress and protection of the 
environment  and  thus  ready  themselves  to derive  the  full  benefit  of 
the  incentives, the  arrangements  will  not  come  into  force until  the 
new  scheme  has  been  operating  for  two  years,  unless  consensus  is 
reached  in  the  framework  of  the  informal  consultations  referred  to 
earlier  to bring forward  their application. 

The  special  incentives  will  take  the  form  of  an  additional  20% 
margin  (30%  for  cumulation  of  the  two  clauses)  offered  to  all 
countries  submitting  a  reasoned  request  and  affirming  that  they 
observe certain  internationally recognized standards. 

The  incentive  arrangements  will  operate  entirely  on  the  basis  of  a 
product-certification system.  Preferences will not be granted unless 
the  products  are  certified  by  the  exporting  country  to  have  been 
manufactured  in accordance with production methods and  in conditions 
conforming  to  certain  internationally  recognized  standards  or 
criteria. The veracity of 

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the  certificates  would  be  checked  by  means  of  administrative 
cooperation  with  the  exporting  countries  on  the  lines  of  that  for 
controls on  or igin. 

A-  The  social  clause 

This  refers  to  internationally  recognized  labour  standards,  i.e.  ILO 
conventions. 

The  additional  incentives  available  under  the  social  clause  will  be 
made  conditional  on  genuine  implementation  of  the  principles 
enshrined  in these  conventions. 

The  incentive  social  clause  will  be  used  not  only  to  promote  the 
right  to organize  and  the  right  to collective  bargaining  but  also  to 
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B. The environment  clause 

This  incentive  clause  will  be  used  to  promote  products  or  production 
methods  Internationally  approved  as  consistent  with  the  objectives 
set  out  in  international  conventions  on  the  environment  (e.g.  on  the 
ozone  layer, climate  and  biodiversity) and  in Agenda  21. 

The  environment  clause  will  initially  be  confined  to  tropical  wood 
products,  one  sector  in  which  international  criteria  have  already 
been  developed,  and  will  refer  to  the  criteria  laid  down  by  the  ITTO 
for  sustainable  forest  management. 

C.  Intellectual  property 

The  Commission  will  propose  the  insertion  of  an  intellectual  property 
clause  in the  scheme which  will  enter  into  force on  1 January  1998. 

10.  Drugs 

The  Commission  proposes  that  the  special  arrangements  aimed  at  the 
fight  against  drugs  should  be  continued  for  the  Andean  countries  and 
extended  to Venezuela,  provided  the  countries  concerned  continue  for 
their  part  to combat  drugs  and  results  are  achieved.  Progress  should 
be  monitored  by  evaluation  and  dialogue,  via  a  suitable  procedure  to 
be established  between  the  countries  concerned  and  the  Commission. 

As  for  agricultural,  fisheries  and  processed  agricultural  products, 
for  the Andean  and Centrai  American  countries  the Commission  proposes 
prolongation  of  the  existing  regulations  for  one  year,  pending  the 
start  of  the  new  agricultural  scheme,  and  their  extension  to 
Venezuela  except  in respect  of  fisheries products. 

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11. List of beneficiaries 

As explained  in its communication, the Commission  is not proposing to 
make  any  changes  to  the  list  of  current  beneficiaries  for  at  least 
three  years,  including,  as an  interim  arrangement,  the  countries of 
the  former  USSR  until  any  free-trade  agreement  with  them  comes  into 
force,  and  provided  they  undertake  to  open  their  markets  to 
developing-country exports. 

South Africa  is  included  in the  list on  the same conditions  as other 
beneficiaries. 

CONCLUSIONS 

The  Commission  proposes  that  the  Council  adopt  this  proposal  by 
15 October so that  the new scheme may be published early enough  to allow 
traders  and  officials  to  acquaint  themselves  with  the  arrangements 
before the scheme's entry  into force on 1 January 1995. 

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94/ 0209(ACC) 

PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL  (EC) REGULATION No 
APPLYING A THREE-YEAR  SCHEME OF GENERALIZED 
TARIFF PREFERENCES (1995-97) IN RESPECT OF 
CERTAIN  INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS ORIGINATING IN 
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES 

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, 

Having  regard  to  the  Treaty  establishing  the  European  Community,  and  in 
particular Article 113, 

Having regard to the proposal  from the Commission, 

Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament,1 

Having regard to the opinion of  the Economic and Social  Committee,2 

Whereas,  in accordance with  its offer made within the context of the United 
Nations  Conference  on  Trade  and  Development  (UNCTAD),  the  European 
Community  opened  generalized  tariff  preferences  commencing  in  1971  in 
respect, inter alia. of finished and semi-finished  industrial  products from 
developing countries; whereas the  initial  ten-year period of application of 
such  preferences  ended  on  31 December  1980  and  a  second  ten-year  period 
ended  on  31 December  1990,  though  the  scheme  has  been  kept  in  being 
unchanged until now; 

Whereas the positive role played by this system  in improving access for the 
developing  countries  to  the  markets  of  preference-giving  countries  is 
accepted  and  justifies  its  continued  existence  for  a  time,  in step  with 
other  important  measures  including  the  multilateral  liberalization  of 
trade-, 

Whereas  in Communications to the Council  dated 6 July  1990 and  1 July  1994 
the Commission set out  its recommendations for a further  ten-year  period of 
application of  its scheme of generalized preferences-, 

Whereas  preferential  imports  have  grown  substantially  since  the  previous 
decade  but  the distribution of  gains  is still  uneven  despite  the adoption 
of a policy of differentiation  in the 1980s; 

Whereas the Treaty on European Union has  lent a fresh  impetus to Community 
development  policy  as  an  aspect  of  the  Union's  foreign  policy,  with 
priority  given  to  the  sustainable  economic  and  social  development  of  the 
developing  countries  and  their  smooth  and  gradual  integration  Into  the 
world economy; 

Whereas  the Community  scheme of generalized  preferences should  accordingly 
become more development-oriented, focusing on the countries which have most 
need of  it, i.e. the poorest  countries, and  serving  a broad-based  concept 
of  development  which  incorporates  social  progress  and  environmental 
concerns and has a basis  in coherent  economic strategy; whereas  the scheme 

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should  be  complementary  to  GATT  instruments  and  should  foster  the 
integration  of  developing  countries  into  the  world  economy  and  the 
multilateral  trading  system;  whereas  the  giving  of  preferences  should 
therefore be seen as a transitional  measure, to be used at need  and phased 
out when the need  is considered no  longer to exist; 

Whereas  the  new  offer  aims  at  a  level  of  liberalization  which  is neutral 
overall  compared  with  the  existing  scheme  as  regards  the  impact  of  the 
preferential  margin on  the potential  volume of  preferential  trade; whereas 
special  incentive arrangements will  constitute an element  additional  to the 
basic offer; 

Whereas the new offer must  also take account of certain sectors or products 
which  are  sensitive  for  Community  industry;  whereas  sensitive  sectors 
should  be  protected  against  import  surges  solely  by  a  dual  mechanism 
involving  a  modulation  of  preferential  tariff  margins  coupled  with  an 
emergency  safeguard  clause; whereas  this system  will  replace  the machinery 
of  fixed duty-free amounts and ceilings; 

Whereas  in order  to  improve access to the Community market  and  increase the 
actual  take-up  of  preferences  by  moderately-developed  or  less-developed 
LDCs,  a  system  of  graduation  should  be  used  to  transfer  preferential 
margins gradually  from advanced  to  less-developed LDCs; 

Whereas graduation should be applied sensibly and gradually, by country and 
sector ; 

Whereas  sector/country  graduation  combines  a  development  criterion, 
expressed  as a development  index  reflecting  a country's  per  capita  income 
and  the  level  of  its manufactured  exports  as  compared  with  those  of  the 
Community,  with  a  measurement  of  relative  industrial  specialization 
expressed  as a specialization  index  based  on  the  ratio of  the  beneficiary 
country's share of  total  Community  imports  in general  to  its share of total 
Community  imports  in a given  sector; whereas  combined  application of  these 
two  criteria  should  make  it  possible  to  adjust  the  crude  results  of  the 
specialization  index,  in terms of  the sectors  to be excluded,  in  line with 
the  level of development; 

Whereas  the  sector/country  graduation  system  should  be  supplemented  by a 
solidarity  mechanism  applicable  in  exceptional  circumstances,  when 
beneficiary  countries  whose  exports  of  products  covered  by  the  GSP  in a 
given  sector  exceed  25% of  all  beneficiaries' exports of  those products  in 
that  sector  would  be  excluded  from  GSP  entitlement  for  that  sector 
irrespective of  their  level of development; 

Whereas  countries  undertaking  effective  programmes  to  combat  drug 
production  and  trafficking  should,  however,  remain  entitled  to  the  more 
favourable arrangements granted  them under  the previous scheme; whereas the 
countries concerned, plus Venezuela, will  therefore continue to enjoy duty 
free access provided  they continue their efforts to combat drugs; 

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Whereas  provision  should  also  be  made  for  special  types  of  assistance 
additional  to  the  general  preferential  scheme  aimed  at  supporting  the 
introduction  of  forward-looking  social  or  environmental  policies  in 
moderately-advanced developing countries; 

Whereas  beneficiary  countries which  so desire and  which  still  do not  have 
the means of meeting  the costs should  be encouraged  to  introduce effective 
policies  for  the protection  of  workers' rights, with  particular  regard  to 
the  right  to  organize  and  prohibition  of  child  labour;  whereas  special 
arrangements  should  therefore  be  established  for  products  manufactured  in 
conditions conforming  to standards  laid down by  the  ILO  in countries whose 
legislation  contains  rules  of  similar  scope  and  substance  which  are 
actual Iy applied; 

Whereas  beneficiary  countries  should  also  be  encouraged  to  undertake 
effective  environmental  protection  policies,  by  means  of  incentives  for 
products and production methods  internationally approved as consistent  with 
the objectives set out  in  international  conventions on  the environment  and 
in  Agenda 21;  whereas  to  that  end  special  incentive  arrangements  should 
initially  be  introduced  for  tropical  wood  products  from  forests which  are 
sustainably managed  in conformity with  ITTO standards-, 

Whereas  the  special  incentive  arrangements  take  the  form  of  an additional 
preferential margin; whereas they would operate on the basis of a system of 
certification  by  beneficiary-country  authorities  that  the  goods  conformed 
to  the  appropriate  international  standards,  backed  up  by  administrative 
cooperation methods similar  to those used  for the verification of origin; 

Whereas  in  certain  circumstances  it  might  be  appropriate  to  withdraw 
temporarily  some  or  all  of  a  country's  preferential  entitlement,  for 
instance  where  that  country's  legislation  provided  for  discrimination 
against  the Community  or  it failed  to apply  the administrative  cooperation 
methods on which  the operation of  the scheme  is based; whereas  this should 
also  apply  to any  form  of  forced  labour, exports  of  goods  made  by prison 
labour,  inadequate  controls  on  export  or  transit  of  drugs  or  money 
laundering,  and  failure  to  comply  with  obligations  entered  into  in  the 
Uruguay Round  to meet agreed market-access objectives; 

Whereas  temporary  withdrawal  of  entitlement  would  be  the  culmination  of a 
procedure  enabling  all  interested  parties  to  make  known  their  point  of 
view; 

Whereas  it would be  illogical  to accord  preferences  in respect  of  products 
subject  to anti-dumping  or  anti-subsidy  measures, where  such measures  fail 
to reflect  the  impact of the preferential arrangements; 

Whereas  provision  should  be  made  for  temporary  withdrawal  of  preference 
where  imports of a given product originating  in a beneficiary country cause 

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or  threaten  to  cause  serious  damage  to  Community  producers  of  like  or 
competing products; 

Whereas  detailed  statistics  should  be  compiled  on  imports  under  this 
Regulation and should be collected, processed and transmitted  in accordance 
with Council Regulations (EEC) Nos 1736/752 and 3367/87;3 

Whereas  matters  relating  to  the  application  and  management  of  the  scheme 
should  be  referred  for  consideration  to a Committee  for  the Management  of 
Generalized Preferences, 

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: 

Article 1 

1. A  Community  scheme  of  generalized  tariff  preferences  is  hereby 
established  for  the period  1 January  1995 to 31 December  1997, to apply  in 
accordance  with  this  Regulation.  It  comprises  general  arrangements 
(Title  I) and special  incentive arrangements (Title  II). 

