2003/49/EC: Decision No 2/2002 of the EU-Bulgaria Association Council of 1 July 2002 on the improvement of the trade arrangements for processed agricultural products foreseen in Protocol 3 of the Europe Agreement
Date: 2002-07-01
Institutions: EC–Bulgaria Association Council
Subjects: Bulgaria, agricultural product, association agreement (EU), generalised preferences, processed foodstuff, tariff quota

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COUNCIL

DECISION No 2/2002 OF THE EU-BULGARIA ASSOCIATION COUNCIL

of 1 July 2002

on the improvement of the trade arrangements for processed agricultural products foreseen in
Protocol 3 of the Europe Agreement

(2003/49/EC)

THE ASSOCIATION COUNCIL,

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Having regard to the Europe Agreement establishing an asso-
ciation between the European Communities and their Member
States, of the one part, and the Republic of Bulgaria, of the
other part (1), and in particular Article 1(2) of Protocol 3
thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Protocol 3, as replaced by the Protocol adjusting trade
aspects of the Europe Agreement (2), lays down the trade
arrangements in processed agricultural products between
the Community and Bulgaria.

the Association
Under Article 1(2) of
Council decides in particular on any amendment of the
duties mentioned in the Annexes to the Protocol and on
the increase or abolition of tariff quotas.

the Protocol,

Under the second indent of Article 2 of the Protocol, the
Association Council also decides that the duties applied
may be reduced in response to reductions resulting from
mutual concessions relating to processed agricultural
products.

The annual quotas provided for in Annexes I and II to
this Decision should be opened for the year 2002. In
view of the fact that these annual quotas can only be
opened after l January 2002, on a date to be fixed, they
should be reduced on a pro rata basis according to the
period already elapsed,

Article 1

Annexes I and II to Protocol 3 on trade between the Commu-
nity and Bulgaria in processed agricultural products are
replaced by Annexes I and II to this Decision.

Article 2

The annual quotas for the year 2002 provided for in Annexes I
and II to this Decision will be reduced on a pro rata basis
taking into account the period, based on whole months, already
elapsed.

Article 3

This Decision shall enter into force on the first day of the
second month following its adoption.

Done at Brussels, 1 July 2002.

For the Association Council

The President

S. PASSY

(1) OJ L 358, 31.12.1994, p. 3.
(2) OJ L 112, 29.4.1999, p. 3.

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ANNEX I

Table 1

Quotas applicable upon import into the Community of goods originating in Bulgaria — exempt from duty

CN code

(1)

0405

0405 20

Description

(2)

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

– 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 %

ex 2106

3302 10

Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included other than those falling
within CN codes 2106 10 20 and 2106 90 20 and other than flavoured or
coloured sugar syrups (1)

Mixtures of odoriferous substances and mixtures (including alcoholic solutions)
with a basis of one or more of these substances, of a kind used in the food or
drink industries:

3302 10 29

– – – – – Other

1702 50

Chemically pure fructose

ex 1704

ex 1806

ex 1901

confectionery (including white

Sugar
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), not

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

food preparations of

Malt extract;
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 of heading 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 goods falling within CN code 1901 90 91

ex 1902

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

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, or in
the form of flakes or other worked grains (except flour and meal), pre-cooked,
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

Annual
quota 2002

Annual increase
from 2003 on

(1 000) kg

(3)

588

4 000

202

604

121

404

302

706

(4)

49

—

17

50

10

34

25

59

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quota 2002

Annual increase
from 2003 on

(1 000) kg

(3)

202

CN code

(1)

2101 12 98

2101 20 98

Description

(2)

Preparations with a basis of extracts, essences or concentrates of coffee or with a
basis of coffee, other than those of CN code 2101 12 92

Preparations with a basis of extracts, essences or concentrates of tea or maté or
with a basis of tea or maté, other than those of CN code 2101 20 92

2101 30

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

26

concentrates thereof:

– – Roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes:

2101 30 19

– – – Other

– – Extracts, essences and concentrates of roasted chicory and other roasted

2101 30 99

– – – Other

coffee substitutes:

2103

2103 20 00

2103 30 90

2103 90 90

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

– Tomato ketchup and other tomato sauces

– – Prepared mustard

– – Other

2105 00

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

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 No 2209:

2 200

2 200

2 200

100

21

2202 90 91 to
2202 90 99

– – Other

(4)

17

2

200

200

200

8

2

(1) For products under CN code 2106 90 10, eligibility to benefit from this preference is subject to conditions laid down in the relevant Community provisions.

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Table 2

Duties applicable upon import into the Community of goods originating in Bulgaria

Note: The duties set out in this table are subject to a reduction by 10 %. The amounts taken into consideration in
calculating the reduced agricultural components (EAR) and additional duties (AD S/ZR and AD F/MR), applicable on
importation into the Community of goods listed in this Table are those set out in Table 2(b) (from 1 July 2000) of
Annex 1 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2204/1999 of 12 October 1999 (pages 775 to 787 of OJ L 278 of 28
October 1999) (1).

CN Code

(1)

0403

Description

(2)

Duty applicable on 31.12.2000

(3)

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

– Yoghurt:

– – Flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa:

– – – In powder, granules or other solid forms, of a milk fat content, by weight:

0403 10 51

– – – – Not exceeding 1,5 %

0403 10 53

– – – – Exceeding 1,5 % but not exceeding 27 %

0403 10 59

– – – – Exceeding 27 %

– – – Other, of a milk fat content, by weight:

0403 10 91

– – – – Not exceeding 3 %

0403 10 93

– – – – Exceeding 3 % but not exceeding 6 %

0403 10 99

– – – – Exceeding 6 %

0403 90

– Other:

– – Flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa:

– – – In powder, granules or other solid forms, of a milkfat content, by weight:

0403 90 71

– – – – Not exceeding 1,5 %

0403 90 73

– – – – Exceeding 1,5 % but not exceeding 27 %

0403 90 79

– – – – Exceeding 27 %

– – – Other, of a milkfat content, by weight:

