Euro-Mediterranean Agreement establishing an Association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Arab Republic of Egypt, of the other part - Protocols - Final Act - Declarations - Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the Community and Egypt concerning imports into the Community of fresh cut flowers and flowers and flower buds falling within subheading 0603 10 of the Common Customs Tariff
Date: 2001-06-25
Institutions: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Egypt, European Community, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom
Subjects: Egypt, Mediterranean region (EU), Union for the Mediterranean, association agreement (EU)

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EURO-MEDITERRANEAN AGREEMENT

establishing an Association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the
one part, and the Arab Republic of Egypt, of the other part

THE KINGDOM OF BELGIUM,

THE KINGDOM OF DENMARK,

THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY,

THE HELLENIC REPUBLIC,

THE KINGDOM OF SPAIN,

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC,

IRELAND,

THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC,

THE GRAND DUCHY OF LUXEMBOURG,

THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS,

THE AUSTRIAN REPUBLIC,

THE PORTUGUESE REPUBLIC,

THE FINNISH REPUBLIC,

THE KINGDOM OF SWEDEN,

THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND,

Contracting Parties to the Treaty establishing the EUROPEAN COMMUNITY and the Treaty establishing the EUROPEAN
COAL AND STEEL COMMUNITY, hereinafter referred to as the ‘Member States’, and

the EUROPEAN COMMUNITY, and the EUROPEAN COAL AND STEEL COMMUNITY, hereinafter referred to as ‘the
Community’,

of the one part, and

THE ARAB REPUBLIC OF EGYPT, hereinafter referred to as ‘Egypt’,

of the other part,

CONSIDERING the importance of the existing traditional links between the Community, its Member States and Egypt,
and the common values that they share,

CONSIDERING that the Community, its Member States and Egypt wish to strengthen those links and to establish lasting
relations based on partnership and reciprocity,

CONSIDERING the importance which the Parties attach to the principles of the United Nations Charter, particularly the
observance of human rights, democratic principles and political and economic freedoms which form the very basis of
the Association,

DESIROUS of establishing and developing regular political dialogue on bilateral and international
interest,

issues of mutual

CONSIDERING the difference in economic and social development existing between Egypt and the Community and the
need to strengthen the process of economic and social development in Egypt,

DESIROUS of enhancing their economic relations and, in particular, the development of trade, investment and technolo-
gical cooperation, supported by a regular dialogue, on economic, scientific, technological, cultural, audiovisual and social
matters with a view to improving mutual knowledge and understanding,

CONSIDERING the commitment of the Community and Egypt to free trade, and in particular to compliance with the
rights and obligations arising out of the provisions of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade of 1994 and of the
other multilateral agreements annexed to the agreement establishing the World Trade Organisation,

CONSCIOUS of the need to associate their efforts to strengthen political stability and economic development in the
region through the encouragement of regional cooperation,

CONVINCED that the Association Agreement will create a new climate for their relations,

HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:

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Article 1

Article 5

1.
An Association is hereby established between the Com-
munity and its Member States of the one part and Egypt of the
other part.

2.

The aims of this Agreement are:

— to provide an appropriate framework for political dialogue,
relations

allowing the development of close political
between the Parties,

— to establish conditions for the progressive liberalisation of

trade in goods, services and capital,

— to foster the development of balanced economic and social
relations between the Parties through dialogue and coopera-
tion,

— to contribute to the economic and social development of

Egypt,

— to encourage regional cooperation with a view to the
consolidation of peaceful co-existence and economic and
political stability,

— to promote cooperation in other areas which are of mutual

interest.

Article 2

Relations between the Parties, as well as all the provisions of
the Agreement itself, shall be based on respect of democratic
principles and fundamental human rights as set out in the
Universal Declaration on Human Rights, which guides their
internal and international policy and constitutes an essential
element of this Agreement.

TITLE I

POLITICAL DIALOGUE

Article 3

1.
A regular political dialogue shall be established between
the Parties. It shall strengthen their relations, contribute to the
development of a lasting partnership and increase mutual
understanding and solidarity.

The political dialogue and cooperation shall aim, in par-

2.
ticular, to:

— develop better mutual understanding and an increasing
convergence of positions on international
issues, and in
particular on those issues likely to have substantial effects
on one or the other Party,

— enable each Party to consider the position and interests of

the other,

— enhance regional security and stability,

— promote common initiatives.

Article 4

The political dialogue shall cover all subjects of common
interest, and,
in particular peace, security, democracy and
regional development.

The political dialogue shall take place at regular intervals

1.
and whenever necessary, in particular:

(a) at ministerial level, mainly in the framework of the Associa-

tion Council;

(b) at senior official level of Egypt of the one part, and of the
Presidency of the Council and of the Commission of the
other;

(c) by taking full advantage of all diplomatic

channels
including regular briefings by officials, consultations on the
occasion of international meetings and contacts between
diplomatic representatives in third countries;

(d) by any other means which would make a useful contribu-
tion to consolidating, developing and stepping up this
dialogue.

There shall be a political dialogue between the European

2.
Parliament and the Egyptian People's Assembly.

TITLE II

FREE MOVEMENT OF GOODS

BASIC PRINCIPLES

Article 6

The Community and Egypt shall gradually establish a free trade
area over a transitional period not exceeding 12 years from the
entry into force of this Agreement, according to the modalities
set out in this Title and in conformity with the provisions of
the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade of 1994 and of
the other multilateral agreements on trade in goods annexed to
the Agreement establishing the World Trade Organisation
(WTO), hereinafter referred to as the GATT.

CHAPTER 1

Industrial products

Article 7

The provisions of this Chapter shall apply to products origin-
ating in the Community and Egypt falling within Chapters 25
to 97 of the Combined Nomenclature and of the Egyptian
Customs tariff with the exception of the products listed in
Annex I.

Article 8

Imports into the Community of products originating in Egypt
shall be allowed free of customs duties and of any other charge
having equivalent effect and free of quantitative restrictions and
of any other restriction having equivalent effect.

Article 9

1.
Customs duties and charges having equivalent effect
applicable on import into Egypt of products originating in the
Community listed in Annex II shall be gradually abolished in
accordance with the following schedule:

— on the date of entry into force of this Agreement each duty
and charge shall be reduced to 75 % of the basic duty,

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— one year after the date of entry into force of this Agreement
each duty and charge shall be reduced to 50 % of the basic
duty,

— 11 years after the date of entry into force of this Agreement
each duty and charge shall be reduced to 15 % of the basic
duty,

— two years after the date of entry into force of this Agree-
ment each duty and charge shall be reduced to 25 % of the
basic duty,

— three years after the date of entry into force of this Agree-
ment any remaining duty and charge shall be abolished.

2.
Customs duties and charges having equivalent effect
applicable on import into Egypt of the products originating in
the Community listed in Annex III shall be gradually abolished
in accordance with the following schedule:

— three years after the date of entry into force of this Agree-
ment each duty and charge shall be reduced to 90 % of the
basic duty,

— four years after the date of entry into force of this Agree-
ment each duty and charge shall be reduced to 75 % of the
basic duty,

— five years after the date of entry into force of this Agree-
ment each duty and charge shall be reduced to 60 % of the
basic duty,

— six years after the date of entry into force of this Agreement
each duty and charge shall be reduced to 45 % of the basic
duty,

— seven years after the date of entry into force of this Agree-
ment each duty and charge shall be reduced to 30 % of the
basic duty,

— eight years after the date of entry into force of this Agree-
ment each duty and charge shall be reduced to 15 % of the
basic duty,

— nine years after the date of entry into force of this Agree-
ment any remaining duty and charge shall be abolished.

3.
Customs duties and charges having equivalent effect
applicable on import into Egypt of the products originating in
the Community listed in Annex IV shall be gradually abolished
in accordance with the following schedule:

— five years after the date of entry into force of this Agree-
ment each duty and charge shall be reduced to 95 % of the
basic duty,

— six years after the date of entry into force of this Agreement
each duty and charge shall be reduced to 90 % of the basic
duty,

— seven years after the date of entry into force of this Agree-
ment each duty and charge shall be reduced to 75 % of the
basic duty,

— eight years after the date of entry into force of this Agree-
ment each duty and charge shall be reduced to 60 % of the
basic duty,

— nine years after the date of entry into force of this Agree-
ment each duty and charge shall be reduced to 45 % of the
basic duty,

— 12 years after the date of entry into force of this Agreement

any remaining duty and charge shall be abolished.

4.
Customs duties and charges having equivalent effect
applicable on import into Egypt of the products originating in
the Community listed in Annex V shall be gradually abolished
in accordance with the following schedule:

— six years after the date of entry into force of this Agreement
each duty and charge shall be reduced to 90 % of the basic
duty,

— seven years after the date of entry into force of this Agree-
ment each duty and charge shall be reduced to 80 % of the
basic duty,

— eight years after the date of entry into force of this Agree-
ment each duty and charge shall be reduced to 70 % of the
basic duty,

— nine years after the date of entry into force of this Agree-
ment each duty and charge shall be reduced to 60 % of the
basic duty,

— 10 years after the date of entry into force of this Agreement
each duty and charge shall be reduced to 50 % of the basic
duty,

— 11 years after the date of entry into force of this Agreement
each duty and charge shall be reduced to 40 % of the basic
duty,

— 12 years after the date of entry into force of this Agreement
each duty and charge shall be reduced to 30 % of the basic
duty,

— 13 years after the date of entry into force of this Agreement
each duty and charge shall be reduced to 20 % of the basic
duty,

— 14 years after the date of entry into force of this Agreement
each duty and charge shall be reduced to 10 % of the basic
duty,

— 15 years after the date of entry into force of this Agreement

any remaining duty and charge shall be abolished.

5.
Customs duties and charges having equivalent effect
applicable to imports into Egypt of products originating in the
Community, other than those in Annexes II, III, IV and V shall
be abolished in accordance with the relevant schedule on the
basis of a decision of the Association Committee.

6.
In the event of serious difficulties for a given product, the
relevant timetables in accordance with paragraphs 1, 2, 3 and
4 may be reviewed by the Association Committee by common
accord on the understanding that the schedule for which the
review has been requested may not be extended in respect of
the product concerned beyond the maximum transitional
period. If the Association Committee has not taken a decision
within 30 days of its application to review the timetable, Egypt
may suspend the timetable provisionally for a period that may
not exceed one year.

— 10 years after the date of entry into force of this Agreement
each duty and charge shall be reduced to 30 % of the basic
duty,

7.
For each product concerned, the basic duty to be gradu-
ally reduced as provided for in paragraphs 1, 2, 3 and 4 shall
be the rates referred to in Article 18.

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Article 10

The provisions concerning the abolition of customs duties on
imports shall also apply to customs duties of a fiscal nature.

Article 11

1.
By way of derogation from the provisions of Article 9,
Egypt may take exceptional measures of limited duration to
increase or re-introduce customs duties.

Such measures may only apply to new and infant indus-
2.
tries or to sectors undergoing restructuring or experiencing
serious difficulties, particularly where those difficulties entail
severe social problems.

3.
Customs duties on import into Egypt of products origin-
ating in the Community that are introduced by such excep-
tional measures may not exceed 25 % ad valorem, and must
retain a preferential margin for products originating in the
the products
Community. The total value of
subjected to such measures may not exceed 20 % of total
imports of industrial products from the Community during the
last year for which statistics are available.

imports of

4.
Such measures shall be applied for no longer than five
years, except where a longer duration is authorised by the
Association Committee. They shall cease to apply at the latest
on expiry of the maximum transitional period.

5.
Such measures may not be introduced for a given
product if more than three years have elapsed since the aboli-
tion of all duties, quantitative restrictions and charges and
measures having equivalent effect on the product concerned.

Egypt shall

concerned before

6.
inform the Association Committee of any
exceptional measures it intends to adopt and, at the Communi-
ty's request, consultations shall be held on the measures and
implemented. When
they
sectors
adopting such measures, Egypt shall provide the Committee
with a schedule for the abolition of the customs duties intro-
duced pursuant to this Article. Such schedule shall provide for
the phasing out of the duties concerned by equal annual instal-
the second year
ments, starting no later than the end of
following their introduction. The Association Committee may
decide on a different schedule.

are

7.
By way of derogation from the provisions of paragraph 4,
the Association Committee may exceptionally, in order to take
into account the difficulties involved in setting up new indus-
tries, endorse the measures already taken by Egypt pursuant to
paragraph 1 for a maximum period of four years beyond the
12 years transitional period.

CHAPTER 2

Agricultural, fisheries and processed agricultural products

Article 12

the Combined Nomenclature and of

24 of
Customs tariff and to the products listed in Annex I.

the Egyptian

Article 13

The Community and Egypt shall progressively establish a
greater liberalisation of their trade in agricultural, fisheries and
processed agricultural products of interest to both parties.

Article 14

Agricultural products originating in Egypt

1.
listed in
Protocol 1 on importation into the Community shall be subject
to the arrangements set out in that Protocol.

Agricultural products originating in the Community listed
2.
in Protocol 2 on importation into Egypt shall be subject to the
arrangements set out in that Protocol.

Trade for processed agricultural products falling under
3.
this chapter shall be subject to the arrangements set out in
Protocol 3.

Article 15

1.
During the third year of implementation of the Agree-
ment, the Community and Egypt shall examine the situation in
order to determine the measures to be applied by the Com-
munity and Egypt from the beginning of the fourth year after
the entry into force of the Agreement, in accordance with the
objective set out in Article 13.

2. Without prejudice to the provisions of paragraph 1 and
taking account of the volume of trade in agricultural, fisheries
and processed agricultural products between them and of their
particular sensitivity, the Community and Egypt shall examine
in the Association Council, product by product and on an
orderly and reciprocal basis, the possibility of granting each
other further concessions.

Article 16

1.
In the event of specific rules being introduced as a result
of the implementation of its agricultural policy or of any altera-
tion of the current rules or in the event of any alteration or
extension of the provisions relating to the implementation of
its agricultural policy, the Party concerned may amend the
arrangements resulting from the Agreement in respect of the
products concerned.

In such cases, the Party concerned shall inform the Asso-
2.
ciation Committee. At the request of the other Party, the Asso-
ciation Committee shall meet to take due account of the inter-
ests of the other Party.

If the Community or Egypt,

3.
in applying paragraph 1,
modifies the arrangements made by this Agreement for agri-
cultural products, they shall accord imports originating in the
other Party an advantage comparable to that provided for in
this Agreement.

The provisions of this Chapter shall apply to products origin-
ating in the Community and Egypt falling within Chapters 1 to

The application of this Article should be the subject of

4.
consultations in the Association Council.

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CHAPTER 3

Common provisions

Article 17

No new quantitative restrictions on imports or any other
1.
restriction having equivalent effect shall be introduced in trade
between the Community and Egypt.

2.
Quantitative restrictions on imports and any other restric-
tion having equivalent effect in trade between the Community
and Egypt shall be abolished from the entry into force of this
Agreement.

3.
The Community and Egypt shall not apply to exports
between themselves either customs duties or charges having
equivalent effect, or quantitative restrictions or measures
having equivalent effect.

Article 18

1.
The applicable rates for imports between the Parties shall
be the WTO bound rate or lower applied rate enforced as of 1
January 1999. If, after 1 January 1999, a tariff reduction is
applied on an erga omnes basis, the reduced rate shall apply.

2.
No new customs duties on imports or exports, or charges
having equivalent effect, shall be introduced, nor shall those
already applied be increased, in trade between the Community
and Egypt, unless this Agreement provides otherwise.

The Parties shall communicate to each other their respec-

3.
tive applied rates on 1 January 1999.

Article 19

1.
Products originating in Egypt shall not, on importation
into the Community, be accorded a treatment more favourable
than that which the Member States apply among themselves.

2.
Application of the provisions of this Agreement shall be
without prejudice to the special provisions for the application
of the Community law to the Canary Islands.

Article 20

1.
The Parties shall refrain from any measure or practice of
an internal fiscal nature establishing, whether directly or indir-
ectly, discrimination between the products of one Party and
like products originating in the territory of the other Party.

2.
Products exported to the territory of one of the Parties
may not benefit from repayment of indirect internal taxation in
excess of the amount of indirect taxation imposed on them
either directly or indirectly.

Article 21

1.
This Agreement shall not preclude the maintenance or
establishment of customs unions, free trade areas or arrange-
ments for frontier trade, except in so far as they alter the trade
arrangements provided for in this Agreement.

2.
Consultation between the Parties shall take place within
the Association Council concerning agreements establishing

customs unions or free trade areas and, where requested, on
other major issues related to their respective trade policy with
third countries. In particular, in the event of a third country
acceding to the Union, such consultation shall take place so as
to ensure that account can be taken of the mutual interests of
the Parties.

Article 22

If one of the Parties finds that dumping is taking place in trade
with the other Party within the meaning of the provisions of
Article VI of the GATT 1994, it may take appropriate measures
against this practice in accordance with the WTO Agreement
on the Implementation of Article VI of the GATT 1994 and
related internal legislation.

Article 23

the WTO Agreement on
Without prejudice to Article 34,
Subsidies and Countervailing Measures shall apply between the
Parties.

Until
the necessary rules referred to in Article 34(2) are
if either Party finds that subsidy is taking place in
adopted,
trade with the other party within the meanings of Articles VI
and XVI of
it may invoke appropriate
measures against this practice in accordance with the WTO
Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures and
related internal legislation.

the GATT 1994,

Article 24

The provisions of the Article XIX GATT 1994 and the
shall apply between the

1.
WTO Agreement on Safeguards
Parties.

Before applying safeguard measures pursuant

2.
to the
provisions of the Article XIX GATT 1994 and the WTO Agree-
ment on Safeguards,
the Party intending to apply such
measures shall supply the Association Committee with all rele-
vant information required for a thorough examination of the
situation with a view to seeking a solution acceptable to the
Parties.

In order to find such a solution, the Parties shall immediately
hold consultations within the Association Committee. If, as a
result of the consultations, the Parties do not reach an agree-
ment within 30 days of the initiation of the consultations on a
solution to avoid the application of the safeguard measures, the
Party intending to apply safeguard measures may apply the
provisions of the Article XIX GATT 1994 and the WTO Agree-
ment on Safeguards.

3.
In the selection of safeguard measures pursuant to this
Article, the Parties shall give priority to those which cause least
disturbance to the achievement of the objectives of this Agree-
ment.

Safeguard measures shall be notified immediately to the
4.
Association Committee and shall be the subject of periodic
consultations within the Committee, particularly with a view to
their abolition as soon as circumstances permit.

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Article 25

1. Where compliance with the provisions of Article 17(3)
leads to:

(i) re-export

towards a third country against which the
exporting Party maintains,
the product concerned,
quantitative export restrictions, export duties, or measures
having equivalent effect, or

for

(ii) a serious shortage, or threat thereof, of a product essential

to the exporting Party;

and where the situations referred to above give rise, or are
likely to give rise, to major difficulties for the exporting Party,
that Party may take appropriate measures, according to the
procedures laid down in paragraph 2.

The difficulties arising from the situations referred to in
2.
paragraph 1 shall be submitted for examination to the Associa-
tion Committee. The Committee may take any decision needed
to put an end to the difficulties. If it has not taken such a deci-
sion within 30 days of the matter being referred to it, the
exporting Party may apply appropriate measures on the expor-
tation of the product concerned. The measures shall be non-
discriminatory and be eliminated when conditions no longer
justify their maintenance.

Article 26

the protection of national

Nothing in this Agreement shall preclude prohibitions or
restrictions on imports, exports or goods in transit justified on
grounds of public morality, public policy or public security, of
the protection of health and life of humans, animals or plants,
of
treasures possessing artistic,
historic or archaeological value, of the protection of intellectual
property or of regulations concerning gold and silver. Such
prohibitions or restrictions shall not, however, constitute a
means of arbitrary discrimination or a disguised restriction on
trade between the Parties.

Article 27

The concept of ‘originating products’ for the application of the
provisions of this Title and the methods of administrative coop-
eration relating to them are set out in Protocol 4.

favoured-nation treatment in trade in service sectors covered by
these commitments.

In accordance with the GATS, this treatment shall not

2.
apply to:

(a) advantages accorded by either Party under the provisions of
an agreement as defined in Article V of the GATS or under
measures adopted on the basis of such an agreement;

(b) other advantages accorded pursuant to the list of most-
favoured-nation exemptions annexed by either Party to the
GATS.

Article 30

1.
the
The Parties will consider extending the scope of
Agreement to include the right of establishment of companies
of one Party in the territory of another Party and the liberalisa-
tion of the supply of services by companies of one Party to
service consumers in another Party.

The Association Council shall make the necessary recom-
2.
mendations for the implementation of the objective set out in
paragraph 1.

When formulating these recommendations,
the Association
Council shall take into account the experience gained by the
implementation of the MFN treatment granted to each other by
the Parties in accordance with their respective obligations
under the GATS, and in particular Article V thereof.

3.
The objective set out in paragraph 1 of this Article shall
be subject to a first examination by the Association Council at
the latest five years after the entry into force of this Agreement.

TITLE IV

CAPITAL MOVEMENTS AND OTHER ECONOMIC MATTERS

CHAPTER 1

Payments and capital movements

Article 28

Article 31

The Combined Nomenclature of goods shall be applied to the
classification of goods for imports into the Community. The
Egyptian customs tariff shall be applied to the classification of
goods for imports into Egypt.

Subject to the provisions of Article 33, the Parties undertake to
authorise, in fully convertible currency, any payments to the
current account.

TITLE III

RIGHT OF ESTABLISHMENT AND SUPPLY OF SERVICES

Article 29

Article 32

1.
The Community and Egypt will ensure, from the entry
into force of the Agreement, the free circulation of capital for
direct investments made in companies formed in accordance
with the laws of the host country, and the liquidation or repa-
triation of these investments and of any profit stemming there-
from.

The Parties reaffirm their respective commitments under
1.
the terms of
the General Agreement on Trade in Services
(GATS) annexed to the Agreement establishing the WTO, and
to accord each other most-
in particular the commitment

The Parties will hold consultations with a view to facili-
2.
tating the movement of capital between the Community and
Egypt and achieve its complete liberalisation as soon as condi-
tions are met.

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Article 33

face, or

risk facing,

Where one or several Member States of the Community or
Egypt
serious difficulties concerning
balance of payments, the Community or Egypt respectively
may, in conformity with the conditions laid down within the
framework of the GATT and Articles VIII and XIV of the
Statutes of the International Monetary Fund, take restrictive
measures with regard to current payments if such measures are
strictly necessary. The Community or Egypt, as appropriate,
shall
inform the other Party immediately thereof and shall
provide as soon as possible a timetable for the removal of such
measures.

CHAPTER 2

Competition and other economic matters

— in the absence of such rules, and if such practice causes, or
threatens to cause, serious prejudice to the interest of the
other Party or material
injury to its domestic industry,
including its services industry.

It may take appropriate measures after consultation within the
Association Committee or after 30 working days following
referral for such consultation.

With reference to practices incompatible with paragraph 1(iii),
such appropriate measures, when the WTO rules are applicable
to them, may only be adopted in accordance with the proce-
dures and under the conditions laid down by the WTO or by
any other relevant instrument negotiated under its auspices and
applicable to the Parties.

Notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary adopted
6.
in conformity with paragraph 2, the Parties shall exchange
information taking into account the limitations imposed by the
requirements of professional and business secrecy.

Article 34

Article 35

1.
The following are incompatible with the proper func-
tioning of the Agreement, in so far as they may affect trade
between the Community and Egypt:

(i) all agreements between undertakings, decisions by associa-
tions of undertakings and concerted practices between
the
undertakings which have as their object or effect
prevention, restriction or distortion of competition;

(ii) abuse by one or more undertakings of a dominant position
in the territories of the Community or Egypt as a whole or
in a substantial part thereof;

(iii) any public aid which distorts, or threatens to distort,
competition by favouring certain undertakings or
the
production of certain goods.

2.
The Association Council shall, within five years of the
entry into force of the Agreement, adopt by decision the neces-
sary rules for the implementation of paragraph 1.

Until these rules are adopted, the provisions of Article 23 shall
be applied as regards the implementation of paragraph 1(iii).

Each Party shall ensure transparency in the area of public
3.
aid, inter alia, by reporting annually to the other Party on the
total amount and the distribution of the aid given and by
providing, upon request,
information on aid schemes. Upon
request by one Party, the other Party shall provide information
on particular individual cases of public aid.

4. With regard to agricultural products referred to in Title II,
Chapter 2, paragraph 1(iii) does not apply. The WTO Agree-
ment on Agriculture and the relevant provisions on WTO
Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Duties shall apply
with regard to these products.

If the Community or Egypt considers that a particular

5.
practice is incompatible with the terms of paragraph 1, and:

— is not adequately dealt with under the implementing rules

referred to in paragraph 2, or

shall progressively adjust,
The Member States and Egypt
without prejudice to their commitments to the GATT, any
State monopolies of a commercial character, so as to ensure
that, by the end of the fifth year following the entry into force
of this Agreement, no discrimination regarding the conditions
under which goods are procured and marketed exists between
nationals of the Member States and Egypt. The Association
Committee will be informed of the measures adopted to imple-
ment this objective.

Article 36

With regard to public enterprises and enterprises to which
special or exclusive rights have been granted, the Association
Council shall ensure that, as from the fifth year following the
date of entry into force of this Agreement, there is neither
enacted nor maintained any measure distorting trade between
the Community and Egypt contrary to the Parties'
interests.
This provision should not obstruct the performance in law or
in fact of the particular tasks assigned to these enterprises.

Article 37

1.
Pursuant to the provisions of this Article and of Annex
VI, the Parties shall grant and ensure adequate and effective
protection of intellectual property rights in accordance with the
prevailing international standards, including effective means of
enforcing such rights.

2.
The implementation of this Article and of Annex VI shall
be regularly reviewed by the Parties. If problems in the area of
intellectual property affecting trading conditions were to occur,
urgent consultations shall be undertaken, at the request of
either Party, with a view to reaching mutually satisfactory solu-
tions.

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Article 38

(e) technical, administrative and regulatory assistance.

The Parties agree on the objective of a progressive liberalisation
of public procurement. The Association Council will hold
consultations on the implementation of this objective.

Article 42

Education and training

TITLE V

ECONOMIC COOPERATION

Article 39

Objectives

The Parties undertake to intensify economic cooperation

1.
in their mutual interest.

2.

The aim of economic cooperation shall be to:

— encourage the implementation of the overall objectives of

this Agreement,

— promote balanced economic relations between the Parties,

— support

Egypt's own efforts

to achieve

sustainable

The Parties shall cooperate with the objective of identifying and
employing the most effective means to improve significantly
education and vocational training, in particular with regard to
public and private enterprises,
trade-related services, public
administrations and authorities, technical agencies, standardisa-
tion and certification bodies and other relevant organisations.
In this context, the access of women to higher education and
training will receive special attention.

Cooperation shall also encourage the establishment of links
between specialised bodies in the Community and in Egypt and
shall promote the exchange of information and experience and
the pooling of technical resources.

Article 43

Scientific and technological cooperation

economic and social development.

Cooperation shall have the objective of:

Article 40

Scope

Cooperation shall

1.
focus primarily on sectors suffering
from internal difficulties or affected by the overall process of
liberalisation of the Egyptian economy, and in particular by the
liberalisation of trade between Egypt and the Community.

2.
Similarly, cooperation shall focus on areas likely to bring
the economies of the Community and Egypt closer together,
particularly those which will generate growth and employment.

Cooperation shall encourage

3.
measures designed to develop intra-regional cooperation.

implementation of

the

(a) encouraging the establishment of durable links between the
scientific communities of the Parties, notably through:

— the access of Egypt to Community R & D programmes,
in conformity with existing provisions concerning the
participation of third countries,

— the participation of Egypt in networks of decentralised

cooperation,

— the promotion of

synergy between training and

research;

(b) strengthening research capacity in Egypt;

(c) stimulating technological innovation, transfer of new tech-

nologies, and dissemination of know-how.

Conservation of the environment and ecological balance
4.
shall be taken into account
the
various sectors of economic cooperation to which it is relevant.

in the implementation of

5.
The Parties may agree to extend the economic coopera-
tion to other sectors not covered by the provisions of this Title.

Article 41

Article 44

Environment

Cooperation shall aim at preventing deterioration of the
1.
environment, controlling pollution and ensuring the rational
use of natural resources, with a view to ensuring sustainable
development.

Methods and modalities

2.

Cooperation shall focus, in particular, on:

Economic cooperation shall be implemented in particular by:

— desertification,

(a) a regular economic dialogue between the Parties, which

— quality of Mediterranean water and the control and preven-

covers all areas of macroeconomic policy;

tion of marine pollution,

(b) regular exchange of information and ideas in every sector
of cooperation including meetings of officials and experts;

(c) transfer of advice, expertise and training;

(d) implementation of joint actions such as seminars and work-

shops;

— water resource management,

— energy management,

— waste management,

— salinisation,

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— environmental management of sensitive coastal areas,

Article 47

— the impact of

industrial development and the safety of

industrial plant in particular,

Standardisation and conformity assessment

— the impact of agriculture on soil and water quality,

— environmental education and awareness.

The Parties shall aim to reduce differences in standardisation
and conformity assessment. Cooperation in this field shall focus
in particular on:

Article 45

Industrial cooperation

Cooperation shall promote and encourage in particular:

— the debate regarding industrial policy and competitiveness

in an open economy,

— industrial cooperation between economic operators in the
Community and in Egypt, including access for Egypt to the
Community's networks for the rapprochement of businesses
and to networks created in the context of decentralised
cooperation,

— modernisation and restructuring of Egyptian industry,

— the establishment of an environment

favourable to the
development of private enterprise, in order to stimulate the
growth and the diversification of industrial production,

— technology transfer, innovation and R & D,

— the enhancement of human resources,

— access to the capital market for the financing of productive

investments.

Article 46

Investments and promotion of investments

Cooperation shall aim at increasing the flow of capital, exper-
tise and technology to Egypt through, inter alia:

— appropriate means of identifying investment opportunities

and information channels on investment regulations,

— providing information on European investment regimes
(such as technical assistance, direct financial support, fiscal
incentives and investment insurance) related to outward
to
investments and enhancing the possibility for Egypt
benefit from them,

— a legal environment conducive to investment between the
two Parties, where appropriate through the conclusion by
investment protection
the Member States and Egypt of
agreements, and agreements to prevent double taxation,

— examining the creation of

joint ventures, especially for
SMEs and, when appropriate, the conclusion of agreements
between the Member States and Egypt,

— establishing mechanisms for encouraging and promoting

investments.

(a) rules in the field of standardisation, metrology, quality stan-
dards, and recognition of conformity,
in particular as
regards sanitary and phytosanitary standards for agricultural
products and foodstuffs;

(b) upgrading the level of Egyptian conformity assessment
bodies, with a view to the establishment, in due time, of
mutual recognition agreements in the area of conformity
assessment;

(c) developing structures for the protection of

intellectual,
industrial and commercial property rights, for standardisa-
tion and for setting quality standards.

Article 48

Approximation of laws

The Parties shall use their best endeavours to approximate their
respective laws in order to facilitate the implementation of this
Agreement.

Article 49

Financial services

The Parties shall cooperate with a view to the rapprochement
of their standards and rules, in particular:

(a) to encourage the strengthening and restructuring of the

financial sector in Egypt;

(b) to improve accounting and supervisory and regulatory
systems of banking, insurance and other parts of the finan-
cial sector in Egypt.

Article 50

Agriculture and fisheries

Cooperation shall be aimed at:

(a) the modernisation and restructuring of agriculture and fish-
eries, including: the modernisation of infrastructures and of
equipment;
the development of packaging, storage and
marketing techniques; the improvement of private distribu-
tion channels;

(b) the diversification of production and of external outlets,
inter alia, through the encouragement of joint ventures in
the agri-business sector;

Cooperation may extend to the planning and implementation
of projects demonstrating the effective acquisition and use of
basic technologies, the use of standards, the development of
human resources and the creation of jobs locally.

(c) the promotion of cooperation in veterinary and phytosani-
tary matters and in growing techniques, with the objective
of facilitating trade between the Parties. In this regard, the
Parties shall exchange information.

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Article 51

Transport

Article 54

Tourism

Cooperation shall be aimed at:

— the restructuring and modernisation of road, port and
airport infrastructures linked to the main trans-European
lines of communication of common interest,

— the establishment and enforcement of operating standards

comparable to those prevailing in the Community,

— the upgrading of technical equipment for road/rail trans-

port, container traffic and transhipment,

— the improvement of management of airports, railways and
air traffic control, including cooperation between the rele-
vant national bodies,

— the improvement of navigation aids.

Article 52

Information society and telecommunications

The Parties recognise that
information and communication
technologies constitute a key element of modern society, vital
to economic and social development and a cornerstone of the
emerging information society.

The cooperation activities between the Parties in this field shall
aim at :

Priorities for cooperation shall be:

— promoting investments in tourism,

— improving the knowledge of

the tourist

industry and

ensuring greater consistency of policies affecting tourism,

— promoting a good seasonal spread of tourism,

— promoting cooperation between regions and cities of neigh-

bouring countries,

— highlighting the importance of the cultural heritage for

tourism,

— ensuring that

the interaction between tourism and the

environment is suitably maintained,

— making tourism more competitive through support

for

increased professionalism.

Article 55

Customs

1.
The Parties shall develop customs cooperation to ensure
that the provisions on trade are observed. Cooperation will
focus in particular on:

— a dialogue on issues related to the different aspects of the
information society, including telecommunications policies,

(a) the simplification of controls and procedures concerning

the customs clearance of goods;

— the exchanges of information and eventual technical assis-
tance with regulatory matters, standardisation, conformity
testing and certification in relation to information technolo-
gies and telecommunications,

— the diffusion of new information and communications tech-
nologies and the refinement of new applications in these
fields,

— the implementation of joint projects for research, technical
development or industrial applications in information tech-
nologies,
and information
society,

communications,

telematics

— the participation of Egyptian organisations in pilot projects
and European programmes within the established frame-
works,

— interconnection between networks and the interoperability

of telematic services in the Community and Egypt.

Article 53

Energy

The priority areas of cooperation shall be:

— the promotion of renewable energies,

— the promotion of energy-saving and energy efficiency,

— applied research into data bank networks in the economic
and social sectors, linking Community and Egyptian opera-
tors in particular,

— support for the modernisation and development of energy
networks and for their linking to European Community
networks.

(b) the introduction of the single administrative document and
a system to link up the Community's and Egypt's transit
arrangements.

2. Without prejudice to other forms of cooperation envi-
saged in this Agreement, notably for the fight against drugs
and money laundering, the Parties' administrations will provide
mutual assistance in accordance with the provisions of Protocol
5.

Article 56

Cooperation on statistics

The main objective of cooperation in this field shall be to
harmonise methodology in order to create a reliable basis for
handling statistics in all the fields that are covered by this
Agreement and lend themselves to the establishment of statis-
tics.

Article 57

Money laundering

The Parties shall cooperate with a view in particular to
1.
preventing the use of their financial systems to launder the
proceeds arising from criminal activities in general and drug
trafficking in particular.

Cooperation in this field shall include, in particular, tech-
2.
nical and administrative assistance aimed at establishing effec-
tive standards relating to the fight against money laundering in
line with international standards.

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Article 58

Fight against drugs

— cultural matters,

— environmental issues.

1

The Parties shall cooperate with a view in particular to:

— improving the effectiveness of policies and measures to
counter the supply of, and illicit trafficking in, narcotic
drugs and psycho-tropic substances and the reduction of
the abuse of these products,

— encouraging a joint approach to reducing demand.

The Parties shall determine together, in accordance with
2.
their
the strategies and cooperation
respective legislation,
methods appropriate for attaining these objectives. Their opera-
tions, other than joint operations, shall form the subject of
consultations and close coordination.

relevant governmental

The
sector
bodies, in accordance with their own powers, working with the
competent bodies of Egypt, the Community and its Member
States, may take part in these operations.

and non-governmental

Cooperation shall take the form of exchanges of informa-

3.
tion and, where appropriate, joint activities on:

— establishment or extension of social and health institutions
and information centres for the treatment and rehabilitation
of drug addicts,

— implementation of projects in the areas of prevention,

training and epidemiological research,

— establishment of effective standards relating to the preven-
tion of
the diversion of precursors and other essential
substances used for the illicit production of narcotic drugs
and psychotropic substances, in line with international stan-
dards.

Article 59

Fight against terrorism

Article 61

Consumer protection

Cooperation in this field should be geared to making consumer
protection schemes in the European Community and Egypt
compatible and should, as far as possible, involve:

— increasing the compatibility of consumer legislation in

order to avoid barriers to trade,

— establishment and development of systems of mutual infor-
mation on dangerous food and industrial products and
interconnecting them (rapid alert systems),

— exchanges of information and experts,

— organising training schemes and supplying technical assis-

tance.

TITLE VI

CHAPTER 1

Dialogue and cooperation on social matters

Article 62

The Parties reaffirm the importance they attach to the fair treat-
ment of their workers legally residing and employed in the
territory of the other Party. The Member States and Egypt, at
the request of any of them, agree to initiate talks on reciprocal
bilateral agreements related to the working conditions and
social security rights of Egyptian and Member State workers
legally resident and employed in their respective territory.

In accordance with international conventions and with their
legislations, the Parties shall cooperate in
respective national
this field and focus in particular on:

Article 63

— exchange of information on means and methods used to

counter terrorism,

1.
The Parties shall conduct
matters which are of interest to them.

regular dialogue on social

— exchange of experiences in respect of terrorism prevention,

— joint research and studies in the area of terrorism preven-

tion.

Article 60

Regional cooperation

Regional cooperation shall focus on:

— development of economic infrastructures,

— scientific and technological research,

— intra-regional trade,

— customs matters,

2.
This dialogue shall be used to find ways to achieve
progress in the field of movement of workers and equal treat-
ment and social
integration of Egyptian and Community
nationals legally residing in the territories of their host coun-
tries.

3.

The dialogue shall notably cover all issues related to:

(a) migrant communities' living and working conditions;

(b) migration;

(c) illegal migration;

(d) actions to encourage equal treatment between Egyptian and
Community nationals, mutual knowledge of cultures and
civilizations, the furthering of tolerance and the removal of
discrimination.

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Article 64

Dialogue on social matters shall be conducted in accordance
with the same procedures as those provided for in Title I of
this Agreement.

Article 65

With a view to consolidating cooperation between the Parties
in the social field, projects and programmes shall be carried out
in any area of interest to them.

Priority will be given to:

(a) reducing migratory pressures, notably by improving living
conditions, creating jobs, and income generating activities
and developing training in areas from which emigrants
come;

(b) promoting the role of women in economic and social

development;

(c) bolstering and developing Egyptian family planning and

mother and child protection programmes;

(d) improving the social protection system;

(e) improving the health care system;

(f) improving living conditions in poor areas;

(g) implementing

and

financing

leisure
programmes for mixed groups of Egyptian and European
young people residing in the Member States, with a view to
promoting mutual knowledge of their respective cultures
and fostering tolerance.

exchange

and

Article 66

Cooperation schemes may be carried out in cooperation with
the Member States and the relevant international organisations.

Article 67

A working group shall be set up by the Association Council by
the end of the first year following the entry into force of this
Agreement.
It shall be responsible for the continuous and
regular evaluation of the implementation of Chapters 1 to 3.

CHAPTER 2

Cooperation for the prevention and control of illegal immi-
gration and other consular issues

Article 68

The Parties agree to cooperate in order to prevent and control
illegal immigration. To this end:

— each of the Member States agrees to readmit any of its
nationals illegally present on the territory of Egypt, upon
request by the latter and without further formalities once
such persons have been positively identified as such,

— Egypt agrees to readmit any of its nationals illegally present
on the territory of a Member State, upon request by the

latter and without further formalities once such persons
have been positively identified as such.