2. This Regulation shall apply to products falling within Chapters 25 to 97 
of the common customs tariff  listed  in Annex  I. 

3. Access  to  the  arrangements  referred  to  in  paragraph  1  shall  be 
restricted  to the countries and territories  listed  in Annex  111. 

4.  In  order  to  be  admitted  under  one  of  the  preferential  arrangements 
established by  this Regulation, products must  comply  with  a definition of 
origin adopted  in accordance with the procedure  laid down  in Article 249 of 
Council  Regulation  (EEC)  No 2913/92  establishing  the  Community  Customs 
Code.4 

TITLE 1 

General  arrangements 

Article 2 

1. The  preferential  duty  applying  to products  listed  in Part  1 of  Annex I 
shall  be  80% of  the  common  customs  tariff  duty  applicable  to  the  product 
concerned, without  prejudice to Article 5 of  this Regulation. 

2. The  preferential  duty  applying  to products  listed  in Part  2 of  Annex 1 
shall  be  40% of  the  common  customs  tariff  duty  applicable  to  the  product 
concerned, without prejudice to Article 5 of this Regulation. 

3. Common  customs  tariff  duties  shall  be  suspended  in  their  entirety  on 
products  listed  in Part 3 of Annex 1. 

2  OJ No L 183. 14.7.1975, p. 3. 
3  OJ No L 321, 11.11.1987, p. 3. 
4  OJ No L 253, 11.10.1993, p. 1. 

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Article 3 

1. Common  customs  duties  shall  be  suspended  in their  entirety  on  products 
covered  by  this  scheme  for  the  least  developed  countries  listed  in 
Annex  IV. 

2. They  shall  be suspended  in their  entirety  for  those countries  listed in 
Annex V which are conducting a campaign  to combat  drugs, without  prejudice 
to the procedure described  in Article  18(3). 

Article 4 

1. A system of graduation and a solidarity mechanism shall be set up. 

2. The mechanisms described  in paragraphs 3 and 4 shall  apply  to countries 
and sectors meeting the conditions set out  in Part 2 of Annex  II. 

3. Without  prejudice  to  Article 5,  and  subject  to  paragraphs 4,  5  and  6 
below, the preferential  margin obtained by applying Article 2 to  imports of 
products originating  in the countries and falling within the sectors  listed 
in  part  1  of  Annex  II  shall  be  reduced  by  50%  on  1 January  1996  and 
abolished  on  1 January  1997  for  countries  whose  GNP  per  inhabitant  is 
greater  than  USD 6 000  for  1991  (according  to World  Bank  data) and  which 
are  listed  in Annex VII.  It shall  be  reduced  by 50% on  1 January  1997 for 
countries not  listed  in Annex  VII. 

4. For  the  countries  and  sectors  to  which  the  solidarity  mechanism  is 
applied,  the  preferential  margin  resulting  from  the  application  of 
Article 2 shall be abolished on 1 January 1996. 

5. At any rate, application of the system described  in this Article may not 
result  in  granting  to  the  countries  concerned  a  level  of  preferential 
access  which  is  more  favourable  than  that  applied  in  1993.  In  1996 
preferences  shall  be  limited  to  half  the  margin  applied  in  1995  for  the 
countries  listed  in Annex  VII. 

6. Products  coming  under  the  ECSC  Treaty  shall  remain  excluded  from  the 
preferential  arrangements  in the case of countries which did not qualify in 
1994. 

TITLE II 

Special  incentive arrangements 

Art icle 5 

Preferential  duties  shall  apply  in accordance  with  the  following  Articles 
under special  incentive arrangements available for countries which submit a 
written  request  to  that  effect  to  the  Commission  in  advance.  The  said 
arrangements shall  apply from 1 January 1997. 

Article 6 

Article 5  shall  apply  to  products  originating  in  countries  which  have 
adopted  and  actually  apply  domestic  legal  provisions  incorporating  the 
content  of  the standards  in  International  Labour  Organization Conventions 
No 87  concerning  Freedom  of  Association  and  Protection, of  the  Right  to 

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to Organize and  to Bargain Collectively, and No 138 concerning  Minimum  Age 
for Admission  to Employment. 

Article 7 

Article 5 shall  also apply  to products  listed  in Annex VI manufactured  from 
tropical  wood and originating  in countries which have adopted  and  actually 
apply  domestic  legal  provisions  incorporating  the content  of  International 
Tropical  Timber  Organization  standards  concerning  sustainable  forest 
management. 

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Article  8 

1. The  arrangements  referred  to  in  Article  5  shall  take  the  form  of  an 
additional  preference  accorded  exclusively  to  products  accompanied  by  a 
certificate  of  origin  Form  A  on  which  the  authorities  in  the  country  of 
origin  have  entered  a  statement  certifying  that  these  products  have  been 
manufactured  in  conditions  conforming  to  the  standards  referred  to  in 
Art icle 6 or  Art icle 7. 

2.  The  rules  for  verification  of  certificates of  origin  Form  A  laid  down  in 
Articles  78  to  97  of  Commission  Regulation  (EEC)  No  2454/935  shall  apply 
mutat is mutandis  to  the  certification 
referred  to  in  paragraph  1.  However,  without  prejudice  to  the  application 
of  Article  249  of  Regulation  (EEC)  No  2913/92,  matters  relating  to 
application  of  the  standards  referred  to  in  Articles  6  and  7  may  be 
examined  by  the Committee  referred  to  in Article  17. 

3. The  additional  preference  shall  take  the  form  of  a  reduction  of  the  duty 
applicable,  calculated  in accordance  with  the  following  rules: 

-  for  the  sectors  referred  to  in  Article  4  the  preferential  duty 
applicable  shall  be  set  at  80% of  the  common  customs  tariff  duty  where 
the  beneficiary  country  has  given  commitments  under  Article  6  or 
Article  7  and  at  70% where  it  has  given  commitments  under  both  Articles 
together; 

-  for  products  referred  to  in Article  2(1), the  preferential  duty  shall  be 
set  at  6 0%  of  the  common  customs  tariff  duty  where  the  beneficiary 
country  has  given  commitments  under  Article  6  or  Article  7  and  at  50% 
where  it  has given  commitments  under  both  Articles  together; 

-  for  products  referred  to  in Article  2(2), the  preferential  duty  shall  be 
set  at  20%  of  the  common  customs  tariff  duty  where  the  beneficiary 
country  has  given  commitments  under  Article  6  or  Article  7  and  at  10% 
where  it has  given  commitments  under  both  Articles  together. 

However,  the  additional  preference  under  Article  6,  in  the  sectors  referred 
to  in Article  4,  shall  not  apply  to  the  countries  listed  in Annex  VII. 

TITLE  III 

Total  or  partial  temporary  withdrawal  of  the  scheme  of 
generalized  preferences 

Art icle  9 

1. The  arrangements  provided  for  by  this  Regulation  may  at  any  time  be 
temporarily  withdrawn, wholly  or  partially,  in  the  following  circumstances: 

-  fraud  or  failure  to  provide  administrative  cooperation  as  required  for 
the  verification  of  certificates  of  origin  Form  A  and  the  statements 

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thereon,  or  existence  of  a  situation 
implementation of such  cooperation; 

preventing 

the  proper 

-  unfair  trading  practices on the part of a beneficiary  country,  including 
discrimination  against  the  Community  and  failure  to  comply  with 
obligations  under  the  Uruguay  Round  to  meet  agreed  market-access 
objectives; 

-  practice  of  any  form  of  forced  labour  as  defined  in  the  Geneva 
conventions  of  25 September  1926  and  7  September  1956  and  ILO 
conventions No 29 and No 105; 

-  export  of goods made by prison  labour; 

-  inadequate controls on export  or transit  of drugs  (illicit  substances or 

precursors), or money  laundering. 

2.  Temporary  withdrawal  shall  not  be  automatic  but  shall  follow  the 
procedural  requirements of the following  Articles. 

Article 10 

1. The circumstances  referred  to in Article 9 which  might  make  it necessary 
to  resort  to  temporary  withdrawal  of  preferences  shall  be  brought  to the 
Commission's  attention  by  the  Member  States,  or  by  any  natural  or  legal 
persons, or associations not endowed with  legal  personality,  which  can show 
an  interest  in  such  withdrawal.  The  Commission  shall  communicate  the 
information  Immediately  to all Member  States. 

2. Consultations  may be  initiated  either  at  the request  of  a Member  State 
or  at the Commission's  request.  They  shall  take  place  within  eight  working 
days  of  receipt  by  the  Commission  of  the  information  referred  to  in 
paragraph  1 and in any event  shall  be held  before  adoption of any  Community 
measures withdrawing  preferences. 

3. The  consultations  shall  take  place  in  the  Committee  referred  to  in 
Article  17, which  shall  be convened  by  its chairman who shall,  in addition, 
communicate  all  pertinent  information  to  the  Member  States  as  soon  as 
possible. 

4. The  consultations  shall  be  concerned  inter  al ia  with  analysis  of  the 
circumstances  referred  to in Article 9 and the measures  to be taken. 

Article 11 

1. Where  the Commission  finds,  following  the consultations,  that  there  Is 
sufficient  evidence  to justify  initiation of an  Investigation,  It shall: 

(a) 

announce  the  initiation  of  an  investigation  in  the  Official 
Journal  of  the European Communities;  such  announcement  shall  give 
a summary  of  the  information  received  and state  that  all  relevant 
information  is  to  be  communicated  to  the  Commission,  indicating 
the  period  within  which  interested  parties  may  make  known  their 
views  in writing; 

(b) 

commence  the  investigation  in cooperation with  the Member  States. 