0403 90 91

– – – – Not exceeding 3 %

0403 90 93

– – – – Exceeding 3 % but not exceeding 6 %

0403 90 99

– – – – Exceeding 6 %

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 %

0509 00

Natural sponges of animal origin:

0509 00 90

– Other

0 % + 95 EUR/100 kg

0 % + 130,4 EUR/100 kg

0 % + 168,8 EUR/100 kg

0 % + 12,4 EUR/100 kg

0 % + 17,1 EUR/100 kg

0 % + 26,6 EUR/100 kg

0 % + 95 EUR/100 kg

0 % + 130,4 EUR/100 kg

0 % + 168,8 EUR/100 kg

0 % + 12,4 EUR/100 kg

0 % + 17,1 EUR/100 kg

0 % + 26,6 EUR/100 kg

0 % + EAR

0 % + EAR

5,1 %

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CN Code

(1)

Description

(2)

Duty applicable on 31.12.2000

(3)

0710

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

0710 40 00

– Sweet corn

0 % + 9,4 EUR/100 kg net eda

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

– Other vegetables; mixtures of vegetables:

– – Vegetables

0711 90 30

– – – Sweet corn

0 % + 9,4 EUR/100 kg net eda

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 20

– Pectic substances, pectinates and pectates:

1302 20 10

– – Dry

1302 20 90

– – Other

1505

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

1505 10 00

– Wool grease, crude

1516

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

1516 20

– Vegetable fats and oils and their fractions:

0 %

1,9 %

7,1 %

5,2 %

3,2 %

1516 20 10

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

3,4 % (2)

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 No 1516:

1517 10

– Margarine, excluding liquid margarine:

1517 10 10

– – Containing more than 10 % but not more than 15 % by weight of milk fats

0 % + 28,4 EUR/100 kg

1517 90

– Other:

1517 90 10

– – Containing more than 10 % but not more than 15 % by weight of milk fats

0 % + 28,4 EUR/100 kg

– – Other

1517 90 93

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

2,9 %

tions

1518 00

Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, boiled, oxidised, dehy-
drated, sulphurised, blown, polymerised by heat in vacuum or in inert gas or
otherwise chemically modified, excluding those of heading No 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

– Other:

7,7 %

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CN Code

(1)

1518 00 91

Description

(2)

– – 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 No 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

1521

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

1521 90

– Other:

– – 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

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:

Duty applicable on 31.12.2000

(3)

7,7 %

2 %

7,7 %

2,5 %

3,8 %

1702 50 00

– Chemically pure fructose

16 % + 50,7 EUR/100 kg net eda

1702 90

– Other,

including invert sugar:

1702 90 10

– – Chemically pure maltose

12,8 %

1704

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

1704 10

– Chewing gum, whether or not sugar-coated:

– – Containing less than 60 % by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar

expressed as sucrose):

1704 10 11

– – – Gum in strips

1704 10 19

– – – Other

– – Containing 60 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar

expressed as sucrose):

1704 10 91

– – – Gum in strips

1704 10 99

– – – Other

1704 90

– Other:

0 % + 27,1 EUR/100 kg MAX 17,9 %

0 % + 27,1 EUR/100 kg MAX 17,9 %

0 % + 30,9 EUR/100 kg MAX 18,2 %

0 % + 30,9 EUR/100 kg MAX 18,2 %

1704 90 10

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

5,8 %

containing other added substances

1704 90 30

– – White chocolate

– – Other:

0 % + 45,1 MAX 18,9 % +
16,5 EUR/100 kg

1704 90 51

– – – Pastes,

including marzipan,

in immediate packings of a net content of

0 % + EAR MAX 18,7 % + AD S/ZR

1 kg or more

1704 90 55

– – – Throat pastilles and cough drops

0 % + EAR MAX 18,7 % + AD S/ZR

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CN Code

(1)

Description

(2)

Duty applicable on 31.12.2000

(3)

1704 90 61

– – – Sugar coated (panned) goods

0 % + EAR MAX 18,7 % + AD S/ZR

– – – Other:

1704 90 65

– – – – Gum confectionery and jelly confectionery including fruit pastes in the

0 % + EAR MAX 18,7 % + AD S/ZR

form of sugar confectionery

1704 90 71

– – – – Boiled sweets whether or not filled

1704 90 75

– – – – Toffees, caramels and similar sweets

– – – – Other

1704 90 81

– – – – – Compressed tablets

1704 90 99

– – – – – Other

1803

Cocoa paste, whether or not defatted:

1804 00 00

Cocoa butter, fat and oil

1805 00 00

Cocoa powder, not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter

1806

Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa:

1806 10

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

1806 10 15

1806 10 20

1806 10 30

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

– – Containing 5 % or more but less than 65 % by weight of sucrose (including
invert sugar expressed as sucrose) or isoglucose expressed as sucrose

– – Containing 65 % or more but less than 80 % by weight of sucrose (including
invert sugar expressed as sucrose) or isoglucose expressed as sucrose

0 % + EAR MAX 18,7 % + AD S/ZR

0 % + EAR MAX 18,7 % + AD S/ZR

0 % + EAR MAX 18,7 % + AD S/ZR

0 % + EAR MAX 18,7 % + AD S/ZR

0 %

0 %

0 %

0 %

0 % + 25,2 EUR/100 kg

0 % + 31,4 EUR/100 kg

1806 10 90

– – Containing 80 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar

0 % + 41,9 EUR/100 kg

expressed as sucrose) or isoglucose expressed as sucrose

1806 20

– Other preparations in block, slabs or bars weighing more than 2 kg or in
liquid, paste, powder, granular or other bulk form in containers or immediate
packings, of a content exceeding 2 kg:

1806 20 10

– – Containing 31 % or more by weight of cocoa butter or containing a

0 % + EAR MAX 18,7 % + AD S/ZR

combined weight of 31 % or more of cocoa butter and milk fat

1806 20 30

– – Containing a combined weight of 25 % or more, but less than 31 % of cocoa

0 % + EAR MAX 18,7 % + AD S/ZR

butter and milk fat

– – Other:

1806 20 50

– – – Containing 18 % or more by weight of cocoa butter

0 % + EAR MAX 18,7 % + AD S/ZR

1806 20 70

– – – Chocolate milk crumb

1806 20 80

– – – Chocolate flavour coating

1806 20 95

– – – Other

– Other,

in blocks, slabs or bars:

1806 31 00

– – Filled

1806 32

– – Not filled

1806 32 10

– – – With added cereal, fruit or nuts

1806 32 90

– – – Other

0 % + EA

0 % + EAR MAX 18,7 % + AD S/ZR

0 % + EAR MAX 18,7 % + AD S/ZR

0 % + EAR MAX 18,7 % + AD S/ZR

0 % + EAR MAX 18,7 % + AD S/ZR

0 % + EAR MAX 18,7 % + AD S/ZR

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CN Code

(1)

1806 90

– Other:

Description

(2)

Duty applicable on 31.12.2000

(3)

– – Chocolate and chocolate products:

– – – Chocolates, whether or not filled:

1806 90 11

– – – – Containing alcohol

1806 90 19

– – – – Other

– – – Other:

1806 90 31

– – – – Filled

1806 90 39

– – – – Not Filled

0 % + EAR MAX 18,7 % + AD S/ZR

0 % + EAR MAX 18,7 % + AD S/ZR

0 % + EAR MAX 18,7 % + AD S/ZR

0 % + EAR MAX 18,7 % + AD S/ZR

1806 90 50

– – Sugar confectionery and substitutes therefor made from sugar substitution

0 % + EAR MAX 18,7 % + AD S/ZR

products, containing cocoa

1806 90 60

– – Spreads containing cocoa

0 % + EAR MAX 18,7 % + AD S/ZR

1806 90 70

– – Preparations containing cocoa for making beverages

0 % + EAR MAX 18,7 % + AD S/ZR

1806 90 90

– – Other

0 % + EAR MAX 18,7 % + AD S/ZR

1901

food preparations of

Malt extract;
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 of heading 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:

1901 10 00

– Preparations for infant use, put up for retail sale

1901 20 00

– Mixes and doughs for the preparation of bakers' wares of heading No 1905

0 % + EAR

0 % + EAR

1901 90

– Other:

– – Malt extract:

1901 90 11

– – – With a dry extract content of 90 % or more by weight

0 % + 18 EUR/100 kg

1901 90 19

– – – Other

– – Other:

1901 90 91

– – – Containing no milk fats,

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 heading Nos 0401 to 0404

isoglucose, glucose or

sucrose,

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:

1902 11 00

– – Containing eggs

1902 19

– – Other:

1902 19 10

– – – Containing no common wheat flour or meal

1902 19 90

– – – Other

1902 20

– Stuffed pasta whether or not cooked or otherwise prepared:

– – Other

0 % + 14,7 EUR/100 kg

12,8 %

0 % + EAR

0 % + 24,6 EUR/100 kg

0 % + 24,6 EUR/100 kg

0 % + 21,1 EUR/100 kg

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(1)

Description

(2)

1902 20 91

– – – Cooked

1902 20 99

– – – Other

1902 30

– Other pasta

1902 30 10

– – Dried

1902 30 90

– – Other

1902 40

– Couscous

1902 40 10

– – Unprepared

1902 40 90

– – Other

1903 00 00

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

1904

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:

1904 10

– Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal

products:

1904 10 10

– – Obtained from maize

1904 10 30

– – Obtained from rice

1904 10 90

– – Other:

Duty applicable on 31.12.2000

(3)

0 % + 6,1 EUR/100 kg

0 % + 17,1 EUR/100 kg

0 % + 24,6 EUR/100 kg

0 % + 9,7 EUR/100 kg

0 % + 24,6 EUR/100 kg

0 % + 9,7 EUR/100 kg

0 % + 15,1 EUR/100 kg

0 % + 20 EUR/100 kg

0 % + 46 EUR/100 kg

0 % + 33,6 EUR/100 kg

1904 20

– Prepared foods obtained from unroasted cereal flakes or from mixtures of

unroasted cereal flakes and roasted cereal flakes or swelled cereals:

1904 20 10

– – Preparation of the Müsli type based on unroasted cereal flakes

0 % + EAR

– – Other:

1904 20 91

– – – Obtained from maize

1904 20 95

– – – Obtained from rice

1904 20 99

– – – Other:

1904 90

– Other:

1904 90 10

– – Rice

1904 90 90

– – Other

1905

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:

1905 10 00

– Crispbread

1905 20

– Gingerbread and the like

0 % + 20 EUR/100 kg

0 % + 46 EUR/100 kg

0 % + 33,6 EUR/100 kg

0 % + 46 EUR/100 kg

0 % + 25,7 EUR/100 kg

0 % + 13 EUR/100 kg

1905 20 10

– – Containing by weight of sucrose less than 30 % (including invert sugar

0 % + 18,3 EUR/100 kg

expressed as sucrose)

1905 20 30

– – Containing by weight of sucrose 30 % or more but less than 50 % (including

0 % + 24,6 EUR/100 kg

invert sugar expressed as sucrose)

1905 20 90

– – Containing by weight of sucrose 50 % or more (including invert sugar

0 % + 31,4 EUR/100 kg

expressed as sucrose)

1905 30

– Sweet biscuits; waffles and wafers:

– – Completely or partially coated or covered with chocolate or other prepara-

tions containing cocoa:

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(1)

Description

(2)

Duty applicable on 31.12.2000

(3)

1905 30 11

– – – In immediate packings of a net content not exceeding 85 g

0 % + EAR MAX 24,2 % + AD S/ZR

1905 30 19

– – – Other

0 % + EAR MAX 24,2 % + AD S/ZR

– – Other:

– – – Sweet biscuits:

1905 30 30

– – – – Containing 8 % or more by weight of milk fats

0 % + EAR MAX 24,2 % + AD S/ZR

– – – – Other:

1905 30 51

– – – – – Sandwich biscuits

1905 30 59

– – – – – Other

– – – Waffles and wafers:

1905 30 91

– – – – Salted, whether or not filled

1905 30 99

– – – – Other

1905 40

– Rusks, toasted bread and similar toasted products:

1905 40 10

– – Rusks

1905 40 90

– – Other

1905 90

– Other:

1905 90 10

– – Matzos

0 % + EAR MAX 24,2 % + AD S/ZR

0 % + EAR MAX 24,2 % + AD S/ZR

0 % + EAR MAX 20,7 % + AD F/MR

0 % + EAR MAX 24,2 % + AD S/ZR

0 % + EAR

0 % + EAR

0 % + 15,9 EUR/100 kg

1905 90 20

– – Communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical

0 % + 60,5 EUR/100 kg

use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products

– – Other:

1905 90 30

– – – Bread, not containing added honey, eggs, cheese or fruit, and containing
by weight in the dry matter state not more than 5 % of sugars and not
more than 5 % of fat

0 % + EAR

1905 90 40

– – – Waffles and wafers with a water content exceeding 10 % by weight

0 % + EAR MAX 20,7 % + AD F/MR

1905 90 45

– – – Biscuits

0 % + EAR MAX 20,7 % + AD F/MR

1905 90 55

– – – Extruded or expanded products, savoury or salted

0 % + EAR MAX 20,7 % + AD F/MR

– – – Other:

1905 90 60

– – – – With added sweetening matter

0 % + EAR MAX 24,2 % + AD S/ZR

1905 90 90

– – – – Other

0 % + EAR MAX 20,7 % + AD F/MR

2001

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

2001 90

– Other:

2001 90 30

– – Sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata)

0 % + 9,4 EUR/100 kg net eda

2001 90 40

– – Yams, sweet potatoes and similar edible parts of plants containing 5 % or

0 % + 3,8 EUR/100 kg net eda

more by weight of starch

2001 90 60

– – Palm hearts

10 %

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2004

2004 10

Description

(2)

Duty applicable on 31.12.2000

(3)

Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid,
frozen, other than products of heading No 2006:

– Potatoes:

– – Other:

2004 10 91

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

0 % + EAR

2004 90

– Other vegetables and mixtures of vegetables:

2004 90 10

– – Sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata)

5,1 % + 9,4 EUR/100 kg net eda

2005

Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid,
not frozen, other than products of heading No 2006:

2005 20

– Potatoes:

2005 20 10

– – In the form of flour, meal or flakes

2005 80 00

– Sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata)

0 % + EAR

0 % + 9,4 EUR/100 kg net eda

ex 2005 90 80

Preparations based on flour of leguminous vegetables in the form of sun-dried
discs or dough, known as papad

0 %

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:

– Nuts, ground-nuts and other seeds, whether or not mixed together:

2008 11

– – Groundnuts

2008 11 10

– – – Peanut butter

– Other,

including mixtures other than those of subheading 2008 19:

2008 91 00

– – Palm hearts

2008 99

– – Other

– – – Not containing added spirit:

– – – – Not containing added sugar:

5,2 %

3,5 %

2008 99 85

– – – – – Maize (corn), other than sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata)

0 % + 9,4 EUR/100 kg net eda

2008 99 91

– – – – – Yams, sweet potatoes and similar edible parts of plants, containing 5 %

0 % + 3,8 EUR/100 kg net eda

or more by weight of starch

2101

2101 11

2101 12

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:

– – Extracts; essences or concentrates

– – Preparations with a basis of these extracts, essences or concentrates or with a

basis of coffee:

2101 12 92

– – – Preparations with a basis of these extracts, essences or concentrates of

coffee

2101 12 98

– – – Other

3,2 %

4,9 %

0 % + EAR

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:

2,2 %

– – Preparations

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Description

(2)

2101 20 92

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

2101 20 98

– – – Other

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

2101 30 19

– – – Other

– – Extracts, essences and concentrates of roasted chicory and other roasted

coffee substitutes:

2101 30 91

– – – Of roasted chicory

2101 30 99

– – – Other

2102

Yeasts (active or inactive); other single-cell micro-organisms, dead (but not
including vaccines of heading No 3002); prepared baking powders:

Duty applicable on 31.12.2000

(3)

0 %

0 % + EAR

4,9 %

0 % + 12,7 EUR/100 kg

5,5 %

0 % + 22,7 EUR/100 kg

2102 10

– Active yeasts:

2102 10 10

– – Culture yeast

– – Baker's yeast:

2102 10 31

– – – Dried

2102 10 39

– – – Other

2102 10 90

– – Other

2102 20

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

– – Inactive yeasts:

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 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 90

– – Prepared mustard

2103 90

– Other:

2103 90 90

– – Other

2104

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

2104 10

– Soups and broths and preparation therefor:

2104 10 10

– – Dried

2104 10 90

– – Other

2104 20 00

– Homogenised composite food preparations

4,7 %

0 %

0 %

3,8 %

1,9 %

2,6 %

1,9 %

2,8 %

3,8 %

4,2 %

3,2 %

4,5 %

4,5 %

5,5 %

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CN Code

(1)

Description

(2)

Duty applicable on 31.12.2000

(3)

2105 00

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

2105 00 10

– Containing no milk fats or containing less than 3 % by weight of such fats

– Containing by weight of milk fats:

2105 00 91

– – 3 % or more but less than 7 %

2105 00 99

– – 7 % or more

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

2106 10 80

– – Other

2106 90

– Other:

2106 90 10

– – Cheese fondues (3)

0 % + 20,2 EUR/100 kg MAX
19,4 % + 9,4 EUR/100 kg

0 % + 38,5 EUR/100 kg
MAX 18,1 % + 7 EUR/100 kg

0 % + 54 EUR/100 kg
MAX 17,8 % + 6,9 EUR/100 kg

5,2 %

0 % + EAR

35 EUR/100 kg

2106 90 20

– – Compound alcoholic preparations, other than those based on odoriferous

17,3 % MIN 1 EUR/% vol/hl

substances, of a kind used for the manufacture of beverages

– – Other:

2106 90 92

– – – Containing no milk fats,

starch or
containing, by weight, less than 1,5 % milk fat, 5 % sucrose or isoglucose,
5 % glucose or starch

isoglucose, glucose or

sucrose,

2106 90 98

– – – 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 No 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 heading Nos 0401 to 0404 or fat obtained from

products of heading Nos 0401 to 0404

– – Other, containing by weight of fat obtained from the products of heading

Nos 0401 to 0404:

2202 90 91

– – – Less than 0,2 %

2202 90 95

– – – 0,2 % or more but less than 2 %

2202 90 99

– – – 2 % or more

2203 00

Beer made from malt

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 of 18 % vol or less

12,8 %

0 % + EAR

1,9 %

3,8 %

0 % + 13,7 EUR/100 kg

0 % + 12,1 EUR/100 kg

0 % + 21,2 EUR/100 kg

1,8 %

5,1 EUR/hl

0 %

3,2 EUR/hl

0 %

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CN Code

(1)

Description

(2)

Duty applicable on 31.12.2000

(3)

2207

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

2207 10 00

– Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of 80 % vol or

19,2 EUR/hl

higher

2207 20 00

– Ethyl alcohol and other spirits, denatured, of any strength

10,2 EUR/hl

2208

Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of less than 80 %
vol; spirits,

liqueurs and other spirituous beverages:

2208 40

– Rum and taffia:

– – In containers holding 2 litres or less:

2208 40 11

– – – Rum with a content of volatile substances other than ethyl and methyl
alcohol equal to or exceeding 225 grams per hectolitre of pure alcohol
(with a 10 % tolerance)

0,6 EUR/% vol/hl + 3,2 EUR/hl

– – – Other:

2208 40 31

– – – – Of a value exceeding EUR 7,9 per litre of pure alcohol

0,6 EUR/% vol/hl + 3,2 EUR/hl

2208 40 39

– – – – Other

0,6 EUR/% vol/hl + 3,2 EUR/hl

– – In containers holding more than 2 litres:

2208 40 51

– – – Rum with a content of volatile substances other than ethyl and methyl
alcohol equal to or exceeding 225 grams per hectolitre of pure alcohol
(with a 10 % tolerance)

0,6 EUR/%
vol/hl

– – – Other:

2208 40 91

– – – Of a value exceeding EUR 2 per litre of pure alcohol

2208 40 99

– – – Other

2208 90

– Other:

– – Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of less than

80 % volume,

in containers holding:

0,6 EUR/% vol/hl

0,6 EUR/% vol/hl

2208 90 91

– – – 2 litres or less

2208 90 99

– – – More than 2 litres

1 EUR/% vol/hl + 6,4 EUR/hl

1 EUR/% vol/hl

2402

Cigars, cheroots, cigarillos and cigarettes, of tobacco or of tobacco substitutes:

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; ‘homogeni-
sed’ or ‘reconstituted’ tobacco; tobacco extracts and essences:

2403 10

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

proportion:

2403 10 10

– – In immediate packings of a net content not exceeding 500 g

2403 10 90

– – Other

– Other

26 %

10 %

57,6 %

57,6 %

74,9 %

74,9 %

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(1)

Description

(2)

2403 91 00

– – ‘Homongenised’ or ‘reconstituted’ tobacco

2403 99

– – Other:

2403 99 10

– – – Chewing tobacco and snuff

2403 99 90

– – – Other

2905

Acyclic alcohols and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated
derivatives:

– Other polyhydric alcohols:

2905 43 00

– – Mannitol

2905 44

– – D-glucitol (sorbitol):

– – – In aqueous solution:

Duty applicable on 31.12.2000

(3)

16,6 %

41,6 %

16,6 %

0 % + 125,8 EUR/100 kg

0 % + 125,8 EUR/100 kg

2905 44 11

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

0 % + 16,1 EUR/100 kg

D-glucitol content

2905 44 19

– – – – Other

– – – Other

0 % + 37,8 EUR/100 kg

2905 44 91

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

0 % + 23 EUR/100 kg

D-glucitol content

2905 44 99

– – – – Other

2905 45 00

– – Glycerol

0 % + 53,7 EUR/100 kg

0 %

3301

Essential oils (terpeneless or not), including concretes and absolutes; resinoids;
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
deterpenation of essential oils; aqueous distillates and aqueous solutions of
essential oils:

3301 90

– Other:

– – Extracted oleoresins:

3301 90 21

– – – Of liquorice and hops

0 %

3302

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

3302 10

– Of a kind used in the food or drink industries

– – Of the type used in the drink industries:

– – – Preparations containing all flavouring agents characterising a beverage:

3302 10 10

– – – – Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume exceeding 0,5 %

– – – – Other:

3302 10 21

– – – – – Containing no milkfats, sucrose,

isoglucose, glucose, or starch or
containing, by weight, less than 1,5 % milkfat, 5 % sucrose or isoglu-
cose, 5 % glucose or starch

3302 10 29

– – – – – Other

0 %

12,8 %

0 % + EAR

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(1)

Description

(2)

3501

Casein, caseinates and other casein derivates; casein glues:

3501 10

– Casein:

3501 10 50

– – For industrial uses other than the manufacture of foodstuffs or fodder

3501 10 90

– – Other

3501 90

– Other:

3501 90 90

– – Other

Duty applicable on 31.12.2000

(3)

0 %

0 %

0 %

0 %

0 %

3505

Dextrins and other modified starches (for example, pregelatinised or esterified
starches); glues based on starches, or on dextrins or other modified starches:

3505 10

– Dextrins and other modified starches:

3505 10 10

– – Dextrins

0 % + 17,7 EUR/100 kg

– – Other modified starches:

3505 10 90

– – – Other

3505 20

– Glues:

0 % + 17,7 EUR/100 kg

3505 20 10

– – Containing, by weight,
modified starches

less than 25 % of starches or dextrins or other

0 % + 4,5 EUR/100 kg MAX 11,5 %

3505 20 30

– – Containing, by weight, 25 % or more but less than 55 % of starches or

0 % + 8,9 EUR/100 kg MAX 11,5 kg

dextrins or other modified starches

3505 20 50

– – Containing, by weight, 55 % or more but less than 80 % of starches or

0 % + 14,2 EUR/100 kg MAX 11,5 %

dextrins or other modified starches

3505 20 90

– – Containing by weight 80 % or more of starches or dextrins or other modi-

0 % + 17,7 EUR/100 kg MAX 11,5 %

fied starches

3809

Finishing agents, dye carriers to accelerate 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:

3809 10

– – With a basis of amylaceous substances:

3809 10 10

– – Containing by weight of such substances less than 55 %

0 % + 8,9 EUR/100 kg MAX 12,8 %

3809 10 30

– – Containing by weight of such substances 55 % or more but less than 70 %:

0 % + 12,4 EUR/100 kg MAX 12,8 %

3809 10 50

– – Containing by weight of such substances 70 % or more but less than 83 %

0 % + 15,1 EUR/100 kg MAX 12,8 %

3809 10 90

– – Containing by weight of such substances 83 % or more

0 % + 17,7 EUR/100 kg MAX 12,8 %

3823

3824

Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids; acid oils from refining; industrial fatty
alcohols

Prepared binders for foundry moulds or cores; chemical products and prepara-
tions of the chemical or allied industries (including those consisting of mixtures
of natural products), not elsewhere specified or included; residual products of
the chemical or allied industries, not elsewhere specified or included:

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(2)

Duty applicable on 31.12.2000

(3)

3824 60

– Sorbitol other than that of subheading 2905 44:

– – in aqueous solution:

3824 60 11

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

0 % + 16,1 EUR/100 kg

content

3824 60 19

– – – Other

– – Other

0 % + 37,8 EUR/100 kg

3824 60 91

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

0 % 23 EUR/100 kg

glucitol content

3824 60 99

– – – Other

0 % + 53,7 EUR/100 kg

(1) The final rate of preferential duty, calculated according to this note, shall be rounded down to the first decimal place, except for duties expressed as ‘EAR’, ‘AD S/ZR’ and

‘AD F/MR’

in this table, which shall be rounded down to the second decimal place.

(2) From the entry into force of this Decision, the duty shall be 0 %.
(3) Eligibility to benefit from this preference is subject to conditions laid down in the relevant Community provisions.

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Basic amounts taken into consideration in calculating the reduced agricultural components (EAR) and additional
duties applicable on importation into the Community of goods listed in Table 2

Table 3

Basic product

(1)

Common wheat

Durum wheat

Rye

Barley

Maize

Long-grain husked rice

Skimmed-milk powder

Whole-milk powder

Butter

White sugar

MFN rate on 1.7.2000
(EUR/100 kg)

(2)

9,504

14,752

9,261

9,261

9,395

26,432

118,800

130,432

189,562

41,928

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ANNEX II

Table 1

List of goods originating in the Community for which Bulgaria applies preferential treatment within quantitative
limits

Note: The duties applicable upon import of goods exceeding these quantitative limits are those set out in Table 2.

CN Code

(1)

Description

(2)

1516 20 91

Vegetable fats and oils and their fractions

1702 50 00
1702 90 10

Chemically pure fructose
Chemically pure maltose

1704 90

1806 10

Other sugar confectionery (including white chocolate), not
containing cocoa

Cocoa powder, containing added sugar or other sweetening
matter

2004 10 91

Potatoes in the form of flour, meal or flakes

2005 20 10

Potatoes in the form of flour, meal or flakes

2202 10

Waters
including mineral waters and aerated waters,
containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or flav-
oured

Annual quota
(1 000 kg)
2002

Annual increase
(1 000 kg)
from 2003 on

Rate of duty applicable
within the quota
(%)

(3)

1 426

40

320

220

300

150

(4)

119

—

—

20

—

—

(5)

Exemption

Exemption

20

Exemption

20

20

3 840

320

Exemption

ex 2208 60

Vodka,

in containers holding not more than 2 litres

1 380 hl

—

Exemption

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Table 2

Duties applicable to goods originating in the Community upon import into Bulgaria

CN Code

(1)

0403

Description

(2)

Rate of duty (%)

(3)

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

– Yoghurt:

– – Flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa:

– – – In powder, granules or other solid forms

– – – Other

0403 10 51 to
0403 10 59

0403 10 91 to
0403 10 99

0403 90

– Other:

– – Flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa:

– – – In powder, granules or other solid forms

– – – Other

0403 90 71 to
0403 90 79

0403 90 91 to
0403 90 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 %

0505

0506

0507

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

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

Ivory, tortoiseshell, 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 00

Coral and similar materials, unworked or simply prepared but not otherwise
worked; shells of molluscs, crustaceans or echinoderms and cuttle-bone,
unworked or simply prepared but not cut to shape, powder and waste thereof

0509 00

Natural sponges of animal origin

32

40 (*)

32

40 (*)

8

8

0

0

0

0

0

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CN Code

(1)

0510 00 00

Description

(2)

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

0710

Vegetables (uncooked or cooked by steaming 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

– Other vegetables; mixtures of vegetables:

– – Vegetables:

0711 90 30

– – – Sweet corn

0903 00 00

Maté

1212

Locust beans, seaweeds and other algae, sugar beet and sugar cane, fresh, chilled,
frozen 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 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 sugar seeds:

1302 32 10

– – – Of locust beans or locust bean seeds

1401

1402

1403

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

Vegetable materials of a kind used primarily as stuffing or as padding (for
example, kapok, vegetable hair and eel-grass), whether or not put up as a layer
with or without supporting material

Vegetable materials of a kind used primarily in brooms or in brushes (for
example, broomcorn piassava, couch-grass and istle), whether or not in hanks
or bundles