The Member States and Egypt will also provide their nationals
with appropriate identity documents for such purposes.

In respect of the Member States of the European Union, the
obligations in this Article shall apply only in respect of those
persons who are to be considered their nationals for Com-
munity purposes.

In respect of Egypt, the obligation in this Article shall apply
only in respect of those persons who are considered nationals
of Egypt in accordance to the Egyptian legal system and all the
relevant laws concerning citizenship.

Article 69

After the entry into force of the Agreement, the Parties, at the
request of any of them, shall negotiate and conclude bilateral
agreements with each other, regulating specific obligations for
the readmission of their nationals. These agreements shall also
cover, if deemed necessary by any of the Parties, arrangements
for the readmission of third country nationals. Such agreements
will
the categories of persons
covered by these arrangements as well as the modalities of
their readmission.

lay down the details about

Adequate financial and technical assistance to implement these
agreements will be provided to Egypt.

Article 70

The Association Council shall examine what other joint efforts
can be made to prevent and control illegal immigration as well
as deal with other consular issues.

CHAPTER 3

Cooperation in cultural matters, audiovisual media and infor-
mation

Article 71

The Parties agree to promote cultural cooperation in
1.
fields of mutual
interest and in a spirit of respect for each
other's cultures. They shall establish a sustainable cultural
dialogue. This cooperation shall promote in particular:

— conservation and restoration of historic and cultural heri-
tage (such as monuments, sites, artefacts, rare books and
manuscripts),

— exchange of art exhibitions, troupes of performing arts,
artists, men of letters, intellectuals and cultural events,

— translations,

— training of persons working in the cultural field.

Cooperation in the field of audiovisual media shall seek
2.
to encourage cooperation in such areas as co-production and
training. The Parties shall seek ways to encourage Egyptian
participation in Community initiatives in this sector.

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3.
The Parties agree that existing cultural programmes of the
Community and of one or more of the Member States and
further activities of interest to both sides can be extended to
Egypt.

4.
The Parties shall, in addition, work to promote cultural
cooperation of a commercial nature, particularly through joint
projects (production, investment and marketing), training and
exchange of information.

The Parties shall,

5.
in identifying cooperation projects,
programmes and joint activities, give special attention to young
people, self-expression, heritage conservation issues, the disse-
mination of culture, and communication skills using written
and audiovisual media.

6.

Cooperation shall be implemented in particular through:

— accompanying measures for the establishment and imple-

mentation of competition legislation.

Article 73

In order to ensure that a coordinated approach is adopted to
any exceptional macro-economic and financial problems that
might arise as a result of the implementation of this Agree-
ment,
the Parties shall use the regular economic dialogue
provided for in Title V to give particular attention to moni-
toring trade and financial trends in relations between the Com-
munity and Egypt.

TITLE VIII

— a regular dialogue between the Parties,

INSTITUTIONAL, GENERAL AND FINAL PROVISIONS

— regular exchange of information and ideas in every sector
of cooperation including meetings of officials and experts,

— transfer of advice, expertise and training,

— implementation of joint actions such as seminars and work-

shops,

— technical, administrative and regulatory assistance,

— dissemination of information on cooperation initiatives.

TITLE VII

FINANCIAL COOPERATION

Article 72

In order to achieve the objectives of this Agreement, a financial
cooperation package shall be made available to Egypt
in
accordance with the appropriate procedures and the financial
resources required.

Financial cooperation shall focus on:

— promoting reforms designed to modernise the economy,

— upgrading economic infrastructure,

— promoting private investment and job-creating activities,

— responding to the economic repercussions for Egypt of the
gradual
introduction of a free trade area, notably by
upgrading and restructuring industry and enhancing Egypt's
export capacity,

— accompanying measures for policies implemented in the

social sector,

— promoting Egypt's capacity and capabilities in the field of

the protection of intellectual property rights,

— where appropriate, supplementary measures for the imple-
mentation of bilateral agreements to prevent and control
illegal immigration,

Article 74

An Association Council is hereby established which shall meet
at ministerial
level once a year and when circumstances
require, at the initiative of its President and in accordance with
the conditions laid down in its rules of procedure.

It shall examine any major issues arising within the framework
of
this Agreement and any other bilateral or international
issues of mutual interest.

Article 75

1.
The Association Council shall consist of the members of
the Council of the European Union and of the Commission of
the European Communities, on the one hand, and members of
the Government of Egypt, on the other.

2. Members of the Association Council may arrange to be
represented in accordance with the provisions laid down in its
rules of procedure.

The Association Council shall establish its rules of proce-

3.
dure.

4.
The Association Council shall be presided in turn by a
member of the Council of the European Union and a member
of the Government of Egypt, in accordance with the provisions
laid down in its rules of procedure.

Article 76

The Association Council shall, for the purpose of attaining the
objectives of the Agreement, have the power to take decisions
in the cases provided for therein.

The decisions taken shall be binding on the Parties, which shall
take the measures necessary to implement them. The Associa-
tion Council may also make appropriate recommendations.

The Association Council shall draw up its decisions and recom-
mendations by agreement between the two Parties.

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Article 77

The Association Council shall appoint a third arbitrator.

1.
Subject to the powers of the Association Council, an
Association Committee is hereby established which shall be
responsible for the implementation of the Agreement.

The Association Council may delegate to the Association

2.
Committee, in full or in part, any of its powers.

Article 78

1.
The Association Committee, which shall meet at official
level, shall consist of representatives of members of the Council
of the European Union and of the Commission of the European
Communities, on the one hand, and of representatives of the
Government of Egypt, on the other.

The Association Committee shall establish its rules of

2.
procedure.

3.
The Association Committee shall be presided in turn by a
representative of the Presidency of the Council of the European
Union and by a representative of the Government of Egypt.

Article 79

The Association Committee shall have the power to take
1.
decisions for the management of the Agreement as well as in
the areas in which the Association Council has delegated its
powers to it.

The Association Committee shall draw up its decisions by
2.
agreement between the two Parties. These decisions shall be
binding on the Parties which shall take the measures necessary
to implement the decisions taken.

Article 80

The Association Council may decide to set up any working
group or body necessary for the implementation of the Agree-
ment. It shall define the terms of reference of any such working
group or body that shall be subordinate to it.

The arbitrators' decisions shall be taken by majority vote.

Each party to the dispute must take the steps required to imple-
ment the decision of the arbitrators.

Article 83

Nothing in this Agreement shall prevent a Party from taking
any measures:

(a) which it considers necessary to prevent the disclosure of

information contrary to its essential security interests;

(b) which relate to the production of, or trade in, arms, muni-
tions or war materials or to research, development or
production indispensable for defence purposes, provided
that such measures do not impair the conditions of compe-
tition in respect of products not intended for specifically
military purposes;

(c) which it considers essential to its own security in the event
of serious internal disturbances affecting the maintenance
of law and order, in time of war or serious international
tension constituting threat of war or in order to carry out
obligations it has accepted for the purpose of maintaining
peace and international security.

Article 84

In the fields covered by this Agreement and without prejudice
to any special provisions contained therein:

— the arrangements applied by Egypt in respect of the Com-
munity shall not give rise to any discrimination between
the Member States, their nationals or their companies or
firms,

— the arrangements applied by the Community in respect of
Egypt shall not give rise to discrimination between Egyptian
nationals or its companies or firms.

Article 81

Article 85

The Association Council shall take all appropriate measures to
facilitate cooperation and contacts between the European
Parliament and the Egyptian People's Assembly.

Article 82

As regards direct taxation, nothing in this Agreement shall
have the effect of:

— extending the fiscal advantages granted by either Party in
any international agreement or arrangement by which it is
bound,

1.
Each of the Parties may refer to the Association Council
any dispute relating to the application or interpretation of this
Agreement.

— preventing the adoption or application by either Party of
any measure aimed at preventing the avoidance or evasion
of taxes,

The Association Council may settle the dispute by means

2.
of a decision.

Each Party shall be bound to take the measures involved

3.
in carrying out the decision referred to in paragraph 2.

4.
In the event of it not being possible to settle the dispute
in accordance with paragraph 2, either Party may notify the
other of the appointment of an arbitrator; the other Party must
then appoint a second arbitrator within two months. For the
application of this procedure, the Community and the Member
States shall be deemed to be one party to the dispute.

— opposing the right of either Party to apply the relevant
provisions of its tax legislation to taxpayers who are not in
identical situation,
in particular as regards their place of
residence.

Article 86

The Parties shall take any general or specific measures
1.
required to fulfil their obligations under this Agreement. They
shall see to it that the objectives set out in this Agreement are
attained.

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2.
If either Party considers that the other Party has failed to
fulfil an obligation under this Agreement, it may take appro-
priate measures. Before so doing, except in cases of a material
breach of this Agreement by the other Party, it shall supply the
Association Council with all relevant information required for a
thorough examination of the situation with a view to seeking a
solution acceptable to the Parties.

A material breach of this Agreement shall consist of the repu-
diation of this Agreement not sanctioned by the general rules
of international law or a grave violation of an essential element
of this Agreement, creating an environment not conducive for
consultations or where a delay would be detrimental to the
objectives of this Agreement.

3.
In the selection of the appropriate measures referred to in
paragraph 2, priority must be given to those which least
disturb the functioning of this Agreement. The Parties also
agree that these measures shall be taken in accordance with
international law and shall be proportional to the violation.

The measures shall be notified immediately to the Association
Council and shall be the subject of consultations within the
Association Council if the other Party so requests. If one Party
takes a measure as a result of a material breach of this Agree-
ment referred to in paragraph 2, the other Party may invoke
the dispute settlement procedure.

Article 87

Protocols 1 to 5 and Annexes I to VI shall form an integral
part of this Agreement.

Article 88

For the purpose of this Agreement the term ‘Parties’ shall mean
Egypt on the one hand and the Community, or the Member
States, or the Community and the Member States, in accord-
ance with their respective powers, on the other hand.

Article 89

This Agreement is concluded for an unlimited period.

Each of the Parties may denounce this Agreement by notifying
the other Party. This Agreement shall cease to apply six
months after the date of such notification.

Article 90

This Agreement shall apply, on the one hand, to the territories
in which the Treaties establishing the European Community,
and the European Coal and Steel Community are applied and
under the conditions laid down in those Treaties and, on the
other hand, to the territory of Egypt.

Article 91

This Agreement shall be drawn up in duplicate in the Arabic,
Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian,
Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish languages, each of these texts
being equally authentic.

Article 92

This Agreement will be approved by the Parties in accord-

1.
ance with their own procedures.

This Agreement shall enter into force on the first day of the
second month following the date on which the Parties notify
each other that the procedures referred to in the first sub-
paragraph have been completed.

2.
Upon its entry into force, this Agreement shall replace
the Agreement between the European Economic Community
and Egypt, and the Agreement between the European Coal and
Steel Community and Egypt, signed in Brussels on 18 January
1977.

Hecho en Luxemburgo, el veinticinco de junio de dos mil uno.

Udfærdiget i Luxembourg den femogtyvende juni to tusind og et.

Geschehen zu Luxemburg am fünfundzwanzigsten Juni zweitausendundeins.
Έγινε στο Λουξεµβούργο, στις είκοσι πέντε Ιουνίου δύο χιλιάδες ένα.

Done at Luxembourg on the twenty-fifth day of June in the year two thousand and one.

Fait à Luxembourg, le vingt-cinq juin deux mille un.

Fatto a Lussemburgo, addì venticinque giugno duemilauno.

Gedaan te Luxemburg, de vijfentwintigste juni tweeduizendeneen.

Feito no Luxemburgo, em vinte e cinco de Junho de dois mil e um.

Tehty Luxemburgissa kahdentenakymmenentenäviidentenä päivänä kesäkuuta vuonna kaksituhattayksi.

Som skedde i Luxemburg den tjugofemte juni tjugohundraett.

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Pour le Royaume de Belgique

Voor het Koninkrijk België

Für das Königreich Belgien

Cette signature engage également la Communauté française, la Communauté flamande, la Communauté
germanophone, la Région wallonne, la Région flamande et la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale.

Deze handtekening verbindt eveneens de Vlaamse Gemeenschap, de Franse Gemeenschap, de Duitstalige
Gemeenschap, het Vlaams Gewest, het Waals Gewest en het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest.

Diese Unterschrift bindet zugleich die Deutschsprachige Gemeinschaft, die Flämische Gemeinschaft, die
Französische Gemeinschaft, die Wallonische Region, die Flämische Region und die Region Brüssel-Haupt-
stadt.

På Kongeriget Danmarks vegne

Für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Για την Ελληνική ∆ηµοκρατία

Por el Reino de España

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Pour la République française

Thar cheann Na hÉireann

For Ireland

Per la Repubblica italiana

Pour le Grand-Duché de Luxembourg

Voor het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden

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Für die Republik Österreich

Pela República Portuguesa

Suomen tasavallan puolesta

För Konungariket Sverige

For the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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Por las Comunidades Europeas

For De Europæiske Fællesskaber

Für die Europäischen Gemeinschaften
Για τις Ευρωπαïκές Κοινότητες

For the European Communities

Pour les Communautés européennes

Per le Comunità europee

Voor de Europese Gemeenschappen

Pelas Comunidades Europeias

Euroopan yhteisöjen puolesta

På Europeiska gemenskapernas vägnar

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LIST OF ANNEXES AND PROTOCOLS

Annex I:

Annex II:

Annex III:

Annex IV:

List of agricultural and processed agricultural products falling within Chapters 25 to 97 of the
harmonised system referred to in Articles 7 and 12.

Lists of industrial products originating in the Community to which are applicable, on impor-
tation into Egypt, the schedules for tariff dismantling referred to in Article 9(1).

Lists of industrial products originating in the Community to which are applicable, on impor-
tation into Egypt, the schedules for tariff dismantling referred to in Article 9(2).

Lists of industrial products originating in the Community to which are applicable, on impor-
tation into Egypt, the schedules for tariff dismantling referred to in Article 9(3).

Annex V:

List of industrial products originating in the Community referred to in Article 9(4).

Annex VI:

Intellectual property rights referred to in Article 37.

Protocol 1: Arrangements applicable to imports into the Community of agricultural products originating

in Egypt.

Protocol 2: Arrangements applicable to imports into Egypt of agricultural products originating in the

Community.

Protocol 3: Arrangements applicable to processed agricultural products.

Protocol 4: Definition of the concept of ‘originating products’ and methods of administrative cooperation.

Protocol 5: Mutual assistance between administrative authorities in customs matters.

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List of agricultural and processed agricultural products falling within chapters 25 to 97 of the Harmonised
System referred to in Articles 7 and 12

ANNEX I

HS code

HS code

HS code

HS heading

HS code

HS headings

HS code

HS heading

HS code

HS headings

HS heading

HS headings

HS headings

HS headings

HS heading

HS heading

2905 43

2905 44

2905 45

3301

3302 10

(mannitol)

(sorbitol)

(glycerol)

(essential oils)

(odoriferous substances)

3501 to 3505

(albuminoidal substances, modifies starches, glues)

3809 10

3823

3824 60

(finishing agents)

(industrial fatty acids, acid from oil refining, industrial fatty alcohols).

(sorbitol n.e.p.)

4101 to 4103

(hides and skins)

4301

(raw fur skins)

5001 to 5003

(raw silk and silk waste)

5101 to 5103

(wool and animal hair)

5201 to 5203

(raw cotton, waste and cotton carded or combed)

5301

5302

(raw flax)

(raw hemp)

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the schedules for tariff dismantling referred to in Article 9(1)

ANNEX II

2501001
2502000
2503100
2503900
2504100
2504900
2505109
2505909
2506100
2506210
2506290
2507000
2508100
2508200
2508300
2508400
2508500
2508600
2508700
2509000
2511100
2511200
2512000
2513110
2513190
2513210
2513290
2514000
2517100
2517200
2517300
2517411
2517491
2518100
2518200
2518300
2519100
2519900
2520201
2521000
2522100
2522200
2522300
2524000
2525100
2525200
2525300
2526201
2527000
2528100
2528900
2529100
2529210
2529220

2529300
2530100
2530200
2530400
2530909
2601110
2601120
2601200
2602000
2603000
2604000
2605000
2606000
2607000
2608000
2609000
2610000
2611000
2612100
2612200
2613100
2613900
2614000
2615100
2615900
2616100
2616900
2617100
2617900
2618000
2619000
2620110
2620190
2620200
2620300
2620400
2620500
2620900
2621000
2701110
2701120
2701190
2701200
2702100
2702200
2703000
2709000
2710001
2710002
2711110
2711120
2711139
2711140
2711190

2711210
2711290
2712100
2712200
2712900
2713110
2713120
2713200
2713900
2714100
2714900
2715000
2716000
2801200
2801300
2802000
2804210
2804290
2804500
2804610
2804690
2804700
2804800
2804900
2805110
2805190
2805210
2805220
2805300
2805400
2809100
2809201
2810001
2812100
2812900
2813100
2813900
2814100
2814200
2815200
2815300
2816100
2816200
2816300
2817000
2818100
2818200
2818300
2819100
2819900
2820100
2820900
2821100
2821200

2822000
2823000
2825101
2825109
2825200
2825300
2825400
2825500
2825600
2825700
2825800
2825900
2826110
2826120
2826190
2826200
2826300
2826900
2827100
2827200
2827310
2827320
2827330
2827340
2827350
2827360
2827370
2827380
2827390
2827410
2827490
2827510
2827590
2827600
2828909
2829110
2829199
2829900
2830100
2830200
2830300
2830900
2831100
2831900
2832100
2832200
2832300
2833210
2833220
2833230
2833240
2833250
2833260
2833270

2833290
2833300
2833400
2834100
2834210
2834220
2834290
2835000
2835210
2835220
2835230
2835240
2835250
2835260
2835290
2835310
2835390
2836100
2836201
2836301
2836401
2836409
2836500
2836600
2836700
2836910
2836920
2836930
2836990
2837110
2837190
2837200
2838000
2839000
2839190
2839200
2839900
2840110
2840190
2840200
2840300
2841100
2841200
2841300
2841400
2841500
2841600
2841700
2841800
2841900
2842100
2842900
2843100

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2843290
2843300
2843900
2844101
2844109
2844200
2844300
2844400
2844500
2845100
2845900
2846100
2846900
2847000
2848100
2848900
2849100
2849200
2849900
2850000
2851000
2901109
2901210
2901220
2901230
2901240
2901290
2901299
2902110
2902190
2902300
2902410
2902420
2902430
2902440
2902500
2902600
2902700
2902900
2902909
2903110
2903120
2903130
2903140
2903150
2903160
2903190
2903210
2903220
2903230
2903290
2903300
2903400
2903510
2903590
2903610
2903620
2903690
2904100
2904200

2904201
2904209
2904900
2905110
2905120
2905130
2905140
2905150
2905160
2905170
2905190
2905210
2905220
2905290
2905310
2905320
2905390
2905410
2905420
2905490
2905500
2906110
2906120
2906130
2906140
2906190
2906210
2906290
2907110
2907120
2907130
2907140
2907150
2907190
2907210
2907220
2907230
2907290
2907300
2908100
2908200
2908900
2909110
2909190
2909200
2909300
2909410
2909420
2909430
2909440
2909490
2909500
2909600
2910100
2910200
2910300
2910900
2911000
2912110
2912120
2912130

2912190
2912210
2912290
2912300
2912410
2912420
2912490
2912500
2913000
2914110
2914120
2914130
2914190
2914210
2914220
2914230
2914290
2914300
2914410
2914490
2914500
2914600
2914690
2914700
2915110
2915120
2915130
2915211
2915220
2915230
2915240
2915290
2915310
2915320
2915330
2915340
2915350
2915390
2915400
2915500
2915600
2915700
2915901
2915909
2916110
2916120
2916130
2916140
2916150
2916190
2916200
2916310
2916320
2916330
2916390
2917110
2917120
2917130
2917140
2917190
2917200

2917310
2917320
2917330
2917340
2917350
2917360
2917370
2917390
2918110
2918120
2918130
2918140
2918150
2918160
2918170
2918190
2918210
2918220
2918230
2918290
2918300
2918900
2919000
2920100
2920900
2921110
2921120
2921190
2921210
2921220
2921290
2921300
2921410
2921420
2921430
2921440
2921450
2921490
2921510
2921590
2922110
2922120
2922130
2922190
2922210
2922220
2922300
2922410
2922420
2922490
2922500
2923100
2923200
2923900
2924100
2924210
2924291
2924299
2925110
2925190
2925200

2926100
2926200
2926900
2927000
2928000
2929100
2929900
2930100
2930200
2930300
2930400
2930900
2931000
2932110
2932120
2932130
2932190
2932210
2932290
2932900
2933110
2933190
2933210
2933290
2933310
2933390
2933400
2933510
2933590
2933610
2933690
2933710
2933790
2933900
2934100
2934200
2934300
2934900
2935000
2936100
2936210
2936220
2936230
2936240
2936250
2936260
2936270
2936280
2936290
2936900
2937100
2937210
2937220
2937290
2937910
2937920
2937990
2938100
2938900
2939100
2939210

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2939300
2939400
2939500
2939600
2939700
2939909
2940000
2941100
2941200
2941300
2941400
2941500
2941900
2942000
3001100
3001200
3001900
3002100
3002200
3002310
3002390
3002901
3002909
3003310
3003901
3004310
3004901
3006109
3006200
3006300
3006400
3006600
3101000
3102210
3104100
3104200
3104300
3104900
3105100
3105200
3105300
3105400
3105510
3105590
3105600
3105900
3201100
3201200
3201300
3201900
3202100
3202900
3203000
3205000
3211001
3212100
3214101
3401202
3402119
3402129

3402139
3402199
3403119
3403199
3403919
3403999
3404100
3404200
3404909
3407001
3507100
3507900
3701100
3701302
3701992
3702100
3702511
3702521
3702522
3702551
3702559
3702561
3702911
3702921
3702922
3702941
3702951
3703101
3703201
3703901
3801100
3801200
3801300
3801900
3802100
3802900
3803000
3804000
3805100
3805200
3805900
3806100
3806200
3806300
3806900
3807001
3807009
3809910
3809920
3809930
3809990
3810100
3810900
3811119
3811199
3811219
3811299
3811909
3812100
3812200
3812300

3813000
3814000
3815110
3815120
3815190
3815900
3816000
3817100
3817200
3818000
3819000
3820000
3821000
3822000
3822600
3901100
3901200
3901300
3901901
3901909
3902100
3902200
3902300
3902900
3903110
3903190
3903200
3903300
3903900
3904101
3904300
3904400
3904500
3904610
3904690
3904900
3905110
3905190
3905900
3906100
3906900
3907100
3907200
3907300
3907400
3907501
3907509
3907600
3907910
3907990
3908100
3908900
3909100
3909200
3909300
3909409
3909500
3910000
3911100
3911900
3912110

3912120
3912209
3912310
3912390
3912900
3913100
3913900
3914000
3915100
3915200
3915300
3915900
3917101
3920101
3921901
3923301
3923501
3926903
3926907
4001100
4001210
4001220
4001291
4001301
4002110
4002191
4002201
4002311
4002391
4002410
4002491
4002510
4002591
4002601
4002701
4002801
4002910
4002991
4003000
4004000
4014100
4016101
4016921
4016992
4016993
4017001
4104101
4104102
4104291
4105191
4106191
4110000
4205001
4206101
4401100
4401210
4401220
4401300
4402000
4403100
4403200

4403201
4403209
4403310
4403320
4403330
4403340
4403350
4403910
4403920
4403991
4403999
4404100
4404200
4406100
4406900
4407100
4407210
4407220
4407230
4407910
4407920
4407990
4408101
4408201
4408901
4413000
4417001
4421901
4421903
4501100
4501900
4503100
4701000
4702000
4703110
4703190
4703210
4703290
4704110
4704190
4704210
4704290
4705000
4706100
4706910
4706920
4706930
4707100
4707200
4707300
4707900
4801000
4802521
4802601
4810991
4811311
4811312
4811391
4812000
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4823903
4823904
4901100
4901910
4901990
4902100
4902900
4903000
4904000
4905010
4905910
4905990
4906000
4907001
4907002
4907010
4907020
4911993
5004001
5104000
5105101
5105291
5303100
5303900
5304100
5304900
5305110
5305190
5305210
5305290
5305910
5404102
5405002
5407101
5501100
5501200
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5502000
5503100
5503200
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5504900
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5506100
5506200
5506300
5506900
5507000
5602101
5602210
5602290
5602900
5902100
5902200
5902300

5902900
5903902
6812200
6812400
6812700
6812901
6815201
7001000
7002100
7002311
7002321
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7011900
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7017900
7019391
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7105100
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7106921
7108120
7108131
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7110111
7110191
7110211
7110291
7110311
7110391
7110411
7110491
7112100
7112200
7112900
7118100
7118101
7118109
7118900
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7118902
7118909
7201400
7202410
7202490
7202500
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7202700
7202800
7202910
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7202930
7202999
7203100

7203900
7204100
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7205290
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7210111
7210121
7210901
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7219220
7219230
7219240
7219310
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7219330
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7219350
7219900
7220110
7220120
7220200
7220900
7223000
7225100
7226100
7226920
7302300
7302400
7317002
7401100
7401200
7402000
7403110
7403120
7403130
7403190
7403210
7403220
7403230
7403290
7404000
7405100
7405900
7406100
7406200
7407101
7407221
7407291

7410211
7410221
7501100
7501200
7502100
7502200
7503000
7508001
7606111
7606121
7606911
7606921
7607111
7607191
7607201
7801100
7801910
7801990
7802000
7901110
7901120
7901200
7902000
8001100
8001200
8002000
8101100
8101910
8101920
8101931
8101939
8101990
8102100
8102910
8102920
8102930
8102990
8103100
8103900
8104110
8104190
8104200
8104300
8104900
8105101
8105109
8105900
8106001
8106009
8107101
8107102
8107900
8108101
8108102
8108900
8109101
8109102
8109900
8110001
8110009

8111001
8111009
8112111
8112112
8112190
8112201
8112209
8112301
8112309
8112401
8112409
8112911
8112919
8112990
8113001
8113009
8201100
8201200
8201300
8201400
8201500
8201600
8201900
8202100
8202200
8202310
8202320
8202400
8202910
8202990
8203100
8203200
8203300
8203400
8204110
8204120
8204200
8205600
8206000
8207110
8207120
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8208100
8208200
8208300
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8402111
8402119
8402129
8402192
8402199
8402202
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8402902
8402909
8403100
8403900
8404101
8404109
8404202
8404209
8404901
8404909
8405900
8406110
8406190
8406900
8407100
8407290
8407310
8407320
8407331
8407332
8407333
8407341
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8407343
8408109
8408209
8408909
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8411110
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8412310
8412390
8412801
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8412901
8412909
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8413500
8413600
8413709

8413812
8413819
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8414309
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8414809
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8420991
8420999
8421110
8421129
8421190
8421219
8421220
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8421390
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8422200
8422300
8422400
8422909
8423101
8423891
8423902
8424200
8424300
8424812
8424819
8424891
8425110
8425190
8425200
8425310

8425390
8425410
8425420
8425490
8426110
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8426190
8426200
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8426410
8426490
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8426990
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8432299
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the schedules for tariff dismantling referred to in Article 9(2)

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7306609

7306901
7306909
7307111
7307119
7307191
7307199
7308100
7308200
7308300
7308400
7308900
7309000
7310100
7310211
7310212
7310219
7310291
7310299
7311001
7311009
7312101
7312109
7312901
7312909
7313000
7314110
7314190
7314200
7314300
7314410
7314420
7314490
7314500
7315110
7315120
7315190
7315200
7315810
7315820
7315890
7315900
7317001
7317009
7318110
7318120
7318130
7318140
7318150
7318160
7318190
7318210
7318220
7318230
7318240
7318290
7319100
7319200
7319300
7319900
7320100
7320200

7320900
7321110
7321120
7321130
7321810
7321820
7321830
7321900
7322110
7322190
7322900
7323100
7323910
7323920
7323930
7323940
7323990
7324100
7324211
7324219
7324290
7324900
7325100
7325910
7325990
7326110
7326190
7326200
7326901
7326902
7326903
7326909
7407211
7407219
7417000
7418100
7418200
7419100
7419910
7419920
7419991
7419999
7508002
7508003
7508009
7604101
7604210
7608100
7608200
7609000
7610100
7610900
7611000
7612100
7612901
7613000
7614100
7614900
7615100
7615200
7616100

7616901
7616909
8007000
8210000
8211100
8211910
8211920
8211930
8214200
8214909
8215100
8215200
8215910
8215990
8301401
8304000
8306210
8306290
8306300
8308901
8309100
8309909
8310000
8311101
8311201
8311301
8311901
8402121
8402191
8402201
8402901
8404109
8404201
8404909
8407210
8408101
8408201
8408901
8409911
8409991
8413701
8413811
8413813
8413912
8414510
8414591
8414592
8414600
8414801
8414900
8415100
8415810
8415820
8415830
8415909
8418101
8418109
8418211
8418219
8418221
8418229

8418291
8418299
8418300
8418400
8418509
8418691
8418910
8418991
8418991
8419110
8419191
8419199
8419900
8421121
8422110
8422901
8424811
8424891
8424901
8424909
8427900
8431311
8450110
8450120
8450190
8450200
8450900
8451210
8451902
8452400
8479891
8479891
8480301
8480302
8480309
8481801
8483200
8483300
8502110
8502120
8502131
8504101
8504211
8504221
8504222
8504223
8504231
8504232
8504233
8504310
8504321
8504322
8504323
8504331
8504332
8504333
8504341
8504342
8504343
8504401
8506111

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8506130
8506131
8506191
8506901
8507109
8507209
8507400
8507809
8509100
8509200
8509300
8509400
8509800
8509900
8510100
8510200
8510909
8516100
8516210
8516299
8516310
8516320
8516330
8516500
8516600
8516710
8516720
8516790
8516800
8516903
8516909
8518100
8518210
8518220
8518290
8518300
8518400
8518500
8518900
8519100
8519210
8519290
8519310
8519390
8519400
8519910
8519999
8520100
8520200
8520310
8520390
8520909
8521100
8521900
8522100

8522902
8522909
8523119
8523129
8523139
8523209
8523900
8524100
8524219
8524229
8524239
8524909
8525109
8525300
8526929
8527110
8527190
8527210
8527290
8527310
8527320
8527390
8527900
8528101
8528109
8528201
8528209
8529108
8529109
8529909
8536202
8536503
8536611
8536690
8537201
8537202
8538100
8538900
8539221
8539311
8544209
8544411
8544412
8544491
8544492
8544511
8544512
8544591
8544592
8544601
8544602
8701200
8701901
8702100
8702900

8703102
8703210
8703221
8703311
8703312
8704109
8704211
8704219
8704229
8704239
8704311
8704319
8704901
8704909
8706000
8707100
8707900
8711101
8711201
8711301
8711401
8711501
8711901
8712001
8714991
8716200
8716310
8716390
8716400
8716800
8903101
8903911
8903921
8903991
9002901
9003110
9003190
9003900
9004100
9004900
9005100
9005809
9005909
9006301
9006401
9006511
9006521
9006531
9006591
9018311
9101111
9101121
9101191
9101211
9101291

9101911
9101991
9111100
9111101
9111901
9113100
9113200
9113901
9113902
9113909
9208100
9208901
9305902
9305903
9306100
9306219
9306299
9306309
9306909
9401100
9401200
9401300
9401400
9401500
9401610
9401690
9401710
9401790
9401800
9401909
9403100
9403200
9403300
9403400
9403500
9403600
9403700
9403800
9403900
9404100
9404210
9404290
9404900
9405109
9405200
9405300
9405400
9405509
9405600
9405910
9405920
9405990
9406001
9406002
9406009

9502101
9504300
9504400
9504901
9505100
9505900
9601100
9601900
9602001
9602009
9603101
9603102
9603299
9603309
9603901
9603903
9603909
9605000
9606210
9606220
9606290
9606300
9607110
9607190
9608101
9608102
9608391
9608401
9608501
9608509
9608911
9608991
9609101
9612100
9612200
9613100
9613200
9613300
9613809
9613909
9614100
9614200
9614900
9615110
9615190
9615900
9616100
9616200
9701100
9701900
9702000
9703000
9704000

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List of industrial products originating in the Community referred to in Article 9(4)

ANNEX V

8703 10 30

8703 10 90

8703 22 90

8703 23 10

8703 23 20

8703 23 90

8703 24 00

8703 31 90

8703 32 20

8703 32 90

8703 33 00

8703 90 00

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ANNEX VI

Intellectual property rights referred to in Article 37

1. By the end of the fourth year after the entry into force of the Agreement, Egypt shall accede to the following multilat-

eral conventions on intellectual property rights:

— the Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations

(Rome, 1961),

— Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Micro-organisms for the Purposes of Patent

Procedure (1977, amended 1980),

— the Patent Cooperation Treaty (Washington 1970, amended in 1979 and modified in 1984),

— the International Convention for Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) (Geneva Act 1991),

— Nice Agreement concerning the international Classification of Goods and Services for the Purpose of the Registra-

tion of Marks (Geneva Act 1977and amended in 1979),

— Protocol relating to the Madrid Agreement concerning the international registration of Marks (Madrid 1989).

2. The Parties confirm the importance they attach to the obligations arising from the following multilateral conventions:

— the World Trade Organisation Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (Marrakech,
April 15, 1994), taking into consideration the transitional period provided for developing countries in Article 65
of that Agreement,

— the Paris Convention for the protection of industrial property (Stockholm Act 1967 amended in 1979),

— Berne Convention for the protection of literary and artistic works (Paris Act 1971),

— Madrid Agreement concerning the International Registration of Marks (Stockholm Act 1967 amended in 1979).

3. The Association Council may decide that paragraph 1 shall apply to other multilateral conventions in this field.

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PROTOCOL 1

concerning the arrangements applicable to imports into the Community of agricultural products
originating in Egypt

1. The products listed in the Annex, originating in Egypt, shall be admitted for importation into the Com-

munity, according to the conditions contained hereafter and in the Annex.

2.

(a) Customs duties shall be either eliminated or reduced as indicated in column ‘A’;

(b) for certain products, for which the Common Customs Tariff provides for the application of an ad
valorem duty and a specific duty, the rates of reduction, indicated in columns ‘A’ and ‘C’, shall apply
only to the ad valorem duty.

3. For certain products, customs duties shall be eliminated within the limit of the tariff quotas listed in

column ‘B’.

For the quantities imported in excess of the quotas, the common customs duties shall, according to the
product concerned, be applied in full or reduced, as indicated in column ‘C’.

For the first year of application, the volumes of tariff quotas shall be calculated as a pro rata of the
basic volumes, taking into account the part of the period elapsed before the date of entry into force of
this Agreement.

4. For the products for which the specific provisions in column ‘D’ refer to this paragraph, the tariff quota
volumes listed in column ‘B’ shall be increased annually by 3 % of the volume of the previous year; the
first increase taking place one year after the entry into force of this Agreement.

5. From 1 December to 31 May, for sweet oranges, fresh, falling within CN codes ex 0805 10 10,
ex 0805 10 30 and ex 0805 10 50, within the limit of the tariff quota of 34 000 tonnes applicable for
the concession on the ad valorem customs duties, the agreed entry price between the European Com-
munity and Egypt, from which the specific duty provided in the Community's list of concessions to the
WTO is reduced to zero, is:

— EUR 266/tonne, from 1 December 1999 to 31 May 2000,

— EUR 264/tonne, for every period thereafter, from 1 December to 31 May.

If the entry price for a consignment is 2, 4, 6 or 8 % lower than the agreed entry price, the specific
customs duty shall be equal respectively to 2, 4, 6 or 8 % of this agreed entry price. If the entry price of
a consignment is less than 92 % of the agreed entry price, the specific customs duty bound within the
WTO shall apply.

CN code

Description

0601

0602

tubers,

Bulbs,
tuberous roots, corms, crowns and rhizomes,
dormant, in growth or in flower; chicory plants and roots other
than roots of heading 1212

Other live plants (including their roots), cuttings and slips; mush-
room spawn

ex 0603 10

Fresh cut
flowers and flower buds, of a kind suitable for
bouquets or for ornamental purposes, from 1 October to 15
April

ANNEX TO PROTOCOL 1

A

Reduction of the MFN customs
duty (1)
(%)

100

100

100

B

Tariff quota

(tons)

500

2 000

3 000 of which 1 000 of
flowers falling within CN
codes 0603 10 29 and
0603 10 69

0604 99

Foliage, branches and other parts of plants, without flowers or
flower buds, and grasses, dried, dyed, bleached, impregnated or
otherwise prepared

100

500

ex 0701 90 51

New potatoes, fresh or chilled, from 1 January to 31 March

100

year 1: 130 000
year 2: 190 000 year 3
and following
years: 250 000

ex 0702 00

Tomatoes, fresh or chilled, from 1 November to 31 March

ex 0703 10

Onions and shallots, fresh or chilled, from 1 February to 15 June

ex 0703 20 00

Garlic, fresh or chilled, from 1 February to 15 June

100

100

100

-

15 000

3 000

C

D

Reduction of the customs duty
beyond the tariff quota (1)
(%)

Specific provisions

-

-

-

-

60

-

60

50

Subject to specific provisions
in Protocol 1 paragraph 4

Subject to specific provisions
in Protocol 1 paragraph 4

Subject to compliance with
the conditions agreed upon
by exchange of letters

Subject to specific provisions
in Protocol 1 paragraph 4

Subject to specific provisions
in Protocol 1 paragraph 4

Subject to specific provisions
in Protocol 1 paragraph 4

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Description

A

Reduction of the MFN customs
duty (1)
(%)

ex 0704

Cabbages, cauliflowers, kohlrabi, kale and similar edible brassicas,
fresh or chilled, from 1 November to 15 April

100

ex 0705 11

Cabbage lettuce (head lettuce), from 1 November to 31 March

100

ex 0706 10 00

Carrots and turnips, fresh or chilled, from 1 January to 30 April

100

ex 0707 00

Cucumbers and gherkins, fresh or chilled, from 1 January to end
February

ex 0708

Leguminous vegetables, shelled or unshelled, fresh or chilled,
from 1 November to 30 April

100

100

B

Tariff quota

(tons)

1 500

500

500

500

year 1: 15 000
year 2: 17 500
year 3 and following
years: 20 000

ex 0709

Other vegetables, fresh or chilled:

100

-

— asparagus from 1 October to end February

— sweet peppers from 1 November to 30 April

— other vegetables from 1 November to end February

ex 0710
ex 0711

Frozen and provisionally preserved vegetables, excluding sweet
corn of subheadings 0710 40 00 and 0711 90 30 and excluding
mushrooms of the type Agaricus of subheadings 0710 80 61
and 0711 90 40

100

year 1: 1 000
year 2: 2 000
year 3 and following
years: 3 000

0712

Dried vegetables, whole, cut, sliced, broken or in powder, but
not further prepared

100

16 000

C

D

Reduction of the customs duty
beyond the tariff quota (1)
(%)

Specific provisions

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

Subject to specific provisions
in Protocol 1 paragraph 4

Subject to specific provisions
in Protocol 1 paragraph 4

Subject to specific provisions
in Protocol 1 paragraph 4

Subject to specific provisions
in Protocol 1 paragraph 4

Subject to specific provisions
in Protocol 1 paragraph 4

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Description

ex 0713

Dried leguminous vegetables, shelled, whether or not skinned or
split, excluding products for sowing of subheadings 0713 10 10,
0713 33 10 and 0713 90 10

0714 20

Sweet potatoes, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried

0804 10 00

Dates, fresh or dried

0804 50 00

Guavas, mangoes and mangosteens, fresh or dried

0805 10

Oranges, fresh or dried

0805 20

Mandarins
wilkings and similar citrus hybrids, fresh or dried

(including tangerines and satsumas), clementines,

0805 30

Lemons and limes, fresh or dried

0805 40

Grapefruit, fresh or dried

exex 0806 10

Grapes, fresh, from 1 February to 14 July

ex ex 0807 11 00

Watermelons, fresh, from 1 February to 15 June

0807 19 00

Other melons, fresh, from 15 October to 31 May

A

Reduction of the MFN customs
duty (1)
(%)

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

B

Tariff quota

(tons)

-

3 000

-

-

C

D

Reduction of the customs duty
beyond the tariff quota (1)
(%)

Specific provisions

-

-

-

-

Subject to specific provisions
in Protocol 1 paragraph 4

year 1: 50 000 (2)
year 2: 55 000 (2)
year 3 and following
years: 60 000 (2)

60

Subject to specific provisions
in Protocol 1 paragraph 5

-

-

-

-

-

1 000

-

-

-

-

-

Subject to specific provisions
in Protocol 1 paragraph 4

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Description

A

Reduction of the MFN customs
duty (1)
(%)

0808 20

Pears and quinces, fresh

100

ex 0809 30

Peaches, including nectarines, fresh, from 15 March to 31 May

100

ex 0809 40

Plums and sloes, fresh, from 15 April to 31 May

ex 0810 10

Strawberries, fresh, from 1 October to 31 March

0810 90 85

Other fruit, fresh

0811
0812

0904

0909

0910

Fruit and nuts, uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in
water, frozen, whether or not containing added sugar or other
sweetening matter, or provisionally preserved, but unsuitable in
that state for immediate consumption

Pepper of the genus Piper; dried or crushed or ground fruits of
the genus Capsicum or of the genus Pimenta

Seeds of anise, badian,
juniper berries

fennel, coriander, cumin or caraway;

100

Ginger, saffron, turmeric (curcuma), thyme, bay leaves, curry and
other spices

1006

Rice

100

100

100

100

100

100

25

B

Tariff quota

(tons)

500

500

500

year 1: 500
year 2: 1 000
year 3 and following years:
1 500

-

year 1: 1 000
year 2: 2 000
year 3 and following years:
3 000

-

-

-

32 000

C

D

Reduction of the customs duty
beyond the tariff quota (1)
(%)

Specific provisions

Subject to specific provisions
in Protocol 1 paragraph 4

Subject to specific provisions
in Protocol 1 paragraph 4

Subject to specific provisions
in Protocol 1 paragraph 4

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

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Description

1202

Ground nuts

ex 1209

Seeds, fruit and spores, of a kind used for sowing, excluding beet
seeds of subheadings 1209 11 00 and 1209 19 00

1211

1212

Plants and parts of plants (including seeds and fruits), of a kind
used primarily in perfumery,
in pharmacy or for insecticidal,
fungicidal or similar purposes

Locust beans, seaweeds and other algae, sugar beet and sugar
cane; fruit stones and kernels and other vegetable products of a
kind used primarily for human consumption, not elsewhere
specified or included

1515 50 11

Sesame oil, crude, for technical or industrial uses other than the
manufacture of foodstuffs for human consumption (3)

1515 90

Other fixed vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, whether or
not refined, but not chemically modified

1703

Molasses resulting from the extraction or refining of sugar

2001 90 10

Mango chutney

2007

Jams, fruit jellies, marmalades, fruit or nut purée and pastes,
being cooked preparations, whether or not containing added
sugar or other sweetening matter

A

Reduction of the MFN customs
duty (1)
(%)

B

Tariff quota

(tons)

C

D

Reduction of the customs duty
beyond the tariff quota (1)
(%)

Specific provisions

.