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2.  The  Commission  shall  seek  all  information  it  deems  to  be  necessary  and 
shall,  where  it  considers  this  appropriate,  after  consulting  the  Committee 
referred  to  in  Article  17,  verify  the  information  with  economic  operators 
and  the  competent  authorities  of  the  beneficiary  country  concerned.  For 
this  purpose  the  Commission  may  dispatch  its  own  experts  to  establish  on 
the  spot  the  truth  of  the  allegations  made  by  the  person  referred  to  in 
Article  10(1).  The  Commission  shall  provide  the  competent  authorities  of 
the  beneficiary  country  concerned  every  opportunity  to  cooperate  as 
necessary  in the  conduct  of  these  enquiries. 

3. The  Commission  may  also  be  assisted  by  officials  of  the Member  State  on 
whose  territory  verification  might  be  sought,  if  the  said  Member  State  so 
requests. 

4. The  Commission  may  hear  the  interested  parties.  It shall  so  hear  them  if 
they  have,  within  the  period  prescribed  in  the  notice  published  in  the 
Official  Journal  of  the  European  Communities,  made  a written  request  for  a 
hearing  showing  that  they  are  likely  to  be  affected  by  the  result  of  the 
investigation  and  that  there  are  particular  reasons  why  they  should  be 
heard  orally. 

5. Where  Information  requested  by  the  Commission  is  not  provided  within  a 
reasonable  period  or  the  investigation  is  significantly  impeded,  findings 
may  be made on  the basis of  the  facts  available. 

Article  12 

1. When  the  investigation  is  complete  the  Commission  shall  report  the 
findings  to  the Committee  referred  to  in Article  17. 

2.  If  the  Commission  considers  temporary  withdrawal  of  preference  to  be 
unnecessary,  it  shall  publish  in  the  Official  Journal  of  the  European 
Communities,  after  consulting  the Committee,  a notice  of  termination  of  the 
investigation  setting  out  its main  conclusions. 

3.  If  the  Commission  considers  temporary  withdrawal  of  preference  to  be 
necessary,  it  shall  take  the  appropriate  decision  on  the  basis  of 
Article  9.  The  temporary  withdrawal  shall  last  for  one  year  and  shall  be 
renewed  unless  it can  be  shown  that  the  facts  which  led  to adoption  of  the 
measure  no  longer  obtain.  The  temporary  withdrawal  measure  shall  be 
published  in the Official  Journal  of  the  European  Communities. 

Article  13 

Where  products  covered  by  the  scheme  are  subject  to  anti-dumping  or  anti-
subsidy  duties  under  Council  Regulation  (EEC)  No  2423/886  which  have  been 
calculated  on  the  basis  of  the  injury  caused  and  according  to  the  prices 
charged  on  the  internal  market,  preference  shall  not  be  granted  to  those 
products  from  the  countries  concerned  unless  it  can  be  shown  that  the  said 
tariff 
duties  were  based  on  a  price  reflecting  the  preferential 
arrangements  granted  to the country  concerned.  The Commission  shall  publish 
a  list  of  products  and  countries  affected  by  such  measures  in  the  Official 
Journal  of  the  European  Communities. 

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Article  14 

1. Where  a  product  originating  in one  of  the  countries  listed  in Annex  III 
is  imported  on  terms  which  cause  or  threaten  to  cause  serious  difficulties 
to  a  Community  producer  of  like  or  directly  competing  products,  common 
customs  tariff  duties  may  be  reintroduced  on  that  product  at  any  time  at 
the  request  of  a Member  State  or  on  the Commission's  own  initiative. 

2.  The  Commission  shall  announce  the  opening  of  an  investigation  in  the 
Official  Journal  of  the  European  Communities.  The  announcement  shall 
provide  a  summary  of  the  information  received  and  state  that  any  useful 
information  should  be  communicated  to  the  Commission;  it  shall  specify  the 
time  limit  within  which  interested  parties  may  make  their  views  known  in 
wr i t i ng. 

3.  In  examining  the  possible  existence  of  serious  difficulties  the 
Commission  shall  take  account  inter  alia  of  the  factors  listed  in 
Annex  VIII  where  the  information  is available. 

4.  The  Commission  shall  take  the  decisions  referred  to  above  within 
30 working  days  following  consultation  of  the  Committee  set  up  by 
Article  17.  A  Member  State  may  refer  the  Commission's  decision  to  the 
Council  within  a  week.  The  Council,  acting  by  a  qualified  majority,  shall 
have one  month  within  which  to adopt  a different  decision. 

5. The  beneficiary  countries  concerned  shall  be  informed  of  such  measures 
before  the  said  measures  become  effective. 

6.  Nothing  in  paragraphs  1  to  3  shall  affect  the  application  of  safeguard 
clauses  adopted  as  part  of  the  common  agricultural  policy  under  Article  43 
of  the  Treaty  or  as  part  of  the  common  commercial  policy  under  Article  113 
of  the  Treaty,  or  any  other  safeguard  clauses  which  may  be  applied. 

TITLE  IV 

Common  provisions 

Article  15 

1. Subject  to  paragraph  2,  rates  of  preferential  duty  calculated  in 

At 

accordance  with  this Regulation  shall  be  rounded  up or  down  to  the  first 
decimal place. 

2. Where  the application  of  paragraph  1 results  in a  rate of  preferential 
duty  of  0.5%  or  less,  the  preferential  rate  shall  be  considered  a  full 
exempt ion. 

3. Changes  to  Annex  I or  Annex  I I made  necessary  by  amendments  to  the 
Combined  Nomenclature  shall  be  adopted  in  accordance  with  the  procedure 
laid down  in Article 19. 

Article 16 

Within  six  weeks of  the end of  each  quarter  the Member  States  shall  send 
the  Statistical  Office of  the  European  Communities  their  statistical  data 
on goods admitted  for free circulation during that quarter under  the tariff 
preferences  provided  for  in  this  Regulation.  The  said  data,  supplied  by 

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reference  to  Combined  Nomenclature  codes  and,  where  applicable,  Taric 
codes, shall  show  values, quantities  and  any  supplementary  units  required 
in  accordance  with  the  definitions  in  Regulations  (EEC)  No 1736/757  and 
No 3367/87,^ broken down by country of origin. 

Article 17 

1. A  Committee  for  the Management  of  Generalized  Preferences,  hereinafter 
referred  to  as  "the  Committee",  is  hereby  set  up.  It  shall  consist  of 
representatives  of  the  Member  States  and  shall  be  chaired  by  a 
representative of  the Commission. 

2. The Committee shall  adopt  its rules of procedure. 

Article 18 

1. The Committee may examine any matter  relating to the application of  this 
Regulation which  is raised by  its chairman either on his own  initiative or 
at the request of a Member State's representative. 

2. On  the basis of  an  annual  report  from  the Commission  it shall  examine 
the  extent  to  which  the  principle  of  neutrality  of  the  effects  of  this 
scheme  has been observed  and  any  steps being  considered  by  the Commission 
in accordance with  the procedure  described  In Article  19 to ensure  proper 
observance thereof. 

3.  It  shall  also  examine,  on  the  basis  of  an  annual  report  from  the 
Commission,  the  progress  made  by  the  countries  listed  in Annex  V  in  the 
fight  against  drugs  and,  If  progress  is  insufficient, any  measures  which 
the  Commission 
the 
procedure  provided  for  in Article  19 and  in consultation  with  the  country 
concerned  to suspend, wholly or partly, the application of Article 3. 

is  considering 

in  accordance 

taking 

with 

Article 19 

1. The Commission  representative  shall  submit  to  the Committee  a  draft  of 
the measures  to  be  taken.  The  Committee  shall  deliver  its opinion  on  the 
draft within a time  limit which  the chairman may  lay down according  to the 
urgency of  the matter. The opinion shall  be delivered by  the majority  laid 
down  in Article 148(2) of  the Treaty. The chairman shall not vote. 

2. (a)The  Commission  shall  adopt  the  measures  envisaged  if  they  are  in 
accordance  with  the  opinion  of  the  Committee,  or  if  no  opinion  is 
delivered, the Commission  shall, without  delay, submit  to the Council  a 
proposal  relating  to the measures to be taken. The Council  shall  act by 
a quai if led majority. 

(b)lf  the measures  envisaged  are not  in accordance  with  the opinion of 
the  Committee,  or  If  no  opinion  is  delivered,  the  Commission  shall, 
without  delay, submit  to the Council  a proposal  relating  to the measures 
to be taken. The Council shall  act by a qualified majority. 

(c)lf, within  three months of  the  referral  to  the Council,  the Council 
has not acted, the proposed measures shall be adopted by the Commission. 

7  OJ No L 183, 14.7.1975, p. 3. 
8  OJ No L 321. 11.11.1987, p. 3. 

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Art icle 20 

This  Regulation  shall  enter  into  force  on  1 January  1995  and  shall  be 
applicable for three years. 

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

Done at Brussels, 

For the Council 

The President 

A) 

ANNEX I 

Products sensitivity categories 

Part 1 

Sensitive products 

Description of goods 

Calcium 
Airmonia, anhydrous or in aqueous solution 
Sodium hydroxide (caustic soda); potassium hydroxide (caustic potash); proxides of 
sodium or potassium 
Zinc oxide; zinc peroxide 
Artificial corundum, whether or not chemically defined; aluminium oxide; aluminium 
hydroxide 
Chromium oxides and hydroxides 
Titanium oxides 
Antimony oxides 
Ammonium chloride 
Iodides and  iodide oxides 
Sodium sulphides 
Dithionltes and sulphoxylates 
PhosphInates (hypophosphltes), phosphonates (phosphites), phosphates and polyphosphates 
DisodIurn carbonate 
Barium carbonate 
Potassium permanganate 
Carbides of si I Icon 
Carbides of tungsten 
Silicides 
Styrene 
Halogenated derivatives of hydrocarbons 
Acyclic alcohols and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives, 
excluding product numbers 2905 43 and 2905 44 
Naphtols and their salts 
Hydroquinone  (quinoI) 
Ethers, ether-alcohols,ether-phenols, ether-alcohol-phenols, alcohol peroxides, 
ether peroxides, ketone peroxides (wether or not chemically defined), and their 
halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives 
Vani11 in (4-hydroxy-3-methoxybenzaldehyde) 
Acetone 
Camphor 
Satured acyclic monocarboxyIic acids and their anhydrides, halides, peroxides and 
peroxyacids; their halogenated. sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives 
Esters of acrylic acid 
Other aromatic monocarboxyIic acids, their anhydrides, halides, peroxides, peroxyacids 
and their derivatives; other than benzonic acids, benzoyl peroxides and benzoyl 
chloride, phenylacetIc acid 
Oxalic acid  its salts and esters 
Terephthalic acid and Its salts 
Citric acid 
Salts and esters of citric acid 
O^Acetysalicylic acid, its salts and esters 
Amine-function compounds 
Oxygen-function amino-compounds 
Choiine chloride 
Paracetamol  (INN) 
Acrylonltrile 
Cysteine, cystine and their derivatives 
Coumarin, methylcoumarlns and ethylcoumarlns 
Mel amine 
Sulphonamides 
Heparin and  its salts 
Mineral or chemical  fertilizers, nitrogenous 
Mineral or chemical  fertilizers, phosphatic 
Mineral or chemical  fertilizers containing two or three of the fertilizing elements 
nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium; other fertilizers; goods of this chapter  in tablets 
or similar forms or in packages of a gross weight not exceeding 10 kg 
Other colouring matter; preparations as specified  in note 3 to this chapter, other than 
those of heading No 3203, 3204 or 3205; inorganic products of a kind used as 
luminophores, whether or not chemically defined 
Casein, easelnates and other casein derivatives; casein gtues 
Gelatin (including gelatin  in rectangular (including square) sheets, whether or not 
surface-worked or coloured) and gelatin derivatives; isinglass; other glues of animal 
origin, excluding casein glues of heading No 3501 
Activated carbon; activated natural mineral products; animal black, including spent 
animal black 

"IP 

CN  code 

00 

2805 21 
2814 
2815 

2817 
2818 

2819 
2823 
2825 
2827 
2827 
2830 
2831 
2835 
2836 
2836 
2841 
2849 
2849 
2850 
2902 
2903 
ex 2905 

80 00 
10 00 
60 00 
10 00 

20 00 
60 00 
60 10 
20 00 
90 30 
00 70 
50 00 

2907 15 00 
2907 22 10 
2909 

2912 41 00 
2914 11 00 
2914 21 00 
2915 

2916 12 00 
2916 39 00 

11 00 
36 00 
14 00 
15 00 
22 00 

10 10 
29 30 
10 00 
90 10 
21 00 
61 00 

90 91 

2917 
2917 
2918 
2918 
2918 
2921 
2922 
2923 
2924 
2926 
2930 
2932 
2933 
2935 
3001 
3102 
3103 
3105 

3206 

3501 
3503 

3802 

Port  1 (cont'd) 

CN 

code 

3817 

3901 
3902 
3903 
3904 
3907 60 00 
3907 99 00 
3920 

3921 90 19 

4011 
4012 

4013 
CHAPTER 41 
4203 
4601 99 10 
4602 90 10 

4602 90 90 

4903 
4908 
4905 10 
4909 

4910 
4911 
CHAPTER 50 
CHAPTER 51 
CHAPTER 52 
CHAPTER 53 
CHAPTER 54 
CHAPTER 55 
CHAPTER 56 

CHAPTER 57 
CHAPTER 58 
CHAPTER 59 

CHAPTER 60 
CHAPTER 61 
CHAPTER 62 
CHAPTER 63 
CHAPTER 64 
6907 

6908 

6911 

6912 

6913 
7013 

7019 

7202 
7312 

CHAPTER 74 
CHAPTER 76 
8102 93 00 
8104 11 00 

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Description of goods 

Mixed alkylbenzenes and mixed a IkyI naphthalenes, other than those of heading No 2707 or 
2902 
Polymers of ethylene, in primary forms 
Polymers of propylene of other olefins, in primary forms 
Polymers of styrene, In primary forms 
Polymers of vinyl chloride or of other halogenated olefins, in primary forms 
Polyethylene terephtralate 
Other polyesters, other than unsaturated 
Other plates, sheets, film, foil and strip, of plastics, non-cellular and not 
reinforced, laminated, supported or similarly combined with other materials 
Other plates, sheets, film, foil and strip :  other of polyesters, other than corrugated 
sheets and plates 
New pneumatic tyres, of rubber 
Retreated or used pneumatic tyres of rubber; solid or cushion tyres, interchangeable 
tyre treads and tyres flaps, of rubber 
Inner tubes, of rubber 
Raw hides and skins (other than furskins) and leather 
Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, of leather or of composition leather 
Other manufactures of  plaits or similar products of subheading 4601 10 
Basketwork, wickerwork and other articles, made directly to shape from plaiting 
materials 
Other  basketwork.  wickerwork  and  other  a r t i c l es 

Children's  picture,  drawing  or  colouring  books 
Transfers  (decalcomanias) 
Globes 
Printed or illustrated postcards; printed cards bearing personal greetings, messages 
or announcements, whether or not  illustrated, with or without envelopes or trimmings 
Calendars of any kind, printed. Including calendar blocks 
Other printed matter, including printed pictures and photographs 
Silk 
Wool, fine or coarse animal hair; horsehair yarn and woven fabric 
Cotton 
Other vegetable textile fibres; paper yarn and woven fabrics of paper yarn 
Man-mode filaments 
Man-made staple fibres 
Wadding, felt and nonwovens; special yarns; twine, cordage, ropes and cables and 
articles thereof 
Carpets and other textile floor coverings 
Special woven fabrics; tufted textile fabrics; lace; tapestries; trimmings; embroidery 
Impregnated, coated, covered or laminated textile fabrics; textile articles of a kind 
suitable for industrial use 

Knitted of crocheted  fabrics 
Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, knitted or crocheted 
Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, not knitted or crocheted 
Other made-up textile articles; sets; worn clothing and worn textile articles; rags 
Footwear, gaiters and the like; parts of such articles 
Unglazed ceramic flags and paving, heart or wall tiles; unglazed ceramic mosaic cubes 
and the like, whether or not on a backing 
Glazed ceramic flags and paving, hearth of wall  tiles; glazed ceramic mosaic cubes 
and the like, whether  or not on  a backing 
Tableware, kitchenware. other household articles and toilet articles, of porcelain or 
china 
Ceramic tableware, kitchenware. other household articles and toilet articles, other than 
of porcelain or china 
Statuettes and other ornamental ceramic articles 
Glassware of a kind used for table, kitchen, toilet, office, indoor decoration or 
similar purposes (other than that of heading No 7010 or 7018 
Glass fibres (including glass wool) and articles thereof (for example, yarn, woven 
fabrics) 
Ferro-alloys 
Stranded wire, ropes, cables, plaited bands, slings and the like, of  Iron or steel, not 
electrically insulated 
Copper and articles thereof 
Aluminium and articles thereof 
Wire 
Containing at  least 99,8% by weight of  magnesium 

Port 1 (cont'd) 

CN 

code 

10 
90 30 
90 50 
90 70 
90 00 
10 10 
90 00 
30 90 
99 30 

8108 
8108 
8108 
8108 
8108 
8109 
8109 
8112 
8112 
8401 

8410 
8411 
8427 
8452 

8482 
8483 

8509 
8516 29 91 
8516 31 
8516 40 
8516 50 
8516 60 70 
8516 71 00 
8516 72 00 
8516 79 80 
8519 

8520 

8521 
8522 
8523 

8524 

8527 

8528 

8529 

8531 

8540 

8541 

8542 
8702 
8703 

8704 
8706 
8707 
8708 

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Description of goods 

Unwrought titanium; waste and scrap; powders 
Bars. rods, profiles and wire 
Plates, sheets, strip and foi I 
Tubes and pipes 
Other articles of titanium 
Unwrought zirconium; powder 
Other articles of zirconium 
Germanium, other than unwrought; waste and scrap; powders 
Niobium (coIambi urn); rhenium 
Nuclear reactors; fuel elements (cartriges), non-irradiated, for nuclear reactors; 
machinery and apparatus for isotopic separation 
Hydraulic turbines, water wheels, and regulators thereof 
Turbo-jets, turbo-propellers and other gas turbines 
Fork-lift trucks; other works trucks  fitted with lifting or handling equipment 
Sewing machines, other than book-sewing machines of heading No 8440; furniture, bases 
and covers specially designed for sewing machines; sewing machine needles 
Ball or roller bearings 
Transmission shafts (including cam shafts and crank shafts) and cranks; bearings 
housings and plain shaft bearings; gears and gearing; ball screws; gear boxes and other 
speed changers, including torque converters; flywheels and pulleys, including pulley 
blocks; clutches and shaft couplings (including universal joints) 
Electro-mechanical domestic appliances, with self-contained electric motor 
Other radiators, with built-in fan 
Hair dryers 
Electric smoothing irons 
Microwave ovens 
Grillers and roasters 
Coffee or tea makers 
Toasters 
Other electro- thermic appliances, other than plate warmers or deep fat fryers 
Turnables (record-decks), record-players, cassette-players and other sound reproducing 
apparatus, not  incorporating a sound recording device 
Magnetic tape recorders and other sound recording apparatus, whether or not 
incorporating a sound reproducing device 
Video recording or reproducing, apparatus, whether or not  incorporating a video turner 
Parts and accessories of apparatus of heading Nos 8519 to 8521 
Prepared unrecorded media for sound recording or similar recording of other phenomena, 
other than products of Chapter 37 
Records, tapes and other recorded media for sound or other similarly recorded phenomena, 
including matrices and masters for the production of records, but excluding products 
of Chapter 37 
Reception apparatus for radio-telephony, rodio-telegraphy or radio-broadcasting, 
whether or not combined,  in the sane housing, with sound recording or reproducing 
apparatus or a clock 
Television receivers (including videomonitors and video projectors), whether or not 
incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing 
apparatus 
Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the apparatus of heading 
No 8525  à 8528 
Electric sound or visual signalling apparatus (for example, bells, sirens, indicator 
panels, burglar or fire alarms), other than those of heading No 8512 or 8530 
Thermionic, cold cathode or photocathode valves and tubes (for example, vacuum or 
vapour or gas filled valves and tubes, mercury arc recti flying valves and tubes, 
cathode-ray tubes, television camera tubes) 
Diodes, transistors and similar semiconductor devices; photosensitive semiconductor 
devices, including photovalvie cells whether or not assembled  in modules or made up 
into panels; light-emitting diodes; mounted piezo-electrîc crystals 
Electronic integrated circuits and microassembl ies 
Motor vehicles for the transport of ten persons or more, including the driver 
Motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of persons 
(other than those of heading No 8702), including station wagons and racing cars 
Motor vehicles for the transport of goods 
Chassis fitted with engines, for the moto vehicles of heading No 8701 to 8705 
Bodies (including cabs), for the motor vehicles of heading Nos 8701 to 8705 
Parts and accessories of the motor vehicles of heading Nos  8701  to 8705 

7JL 

Port  1 (cont'd) 

CN  code 

8709 

8711 

8712 
9009 

9013 

9101 

9103 
9105 
9201  10 
9201  20 
9201 90 

I S-

Description of goods 

Works trucks, self-propelled, not  fitted with  lifting or handling equipment, of the 
type used  in factories, warehouses, dock areas or airports for short distance transport 
of goods: tractors of the type used on railway station platforms; parts of the 
foregoing vehicles 
Motor-cycles (including mopeds) and cycles fitted with an auxiliary motor, with or 
without  side-cars; side-cars 
Bicycles and other cycles (including delivery tricycles), not motorized 
Photocopyng apparatus incorporating on optical system or of  the contact  type ond 
thermo-copying apparatus 
Liquid crystal devices not constltuing articles provided  for more specifically  in other 
headings; losers, other than  loser diodes; other optical  appliances ond  instruments, not 
specified or Included elsewhere  in this chapter 
Wrist-watches, pocket-watches ond other watches, including stop-watches, with case of 
precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal 
Clocks with watch movements, excluding clocks of heading N* 9104 
Other clocks 
Upright pianos 
Grand pianos 
Other pianos 