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100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

-

-

-

-

1 000

500

350 000

-

1 000

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

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Subject to specific provisions
in Protocol 1 paragraph 4

Subject to specific provisions
in Protocol 1 paragraph 4

Subject to specific provisions
in Protocol 1 paragraph 4

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Description

2008 11

Ground-nuts

2009

2302

5301

Fruit juices (including grape must) and vegetable juices, unfer-
mented and not containing added spirit, whether or not
containing added sugar or other sweetening matter

Bran, sharps and other residues derived from the sifting, milling
or other working of cereals or of leguminous plants

Flax

A

Reduction of the MFN customs
duty (1)
(%)

100

100

60

100

B

Tariff quota

(tons)

3 000

1 000

-

-

C

D

Reduction of the customs duty
beyond the tariff quota (1)
(%)

Specific provisions

Subject to specific provisions
in Protocol 1 paragraph 4

Subject to specific provisions
in Protocol 1 paragraph 4

-

-

-

-

(1) Duty reduction only applies to ad valorem customs duties.
(2) Tariff quota applicable from 1 July to 30 June. Of this volume 34 000 tons for sweet oranges, fresh, falling within CN codes ex 0805 10 10, ex 0805 10 30 and ex 0805 10 50, during the period from 1 December to 31 May.
(3) Entry under this subheading is subject to conditions laid down in the relevant Community provisions.

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Concerning the arrangements applicable to imports into Egypt of agricultural products originating
in the Community

PROTOCOL 2

1. The products listed in the Annex originating in the Community shall be admitted for importation into

Egypt according to the conditions contained hereafter and in the Annex.

2. Import duties on imports shall be either eliminated or reduced to the level indicated in column ‘A’.

3. For certain products, the duties shall be eliminated or reduced within the limit of a tariff quota listed in

column ‘B’.

Egyptian code

Description

Duty reduction (%)

Tariff quota (in tons)

ANNEX TO PROTOCOL 2

A

B

Live bovine animal

0102 10

– pure-bred breeding animals

0102 90

– other

0202 30

Meat of bovine animals, frozen, boneless

Milk

100

50

50

Unlimited

10 000

25 000

– in powder, granules or other solid forms, of a fat content by weight not

exceeding 1,5 %

0402 10 10

– – for infants

0402 10 91

– – other than for infants, in packages of a weight not less than 20 kg

– in powder, granules or other solid forms, of a fat content by weight exceeding

1,5 %

– – not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter

100

Unlimited

0402 21 10

– – – for infants, ‘half fat’

0402 21 91

– – – other, in packages of a weight not less than 20 kg

– – containing added sugar or other sweetening matter

0402 29 10

– – – for infants, ‘half fat’

0402 29 91

– – – other, in packages of a weight not less than 20 kg

Cream

0402 21 20

– not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter

0402 29 20

– containing added sugar or other sweetening matter

0405 00 90

Butter and other fats and oils derived from milk, in packages of a weight not less
than 20 kg

Cheese and curd

0406 10 90

– fresh (unripened or uncured) cheese,

including whey cheese, and curd,

in

packages of a weight over 20 kg

0406 20 90

– grated or powdered cheese of all kinds, in packages of a weight over 20 kg

25

25

500

5 000

0406 30 90

– processed cheese not grated or powdered, in packages of a weight over 20 kg

50

2 000

0406 40 90

– blue veined cheese, in packages of a weight over 20 kg

0406 90 90

– other cheese, in packages of a weight over 20 kg, excluding white cheese of

cow's milk in brine

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Description

Duty reduction (%)

Tariff quota (in tons)

A

B

Egyptian code

0601

Bulbs, tubers, tuberous roots, corms, crowns and rhizomes, dormant, in growth or
in flower; chicory plants and roots other than roots of heading 1212

0602

Live plants (including their roots), cuttings and slips; mushroom spawn

0701 10 00

Seed potatoes

ex 0713

Dried leguminous vegetables, shelled, whether or not skinned or split, excluding
leguminous vegetables of headings 0713 20 00 (chickpeas) and 0713 90 00 (other)

0802

Other nuts, fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled

0808 10 00

Apples, fresh, from 1 January to 29 February

0809 20 00

Cherries, fresh

0812 10 00

Cherries, provisionally preserved but unsuitable in that
consumption

state for

immediate

1201

1204

1206

Soya beans, whether or not broken

Linseed, whether or not broken

Sunflower seeds, whether or not broken

1207 10

Palm nuts and kernels, whether or not broken

1207 30

Castor oil seeds, whether or not broken

1207 40

Sesamum seeds, whether or not broken

1207 50

Mustard seeds, whether or not broken

1207 92

Shea nuts (karite nuts), whether or not broken

1207 99

Other oil seeds and oleaginous fruits, whether or not broken

1209

Seeds, fruits and spores of a kind used for sowing

Soya-bean oil and its fractions

1507 10 90

– crude oil, other than put up for retail sale

1507 90 91

– purified (semi-refined), other than put up for retail sale

Sunflower-seed oil

1512 11 91

– crude oil, other than put up for retail sale

1512 19 91

– purified (semi-refined), other than put up for retail sale

2002 90 90

Tomatoes prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, other
than tomatoes whole or in pieces, of a weight over 5 kg net

2003

Mushrooms and truffles prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic
acid

2301 20 00

Flours, meals and pellets, of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic inver-
tebrates

2309

Preparations of a kind used for animal feeding

100

100

100

100

50

25

25

30

100

100

100

100

50

100

50

50

50

100

100

100

50

50

100

30

Unlimited

Unlimited

Unlimited

3 000

300

500

500

500

Unlimited

Unlimited

Unlimited

Unlimited

Unlimited

Unlimited

Unlimited

Unlimited

Unlimited

Unlimited

15 000

15 000

500

100

10 000

20 000

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Concerning the arrangements applicable to processed agricultural products

PROTOCOL 3

Article 1

Customs duties and charges having equivalent effect applicable on import into Egypt of processed
1.
agricultural products originating in the Community, listed in Annex I to this Protocol, shall be gradually
reduced in accordance with the following schedule:

— as regards the products listed in Table 1, duties shall be abolished two years after the entry into force

of the Agreement,

— as regards the products listed in Table 2, duties shall be subject to the following reductions:

— two years after entry into force of the Agreement: -5 % of the basic duties,

— three years after the entry into force of the Agreement: -10 % of the basic duties,

— four years after the entry into force of the Agreement: -15 % of the basic duties,

— as regards the products listed in Table 3, duties shall be reduced as be subject to the following reduc-

tions:

— two years after entry into force of the Agreement: -5 % of the basic duties,

— three years after the entry into force of the Agreement: -15 % of the basic duties,

— four years after the entry into force of the Agreement: -25 % of the basic duties.

Imports into the Community of processed agricultural products originating in Egypt, listed in Annex

2.
II to this Protocol, shall be subject to the duties mentioned therein, whether limited by quota or not.

The reductions of customs duties mentioned in Annexes I and II to this Protocol shall apply to the

3.
basic duties referred to in Article 18.

4.

The Association Council may decide on:

— extensions of the list of processed agricultural products under this Protocol,

— amendments of the duties mentioned in Annexes I and II to this Protocol,

— increases or abolition of tariff quotas.

Article 2

Customs duties applied pursuant to Article 1 may be reduced by decision of the Association

1.
Committee:

— when in trade between the Community and Egypt the duties applied to the basic products are reduced,

or

— in response to reductions resulting from mutual concessions relating to processed agricultural products.

2.
As regards the duties applied by the Community, the reductions provided for under the first indent
will be calculated on the part of the duty designated as the agricultural component which shall correspond
to the agricultural products actually used in the manufacture of the processed agricultural products in ques-
tion and deduced from the duties applied to these basic agricultural products.

Article 3

The Community and Egypt shall inform each other of the administrative arrangements adopted for the
products covered by this Protocol.

These arrangements should ensure equal treatment for all interested parties and should be as simple and
flexible as possible.

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ANNEX I TO PROTOCOL 3

Table 1

Description

Applicable duties
%

0405

Butter and other fats and oils derived from milk, dairy spreads:

0405 00 90

Other (in packages of more than 20 kg)

0505

Skins and other parts of birds, with their feathers or down, feathers and parts of feathers (whether or not with
trimmed edges) and down, not further worked than cleaned, disinfected or treated for preservation; powder
and waste of feathers or parts of feathers:

0505 10

Feathers of a kind used for stuffing; down:

0505 10 00

Raw

0505 90 00

Other

0506

Bones and horn-cores, unworked, deflatted, simply prepared (but not cut to shape), treated with acid or dege-
latinised, powder and waste of these products

0509 90 00

Natural sponges of animal origin

0510 00

Ambergris, castoreum, civet and musk, cantharides; bile; whether or not dried, gland and other animal
products used in the preparation of pharmaceutical products, fresh, chilled, frozen or otherwise provisionally
preserved

0903 00

Maté

1302

Vegetable saps and extracts, pectid substances, pectinates and pectades, agar-agar and other mucilages and
thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from vegetable products

– seaweed and other algae:

– – other:

1302 19 90

– – – Other

1302 20 00

– Pectic substances, pectinates and pectates:

– – Mucilages and thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from vegetable products:

1302 31 00

– – Agar-agar

1302 32 00

Mucilages and thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from locust beans, locust bean seeds or guar seeds

1401

Vegetable materials of a kind used primarily for planting (for example, bamboos, rattans, reeds, rushes, osier,
raffia, cleaned, bleached or dyed cereal straw, and lime bark):

1401 10 00

– bamboos

1401 20 00

– rattans

1401 90 00

– others

1505

Wool grease crude and fatty substances derived therefrom (including lanolin):

1505 10

– Wool grease, crude:

1505 10 90

For wholesale

1505 90

– Other:

1505 90 90

– – For wholesale

1506 00 90

Other animal fats and oils and their fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified for whole-
sale

1515

Other fixed vegetable fats and oils (including jojoba oil) and their fractions, whether or not refined, but not
chemically modified:

1515 60

Jojoba oil and its fractions:

1515 60 90

Jojoba oil and its fractions for wholesale

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

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Description

Applicable duties
%

1518 00 10

Lynixine

1518 00 90

Other

1521

Vegetable waxes, beeswax, other insects waxes and spermaceti, whether or not refined or coloured:

1521 10

Vegetable waxes

1521 90

Other

1522 00 00

Degras

1702

– Other sugars, including chemically pure lactose, maltose, glucose and fructose, in solid form, sugar syrups
not containing added flavouring or colouring matter, artificial honey, whether or not mixed with natural
honey, caramel:

1702 50 00

– Chemically pure fructose

1702 90 10

– Chemically pure maltose

1803

Cocoa paste, whether or not deflated:

1803 10 00

– not deflated

1803 20 00

– wholly of partly deflated

1901

Malt extract; food preparations of flour, meal, starch or malt extract, not containing cocoa powder or
containing cocoa powder in a proportion by weight of less than 50 %, not elsewhere specified or included;
food preparations of goods headings 0401 to 0404, not containing cocoa powder or containing cocoa
powder in a proportion by weight of less than 10 %, not elsewhere specified or included:

1901 10

– Preparations for infant use, put up for retail sale

1901 90 11-
19-2130 90
91

2101

– Other

Extracts, essences and concentrates of coffee, tea or maté and preparations with a basis of these products or
basis of coffee, tea or maté and other roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes and extracts,
essences and concentrates thereof:

2101 20 00

– Extracts, essences and concentrates of tea or maté, and preparations with a basis of these extracts, essences

and concentrates or with a basis of tea or maté

2101 30 00

– Roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes and extracts, essences and concentrates thereof

2905 43 00

Mannitol

2905 44 00

D-gluticol (sorbitol)

2905 45 00

Glycerol

3809 10 00

Finishing agents dye carriers with a basis of amylaceauos substances

3823 (1)

Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids, acid oils from refining, industrial fatty alcohols:

– Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids, acid oils from refining:

3823 11 00

Stearic acid

3823 12 00

Oleic acid

3823 13 00

Tall oil fatty acids

3823 19

Other:

3823 19 10

Distilled fatty acids

3823 19 30

Fatty acids distillate

3823 19 90

Other

3823 70 00

Industrial fatty alcohols

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

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3824 (1)

Description

Applicable duties
%

Prepared binders for foundry moulds or cores, chemical products and preparations of the chemical or allied
industries (including those consisting of mixtures of natural products) not otherwise specified or included, resi-
dual products of the chemical or allied industries, not elsewhere specified of included:

3824 60

– Sorbitol other than that of subheading 2905 44:

– – In acquaeous solution: A46

3824 60 11

– – – Containing 2 % or less by weight of d-manitol, calculated on the d-glucol content

3824 60 19

– – – Other

– – Other:

3824 60 91

– – – Containing 2 % or less by weight of D-mannitol, calculated on the D-glucitol content

3824 60 99

– – – Other

(1) Headings 3823 and 3824 (and all the products included into these two groups) are classified by CN codes.

Egyptian code

0403

Table 2

Description

Buttermilk, curdled milk and cream, yoghurt, kephir and other fermented or acidified milk and cream,
whether or not concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or flavoured or containing
added fruit, nuts or cocoa:

0403 10 00

– Yoghurt

0403 90

– Other:

– – – other:

0403 90 91

– – – –

put up for retail sale

0403 90 99

– – – –

other

0405

Butter and other fats and oils derived from milk, dairy spreads:

0405 00 10

Package less than 20 kg

1302

Vegetable saps and extracts, pectid substances, pectinates and pectades, agar-agar and other mucilages and
thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from vegetable products:

1302 12 00

– – Of liquorice

1302 13 00

– – Of hops

1302 14 00

– – Of pyrethrum or of the roots of plants containing rotenone

1302 19

– – Other:

1302 19 20

– – – Intermixtures of vegetable extracts, for the manufacture of beverages or of food preparations

1404

Vegetable products not elsewhere specified or included:

1404 10 00

Raw vegetable materials of a kind used primarily in dyeing or tanning

1404 20

– Cotton linters:

1404 20 10

– – – Treated chemically

1404 20 90

– – – Other

1404 90 00

Other

1505

Wool grease, crude and fatty substances derived therefrom (including lanolin):

1505 10

– Wool grease crude:

1505 10 10

– – Wool grease crude for retail sale

1505 90

– Other:

1505 90 10

– – For retail sale

0

0

0

0

0

Reduction to be
applied to the
basic duties %

-15

-15

-15

-15

-15

-15

-15

-15

-15

-15

-15

-15

-15

-15

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Description

Reduction to be
applied to the
basic duties %

1516 20 10

Vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, hydrogenated castor oil, so called ‘opal-wax’

1517

Margarine; edible mixtures or preparations of animal or vegetable fats or oils or of fractions of different fats or
oils of this Chapter, other than edible fats or oils or their fractions of heading 1516:

1517 10

Margarine, excluding liquid margarine,

1517 10 10

– – – For retail sale put up in packages of less than 20 kg

1517 90

– Other:

1517 90 11

– – – –

Liquid margarine for retail sale put up in packages of less than 20 kg

1517 90 91

– – – – Others put up for retail sale

1520 00

Glycerol:

1520 10 00

– Crude

1520 90

– Other:

1520 90 10

– – For pharmaceutical use

1520 90 90

– – Others

1804 00 00

Cocoa butter, fat and oil

1805 00 00

Cocoa powder, not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter

2001

Vegetables, fruits, nuts and other edible parts of plants, prepared or preserved by vinegar or acetic acid:

2001 90

– Other:

– – Yams, sweet potatoes and similar edible parts of plants containing 5 % ore more by weight of starch

– – Palm hearts

2004

Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, frozen:

2004 10 00

– Potatoes

2004 90 00

– Other vegetables and mixtures of vegetables:

– – Sweet corn

2005

Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen

2005 20 00

– Potatoes:

– – In the form of flour, meal or flakes,

-15

-15

-15

-15

-15

-15

-15

-15

-15

-15

-15

-15

-15

-15

2101

Extracts, essences and concentrates, of coffee, tea or maté and preparations with a basis of these products or
with a basis of coffee, tea or maté; roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes and extracts, essences
and concentrates thereof:

2101 10 00

– Extracts, essences and concentrates of coffee, and preparations with a basis of these extracts, essences or

-15

concentrates or with a basis of coffee

2103

Sauces and preparations therefor; mixed condiments and mixed seasonings; mustard flour and meal and
prepared mustard:

2103 10 00

– Soya sauce

2103 20 00

– Tomato ketchup and other tomato sauces

2103 30 00

– Mustard flour and meal and prepared mustard:

2103 90 00

– – Other:

-15

-15

-15

-15

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Description

2104

Soups and broths and preparations therefor; homogenised composite food preparations:

Reduction to be
applied to the
basic duties %

2104 10 00

Soups and broths and preparation therefor:

2104 20

Homogenised composite food preparation

2104 20 10

– – For infant use

2104 20 90

– – Other

2105 00 00

Ice cream and other edible ice, whether or not containing cocoa

2106

Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included:

2106 10 00

– Protein concentrates and textured protein substances

2106 90

– Other:

2106 90 10

– – – Emulsifying material

2106 90 30

– – – Food preparation for medical use

2106 90 90

– – – Other (including cheese fondue)

3505 10

Dextrins and other modified starches

3505 20

Glue based on starches or on dextrins or other modified starches

Egyptian code

Table 3

Description

0507

Ivory, tortoise-shell, whalebone and whalebone hair, horns, antlers, hooves, nails, claws and beaks, unworked
or simply prepared but not cut to shape, powder and waste of these products

0508 00

Coral and similar materials unworked or simply prepared but not otherwise worked. Shells of molluscs, crusta-
ceans or echinoderms and cuttle-bone, unworked or simply prepared but not cut to shape, powder and waste
thereof

0710

Vegetables (uncooked or cooked by streaming or boiling in water), frozen:

0710 40 00

– Sweet corn

0711

Vegetables provisionally preserved (for example, by sulphur dioxide gas, in brine, in sulphur water or in other
preservative solutions), but unsuitable in that state for immediate consumption:

0711 90 00

– Other:

– – Sweet corn (zea mays var. saccharata)

1506

Other animal fats and oils and their fractions whether or not refined but not chemically modified:

1506 00 10

– For retail sale

1704

Sugar confectionery (including white chocolate), not containing cocoa

1806

Chocolate and other food preparation containing cocoa

1901

Malt extract; food preparations of flour, meal, starch or malt extract, not containing cocoa powder or
containing cocoa powder in a proportion by weight of less than 50 %, not elsewhere specified or included;
food preparations of goods headings 0401 to 0404, not containing cocoa powder or containing cocoa
powder in a proportion by weight of less than 10 %, not elsewhere specified or included

-15

-15

-15

-15

-15

-15

-15

-15

-15

-15

Reduction to be
applied to the
basic duties %

-25

-25

-25

-25

-25

-25

-25

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Description

1901 20 00

– Mixes and doughs for the preparation of bakers' ware of heading 1905

– – Malt extract

1901 90 29

– – – – Other

1901 90 99

– – – – Other

1902

Pasta, whether or not cooked or stuffed (with meat or other substances) or otherwise prepared such as
spaghetti, macaroni, noodles, lasagne, gnocchi, ravioli, cannelloni, couscous, whether or not prepared

– Uncooked pasta, not stuffed or otherwise prepared

1903 00 00

Tapioca and substitutes therefor prepared from starch, in the form of flakes, grains, pearls, siftings or similar
forms

1904

1905

Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products (for example cornflakes);
cereals other than maize (corn), in grain form, pre-cooked or otherwise prepared (1)

Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers,
empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products

2001

Vegetables, fruits, nuts and other edible parts of plants, prepared or preserved by vinegar or acetic acid:

2001 90 90

– Other:

– – Sweet corn (zea mays var. saccharata)

2004

Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, frozen:

2004 90 00

– Other vegetables and mixtures of vegetables:

2004 90 10

– – – Sweet corn (zea mays var. saccharata)

2005

Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen:

2005 80 00

– Sweet corn (zea mays var. saccharata)

2008

Fruits, nuts and other edible parts of plants, otherwise prepared or preserved, whether or not containing
added sugar or other sweetening matter or spirit, not elsewhere specified or included:

2008 11 00

Ground-nuts:
– – Peanut butter

– Other, including mixtures other than those of subheading 2008 19:

2008 91 00

– – Palm hearts

2008 92 00

– – Mixtures (not containing added spirit)

2008 99 00

– – Other

2102

2201

2202

2207

3302

Yeasts (active or inactive), other single-cell micro organisms, dead (but not including vaccines of heading
3002), prepared baking powders

Waters, including natural or artificial mineral waters and aerated waters, not containing added sugar or other
sweetening matter or flavoured; ice and snow

Waters, including mineral waters and aerated waters, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or
flavoured, and other non-alcoholic beverages, not including fruit or vegetable juices of heading 2009

Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of 80 % vol or higher; ethyl alcohol and other
spirits, denatured, of any strength

Mixture of odoriferous substances and mixtures (including alcoholic solutions) with a basis of one or more of
in industry, other preparations based on odoriferous
these substances, of a kind used as a raw material
substances, of a kind used for the manufacture of beverages:

3302 10

Of a kind used in the food or drink industries

(1) This description has changed since 1 January 1996; see heading 1904 in Annex II Table 3.

Reduction to be
applied to the
basic duties %

-25

-25

-25

-25

-25

-25

-25

-25

-25

-25

-25

-25

-25

-25

-25

-25

-25

-25

-25

-25

-25

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ANNEX II TO PROTOCOL 3

Table 1

Description

Applicable duties
%

Skins and other parts of birds, with their feathers or down, feathers and parts of feathers (whether or not with
trimmed edges) and down, not further worked than cleaned, disinfected or treated for preservation; powder
and waste of feathers or parts of feathers:

CN code

0505

0505 10

– Feathers of a kind used for stuffing; down:

0505 10 90

– – Other

0505 90 00

– Other

0509 00

Natural sponges of animal origin:

0509 00 90

– Other

0903 00 00

Maté

1212

Locust beans, seaweeds and other algae, sugar beet and sugar cane, fresh or dried, whether or not ground;
fruit stones and kernels and other vegetable products (including unroasted chicory roots of the variety
Cichorium intybus sativum) of a kind used primarily for human consumption, not elsewhere specified or
included:

1212 20 00

Seaweeds and other algae

1302

Vegetable saps and extracts; pectic substances, pectinates and pectates; agar-agar and other mucilages and
thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from vegetable products:

– Vegetable saps and extracts:

1302 12 00

– – Of liquorice

1302 13 00

– – Of hops

1302 14 00

– – Of pyrethrum or of the roots of plants containing rotenone

1302 19

– – Other:

1302 19 30

– – – Intermixtures of vegetable extracts, for the manufacture of beverages or of food preparations

– – – Other:

1302 19 91

– – – – Medicinal

1302 20

– Pectic substances, pectinates and pectates:

1302 20 10

– – Dry

1302 20 90

– – Other

– Mucilages and thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from vegetable products:

1302 31 00

– – Agar-agar

1302 32

– – Mucilages and thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from locust beans, locust bean seeds or guar

seeds:

1302 32 10

– – – Of locust beans or locust bean seeds

1505

Wool grease and fatty substances derived therefrom (including lanolin):

1505 10 00

– Wool grease, crude

1505 90 00

– Other

1506 00 00

Other animal fats and oils and their fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified

1515

Other fixed vegetable fats and oils (including jojoba oil) and their fractions, whether or not refined, but not
chemically modified:

1515 60

– Jojoba oil and its fractions:

1515 60 90

– – Other

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

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CN code

1516

Description

Applicable duties
%

Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, partly or wholly hydrogenated, inter-esterified, re-esteri-
fied or elaidinised, whether or not refined, but not further prepared:

1516 20

– Vegetable fats and oils and their fractions:

1516 20 10

– – Hydrogenated castor oil, so called ‘opal-wax’

1517 90 93

– – – Edible mixtures or preparations of a kind used as mould release preparation

1518 00

Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, boiled, oxidised, dehydrated, sulphurised, blown, poly-
merised by heat in vacuum or in inert gas or otherwise chemically modified, excluding those of heading
1516; inedible mixtures or preparations of animal or vegetable fats or oils or of fractions of different fats or
oils of this chapter, not elsewhere specified or included:

1518 00 10

– Linoxyn

– Fixed vegetable oils, fluid, mixed, for technical or industrial uses other than the manufacture of foodstuffs

for human consumption

– Other:

1518 00 91

– – Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, boiled, oxidised, dehydrated, sulphurised, blown,
polymerised by heat in vacuum or in inert gas or otherwise chemically modified, excluding those of
heading 1516

– – Other:

1518 00 95

– – – Inedible mixtures or preparations of animal or of animal and vegetable fats and oils and their fractions

1518 00 99

– – – Other

1520 00 00

Glycerol (glycerine), crude; glycerol waters and glycerol lyes

1521

Vegetable waxes (other than triglycerides), beeswax, other insect waxes and spermaceti, whether or not refined
or coloured:

1521 10

– Vegetable waxes:

1521 10 90

– – Other

1521 90

– Other:

1521 90 10

– – Spermaceti, whether or not refined or coloured

– – Beeswax and other insect waxes, whether or not refined or coloured

1521 90 99

– – – Other

1522 00

Degras; residues resulting from the treatment of fatty substances or animal or vegetable waxes:

1522 00 10

– Degras

1702 90

– Other, including invert sugar:

1702 90 10

– – Chemically pure maltose

1704

Sugar confectionery (including white chocolate), not containing cocoa:

1704 90

– Other:

1704 90 10

– – Liquorice extract containing more than 10 % by weight of sucrose but not containing other added

substances

1803

Cocoa paste, whether or not defatted:

1803 10 00

– Not defatted

1803 20 00

– Wholly or partly defatted

1804 00 00

Cocoa butter, fat and oil

1805 00 00

Cocoa powder, not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

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CN code

Description

Applicable duties
%

1806

Chocolate and other food preparation containing cocoa:

1806 10

– Cocoa powder, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter:

1806 10 15

– – Containing no sucrose or containing less than 5 % by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar expressed

as sucrose) or isoglucose expressed as sucrose

– – Other:

1901 90 91

– – – Containing no milk fats, sucrose, isoglucose, glucose or starch or containing less than 1,5 % milk fat, 5
% sucrose (including invert sugar) or isoglucose, 5 % glucose or starch, excluding food preparations in
powder form of goods of headings 0401 to 0404

2001 90 60

– – Palm hearts

2008 11 10

– – – Peanut butter

– Other, including mixtures other than those of subheading 2008 19:

2008 91 00

– – Palm hearts

2101

Extracts, essences and concentrates, of coffee, tea or maté and preparations with a basis of these products or
with a basis of coffee, tea or maté; roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes and extracts, essences
and concentrates thereof:

– Extracts, essences and concentrates of coffee, and preparations with a basis of these extracts, essences or

concentrates or with a basis of coffee:

2101 11

– – Extracts; essences or concentrates:

2101 11 11

– – – With a coffee-based dry matter content of 95 % or more by weight

2101 11 19

— Other

– Preparations:

– – Preparations with a basis of coffee:

2101 12 92

– – – With a basis of extracts, essences or concentrates of coffee

2101 20

– Extracts, essences and concentrates of tea or maté, and preparations with a basis of these extracts, essences

and concentrates or with a basis of tea or maté:

2101 20 20

– –

Extracts, essences or concentrates:

– – Preparations

2101 20 92

– – – With a basis of extracts, essences or concentrates of tea or maté

2101 30

– Roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes and extracts, essences and concentrates thereof:

– – Roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes:

2101 30 11

– – – Roasted chicory

– – Extracts, essences and concentrates of roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes:

2101 30 91

– – – Of roasted chicory

2102

Yeasts (active or inactive); other single-cell micro-organisms, dead (but not including vaccines of heading
3002); prepared baking powders:

2102 10

– Active yeasts:

2102 10 10

– – Culture yeast

2102 10 31

– – Bakers' yeasts

2102 10 39

– – Bakers' yeast (excluding dried)

2102 10 90

– – Other

2102 20

– Inactive yeasts; other single-cell micro-organisms, dead:

– – Inactive yeasts:

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

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CN code

Description

Applicable duties
%

2102 20 11

– – – In tablet, cube or similar form, or in immediate packings of a net content not exceeding 1 kg.

2102 20 19

– – – Other

2102 20 90

– – Other

2102 30 00

– Prepared baking powders

2103

Sauces and preparations therefor; mixed condiments and mixed seasonings; mustard flour and meal and
prepared mustard:

2103 10 00

– Soya sauce

2103 20 00

– Tomato ketchup and other tomato sauces

2103 30

– Mustard flour and meal and prepared mustard:

2103 30 10

– – Mustard flour

2103 30 90

– – Prepared mustard

2103 90

– – Other:

2103 90 10

– – Mango chutney, liquid

2103 90 30

– – Aromatic bitters of an alcoholic strength by volume of 44,2 to 49,2 % vol containing from 1,5 to 6 % by
weight of gentian, spices and various ingredients and from 4 to 10 % of sugar, in containers holding 0,5
litre or less

2103 90 90

– – Other

2104

Soups and broths and preparations therefor; homogenised composite food preparations:

2104 10

– Soups and broths and preparation therefor

2104 20 00

– Homogenised composite food preparation

2106

Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included:

2106 10

– Protein concentrates and textured protein substances:

2106 10 20

– – Containing no milk fats, sucrose, isoglucose, glucose or starch or containing by weight less than 1,5 %

milk fat, 5 % sucrose or isoglucose, 5 % glucose or starch

– Other:

2106 90

– – Other:

2106 90 92

– – – Containing no milk fats, sucrose, isoglucose, glucose or starch or containing by weight less than 1,5 %

milk fat, 5 % sucrose or isoglucose, 5 % glucose or starch

2201

Waters, including natural or artificial mineral waters and aerated waters, not containing added sugar or other
sweetening matter nor flavoured; ice and snow:

2201 10

– Mineral waters and aerated waters:

2201 90 00

– Other

2202

Waters, including mineral waters and aerated waters, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or
flavoured, and other non-alcoholic beverages, not including fruit or vegetable juices of heading 2009:

2202 10 00

– Waters including mineral waters and aerated waters, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or

flavoured

2202 90

– Other:

2202 90 10

– – Not containing products of headings 0401 to 0404 or fat obtained from products of headings 0401 to

0404

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

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CN code

Description

Applicable duties
%

2203 00

Beer made from malt:

– In containers holding 10 litres or less:

2203 00 01

– – In bottles

2203 00 09

– – Other

2203 00 10

– In containers holding more than 10 litres

2205

Vermouth and other wine of fresh grapes flavoured with plants or aromatic substances:

2205 10

– In containers holding 2 litres or less:

2205 10 10

– – Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume of 18 % vol or less

2205 10 90

– – Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume exceeding 18 % vol

2205 90

– Other:

2205 90 10

– – Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume of 18 % vol or less

2205 90 90

– – Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume exceeding 18 % vol

2207

2208

Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of 80 % vol or higher; ethyl alcohol and other
spirits, denatured, of any strength

Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of less than 80 % vol; spirits, liqueurs and other
spirituous beverages:

2402 10 00

– Cigars, cheroots and cigarillos, containing tobacco

2402 20

– Cigarettes containing tobacco:

2402 20 10

– – Containing cloves

2402 20 90

– – Other

2402 90 00

– Other

2403

Other manufactured tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes; homogenised or reconstituted tobacco;
tobacco extracts and essences:

2403 10

– Smoking tobacco, whether or not containing tobacco substitutes in any proportion

– Other

2403 91 00

– – ‘Homogenised’ or ‘reconstituted’ tobacco

2403 99

– – Other:

2403 99 10

– – – Chewing tobacco and snuff

2403 99 90

– – – Other

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Table 2

Description

Buttermilk, curdled milk and cream, yoghurt, kephir and other fermented or acidified milk and cream,
whether or not concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or flavoured or containing
added fruit, nuts or cocoa:

– – Yoghurt, flavoured or containing added fruit or cocoa

– – Other, flavoured or containing added fruit or cocoa

CN code

0403

0403 10 51
to 99

0403 90 71
to 99

0405

Butter and other fats and oils derived from milk; dairy spreads:

0405 20

Dairy spreads:

0405 20 10

– – Of a fat content, by weight, of 39 % or more but less than 60 %

0405 20 30

– – Of a fat content, by weight, of 60 % or more but not exceeding 75 %:

Applicable duties
% (1)

0 + EA

0 + EA

0 + EA

0 + EA

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Description

0710 40 00

Sweet corn (uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water), frozen

0711 90 30

Sweet corn provisionally preserved (for example, by sulphur dioxide gas, in brine, in sulphur water or in other
preservative solution), but unsuitable in that state for immediate consumption

Applicable duties
% (1)

0 + EA

0 + EA

ex 1517

Margarine; edible mixtures or preparations of animal or vegetable fats or oils or of fractions of different fats or
oils of this Chapter, other than edible fats or oils or their fractions of heading 1516:

1517 10 10

– Margarine, excluding liquid margarine, containing more than 10 % but not more than 15 % by weight of

0 + EA

milk fats

1517 90 10

– Other, containing more than 10 % but not more than 15 % by weight of milk fats

1702 50 00

Chemically pure fructose

ex 1704

Sugar confectionery (including white chocolate), not containing cocoa; excluding liquorice extract containing
more than 10 % by weight of sucrose but not containing other added substances, falling within CN code
1704 90 10

ex 1806

Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa other than those of CN code 1806 10 15

ex 1901

Malt extract; food preparations of flour, meal, starch or malt extract, not containing cocoa or containing less
than 40 % by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included; food
preparations of goods Nos 0401 to 0404, not containing cocoa or containing less than 5 % by weight of
cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included, excluding preparations falling
within CN code 1901 90 91 (2)

ex 1902

Pasta, excluding stuffed pasta falling within CN codes 1902 20 10 and 1902 20 30; couscous, whether or not
prepared

1903

1904

1905

Tapioca and substitutes therefor prepared from starch, in the form of flakes, grains, pearls, siftings or similar
forms

Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products (for example cornflakes);
cereals (other than maize (corn)), in grain form or in the form of flakes or other worked grains (except flour
and meal), precooked or otherwise prepared, not elsewhere specified or included

Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers,
empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products

2001 90 30

Sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata), prepared or preserved by vinegar or acetic acid

2001 90 40

Yams, sweet potatoes and similar edible parts of plants containing 5 % or more by weight of starch, prepared
or preserved by vinegar or acetic acid

2004 10 91

Potatoes in the form or flour, meal or flakes, prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid,
frozen

0 + EA

0 + EA

0 + EA

0 + EA

0 + EA

0 + EA

0 + EA

0 + EA

0 + EA

0 + EA

0 + EA

2004 90 10

Sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata), prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, frozen

0 + EA

2005 20 10

Potatoes in the form or flour, meal or flakes, prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid,
not frozen

2005 80 00

Sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata), prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not
frozen

2008 99 85

Maize (corn), other than sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata) otherwise prepared or preserved, not containing
added spirit or added sugar

2008 99 91

Yams, sweet potatoes and similar edible parts of plants, containing 5 % or more by weight of starch, otherwise
prepared or preserved, not containing added spirit or added sugar

0 + EA

0 + EA

0 + EA

0 + EA

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CN code

Description

Applicable duties
% (1)

2101 12 98

Preparations with a basis of coffee

2101 20 98

Preparations with a basis of tea or maté

2101 30 19

Roasted coffee substitutes excluding roasted chicory

2101 30 99

Extracts, essences and concentrates of roasted coffee substitutes excluding those of roasted chicory

2105

Ice cream and other edible ice, whether or not containing cocoa

ex 2106

Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included other than those falling within CN codes 2106 10 20
and 2106 90 92 and other than flavoured or coloured sugar syrups

2202 90 91
2202 90 95
2202 90 99

Non-alcoholic beverages, not including fruit or vegetable juices of CN code 2009, containing products of CN
code 0401 to 0404 or fat obtained from products of CN code 0401 to 0404

2905 43 00

Mannitol

2905 44

D-glucitol (sorbitol)

3302 10 29

Mixtures of odoriferous substances and mixtures; other preparations based on odoriferous substances

ex 3505 10

Dextrins and other modified starches, excluding esterified and etherified starches of CN code 3505 10 50

3505 20

Glues based on starches or on dextrins or other modified starches

3809 10

Finishing agents, dye carriers to accelerate the dyeing or fixing of dyestuffs and other products and prepara-
tions (for example, dressings and mordants), of a kind used in the textile, paper, leather or like industries, not
elsewhere specified or included

0 + EA

0 + EA

0 + EA

0 + EA

0 + EA

0 + EA

0 + EA

0 + EA

0 + EA

0 + EA

0 + EA

0 + EA

0 + EA

0 + EA

3824 60

Sorbitol other than that of CN code 2905 44

(1) EA: agricultural component as referred to in Regulation (EC) No 3448/93, as amended.
(2) New definition from 1 January 1996.