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Part  2 

Semi-sensitive  products 

CN  code 

Description of goods 

2804 
2805 
2825 
2827 
2834 
2904 
2914 
2916 
2916 
2917 
2917 
2917 
2917 
2917 
2918 
2918 
2924 
2924 
2924 
2927 
2929 
2930 
2930 
2936 
2936 
2939 
2939 

70 00 
30 
10 00 
32 00 
10 00 
20 
22 00 
11 10 
14 00 
12 10 
14 00 
32 00 
35 00 
37 00 
21 00 
29 10 
10 00 
21 00 
29 90 

10 00 
40 00 
90 80 
25 00 
27 00 
21 90 
29 00 

2939 90 90 
2940 00 90 

3104 
3204 

3507 

3906 10 00 
3907 10 00 
3908 
4010 

4202 

4204 

4205 

Phosphorus 
Rare-earth metals, scandium and yttrium, whether or not  intermixed or Interalloyed 
Hydrazine and hydroxylamine and their in organic salts 
Aluminium chloride 
Nitrites 
Derivatives containing only nitro or only nitroso groups 
Cyclohexanone and methyleyeIohexanones 
Acrylic acid 
Esters of methocrylic acid 
Adlpic acid, and its salts 
Maleic anhydride 
Dioctyl orthophthalates 
Phtrallc anhydride 
Dimethyl  terephthalate 
Salicylic acid and its salts 
Sulphosallcyttc acids, hydfroxynaphthoic acids; their salts and esters 
Acyclic  amides (including acyclic carbamates) and their derivatives; salts thereof 
Ureines and their derivatives; salts thereof 
Other carboxyemide-function compounds 
DIazo-, azo- or azoxy-compounds 
Isocyanates 
Methionine 
Other organo-suiphur compounds 
Vitamin Bg ond its derivatives 
Vitamin C and its derivatives 
Other alkaloids of cinchona, other than quinine and quinine sulphate 
Alkaloids of chinconce ond their derivatives; salts thereof  : other than quinine and its 
salts 
Other vegetable alkaloids, other than cocaine and emetine 
Sugars, chemically pure, other than sucrose, lactose, maltose, glucose and 
fructose; sugar ethers and sugar esters, and their salts, other than products of 
heading No 2937, 2938 or 2939, other than rhannose, raffinose and mannose 
Mineral or chemical  fertilizers, potassic 
Synthetic organic colouring matter, whether or not chemically defined; preparations 
as specified  in note 3 to this chapter based on synthetic organic colouring matter, 
synthetic organic products of a kind used as fluorescent brightening agents or as 
luminophores, whether or not chemically defined 
Enzymes; prepared enzymes not elsewhere specified or included 

Polymethyl methocrylate 
Polyacetals 
Polyamides in primary form 
Conveyor or transmission belts or belting, of vulcanized rubber 

Trunks, suit-cases, vanity-cases, executive-cases, brief-cases, school satchels, 
spectacle-cases, binocular cases, camera cases, musical  instrument cases, gun cases, 
holsters and similar containers; travelling-bags, toilet bags, rucksacks, handbags, 
shopping-bags, wallets, purses, mop—cases, cigarette-cases, tobacco-pouches, tool bags, 
sports bags, bottle-cases, jewellery boxes, powder—boxes, cutlery cases and similar 
containers, of  leather or of composition  leather, of sheeting of plastics, of textile 
materials, of vulcanized fibre or of paperboard, or wholly or mainly covered with 
such materials or with paper 
Articles of  leather, or of composition  leather, of a kind used in machinery or 
mechanical appliances or for other technical uses 
Other articles of leather or of composition leather 

ex CHAPTER 46 

Manufactures of straw, of esparto or of other plaiting materials; basketware and 
wickerwork excluding products mentioned  in part 1 

CHAPTER 66 

Umbrellas, sun umbrellas, walking-sticks, seat-sticks, whips, riding-crops ond parts 
thereof 

ex CHAPTER 69 
ex CHAPTER 70 

Ceramic products excluding products mentioned in part 1 
Glass and glassware  excluding products mentioned in part 1 

7117 

Imitation jewellery 

ex CHAPTER 73 
CHAPTER 78 
CHAPTER 79 
ex CHAPTfT! 81 
CHAPTER 82 
CHAPTER 83 

Articles of iron or steel excluding products mentioned  in parts 1 or 3 
Lead and articles thereof 
Zinc and articles thereof 
Other base metals; cermets; articles thereof excluding products mentioned  In part 1 
Tools, Implements, cutlery, spoons and forks, of base metal; parts thereof of base metal 
Miscellaneous articles of base metal 

2 h 

-M-

Part 2 (cont'd) 

CN  code 

Description of goods 

8406 
8407 
8406 
8409 
8415 

8418 

8420 

8443 
8450 
8451 

8452 

8453 

8454 

8455 
8456 

8457 

8458 
8459 

8460 

8461 

8462 

8463 

8467 
8468 

8469 
8470 

8471 

8472 

8473 

8504 
8505 

e*"* 

Steam turbines ond other vapour turbines 
Spark-ignition reciprocating or rotary internal combustion piston engines 
Compression-Ignition  internal combustion piston engines (diesel or seml-diesel engines) 
Parts suitable for use solely of principally with the engines of heading No 8407 or 8408 
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 
Refrigerators, freezers and other refrigerating or freezing equipment, electric or 
other; heat pumps other than air conditioning machines of heading No 8415 
Calendering or other rolling machines, other than for metals or glass, and cylinders 
thereof 
Printing machinery; machines for uses ancillary to printing 
Household or laundry-type washing machines, including machines which both wash and dry 
Machinery (other than machines of heading No 8450) for washing, cleaning, wringing, 
drying, ironing, pressing, (including fusing presses), bleaching, dyeing, dressing, 
finishing, coating or impregnating textile yarns, fabrics or made up textile articles 
and machines for applying the paste to the base fabric or other support used in the 
manufacture 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; furnitures, bases 
ond covers specially designed for sewing machines; sewing machine needles 
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 
Converters, ladles, ingot moulds and casting machines, of a kind used in metallurgy or 
in metal foundries 
Metal-rollings and rolls therefor 
Machine-tools for working any material by removal of material, by laser or other light 
or photon beam, ultrasonic, electro-discharge, electro-chemical, electron beam, 
ionic-beam or plasma arc processes 
Machining centers, unit construction machines (single station) and multi-station 
transfer machines, for working metal 
Lathes for removing metal 
Machine-tools (including way-type unit heod machines) for drilling, boring, milling, 
threading or tapping by removing metal, other than lathes of heading No 8458 
Machine-tools for deburrlng. sharpening; grinding, honing, lapping, polishing or 
otherwise 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, gear cutting, gear grinding or 
gear finishing, sawing, cut ting-off ond 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, hommering or die-
stamping; machine-tools (including presses) for working metal by bending, folding, 
straightening, flatenning, 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 
Tools for working in the hand, pneumatic or with self-contained non-electric motor 
Machinery and apparatus for soldering, brazing or welding, whether or not capable of 
cutting, other than those of heading No 8515; gas-operated surface tempering 
machines and appliances 
Typewriters and word-processing machines 
Calculating machines; accounting machines, postage-franking machines, ticket-issuing 
machines and similar machines, incorporating a calculating device; cash registers 
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 
Other office machines (for example, hectograph or stencil duplicating machines, 
addressing machines, automatic banknote dispensers, coin-sorting machines, coin-
counting or wrapping machines, penciI-sharpening, perforating or stapling machines) 
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 
Electrical transformers, static converters (for example, rectifiers) ond inductors 
Electro-magnets; permanent magnets ond articles Intended to become permanent magnets 
after magnetization; electro-magnetic or permanent magnet chucks, clomps ond similar 
holding devices; electro-magnetic couplings, clutches ond brakes; electro-magnetic 
lifting heads 
Electrical apparatus for line telephony or line telegraphy, including such apparatus for 
carrier-current line systems 
Microphones and stands therefor; loudspeakers, whether or not mounted  in their 
enclosures; headphones, earphones and combined microphone/speaker sets; audio 
frequency electric amplifiers; electric sound amplifier sets 

2 

Part 2  (cont'd) 

CN  code 

-A'L-

Description  of goods 

8525 

8526 
8532 
8533 

8534 
8536 

8705 

8714 
8715 
8716 
CHAPTER 89 
9002 

9005 

9006 

9007 

9008 

9011 

9012 
9014 
9015 

9016 
9033 

ex CHAPTER 91 
ex CHAPTER 92 

9404 

9405 

Transmission  apparatus for radio-telephony,  radio-telegraphy, radio-broadcasting or 
television, whether or not  incorporating  reception apparatus or sound  recording or 
reproducing apparatus; television cameras 
Radar apparatus,  radio navigational  aid apparatus and  radio  remote control  apparatus 
Electrical  capacitors, fixed, variable or adjustable  (pre-set) 
Electrical  resistors (including  rheostats and potentiometers), other  than heating 
resistors 
Printed  circuits 
Electrical  apparatus for switching or protecting electrical  circuits, or  for making 
connections  to or  in electrical  cicuits (for example  switches, relays, fuses, surge 
suppressors, plugs, sockets,  lamp-holders, junction  boxes), for a voltage not 
exceeding 1 000 V 
Special  purpose motor vehicles, other than those principally designed for the 
transport of persons or goods (for example, breakdown  lorries, crane  lorries, 
fire-fighting vehicles, concrete-mixer  lorries, road sweeper  lorries, spraying  lorries, 
mobile workshops, mobile  radiological  units) 
Parts and accessories of vehicles of heading Nos 8711  to 8713 
Baby carriages and parts  thereof 
Trailers and semi-trailers; other vehicles,not mechanically propelled; parts  thereof 
Ships, boats and  floating stuctures 
Lenses, prisms, mirrors and other optical  elements, of any material, mounted,  being 
parts of or  fittings for  instruments or apparatus, other  than such elements of glass not 
optically workded 
Binoculars, monoculars, other optical  telescopes, and mountings therefor; other 
astronomical  instruments and mountings therefor, but not  including  instruments for 
rod i o-as t ronomy 
Photographic  (other than cinematographic) cameras; photographic  flashlight  apparatus 
and  flashbulbs other  than discharge  lamps of heading No 8539 
Cinematographic cameras and projectors, whether or not  incorporating  sound  recording 
or reproducing apparatus 
Image projectors, other  than cinematographic; photographic  (other than cinematographic) 
enlargers and  reducers 
Compound  optical microscopes,  including  those for photomicrography,  clnephotomicrography 
or microprojection 
Microscopes other than optical microscopes; diffraction  apparatus 
Direction  finding compasses; other navigational  instruments and appliances 
Surveying  (including photograrrmetrical  surveying), hydrographie, océanographie, 
hydrological, meteorological  or geophysical  instruments and appliances, excluding 
compasses; rangefinders 
Balances of a sensitivity of 5 eg of better, with or whitout weigths 
Parts and accessories  (not specified or  included elsewhere  in this chapter) for 
machines, appliances,  instruments or apparatus of Chapter 90 
Clocks and watches and parts thereof, excluding products mentionned  in Part 1 
Musical  instrunents; parts and accessories of such articles  . excluding  products 
mentionned  in Part 1 
Mattress supports; articles of bedding and similar furnishing (for example, mattresses, 
quilts, eiderdowns, cushions, pouffes and pillows) fitted with springs or stuffed or 
internally fitted with any material  or of cellular  rubber or plastics, whether or not 
covered 
Lamps and  lighting  fittings  including searchlights and spotlights and parts thereof, 
not elsewhere specified or  included;  illuminated signs,  illuminated name-plates and  the 
like, having a permanently fixed  light source, and parts thereof not elsewhere specified 
or  included 

ic 

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Part  3 

Non-Sensitive products 

Description of goods 

Salt; sulphur; earths ond stone; plastering materials,  lime and cement 
Mineral  fuels, mineral  oils and products of their distillation  ; bituminous  substances; 
mineral  waxes 
Inorganic chemicals: organic or  inorganic compounds of precious metals, of rare-earth 
metals, of  radioactive elements or of  isotopes, excluding products mentioned  in 
Parts 1 or 2 
Organic chemicals, excluding products mentioned  in Parts 1 or 2 
Pharmaceutical  products, excluding products mentioned  in Part 1 
Animal  or vegetable fertilizers, whether or not mixed together or chemically  treated; 
fertilizers produced  by the mixing or chemical  treatment  of animal  or vegetable 
products 
Tanning or dyeing extracts; tannins and their derivatives; dyes, pigments and other 
colouring matter; paints and varnishes; putty ond other mastics;  inks, excluding 
products mentioned  in Port  2 
Essential  oils ond 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 
Albuninoidal  substances; modified  starches; glues; enzymes,  excluding products 
mentioned  in Parts 1 or 2. and product numbers 3502 10 91. 3502 10 99. 3505 10. 3505 20 
3505 20. and 3523 60 
Explosives; pyrotechnic  products; matches; pyrophoric alloys; certain  combustible 
preparations 
Photographic or cinematographic  goods 
Miscellaneous chemical products, excluding products mentioned  in Parts 1 or 2. and 
product number 3823 60 
Plastics and articles thereof, excluding products  mentioned  in Parts 1 or 2 
Rubber and articles thereof, excluding products mentioned  in Parts  1 or 2 
Saddlery and harness for any animal  (including traces, leads, knee pads, muzzles, saddle 
cloths, saddle bags, dog coats and  the  like), of any material 
Articles of gut  (other than silkworm gut), of goldbeater's skin, of bladders or of 
tendons 
Fursklns and artificial  fur; manufactures  thereof 
Wood and articles of wood; 
Cork and articles of cork 
Paper and paperboard; articles of paper pulp, of paper or of paperboard 
Printed books, newspapers, pictures and other products of the printing  industry; 
manuscripts, typescripts and plans, excluding products  mentioned  in Parts 1 or 2 
Headgear and parts thereof 
Prepared  feathers and down and articles made of feathers or of down; artificial 
flowers; articles of human hair 
Articles of stone, plaster, cement, asbestos, mica or similar materials 
Natural  or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals 
clad with precious metal, and articles thereof;  imitation  jewellery; coin, excluding 
products mentionned  in Part  2 
Iron and steel, excluding products mentioneed  in Part 1 
Sheet piling of  iron or steel, whether or not drilled, punched or made  from  assembled 
elements; welded angles, shapes and sections, of  iron or steel 
Railway or tramway  track construction material  of  iron or steel, the following: rails, 
check-rails and  rock  rails, switch blades, crossing  frogs, point  rods and other  crossing 
pieces, sleepers  (cross-ties), fish-plates, chairs, chair-wedges, sole plates  (base 
plates),  rail clips, bedplates, ties and other material  specialized  for jointing or 
fixing  rails 
Tubes, pipes ond hollow profiles. seamless, of  iron (other than cast  iron) or steel 
Other tubes and pipes (for example, welded,  riveted or similarly closed), having 
internal  ond external circular cross-sections, the external  diameter of which exceeds 
406,4 mm, of  iron or steel 
Other tubes, pipes and hollow profiles (for example, open seam or welded, riveted or 
similarly closed), of  Iron or steel 
Structures (excluding  prefabricated  buildings of heading No 9406) ond parts of 
structures (for example bridges ond bridge-sections,  lock-gates, towers,  lattice masts, 
roofs, roofing frameworks, doors and windows and their frames and thresholds  for doors, 
shutters, balustrades, pillars and columns) of  iron or steel; plates, rods, angles, 
•-shapes, sections, tubes and  the  like, prepared  for use  in structures, of  iron or steel 

CN code 

CHAPTER  25 
CHAPTER  27 

ex CHAPTER  28 

ex CHAPTER  29 
ex CHAPTER  30 
3101 CO 00 

ex CHAPTER  32 

CHAPTER  33 
CHAPTER  34 

ex CHAPTER  35 

CHAPTER  36 

CHAPTER  37 
ex CHAPTER  38 

ex CHAPTER  39 
ex CHAPTER  40 
4201 00 00 

4206 

CHAPTER  43 
CHAPTER  44 
CHAPTER 45 
CHAPTER  48 
ex CHAPTER  49 

CHAPTER  65 
CHAPTER  67 

CHAPTER  68 
ex CHAPTER  71 

ex CHAPTER  72 

7301 

7302 

7304 
7305 

7306 

7308 

? 

Port 3 (cont'd) 

CN code 

7313 00 00 

7314 

7316 00 00 
7317 

CHAPTER  75 
CHAPTER  80 
ex CHAPTER  84 

ex CHAPTER  85 

CHAPTER  86 

8701 
8710 00 00 

8713 
CHAPTER  88 
ex CHAPTER  90 

9401 

9402 

9403 
9406 00 
CHAPTER  95 
CHAPTER  96 

- lo  -

Description of goods 

Barbed wire of iron or steel; twisted hoop or single fiat wire, barbed or not, and 
loosely twisted double wire, of a kind used for fencing, of iron  or steel 
Cloth (including endless bands), grill, netting and fencing, of iron or steel wire; 
expanded metal of Iron or steel 
Anchors, grapnels and parts thereof, of iron or steel 
Nails, tacks, drawing pins, corrugated nails, staples (other than those of heading 
No 8305)  and similar articles, of  iron or steel, whether or not with heads of other 
material, but excluding such articles with heads of copper 
Nickel and articles thereof 
Tin and articles thereof 
Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof, 
excluding products  mentioned in Parts 1 or 2 
Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, 
television image and sound recorders ond reproducers, and parts and accessories 
of such articlee, excluding products mentioned in Parts 1 or 2 
Railway or tramway locomotives, rolling-stock and parts thereof; railway or tramway 
track fixtures ond fittings and parts thereof; mechanical  (including electro 
mechanical) traffic signalling équipement of all kinds 
Tractors (other than tractors of heading No 8709) 
Tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, motorized, whether or not fitted with 
weapons, ond ports of such vehicles 
Invalid carriages, whether or not motorized or otherwise mechanically propelled 
Aircraft, spacecraft, and parts thereof 
Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or 
surgical  instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof, excluding products 
mentioned In Ports 1 or 2 
Seats (other than those of No 9402). whether or not convertible Into beds, and parts 
thereof 
Msdlcal. 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 
Other furniture and parts thereof 
Prefabricated buildings 
Toys, games and sports requisites; parts and accessories thereof 
Miscellaneous manufactured articles 

7/ 

- 2 t -" 
A M CX  II 

Part 1 

List of sectors and coutries referred to in article  4 

CN  code 

Description of goods 

CHAPTERS 25 AND 27 

Mineral  products 

Countries 
concerned 

Saudi Arabia 
Russia 
Libya*1) 

Chemicals excluding fertilizers 

China (1) 

CHAPTER 28 
CHAPTER 29 
CHAPTER 30 
CHAPTER 32 
CHAPTER 33 
CHAPTER 34 
CHAPTER 35 
CHAPTER 36 
CHAPTER 37 
CHAPTER 38 

CHAPTER 31 

FertiIizers 

Belarus 
Kazakhstan 
Russia 
Ukraine 
Chile (1) 

South Korea 
Malaysia 
Thailand 

Argentina 
Brazil 
India 
Pakistan 

China 
South Korea 
Hong Kong 
India 
Pakistan 
Thailand 

Malaysia 
Indonesia 

Brazil  (1) 

South Korea 
India 
Pakistan 

South Korea 
Hong Kong 
Malaysia 
Thailand 
Macao 
China  (1) 

South Korea 
Brazil 
Thailand 
China 
Indonesia 
China (1) 

Hong Kong 
Thailand 
Brunei 
Kazakhstan 

CHAPTERS 39 AND 40 

Plastics and  rubber 

CHAPTER 41 

Leather,  row hides and skins 

CHAPTERS 42 AND 43 

Articles of  leather and furskins 

CHAPTERS 44 TO 46 

Wood 

CHAPTERS 47 TO 49 

Paper 

CHAPTERS 50 TO 60 

Text iI es 

CHAPTERS 61 TO 63 

Clothing 

CHAPTER 64 TO 67 

Footwear 

CHAPTERS 68 TO 70 

Glass ond ceramic products 

CHAPTER 71 

Jewellery and precious metals 

TD  Application of solidarity mechanism 

Countries 
concerned 

South Korea 
BraziI 
Mexico 
Kazakhstan 
Russia 

Annex II (cont'd) 

-2.1-

CN  code 

Description of goods 

ECSC products 

11 
12 
19 
20 
10 
20 
00 19 
00 30 

11 
99 11 

11 11 
12 10 
19 11 
19 31 
20 11 
20 32 
20 51 
20 71 

11 
12 
20 10 
90 31 

10 
30 10 
40 11 
40 19 
10 
90 

10 
20 
30 
60 10 
70 
80 

2701 
2701 
2701 
2701 
2702 
2702 
2704 
2704 
7201 
7202 
7202 
7203 
7204 
7206 
7207 
7207 
7207 
7207 
7207 
7207 
7207 
7207 
7208 
7209 
7210 
7211 
7212 
7213 
7214 
7215 
7216 
7218 
7219 
7220 
7220 
7220 
7220 
7221 
7222 
7222 
7222 
7222 
7224 
7224 
7225 
7226 
7227 
7228 
7228 
7228 
7228 
7228 
7228 
7301 
7302 