CN code

Description of goods

Table 3

Annual quota
(1 000 kg)

Applicable duties % (1)

1 000

0 + (EA-30 %)

ex 1704

ex 1806

ex 1902

1904

1905

Sugar confectionery (including white chocolate), not containing cocoa; excluding
liquorice extract containing more than 10 % by weight of sucrose but not containing
other added substances, falling within CN code 1704 90 10

Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa other than those of CN code
1806 10 15

1 200

0 + (EA-30 %)

Pasta, excluding stuffed pasta falling within CN codes 1902 20 10 and 1902 20 30;
couscous, whether or not prepared

1 500

0 + (EA-30 %)

Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products (for
example cornflakes); cereals other than maize (corn), in grain form or in the form of
flakes or other worked grains (except flour and meal), pre-cooked or otherwise
prepared, not elsewhere specified or included (2)

1 000

0 + (EA-30 %)

Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing
cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use,
sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products

1 200

0 + (EA-30 %)

2004 10 91
2005 20 10

Potatoes in the form or flour, meal or flakes, prepared or preserved otherwise than
by vinegar or acetic acid (frozen or not).

1 800

0 + (EA-30 %)

(1) EA: agricultural component as referred to in Regulation (EC) No 3448/93, as amended.
(2) New definition from 1 January 1996.

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Concerning the definition of the concept of ‘originating products’ and methods of administrative
cooperation

PROTOCOL 4

TITLE I — GENERAL PROVISIONS

— Article 1:

Definitions

TITLE II — DEFINITION OF THE CONCEPT OF ‘ORIGINATING PRODUCTS’

CONTENTS

— Article 2:

General requirements

— Article 3:

Bilateral cumulation of origin

— Article 4:

Diagonal cumulation of origin

— Article 5:

Wholly obtained products

— Article 6:

Sufficiently worked or processed products

— Article 7:

Insufficient working or processing operations

— Article 8:

Unit of qualification

— Article 9:

Accessories, spare parts and tools

— Article 10:

Sets

— Article 11:

Neutral elements

TITLE III — TERRITORIAL REQUIREMENTS

— Article 12:

Principle of territoriality

— Article 13:

Direct transport

— Article 14:

Exhibitions

TITLE IV — DRAWBACK OR EXEMPTION

— Article 15:

Prohibition of drawback of, or exemption from, customs duties (amended)

TITLE V — PROOF OF ORIGIN

— Article 16:

General requirements

— Article 17:

Procedure for the issue of a movement certificate EUR1

— Article 18:

Movement certificates EUR1 issued retrospectively

— Article 19:

Issue of a duplicate movement certificate EUR1

— Article 20:

Issue of movement certificates EUR1 on the basis of a proof of origin issued or made
out previously

— Article 21:

Conditions for making out an invoice declaration

— Article 22:

Approved exporter

— Article 23:

Validity of proof of origin

— Article 24:

Submission of proof of origin

— Article 25:

Importation by instalments

— Article 26:

Exemptions from proof of origin

— Article 27:

Supporting documents

— Article 28:

Preservation of proof of origin and supporting documents

— Article 29:

Discrepancies and formal errors

— Article 30:

Amounts expressed in euro

TITLE VI — ARRANGEMENTS FOR ADMINISTRATIVE COOPERATION

— Article 31:

Mutual assistance

— Article 32:

Verification of proofs of origin

— Article 33:

Dispute settlement

— Article 34:

Penalties

— Article 35:

Free zones

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TITLE VII — CEUTA AND MELILLA

— Article 36:

Application of the Protocol

— Article 37:

Special conditions

TITLE VIII — FINAL PROVISIONS

— Article 38:

Amendments to the Protocol

— Article 39:

Implementation of the Protocol

— Article 40:

Goods in transit or storage

ANNEXES

ANNEX I:

ANNEX II:

ANNEX II(a)

Introductory notes to the list in Annex II

List of working or processing required to be carried out on non-originating materials in
order that the products manufactured can obtain originating status

List of working or processing required to be carried out on non-originating materials in
order that the products manufactured referred to in Article 6(2) can obtain originating
status

ANNEX III:

List of products originating in Turkey to which the provisions of Article 4 do not apply,
listed in the order of Harmonised System Chapters and Headings

ANNEX IV:

Movement certificate EUR1 and application for a movement certificate EUR1

ANNEX V:

Invoice declaration

ANNEX VI:

Joint declarations

TITLE I

GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1

Definitions

For the purposes of this Protocol:

(a) ‘manufacture’ means any kind of working or processing

including assembly or specific operations;

(b) ‘material’ means any ingredient, raw material, component

or part, etc., used in the manufacture of the product;

(c) ‘product’ means the product being manufactured, even if it
is intended for later use in another manufacturing opera-
tion;

(g) ‘value of materials’ means the customs value at the time of
importation of the non-originating materials used, or,
if
this is not known and cannot be ascertained, the first
ascertainable price paid for the materials in the Com-
munity or Egypt;

(h) ‘value of originating materials’ means the value of such
materials as defined in subparagraph (g) applied mutatis
mutandis;

(i) ‘added value’ shall be taken to be the ex-works price minus
the customs value of each of the products incorporated
which did not originate in the country in which those
products were obtained;

(j) ‘chapters’ and ‘headings’ mean the chapters and the head-
ings (four-digit codes) used in the nomenclature which
makes up the Harmonised Commodity Description and
Coding System, referred to in this Protocol as ‘the Harmo-
nised System’ or ‘HS’;

(d) ‘goods’ means both materials and products;

(k) ‘classified’ refers to the classification of a product or mate-

rial under a particular heading;

(e) ‘customs value’ means the value as determined in accord-
ance with the 1994 Agreement on implementation of
Article VII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
(WTO Agreement on customs valuation);

(f) ‘ex-works price’ means the price paid for the product ex
works to the manufacturer in the Community or Egypt in
whose undertaking the last working or processing is
carried out, provided the price includes the value of all the
materials used, minus any internal taxes which are, or may
be, repaid when the product obtained is exported;

(l) ‘consignment’ means products which are either sent simul-
taneously from one exporter to one consignee or covered
by a single transport document covering their shipment
from the exporter to the consignee or, in the absence of
such a document, by a single invoice;

(m) ‘territories’ includes territorial waters.

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TITLE II

DEFINITION OF THE CONCEPT OF ‘ORIGINATING PRODUCTS’

Article 2

General requirements

1.
For the purpose of implementing this Agreement, the
following products shall be considered as originating in the
Community:

(a) products wholly obtained in the Community within the

meaning of Article 5 of this Protocol;

(b) products obtained in the Community incorporating mate-
rials which have not been wholly obtained there, provided
that such materials have undergone sufficient working or
processing in the Community within the meaning of
Article 6 of this Protocol.

For the purpose of implementing this Agreement, the

2.
following products shall be considered as originating in Egypt:

(a) products wholly obtained in Egypt within the meaning of

Article 5 of this Protocol;

(b) products obtained in Egypt incorporating materials which
have not been wholly obtained there, provided that such
materials have undergone sufficient working or processing
in Egypt within the meaning of Article 6 of this Protocol.

Article 3

Bilateral cumulation of origin

1. Materials originating in the Community shall be consid-
ered as materials originating in Egypt when incorporated into a
product obtained there.
It shall not be necessary that such
materials have undergone sufficient working or processing,
provided they have undergone working or processing going
beyond that referred to in Article 7(1) of this Protocol.

2. Materials originating in Egypt shall be considered as mate-
rials originating in the Community when incorporated into a
product obtained there.
It shall not be necessary that such
materials have undergone sufficient working or processing,
provided they have undergone working or processing going
beyond that referred to in Article 7(1) of this Protocol.

as originating in the Community or Egypt when incorporated
into a product obtained there. It shall not be necessary that
such materials have undergone sufficient working or proces-
sing.

2.
Products which have acquired originating status by virtue
of paragraph 1 shall only continue to be considered as products
originating in the Community or Egypt when the value added
there exceeds the value of the materials used originating in any
one of the other countries referred to in paragraph 1. If this is
not so, the products concerned shall be considered as origin-
ating in the country referred to in paragraph 1 which accounts
for the highest value of originating materials used. In the allo-
cation of origin, no account shall be taken of materials origin-
ating in the other countries referred to in paragraph 1 which
have undergone sufficient working or processing in the Com-
munity or Egypt.

3.
The cumulation provided for in this Article may only be
applied where the materials used have acquired the status of
originating products by an application of rules of origin iden-
tical to the rules in this Protocol. The Community and Egypt
shall provide each other, through the European Commission,
with details of agreements and their corresponding rules of
origin which have been concluded with the other countries
referred to in paragraph 1.

4.
Once the requirements laid down in paragraph 3 have
been fulfilled, and a date for the entry into force of these provi-
sions has been agreed, each party shall fulfil its own notifica-
tion and information obligations.

Article 5

Wholly obtained products

The following shall be considered as wholly obtained in

1.
the Community or Egypt:

(a) mineral products extracted from their soil or from their

seabed;

(b) vegetable products harvested there;

(c) live animals born and raised there;

(d) products from live animals raised there;

Article 4

Diagonal cumulation of origin

Subject to the provisions of paragraphs 2 and 3, materials
1.
originating in Algeria, Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta,
Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey (1) or the West bank and the
Gaza Strip, within the meaning of the Agreements between the
Community and Egypt and these countries shall be considered

(e) products obtained by hunting or fishing conducted there;

(f) products of sea fishing and other products taken from the
sea outside the territorial waters of the Community or
Egypt by their vessels;

(g) products made aboard their factory ships exclusively from

products referred to in subparagraph (f);

(1) Cumulation as provided for in this Article does not apply to mate-
rials originating in Turkey which are mentioned in the list at Annex
III to this Protocol.

(h) used articles collected there fit only for the recovery of raw
materials, including used tyres fit only for retreading or for
use as waste;

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(i) waste and scrap resulting from manufacturing operations

conducted there;

(j) products extracted from marine soil or subsoil outside their
territorial waters provided that they have sole rights to
work that soil or subsoil;

(k) goods produced there exclusively from the products speci-

fied in subparagraphs (a) to (j).

The terms ‘their vessels’ and ‘their factory ships’ in para-

2.
graph 1(f) and (g) shall apply only to vessels and factory ships:

(a) which are registered or recorded in an EC Member State or

in Egypt;

3.
Notwithstanding paragraph 1 and 2, non-originating
materials which, according to the conditions set out in the list,
should not be used in the manufacture of a product may never-
theless be used, provided that:

(a) their total value does not exceed 10 % of the ex-works

price of the product;

(b) any of the percentages given in the list for the maximum
exceeded

value of non-originating materials
through the application of this paragraph.

are not

This paragraph shall not apply to products falling within Chap-
ters 50 to 63 of the Harmonised System.

(b) which sail under the flag of an EC Member State or of

Egypt;

Paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 shall apply except as provided in

4.
Article 7.

(c) which are owned to an extent of at least 50 % by nationals
of EC Member States or of Egypt, or by a company with its
head office in one of these States, of which the manager or
managers, Chairman of
the Board of Directors or the
Supervisory Board, and the majority of the members of
such boards are nationals of EC Member States or of Egypt
and of which, in addition, in the case of partnerships or
limited companies, at least half the capital belongs to those
States or to public bodies or nationals of the said States;

(d) of which the master and officers are nationals of EC

Member States or of Egypt; and

(e) of which at least 75 % of the crew are nationals of EC

Member States or of Egypt.

Article 6

Sufficiently worked or processed products

1.
For the purposes of Article 2, products which are not
wholly obtained are considered to be sufficiently worked or
processed when the conditions set out in the list in Annex II
are fulfilled.

The conditions referred to above indicate,
for all products
covered by this Agreement, the working or processing which
must be carried out on non-originating materials used in manu-
facturing and apply only in relation to such materials. Accord-
ingly, it follows that if a product, which has acquired origin-
ating status by fulfilling the conditions set out in the list is used
in the manufacture of another product, the conditions applic-
able to the product in which it is incorporated do not apply to
it, and no account shall be taken of the non-originating mate-
rials which may have been used in its manufacture.

2.
Notwithstanding paragraph 1, the products which are not
wholly obtained and listed in Annex II(a) are considered to be
sufficiently worked or processed when the conditions set out in
the list in Annex II(a) are fulfilled.

Article 7

Insufficient working or processing operations

1. Without prejudice to paragraph 2, the following opera-
tions shall be considered as insufficient working or processing
to confer the status of originating products, whether or not the
requirements of Article 6 are satisfied:

(a) operations to ensure the preservation of products in good
condition during
(ventilation,
spreading out, drying, chilling, placing in salt, sulphur
dioxide or other aqueous solutions, removal of damaged
parts, and like operations);

and storage

transport

(b) simple operations consisting of removal of dust, sifting or
sorting, classifying, matching (including the
screening,
making-up of sets of articles), washing, painting, cutting
up;

(c)

(i) changes of packaging and breaking up and assembly of

packages;

(ii) simple placing in bottles,

flasks, bags, cases, boxes,
fixing on cards or boards, etc., and all other simple
packaging operations;

(d) affixing marks, labels and other like distinguishing signs on

products or their packaging;

(e) simple mixing of products, whether or not of different
kinds, where one or more components of the mixtures do
not meet
the conditions laid down in this Protocol to
enable them to be considered as originating in the Com-
munity or Egypt;

(f) simple assembly of parts to constitute a complete product;

(g) a combination of two or more operations specified in sub-

The provision of this paragraph shall apply for three years
following the entry into force of the Agreement.

paragraphs (a) to (f);

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All the operations carried out in either the Community or
Egypt on a given product shall be considered together when
determining whether the working or processing undergone by
is to be regarded as insufficient within the
that product
meaning of paragraph 1.

(a) energy and fuel;

(b) plant and equipment;

(c) machines and tools;

Article 8

Unit of qualification

1.
The unit of qualification for the application of the provi-
sions of this Protocol shall be the particular product which is
considered as the basic unit when determining classification
using the nomenclature of the Harmonised System.

Accordingly, it follows that:

(a) when a product composed of a group or assembly of arti-
cles is classified under the terms of the Harmonised System
in a single heading, the whole constitutes the unit of quali-
fication;

(b) when a consignment consists of a number of

identical
products classified under the same heading of the Harmo-
nised System, each product must be taken individually
when applying the provisions of this Protocol.

2. Where, under General Rule 5 of the Harmonised System,
packaging is
for classification
purposes, it shall be included for the purposes of determining
origin.

included with the product

Article 9

Accessories, spare parts and tools

Accessories, spare parts and tools dispatched with a piece of
equipment, machine, apparatus or vehicle, which are part of
the normal equipment and included in the price thereof or
which are not separately invoiced, shall be regarded as one
with the piece of equipment, machine, apparatus or vehicle in
question.

Article 10

Sets

Sets, as defined in General Rule 3 of the Harmonised System,
shall be regarded as originating when all component products
are originating. Nevertheless, when a set is composed of origin-
ating and non-originating products, the set as a whole shall be
regarded as originating, provided that the value of the non-ori-
ginating products does not exceed 15 % of the ex-works price
of the set.

Article 11

Neutral elements

In order to determine whether a product originates, it shall not
be necessary to determine the origin of the following which
might be used in its manufacture:

(d) goods which do not enter and which are not intended to

enter into the final composition of the product.

TITLE III

TERRITORIAL REQUIREMENTS

Article 12

Principle of territoriality

The conditions set out in Title II relative to the acquisition
1.
of originating status must be fulfilled without interruption in
the Community or Egypt, except as provided for in Article 4.

If originating goods exported from the Community or
2.
Egypt to another country are returned, except in so far as
provided for in Article 4 they must be considered as non-origi-
nating, unless it can be demonstrated to the satisfaction of the
customs authorities that:

(a) the goods returned are the same goods as those exported;

and

(b) they have not undergone any operation beyond that neces-
sary to preserve them in good condition while in that
country or while being exported.

Article 13

Direct transport

The preferential treatment provided for under the Agree-
1.
ment applies only to products, satisfying the requirements of
this Protocol, which are transported directly between the Com-
munity and Egypt or through the territories of the other coun-
tries referred to in Article 4. However, products constituting
one single consignment may be transported through other
territories with, should the occasion arise,
transhipment or
temporary warehousing in such territories, provided that they
remain under the surveillance of the customs authorities in the
country of transit or warehousing and do not undergo opera-
tions other
reloading or any operation
than unloading,
designed to preserve them in good condition.

Originating products may be transported by pipeline across
territory other than that of the Community or Egypt.

2.
Evidence that the conditions set out in paragraph 1 have
been fulfilled shall be supplied to the customs authorities of the
importing country by the production of:

(a) a single transport document covering the passage from the

exporting country through the country of transit; or

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(b) a certificate issued by the customs authorities of

the

country of transit:

(i) giving an exact description of the products;

(ii) stating the dates of unloading and reloading of the
the

products and, where applicable,
ships, or the other means of transport used; and

the names of

(iii) certifying the conditions under which the products

remained in the transit country; or

(c) failing these, any substantiating documents.

Article 14

Exhibitions

1.
Originating products, sent for exhibition in a country
other than those referred to in Article 4 and sold after the exhi-
bition for importation in the Community or Egypt shall benefit
on importation from the provisions of the Agreement provided
it is shown to the satisfaction of the customs authorities that:

(a) an exporter has consigned these products from the Com-
munity or Egypt to the country in which the exhibition is
held and has exhibited them there;

(b) the products have been sold or otherwise disposed of by
that exporter to a person in the Community or Egypt;

(c) the products have been consigned during the exhibition or
immediately thereafter in the state in which they were sent
for exhibition; and

(d) the products have not, since they were consigned for exhi-
bition, been used for any purpose other than demonstration
at the exhibition.

2.
A proof of origin must be issued or made out in accord-
ance with the provisions of Title V and submitted to the
customs authorities of the importing country in the normal
manner. The name and address of the exhibition must be indi-
cated thereon. Where necessary,
additional documentary
evidence of the conditions under which they have been exhib-
ited may be required.

Paragraph 1 shall apply to any trade,

industrial, agri-
3.
cultural or crafts exhibition,
fair or similar public show or
display which is not organised for private purposes in shops or
business premises with a view to the sale of foreign products,
and during which the products remain under customs control.

TITLE IV

DRAWBACK OR EXEMPTION

Article 15

Prohibition of drawback of, or exemption from, customs
duties

1.
Non-originating materials used in the manufacture of
products originating in the Community, in Egypt or in one of

the other countries referred to in Article 4 for which a proof of
origin is issued or made out in accordance with the provisions
of Title V shall not be subject in the Community or Egypt to
drawback of, or exemption from, customs duties of whatever
kind.

The prohibition in paragraph 1 shall apply to any
2.
arrangement for refund, remission or non-payment, partial or
complete, of customs duties or charges having an equivalent
effect, applicable in the Community or Egypt to materials used
in the manufacture, where such refund, remission or non-pay-
ment applies, expressly or in effect, when products obtained
from the said materials are exported and not when they are
retained for home use there.

3.
The exporter of products covered by a proof of origin
shall be prepared to submit at any time, upon request from the
customs authorities, all appropriate documents proving that no
drawback has been obtained in respect of the non-originating
materials used in the manufacture of the products concerned
and that all customs duties or charges having equivalent effect
applicable to such materials have actually been paid.

4.
The provisions of paragraphs 1 to 3 shall also apply in
respect of packaging within the meaning of Article 8(2), acces-
sories, spare parts and tools within the meaning of Article 9
and products in a set within the meaning of Article 10 when
such items are non-originating.

5.
The provisions of paragraphs 1 to 4 shall apply only in
respect of materials which are of the kind to which the Agree-
ment applies. Furthermore, they shall not preclude the applica-
tion of an export refund system for agricultural products,
applicable upon export in accordance with the provisions of
the Agreement.

The provisions of this Article shall not apply for six years

6.
following the entry into force of the Agreement.

7.
After the entry into force of the provisions of this Article
and notwithstanding paragraph 1, Egypt may apply arrange-
ments for drawback of, or exemption from, customs duties or
charges having an equivalent effect, applicable to materials
used in the manufacture of originating products, subject to the
following provisions:

(a) a 5 % rate of customs charge shall be retained in respect of
products falling within Chapters 25 to 49 and 64 to 97 of
the Harmonised System, or such lower rate as in force in
Egypt;

(b) a 10 % rate of customs charge shall be retained in respect
of products falling within Chapters 50 to 63 of the Harmo-
nised System, or such lower rate as in force in Egypt.

Before the end of the transitional period referred to in Article 6
of the Agreement, the provisions of this paragraph will be
reviewed.

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TITLE V

PROOF OF ORIGIN

Article 16

General requirements

Products originating in the Community shall, on importa-
1.
tion into Egypt and products originating in Egypt shall, on
importation into the Community benefit from this Agreement
upon submission of either:

(a) a movement certificate EUR1, a specimen of which appears

in Annex IV; or

(b) in the cases specified in Article 21(1), a declaration, the text
of which appears in Annex V, given by the exporter on an
invoice, a delivery note or any other commercial document
which describes the products concerned in sufficient detail
to enable them to be identified (hereinafter referred to as
the invoice declaration).

Notwithstanding paragraph 1, originating products within
2.
the meaning of this Protocol shall,
in the cases specified in
Article 26, benefit from this Agreement without it being neces-
sary to submit any of the documents referred to above.

Article 17

Procedure for the issue of a movement certificate EUR1

1.
A movement certificate EUR1 shall be issued by the
customs authorities of the exporting country on application
having been made in writing by the exporter or, under the
exporter's responsibility, by his authorised representative.

2.
For this purpose, the exporter or his authorised represen-
tative shall fill out both the movement certificate EUR1 and the
application form, specimens of which appear in Annex IV.
These forms shall be completed in one of the languages in
which this Agreement is drawn up and in accordance with the
provisions of the domestic law of the exporting country. If they
are handwritten, they shall be completed in ink in printed char-
acters. The description of the products must be given in the
box reserved for this purpose without leaving any blank lines.
Where the box is not completely filled, a horizontal line must
be drawn below the last line of the description, the empty
space being crossed through.

3.
The exporter applying for the issue of a movement certifi-
cate EUR1 shall be prepared to submit at any time, at the
request of the customs authorities of the exporting country
where the movement certificate EUR1 is issued, all appropriate
documents proving the originating status of
the products
concerned as well as the fulfilment of the other requirements of
this Protocol.

4.
A movement certificate EUR1 shall be issued by the
customs authorities of an EC Member State or Egypt if the

products concerned can be considered as products originating
in the Community, Egypt or in one of the other countries
referred to in Article 4 and fulfil the other requirements of this
Protocol.

5.
The issuing customs authorities shall take any steps neces-
sary to verify the originating status of the products and the
fulfilment of the other requirements of this Protocol. For this
purpose, they shall have the right to call for any evidence and
to carry out any inspection of the exporter's accounts or any
other check considered appropriate. The issuing customs
authorities shall also ensure that the forms referred to in para-
graph 2 are duly completed. In particular, they shall check
whether the space reserved for the description of the products
has been completed in such a manner as to exclude all possibi-
lity of fraudulent additions.

The date of issue of the movement certificate EUR1 shall

6.
be indicated in box 11 of the certificate.

7.
A movement certificate EUR1 shall be issued by the
customs authorities and made available to the exporter as soon
as actual exportation has been effected or ensured.

Article 18

Movement certificates EUR1 issued retrospectively

1.
Notwithstanding Article 17(7), a movement certificate
EUR1 may exceptionally be issued after exportation of the
products to which it relates if:

(a) it was not issued at the time of exportation because of
errors or involuntary omissions or special circumstances; or

(b) it is demonstrated to the satisfaction of the customs autho-
rities that a movement certificate EUR1 was issued but was
not accepted at importation for technical reasons.

For the implementation of paragraph 1,

2.
the exporter
must indicate in his application the place and date of exporta-
tion of the products to which the movement certificate EUR1
relates, and state the reasons for his request.

3.
The customs authorities may issue a movement certificate
EUR1 retrospectively only after verifying that the information
supplied in the exporter's application agrees with that in the
corresponding file.

4. Movement certificates EUR1 issued retrospectively must
be endorsed with one of the following phrases:

‘NACHTRÄGLICH AUSGESTELLT’,
‘DELIVRE A POSTERIORI’,
‘RILASCIATO A POSTERIORI’, ‘AFGEGEVEN A POSTERIORI’,
‘UDSTEDT EFTERFØLGENDE’,
‘ISSUED RETROSPECTIVELY’,
‘ΕΚ∆ΟΘΕΝ ΕΚ ΤΩΝ ΥΣΤΕΡΩΝ’,
‘EXPEDIDO A POSTERIORI’,
‘EMITIDO A POSTERIORI’,
‘ANNETTU JÄLKIKÄTEEN’,
‘UTFÄRDAT I EFTERHAND’, ‘Arabic version’.

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The endorsement referred to in paragraph 4 shall be
the movement certificate

5.
inserted in the ‘Remarks’ box of
EUR1.

Article 19

Issue of a duplicate movement certificate EUR1

1.
In the event of theft, loss or destruction of a movement
certificate EUR1, the exporter may apply to the customs autho-
rities which issued it for a duplicate made out on the basis of
the export documents in their possession.

The duplicate issued in this way must be endorsed with

2.
one of the following words:

‘DUPLIKAT’,
‘DUPLICATE’,
‘KAKSOISKAPPALE’, ‘Arabic version’.

‘DUPLICATA’,
‘ΑΝΤΙΓΡΑΦΟ’,

‘DUPLICATO’,

‘DUPLICADO’,

‘DUPLICAAT’,
‘SEGUNDA VIA’,

3.
The endorsement referred to in paragraph 2 shall be
inserted in the ‘Remarks’ box of the duplicate movement certifi-
cate EUR1.

4.
The duplicate, which must bear the date of issue of the
original movement certificate EUR1, shall take effect as from
that date.

Article 20

Issue of movement certificates EUR1 on the basis of a
proof of origin issued or made out previously

When originating products are placed under the control of a
customs office in the Community or Egypt, it shall be possible
to replace the original proof of origin by one or more move-
ment certificates EUR1 for the purpose of sending all or some
of these products elsewhere within the Community or Egypt.
The replacement movement certificate(s) EUR1 shall be issued
by the customs office under whose control the products are
placed.

Article 21

Conditions for making out an invoice declaration

An invoice declaration as referred to in Article 16(1)(b)

1.
may be made out:

(a) by an approved exporter within the meaning of Article 22,

or

(b) by any exporter for any consignment consisting of one or
more packages containing originating products whose total
value does not exceed EUR 6 000.

An invoice declaration may be made out if the products
2.
concerned can be considered as products originating in the
Community, Egypt or in one of the other countries referred to
in Article 4 and fulfil the other requirements of this Protocol.

well as the fulfilment of
Protocol.

the other

requirements of

this

An invoice declaration shall be made out by the exporter
4.
by typing, stamping or printing on the invoice, the delivery
note or another commercial document, the declaration, the text
of which appears in Annex V, using one of the linguistic
versions set out in that Annex and in accordance with the
provisions of the domestic law of the exporting country. If the
declaration is handwritten, it shall be written in ink in printed
characters.

Invoice declarations shall bear the original signature of
5.
the exporter in manuscript. However, an approved exporter
within the meaning of Article 22 shall not be required to sign
such declarations provided that he gives the customs authori-
ties of the exporting country a written undertaking that he
accepts full responsibility for any invoice declaration which
identifies him as if it had been signed in manuscript by him.

6.
An invoice declaration may be made out by the exporter
when the products to which it relates are exported, or after
exportation on condition that it is presented in the importing
country no longer than two years after the importation of the
products to which it relates.

Article 22

Approved exporter

1.
The customs authorities of the exporting country may
authorise any exporter who makes frequent shipments of
products under this Agreement to make out invoice declara-
tions irrespective of the value of the products concerned. An
exporter seeking such authorisation must offer to the satisfac-
tion of
the customs authorities all guarantees necessary to
verify the originating status of the products as well as the fulfil-
ment of the other requirements of this Protocol.

2.
The customs authorities may grant the status of approved
exporter subject to any conditions which they consider appro-
priate.

The customs authorities shall grant

to the approved
3.
exporter a customs authorisation number which shall appear
on the invoice declaration.

The customs authorities shall monitor the use of the

4.
authorisation by the approved exporter.

5.
The customs authorities may withdraw the authorisation
at any time. They shall do so where the approved exporter no
longer offers the guarantees referred to in paragraph 1, does
not fulfil the conditions referred to in paragraph 2 or otherwise
makes an incorrect use of the authorisation.

Article 23

Validity of proof of origin

The exporter making out an invoice declaration shall be
3.
prepared to submit at any time, at the request of the customs
authorities of the exporting country, all appropriate documents
proving the originating status of the products concerned as

A proof of origin shall be valid for four months from the
1.
date of issue in the exporting country, and must be submitted
within the said period to the customs authorities of
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importing country.

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2.
Proofs of origin which are submitted to the customs
authorities of the importing country after the final date for
presentation specified in paragraph 1 may be accepted for the
purpose of applying preferential treatment, where the failure to
submit these documents by the final date set is due to excep-
tional circumstances.

In other cases of belated presentation, the customs autho-
3.
rities of the importing country may accept the proofs of origin
where the products have been submitted before the said final
date.

Article 24

Submission of proof of origin

Proofs of origin shall be submitted to the customs authorities
of the importing country in accordance with the procedures
applicable in that country. The said authorities may require a
translation of a proof of origin and may also require the
import declaration to be accompanied by a statement from the
importer to the effect that the products meet the conditions
required for the implementation of the Agreement.

Article 25

Importation by instalments

Where, at the request of the importer and on the conditions
laid down by the customs authorities of the importing country,
dismantled or non-assembled products within the meaning of
General Rule 2(a) of the Harmonised System falling within
Sections XVI and XVII or headings 7308 and 9406 of the
Harmonised System are imported by instalments, a single proof
of origin for such products shall be submitted to the customs
authorities upon importation of the first instalment.

Article 26

Exemptions from proof of origin

1.
Products sent as small packages from private persons to
private persons or forming part of travellers' personal luggage
shall be admitted as originating products without requiring the
submission of a proof of origin, provided that such products
are not imported by way of trade and have been declared as
meeting the requirements of this Protocol and where there is
no doubt as to the veracity of such a declaration. In the case of
products sent by post, this declaration can be made on the
customs declaration CN22/CN23 or on a sheet of paper
annexed to that document.

Imports which are occasional and consist

2.
solely of
products for the personal use of the recipients or travellers or
their families shall not be considered as imports by way of
trade if
from the nature and quantity of the
products that no commercial purpose is in view.

is evident

it

3.
Furthermore, the total value of these products shall not
exceed EUR 500 in the case of small packages or EUR 1 200 in
the case of products forming part of
travellers' personal
luggage.

Article 27

Supporting documents

The documents referred to in Articles 17(3) and 21(3) used for
the purpose of proving that products covered by a movement
certificate EUR1 or an invoice declaration can be considered as
products originating in the Community, Egypt or in one of the
other countries referred to in Article 4 and fulfil the other
requirements of this Protocol may consist,
inter alia, of the
following:

(a) direct evidence of the processes carried out by the exporter
or supplier to obtain the goods concerned, contained for
example in his accounts or internal bookkeeping;

(b) documents proving the originating status of materials used,
issued or made out in the Community or Egypt where
these documents are used in accordance with domestic law;

(c) documents proving the working or processing of materials
issued or made out in the
in the Community or Egypt,
Community or Egypt, where these documents are used in
accordance with domestic law;

(d) movement

certificates

invoice declarations
EUR1 or
proving the originating status of materials used, issued or
made out in the Community or Egypt in accordance with
this Protocol, or in one of the other countries referred to in
Article 4, in accordance with rules of origin which are iden-
tical to the rules in this Protocol.

Article 28

Preservation of proof of origin and supporting documents

The exporter applying for the issue of a movement certifi-
1.
cate EUR1 shall keep for at least three years the documents
referred to in Article 17(3).

2.
The exporter making out an invoice declaration shall
keep for at least three years a copy of this invoice declaration
as well as the documents referred to in Article 21(3).

3.
The customs authorities of the exporting country issuing
a movement certificate EUR1 shall keep for at least three years
the application form referred to in Article 17(2).

4.
The customs authorities of the importing country shall
keep for at least three years the movement certificates EUR1
and the invoice declarations submitted to them.

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Article 29

Discrepancies and formal errors

1.
The discovery of slight discrepancies between the state-
ments made in the proof of origin and those made in the docu-
ments submitted to the customs office for the purpose of
carrying out the formalities for importing the products shall
not, ipso facto, render the proof of origin null and void if it is
duly established that this document does correspond to the
products submitted.

Obvious formal errors such as typing errors on a proof of
2.
origin should not cause this document to be rejected if these
errors are not such as to create doubts concerning the correct-
ness of the statements made in this document.

Article 30

Amounts expressed in euro

Amounts in the national currency of

1.
the exporting
country equivalent to the amounts expressed in euro shall be
fixed by the exporting country and communicated to the
importing countries through the European Commission.

2. When the amounts exceed the corresponding amounts
fixed by the importing country, the latter shall accept them if
the products are invoiced in the currency of the exporting
country. When the products are invoiced in the currency of an
EC Member State or another country referred to in Article 4,
the importing country shall recognise the amount notified by
the country concerned.

3.
The amounts to be used in any given national currency
shall be the equivalent in that national currency of the amounts
expressed in euro as at the first working day in October 1999.

4.
The amounts expressed in euro and their equivalents in
the national currencies of EC Member States and Egypt shall be
reviewed by the Association Committee at the request of the
Community or Egypt. When carrying out this review, the Asso-
ciation Committee shall ensure that there will be no decrease in
the amounts to be used in national currency and shall further-
more consider the desirability of preserving the effects of the
limits concerned in real terms. For this purpose, it may decide
to modify the amounts expressed in euro.

TITLE VI

ARRANGEMENTS FOR ADMINISTRATIVE COOPERATION

Article 31

Mutual assistance

The customs authorities of the EC Member States and of
1.
Egypt shall provide each other, through the European Commis-
sion, with specimen impressions of stamps used in their
customs offices for the issue of movement certificates EUR1

and with the addresses of the customs authorities responsible
for verifying those certificates and invoice declarations.

2.
In order to ensure the proper application of this Protocol,
the Community and Egypt shall assist each other, through the
competent customs administrations, in checking the authenti-
city of the movement certificates EUR1 or the invoice declara-
tions and the correctness of the information given in these
documents.

Article 32

Verification of proofs of origin

1.
Subsequent verifications of proofs of origin shall be
carried out at random or whenever the customs authorities of
the importing country have reasonable doubts as to the authen-
ticity of such documents, the originating status of the products
concerned or the fulfilment of the other requirements of this
Protocol.

2.
For the purposes of implementing the provisions of para-
graph 1, the customs authorities of the importing country shall
return the movement certificate EUR1 and the invoice, if it has
been submitted, the invoice declaration, or a copy of these
documents, to the customs authorities of the exporting country
giving, where appropriate, the reasons for the enquiry. Any
documents and information obtained suggesting that the infor-
mation given on the proof of origin is incorrect shall be
forwarded in support of the request for verification.

3.
The verification shall be carried out by the customs
authorities of the exporting country. For this purpose, they
shall have the right to call for any evidence and to carry out
any inspection of the exporter's accounts or any other check
considered appropriate.

If the customs authorities of the importing country decide
4.
to suspend the granting of preferential
to the
products concerned while awaiting the results of the verifica-
tion, release of the products shall be offered to the importer
subject to any precautionary measures judged necessary.

treatment

the results of

The customs authorities requesting the verification shall
5.
be informed of
this verification as soon as
possible. These results must indicate clearly whether the docu-
ments are authentic and whether the products concerned can
be considered as products originating in the Community, Egypt
or one of the other countries referred to in Article 4 and fulfil
the other requirements of this Protocol.

6.
If in cases of reasonable doubt there is no reply within 10
months of the date of the verification request or if the reply
does not contain sufficient
information to determine the
authenticity of the document in question or the real origin of
the products, the requesting customs authorities shall, except in
exceptional circumstances, refuse entitlement
to the prefer-
ences.

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Article 33

Dispute settlement

in Ceuta and Melilla the same customs regime as that which is
granted to products imported from and originating in the Com-
munity.

Where disputes arise in relation to the verification procedures
of Article 32 which cannot be settled between the customs
authorities requesting a verification and the customs authorities
responsible for carrying out this verification or where they
raise a question as to the interpretation of this Protocol, they
shall be submitted to the Association Committee.

In all cases the settlement of disputes between the importer and
the customs authorities of the importing country shall be under
the legislation of the said country.

Article 34

Penalties

Penalties shall be imposed on any person who draws up, or
causes to be drawn up, a document which contains incorrect
information for the purpose of obtaining a preferential treat-
ment for products.

Article 35

Free zones

The Community and Egypt shall take all necessary steps
1.
to ensure that products traded under cover of a proof of origin
which in the course of transport use a free zone situated in
their territory, are not substituted by other goods and do not
undergo handling other than normal operations designed to
prevent their deterioration.

2.
By means of an exemption to the provisions contained in
paragraph 1, when products originating in the Community or
Egypt are imported into a free zone under cover of a proof of
origin and undergo treatment or processing, the authorities
concerned shall issue a new EUR1 certificate at the exporter's
request, if the treatment or processing undergone is in confor-
mity with the provisions of this Protocol.

TITLE VII

CEUTA AND MELILLA

Article 36

Application of the Protocol

The term ‘Community’ used in Article 2 does not cover

1.
Ceuta and Melilla.

2.
Products originating in Egypt, when imported into Ceuta
or Melilla, shall enjoy in all respects the same customs regime
as that which is applied to products originating in the customs
territory of the Community under Protocol 2 of the Act of
Accession of
the Kingdom of Spain and the Portuguese
Republic to the European Communities. Egypt shall grant to
imports of products covered by the Agreement and originating

For

the purpose of

the application of paragraph 2
3.
concerning products originating in Ceuta and Melilla,
this
Protocol shall apply, mutatis mutandis, subject to the special
conditions set out in Article 37.

Article 37

Special conditions

1.
Providing they have been transported directly in accord-
ance with the provisions of Article 13, the following shall be
considered as:

1. products originating in Ceuta and Melilla:

(a) products wholly obtained in Ceuta and Melilla;

(b) products obtained in Ceuta and Melilla in the manufac-
ture of which products other than those referred to in
(a) are used, provided that:

(i) the said products have undergone sufficient working
or processing within the meaning of Article 6 of
this Protocol; or that

(ii) those products are originating in Egypt or the Com-
munity within the meaning of
this Protocol,
provided that they have been submitted to working
or processing which goes beyond the insufficient
working or processing referred to in Article 7(1).

2. products originating in Egypt:

(a) products wholly obtained in Egypt;

(b) products obtained in Egypt,

in the manufacture of
which products other than those referred to in (a) are
used, provided that:

(i) the said products have undergone sufficient working
or processing within the meaning of Article 6 of
this Protocol; or that

(ii) those products are originating in Ceuta and Melilla
this
the Community within the meaning of
or
Protocol, provided that they have been submitted to
working or processing which goes beyond the insuf-
ficient working or processing referred to in Article
7(1).

2.

Ceuta and Melilla shall be considered as a single territory.

3.
The exporter or his authorised representative shall enter
‘Egypt’ and ‘Ceuta and Melilla’ in box 2 of movement certifi-
cates EUR1 or on invoice declarations. In addition, in the case
of products originating in Ceuta and Melilla, this shall be indi-
cated in box 4 of movement certificates EUR1 or on invoice
declarations.