Base metals. non-ECSC 

ex 7207 
7205 
7217 
7223 
7303 to 7326 
CHAPTERS 74 TO 83 

CHAPTERS 84 TO 85 

Electro mechanical equipment 

Consumers electronics 

8470 
8471 
8473 
8504 
8505 
8517 
8518 

Kazakhstan 
Russia 
China 

South Korea 
Singapore 

South Korea 
Hong Kong 
Singapore 
Malaysia 

y> 

Annex II (cont'd) 

-II-

CN  code 

Description of goods 

Countries 
concerned 

8519 
8520 
8521 
8522 
8523 
8524 
8525 30 
8526 
8527 
8528 
8529 90 
8531 
8532 
8533 
8534 
8536 
8540 11 
8540 12 
8541 
8542 

CHAPTER 87 
CHAPTER 86 
CHAPTER 88 
CHAPTER 89 

Consumers electronics (cont'd) 

Vehicles 
Transport equipment 

South Korea 
Brazil (1) 

CHAPTERS 90 TO 92 

Optical, clocks and musical  instrunents 

Hong Kong 

CHAPTERS 94 TO 96 

Mi see Ilaneaous 

South Korea 
Hong Kong 
Thailand 
China 

- I m 

port 2 

Identification of countries and sectors referred to in Article 4 

I.  Classification of beneficiary countries by development  index 

The  development  index  represents  each  country's  overall  level  of  industrial  development  compared  with  that  of  the 
European  Union.  It  is  based  on  the following  formula,  which  combines  per capita  income  with  the  level of 
manufactured exports: 

in which: 

UoçUri/POPQ/Cfue/KPue)] 

+  loglXjAue^ 

2 

- the beneficiary country's  income 
•  the  European  Union's  income 

Y] 
YjMf 
POPj  «  the beneficiary country's population 
POP«u  m the population of the European Union 
Xj 
Xgy  * the value of the European Union's manufactured  exports 

* the value of the beneficiary country's manufactured  exports 

Using  this  formula, an index of 0 means the beneficiary's  level of industrial  development  is equal  to that of  the 
European  Union.  Figures  for income and population  are taken  from World  Bank  statistics  (World  Development  Report 
1993) and those  for manufactured  exports  from  the UNCTAD Handbook of  International  Trade ond Development  Statistics 
1992. 

II.  Classification of beneficiary  countries by relative sectoral  specialization  Index 

A beneficiary  country's specialization  index is derived  from the relationship  between  the proportion of imports  in a 
determined  sector  coming  from  this country  within the total  amount of Community  imports  in this  sector, on the one 
hand, and on the other amount,  this country's share proportion of the total Community  imports. 

III.  Combining  the development ond specialization  indexes 

The combination of these two indexes determines how Article 4 will be applied to each beneficiary  country. 

For countries with a development  index greater  than -1, Article 4 wiII  apply when the specialization  index equals or 
exceeds 1. 

For  countries  with a development  index  between  -1 and -1.23,  Article  4 wi 11  apply  when  the specialization  index 
equals or exceeds 1.5. 

For  countries with a development  index  between  -1.23 and -1.70, Article 4 wi 11 apply  when  the specialization  index 
equals or exceeds 5. 

For  countries  with a development  index  between  -1.70 and -2, Article  4 wl 11  apply  when  the specialization  index 
equals or exceeds 7. 

Article 4 wi11 not apply to countries with a development  index of less than -2. 

IV.  Solidarity Measure 

Article 4 also applies to countries whose exports to the Community of products covered by GSP in a determined  sector 
sxceed a quarter of the total  exports from all  beneficiary  countries to the Community  in that  sector. 

/. Exception to the Solidarity  Measure 

article 4 does not apply  to countries  whose  exports  to the Community  of products  covered  by GSP in a determined 
sector do not exceed 2 X of the total exports from all  beneficiary countries to the Community  in that  sector. 

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AftCX  I II 

List  of  beneficiary  countries  ond territories  enjoying  generalized  tariff  préférences'1' 

070 Albanie 
072 Ukraine 
073 Belarus 
074 Moldova 
075 Russia 
076 Georgia 
077 Armenia 
078 Azerbaijan 
079 Kazakhstan 
060 Turkmenistan 
061 Uzbekistan 
062 Tajikistan 
063 Kyrgyzstan 
091 Slovenia 
092 Croatie 
093 Bosnie-Herzégovine 
204 Morocco 
208 Algeria 
212 Tunisia 
216 Libya 
220 Egypt  . 
224 S u d a nW 
228 Mauritania (2) 
232 Mol 1 (2) 
236 Burkina Faso (2) 
240 Niger (2) 
244 Chad (2) 
247 Republic of Cope Verde (2) 
248 Senegal 
252 Gambia (2) 
257 Guinea Bissau (2) 
260 Guinea (2) 
264 Sierra Leone (2) 
268 Liberia (2) 
272 Ivory COsat 
276 Ghana 
280 Togo (2) 
284 Benin (2) 
288 Nigeria 
302 Cameroon 
306 Central African Republic (2) 
310 Equatorial Guinea (2) 
311 Sao Tome and Principe (2) 
314 Gabon 
318 Congo 
322 Zaire (2) 

A. INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES 

324 Rwanda (2) 
328 Burundi (2) 
330 Angola 
334 Ethiopia (2) 
336 Erythrée 
338 Djibouti (2) 
342 Somalia (2) 
346 Kenya 
350 Uganda (2) 
352 Tanzania (2) 
355 Seychelles and dependencies 
366 Mozambique 
370 Madagascar 
373 Mauritius 
375 Comores (2) 
378 Zambia (2) 
382 Zimbabwe 
386 Malawi (2) 
388 South Africa 
389 Namibia 
391 Botswana (2) 
393 Swaziland 
395 Lesotho (2) 
412 Mexico 
416 Guatemala 
421 Belize 
424 Honduras 
428 El Salvador 
432 Nicaragua 
436 Costa Rica 
442 Panama 
448 Cuba 
449 Saint-Kitts-et-Nevis 
452 Haiti (2) 
453 Bahamas 
456 Dominican Republic 
459 Antigua ond Barbuda 
460 Dominica 
464 Jamaica 
465 St Lucia 
467 St Vincent 
469 Barbados 
472 Trinidad and Tobago 
473 Grenoda . . 
480 Colombia^ 
484 Venezuela (3) 
488 Guyana 
492 Surinam 
500 Ecuador (3) 
504 Peru (3) 

508 BraziI 
512 Chile 
516 Bolivia (3) 
520 Paraguay 
524 Uruguay 
528 Argentine 
600 Chypre 
604 Lebanon 
608 Syria 
612 Iraq 
616 Iron 
628 Jordan 
632 Saudi Arabia 
636 Kuwait 
640 Bahrain 
644 Qatar 
647 United Arab Emirates 
649 Oman 
653 Yemen (2) 
660 Afghanistan (2) 
662 Pakistan 
664 India 
666 Bangladesh (2) 
667 Maldives (2) 
669 Sri Lanka 
672 Nepal (2) 
675 Bhutan (2) 
676 Burma (Myanmar) (2) 
680 Thailand 
684 Laos (2) 
690 Vietnam 
696 Kampuchea (Cambodia) (2) 
700 Indonesia 
701 Malaysia 
703 Brunei Darussalam 
706 Singapore 
708 Philippines 
716 Mongolie 
720 China 
728 South Korea 
801 Papua New Guinea 
803 Nauru 
806 Solomon Is I onds (2) 
807 Tuvalu (2) 
812 Kiribati (2) 
815 Fiji 
816 Vanuatu (2) 
817 Tonga (2) 
819 Western Samoa (2) 
823 Federated States oF Micronesia 
824 Republic of the Marshall  Islands 

7J)  The code number preceding the name of each beneficiary coountry  is that given "Geonomencloture" (Regulation (EC) 

No 

/94 (OJ No L .... /94, p.  ). 

(2)  This country is also included  in Annex IV 
(3)  This country Is also including  in Annex V 

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B. COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES 

dependent or administered, or for whose external  relations Member States of the 
Community or third countries are wholly or portly responsible 

044 Gibraltar 
329 St Helena and St Helena dependencies 
357 British  Indian Ocean Territory 
377 Mayotte 
406 Greenland 
408 St Pierre and Miquelon 
413 Bermuda 
446 Anguille 
454 Turks and Caicos Islands 
457 Virgin  Islands of the United States 
461 British Virgin Islands and Montserrât 
463 Cayman  Islands 
474 Aruba 
478 Netherlands Antilles 
529 Falkland  Islands 
740 Hong Kong 
743 Macao 
802 Australia Ocean!a (Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Heard  Islands and Mc Donald] 
810 American Ocean lot" 
809 New Caledonia and dependencies 
811 Wollis and Futuna Islands 
813 Pttcairn 
814 New Zealand Oceania (Tokelau  cna  Nlue Islands; Cook  Islands) 
822 French Polynesia 

[ French Southern and Antartic Ter i tories 

Australian Antarctic Territories 
British  Antarctic Territories, South Georgia and Sandwich Islands 

Note : 

The  above  lists may  be  amended  subsequently  to  take  account  of  changes  in  the  international  status of 
countries or territories. 

C. OTHER BENEFICIARIES 

096 Territory of the former Yugoslav Republic 

of Macedonia 

7J5  American Oceania  includes  : Guam, American Samoa (including Swain's  Island). Midway  Islands, Johnston ond Sand 

Islands, Woke Islands 

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ANNEX IV 

List of least-developed developing countries 

224 Sudan 
228 Mauritania 
232 Mali 
236 Burkina Faso 
240 Niger 
244 Chad 
247 Republic of Cape Verde 
252 Gambia 
257 Guinea Bissau 
260 Guinea 
264 Sierra Leone 
268 Liberia 
280 Togo 
284 Benin 
306 Central African Republic 
310 Equatorial Guinea 
311 SSo Tome' ond Principe 
322 Zaire 
324 Rwanda 
328 Burundi 
334 Ethiopia 
336 Erythrée 
338 Djibouti 
342 Somalia 

350 Uganda 
352 Tanzania 
366 Mozambique 
370 Madagascar 
375 Comores 
378 Zambia 
386 Malawi 
391 Botswana 
395 Lesotho 
452 Haiti 
653 Yemen 
660 Afghanistan 
666 Bangladesh 
667 Maldives 
672 Nepal 
675 Bhutan 
676 Burma (Myanmar) 
684 Laos 
696 Kampuchea (Cambodia) 
806 lies Salomon 
807 Tuvalu 
812 Kiribati 
816 Vanuatu 
817 Tonga 
819  Western  Samoa 

AffCX  V 

List of countries refered to in article 3 

480 Colombia 
484 Venezuela 
500 Ecuador 
504 Peru 
516 Bolivia 

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ANNEX VI 

List of products referred to in article 7 

CN  code 

Description of goods 

4407 21 

4407 22 

4407 23 

4408 20 

Fuel  wood,  in logs, in billets, in twigs, in foggots or in similar  forms; wood  in chips 
or particles; sawdust ond wood waste and scrap, whether or not agglomerated  in logs, 
briquettes, pellets or similar  forms : 
— Of the following tropical woods : 