The Spanish customs authorities shall be responsible for

4.
the application of this Protocol in Ceuta and Melilla.

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TITLE VIII

FINAL PROVISIONS

Article 38

Article 40

Goods in transit or storage

Amendments to the Protocol

The Association Council may decide to amend the provisions
of this Protocol.

Article 39

Implementation of the Protocol

The Community and Egypt shall each take the steps necessary
to implement this Protocol.

The provisions of the Agreement may be applied to goods
which comply with the provisions of this Protocol and which
on the date of entry into force of the Agreement are either in
transit or are in the Community or in Egypt or, in temporary
storage in bonded warehouses or in free zones, subject to the
submission to the customs authorities of the importing State,
within four months of that date, of a certificate EUR1 issued
retrospectively by the competent authorities of the exporting
State together with the documents showing that the goods
have been transported directly.

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ANNEX I TO PROTOCOL 4

Introductory notes to the list in Annex II

Note 1

The list sets out the conditions required for all products to be considered as sufficiently worked or processed within the
meaning of Article 6 of the Protocol.

Note 2

1. The first two columns in the list describe the product obtained. The first column gives the heading number or
chapter number used in the Harmonised System and the second column gives the description of goods used in that
system for that heading or chapter. For each entry in the first two columns a rule is specified in columns 3 or 4.
Where, in some cases, the entry in the first column is preceded by an ‘ex’, this signifies that the rules in columns 3 or
4 apply only to the part of that heading as described in column 2.

2. Where several heading numbers are grouped together in column 1 or a chapter number is given and the description
of products in column 2 is therefore given in general terms, the adjacent rules in columns 3 or 4 apply to all
products which, under the Harmonised System, are classified in headings of the chapter or in any of the headings
grouped together in column 1.

3. Where there are different rules in the list applying to different products within a heading, each indent contains the

description of that part of the heading covered by the adjacent rules in columns 3 or 4.

4. Where, for an entry in the first two columns, a rule is specified in both columns 3 and 4, the exporter may opt, as
an alternative, to apply either the rule set out in column 3 or that set out in column 4. If no origin rule is given in
column 4, the rule set out in column 3 has to be applied.

Note 3

5. The provisions of Article 6 of the Protocol concerning products having acquired originating status which are used
in the manufacture of other products apply regardless of whether this status has been acquired inside the factory
where these products are used or in another factory in the Community or in Egypt.

Example:

An engine of heading 8407, for which the rule states that the value of the non-originating materials which may be
incorporated may not exceed 40 % of the ex-works price, is made from ‘other alloy steel roughly shaped by forging’
of heading ex 7224.

If this forging has been forged in the Community from a non-originating ingot, it has already acquired originating
status by virtue of the rule for heading ex 7224 in the list. The forging can then count as originating in the value
calculation for the engine regardless of whether it was produced in the same factory or in another factory in the
Community. The value of the non-originating ingot is thus not taken into account when adding up the value of the
non-originating materials used.

6. The rule in the list represents the minimum amount of working or processing required and the carrying out of
more working or processing also confers originating status; conversely, the carrying out of less working or proces-
sing cannot confer originating status. Thus if a rule provides that non-originating material at a certain level of
manufacture may be used, the use of such material at an earlier stage of manufacture is allowed and the use of such
material at a later stage is not.

7. Without prejudice to Note 3.2 where a rule states that ‘materials of any heading’ may be used, materials of the same
heading as the product may also be used, subject, however, to any specific limitations which may also be contained
in the rule. However, the expression ‘manufacture from materials of any heading, including other materials of
heading ...’ means that only materials classified in the same heading as the product of a different description than
that of the product as given in column 2 of the list may be used.

8. When a rule in the list specifies that a product may be manufactured from more than one material, this means that

any one or more materials may be used. It does not require that all be used.

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Example:

The rule for fabrics of headings 5208 to 5212 provides that natural fibres may be used and that chemical materials,
among other materials, may also be used. This does not mean that both have to be used; it is possible to use one or
the other or both.

9. Where a rule in the list specifies that a product must be manufactured from a particular material, the condition
obviously does not prevent the use of other materials which, because of their inherent nature, cannot satisfy the
rule. (See also Note 6.2 below in relation to textiles).

Example:

The rule for prepared foods of heading 1904 which specifically excludes the use of cereals and their derivatives
does not prevent the use of mineral salts, chemicals and other additives which are not products from cereals.

However, this does not apply to products which, although they cannot be manufactured from the particular mate-
rials specified in the list, can be produced from a material of the same nature at an earlier stage of manufacture.

Example:

In the case of an article of apparel of ex Chapter 62 made from non-woven materials, if the use of only non-origin-
ating yarn is allowed for this class of article, it is not possible to start from non-woven cloth — even if non-woven
cloth cannot normally be made from yarn. In such cases, the starting material would normally be at the stage
before yarn — that is the fibre stage.

10. Where, in a rule in the list, two percentages are given for the maximum value of non-originating materials that can
be used, then these percentages may not be added together. In other words, the maximum value of all the non-
originating materials used may never exceed the highest of the percentages given. Furthermore, the individual
percentages must not be exceeded in relation to the particular materials they apply to.

Note 4

11. The term ‘natural fibres’ is used in the list to refer to fibres other than artificial or synthetic fibres. It is restricted to
the stages before spinning takes place, including waste, and, unless otherwise specified, includes fibres that have
been carded, combed or otherwise processed but not spun.

12. The term ‘natural fibres’ includes horsehair of heading 0503, silk of headings 5002 and 5003 as well as the wool
fibres, fine or coarse animal hair of headings 5101 to 5105, the cotton fibres of headings 5201 to 5203 and the
other vegetable fibres of headings 5301 to 5305.

13. The terms ‘textile pulp’, ‘chemical materials’ and ‘paper-making materials’ are used in the list to describe the mate-
rials not classified in Chapters 50 to 63, which can be used to manufacture artificial, synthetic or paper fibres or
yarns.

14. The term ‘man-made staple fibres’ is used in the list to refer to synthetic or artificial filament tow, staple fibres or

waste, of headings 5501 to 5507.

Note 5

15. Where for a given product in the list a reference is made to this note, the conditions set out in column 3 shall not
be applied to any basic textile materials, used in the manufacture of this product, which, taken together, represent
10 % or less of the total weight of all the basic textile materials used. (See also Notes 5.3 and 5.4 below).

16. However, the tolerance mentioned in Note 5.1 may only be applied to mixed products which have been made from

two or more basic textile materials.

The following are the basic textile materials:

— silk,

— wool,

— coarse animal hair,

— fine animal hair,

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— horsehair,

— cotton,

— paper-making materials and paper,

— flax,

— true hemp,

— jute and other textile bast fibres,

— sisal and other textile fibres of the genus Agave,

— coconut, abaca, ramie and other vegetable textile fibres,

— synthetic man-made filaments,

— artificial man-made filaments,

— synthetic man-made staple fibres of polypropylene,

— synthetic man-made staple fibres of polyester,

— synthetic man-made staple fibres of polyamide,

— synthetic man-made staple fibres of polyacrylonitrile,

— synthetic man-made staple fibres of polyimide,

— synthetic man-made staple fibres of polytetrafluoroethylene,

— synthetic man-made staple fibres of polyphenylene sulphide,

— synthetic man-made staple fibres of polyvinyl chloride,

— other synthetic man-made staple fibres,

— artificial man-made staple fibres of viscose,

— other artificial man-made staple fibres,

— yarn made of polyurethane segmented with flexible segments of polyether whether or not gimped,

— yarn made of polyurethane segmented with flexible segments of polyester whether or not gimped,

— products of heading 5605 (metallised yarn) incorporating strip consisting of a core of aluminium foil or of a
core of plastic film whether or not coated with aluminium powder, of a width not exceeding 5 mm, sandwiched
by means of a transparent or coloured adhesive between two layers of plastic film,

— other products of heading 5605.

Example:

A yarn of heading 5205 made from cotton fibres of heading 5203 and synthetic staple fibres of heading 5506 is a
mixed yarn. Therefore, non-originating synthetic staple fibres that do not satisfy the origin rules (which require
manufacture from chemical materials or textile pulp) may be used up to a weight of 10 % of the yarn.

Example:

A woollen fabric of heading 5112 made from woollen yarn of heading 5107 and synthetic yarn of staple fibres of
heading 5509 is a mixed fabric. Therefore synthetic yarn which does not satisfy the origin rules (which require
manufacture from chemical materials or textile pulp) or woollen yarn that does not satisfy the origin rules (which
require manufacture from natural fibres, not carded or combed or otherwise prepared for spinning) or a combina-
tion of the two may be used provided their total weight does not exceed 10 % of the weight of the fabric.

Example:

Tufted textile fabric of heading 5802 made from cotton yarn of heading 5205 and cotton fabric of heading 5210 is
only a mixed product if the cotton fabric is itself a mixed fabric being made from yarns classified in two separate
headings or if the cotton yarns used are themselves mixtures.

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Example:

If the tufted textile fabric concerned had been made from cotton yarn of heading 5205 and synthetic fabric of
heading 5407, then, obviously, the yarns used are two separate basic textile materials and the tufted textile fabric is
accordingly a mixed product.

Example:

A carpet with tufts made from both artificial yarns and cotton yarns and with a jute backing is a mixed product
because three basic textile materials are used. Thus, any non-originating materials that are at a later stage of manu-
facture than the rule allows may be used, provided their total weight does not exceed 10 % of the weight of the
textile materials of the carpet. Thus, both the jute backing and/or the artificial yarns could be imported at that stage
of manufacture, provided the weight conditions are met.

17. In the case of products incorporating ‘yarn made of polyurethane segmented with flexible segments of polyether

whether or not gimped’ this tolerance is 20 % in respect of this yarn.

18. In the case of products incorporating ‘strip consisting of a core of aluminium foil or of a core of plastic film
whether or not coated with aluminium powder, of a width not exceeding 5 mm, sandwiched by means of an adhe-
sive between two layers of plastic film’, this tolerance is 30 % in respect of this strip.

Note 6

19. In the case of those textile products which are marked in the list by a footnote referring to this note, textile mate-
rials, with the exception of linings and interlinings, which do not satisfy the rule set out in the list in column 3 for
the made-up product concerned may be used provided that they are classified in a heading other than that of the
product and that their value does not exceed 8 % of the ex-works price of the product.

20. Without prejudice to Note 6.3, materials which are not classified within Chapters 50 to 63 may be used freely in

the manufacture of textile products, whether or not they contain textiles.

Example:

If a rule in the list provides that for a particular textile item, such as trousers, yarn must be used, this does not
prevent the use of metal items, such as buttons, because buttons are not classified within Chapters 50 to 63. For the
same reason, it does not prevent the use of slide-fasteners even though slide-fasteners normally contain textiles.

21. Where a percentage rule applies, the value of materials which are not classified within Chapters 50 to 63 must be

taken into account when calculating the value of the non-originating materials incorporated.

Note 7

22. For the purposes of headings ex 2707, 2713 to 2715, ex 2901, ex 2902 and ex 3403, the ‘specific processes’ are

the following:

(a) vacuum distillation;

(b) redistillation by a very thorough fractionation process (1);

(c) cracking;

(d) reforming;

(e) extraction by means of selective solvents;

(f) the process comprising all the following operations: processing with concentrated sulphuric acid, oleum or
sulphuric anhydride; neutralisation with alkaline agents; decolorisation and purification with naturally active
earth, activated earth, activated charcoal or bauxite;

(g) polymerisation;

(h) alkylation;

(i) isomerisation.

(1) Cumulation as provided for in this Article does not apply to materials originating in Turkey which are mentioned in the list at Annex

III to this Protocol.

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23. For the purposes of headings 2710, 2711 and 2712, the ‘specific processes’ are the following:

(a) vacuum distillation;

(b) redistillation by a very thorough fractionation process (1);

(c) cracking;

(d) reforming;

(e) extraction by means of selective solvents;

(f) the process comprising all the following operations: processing with concentrated sulphuric acid, oleum or
sulphuric anhydride; neutralisation with alkaline agents; decolourisation and purification with naturally active
earth, activated earth, activated charcoal or bauxite;

(g) polymerisation;

(h) alkylation;

(ij) isomerisation;

(k) in respect of heavy oils falling within heading ex 2710 only, desulphurisation with hydrogen resulting in a
reduction of at least 85 % of the sulphur content of the products processed (ASTM D 1266-59 T method);

(l) in respect of products falling within heading 2710 only, deparaffining by a process other than filtering;

(m) in respect of heavy oils falling within heading ex 2710 only, treatment with hydrogen at a pressure of more
than 20 bar and a temperature of more than 250 oC with the use of a catalyst, other than to effect desulphuri-
sation, when the hydrogen constitutes an active element in a chemical reaction. The further treatment with
hydrogen of lubricating oils of heading ex 2710 (e.g. hydrofinishing or decolourisation) in order, more espe-
cially, to improve colour or stability shall not, however, be deemed to be a specific process;

(n) in respect of fuel oils falling within heading ex 2710 only, atmospheric distillation, on condition that less than

30 % of these products distils, by volume, including losses, at 300 oC by the ASTM D 86 method;

(o) in respect of heavy oils other than gas oils and fuel oils falling within heading ex 2710 only, treatment by

means of a high-frequency electrical brush-discharge.

24. For the purposes of headings ex 2707, 2713 to 2715, ex 2901, ex 2902 and ex 3403, simple operations such as
cleaning, decanting, desalting, water separation, filtering, colouring, marking, obtaining a sulphur content as a result
of mixing products with different sulphur contents, any combination of these operations or like operations do not
confer origin.

(1) Cumulation as provided for in this Article does not apply to materials originating in Turkey which are mentioned in the list at Annex

III to this Protocol.

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ANNEX II TO PROTOCOL 4

List of working or processing required to be carried out on non-originating materials in order that the product
manufactured can obtain originating status

The products mentioned in the list may not all be covered by the Agreement.

It is therefore necessary to consult the other parts of the Agreement

HS heading

Description of product

Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

Chapter 01

Live animals

the animals of Chapter 1 used

All
must be wholly obtained

Chapter 02

Meat and edible meat offal

Manufacture in which all the materials
of Chapters 1 and 2 used must be
wholly obtained

Chapter 03

Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and
other aquatic invertebrates

Manufacture in which all the materials
of Chapter 3 used must be wholly
obtained

ex Chapter 04

0403

Dairy produce; birds' eggs; natural
edible products of
honey;
animal
origin, not
specified or
elsewhere
included; except for:

Manufacture in which all the materials
of Chapter 4 used must be wholly
obtained

Buttermilk, curdled milk and cream,
yoghurt, kephir and other fermented
or acidified milk and cream, whether
or not concentrated or containing
sweetening
added sugar or other
containing
flavoured or
matter or
added fruit, nuts or cocoa

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials of Chapter 4 used

must be wholly obtained,

– any fruit juice (except those of pine-
apple, lime or grapefruit) of heading
2009 used must already be origin-
ating,

– the

value of

any materials of
Chapter 17 used does not exceed 30
% of
the
the ex-works price of
product

ex Chapter 05

Products of animal origin, not else-
where specified or
included; except
for:

Manufacture in which all the materials
of Chapter 5 used must be wholly
obtained

ex 0502

Prepared pigs', hogs' or boars' bristles
and hair

Cleaning,
sorting
straightening of bristles and hair

disinfecting,

and

Chapter 06

Live trees and other plants; bulbs,
roots and the like; cut
flowers and
ornamental foliage

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials of Chapter 6 used

must be wholly obtained,

– the value of all the materials used
does not exceed 50 % of the ex-
works price of the product

Chapter 07

Edible vegetables and certain roots and
tubers

Manufacture in which all the materials
of Chapter 7 used must be wholly
obtained

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HS heading

Description of product

Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

Chapter 08

(2)

(3) or (4)

Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus
fruits or melons

Manufacture in which:
– all the fruit and nuts used must be

wholly obtained,

– the

value of

any materials of
Chapter 17 used does not exceed 30
% of the value of the ex-works price
of the product

ex Chapter 09

Coffee,
for:

tea, maté and spices; except

0901

roasted or
Coffee, whether or not
decaffeinated; coffee husks and skins;
coffee substitutes containing coffee in
any proportion

0902

Tea, whether or not flavoured

ex 0910

Mixtures of spices

Chapter 10

Cereals

Manufacture in which all the materials
of Chapter 9 used must be wholly
obtained

Manufacture from materials of any
heading

Manufacture from materials of any
heading

Manufacture from materials of any
heading

Manufacture in which all the materials
of Chapter 10 used must be wholly
obtained

ex Chapter 11

ex 1106

Chapter 12

1301

1302

Products of the milling industry; malt;
starches;
inulin; wheat gluten; except
for:

Manufacture in which all the cereals,
edible vegetables, roots and tubers of
heading 0714 or fruit used must be
wholly obtained

Flour, meal and powder of the dried,
shelled
of
heading 0713

leguminous

vegetables

Drying and milling of
vegetables of heading 0708

leguminous

Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscel-
laneous grains, seeds and fruit; indus-
trial or medicinal plants; straw and
fodder

Manufacture in which all the materials
of Chapter 12 used must be wholly
obtained

Lac; natural gums, resins, gum–resins
and oleoresins (for example, balsams)

Manufacture in which the value of any
materials of heading 1301 used may
not exceed 50 % of the ex-works price
of the product

Vegetable saps and extracts; pectic
substances, pectinates and pectates;
agar–agar and other mucilages and
thickeners, whether or not modified,
derived from vegetable products:

– Mucilages and thickeners, modified,
derived from vegetable products

Manufacture from non-modified muci-
lages and thickeners

– Other

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
50 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

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HS heading

Description of product

Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

Chapter 14

ex Chapter 15

(2)

(3) or (4)

Vegetable plaiting materials; vegetable
products not elsewhere specified or
included

Manufacture in which all the materials
of Chapter 14 used must be wholly
obtained

cleavage

Animal or vegetable fats and oils and
their
prepared
edible fats; animals or vegetable waxes;
except for:

products;

1501

Pig fat (including lard) and poultry fat,
other than that of heading 0209 or
1503:

– Fats from bones or waste

– Other

1502

Fats of bovine animals, sheep or goats,
other than those of heading 1503

– Fats from bones or waste

– Other

1504

Fats and oils and their fractions, of fish
or marine mammals, whether or not
refined, but not chemically modified:

– Solid fractions

– Other

ex 1505

Refined lanolin

1506

Other animals fats and oils and their
fractions, whether or not refined, but
not chemically modified:

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

Manufacture from materials of any
heading except
those of headings
0203, 0206 or 0207 or bones of
heading 0506

Manufacture from meat or edible offal
of swine of heading 0203 or 0206 or
of meat and edible offal of poultry of
heading 0207

Manufacture from materials of any
heading except
those of headings
0201, 0202, 0204 or 0206 or bones
of heading 0506

Manufacture in which all the materials
of Chapter 2 used must be wholly
obtained

Manufacture from materials of any
heading including other materials of
heading 1504

Manufacture in which all the materials
of Chapters 2 and 3 used must be
wholly obtained

Manufacture from crude wool grease
of heading 1505

– Solid fractions

– Other

Manufacture from materials of any
heading including other materials of
heading 1506

Manufacture in which all the materials
of Chapter 2 used must be wholly
obtained

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HS heading

Description of product

Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

1507 to 1515

Vegetable oils and their fractions:

– Soya, ground nut, palm,

copra,
palm kernel, babassu, tung and oiti-
cica oil, myrtle wax and Japan wax,
fractions of jojoba oil and oils for
industrial uses other
technical or
than the manufacture of foodstuffs
for human consumption

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

– Solid fractions, except

for that of

jojoba oil

Manufacture from other materials of
headings 1507 to 1515

– Other

Manufacture in which all the vegetable
materials
be wholly
obtained

used must

Animal or vegetable fats and oils and
their fractions, partly or wholly hydro-
re–esterified
genated,
or elaidinised, whether or not refined,
but not further prepared

inter–esterified,

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials of Chapter 2 used

must be wholly obtained,

– all the vegetable materials used must
be wholly obtained. However, mate-
rials of headings 1507, 1508, 1511
and 1513 may be used

Margarine; edible mixtures or prepara-
tions of animal or vegetable fats or oils
or of fractions of different fats or oils
of this Chapter, other than edible fats
or oils or their fractions of heading
1516

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials of Chapters 2 and 4

used must be wholly obtained,

– all the vegetable materials used must
be wholly obtained. However, mate-
rials of headings 1507, 1508, 1511
and 1513 may be used

1516

1517

Chapter 16

fish or of
Preparations of meat, of
crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic
invertebrates

Manufacture from animals of Chapter
1. All the materials of Chapter 3 used
must be wholly obtained

ex Chapter 17

Sugars and sugar confectionery; except
for:

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

ex 1701

Cane or beet sugar and chemically
pure sucrose, in solid form, flavoured
or coloured

Manufacture in which the value of any
materials of Chapter 17 used does not
exceed 30 % of the ex-works price of
the product

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HS heading

Description of product

Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

1702

ex 1703

1704

sugars,

including chemically
Other
lactose, maltose, glucose and
pure
fructose,
in solid form; sugar syrups
not containing added flavouring or
colouring matter;
honey,
whether or not mixed with natural
honey; caramel:

artificial

– Chemically pure maltose and fruc-

tose

Manufacture from materials of any
heading including other materials of
heading 1702

– Other

sugars

in

solid

form,

flavoured or coloured

– Other

Molasses resulting from the extraction
or
flavoured or
sugar,
coloured

refining of

Sugar confectionery (including white
chocolate), not containing cocoa

Manufacture in which the value of any
materials of Chapter 17 used does not
exceed 30 % of the ex-works price of
the product

Manufacture in which all the materials
used must already be originating

Manufacture in which the value of any
materials of Chapter 17 used does not
exceed 30 % of the ex-works price of
the product

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product,

– the

value of

any materials of
Chapter 17 used does not exceed 30
% of
the
the ex-works price of
product

Chapter 18

Cocoa and cocoa preparations

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product,

– the

value of

any materials of
Chapter 17 used does not exceed 30
% of
the
the ex-works price of
product

1901

extract;

food preparations of
Malt
flour, meal, starch or malt extract, not
containing cocoa or containing less
than 40 % by weight of cocoa calcu-
lated on a totally defatted basis, not
elsewhere specified or included; food
preparations of goods of headings
0401 to 0404, not containing cocoa
or containing less than 5 % by weight
of
totally
defatted basis, not elsewhere specified
or included:

calculated on a

cocoa

– Malt extract

– Other

Manufacture from cereals of Chapter
10

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product,

– the

value of

any materials of
Chapter 17 used does not exceed 30
% of
the
the ex-works price of
product

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HS heading

Description of product

Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

1902

1903

1904

1905

otherwise

Pasta, whether or not
cooked or
stuffed (with meat or other substances)
as
or
lasagne,
spaghetti, macaroni, noodles,
gnocchi, ravioli, cannelloni; couscous,
whether or not prepared:

prepared,

such

– Containing 20 % or less by weight
of meat, meat offal, fish, crustaceans
or molluscs

Manufacture in which all the cereals
and derivatives (except durum wheat
and its derivatives) used must be
wholly obtained

– Containing more than 20 % by
fish,

weight of meat, meat offal,
crustaceans or molluscs

Manufacture in which:
– all cereals and derivatives (except
durum wheat and its derivatives)
used must be wholly obtained,

– all the materials of Chapters 2 and 3

used must be wholly obtained

and

substitutes

therefor
Tapioca
prepared from starch, in the form of
flakes, grains, pearls,
in
similar forms

siftings or

Manufacture from materials of any
heading
of
heading 1108

potato

except

starch

Prepared foods obtained by the swel-
ling or roasting of cereals or cereal
products (for example, corn flakes);
cereals (other than maize (corn))
in
grain form or in the form of flakes or
other worked grains (except flour and
meal),
otherwise
prepared, not elsewhere specified or
included

pre-cooked,

or

Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other
not
bakers' wares, whether
containing cocoa; communion wafers,
empty cachets of a kind suitable for
pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice
paper and similar products

or

Manufacture:
– from materials not classified within

heading 1806,

– in which all the cereals and flour
(except durum wheat and its deri-
vates)
be wholly
obtained,

used must

– in which the value of any materials
of Chapter 17 used does not exceed
30 % of the ex-works price of the
product

Manufacture from materials of any
heading except those of Chapter 11

ex Chapter 20

Preparations of vegetables, fruit, nuts
or other parts of plants; except for:

Manufacture in which all
the fruit,
nuts or vegetables used must be
wholly obtained

ex 2001

sweet potatoes

Yams,
and similar
edible parts of plants containing 5 %
or more by weight of starch, prepared
or preserved by vinegar or acetic acid

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

ex 2004 and
ex 2005

Potatoes in the form of flour, meal or
flakes, prepared or preserved otherwise
than by vinegar or acetic acid

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

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status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

2006

2007

fruit, nuts,

Vegetables,
fruit-peel and
other parts of plants, preserved by
sugar (drained, glacé or crystallised)

Manufacture in which the value of any
materials of Chapter 17 used does not
exceed 30 % of the ex-works price of
the product

Jams, fruit jellies, marmalades, fruit or
nut purée and fruit or nut pastes,
being cooked preparations, whether or
not containing added sugar or other
sweetening matter

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product,

– the

value of

any materials of
Chapter 17 used does not exceed 30
the
the ex-works price of
% of
product

ex 2008

– Nuts, not containing added sugar or

spirit

Manufacture in which the value of the
originating nuts and oil seeds of head-
ings 0801, 0802 and 1202 to 1207
used exceeds 60 % of the ex-works
price of the product

– Peanut butter; mixtures based on
cereals; palm hearts; maize (corn)

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

– Other except

fruit and nuts
for
cooked otherwise than by steaming
or boiling in water, not containing
added sugar, frozen

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product,

2009

Fruit juices (including grape must) and
vegetable juices, unfermented and not
containing added spirit, whether or
not containing added sugar or other
sweetening matter

– the

value of

any materials of
Chapter 17 used does not exceed 30
% of
the
the ex-works price of
product

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product,

– the

value of

any materials of
Chapter 17 used does not exceed 30
% of
the
the ex-works price of
product

ex Chapter 21

Miscellaneous
except for:

edible

preparations;

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

2101

Extracts, essences and concentrates, of
coffee, tea or maté and preparations
with a basis of these products or with
a basis of coffee, tea or maté; roasted
chicory
roasted coffee
substitutes, and extracts, essences and
concentrates thereof

and other

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product,

– all the chicory used must be wholly

obtained

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status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

2103

and

preparations

Sauces
therefor;
mixed condiments and mixed season-
ings; mustard flour and meal and
prepared mustard:

– Sauces and preparations

mixed
seasonings

condiments

therefor;
and mixed

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
the product.
other
However, mustard flour or meal or
prepared mustard may be used

than that of

– Mustard

flour

and meal

and

prepared mustard

Manufacture from materials of any
heading

ex 2104

Soups and broths and preparations
therefor

Manufacture from materials of any
heading except prepared or preserved
vegetables of headings 2002 to 2005

2106

Food preparations not elsewhere speci-
fied or included

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product,

– the

value of

any materials of
Chapter 17 used does not exceed 30
% of
the
the ex-works price of
product

ex Chapter 22

Beverages, spirits and vinegar; except
for:

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product,

2202

2208

Waters,
including mineral waters and
aerated waters, containing added sugar
or
or
other
flavoured,
and other non-alcoholic
beverages, not including fruit or vege-
table juices of heading 2009

sweetening matter

Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alco-
holic strength by volume of less than
80 % vol; spirits,
liqueurs and other
spirituous beverages

– all

the grapes or

any material
derived from grapes used must be
wholly obtained

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product,

– the

value of

any materials of
Chapter 17 used does not exceed 30
the
the ex-works price of
% of
product,

– any fruit juice used (except for pine-
juices)
lime and grapefruit

apple,
must already be originating

Manufacture:
– from materials not classified within

headings 2207 or 2208,

– in which all the grapes or any mate-
rial derived from grapes used must
be wholly obtained or if all
the
other materials used are already
originating, arrack may be used up
of
to
5 % by volume

limit

a

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Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

ex Chapter 23

Residues and waste from the food
industries; prepared animal
fodder;
except for:

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

ex 2301

ex 2303

ex 2306

Whale meal; flours, meals and pellets
of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or
other aquatic invertebrates, unfit
for
human consumption

Manufacture in which all the materials
of Chapters 2 and 3 used must be
wholly obtained

Residues
from the manufacture of
starch from maize (excluding concen-
trated steeping liquors), of a protein
content, calculated on the dry product,
exceeding 40 % by weight

Oil cake and other
solid residues
resulting from the extraction of olive
oil, containing more than 3 % of olive
oil

Manufacture in which all
used must be wholly obtained

the maize

Manufacture in which all
used must be wholly obtained

the olives

Manufacture in which:
– all the cereals, sugar or molasses,
meat or milk used must already be
originating,

– all the materials of Chapter 3 used

must be wholly obtained

2309

Preparations of a kind used in animal
feeding

ex Chapter 24

Tobacco and manufactured tobacco
substitutes; except for:

Manufacture in which all the materials
of Chapter 24 used must be wholly
obtained

2402

Cigars, cheroots, cigarillos and cigar-
ettes, of tobacco or of tobacco substi-
tutes

Manufacture in which at least 70 % by
weight of the unmanufactured tobacco
or tobacco refuse of heading 2401
used must already be originating

ex 2403

Smoking tobacco

Manufacture in which at least 70 % by
weight of the unmanufactured tobacco
or tobacco refuse of heading 2401
used must already be originating

ex Chapter 25

Salt; sulphur; earths and stone; plas-
tering materials,
lime and cement;
except for:

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

ex 2504

ex 2515

ex 2516

crystalline

Natural
graphite, with
enriched carbon content, purified and
ground

Enriching of the carbon content, puri-
fying and grinding of crude crystalline
graphite

Marble, merely cut, by sawing or
otherwise,
into blocks or slabs of a
rectangular (including square) shape,
of a thickness not exceeding 25 cm

Cutting, by sawing or otherwise, of
marble (even if already sawn) of a
thickness exceeding 25 cm

Granite, porphyry, basalt, sandstone
and other monumental and building
stone, merely cut, by sawing or other-
wise, into blocks or slabs of a rectan-
gular (including square) shape, of a
thickness not exceeding 25 cm

Cutting, by sawing or otherwise, of
stone (even if already sawn) of a thick-
ness exceeding 25 cm

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Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

ex 2518

Calcined dolomite

Calcination of dolomite not calcined

ex 2519

ex 2520

in

Crushed natural magnesium carbonate
hermetically–sealed
(magnesite),
containers,
and magnesium oxide,
whether or not pure, other than fused
magnesia or dead–burned (sintered)
magnesia

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other
the product.
However, natural magnesium carbo-
nate (magnesite) may be used

than that of

Plasters specially prepared for dentistry Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
the
50 % of
product

the ex-works price of

ex 2524

Natural asbestos fibres

Manufacture from asbestos concentrate

ex 2525

Mica powder

Grinding of mica or mica waste

ex 2530

Earth colours, calcined or powdered

Calcination or
colours

grinding

of

earth

Chapter 26

Ores, slag and ash

ex Chapter 27

ex 2707

ex 2709

2710

fuels, mineral

and
Mineral
products of their distillation; bitumi-
nous
substances; mineral waxes;
except for:

oils

Oils
the
in which the weight of
aromatic constituents exceeds that of
the non–aromatic constituents, being
oils similar to mineral oils obtained by
distillation of high temperature coal
tar, of which more than 65 % by
volume distils at a temperature of up
to 250 oC (including mixtures of petro-
leum spirit and benzole), for use as
power or heating fuels

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

in which all

Operations of refining and/or one or
more specific process(es) (1)
or
Other operations
the
materials used are classified within a
the
heading other
product. However, materials classified
within the same heading may be used
provided their value does not exceed
50 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

than that of

Crude oils obtained from bituminous
minerals

Destructive distillation of bituminous
materials

other

Petroleum oils and oils obtained from
than
bituminous materials,
crude; preparations not
elsewhere
specified or included, containing by
weight 70 % or more of petroleum
oils or of oils obtained from bitumi-
nous materials,
these oils being the
basic constituents of the preparations

in which all

Operations of refining and/or one or
more specific process(es) (1)
or
the
Other operations
materials used are classified within a
heading other
the
product. However, materials classified
within the same heading may be used
provided their value does not exceed
50 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

than that of

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status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

2711

Petroleum gases and other gaseous
hydrocarbons

2712

2713

2714

2715

Petroleum jelly; paraffin wax, micro-
crystalline petroleum wax, slack wax,
ozokerite, lignite wax, peat wax, other
mineral waxes and similar products
obtained by synthesis or by other
processes, whether or not coloured

Petroleum coke, petroleum bitumen
and other residues of petroleum oils or
of oils obtained from bituminous
materials

Bitumen and asphalt, natural; bitumi-
nous or oil shale and tar sands; asphal-
tites and asphaltic rocks

Bituminous mixtures based on natural
asphalt, on natural bitumen, on petro-
leum bitumen, on mineral tar or on
mineral tar pitch (for example, bitumi-
nous mastics, cut-backs)

ex Chapter 28

Inorganic chemicals; organic or inor-
ganic compounds of precious metals,
of
radioactive
elements or of isotopes; except for:

rare-earth metals, of

in which all

Operations of refining and/or one or
more specific process(es) (1)
or
the
Other operations
materials used are classified within a
heading other
the
product. However, materials classified
within the same heading may be used
provided their value does not exceed
the
50 % of
product

the ex-works price of

than that of

in which all

Operations of refining and/or one or
more specific process(es) (1)
or
Other operations
the
materials used are classified within a
heading other
the
product. However, materials classified
within the same heading may be used
provided their value does not exceed
50 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

than that of

in which all

Operations of refining and/or one or
more specific process(es) (1)
or
Other operations
the
materials used are classified within a
the
heading other
product. However, materials classified
within the same heading may be used
provided their value does not exceed
50 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

than that of

in which all

Operations of refining and/or one or
more specific process(es) (1)
or
Other operations
the
materials used are classified within a
heading other
the
product. However, materials classified
within the same heading may be used
provided their value does not exceed
the
50 % of
product

the ex-works price of

than that of

in which all

Operations of refining and/or one or
more specific process(es) (1)
or
Other operations
the
materials used are classified within a
heading other
the
product. However, materials classified
within the same heading may be used
provided their value does not exceed
50 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

than that of

than that of

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other
the product.
However, materials classified within
the
same heading may be used
provided their value does not exceed
20 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 40 %
of the ex-works price of the product

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Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

ex 2805

‘Mischmetall’

Manufacture by electrolytic or thermal
treatment in which the value of all the
materials used does not exceed 50 %
of the ex-works price of the product

ex 2811

Sulphur trioxide

Manufacture from sulphur dioxide

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 40 %
of the ex-works price of the product

ex 2833

Aluminium sulphate

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
the
50 % of
product

the ex-works price of

ex 2840

Sodium perborate

Manufacture from disodium tetrabo-
rate pentahydrate

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 40 %
of the ex-works price of the product

ex Chapter 29

Organic chemicals; except for:

than that of

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other
the product.
However, materials classified within
the
same heading may be used
provided their value does not exceed
the
20 % of
product

the ex-works price of

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 40 %
of the ex-works price of the product

ex 2901

Acyclic hydrocarbons for use as power
or heating fuels

Operations of refining and/or one or
more specific process(es) (1)
or

in which all

than that of

Other operations
the
materials used are classified within a
heading other
the
product. However, materials classified
within the same heading may be used
provided their value does not exceed
50 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

ex 2902

Cyclanes and cyclenes
azulenes), benzene,
for use as power or heating fuels

than
(other
toluene, xylenes,

in which all

Operations of refining and/or one or
more specific process(es) (1)
or
Other operations
the
materials used are classified within a
heading other
the
product. However, materials classified
within the same heading may be used,
provided their value does not exceed
50 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

than that of

ex 2905

Metal alcoholates of alcohols of this
heading and of ethanol

Manufacture from materials of any
heading,
including other materials of
heading 2905. However, metal alcoho-
lates of
this heading may be used,
provided their value does not exceed
20 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 40 %
of the ex-works price of the product

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Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

2915

ex 2932

2933

2934

Saturated acyclic monocarboxylic acids
and their anhydrides, halides, perox-
ides and peroxyacids;
their haloge-
nated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitro-
sated derivatives

Manufacture from materials of any
heading. However, the value of all the
materials of headings 2915 and 2916
used may not exceed 20 % of the ex-
works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 40 %
of the ex-works price of the product

– Internal ethers and their haloge-
or

nitrated

nated,
sulphonated,
nitrosated derivatives

– Cyclic acetals and internal hemiace-
tals and their halogenated, sulpho-
nated, nitrated or nitrosated deriva-
tives

Heterocyclic compounds with nitrogen
hetero-atom(s) only

Manufacture from materials of any
heading. However, the value of all the
materials of heading 2909 used may
not exceed 20 % of the ex-works price
of the product
Manufacture from materials of any
heading

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 40 %
of the ex-works price of the product
Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 40 %
of the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture from materials of any
heading. However, the value of all the
materials of headings 2932 and 2933
used may not exceed 20 % of the ex-
works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 40 %
of the ex-works price of the product

Nucleic acids and their salts; other
heterocyclic compounds

Manufacture from materials of any
heading. However, the value of all the
materials of headings 2932, 2933 and
2934 used may not exceed 20 % of
the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 40 %
of the ex-works price of the product

than that of

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other
the product.
However, materials classified within
the
same heading may be used
provided their value does not exceed
20 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

ex Chapter 30

Pharmaceutical products; except for:

3002

Human blood; animal blood prepared
for therapeutic, prophylactic or diag-
nostic uses; antisera and other blood
fractions and modified immunological
products, whether or not obtained by
means of biotechnological processes;
vaccines, toxins, cultures of micro-or-
ganisms (excluding yeasts) and similar
products:

– Products consisting of two or more
constituents which have been mixed
together for therapeutic or prophy-
lactic uses or unmixed products for
these uses, put up in measured
doses or in forms or packings for
retail sale

Manufacture from materials of any
heading,
including other materials of
heading 3002. The materials of this
description may also be used, provided
their value does not exceed 20 % of
the ex-works price of the product

– Other:

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status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

– – Human blood

– – Animal blood prepared for thera-

peutic or prophylactic uses

Manufacture from materials of any
heading,
including other materials of
heading 3002. The materials of this
description may also be used, provided
their value does not exceed 20 % of
the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture from materials of any
heading,
including other materials of
heading 3002. The materials of this
description may also be used, provided
their value does not exceed 20 % of
the ex-works price of the product

– – Blood fractions other than anti-
sera, haemoglobin, blood globu-
lins and serum globulins

Manufacture from materials of any
heading,
including other materials of
heading 3002. The materials of this
description may also be used, provided
their value does not exceed 20 % of
the ex-works price of the product

– – Haemoglobin,

blood

globulins

and serum globulins

– – Other

3003 and 3004

(excluding

Medicaments
heading 3002, 3005 or 3006):
– Obtained from amikacin of heading

goods

of

2941
– Other

Manufacture from materials of any
heading,
including other materials of
heading 3002. The materials of this
description may also be used, provided
their value does not exceed 20 % of
the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture from materials of any
including other materials of
heading,
heading 3002. The materials of this
description may also be used, provided
their value does not exceed 20 % of
the ex-works price of the product

than that of

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
the product.
other
However, materials of heading 3003
or 3004 may be used provided their
value, taken together, does not exceed
20 % of the ex works price of the
product
Manufacture in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product. However, materials of
heading 3003 or 3004 may be used
provided their value, taken together,
does not
the
exceed 20 % of
ex-works price of the product,

– the value of all the materials used
does not exceed 50 % of the ex-
works price of the product

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Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

ex Chapter 31

Fertilisers; except for:

ex 3105

or

chemical

Mineral
fertilisers
containing two or three of the ferti-
lising elements nitrogen, phosphorous
and potassium; other fertilisers; goods
of this Chapter,
in tablets or similar
forms or in packages of a gross weight
not exceeding 10 kg, except for:
– sodium nitrate
– calcium cyanamide
– potassium sulphate
– magnesium potassium sulphate

ex Chapter 32

Tanning or dyeing extracts;
tannins
and their derivatives; dyes, pigments
and other colouring matter; paints and
varnishes; putty and other mastics;
inks; except for:

than that of

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other
the product.
However, materials classified within
the
same heading may be used
provided their value does not exceed
20 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product. However, materials
classified within the same heading
may be used provided their value
does not exceed 20 % of the ex-
works price of the product,

– the value of all the materials used
does not exceed 50 % of the ex-
works price of the product

than that of

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other
the product.
However, materials classified within
the
same heading may be used
provided their value does not exceed
20 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 40 %
of the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 40 %
of the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 40 %
of the ex-works price of the product

ex 3201

3205

Tannins and their salts, ethers, esters
and other derivatives

Manufacture from tanning extracts of
vegetable origin

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 40 %
of the ex-works price of the product

Colour lakes; preparations as specified
in Note 3 to this Chapter based on
colour lakes (2)

Manufacture from materials of any
heading, except headings 3203, 3204
and 3205. However, materials from
heading 3205 may be used provided
their value does not exceed 20 % of
the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 40 %
of the ex-works price of the product

ex Chapter 33

Essential oils and resinoids; perfumery,
cosmetic or toilet preparations; except
for:

than that of

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other
the product.
However, materials classified within
the
same heading may be used
provided their value does not exceed
the
20 % of
product

the ex-works price of

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 40 %
of the ex-works price of the product

3301

Essential oils
(terpeneless or not),
including concretes and absolutes; resi-
noids; extracted oleoresins; concen-
trates of essential oils in fats, in fixed
oils, in waxes or the like, obtained by
enfleurage or maceration;
terpenic
by-products of
the deterpenation of
essential oils; aqueous distillates and
aqueous solutions of essential oils

including materials of
‘group’ (3)

Manufacture from materials of any
a
heading,
in this heading.
different
However, materials of the same group
may be used, provided their value does
not exceed 20 % of the ex-works price
of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 40 %
of the ex-works price of the product

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status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

ex Chapter 34

Soap, organic surface-active agents,
washing
lubricating
preparations,
preparations, artificial waxes, prepared
waxes, polishing or scouring prepara-
tions,
articles,
modelling pastes,
‘dental waxes’ and
dental preparations with a basis of
plaster; except for:

and similar

candles

than that of

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other
the product.
However, materials classified within
the
same heading may be used
provided their value does not exceed
20 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 40 %
of the ex-works price of the product

ex 3403

Lubricating preparations
containing
petroleum oils or oils obtained from
bituminous minerals, provided they
represent less than 70 % by weight

3404

Artificial waxes and prepared waxes:
– With a basis of paraffin, petroleum
waxes, waxes obtained from bitumi-
nous minerals, slack wax or scale
wax

in which all

Operations of refining and/or one or
more specific process(es) (1)
or
Other operations
the
materials used are classified within a
heading other
the
product. However, materials classified
within the same heading may be used
provided their value does not exceed
50 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

than that of

than that of

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
the product.
other
However, materials classified within
the
same heading may be used
provided their value does not exceed
50 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

– Other

Manufacture from materials of any
heading, except:
– hydrogenated oils having the char-
acter of waxes of heading 1516,

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 40 %
of the ex-works price of the product

– fatty acids not chemically defined or
industrial fatty alcohols having the
character of waxes of heading 3823,

– materials of heading 3404

However, these materials may be used
provided their value does not exceed
20 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

ex Chapter 35

Albuminoidal
starches; glues; enzymes; except for:

substances; modified

3505

Dextrins and other modified starches
(for example, pregelatinised or esteri-
fied starches); glues based on starches,
or on dextrins or other modified
starches:

– Starch ethers and esters

than that of

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other
the product.
However, materials classified within
the
same heading may be used
provided their value does not exceed
the
20 % of
product

the ex-works price of

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 40 %
of the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture from materials of any
heading,
including other materials of
heading 3505

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 40 %
of the ex-works price of the product

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Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

– Other

Manufacture from materials of any
heading, except those of heading 1108

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 40 %
of the ex-works price of the product

ex 3507

Prepared enzymes not elsewhere speci-
fied or included

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
50 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

Chapter 36

pyrotechnic

Explosives;
matches; pyrophoric
combustible preparations

products;
certain

alloys;

ex Chapter 37

Photographic
or
goods; except for:

cinematographic

than that of

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
the product.
other
However, materials classified within
the
same heading may be used
provided their value does not exceed
20 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

than that of

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
the product.
other
However, materials classified within
the
same heading may be used
provided their value does not exceed
20 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 40 %
of the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 40 %
of the ex-works price of the product

3701

3702

3704

Photographic plates and film in the
flat,
any
sensitised, unexposed, of
material other than paper, paperboard
or textiles; instant print film in the flat,
sensitised, unexposed, whether or not
in packs:

– Instant print film for colour photo-

graphy, in packs

– Other

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than headings 3701 or 3702.
However, materials
from heading
3702 may be used provided their
value does not exceed 30 % of the ex-
works price of the product

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than heading 3701 or 3702.
However, materials
from headings
3701 and 3702 may be used provided
their value taken together, does not
exceed 20 % of the ex-works price of
the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 40 %
of the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 40 %
of the ex-works price of the product

Photographic film in rolls, sensitised,
unexposed, of any material other than
instant
paper, paperboard or textiles;
print
film in rolls, sensitised, unex-
posed

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than headings 3701 or 3702

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 40 %
of the ex-works price of the product

Photographic plates, film paper, paper-
board and textiles, exposed but not
developed

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than headings 3701 to 3704

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 40 %
of the ex-works price of the product

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Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

ex Chapter 38

Miscellaneous
except for:

chemical

products;

than that of

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other
the product.
However, materials classified within
the
same heading may be used
provided their value does not exceed
20 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 40 %
of the ex-works price of the product

ex 3801

– Colloidal graphite in suspension in
graphite;

oil
semi-colloidal
carbonaceous pastes for electrodes

and

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
50 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

– Graphite in paste form, being a
mixture of more than 30 % by
weight of graphite with mineral oils

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials of heading 3403 used
does not exceed 20 % of the ex-works
price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 40 %
of the ex-works price of the product

ex 3803

Refined tall oil

Refining of crude tall oil

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 40 %
of the ex-works price of the product

ex 3805

Spirits of sulphate turpentine, purified

Purification by distillation or refining
of raw spirits of sulphate turpentine

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 40 %
of the ex-works price of the product

ex 3806

Ester gums

Manufacture from resin acids

ex 3807

Wood pitch (wood tar pitch)

Distillation of wood tar

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 40 %
of the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 40 %
of the ex-works price of the product

3808

3809

fungicides,
rodenticides,
Insecticides,
herbicides, anti-sprouting products and
plant-growth regulators, disinfectants
and similar products, put up in forms
or packings
sale or as
preparations or articles (for example,
and
sulphur-treated
candles, and fly-papers)

bands, wicks

retail

for

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
50 % of
the
products

the ex-works price of

Finishing agents, dye carriers to accel-
erate the dyeing or fixing of dyestuffs
and other products and preparations
(for example, dressings and mordants),
of a kind used in the textile, paper,
leather or like industries, not elsewhere
specified or included

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
50 % of
the
products

the ex-works price of

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Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

3810

3811

3812

3813

3814

3818

3819

3820

preparations
for metal
Pickling
surfaces;
fluxes and other auxiliary
preparations for soldering, brazing or
welding; soldering, brazing or welding
powders and pastes consisting of metal
and other materials; preparations of a
kind used as cores or coatings for
welding electrodes or rods

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
50 % of
the
products

the ex-works price of

Anti–knock preparations,
oxidation
inhibitors, gum inhibitors, viscosity
improvers, anti-corrosive preparations
and other prepared additives,
for
mineral oils (including gasoline) or for
other
same
purposes as mineral oils:

liquids used for

the

– Prepared additives

lubricating
oil, containing petroleum oils or oils
obtained from bituminous minerals

for

– Other

rubber

Prepared
accelerators;
compound plasticisers for rubber or
plastics, not elsewhere specified or
anti-oxidising preparations
included;
and other compound stabilisers for
rubber or plastics

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials of heading 3811 used
exceed
does
not
50 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
50 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
50 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

Preparations and charges for fire-extin-
fire-extinguishing
guishers;
grenades

charged

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
50 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

not

Organic composite solvents and thin-
ners,
or
included; prepared paint or vanish
removers

elsewhere

specified

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
50 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

Chemical elements doped for use in
electronics, in the form of discs, wafers
or similar forms; chemical compounds
doped for use in electronics

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
50 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

fluids

Hydraulic brake
and other
prepared liquids for hydraulic trans-
mission, not containing or containing
less than 70 % by weight of petroleum
oils or oils obtained from bituminous
minerals

Anti-freezing
prepared de-icing fluids

preparations

and

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
50 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
50 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

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Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

3822

3823

3824

Diagnostic or laboratory reagents on a
backing and prepared diagnostic or
laboratory reagents, whether or not on
a backing, other than those of heading
3002 or 3006

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
50 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids;
acid oils from refining; industrial fatty
alcohols.

– Industrial monocarboxylic
acids, acid oils from refining

fatty

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

– Industrial fatty alcohols

Manufacture from materials of any
heading including other materials of
heading 3823

cores;

chemical products

Prepared binders for foundry moulds
or
and
preparations of the chemical or allied
industries (including those consisting
of mixtures of natural products), not
elsewhere specified or included; resi-
dual products of the chemical or allied
industries, not elsewhere specified or
included:

than that of

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other
the product.
However, materials classified within
same heading may be used
the
provided their value does not exceed
20 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 40 %
of the ex-works price of the product

– The following of this heading:
Prepared binders for foundry moulds
or cores based on natural
resinous
products
Naphthenic acids, their water insoluble
salts and their esters
Sorbitol other than that of heading
2905

Petroleum sulphonates,
excluding
petroleum sulphonates of alkali metals,
of ammonium or of ethanolamines;
thiophenated sulphonic acids of oils
obtained from bituminous minerals,
and their salts
Ion exchangers
Getters for vacuum tubes

Alkaline iron oxide for the purification
of gas
Ammoniacal gas
liquors and spent
oxide produced in coal gas purification
their water
Sulphonaphthenic acids,
insoluble salts and their esters
Fusel oil and Dippel's oil
Mixtures of
anions
Copying pastes with a basis of gelatine,
whether or not on a paper or textile
backing

salts having different

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Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

– Other

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
50 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

3901 to 3915

in primary

Plastics
forms, waste,
parings and scrap, of plastic; except
for headings ex 3907 and 3912 for
which the rules are set out below:

– Addition
homopolymerisation
single
in which
products
a
monomer contributes more than 99
% by weight to the total polymer
content

Manufacture in which:
– the value of all the materials used
does not exceed 50 % of the ex-
works price of the product,

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 25 %
of the ex-works price of the product

– the

value of

any materials of
Chapter 39 used does not exceed 20
the
the ex-works price of
% of
product (4)

– Other

Manufacture in which the value of the
materials of Chapter 39 used does not
exceed 20 % of the ex-works price of
the product (4)

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 25 %
of the ex-works price of the product

ex 3907

– Copolymer, made from polycarbo-
acrylonitrile-butadiene-

nate
styrene copolymer (ABS)

and

than that of

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other
the product.
However, materials classified within
the
same heading may be used
provided their value does not exceed
50 % of
the
product (4)

the ex-works price of

– Polyester

Manufacture in which the value of any
materials of Chapter 39 used does not
exceed 20 % of the ex-works price of
the product and/or manufacture from
polycarbonate
tetrabromo–
of
(bisphenol A)

3912

Cellulose and its chemical derivatives,
not elsewhere specified or included, in
primary forms

3916 to 3921

and articles of
Semi–manufactures
plastics; except for headings ex 3916,
ex 3917, ex 3920 and ex 3921, for
which the rules are set out below:

classified

Manufacture in which the value of any
materials
same
the product does not
heading as
exceed 20 % of the ex-works price of
the product

the

in

other

– Flat products, further worked than
into
only surface–worked or cut
forms
rectangular
(including square); other products,
further worked than only surface-
worked
– Other:

than

Manufacture in which the value of any
materials of Chapter 39 used does not
exceed 50 % of the ex-works price of
the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 25 %
of the ex-works price of the product

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Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

homopolymerisation
– – Addition
products
single
in which
monomer contributes more than
to the total
99 % by weight
polymer content

a

Manufacture in which:
– the value of all the materials used
does not exceed 50 % of the ex-
works price of the product;

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 25 %
of the ex-works price of the product

– the

value of

any materials of
Chapter 39 used does not exceed 20
% of
the
the ex-works price of
product (4)

– – Other

Manufacture in which the value of any
materials of Chapter 39 used does not
exceed 20 % of the ex-works price of
the product (4)

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 25 %
of the ex-works price of the product

ex 3916 and ex 3917

Profile shapes and tubes

ex 3920

– Ionomer sheet or film

– Sheets

of

regenerated

cellulose,

polyamides or polyethylene

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 25 %
of the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture in which:
– the value of all the materials used
does not exceed 50 % of the ex-
works price of the product;

– the value of any materials classified
within the same heading as
the
product does not exceed 20 % of
the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture
thermoplastic
from a
partial salt which is a copolymer of
ethylene and metacrylic acid partly
neutralised with metal
ions, mainly
zinc and sodium

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 25 %
of the ex-works price of the product

classified

Manufacture in which the value of any
materials
same
heading as
the product does not
exceed 20 % of the ex-works price of
the product

the

in

ex 3921

Foils of plastic, metallised

Manufacture from highly transparent
polyester foils with a thickness of less
than 23 micron (5)

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 25 %
of the ex-works price of the product

3922 to 3926

Articles of plastics

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
50 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

ex Chapter 40

Rubber and articles thereof; except for: Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

ex 4001

4005

Laminated slabs of crepe rubber for
shoes

Lamination of sheets of natural rubber

Compounded rubber, unvulcanised, in
primary forms or in plates, sheets or
strip

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used,
except natural
rubber, does not exceed 50 % of the
ex-works price of the product

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Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

4012

Retreaded or used pneumatic tyres of
rubber; solid or cushion tyres,
inter-
changeable tyre treads and tyre flaps,
of rubber:

– Retreaded

pneumatic,
cushion tyres, of rubber

solid

or

Retreading of used tyres

– Other

Manufacture from materials of any
heading,
those of headings
4011 or 4012

except

ex 4017

Articles of hard rubber

Manufacture from hard rubber

ex Chapter 41

Raw hides and skins (other than fur
skins) and leather; except for:

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

ex 4102

Raw skins of sheep or lambs, without
wool on

Removal of wool from sheep or lamb
skins, with wool on

4104 to 4107

Leather, without hair or wool, other
than leather of headings 4108 or
4109

4109

leather and patent

Patent
leather; metallised leather

laminated

Chapter 42

leather;

saddlery

of
and
Articles
harness;
travel goods, handbags and
similar containers; articles of animal
gut (other than silk worm gut)

Retanning of pre-tanned leather
or
Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

Manufacture from leather of headings
4104 to 4107 provided its value does
not exceed 50 % of the ex-works price
of the product

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

ex Chapter 43

Fur skins and artificial fur; manufac-
tures thereof; except for:

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

ex 4302

Tanned
assembled:

or

dressed

fur

skins,

– Plates, crosses and similar forms

Bleaching or dyeing,
in addition to
cutting and assembly of non-assembled
tanned or dressed fur skins

– Other

Manufacture
tanned or dressed fur skins

from non-assembled,

4303

Articles of apparel, clothing accessories
and other articles of fur skin

from non-assembled
Manufacture
tanned or dressed fur skins of heading
4302

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Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

ex Chapter 44

Wood and articles of wood; wood
charcoal; except for:

ex 4403

Wood roughly squared

ex 4407

ex 4408

ex 4409

ex 4410 to
ex 4413

ex 4415

ex 4416

ex 4418

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

Manufacture from wood in the rough,
whether or not stripped of its bark or
merely roughed down

Planing, sanding or finger-jointing

Splicing, planing, sanding or finger-
jointing

Sanding or finger-jointing

Wood sawn or chipped lengthwise,
sliced or peeled, of
thickness
exceeding 6 mm, planed, sanded or
finger–jointed

a

Veneer sheets and sheets for plywood,
of a thickness not exceeding 6 mm,
spliced, and other wood sawn length-
wise, sliced or peeled of a thickness
not exceeding 6 mm, planed, sanded
or finger-jointed

Wood continuously shaped along any
of its edges or faces, whether or not
planed, sanded or finger-jointed:
– Sanded or finger-jointed

– Beadings and mouldings

Beading or moulding

Beadings
including
and mouldings,
moulded skirting and other moulded
boards

Beading or moulding

Packing cases, boxes, crates, drums
and similar packings, of wood

Manufacture from boards not cut to
size

Casks, barrels, vats,
tubs and other
coopers' products and parts thereof, of
wood

Manufacture from riven staves, not
further worked than sawn on the two
principal surfaces

– Builders'
wood

joinery and carpentry of

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
the product.
other
However, cellular wood panels, shin-
gles and shakes may be used

than that of

– Beadings and mouldings

Beading or moulding

ex 4421

Match splints; wooden pegs or pins for
footwear

ex Chapter 45

Cork and articles of cork; except for:

4503

Articles of natural cork

Manufacture
heading
heading 4409

from wood

of

except

drawn wood

any
of

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

Manufacture from cork of heading
4501

Chapter 46

Manufactures of straw, of esparto or of
other plaiting materials; basketware
and wickerwork

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

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Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

Chapter 47

(2)

(3) or (4)

Pulp of wood or of other fibrous cellu-
losic material; recovered (waste and
scrap) paper or paperboard

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

ex Chapter 48

and paperboard;

Paper
articles of
paper pulp, of paper or of paperboard;
except for:

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

ex 4811

4816

4817

Paper and paperboard, ruled, lined or
squared only

Manufacture from paper-making mate-
rials of Chapter 47

Carbon paper,
self–copy paper and
other copying or transfer papers (other
than those of heading 4809), dupli-
cator
stencils and offset plates, of
paper, whether or not put up in boxes

Manufacture from paper-making mate-
rials of Chapter 47

Envelopes, letter cards, plain postcards
and correspondence cards, of paper or
paperboard; boxes, pouches, wallets
and writing compendiums, of paper or
paperboard, containing an assortment
of paper stationery

Manufacturing in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product;

– the value of all the materials used
does not exceed 50 % of the ex-
works price of the product

ex 4818

Toilet paper

Manufacture from paper-making mate-
rials of Chapter 47

ex 4819

Cartons, boxes, cases, bags and other
packing containers, of paper, paper-
board, cellulose wadding or webs of
cellulose fibres

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product;

ex 4820

Letter pads

– the value of all the materials used
does not exceed 50 % of the ex-
works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
50 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

ex 4823

Other paper, paperboard,
cellulose
wadding and webs of cellulose fibres,
cut to size or shape

Manufacture from paper-making mate-
rials of Chapter 47

ex Chapter 49

4909

Printed books, newspapers, pictures
and other products of
the printing
industry; manuscripts, typescripts and
plans; except for:

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

bearing

Printed or illustrated postcards; printed
cards
greetings,
messages or announcements, whether
illustrated, with or without
or not
envelopes or trimmings

personal

Manufacture from materials not classi-
fied within headings 4909 or 4911

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Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

4910

Calendars
of
including calendar blocks:

any

kind,

printed,

– Calendars of the ‘perpetual’ type or
with replaceable blocks mounted on
bases other than paper or paper-
board

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product,

– the value of all the materials used
does not exceed 50 % of the ex-
works price of the product

– Other

Manufacture from materials not classi-
fied in heading 4909 or 4911

ex Chapter 50

Silk; except for:

ex 5003

Silk waste (including cocoons unsui-
table
and
garnetted stock), carded or combed

reeling, yarn waste

for

5004 to ex 5006

Silk yarn and yarn spun from silk
waste

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

Carding or combing of silk waste

Manufacture from (6):
– raw silk or silk waste carded or
combed or otherwise prepared for
spinning,

– other natural fibres not carded or
combed or otherwise prepared for
spinning,

– chemical materials or textile pulp,

or

– paper-making materials

5007

Woven fabrics of silk or of silk waste:

– Incorporating rubber thread

Manufacture from single yarn (6)

– Other

Manufacture from (6):

– coir yarn,
– natural fibres,
– man–made staple fibres not carded
or combed or otherwise prepared
for spinning,

– chemical materials or textile pulp,

or
– paper
or

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Description of product

Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

Printing accompanied by at least two
preparatory or
finishing operations
(such as scouring, bleaching, mercer-
ising, heat setting, raising, calendering,
shrink resistance processing, perma-
nent
impreg-
nating, mending and burling) where
the value of the unprinted fabric used
does not exceed 47,5 % of the ex-
works price of the product

decatising,

finishing,

ex Chapter 51

fine or coarse animal hair;
yarn and woven fabric;

Wool,
horsehair
except for:

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

5106 to 5110

Yarn of wool, of fine or coarse animal
hair or of horsehair

Manufacture from (6):
– raw silk or silk waste carded or
combed or otherwise prepared for
spinning,

– natural fibres not carded or combed
or otherwise prepared for spinning,
– chemical materials or textile pulp,

or

– paper–making materials

5111 to 5113

Woven fabrics of wool, of
coarse animal hair or of horsehair:

fine or

– Incorporating rubber thread

Manufacture from single yarn (6)

– Other

Manufacture from (6):

– coir yarn,
– natural fibres,
– man–made staple fibres not carded
or combed or otherwise prepared
for spinning,

– chemical materials or textile pulp,

or
– paper

or
Printing accompanied by at least two
preparatory or
finishing operations
(such as scouring, bleaching, mercer-
izing, heat setting, raising, calendering,
shrink resistance processing, perma-
nent
impreg-
nating, mending and burling) where
the value of the unprinted fabric used
does not exceed 47,5 % of the ex-
works price of the product

decatising,

finishing,

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Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

ex Chapter 52

Cotton; except for:

5204 to 5207

Yarn and thread of cotton

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

Manufacture from (6):
– raw silk or silk waste carded or
combed or otherwise prepared for
spinning,

– natural fibres not carded or combed
or otherwise prepared for spinning,
– chemical materials or textile pulp,

or

– paper–making materials

5208 to 5212

Woven fabrics of cotton:

– Incorporating rubber thread

Manufacture from single yarn (6)

– Other

Manufacture from (6):

– coir yarn,
– natural fibres,
– man-made staple fibres not carded
or combed or otherwise prepared
for spinning,

– chemical materials or textile pulp,

or
– paper

or
Printing accompanied by at least two
preparatory or
finishing operations
(such as scouring, bleaching, mercer-
izing, heat setting, raising, calendering,
shrink resistance processing, perma-
impreg-
nent
nating, mending and burling) where
the value of the unprinted fabric used
does not exceed 47,5 % of the ex-
works price of the product

decatising,

finishing,

ex Chapter 53

Other vegetable textile fibres; paper
yarn and woven fabrics of paper yarn;
except for:

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

5306 to 5308

Yarn of other vegetable textile fibres;
paper yarn

Manufacture from (6):
– raw silk or silk waste carded or
combed or otherwise prepared for
spinning,

– natural fibres not carded or combed
or otherwise prepared for spinning,
– chemical materials or textile pulp,

or

– paper-making materials

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Description of product

Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

5309 to 5311

Woven fabrics of other vegetable
textile fibres; woven fabrics of paper
yarn:

– Incorporating rubber thread

Manufacture from single yarn (6)

– Other

Manufacture from (6):
– coir yarn,
– natural fibres,
– man–made staple fibres not carded
or combed or otherwise prepared
for spinning,

– chemical materials or textile pulp,

or
– paper

or
Printing accompanied by at least two
preparatory or
finishing operations
(such as scouring, bleaching, mercer-
ising, heat setting, raising, calendering,
shrink resistance processing, perma-
nent
impreg-
nating, mending and burling) where
the value of the unprinted fabric used
does not exceed 47,5 % of the ex-
works price of the product

decatising,

finishing,

5401 to 5406

Yarn, monofilament and thread of
man–made filaments

Manufacture from (6):
– raw silk or silk waste carded or
combed or otherwise prepared for
spinning,

– natural fibres not carded or combed
or otherwise prepared for spinning,
– chemical materials or textile pulp,

or

– paper-making materials

5407 and 5408

Woven fabrics of man–made filament
yarn:

– Incorporating rubber thread

Manufacture from single yarn (6)

– Other

Manufacture from (6):

– coir yarn,
– natural fibres,
– man–made staple fibres not carded
or combed or otherwise prepared
for spinning,

– chemical materials or textile pulp,

or
– paper

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Description of product

Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

or
Printing accompanied by at least two
preparatory or
finishing operations
(such as scouring, bleaching, mercer-
izing, heat setting, raising, calendering,
shrink resistance processing, perma-
nent
impreg-
nating, mending and burling) where
the value of the unprinted fabric used
does not exceed 47,5 % of the ex-
works price of the product

decatising,

finishing,

5501 to 5507

Man–made staple fibres

Manufacture from chemical materials
or textile pulp

5508 to 5511

Yarn and sewing thread of man–made
staple fibres

Manufacture from (6):
– raw silk or silk waste carded or
combed or otherwise prepared for
spinning,

– natural fibres not carded or combed
or otherwise prepared for spinning,
– chemical materials or textile pulp,

or

– paper–making materials

5512 to 5516

Woven fabrics of man-made staple
fibres:

– Incorporating rubber thread

Manufacture from single yarn (6)

– Other

Manufacture from (6):
– coir yarn,
– natural fibres,
– man–made staple fibres not carded
or combed or otherwise prepared
for spinning,

– chemical materials or textile pulp,

or
– paper

or
Printing accompanied by at least two
preparatory or
finishing operations
(such as scouring, bleaching, mercer-
izing, heat setting, raising, calendering,
shrink resistance processing, perma-
nent
impreg-
nating, mending and burling) where
the value of the unprinted fabric used
does not exceed 47,5 % of the ex-
works price of the product

decatising,

finishing,

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Description of product

Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

ex Chapter 56

Wadding, felt and non-wovens; special
yarns; twine, cordage, ropes and cables
and articles thereof; except for:

5602

Felt, whether or not
coated, covered or laminated:

impregnated,

– Needleloom felt

Manufacture from (6):
– coir yarn,
– natural fibres,
– chemical materials or textile pulp,

or

– paper-making materials

Manufacture from (6):
– natural fibres,
– chemical materials or textile pulp

However:
– polypropylene filament of heading

5402,

– polypropylene

fibres of heading

5503 or 5506 or

– polypropylene

5501,

filament

of which

tow of
heading
the
denomination in all cases of a single
filament or
than 9
fibre is
decitex may be used provided their
value does not exceed 40 % of the
ex-works price of the product

less

– Other

Manufacture from (6):
– natural fibres,
– man-made staple fibres made from

casein, or

– chemical materials or textile pulp

and

cord,

thread

textile
Rubber
covered; textile yarn, and strip and the
like of heading 5404 or 5405, impreg-
nated, coated, covered or
sheathed
with rubber or plastics:

thread and cord,

textile

Manufacture from rubber
cord, not textile covered

thread or

– Rubber
covered

– Other

Manufacture from (6):
– natural fibres not carded or combed
or otherwise processed for spinning,
– chemical materials or textile pulp,

or

– paper-making materials

Manufacture from (6):
– natural fibres,
– man-made staple fibres not carded
or combed or otherwise processed
for spinning,

– chemical materials or textile pulp,

or

– paper-making materials

or

Metallised
not
yarn, whether
gimped, being textile yarn, or strip or
the like of heading 5404 or 5405,
combined with metal
in the form of
thread, strip or powder or covered
with metal

5604

5605

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Description of product

Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

5606

Gimped yarn, and strip and the like of
heading 5404 or 5405, gimped (other
than those of heading 5605 and
gimped horsehair yarn); chenille yarn
(including flock chenille yarn;
loop
wale–yarn

Manufacture from (6):
– natural fibres,
– man-made staple fibres not carded
or combed or otherwise processed
for spinning,

– chemical materials or textile pulp,

or

– paper-making materials

Chapter 57

Carpets and other textile floor cover-
ings:

– Of needleloom felt

Manufacture from (6)
– natural fibres, or
– chemical materials or textile pulp
However:

– polypropylene filament of heading

5402,

– polypropylene

fibres of heading

5503 or 5506, or

– polypropylene

5501,

filament

of which

tow of
heading
the
denomination in all cases of a single
filament or
than 9
fibre is
decitex may be used provided their
value does not exceed 40 % of the
ex-works price of the product

less

– Of other felt

– Other

Manufacture from (6):
– natural fibres not carded or combed
or otherwise processed for spinning,
or

– chemical materials or textile pulp

Manufacture from (6):
– coir yarn,
– synthetic or artificial filament yarn,
– natural fibres, or
– man-made staple fibres not carded
or combed or otherwise processed
for spinning

ex Chapter 58

Special woven fabrics;
fabrics;
lace;
embroidery; except for:

tapestries;

tufted textile
trimmings;

– Combined with rubber thread

Manufacture from single yarn (6)

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HS heading

Description of product

Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

– Other

Manufacture from (6)

– natural fibres,
– man-made staple fibres not carded
or combed or otherwise processed
for spinning, or

– chemical materials or textile pulp,

or
Printing accompanied by at least two
preparatory or
finishing operations
(such as scouring, bleaching, mercer-
izing, heat setting, raising, calendering,
shrink resistance processing, perma-
impreg-
nent
nating, mending and burling) where
the value of the unprinted fabric used
does not exceed 47,5 % of the ex-
works price of the product

decatising,

finishing,

5805

5810

5901

5902

Hand-woven tapestries of
the types
gobelins, flanders, aubusson, beauvais
and the like, and needle-worked tapes-
tries (for example, petit point, cross
stitch), whether or not made up

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product,

– the value of all the materials used
does not exceed 50 % of the ex-
works price of the product

Manufacture from yarn

Embroidery in the piece, in strips or in
motifs

Textile fabrics coated with gum or
amylaceous substances, of a kind used
for the outer covers of books or the
like; tracing cloth; prepared painting
canvas; buckram and similar stiffened
textile fabrics of a kind used for hat
foundations

Tyre cord fabric of high tenacity yarn
of nylon or other polyamides, polye-
sters or viscose rayon:

– Containing not more than 90 % by

Manufacture from yarn

weight of textile materials

– Other

Manufacture from chemical materials
or textile pulp

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Description of product

Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

5903

Textile fabrics
covered or
other than those of heading 5902

impregnated, coated,
laminated with plastics,

Manufacture from yarn
or
Printing accompanied by at least two
finishing operations
preparatory or
(such as scouring, bleaching, mercer-
ising, heat setting, razing, calendering,
shrink resistance processing, perma-
nent
impreg-
nating, mending and burling) where
the value of the unprinted fabric used
does not exceed 47,5 % of the ex-
works price of the product

decatising,

finishing,

5904

Linoleum, whether or note cut
to
shape; floor coverings consisting of a
coating or covering applied on a
textile backing, whether or not cut to
shape

Manufacture from yarn (6)

5905

Textile wall coverings:

– Impregnated,

covered or
coated,
laminated with rubber, plastics or
other materials

Manufacture from yarn

– Other

Manufacture from (6):

– coir yarn,
– natural fibres,
– man-made staple fibres not carded
or combed or otherwise processed
for spinning, or

– chemical materials or textile pulp,
or

Printing accompanied by at least two
preparatory or
finishing operations
(such as scouring, bleaching, mercer-
ising, heat setting, raising, calendering,
shrink resistance processing, perma-
impreg-
nent
nating, mending and burling) where
the value of the unprinted fabric used
does not exceed 47,5 % of the ex-
works price of the product

decatising,

finishing,

5906

Rubberised textile fabrics, other than
those of heading 5902:

– Knitted or crocheted fabrics

Manufacture from (6):
– natural fibres,
– man-made staple fibres not carded
or combed or otherwise processed
for spinning, or

– chemical materials or textile pulp

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HS heading

Description of product

Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

– Other fabrics made of synthetic fila-
ment yarn, containing more than
90 % by weight of textile materials

Manufacture from chemical materials

– Other

Manufacture from yarn

5907

5908

5909 to 5911

Textile fabrics otherwise impregnated,
covered; painted canvas
coated or
being theatrical scenery, studio back-
cloths or the like

plaited

or
Textile wicks, woven,
stoves,
lighters,
knitted,
lamps,
for
candles or the like;
incandescent gas
mantles and tubular knitted gas mantle
fabric therefor, whether or not impreg-
nated:

– Incandescent gas mantles,

impreg-

nated

– Other

Textile articles of a kind suitable for
industrial use:
– Polishing discs or rings other than

of felt of heading 5911

– Woven fabrics, of a kind commonly
used in papermaking or other tech-
nical uses, felted or not, whether or
not impregnated or coated, tubular
or endless with single or multiple
warp and/or weft, or flat woven
with multiple warp and/or weft of
heading 5911

Manufacture from yarn
or
Printing accompanied by at least two
preparatory or
finishing operations
(such as scouring, bleaching, mercer-
ising, heat setting, razing, calendering,
shrink resistance processing, perma-
nent
impreg-
nating, mending and burling) where
the value of the unprinted fabric used
does not exceed 47,5 % of the ex-
works price of the product

decatising,

finishing,

Manufacture from tubular knitted gas
mantle fabric

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

from yarn or waste

Manufacture
fabrics or rags of heading 6310
Manufacture from (6):
– coir yarn,
– the following materials:
– yarn of polytetrafluoroethylene (7),
– yarn, multiple, of polyamide, coated
covered with a

impregnated or
phenolic resin,

– yarn of synthetic textile fibres of
aromatic polyamides, obtained by
polycondensation of m-phenylene-
diamine and isophthalic acid,

– monofil
lene (7)

of

polytetrafluoroethy-

– yarn of synthetic textile fibres of
poly-p-phenylene terephthalamide,
– glass fibre yarn, coated with phenol
gimped with acrylic

resin and
yarn (7)

– copolyester monofilaments of

a
polyester and a resin of terephthalic
acid and 1,4 - cyclohexanediethanol
and isophthalic acid,

– natural fibres,
– man-made staple fibres not carded
or combed or otherwise processed
for spinning, or

– chemical materials or textile pulp

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Description of product

Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

– Other

Chapter 60

Knitted or crocheted fabrics

Manufacture from (6):
– coir yarn,
– natural fibres,
– man-made staple fibres not carded
or combed or otherwise processed
for spinning, or

– chemical materials or textile pulp

Manufacture from (6):
– natural fibres,
– man-made staple fibres not carded
or combed or otherwise processed
for spinning, or

– chemical materials or textile pulp

Chapter 61

Articles of apparel and clothing acces-
sories, knitted or crocheted:

– Obtained by sewing together or
otherwise assembling, two or more
pieces of knitted or crocheted fabric
which have been either cut to form
or obtained directly to form

Manufacture from yarn (6) (8)

– Other

Manufacture from (6):
– natural fibres,
– man-made staple fibres not carded
or combed or otherwise processed
for spinning, or

– chemical materials or textile pulp

ex Chapter 62

Articles of apparel and clothing acces-
sories, not knitted or crocheted; except
for:

Manufacture from yarn (8) (6)

ex 6202,
ex 6204,
ex 6206,
ex 6209 and ex 6211

Women's, girls' and babies' clothing
and clothing accessories for babies,
embroidered

ex 6210 and
ex 6216

equipment

Fire–resistant
fabric
covered with foil of aluminised polye-
ster

of

Manufacture from yarn (8)
or
Manufacture
from unembroidered
fabric provided the value of the unem-
broidered fabric used does not exceed
40 % of
the
product (6)

the ex-works price of

Manufacture from yarn (8)
or
from uncoated fabric
Manufacture
provided the value of
the uncoated
fabric used does not exceed 40 % of
the ex-works price of the product (6)

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Description of product

Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

6213 and
6214

(2)

(3) or (4)

Handkerchiefs,
mufflers, mantillas, veils and the like:

shawls,

scarves,

– Embroidered

– Other

Manufacture from unbleached single
yarn (6) (8)
or
Manufacture
from unembroidered
fabric provided the value of the unem-
broidered fabric used does not exceed
the
40 % of
product (10)

the ex-works price of

Manufacture from unbleached single
yarn (6) (8)
or
Making
up followed by printing
accompanied by at least two prepara-
tory or finishing operations (such as
scouring, bleaching, mercerising, heat
shrink
setting,
permanent
resistance
finishing,
impregnating,
mending and burling) where the value
of
the unprinted goods of headings
6213 and 6214 used does not exceed
47,5 % of the ex-works price of the
product

calendering,

processing,

decatising,

raising,

6217

Other made up clothing accessories;
parts of garments or of clothing acces-
sories, other than those of heading
6212:

– Embroidered

– Fire–resistant equipment of

fabric
covered with foil of aluminised
polyester

– Interlinings for collars and cuffs, cut

out

Manufacture from yarn (8)
or
from unembroidered
Manufacture
fabric provided the value of the unem-
broidered fabric used does not exceed
40 % of
the
product (8)

the ex-works price of

Manufacture from yarn (8)
or
from uncoated fabric
Manufacture
provided the value of
the uncoated
fabric used does not exceed 40 % of
the ex-works price of the product (8)

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product;

– the value of all the materials used
does not exceed 40 % of the ex-
works price of the product

– Other

Manufacture from yarn (8)

ex Chapter 63

Other made–up textile articles; sets;
worn clothing and worn textile arti-
cles; rags; except for:

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

6301 to 6304

Blankets, travelling rugs, bed linen etc.;
curtains etc.; other furnishing articles:

– Of felt, of non-wovens

– Other:

Manufacture from (6):
– natural fibres, or
– chemical materials or textile pulp

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HS heading

Description of product

Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

– – Embroidered

– Other:

Sacks and bags, of a kind used for the
packing of goods

Tarpaulins, awnings and sun blinds;
tents; sails for boats, sailboards or land
craft; camping goods:

– Of non-wovens

– Other

Other made–up articles,
dress patterns

including

Manufacture from unbleached single
yarn (8) (9)
or
from unembroidered
Manufacture
fabric (other than knitted or crocheted)
provided the value of the unembroi-
dered fabric used does not exceed 40
% of the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture from unbleached single
yarn (8) (9)

Manufacture from (8):
– natural fibres,
– man-made staple fibres not carded
or combed or otherwise processed
for spinning, or

– chemical materials or textile pulp

Manufacture from (6) (8):
– natural fibres, or
– chemical materials or textile pulp

Manufacture from unbleached single
yarn (6) (8)

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
the
40 % of
product

the ex-works price of

Sets consisting of woven fabric and
yarn, whether or not with accessories,
tapestries,
for making up into rugs,
embroidered table cloths or serviettes,
or similar textile articles, put up in
packings for retail sale

Each item in the set must satisfy the
rule which would apply to it if it were
not included in the set. However, non–
originating articles may be incorpo-
rated provided their total value does
not exceed 15 % of the ex-works price
of the set

6305

6306

6307

6308

ex Chapter 64

Footwear, gaiters and the like; except
for:

except

Manufacture from materials of any
heading
assemblies of
for
uppers affixed to inner soles or to
other
sole components of heading
6406

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

footwear

Parts of
(including uppers
whether or not attached to soles other
than outer soles); removable in-soles,
articles;
and similar
heel
gaiters,
leggings and similar articles,
and parts thereof

cushions

Headgear and parts thereof, except for: Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

Felt hats and other felt headgear, made
from the hat bodies, hoods or plateaux
of heading 6501, whether or not lined
or trimmed