Dark  red me r ont i, light  redmeranti, meranti  bakau, white  lauan, white merant i, white 
seraya, yeI low meranti, alon, keruing, ramin, kapur, teak, jonngkong, merbou,  jelutong 
and  kempas 
Okoumé obeche, sapelli. sipo, acajou d'Afrique, makoré.  iroko. tiama, mansonia,  ilcmba 
dibétou.  Iimba and azobé 
Baboen. mahogany  (Swietenia  «pp.).  imbuia and balsa 

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 rrm : 
- Of  the following  tropical woods  : dark  redmeranti,  light  redmeranti. white  lauan, 
sipo,  I imba. okoumé, obéché. acajou d'Afrique, sapelli, baboen, mahogany  (Swietenia 
spp.),  palissandre du Brazil and bois de rose femelle 

Plywood, veneered panels and similar  laminated wood : 
— Plywood consisting solely of sheets of wood, each ply not exceeding 6 mm  thickness : 

4412 11 00 

With at  least one outer ply of the following tropical woods  :  dark red 

meranti,  light  redmeranti, white  lauan, sipo,  I imba, okouné, obeche, acajou 
d'Afrique,  sapelli. baboen, mahogany  (Swietenia  spp.), palissandre du Brazil or 
bols de rose femelle 

4414 00 10 

Wooden  frames for paintings, photographs, mirrors or similar objects : 
— Of tropical  wood 

4419 00 10 

Tableware and kitchenware. of wood : 

- Of tropical  wood 

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 furnitures 
not  falling  in CHAPTER 94 

ex 9401 50 00 
ex 9401 61 00 

— Seats of cane, osier, bamboo or similar materials 
—  Upholstered 

ex 9403 30 
ex 9403 40 
ex 9403 50 
ex 9403 60 
ex 9403 90 30 

Furniture of tropical  wood : 
— Wooden  furniture of a kind used  in offices 
-Wooden  furniture of a kind  in the kitchen 
— Wooden  furniture of a kind used  in the bedroom 
— Other 
— Parts, of tropical  wood 

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Annex VII 

List  of  countries  with  a  per  capita  GNP  of  over  USD  6  000  in  1991 
(based on.data supplied by the World  Bank): 

Hong Kong 
Singapore 
South Korea 
Saudi Arabia 
Oman 
Brune i 
Qatar 
United Arab Emirates 
Kuwa i t 
Bahrain 
Libya 
Nauru 

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Annex VI11 

Factors to be taken  into consideration for the purposes of 
Article 14(3) 

reduction  in the market  share of Community producers; 
reduction  in their production; 
increase  in their stocks; 
closure of  their production capacity; 
bankruptcies; 
low prof I tabiIi ty; 
low rate of capacity utilization; 
employment; 
trade; 
pr i ces. 

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FINANCIAL STATEMENT:  INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS 

It  is not  easy  to arrive at  a precise  figure  for  the  financial  impact 
of  the generalized  tariff  preferences  granted  to developing  countries 
because of: 

-  the root-and-branch overhaul  of the scheme; 

-  rules of origin which, given  the structure of  the productive  sector 
in developing countries, cannot always be complied with  in full; 

-  incomplete  take-up of  preferential  concessions  as  a  result  of  lack 
of  information  or,  where  the  normal  rate  of  duty  is  low,  lack  of 
economic  incentive; 

-  a  possible  unquantifiable  increase  in  take-up  as  a  result  of  the 

scheme's simplification. 

Given  the existence of  these factors the total  value of  the offer  open 
as  of  1 January  will  not  exactly  match  a  given  year's  preferential 
imports at 31 December. 

Total  industrial  imports  in 19921  from developing  countries which will 
be  GSP  beneficiaries  in  1995  suggest  that  the  overall  GSP  offer  for 
1995 would be worth ECU 26.8 billion. 

The  weighted  average  rate  of  CCT  customs  duty  applicable  to  the 
products concerned  is between 5.5% and 6%,  and customs  revenue  forgone 
as  a  result  of  the  application  of  the Community's  GSP  scheme  in 1995 
can  therefore  be  estimated  at  something  between  ECU  1.47  million  and 
ECU 1.60 mi II ion. 

As accurate figures for  imports from  the CIS countries  in 1992 are not 
available, we have used  the figures for  1993 (eleven months January to 
November). 

PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION  (EC) No ... 

EXTENDING  INTO 1995 THE APPLICATION OF REGULATIONS (EEC) 
No 3833/90, (EEC) No 3835/90 AND  (EEC) No 3900/91 APPLYING 
GENERAL I ZED 
TARIFF PREFERENCES  IN RESPECT OF CERTAIN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS 
ORIGINATING  IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES 

94/ 0210(ACC) 

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, 

Having  regard to the Treaty establishing  the European Community,  and  in 
particular Article 113, 

Having regard  to the proposal  from the Commission, 

Having regard  to the opinion of the European Parliament1, 

Having  regard  to the opinion of the Economic and Social  Committee,2 

Whereas  within  the  context  of  the  United  Nations  Conference  on  Trade 
and  Development  (UNCTAD),  the  European  Community  offered  to  grant 
tariff preferences on certain agricultural  products of Chapters  1 to 24 
of  the Common  Customs  Tariff  which  originate  in developing  countries; 
whereas  the preferential  treatment  proposed  in the offer  consists,  in 
respect  of  certain  goods  which  are  subject  to  the  trade  arrangements 
laid down  In Regulation  (EEC) No 3033/80,3 of a reduction  in the fixed 
component  of  the  charge  applicable  to  such  goods  by  virtue  of  that 
Regulation, and,  in respect of products which are subject  to the single 
customs duty, of a reduction  in such duty; whereas preferential  imports 
of  the  products  concerned  should  be  effected  in  general  without 
quantitative restrictions; 

Whereas the positive role played by this system  in improving  access for 
developing  countries  to the markets of  the preference-giving  countries 
was  recognized  at  the ninth  session of  the UNCTAD Special  Committee on 
Preferences;  whereas  it  was  there  agreed  that  the  objectives  of  the 
system  of  generalized  preferences  would  not  be  fully  achieved  by  the 
end  of  1980,  that  consequently  it  should  be  prolonged  beyond  the 
initial  period, as an overall  review of  the system was started  in 1990; 

Whereas  the  part  of  the  Community's  scheme  of  generalized  preferences 
covering  industrial  products  is the subject  of  a regulation  applicable 
for  three  years  and  based  on  the  ten-year  guidelines  adopted  by  the 
Community;  whereas,  in  view  of  the  special  problems  relating  to  the 
implementation  of  the  results  of  the  Uruguay  Round  for  the  products 
referred  to  in this Regulation,  it appears  unlikely  that  a  regulation 
based  on  the  new  ten-year  guidelines  for  these  products  can  be 
envisaged  before  the  end  of  1995;  whereas,  therefore,  the  current 
scheme for agricultural  products should be temporarily  renewed, subject 
to certain  improvements, pending  the  introduction of a new agricultural 
scheme on 1 January 1996; 

Whereas  countries  undertaking  effective  programmes  to  combat  drug 
production and trafficking should, however, remain entitled  to the more 
favourable arrangements granted  them under  the 

1  OJ No L  ...,..., p. ... 
2  0 J No L 
, p.  ... 
3  0J No L 323, 29.11.1980, p. 1. 

LjO 

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previous  scheme;  whereas  the  countries  concerned,  together  with 
Venezuela  except  in  respect  of  fisheries  products,  will  therefore 
continue to enjoy duty-free access; 

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: 

Article 1 

Regulations  (EEC)  No  3833/90,  (EEC)  No  3835/90  and  (EEC)  No  3900/91 
applying  generalized  tariff  preferences  in  respect  of  certain 
agricultural  products  originating  in developing  countries  shall  apply 
mutatis mutandis from 1 January 1995 to 31 December  1995. 

References  in  the  Regulations  mentioned  in  the  first  subparagraph  to 
specific  dates  in  1991  and  1992  shall  be  taken  to  refer  to  the  same 
dates  in 1995 or  1996 respectively. 

Article 2 

The  first  subparagraph  of  Article  1(4)  of  Regulation  No  3833/90  is 
replaced  by  the  following  text:  "In order  to be admitted  under  one of 
the preferential  arrangements established  by  this Regulation, products 
must  comply  with  a definition of origin adopted  in accordance  with  the 
procedure  laid  down  in  Article 249  of  Council  Regulation  (EEC) 
No 2913/92 establishing  the Community  Customs Code."1 

Article 3 

Article 3 of Regulation  (EEC) No 3835/90  is amended as follows: 

From 1 January  1995 and until  31 December  1995, 

"Article 3 

1. Common Customs Tariff duties shall  be totally suspended  for products 
originating  in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela  listed in 
the  Annex  to  this  Regulation.  Article  1(4)  and  Articles  7  to  12 of 
Regulation  (EEC) No 3833/90 shall, without  prejudice  to the  levying of 
any  supplementary  duties  that  may  apply,  apply  to  those  countries  and 
to  the  products  listed  in  the  Annex  to  this  Regulation.  However, 
Venezuela  shall  not  qualify  for  the  preferences  applicable  to  the 
products of Chapter  3 and codes CN  1604 and  1605.  In respect  of  these 
products  It shall  continue  to qualify  for  the  preferences  referred  to 
in Annex  II to Regulation  (EEC) No 3833/90. 

2.  Bolivia,  Colombia,  Ecuador,  Peru  and  Venezuela  shall  be  withdrawn 
from  the  list  of  countries  given  in Annex  III  to Regulation  (EEC) No 
3833/90." 

The  following  paragraph  is added  to Article  7 of  Regulation  (EEC) No 
3833/90: 

Article 4 

1  0J No L 253, 11.10.1993, p. 1. 

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"2.  For  products  of  CN  code  0603  10  originating  in  the  countries 
referred  to  in  Article  3  of  Regulation  (EEC)  No  3835/90,  the  quantity 
referred  to  in  paragraph  1  above  is  the  volume  of  exports  from  one  of 
the  countries  in  question  to  the  Community  which  corresponds  to  the 
highest  of  the  four  years  preceding  the  entry  into  force  of  this 
Regulation." 

Ar t i c 1 e  5 

In  Annex  II  to  Regulation  (EEC) No  3833/90,  the  rate  of  duty  shall  be 
reduced  to zero  for  products  of  order  numbers  52.1770, 52.1840,  52.1920 
and  52.1930,  to  4%  for  products  of  order  number  52.0520  and  to  25%  for 
products  of  order  number  52.3790. 

Products  of  code  numbers  52.2350  and  52.2420  shall  be  removed  from 
Annex  11. 

Article  6 

This  Regulation  «ball  enter  into  force  on  1 January  1995  and  shall  be 
app11 cab Ie for one  year. 

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

Done  at  Brussels, 

For  the Council 

The  President 

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