Manufacture
fibres (8)

from yarn or

textile

6406

ex Chapter 65

6503

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status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

6505

ex Chapter 66

6601

Hats and other headgear, knitted or
crocheted, or made up from lace, felt
or other textile fabric, in the piece (but
not in strips), whether or not lined or
trimmed; hair-nets of any material,
whether or not lined or trimmed

Manufacture
fibres (8)

from yarn or

textile

sun

Umbrellas,
ing-sticks,
crops, and parts thereof; except for:

umbrellas, walk-
riding-

seat-sticks, whips,

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

and

Umbrellas
sun
(including walking–stick
garden
umbrellas)

umbrellas

and

umbrellas
umbrellas,
similar

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
50 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

Chapter 67

Prepared feathers and down and arti-
cles made of feathers or of down; arti-
ficial flowers; articles of human hair

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

ex Chapter 68

ex 6803

ex 6812

ex 6814

Articles of
asbestos, mica or
except for:

stone, plaster,

cement,
similar materials;

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

Articles of slate or of agglomerated
slate

Manufacture from worked slate

of

Articles
of
asbestos;
mixtures with a basis of asbestos or of
mixtures with a basis of asbestos and
magnesium carbonate

articles

Manufacture from materials of any
heading

Articles of mica,
including agglomer-
reconstituted mica, on a
ated or
support of paper, paperboard or other
materials

Manufacture
(including agglomerated or
tuted mica)

from worked mica
reconsti-

Chapter 69

Ceramic products

ex Chapter 70

Glass and glassware; except for:

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

ex 7003
ex 7004 and
ex 7005

7006

Glass with a non-reflecting layer

Manufacture from materials of heading
7001

edgeworked,

Glass of headings 7003, 7004 or
engraved,
7005, bent,
drilled,
otherwise
worked, but not framed or fitted with
other materials

enamelled

or

Manufacture from materials of heading
7001

7007

Safety glass, consisting of toughened
(tempered) or laminated glass

Manufacture from materials of heading
7001

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Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

7008

7009

7010

7013

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

Multiple-walled insulating units of
glass

Manufacture from materials of heading
7001

Glass mirrors, whether or not framed,
including rear-view mirrors

Manufacture from materials of heading
7001

flasks,

Carboys, bottles,
jars, pots,
phials, ampoules and other containers,
of glass, of a kind used for the convey-
ance or packing of goods; preserving
jars of glass; stoppers, lids and other
closures, of glass

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product
or
Cutting of glassware, provided the
value of the uncut glassware does not
exceed 50 % of the ex-works price of
the product

Glassware of a kind used for table,
kitchen, toilet, office,
indoor decora-
tion or similar purposes (other than
that of heading 7010 or 7018)

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product
or
Cutting of glassware, provided the
value of the uncut glassware does not
exceed 50 % of the ex-works price of
the product
or
Hand-decoration (with the exception
of silk-screen printing) of hand-blown
glassware, provided the value of the
not
glassware
hand–blown
exceed 50 % of the ex-works price of
the product

does

ex 7019

Articles
fibres

(other

than yarn) of glass

Manufacture from:
– uncoloured slivers, rovings, yarn or

chopped strands, or

– glass wool

ex Chapter 71

Natural or cultured pearls, precious or
semi-precious stones, precious metals,
metals clad with precious metal, and
articles
imitation jewellery;
thereof;
coin; except for:

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

ex 7101

ex 7102,
ex 7103 and
ex 7104

Natural or cultured pearls, graded and
temporarily strung for convenience of
transport

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
50 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

Worked precious or
(natural,
stones
structed)

semi-precious
recon-

synthetic or

Manufacture from unworked precious
or semi-precious stones

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Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

7106, 7108 and
7110

Precious metals:

– Unwrought

Manufacture from materials not classi-
fied within heading 7106, 7108 or
7110
or
Electrolytic,
chemical
thermal
separation of precious metals of
heading 7106, 7108 or 7110
or
Alloying of precious metals of heading
7106, 7108 or 7110 with each other
or with base metals

or

– Semi-manufactured or

in powder

form

Manufacture from unwrought precious
metals

Metals
semi-manufactured

clad with precious metals,

Manufacture from metals clad with
precious metals, unwrought

ex 7107,
ex 7109 and
ex 7111

7116

Articles of natural or cultured pearls,
stones
precious
(natural, synthetic or reconstructed)

semi-precious

or

7117

Imitation jewellery

ex Chapter 72

Iron and steel; except for:

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
50 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product
or

Manufacture from base metal parts,
not plated or covered with precious
metals, provided the value of all the
materials used does not exceed 50 %
of the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

7207

Semi-finished products of iron or non-
alloy steel

Manufacture from materials of heading
7201, 7202, 7203, 7204 or 7205

7208 to 7216

Flat-rolled products, bars and rods,
angles, shapes and sections of iron or
non-alloy steel

Manufacture
primary forms of heading 7206

from ingots or other

7217

Wire of iron or non-alloy steel

Manufacture from semi-finished mate-
rials of heading 7207

ex 7218, 7219 to 7222

flat-rolled
Semi-finished
products, bars and rods, angles, shapes
and sections of stainless steel

products,

Manufacture
primary forms of heading 7218

from ingots or other

7223

Wire of stainless steel

ex 7224, 7225 to 7228

products,

Semi-finished
flat-rolled
products, hot-rolled bars and rods, in
irregularly wound coils; angles, shapes
and sections, of other alloy steel;
hollow drill bars and rods, of alloy or
non-alloy steel

Manufacture from semi-finished mate-
rials of heading 7218

Manufacture
from ingots or other
primary forms of heading 7206, 7218
or 7224

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Description of product

Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

7229

Wire of other alloy steel

Manufacture from semi-finished mate-
rials of heading 7224

ex Chapter 73

Articles of iron or steel; except for:

ex 7301

Sheet piling

7302

of

or

steel,

Railway or tramway track construction
materials
the
iron
following: rails, checkrails and rack-
rails,
switch blades, crossing frogs,
point rods and other crossing pieces,
sleepers (cross-ties), fish-plates, chairs,
chair wedges, sole pates (base plates),
ties and other
rail clips, bedplates,
material
jointing or
fixing rails

specialised for

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

Manufacture from materials of heading
7206

Manufacture from materials of heading
7206

7304, 7305 and
7306

Tubes, pipes and hollow profiles, of
iron (other than cast iron) or steel

Manufacture from materials of heading
7206, 7207, 7218 or 7224

ex 7307

7308

threading,
Turning, drilling, reaming,
deburring and sandblasting of forged
blanks the value of which does not
exceed 35 % of the ex-works price of
the product

than that of

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other
the product.
However, welded angles, shapes and
sections of heading 7301 may not be
used

Tube or pipe fittings of stainless steel
(ISO code X5CrNiMo 1712), consisting
of several parts

(excluding

lock-gates,

Structures
prefabricated
buildings of heading 9406) and parts
of structures (for example, bridges and
bridge-sections,
towers,
roofing frame-
roofs,
lattice masts,
works, doors and windows and their
frames and thresholds for doors, shut-
ters, balustrades, pillars and columns),
of iron or steel; plates, rods, angles,
tubes and the like,
shapes, sections,
prepared for use in structures, of iron
or steel

ex 7315

Skid chain

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials of heading 7315 used
does not exceed 50 % of the ex-works
price of the product

ex Chapter 74

Copper and articles thereof; except for: Manufacture in which:

– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product,

– the value of all the materials used
does not exceed 50 % of the ex-
works price of the product

7401

Copper mattes; cement copper (preci-
pitated copper)

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

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Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

7402

7403

Unrefined copper; copper anodes for
electrolytic refining

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

Refined copper and copper alloys,
unwrought:

– Refined copper

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

– Copper alloys and refined copper

containing other elements

from refined

Manufacture
copper,
unwrought, or waste and scrap of
copper

7404

Copper waste and scrap

7405

Master alloys of copper

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

ex Chapter 75

Nickel and articles thereof; except for: Manufacture in which:

– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product,

– the value of all the materials used
does not exceed 50 % of the ex-
works price of the product

7501 to 7503

Nickel mattes, nickel oxide sinters and
other intermediate products of nickel
metallurgy; unwrought nickel; nickel
waste and scrap

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

ex Chapter 76

Aluminium and articles thereof; except
for:

7601

Unwrought aluminium

7602

Aluminium waste or scrap

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product,

– the value of all the materials used
does not exceed 50 % of the ex-
works price of the product

Manufacture by thermal or electrolytic
treatment from unalloyed aluminium
or waste and scrap of aluminium

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

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Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

ex 7616

Aluminium articles other than gauze,
cloth, grill, netting, fencing, reinforcing
fabric and similar materials (including
endless bands) of aluminium wire, and
expanded metal of aluminium

Chapter 77

Reserved for possible future use in HS

ex Chapter 78

Lead and articles thereof; except for:

7801

Unwrought lead:

– Refined lead

– Other

7802

Lead waste and scrap

ex Chapter 79

Zinc and articles thereof; except for:

7901

Unwrought zinc

7902

Zinc waste and scrap

ex Chapter 80

Tin and articles thereof; except for:

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product. However, gauze, cloth,
fencing,
grill, netting,
reinforcing
fabric
similar materials
and
(including endless bands) of alumi-
nium wire, or expanded metal of
aluminium may be used,

– the value of all the materials used
does not exceed 50 % of the ex-
works price of the product

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product,

– the value of all the materials used
does not exceed 50 % of the ex-
works price of the product

Manufacture from ‘bullion’ or ‘work’
lead

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other
the product.
However, waste and scrap of heading
7802 may not be used

than that of

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product,

– the value of all the materials used
does not exceed 50 % of the ex-
works price of the product

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other
the product.
However, waste and scrap of heading
7902 may not be used

than that of

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product,

– the value of all the materials used
does not exceed 50 % of the ex-
works price of the product

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Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

8001

Unwrought tin

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other
the product.
However, waste and scrap of heading
8002 may not be used

than that of

8002 and 8007

Tin waste and scrap; other articles of
tin

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

Chapter 81

Other base metals; cermets; articles
thereof:

– Other base metals, wrought; articles

thereof

– Other

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials classified within the same
heading as the product used does not
exceed 50 % of the ex-works price of
the product

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

ex Chapter 82

Tools, implements, cutlery, spoons and
forks, of base metal; parts thereof of
base metal; except for:

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

8206

8207

8208

Tools of two or more of the headings
8202 to 8205, put up in sets for retail
sale

example,

Interchangeable tools for hand tools,
whether or not power-operated, or for
for
(for
machine-tools
pressing, stamping, punching, tapping,
threading, drilling, boring, broaching,
screwdriving),
milling,
including
or
drawing
extruding metal, and rock drilling or
earth boring tools

turning,
dies

or
for

Knives
for
cutting
machines or for mechanical appliances

blades,

and

ex 8211

Knives with cutting blades, serrated or
not (including pruning knives), other
than knives of heading 8208

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than headings 8202 to 8205.
However, tools of headings 8202 to
8205 may be incorporated into the set
provided their value does not exceed
15 % of the ex-works price of the set

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product,

– the value of all the materials used
does not exceed 40 % of the ex-
works price of the product

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product,

– the value of all the materials used
does not exceed 40 % of the ex-
works price of the product

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
the product.
other
However, knife blades and handles of
base metal may be used

than that of

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Description of product

Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

8214

8215

Other articles of cutlery (for example,
hair clippers, butchers' or kitchen clea-
vers, choppers and mincing knives,
paper knives); manicure or pedicure
sets and instruments (including nail
files)

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other
the product.
However, handles of base metal may
be used

than that of

Spoons, forks, ladles, skimmers, cake-
servers,
butter-knives,
sugar
tongs and similar kitchen or
tableware

fish-knives,

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other
the product.
However, handles of base metal may
be used

than that of

ex Chapter 83

Miscellaneous articles of base metal;
except for:

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

ex 8302

Other mountings, fittings and similar
articles
and
automatic door closers

for buildings,

suitable

than that of

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
the product.
other
However,
of
heading 8302 may be used provided
their value does not exceed 20 % of
the ex-works price of the product

other materials

the

ex 8306

Statuettes and other ornaments, of
base metal

than that of

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
the product.
other
However,
of
heading 8306 may be used provided
their value does not exceed 30 % of
the ex-works price of the product

other materials

the

ex Chapter 84

Nuclear
and mechanical
thereof; except for:

reactors, boilers, machinery
parts

appliances;

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product,

– the value of all the materials used
does not exceed 40 % of the ex-
works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 30 %
of the ex-works price of the product

ex 8401

Nuclear fuel elements

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product (10)

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 30 %
of the ex-works price of the product

8402

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

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product,

– the value of all the materials used
does not exceed 40 % of the ex-
works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 25 %
of the ex-works price of the product

8403 and ex 8404

Central heating boilers other
than
those of heading 8402 and auxiliary
plant for central heating boilers

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than heading 8403 or 8404

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 40 %
of the ex-works price of the product

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Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

8406

8407

8408

8409

8411

Steam turbines
turbines

and other

vapour

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
40 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

Spark-ignition reciprocating or rotary
internal combustion piston engines

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
40 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

Compression-ignition internal combus-
tion piston engines (diesel or semi-
diesel engines)

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
40 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

Parts suitable for use solely or princi-
pally with the engines of heading
8407 or 8408

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
40 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

Turbo-jets, turbo propellers and other
gas turbines

8412

Other engines and motors

ex 8413

Rotary positive displacement pumps

ex 8414

Industrial fans, blowers and the like

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product,

– the value of all the materials used
does not exceed 40 % of the ex-
works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
40 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product,

– the value of all the materials used
does not exceed 40 % of the ex-
works price of the product

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product,

– the value of all the materials used
does not exceed 40 % of the ex-
works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 25 %
of the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 25 %
of the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 25 %
of the ex-works price of the product

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Description of product

Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

8415

8418

Air conditioning machines, comprising
a motor-driven fan and elements for
changing
and
humidity, including those machines in
which the humidity cannot be sepa-
rately regulated

temperature

the

Refrigerators, freezers and other refrig-
erating or freezing equipment, electric
or other; heat pumps other than air
conditioning machines of heading
8415

ex 8419

Machines for wood, paper pulp and
paperboard industries

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

8420

8423

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
40 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product,

– the value of all the materials used
does not exceed 40 % of the ex-
works price of the product,

– the value of all the non-originating
materials used does not exceed the
the originating materials
value of
used

Manufacture:
– in which the value of all the mate-
rials used does not exceed 40 % of
the ex-works price of the product,
– where, within the above limit, the
materials classified within the same
heading as the product are only
used up to a value of 25 % of the
ex-works price of the product

Manufacture:
– in which the value of all the mate-
rials used does not exceed 40 % of
the ex-works price of the product,
– where, within the above limit, the
materials classified within the same
heading as the product are only
used up to a value of 25 % of the
ex-works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 25 %
of the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 30 %
of the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 30 %
of the ex-works price of the product

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

or

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product,

– the value of all the materials used
does not exceed 40 % of the ex-
works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 25 %
of the ex-works price of the product

8425 to 8428

Lifting, handling, loading or unloading
machinery

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 30 %
of the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture:
– in which the value of all the mate-
rials used does not exceed 40 % of
the ex-works price of the product,
– where, within the above limit, the
materials classified within heading
8431 are only used up to a value of
10 % of the ex-works price of the
product

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Description of product

Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

8429

8430

Self-propelled bulldozers, angledozers,
graders, levellers, scrapers, mechanical
shovels,
loaders,
tamping machines and road rollers:

excavators,

shovel

– Road rollers

– Other

grading,

levelling,
Other moving,
tamping,
excavating,
scraping,
compacting,
boring
extracting
machinery, for earth, minerals or ores;
pile-drivers
pile-extractors;
snow-ploughs and snow-blowers

and

or

ex 8431

Parts suitable for use solely or princi-
pally with road rollers

8439

8441

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

Other machinery for making up paper
pulp, paper or paperboard,
including
cutting machines of all kinds

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 40
% of the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture:
– in which the value of all the mate-
rials
exceed
does
40 % of the ex-works price of the
product,

used

not

– where, within the above limit, the
materials classified within heading
8431 are only used up to a value of
10 % of the ex-works price of the
product

Manufacture:
– in which the value of all the mate-
rials used does not exceed 40 % of
the ex-works price of the product,
– where, within the above limit, the
value of
classified
the materials
within heading 8431 are only used
up to a value of 10 % of the ex-
works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
40 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

Manufacture:
– in which the value of all the mate-
rials used does not exceed 40 % of
the ex-works price of the product,
– where, within the above limit, the
materials classified within the same
heading as the product are only
used up to a value of 25 % of the
ex-works price of the product

Manufacture:
– in which the value of all the mate-
rials used does not exceed 40 % of
the ex-works price of the product,
– where, within the above limit, the
materials classified within the same
heading as the product are only
used up to a value of 25 % of the
ex-works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 30 %
of the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 30 %
of the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 30 %
of the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 30 %
of the ex-works price of the product

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Description of product

Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

8444 to 8447

Machines of these headings for use in
the textile industry

ex 8448

Auxiliary machinery
for use with
machines of headings 8444 and 8445

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
40 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
the
40 % of
product

the ex-works price of

8452

Sewing machines, other than book-
sewing machines of heading 8440;
furniture, bases and covers specially
designed for sewing machines; sewing
machine needles:

– Sewing machines (lock stitch only)
with
not
of
exceeding 16 kg without motor or
17 kg with motor

a weight

heads

Manufacture:
– in which the value of all the mate-
rials used does not exceed 40 % of
the ex-works price of the product,

– where the value of all

the non-
originating materials used in assem-
bling the head (without motor) does
not exceed the value of the origin-
ating materials used,
thread tension,

and
zigzag mechanisms used are already
originating

crochet

– the

8456 to
8466

8469 to 8472

8480

– Other

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
40 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

Machine–tools and machines and their
parts and accessories of headings 8456
to 8466

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
40 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

Office machines (for example, typewri-
ters, calculating machines, automatic
data processing machines, duplicating
machines, stapling machines)

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 40
% of the ex-works price of the product

bases; moulding

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

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
the
50 % of
product

the ex-works price of

8482

Ball or roller bearings

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product,

– the value of all the materials used
the ex-

does not exceed 40 % of
works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 25 %
of the ex-works price of the product

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Description of product

Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

8484

8485

Gaskets and similar joints of metal
sheeting combined with other material
or of two or more layers of metal; sets
or assortments of gaskets and similar
joints, dissimilar in composition, put
up in pouches, envelopes or similar
packings; mechanical seals

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
40 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

connectors,

Machinery parts, not containing elec-
coils,
trical
contacts or other electrical
features,
not specified or included elsewhere in
this Chapter

insulators,

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
40 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

ex Chapter 85

Electrical machinery and equipment
and parts thereof; sound recorders and
reproducers,
and
television
sound recorders and reproducers, and
parts and accessories of such articles;
except for:

image

Manufacture in which
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product,

– the value of all the materials used
does not exceed 40 % of the ex-
works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 30 %
of the ex-works price of the product

8501

Electric motors
and
(excluding generating sets)

generators

8502

Electric generating sets and rotary
converters

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 30 %
of the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 30 %
of the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture:
– in which the value of all the mate-
rials used does not exceed 40 % of
the ex-works price of the product,
– where, within the above limit, the
materials classified within heading
8503 are only used up to a value of
10 % of the ex-works price of the
product

Manufacture:
– in which the value of all the mate-
rials used does not exceed 40 % of
the ex-works price of the product,
– where, within the above limit, the
materials classified within heading
8501 or 8503, taken together, are
only used up to a value of 10 % of
the ex-works price of the product

ex 8504

ex 8518

Power
data-processing machines

supply units

for

automatic

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
40 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

and

stands

Microphones
therefor;
loudspeakers, whether or not mounted
in their enclosures; audio-frequency
electric
sound
amplifier sets

amplifiers;

electric

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 25 %
of the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture:
– in which the value of all the mate-
rials used does not exceed 40 % of
the ex-works price of the product,

– where the value of all

the non-
originating materials used does not
exceed the value of the originating
materials used

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Description of product

Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

8519

8520

8521

8522

8523

8524

(record-decks),
Turntables
and
record-players,
other
sound reproducing apparatus,
not incorporating a sound recording
device

cassette-players

Manufacture:
– in which the value of all the mate-
rials used does not exceed 40 % of
the ex-works price of the product,

– where the value of all

the non–
originating materials used does not
exceed the value of the originating
materials used

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 30 %
of the ex-works price of the product

Magnetic tape recorders and other
sound recording apparatus, whether or
not incorporating a sound reproducing
device

Manufacture:
– in which the value of all the mate-
rials used does not exceed 40 % of
the ex-works price of the product,

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 30 %
of the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 30 %
of the ex-works price of the product

Video recording or reproducing appa-
ratus, whether or not incorporating a
video tuner

– where the value of all

the non–
originating materials used does not
exceed the value of the originating
materials used

Manufacture:
– in which the value of all the mate-
rials used does not exceed 40 % of
the ex-works price of the product,

– where the value of all

the non–
originating materials used does not
exceed the value of the originating
materials used

Parts and accessories suitable for use
solely or principally with the apparatus
of headings 8519 to 8521

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
40 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

Prepared unrecorded media for sound
recording or similar recording of other
phenomena, other than products of
Chapter 37

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
the
40 % of
product

the ex-works price of

Records,
recorded
tapes and other
media for sound or other similarly
recorded
including
phenomena,
matrices and masters for the produc-
tion of records, but excluding products
of Chapter 37:

– Matrices

and masters

for

the

production of records

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
40 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

– Other

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 30 %
of the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture:
– in which the value of all the mate-
rials used does not exceed 40 % of
the ex-works price of the product,
– where, within the above limit, the
materials classified within heading
8523 are only used up to a value of
10 % of the ex-works price of the
product

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Description of product

Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

8525

8526

8527

8528

8529

Transmission apparatus for radio-tele-
phony, radio-telegraphy, radio-broad-
casting or television, whether or not
incorporating reception apparatus or
sound recording or reproducing appa-
ratus;
image
television cameras; still
video cameras and other video camera
recorders

Manufacture:
– in which the value of all the mate-
rials used does not exceed 40 % of
the ex-works price of the product,

– where the value of all

the non-
originating materials used does not
exceed the value of the originating
materials used

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 25 %
of the ex-works price of the product

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

Manufacture:
– in which the value of all the mate-
rials used does not exceed 40 % of
the ex-works price of the product,

– where the value of all

the non-
originating materials used does not
exceed the value of the originating
materials used

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 25 %
of the ex-works price of the product

for
radio-telegraphy
whether

radio-tele-
Reception apparatus
radio
or
phony,
broadcasting,
not
or
combined, in the same housing, with
sound recording or reproducing appa-
ratus or a clock

Manufacture:
– in which the value of all the mate-
rials used does not exceed 40 % of
the ex-works price of the product,

– where the value of all

the non-
originating materials used does not
exceed the value of the originating
materials used

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 25 %
of the ex-works price of the product

for

television,
Reception apparatus
whether or not
incorporating radio
broadcast receivers or sound or video
recording or
reproducing apparatus;
video monitors and video projectors

Manufacture:
– in which the value of all the mate-
rials used does not exceed 40 % of
the ex-works price of the product,

– where the value of all

the non-
originating materials used does not
exceed the value of the originating
materials used

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 25 %
of the ex-works price of the product

Parts suitable for use solely or princi-
pally with the apparatus of headings
8525 to 8528:

– Suitable for use solely or principally
with video recording or reproducing
apparatus

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
40 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

– Other

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 25 %
of the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture:
– in which the value of all the mate-
rials used does not exceed 40 % of
the ex-works price of the product,

– where the value of all

the non-
originating materials used does not
exceed the value of the originating
materials used

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Description of product

Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

8535 and 8536

Electrical apparatus for switching or
protecting electrical circuits, or
for
making connections to or in electrical
circuits

8537

Boards, panels, consoles, desks, cabi-
nets and other bases, equipped with
two or more apparatus of heading
8535 or 8536, for electric control or
the distribution of electricity, including
those
incorporating instruments or
apparatus of Chapter 90, and numer-
ical
than
switching apparatus of heading 8517

apparatus, other

control

ex 8541

Diodes, transistors and similar semi-
conductor devices, except wafers not
yet cut into chips

8542

Electronic
microassemblies

integrated

circuits

and

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 30 %
of the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 30 %
of the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 25 %
of the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 25 %
of the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture:
– in which the value of all the mate-
rials used does not exceed 40 % of
the ex-works price of the product,
– where, within the above limit, the
materials classified within heading
8538 are only used up to a value of
10 % of the ex-works price of the
product

Manufacture:
– in which the value of all the mate-
rials used does not exceed 40 % of
the ex-works price of the product,
– where, within the above limit, the
materials classified within heading
8538 are only used up to a value of
10 % of the ex-works price of the
product

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product,

– the value of all the materials used
does not exceed 40 % of the ex-
works price of the product

Manufacture:
– in which the value of all the mate-
rials used does not exceed 40 % of
the ex-works price of the product,
– where, within the above limit, the
materials classified within heading
8541 or 8542, taken together, are
only used up to a value of 10 % of
the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
40 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

(including

enamelled

and other

or
Insulated
anodised) wire, cable (including coaxial
cable)
insulated electric
conductors, whether or not fitted with
connectors; optical fibre cables, made
individually sheathed fibres,
up of
whether or not assembled with electric
conductors or fitted with connectors

8544

8545

Carbon electrodes,
carbon brushes,
lamp carbons, battery carbons and
other articles of graphite or other
carbon, with or without metal, of a
kind used for electrical purposes

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
40 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

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Description of product

Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

8546

Electrical insulators of any material

8547

8548

ex Chapter 86

8608

ex Chapter 87

8709

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
40 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
40 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
the
40 % of
product

the ex-works price of

for

fittings

Insulating
electrical
machines, appliances or equipment,
being fittings wholly of
insulating
from any minor
materials
apart
components of metal
(for example,
threaded sockets) incorporated during
for purposes of
moulding
than insulators of
assembly other
heading
conduit
electrical
8546;
tubing and joints therefor, of base
metal lined with insulating material

solely

spent primary

Waste and scrap of primary cells,
primary batteries and electric accumu-
spent
lators;
primary batteries and spent electric
accumulators;
of
machinery or apparatus, not specified
or included elsewhere in this Chapter

electrical

parts

cells,

Railway or tramway locomotives, roll-
ing-stock and parts thereof; railway or
tramway track fixtures and fittings and
(including
parts
electro-mechanical)
signalling
equipment of all kinds; except for:

thereof; mechanical
traffic

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
40 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

Railway or tramway track fixtures and
fittings; mechanical (including electro-
mechanical) signalling, safety or traffic
control equipment for railways, tram-
ways, roads, inland waterways, parking
facilities, port installations or airfields;
parts of the foregoing

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product,

– the value of all the materials used
does not exceed 40 % of the ex-
works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 30 %
of the ex-works price of the product

other

Vehicles
or
tramway rolling-stock, and parts and
accessories thereof; except for:

railway

than

Works trucks, self-propelled, not fitted
with lifting or handling equipment, of
the type used in factories, warehouses,
dock areas or
short
distance transport of goods; tractors of
the type used on railway station plat-
forms; parts of the foregoing vehicles

airports

for

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 40
% of the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product,

– the value of all the materials used
does not exceed 40 % of the ex-
works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 30 %
of the ex-works price of the product

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Description of product

Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

8710

8711

Tanks and other armoured fighting
vehicles, motorised, whether or not
fitted with weapons, and parts of such
vehicles

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product,

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 30 %
of the ex-works price of the product

– the value of all the materials used
does not exceed 40 % of the ex-
works price of the product

Motorcycles (including mopeds) and
cycles fitted with an auxiliary motor,
with or without side-cars; side-cars:

– With reciprocating internal combus-
tion piston engine of a cylinder
capacity:

– – Not exceeding 50 cc

– exceeding 50 cc

– Other

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 20 %
of the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 25 %
of the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 30 %
of the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture:
– in which the value of all the mate-
rials used does not exceed 40 % of
the ex-works price of the product,

– where the value of all

the non-
originating materials used does not
exceed the value of the originating
materials used

Manufacture:
– in which the value of all the mate-
rials used does not exceed 40 % of
the ex-works price of the product,

– where the value of all

the non-
originating materials used does not
exceed the value of the originating
materials used

Manufacture:
– in which the value of all the mate-
rials used does not exceed 40 % of
the ex-works price of the product,

– where the value of all

the non-
originating materials used does not
exceed the value of the originating
materials used

ex 8712

Bicycles without ball bearings

Manufacture from materials not classi-
fied in heading 8714

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 30 %
of the ex-works price of the product

8715

Baby carriages and parts thereof

8716

Trailers and semi-trailers; other vehi-
cles, not mechanically propelled; parts
thereof

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product,

– the value of all the materials used
does not exceed 40 % of the ex-
works price of the product

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product,

– the value of all the materials used
does not exceed 40 % of the ex-
works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 30 %
of the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 30 %
of the ex-works price of the product

ex Chapter 88

Aircraft, spacecraft, and parts thereof;
except for:

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 40 %
of the ex-works price of the product

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Description of product

Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

ex 8804

Rotochutes

Manufacture from materials of any
heading including other materials of
heading 8804

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 40 %
of the ex-works price of the product

8805

Aircraft launching gear; deck–arrestor
or similar gear; ground flying trainers;
parts of the foregoing articles

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 30 %
of the ex-works price of the product

Chapter 89

Ships, boats and floating structures

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
the product.
other
However, hulls of heading 8906 may
not be used

than that of

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 40 %
of the ex-works price of the product

ex Chapter 90

Optical,
cinemato-
photographic,
graphic, measuring, checking, preci-
sion, medical or surgical
instruments
and apparatus; parts and accessories
thereof; except for:

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product,

– the value of all the materials used
does not exceed 40 % of the ex-
works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 30 %
of the ex-works price of the product

9001

9002

9004

fibres

optical

Optical
fibre
and
bundles; optical fibre cables other than
those of heading 8544; sheets and
plates of polarizing material;
lenses
(including
lenses), prisms,
contact
mirrors and other optical elements, of
any material, unmounted, other than
such elements of glass not optically
worked

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
40 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

elements, of

and other
Lenses, prisms, mirrors
optical
any material,
mounted, being parts of or fittings for
instruments or apparatus, other than
such elements of glass not optically
worked

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
40 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

Spectacles,
corrective, protective or other

goggles

and

the

like,

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
40 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

ex 9005

Binoculars, monoculars, other optical
telescopes, and mountings
therefor,
except for astronomical refracting tele-
scopes and mountings therefor

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product,

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 30 %
of the ex-works price of the product

– the value of all the materials used
does not exceed 40 % of the ex-
works price of the product,

– the value of all the non-originating
materials used does not exceed the
the originating materials
value of
used

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Description of product

Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

ex 9006

Photographic (other
than cinemato-
graphic) cameras; photographic flash-
light apparatus and flashbulbs other
than electrically ignited flashbulbs

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product,

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 30 %
of the ex-works price of the product

– the value of all the materials used
does not exceed 40 % of the ex-
works price of the product,

– the value of all the non-originating
materials used does not exceed the
value of
the originating materials
used

9007

9011

Cinematographic cameras and projec-
tors, whether or not
incorporating
sound recording or reproducing appa-
ratus

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product,

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 30 %
of the ex-works price of the product

– the value of all the materials used
does not exceed 40 % of the ex-
works price of the product,

– the value of all the non-originating
materials used does not exceed the
value of
the originating materials
used

Compound
microscopes,
optical
including those for photomicrography,
cinephotomicrography or microprojec-
tion

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product,

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 30 %
of the ex-works price of the product

– the value of all the materials used
does not exceed 40 % of the ex-
works price of the product,

– the value of all the non-originating
materials used does not exceed the
value of
the originating materials
used

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
40 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
40 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
40 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
the
40 % of
product

the ex-works price of

ex 9014

Other navigational
appliances

instruments and

9015

9016

9017

(including photogramme-
Surveying
trical surveying), hydrographic, ocea-
nographic, hydrological, meteorolo-
instruments and
gical or geophysical
appliances,
compasses;
rangefinders

excluding

Balances of a sensitivity of 5 cg or
better, with or without weights

calculating

instruments

Drawing, marking–out or mathema-
tical
(for
example, drafting machines, panto-
graphs, protractors, drawing sets, slide
rules, disc calculators); instruments for
measuring length, for use in the hand
and
example, measuring rods
(for
not
callipers),
tapes, micrometers,
specified or included elsewhere in this
Chapter

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Description of product

Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

9018

Instruments and appliances used in
medical, surgical, dental or veterinary
sciences, including scintigraphic appa-
ratus, other electro-medical apparatus
and sight-testing instruments:

– Dentists' chairs incorporating dental
appliances or dentists' spittoons

Manufacture from materials of any
heading,
including other materials of
heading 9018

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 40 %
of the ex-works price of the product

– Other

Mechano-therapy appliances; massage
aptitude-
apparatus;
psychological
testing
therapy,
oxygen therapy, aerosol therapy, artifi-
cial respiration or other therapeutic
respiration apparatus

apparatus;

ozone

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product,

– the value of all the materials used
does not exceed 40 % of the ex-
works price of the product

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product,

– the value of all the materials used
does not exceed 40 % of the ex-
works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 25 %
of the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 25 %
of the ex-works price of the product

Other breathing appliances and gas
masks,
excluding protective masks
having neither mechanical parts nor
replaceable filters

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product,

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 25 %
of the ex-works price of the product

– the value of all the materials used
does not exceed 40 % of the ex-
works price of the product

Machines and appliances for testing
the hardness, strength, compressibility,
elasticity or other mechanical proper-
ties of materials (for example, metals,
wood, textiles, paper, plastics)

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
40 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

similar

and
floating
Hydrometers
thermometers, pyrom-
instruments,
eters, barometers, hygrometers
and
psychrometers, recording or not, and
any combination of these instruments

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
40 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

and

apparatus

Instruments
for
measuring or checking the flow, level,
pressure or other variables of liquids
flow meters,
or gases (for example,
heat
level
meters),
and
apparatus of heading 9014, 9015,
9028 or 9032

gauges, manometers,

excluding instruments

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
40 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

9019

9020

9024

9025

9026

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Description of product

Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

9027

9028

9029

9030

9031

9032

9033

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
40 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

Instruments and apparatus for physical
(for example,
or chemical analysis
polarimeters,
refractometers, spectro-
meters, gas or smoke analysis appa-
instruments and apparatus for
ratus);
measuring
viscosity,
checking
porosity, expansion, surface tension or
the like; instruments and apparatus for
measuring or checking quantities of
heat, sound or light (including expo-
sure meters); microtomes

or

liquid or electricity supply or
cali-

Gas,
production meters,
brating meters therefor:

including

– Parts and accessories

– Other

taximeters,

Revolution counters, production coun-
ters,
milometer,
pedometers and the like; speed indica-
tors and tachometers, other than those
of headings 9014 or 9015; strobo-
scopes

Oscilloscopes, spectrum analysers and
other instruments and apparatus for
measuring or checking electrical quan-
tities, excluding meters of heading
9028;
instruments and apparatus for
measuring or detecting alpha, beta,
gamma, X-ray,
other
ionizing radiations

cosmic

or

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 30 %
of the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
40 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

Manufacture:
– in which the value of all the mate-
rials used does not exceed 40 % of
the ex-works price of the product;

– where the value of all

the non-
originating materials used does not
exceed the value of the originating
materials used

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
40 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
40 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

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

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 40
% of the ex-works price of the product

Automatic regulating or controlling
instruments and apparatus

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
the
40 % of
product

the ex-works price of

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

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
40 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

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Description of product

Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

ex Chapter 91

Clocks and watches and parts thereof;
except for:

9105

Other clocks

9109

Clock movements,
assembled

complete

and

9110

or

Complete watch or clock movements,
unassembled
assembled
(movement sets); incomplete watch or
rough
clock movements, assembled;
watch or clock movements

partly

9111

Watch cases and parts thereof

9112

Clock cases and cases of a similar type
for other goods of this Chapter, and
parts thereof

9113

Watch straps, watch bands and watch
bracelets, and parts thereof:

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
40 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

Manufacture:
– in which the value of all the mate-
rials used does not exceed 40 % of
the ex-works price of the product,

– where the value of all

the non-
originating materials used does not
exceed the value of the originating
materials used

Manufacture:
– in which the value of all the mate-
rials used does not exceed 40 % of
the ex-works price of the product,

– where the value of all

the non-
originating materials used does not
exceed the value of the originating
materials used

Manufacture:
– in which the value of all the mate-
rials used does not exceed 40 % of
the ex-works price of the product,
– where, within the above limit, the
materials classified within heading
9114 are only used up to a value of
10 % of the ex-works price of the
product

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product,

– the value of all the materials used
does not exceed 40 % of the ex-
works price of the product

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product,

– the value of all the materials used
does not exceed 40 % of the ex-
works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 30 %
of the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 30 %
of the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 30 %
of the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 30 %
of the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 30 %
of the ex-works price of the product

– Of base metal, whether or not gold-
or silver-plated, or of metal clad
with precious metal

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
the
40 % of
product

the ex-works price of

– Other

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
50 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

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Description of product

Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

Chapter 92

Musical
sories of such articles

instruments; parts and acces-

(2)

(3) or (4)

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
40 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
50 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 40 %
of the ex works price of the product

Chapter 93

and ammunition; parts

Arms
accessories thereof

and

ex Chapter 94

bedding,

cushions

supports,

mattresses,
Furniture;
mattress
and
similar stuffed furnishings; lamps and
lighting fittings, not elsewhere speci-
fied or included; illuminated signs, illu-
minated name-plates and the
like;
prefabricated buildings; except for:

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed 40 %
of the ex-works price of the product

ex 9401 and
ex 9403

Base metal
incorporating
furniture,
unstuffed cotton cloth of a weight of
300 g/m2 or less

9405

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

9406

Prefabricated buildings

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified in a heading other
than that of the product
or
Manufacture from cotton cloth already
made up in a form ready for use of
heading 9401 or 9403, provided:

– its value does not exceed 25 % of
the ex-works price of the product,

– all

the other materials used are
already originating and are classified
in a heading other than heading
9401 or 9403

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
50 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
50 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

ex Chapter 95

9503

Toys, games and sports
requisites;
parts and accessories thereof; except
for:

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

Other toys; reduced-size (scale) models
and
recreational models,
working or not; puzzles of all kinds

similar

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product,

– the value of all the materials used
does not exceed 50 % of the ex-
works price of the product

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
the product.
other
However, roughly shaped blocks for
making golf club heads may be used

than that of

ex 9506

Golf clubs and parts thereof

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Description of product

Working or processing carried out on non–originating materials that confers originating
status

(1)

(2)

(3) or (4)

ex Chapter 96

Miscellaneous manufactured articles;
except for:

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

ex 9601 and
ex 9602

ex 9603

9605

9606

9612

Articles
mineral carving materials

animal,

of

vegetable

or

from ‘worked’
Manufacture
materials of the same heading

carving

and

(except

Brooms
for
brushes
besoms and the like and brushes made
from marten
hair),
or
hand-operated mechanical floor swee-
pers, not motorised, paint pads and
rollers, squeegees and mops

squirrel

Travel sets for personal toilet, sewing
or shoe or clothes cleaning

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials used does not exceed
50 % of
the
product

the ex-works price of

Each item in the set must satisfy the
rule, which would apply to it if it were
not included in the set. However, non-
originating articles may be incorpo-
rated, provided their total value does
not exceed 15 % of the ex-works price
of the set

Buttons, press-fasteners, snap-fasteners
and press-studs, button moulds and
other parts of
these articles; button
blanks

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product,

Typewriter or similar ribbons, inked or
otherwise prepared for giving impres-
sions, whether or not on spools or in
cartridges;
ink-pads, whether or not
inked, with or without boxes

ex 9613

Lighters with piezo-igniter

ex 9614

Smoking pipes and pipe bowls

Chapter 97

Works of art, collectors' pieces and
antiques

– the value of all the materials used
does not exceed 50 % of the ex-
works price of the product

Manufacture in which:
– all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product,

– the value of all the materials used
does not exceed 50 % of the ex-
works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all
the materials of heading 9613 used
does not exceed 30 % of the ex-works
price of the product

Manufacture
blocks

from roughly

shaped

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading
other than that of the product

For the special conditions relating to ‘specific processes’ see Introductory Note 7.

(1)
(2) Note 3 to Chapter 32 says that these preparations are those of a kind used for colouring any material or used as ingredients in the manufacturing of colouring

preparations, provided they are not classified in another heading in Chapter 32.

(3) A ‘group’ is regarded as any part of the heading separated from the rest by a semi-colon.
(4)

In the case of the products composed of materials classified within both headings 3901 to 3906, on the one hand, and within headings 3907 to 3911, on the other
hand, this restriction only applies to that group of materials which predominates by weight in the product.
The following foils shall be considered as highly transparent: foils, the optical dimming of which – measured according to ASTM-D 1003-16 by Gardner Hazemeter
(i.e. Hazefactor) – is less than 2 %.
For special conditions relating to products made of a mixture of textile materials, see Introductory Note 5.
The use of this material is restricted to the manufacture of woven fabrics of a kind used in paper-making machinery.
See Introductory Note 6.
For knitted or crocheted articles, not elastic or rubberised, obtained by sewing or assembly pieces of knitted or crocheted fabrics (cut out or knitted directly to shape),
see Introductory Note 6.

(5)

(6)
(7)
(8)
(9)

(10) This rule shall apply until 31 December 2005.

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ANNEX IIa TO PROTOCOL 4

LIST OF WORKING OR PROCESSING REQUIRED TO BE CARRIED OUT ON NON-ORIGINATING MATE-
RIALS IN ORDER THAT THE PRODUCTS MANUFACTURED REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 6(2) CAN OBTAIN
ORIGINATING STATUS.

HS heading

Description of product

Working or processing carried out on non-originating materials that confers originating status

(1)

3205

3301

(2)

(3) or (4)

Colour lakes; preparations as specified in
Note 3 to this Chapter based on colour
lakes (1)

or

oils

(terpeneless

not),
Essential
including concretes and absolutes; resi-
noids; extracted oleoresins; concentrates
of essential oils in fats, in fixed oils, in
waxes or the like, obtained by enfleurage
or maceration; terpenic by-products of
the
oils;
aqueous distillates and aqueous solutions
of essential oils

deterpenation of

essential

from materials of

any
Manufacture
heading, except headings 3203, 3204
and 3205. However, materials
from
heading 3205 may be used provided
exceed
their
does
the
30 % of
product

the ex-works price of

value

not

from materials of

including materials
‘group’ (2)

any
Manufacture
a
heading,
in this heading.
different
However, materials of the same group
may be used, provided their value does
not exceed 30 % of the ex-works price of
the product

of

Manufacture in which the value of all the
materials used does not exceed 50 % of
the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all the
materials used does not exceed 50 % of
the ex-works price of the product

3303

Perfumes and toilet waters

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading other
than that of the product. However, mate-
rials classified within the same heading
may be used provided their value does
not exceed 30 % of the ex-works price of
the product

Manufacture in which the value of all the
materials used does not exceed 50 % of
the ex-works price of the product

3304

8415

Beauty or make-up preparations and
preparations for the care of skin (other
than medicaments), including sun screen
or sun tan preparations; manicure or
pedicure preparations

Manufacture in which all the materials
used are classified within a heading other
than that of the product. However, mate-
rials classified within the same heading
may be used provided their value does
not exceed 30 % of the ex-works price of
the product

Manufacture in which the value of all the
materials used does not exceed 50 % of
the ex-works price of the product

Air conditioning machines, comprising a
motor-driven fan and elements for chan-
ging the
and humidity,
including those machines in which the
humidity cannot be separately regulated

temperature

Manufacture in which the value of all the
materials used does not exceed 50 % of
the ex-works price of the product

8501

Electric motors and generators (excluding
generating sets)

Manufacture in which the value of all the
materials used does not exceed 40 % of
the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture:
— in which the value of all the materials
used does not exceed 50 % of the ex-
works price of the product;

— where, within the above limit,

the
materials classified within heading
8503 are only used up to a value of
10 % of the ex-works price of the
product

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Description of product

Working or processing carried out on non-originating materials that confers originating status

(2)

(3) or (4)

(1)

8528

for

apparatus

television,
Reception
whether or not
incorporating radio
broadcast receivers or sound or video
recording or
apparatus;
video monitors and video projectors

reproducing

ex 8712

Bicycles without ball bearings

8714

8716

Parts and accessories of vehicles of vehi-
cles of heading Nos 8711 to 8713

Trailers and semi-trailers; other vehicles,
not mechanically propelled; parts thereof

Manufacture:
— in which the value of all the materials
used does not exceed 40 % of the ex-
works price of the product;

— where the value of all the non-origin-
ating materials used does not exceed
the value of the originating materials
used

Manufacture from materials not classified
in heading 8714

Manufacture in which the value of all the
materials used does not exceed 50 % of
the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture in which:
— all the materials used are classified
within a heading other than that of
the product,

— the value of all the materials used
the ex-

does not exceed 50 % of
works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all the
materials used does not exceed 30 % of
the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all the
materials used does not exceed 40 % of
the ex-works price of the product

Manufacture in which the value of all the
materials used does not exceed 40 % of
the ex-works price of the product

(1) Note 3 to Chapter 32 says that these preparations are those of a kind used for colouring any material or used as ingredients in the manufacturing of colouring prepara-

tions, provided they are not classified in another heading in Chapter 32.

(2) A ‘group’ is regarded as any part of the heading separated from the rest by a semi-colon.

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LIST OF PRODUCTS ORIGINATING IN TURKEY TO WHICH THE PROVISIONS OF ARTICLE 4 DO NOT
APPLY, LISTED IN THE ORDER OF HARMONISED SYSTEM CHAPTERS AND HEADINGS

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

0401 to 0402

ex 0403

0404 to 0410

0504

0511

Chapter 6

0701 to 0709

ex 0710

ex 0711

0712 to 0714

Chapter 8

Buttermilk, curdled milk and cream, yoghurt, kephir and other fermented or acidified milk and
cream, whether or not concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or
flavoured or containing added fruit or cocoa

Vegetables (uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water), frozen

Vegetables, except sweet corn of heading 0711 90 30, provisionally preserved (for example, by
sulphur dioxide gas, in brine, in sulphur water or in other preservative solutions), but unsuitable
in that state for immediate consumption

ex Chapter 9

Coffee, tea, and spices, excluding maté of heading 0903

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

ex 1302

1501 to 1514

ex 1515

ex 1516

ex 1517 and
ex 1518

ex 1522

Chapter 16

1701

ex 1702

1703

1801 and 1802

ex 1902

Pectin

Other fixed vegetable fats and oils (excluding jojoba oil and its fractions) and their fractions,
whether or not refined, but not chemically modified

Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, partly or wholly hydrogenated, inter-esteri-
fied, re-esterified or elaidinised, whether or not refined, but not further prepared, excluding
hydrogenated castor oil known as ‘opal-wax’

Margarines, imitation lard and other prepared edible fats

Residues resulting from the treatment of
excluding degras

fatty substances or animal or vegetable waxes,

Other sugars, including chemically pure lactose, maltose, glucose and fructose, in solid form;
sugar syrups not containing added flavouring or colouring matter; artificial honey, whether or
not mixed with natural honey; caramel excluding that of headings 1702 11 00, 1702 30 51,
1702 30 59, 1702 50 00 and 1702 90 10

Pasta, stuffed, containing more than 20 % by weight of fish, crustaceans, molluscs or other
aquatic invertebrates, sausages and the like or meat and meat offal of any kind, including fats of
all kinds

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Cucumbers and gherkins, onions, mango chutney, fruit of the genus Capsicum other than sweet
peppers or pimentos, mushrooms and olives, prepared or preserved by vinegar or acetic acid

Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, frozen, other
than products of heading 2006, excluding potatoes in the form of flour or meal and flakes of
sweet corn

Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen,
other than products of heading 2006, excluding potato and sweet corn products

Fruits, nuts and other edible parts of plants, otherwise prepared or preserved, whether or not
containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or spirit, not elsewhere specified or included,
excluding peanut butter, palm hearts, maize, yams, sweet potatoes and similar edible parts of
plants containing 5 % or more by weight of starch, vine leaves, hop shoots and other similar
edible parts of plants

Flavoured and coloured sugars, syrups and molasses

Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of 80 % vol or higher obtained
from agricultural produce listed here

Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of less than 80 % vol obtained
from agricultural produce listed here.

ex 2001

2002 and 2003

ex 2004

ex 2005

2006 and 2007

ex 2008

2009

ex 2106

2204

2206

ex 2207

ex 2208

2209

Chapter 23

2401

4501

5301 and 5302

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ANNEX IV TO PROTOCOL 4

Movement certificate EUR1 and application for a movement certificate EUR1

Printing instructions

1. Each form shall measure 210 x 297 mm; a tolerance of up to minus 5 mm or plus 8 mm in the length may be
allowed. The paper used must be white, sized for writing, not containing mechanical pulp and weighing not less than
25 g/m2. It shall have a printed green guilloche pattern background making any falsification by mechanical or
chemical means apparent to the eye.

2. The competent authorities of the Member States of the Community and of Egypt may reserve the right to print the
forms themselves or may have them printed by approved printers. In the latter case, each form must include a refer-
ence to such approval. Each form must bear the name and address of the printer or a mark by which the printer can
be identified. It shall also bear a serial number, either printed or not, by which it can be identified.

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ANNEX V TO PROTOCOL 4

INVOICE DECLARATION

The invoice declaration, the text of which is given below, must be made out in accordance with the footnotes. However,
the footnotes do not have to be reproduced.

The exporter of the products covered by this document (customs authorisation No... (1)) declares that, except where
otherwise clearly indicated, these products are of ... preferential origin (2)

English version

El exportador de los productos incluidos en el presente documento (autorización aduanera No ... (1) declara que, salvo
indicación en sentido contrario, estos productos gozan de un origen preferencial ... (2)

Spanish version

Eksportøren af varer, der er omfattet af nærværende dokument, (toldmyndighedernes tilladelse nr.
varerne, medmindre andet tydeligt er angivet, har præferenceoprindelse i ... (2)

... (1))erklærer, at

Danish version

Der Ausführer (Ermächtigter Ausführer; Bewilligungs-Nr.
erklärt, dass diese Waren, soweit nicht anders angegeben, präferenzbegünstigte ... Ursprungswaren sind (2)

... (1)), der Waren, auf die sich dieses Handelspapier bezieht,

German version

Ο εξαγωγέας των προϊόντων που καλύπτονται από το παρόν έγγραφο (άδεια τελωνείου υπάριθ. .... (1)) δηλώνει ότι, εκτός εάν
δηλώνεται σαφώς άλλως, τα προϊόντα αυτά είναι προτιµησιακής καταγωγής .... (2) .

Greek version

L'exportateur des produits couverts par le présent document (autorisation douanière No ... déclare que, sauf indication
claire du contraire, ces produits ont l'origine préférentielle ... (1)

French version

L'esportatore delle merci contemplate nel presente documento (autorizzazione doganale n. ... (1)) dichiara che, salvo indi-
cazione contraria, le merci sono di origine preferenziale ... (2)

Italian version

De exporteur van de goederen waarop dit document van toepassing is (douanevergunning nr. ... (1)), verklaart dat, behou-
dens uitdrukkelijke andersluidende vermelding, deze goederen van preferentiële ... oorsprong zijn (2)

Dutch version

O abaixo assinado, exportador dos produtos cobertos pelo presente documento (autorização aduaneira No ... (1)) declara
que, salvo expressamente indicado em contrário, estes produtos são de origem preferencial ... (2)

Portuguese version

Tässä asiakirjassa mainittujen tuotteiden viejä (tullin lupan:o ... (1)) ilmoittaa, että nämä tuotteet ovat, ellei toisin ole
selvästi merkitty, etuuskohteluun oikeutettuja ... alkuperätuotteita (2)

Finnish version

Swedish version

Exportören av de varor som omfattas av detta dokument (tullmyndighetens tillstånd nr. ... (1)) försäkrar att dessa varor,
om inte annat tydligt markerats, har förmånsberättigande ... ursprung (2)

(1) When the invoice declaration is made out by an approved exporter within the meaning of Article 22 of the Protocol, the authorisa-
tion number of the approved exporter must be entered in this space. When the invoice declaration is not made out by an approved
exporter, the words in brackets shall be omitted or the space left blank.

(2) Origin of products to be indicated. When the invoice declaration relates in whole or in part, to products originating in Ceuta and
Melilla within the meaning of Article 37 of the Protocol, the exporter must clearly indicate them in the document on which the
declaration is made out by means of the symbol ‘CM’.

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Arabic version

........

................................ (1)

(Place and date)

................................ (2)

(Signature of the exporter; in addition the name of the person signing the declaration has to be indicated in clear script)

(1) These indications may be omitted if the information is contained on the document itself.
(2) See Article 21(5) of the Protocol. In cases where the exporter is not required to sign, the exemption of signature also implies the

exemption of the name of the signatory.

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ANNEX VI TO PROTOCOL 4

JOINT DECLARATION ON THE TRANSITIONAL PERIOD CONCERNING THE ISSUING OR MAKING OUT
OF DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE PROOF OF ORIGIN

1. During 12 months following the entry into force of the Agreement, the competent customs authorities
of the Community and of Egypt shall accept as valid proof of origin within the meaning of Protocol 4,
movement certificates EUR1 and EUR2 forms, issued within the context of the Cooperation Agreement
signed on 18 January 1977.

2. Requests for subsequent verification of documents referred to above shall be accepted by the competent
customs authorities of the Community and of Egypt for a period of two years after the issuing and
making out of the proof of origin concerned. These verifications shall be carried out in accordance with
Title VI of Protocol 4 to this Agreement.

JOINT DECLARATION CONCERNING THE PRINCIPALITY OF ANDORRA

1. Products originating in the Principality of Andorra falling within Chapters 25 to 97 of the Harmonised
System shall be accepted by Egypt as originating in the Community within the meaning of this Agree-
ment.

2. Protocol 4 shall apply, mutatis mutandis, for the purpose of defining the originating status of the above-

mentioned products.

JOINT DECLARATION CONCERNING THE REPUBLIC OF SAN MARINO

1. Products originating in the Republic of San Marino shall be accepted by Egypt as originating in the

Community within the meaning of this Agreement.

2. Protocol 4 shall apply, mutatis mutandis, for the purpose of defining the originating status of the above-

mentioned products.

JOINT DECLARATION ON CUMULATION OF ORIGIN

The Community and Egypt recognise the important role of cumulation of origin in encouraging the
smooth development towards a free trade area between all Mediterranean partners participating in the
Barcelona process.

The Community agrees to negotiate and conclude agreements with Mediterranean Partner states, especially
Mashrek/Maghreb States at the request of the latter, to apply the rule of cumulation of origin once the
concerned partners agree to apply identical rules of origin.

The Parties furthermore declare that differences in the types of cumulation already in force in the partici-
pating countries should not constitute a barrier to achieving this goal. For that purpose they will immedi-
ately after the signature of the Agreement start to examine the possibilities of cumulation with the said
countries during the transitional period, especially in sectors where the concerned Mediterranean countries
apply identical rules of origin.

The Community will provide assistance to the concerned partners in order to achieve cumulation of rules
of origin.

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JOINT DECLARATION ON PROCESSING REQUIREMENTS CONTAINED IN ANNEX II

Both Parties agree with the processing requirement contained in Annex II and II(a) to Protocol 4.

Nevertheless the Community will examine a limited number of requests of derogation presented by Egypt,
duly motivated, provided these are not of a nature to compromise achievements on the introduction of
cumulation between the Euro-Mediterranean Parties.

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on mutual assistance between administrative authorities in customs matters

PROTOCOL 5

Article 1

Definitions

For the purposes of this Protocol:

(a) ‘customs legislation’ shall mean any legal or regulatory
the Parties
provisions applicable in the territories of
governing the import, export, and transit of goods and
their placing under any other customs regime or procedure,
including measures of prohibition, restriction and control;

(b) ‘applicant authority’ shall mean a competent administrative
authority which has been designated by one of the Parties
for this purpose and which makes a request for assistance
on the basis of this Protocol;

(c) ‘requested authority’ shall mean a competent administrative
authority which has been designated by one of the Parties
for this purpose and which receives a request for assistance
on the basis of this Protocol;

(d) ‘personal data’ shall mean all

information relating to an

identified or identifiable individual;

(e) ‘operation in breach of customs legislation’ shall mean any
violation or attempted violation of customs legislation.

Article 2

Scope

The Parties shall assist each other,

in the areas within
1.
their competence, in the manner and under the conditions laid
down in this Protocol, to ensure the correct application of the
customs legislation,
investigating
and combating operations in breach of that legislation.

in particular by preventing,

2.
Assistance in customs matters, as provided for in this
Protocol, shall apply to any administrative authority of the
Parties which is competent for the application of this Protocol.
It shall not prejudice the rules governing mutual assistance in
criminal matters. Nor shall it cover information obtained under
powers exercised at the request of a judicial authority, except
where communication of such information is authorised by
that authority.

Assistance to recover duties, taxes or fines is not covered

3.
by this protocol.

Article 3

Assistance on request

At the request of the applicant authority, the requested
1.
authority shall provide it with all relevant information which
may enable it to ensure that customs legislation is correctly
applied,
including information regarding activities noted or
planned which are or could be operations in breach of customs
legislation.

At the request of the applicant authority, the requested

2.
authority shall inform it:

(a) whether goods exported from the territory of one of the
Parties have been properly imported into the territory of
another Party, specifying, where appropriate, the customs
procedure applied to the goods;

(b) whether goods imported into the territory of one of the
Parties have been properly exported from the territory of
the other Party, specifying, where appropriate, the customs
procedure applied to the goods.

3.
At the request of the applicant authority, the requested
authority shall, within the framework of its legal or regulatory
provisions, take the necessary steps to ensure special surveil-
lance of:

(a) natural or legal persons in respect of whom there are
reasonable grounds for believing that they are or have been
involved in operations in breach of customs legislation;

(b) places where stocks of goods have been or may be
assembled in such a way that there are reasonable grounds
for believing that these goods are intended to be used in
operations in breach of customs legislation;

(c) goods that are or may be transported in such a way that
there are reasonable grounds for believing that they are
intended to be used in operations in breach of customs
legislation;

(d) means of transport that are or may be used in such a way
that there are reasonable grounds for believing that they
are intended to be used in operations in breach of customs
legislation.

Article 4

Spontaneous assistance

The Parties shall assist each other, at their own initiative and in
accordance with their legal or regulatory provisions,
if they
consider that to be necessary for the correct application of
customs
legislation, particularly by providing information
obtained pertaining to:

— activities which are or appear to be operations in breach of
customs legislation and which may be of interest to another
Party,

— new means or methods employed in carrying out opera-

tions in breach of customs legislation,

— goods known to be subject to operations in breach of

customs legislation,

— natural or legal persons in respect of whom there are
reasonable grounds for believing that they are or have been
involved in operations in breach of customs legislation,

— means of transport in respect of which there are reasonable
grounds for believing that they have been, are, or may be
used in operations in breach of customs legislation.

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Article 5

Delivery, notification

the request of

the applicant authority,

At
the requested
authority shall, in accordance with legal or regulatory provi-
sions applicable to the latter, take all necessary measures in
order:

— to deliver any documents, or

— to notify any decisions,

emanating from the applicant authority and falling within the
scope of this Protocol, to an addressee residing or established
in the territory of the requested authority.

Requests for delivery of documents or notification of decisions
shall be made in writing in an official language of the requested
authority or in a language acceptable to that authority.

Article 6

Form and substance of requests for assistance

Requests pursuant

to this Protocol shall be made in
1.
writing. They shall be accompanied by the documents neces-
sary to enable compliance with the request. When required
because of the urgency of the situation, oral requests may be
accepted, but must be confirmed in writing immediately.

Requests pursuant

2.
following information:

to paragraph 1 shall

include the

(a) the applicant authority;

(b) the measure requested;

(c) the object of and the reason for the request;

(d) the legal or regulatory provisions and other legal elements

involved;

(e) indications as exact and comprehensive as possible on the
natural or legal persons who are the target of the investiga-
tions;

(f) a summary of

the relevant

facts and of

the enquiries

already carried out.

3.
Requests shall be submitted in an official language of the
in a language acceptable to that
requested authority or
authority. This requirement shall not apply to any documents
that accompany the request under paragraph 1.

If a request does not meet the formal requirements set
4.
out above, its correction or completion may be requested; in
the meantime precautionary measures may be ordered.

Article 7

Execution of requests

In order to comply with a request for assistance, the
1.
requested authority shall proceed, within the limits of
its
competence and available resources, as though it were acting
on its own account or at the request of other authorities of

that same Party, by supplying information already possessed,
by carrying out appropriate enquiries or by arranging for them
to be carried out. This provision shall also apply to any other
authority to which the request has been addressed by the
requested authority when the latter cannot act on its own.

Requests for assistance shall be executed in accordance

2.
with the legal or regulatory provisions of the requested Party.

3.
Duly authorised officials of one of the Parties may, with
the agreement of the other Party involved and subject to the
conditions laid down by the latter, be present to obtain in the
the requested authority or any other concerned
offices of
authority in accordance with paragraph 1, information relating
to activities that are or may be operations in breach of customs
legislation which the applicant authority needs for the purposes
of this Protocol.

4.
Duly authorised officials of one of the Parties may, with
the agreement of the other Party involved and subject to the
conditions laid down by the latter, be present at enquiries
carried out in the latter's territory.

Article 8

Form in which information is to be communicated

1.
The requested authority shall communicate results of
enquiries to the applicant authority in writing together with
relevant documents, certified copies or other items.

2.

This information may be in computerised form.

Original

3
files and documents shall be transmitted only
upon request in cases where certified copies would be insuffi-
cient. These originals shall be returned at the earliest opportu-
nity.

Article 9

Exceptions to the obligation to provide assistance

1.
Assistance may be refused or may be subject to the satis-
faction of certain conditions or requirements, in cases where a
Party is of the opinion that assistance under this Protocol
would:

(a) be likely to prejudice the sovereignty of Egypt or that of a
Member State which has been requested to provide assis-
tance under this Protocol; or

(b) be likely to prejudice public policy, security or other essen-
in particular in the cases referred to under

tial
interests,
Article 10(2); or

(c) violate an industrial, commercial or professional secret.

2.
Assistance may be postponed by the requested authority
on the ground that it will interfere with an ongoing investiga-
tion, prosecution or proceeding. In such a case, the requested
authority shall consult with the applicant authority to deter-
mine if assistance can be given subject to such terms or condi-
tions as the requested authority may require.

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3. Where the applicant authority seeks assistance which it
would itself be unable to provide if so requested, it shall draw
attention to that fact in its request. It shall then be for the
requested authority to decide how to respond to such a
request.

4.
For the cases referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2, the deci-
sion of the requested authority and the reasons therefor must
be communicated to the applicant authority without delay.

Article 10

Information exchange and confidentiality

1.
form
Any information communicated in whatsoever
pursuant to this Protocol shall be of a confidential or restricted
nature, depending on the rules applicable in each of the Parties.
It shall be covered by the obligation of official secrecy and shall
enjoy the protection extended to similar information under the
relevant
the Party that received it and the corre-
sponding provisions applying to the Community authorities.

laws of

2.
Personal data may be exchanged only where the Party
which may receive it undertakes to protect such data in at least
an equivalent way to the one applicable to that particular case
in the Party that may supply it. To this end, the Parties commu-
nicate each other
information on their applicable rules,
including, where appropriate, legal provisions in force in the
Member States of the Community.

The use,

3.
in judicial or administrative proceedings insti-
tuted in respect of operations in breach of customs legislation,
of information obtained under this Protocol, is considered to
be for the purposes of this Protocol. Therefore, the Parties may,
in their records of evidence, reports and testimonies and in
proceedings and charges brought before the courts, use as
evidence information obtained and documents consulted in
accordance with the provisions of this Protocol. The competent
authority which supplied that information or gave access to
those documents shall be notified of such use.

4.
Information obtained shall be used solely for the purposes
of this Protocol. Where one of the Parties wishes to use such
information for other purposes, it shall obtain the prior written
consent of the authority which provided the information. Such
use shall then be subject to any restrictions laid down by that
authority.

Article 11

Experts and witnesses

Article 12

Assistance expenses

The Parties shall waive all claims on each other for the reim-
bursement of expenses incurred pursuant
to this Protocol,
except, as appropriate, for expenses to experts and witnesses,
and those to interpreters and translators who are not public
service employees.

Article 13

Implementation

1.
The implementation of this Protocol shall be entrusted on
the one hand to the customs authorities of Egypt and on the
other hand to the competent services of the Commission of the
the
European Communities and the customs authorities of
Member States as appropriate. They shall decide on all practical
measures and arrangements necessary for its application, taking
into consideration the rules in force in particular in the field of
data protection. They may recommend to the competent
bodies amendments which they consider should be made to
this Protocol.

2.
Parties shall consult each other and subsequently keep
each other informed of the detailed rules of implementation
which are adopted in accordance with the provisions of this
Protocol.

Article 14

Other agreements

1.
Taking into account the respective competencies of the
European Community and the Member States, the provisions of
this Protocol shall:

— not affect the obligations of the Parties under any other

international agreement or convention,

— be deemed complementary with agreements on mutual
assistance which have been or may be concluded between
individual Member States and Egypt, and

— not

affect

the Community provisions governing the
the
communication between the competent services of
and the
Commission of
customs authorities of the Member States of any informa-
tion obtained under this Protocol which could be of interest
to the Community.

the European Communities

An official of a requested authority may be authorised to
appear, within the limitations of the authorisation granted, as
an expert or witness in judicial or administrative proceedings
regarding the matters covered by this Protocol, and produce
such objects, documents or certified copies thereof, as may be
needed for the proceedings. The request for appearance must
indicate specifically before which judicial or administrative
authority the official will have to appear, on what matters and
by virtue of what title or qualification the official will be ques-
tioned.

2.
Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 1, the provi-
sions of this Protocol shall take precedence over the provisions
of any bilateral agreement on mutual assistance which has been
or may be concluded between individual Member States and
Egypt insofar as the provisions of the latter are incompatible
with those of this Protocol.

3.
In respect of questions relating to the applicability of this
Protocol, the Parties shall consult each other to resolve the
matter in the framework of the Association Committee.

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FINAL ACT

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The Plenipotentiaries of:

THE KINGDOM OF BELGIUM,

THE KINGDOM OF DENMARK,

THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY,

THE HELLENIC REPUBLIC,

THE KINGDOM OF SPAIN,

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC,

IRELAND,

THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC,

THE GRAND DUCHY OF LUXEMBOURG,

THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS,

THE REPUBLIC OF AUSTRIA,

THE PORTUGUESE REPUBLIC,

THE REPUBLIC OF FINLAND,

THE KINGDOM OF SWEDEN,

THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND,

Contracting Parties to the Treaty establishing the EUROPEAN COMMUNITY and the Treaty establishing
the EUROPEAN COAL AND STEEL COMMUNITY, hereinafter referred to as the ‘Member States’, and

of the THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY and the THE EUROPEAN COAL AND STEEL COMMUNITY, herein-
after referred to as ‘the Community’,

of the one part, and

the plenipotentiaries of the ARAB REPUBLIC OF EGYPT, hereinafter referred to as ‘Egypt’,

of the other part,

meeting at Luxembourg on 25 June 2001 for the signature of the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement estab-
lishing an association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and
the Arab Republic of Egypt, of the other part, hereinafter referred to as ‘Euro-Mediterranean Agreement’,
have adopted the following texts:

the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement, the Annexes thereto and the following Protocols:

Protocol 1 concerning the arrangements applicable to imports into the Community of agricultural

products originating in Egypt

Protocol 2 concerning the arrangements applicable to imports into Egypt of agricultural products origin-

ating in the Community

Protocol 3 concerning the arrangements applicable to processed agricultural products

Protocol 4 concerning the definition of the concept of ‘originating products’ and methods of administra-

tive cooperation

Protocol 5 on mutual assistance between administrative authorities in customs matters.

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The plenipotentiaries of the Member States and of the Community and the plenipotentiary of Egypt have
adopted the texts of the Joint Declarations listed below and annexed to this Final Act:

Joint Declaration on Article 3(2) of the Agreement

Joint Declaration on Article 14 of the Agreement

Joint Declaration on Article 18 of the Agreement

Joint Declaration on Article 34 of the Agreement

Joint Declaration on Article 37 of, and Annex VI to, the Agreement

Joint Declaration on Article 39 of the Agreement

Joint Declaration on Title VI, Chapter 1, of the Agreement

Joint Declaration on the protection of data.

The plenipotentiaries of the Member States and the plenipotentiary of Egypt take note of the following
Unilateral Declarations by the European Community:

Declaration by the European Community on Article 11 of the Agreement

Declaration by the European Community on Article 19 of the Agreement

Declaration by the European Community on Article 21 of the Agreement

Declaration by the European Community on Article 34 of the Agreement

Declaration by the European Community

The plenipotentiaries of the Member States and of the Community and the plenipotentiary of Egypt have
also taken note of the Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters mentioned below and attached to
this Final Act:

Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the Community and Egypt concerning imports
into the Community of fresh cut flowers and flower buds falling within subheading 0603 10 of the
Common Customs Tariff.

Hecho en Luxemburgo, el veinticinco de junio de dos mil uno.

Udfærdiget i Luxembourg den femogtyvende juni to tusind og et.

Geschehen zu Luxemburg am fünfundzwanzigsten Juni zweitausendundeins.
Έγινε στο Λουξεµβούργο, στις είκοσι πέντε Ιουνίου δύο χιλιάδες ένα.

Done at Luxembourg on the twenty-fifth day of June in the year two thousand and one.

Fait à Luxembourg, le vingt-cinq juin deux mille un.

Fatto a Lussemburgo, addì venticinque giugno duemilauno.

Gedaan te Luxemburg, de vijfentwintigste juni tweeduizendeneen.

Feito no Luxemburgo, em vinte e cinco de Junho de dois mil e um.

Tehty Luxemburgissa kahdentenakymmenentenäviidentenä päivänä kesäkuuta vuonna kaksituhattayksi.

Som skedde i Luxemburg den tjugofemte juni tjugohundraett.

Pour le Royaume de Belgique

Voor het Koninkrijk België

Für das Königreich Belgien

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Cette signature engage également la Communauté française, la Communauté flamande, la Communauté
germanophone, la Région wallonne, la Région flamande et la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale.

Deze handtekening verbindt eveneens de Vlaamse Gemeenschap, de Franse Gemeenschap, de Duitstalige
Gemeenschap, het Vlaamse Gewest, het Waalse Gewest en het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest.

Diese Unterschrift bindet zugleich die Deutschsprachige Gemeinschaft, die Flämische Gemeinschaft, die
Französische Gemeinschaft, die Wallonische Region, die Flämische Region und die Region Brüssel-Haupt-
stadt.

På Kongeriget Danmarks vegne

Für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Για την Ελληνική ∆ηµοκρατία

Por el Reino de España

Pour la République française

Thar cheann Na hÉireann

For Ireland

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Per la Repubblica italiana

Pour le Grand-Duché de Luxembourg

Voor het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden

Für die Republik Österreich

Pela República Portuguesa

Suomen tasavallan puolesta

För Konungariket Sverige

For the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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Por las Comunidades Europeas

For De Europæiske Fællesskaber

Für die Europäischen Gemeinschaften
Για τις Ευρωπαïκές Κοινότητες

For the European Communities

Pour les Communautés européennes

Per le Comunità europee

Voor de Europese Gemeenschappen

Pelas Comunidades Europeias

Euroopan yhteisöjen puolesta

På Europeiska gemenskapernas vägnar

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JOINT DECLARATIONS

JOINT DECLARATION ON ARTICLE 3(2)

It is understood that the political dialogue and cooperation will also cover issues relating to the fight
against terrorism.

JOINT DECLARATION ON ARTICLE 14

Both Parties agree to negotiate with a view to granting each other concessions in the trade of fish and
fishery products on the basis of reciprocity and mutual interest, with the objective of reaching agreement
on the details no later than one year after the signature of this Agreement.

JOINT DECLARATION ON ARTICLE 18

In case of serious difficulties arising in relation to the level of imports under the agreement the provisions
providing for consultation between the Parties may be used, urgently where necessary.

JOINT DECLARATION ON ARTICLE 34

The Parties recognise that Egypt is currently in the process of drafting its own competition law. This will
provide the necessary conditions for agreeing on the implementation rules referred to in Article 34(2).
While drafting its law, Egypt will take into account the competition rules developed within the European
Union.

Until the implementation rules referred to in Article 34(2) are adopted, if serious problems arise, the
Parties may raise the matter for consideration in the Association Council.

JOINT DECLARATION ON ARTICLE 37 AND ANNEX VI

For the purpose of this Agreement, intellectual property includes, in particular, copyright, including copy-
right in computer programmes, and neighbouring rights, patents, industrial designs, geographical indica-
tions, including appellations of origin, trademarks and service marks, topographies of integrated circuits, as
well as the protection against unfair competition as referred to in Article 10 bis of the Paris Convention
for the Protection of Industrial Property (Stockholm Act, 1967) and protection of undisclosed information
on ‘know-how’.

JOINT DECLARATION ON ARTICLE 39

The Parties agree that, in the event of a serious disequilibrium in their overall balance of trade, which threa-
tens trade relations, either Party may call for consultations within the Association Committee in order to
promote, in line with Article 39, balanced economic relations and to consider ways to sustainably improve
the situation with a view to reduce the imbalances.

JOINT DECLARATION ON TITLE VI CHAPTER 1

The Parties agree to endeavour to facilitate the issuing of visas to bona fide persons active in the implemen-
tation of this Agreement, including, inter alia, business persons, investors, academics, trainees, government
officials; first degree family members of persons legally resident in the territory of the other party shall also
be considered.

JOINT DECLARATION ON THE PROTECTION OF DATA

The Parties agree that the protection of data will be guaranteed in all areas where the exchange of personal
data is envisaged.

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DECLARATIONS BY THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY

DECLARATION BY THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY ON ARTICLE 11

When consultations are requested as provided for in the last paragraph of Article 11, the Community will
be ready to hold consultations within 30 days of the exceptional measures being notified to the Association
Committee by Egypt.

The purpose of such consultations will be to ensure that the measures concerned are in accordance with
the provisions of Article 11, and the Community will not oppose the adoption of the measures if these
conditions are met.

DECLARATION BY THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY ON ARTICLE 19

The special provisions applied by the Community to the Canary Islands, referred to in Article 19(2) are
those provided for by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1911/91 of 26 June 1991.

DECLARATION BY THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY ON ARTICLE 21

The Community is prepared to hold meetings at official level, at Egypt's request, to provide information on
any modifications which may have been introduced in its trade relations with third countries.

DECLARATION BY THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY ON ARTICLE 34

The Community declares that, until the adoption by the Association Council of the implementing rules on
fair competition referred to in Article 34(2), in the context of the interpretation of Article 34(1), it will
assess any practice contrary to that Article on the basis of the criteria resulting from the rules contained in
Articles 81, 82 and 87 of the Treaty establishing the European Community, and, for products covered by
the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community, by those contained in Articles 65 and 66
of that Treaty and the Community rules on State aid, including secondary legislation.

The Community declares that, as regards the agricultural products referred to in Title II Chapter 3, the
Community will assess any practice contrary to paragraph 1(i) of Article 34 according to the criteria estab-
lished by the Community on the basis of Articles 36 and 37 of the Treaty establishing the European Com-
munity and in particular those established in Council Regulation No 26/62 as amended, and any practice
contrary to paragraph 1(iii) of Article 34 according to the criteria established by the European Community
on the basis of Articles 36 and 87 of the Treaty establishing the European Community.

DECLARATION BY THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY

The provisions of the Agreement that fall within the scope of Part III, Title IV of the Treaty establishing the
European Community bind the United Kingdom and Ireland as separate Contracting Parties, and not as
part of the European Community, until the United Kingdom or Ireland (as the case may be) notifies the
Arab Republic of Egypt that it has become bound as part of the European Community in accordance with
the Protocol on the position of the United Kingdom and Ireland annexed to the Treaty on European Union
and the Treaty establishing the European Community. The same applies to Denmark, in accordance with
the Protocol annexed to those Treaties on the position of Denmark.

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in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the Community and Egypt concerning imports into
the Community of fresh cut flowers and flowers and flower buds falling within subheading 0603
10 of the Common Customs Tariff

AGREEMENT

A. Letter from the Community

Sir,

The following was agreed between the Community and Egypt:

Protocol 1 of the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement provides for the elimination of customs duties on
imports into the Community of cut flowers and flower buds, fresh, falling within subheading 0603 10 of
the Common Customs Tariff and originating in Egypt, subject to a limit of 3 000 tonnes.

Egypt undertakes to abide by the conditions laid down below for imports into the Community of roses
and carnations which qualify for the elimination of this tariff:

— the price level of imports into the Community must be at least equal to 85 % of the Community price

level for the same products over the same periods,

— the Egyptian price level shall be determined by recording the prices of the imported products, on repre-

sentative Community import markets,

— the Community price level shall be based on the producer prices recorded on representative markets of

the main producer Member States,

— price levels will be recorded on a fortnightly basis and weighted by the respective quantities. This provi-

sion is valid for Community prices and for Egyptian prices,

— for both Community producer prices and the import prices of Egyptian products, a distinction shall be
made between large-flowered and small-flowered roses and between unifloral and multifloral carna-
tions,

— if the Egyptian price level for any one type of product is below 85 % of the Community price level, the
tariff preference shall be suspended. The Community shall reinstate the tariff preference when an Egyp-
tian price level equal to 85 % or more of the Community price level is recorded.

I should be obliged if you would confirm that your Government is in agreement with the contents of this
letter.

Please accept, Sir, the assurance of my highest consideration.

For the European Community

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B. Letter from Egypt

Sir,

I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter of today's date which reads as follows:

‘The following was agreed between the Community and Egypt:

Protocol 1 of the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement provides for the elimination of customs duties on
imports into the Community of cut flowers and flower buds, fresh, falling within subheading 0603 10
of the Common Customs Tariff and originating in Egypt, subject to a limit of 3 000 tonnes.

Egypt undertakes to abide by the conditions laid down below for imports into the Community of roses
and carnations which qualify for the elimination of this tariff:

— the price level of imports into the Community must be at least equal to 85 % of the Community

price level for the same products over the same periods,

— the Egyptian price level shall be determined by recording the prices of the imported products on

representative Community import markets,

— the Community price level shall be based on the producer prices recorded on representative

markets of the main producer Member States,

— price levels will be recorded on a fortnightly basis and weighted by the respective quantities. This

provision is valid for Community prices and for Egyptian prices,

— for both Community producer prices and the import prices of Egyptian products, a distinction
shall be made between large-flowered and small-flowered roses and between unifloral and multi-
floral carnations,

— if the Egyptian price level for any one type of product is below 85 % of the Community price level,
the tariff preference shall be suspended. The Community shall reinstate the tariff preference when
an Egyptian price level equal to 85 % or more of the Community price level is recorded.

I should be obliged if you would confirm that your Government is in agreement with the contents of
this letter.’

I have the honour to confirm that my Government is in agreement with the contents of your letter.

Please accept, Sir, the assurance of my highest consideration.

For the Government of the Arab Republic of Egypt