Rate of duty (%)

(3)

0

24

30

0

0

0

0

0

3

0

0

0

0

0

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CN Code

(1)

Description

(2)

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 00

– Cotton linters

1404 90 00

– Other

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 00

– Jojoba oil and its fractions

1516

Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, partly or wholly hydrogen-
ated, inter-esterified, re-esterified 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 ‘opalwax’

1516 20 91

– – Other

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 No 1516:

1517 90

– Other:

Rate of duty (%)

(3)

0

0

0

8

0

15

8

0

13

1517 90 10

– – Containing more than 10 % but not more than 15 % by weight of milk fats

22,5 (*)

– – Other:

1517 90 93

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

20 (*)

tions

1518 00

Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, boiled, oxidised, dehy-
drated, sulphurised, blown, polymerised by heat in vacuum or in inert gas or
otherwise chemically modified, excluding those of heading No 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

– 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 No 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

8

5

8

5

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Description

(2)

1520 00 00

Glycerol, 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 00

– Vegetable waxes

1521 90

– Other

1522 00

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

1522 00 10

– 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

– Other,

including invert sugar:

1702 90 10

– – Chemically pure maltose

1704

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

1704 10

– Chewing gum, whether or not sugar-coated:

1704 10 11 to
1704 10 19

1704 10 91 to
1704 10 99

– – Containing less than 60 % by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar

expressed as sucrose)

– – Containing 60 % or more by weight of sucrose (including invert sugar

expressed as sucrose)

1704 90

– Other

1803

Cocoa paste, whether or not defatted

1804 00 00

Cocoa butter, fat and oil

1805 00 00

Cocoa powder, not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter

1806

Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa:

1806 10

– Cocoa powder, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter

1806 20

– Other preparations in block, slabs or bars weighing more than 2 kg or in
liquid, paste, powder, granular or other bulk form in containers or immediate
packings, of a content exceeding 2 kg

– Other,

in blocks, slabs or bars:

1806 31 00

– – Filled

1806 32

– – Not filled

1806 90

– Other

Rate of duty (%)

(3)

5

8

8

22,5

10

25

8

8

35 (1)

0

0

0

35

25

25

25

25 (2)

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CN Code

(1)

1901

Description

(2)

food preparations of

flour, meal, starch or malt extract, not
Malt extract;
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 of heading 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:

1901 20 00

– Mixes and doughs for the preparation of bakers' wares of heading No 1905

1901 90

– Other:

1901 90 11 to
1901 90 19

1901 90 91 to
1901 90 99

– – Malt extract

– – 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:

1902 11 00

– – Containing eggs

1902 19

– – Other

1902 20

– Stuffed pasta whether or not cooked or otherwise prepared:

1902 20 91 to
1902 20 99

– – Other

1902 30

– Other pasta

1902 40

– Couscous

1903 00 00

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

1904

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:

1904 10

– Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal

products

1904 20

– Prepared foods obtained from unroasted cereal flakes or from mixtures of

unroasted cereal flakes and roasted cereal flakes or swelled cereals

1904 90

– Other

1905

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:

1905 10 00

– Crispbread

1905 20

– Gingerbread and the like

1905 30

– Sweet biscuits; waffles and wafers

1905 40

– Rusks, toasted bread and similar toasted products

Rate of duty (%)

(3)

35

30

8

35

25

35

35

35

5

22,5

25

25

12

32

25 (2)

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1905 90

– Other:

1905 90 10

– – Matzos

Description

(2)

1905 90 20

– – Communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical

use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products

1905 90 30 to
1905 90 90

– – Other

2001

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

2001 90

– Other:

2001 90 30

– – Sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata)

2001 90 40

– – Yams, sweet potatoes and similar edible parts of plants containing 5 % or

more by weight of starch

2001 90 60

– – Palm hearts

2004

Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid,
frozen, other than products of heading No 2006:

2004 10

– Potatoes:

– – Other

2004 10 91

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

2004 90

– 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, other than products of heading No 2006:

2005 20

– Potatoes:

2005 20 10

– – In the form of flour, meal or flakes

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:

– Nuts, ground-nuts and other seeds, whether or not mixed together:

2008 11

– – Groundnuts:

2008 11 10

– – – Peanut butter

– Other,

including mixtures other than those of subheading 2008 19:

2008 91 00

– – Palm hearts

2008 99

– – Other:

– – – Not containing added spirit:

– – – – Not containing added sugar:

2008 99 85

– – – – – Maize (corn), other than sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata)

2008 99 91

– – – – – Yams, sweet potatoes and similar edible parts of plants, containing 5 %

or more by weight of starch

Rate of duty (%)

(3)

22,5

22,5

25

18

5

5

36

18

36

12

25

0

30

18

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Description

(2)

Rate of duty (%)

(3)

CN Code

(1)

2101

2101 11

2101 12

2101 20

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:

– – Extracts; essences or concentrates

– – Preparations with a basis of these extracts, essences or concentrates or with a

basis of coffee

– 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

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

concentrates thereof

2102

Yeasts (active or inactive); other single-cell micro-organisms, dead (but not
including vaccines of heading No 3002); prepared baking powders:

2102 10

– Active yeasts:

2102 10 10

– – Culture yeast

– – Baker's yeast:

2102 10 31

– – – Dried

2102 10 39

– – – Other

2102 10 90

– – Other

2102 20

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

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 ingredi-
ents 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

2105 00

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

2106

2106 10

2106 90

Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included:

– Protein concentrates and textured protein substances

– Other:

3

3

25

25

60

18

20

22,5

8

8

20

25

25

27

0

8

8

35

29

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Description

(2)

2106 90 10

– – Cheese fondues

2106 90 20

– – Compound alcoholic preparations, other than those based on odoriferous

substances, of a kind used for the manufacture of beverages

– – Other:

2106 90 92

– – – Containing no milk fats,

starch or
containing, by weight, less than 1,5 % milk fat, 5 % sucrose or isoglucose,
5 % glucose or starch:

isoglucose, glucose or

sucrose,

2106 90 98

– – – Other

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 10 11 to
2201 10 19

– – Natural mineral waters

– – Other:

ex 2201 10 90

– – – Not carbonated

ex 2201 10 90

– – – Other

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 No 2009:

2202 10 00

– Waters including mineral waters and aerated waters, containing added sugar

or other sweetening matter or flavoured

2202 90

– Other

Rate of duty (%)

(3)

3

40

3

3

22,5

36

22,5

3

36

15

2203 00

Beer made from malt

29 min 8,14 EUR/hl

2205

2205 10

2205 90

2207

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

– In containers holding 2 litres or less

22,5

– Other

1,6 EUR/% vol/hl + 7,9 EUR/hl (***)

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

2207 10 00

– Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of 80 % vol or

24 EUR/hl

higher

2207 20 00

– Ethyl alcohol and other spirits, denatured, of any strength

13 EUR/hl

2208

Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of less than 80 %
vol; spirits,

liqueurs and other spirituous beverages:

2208 70

– Liqueurs and cordials:

2208 70 10

– – In containers holding 2 litres or less

2208 70 90

– – In containers holding more than 2 litres

36 % min
0,68 EUR/% vol/hl + 4,05 EUR/hl (***)

40 % min
0,75 EUR/% vol/hl + 4,5 EUR/hl (***)

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Description

(2)

Rate of duty (%)

(3)

2208 90

– Other:

– – Arrack,

in containers holding:

2208 90 11

– – – 2 litres or less

2208 90 19

– – – More than 2 litres

– – Plum, pear or cherry spirit (excluding liqueurs),

in containers holding:

2208 90 33

– – – 2 litres or less:

2208 90 38

– – – More than 2 litres:

– – Other spirits and other spirituous beverages,

in containers holding:

– – – 2 litres or less:

2208 90 41

– – – – Ouzo

– – – – Other:

– – – – – Spirits (excluding liqueurs):

– – – – – – Distilled from fruit:

2208 90 45

– – – – – – – Calvados

2208 90 48

– – – – – – – Other

– – – – – – Other:

2208 90 52

– – – – – – – Corn

2208 90 57

– – – – – – – Other

2208 90 69

– – – – Other spirituous beverages

– – – More than 2 litres:

– – – – Spirits (excluding liqueurs):

2208 90 71

– – – – – Distilled from fruit

2208 90 74

– – – – – Other

2208 90 78

– – – Other spirituous beverages

– – Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of less than

80 % volume,

in containers holding:

2208 90 91

– – – 2 litres or less

2208 90 99

– – – More than 2 litres

36 % min
0,68 EUR/% vol/hl + 4,05 EUR/hl (***)

40 % min
0,75 EUR/% vol/hl + 4,5 EUR/hl (***)

36 % min
0,68 EUR/% vol/hl + 4,05 EUR/hl (***)

40 % min
0,75 EUR/% vol/hl + 4,5 EUR/hl (***)

36 % min
0,68 EUR/% vol/hl + 4,05 EUR/hl (***)

36 % min
0,68 EUR/% vol/hl + 4,05 EUR/hl (***)

36 % min
0,68 EUR/% vol/hl + 4,05 EUR/hl (***)

36 % min
0,68 EUR/% vol/hl + 4,05 EUR/hl (***)

36 % min
0,68 EUR/% vol/hl + 4,05 EUR/hl (***)

36 % min
0,68 EUR/% vol/hl + 4,05 EUR/hl (***)

40 % min
0,75 EUR/% vol/hl + 4,5 EUR/hl (***)

40 % min
0,75 EUR/% vol/hl + 4,5 EUR/hl (***)

40 % min
0,75 EUR/% vol/hl + 4,5 EUR/hl (***)

40 % min
0,75 EUR/% vol/hl + 4,5 EUR/hl (***)

40 % min
0,75 EUR/% vol/hl + 4,5 EUR/hl (***)

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(1)

Description

(2)

2402

Cigars, cheroots, cigarillos and cigarettes, of tobacco or of tobacco substitutes:

2402 10 00

– Cigars, cheroots and cigarillos, containing tobacco

Rate of duty (%)

(3)

36 (*)

2402 20

– Cigarettes containing tobacco

2402 90 00

– Other

50 % min 9,6 EUR/1 000 p (**)

50 % min 9,6 EUR/1 000 p (**)

2403

Other manufactured tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes; ‘homogeni-
sed’ or ‘reconstituted’ tobacco; tobacco extracts and essences:

2403 10

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

40

proportion

– Other

2403 91 00

– – ‘Homogenised’ or ‘reconstituted’ tobacco

2403 99

– – Other

2905

Acyclic alcohols and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated
derivatives:

– Other polyhydric alcohols:

2905 45 00

– – Glycerol

3301

Essential oils (terpeneless or not), including concretes and absolutes; resinoids;
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
deterpenation of essential oils; aqueous distillates and aqueous solutions of
essential oils:

3301 90

– Other:

– – Extracted oleoresins:

3301 90 21

– – – Of liquorice and hops

3301 90 30

– – – Other

3302

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

3302 10

– Of a kind used in the food or drink industries

– – Of the type used in the drink industries:

– – – Preparations containing all flavouring agents characterising a beverage:

3

3

3

0

0

3302 10 10

– – – – Of an actual alcoholic strength by volume exceeding 0,5 %

40 % min
0,33 EUR/% vol/hl + 2,1 EUR/hl

– – – – Other:

3302 10 21

– – – – – Containing no milkfats, sucrose,

isoglucose, glucose, or starch or
containing, by weight, less than 1,5 % milkfat, 5 % sucrose or isoglu-
cose, 5 % glucose or starch

3302 10 29

– – – – – Other

3

3

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Description

(2)

Rate of duty (%)

(3)

CN Code

(1)

3501

3501 10

3501 90

Casein, caseinates and other casein derivates; casein glues:

– Casein

– Other:

3501 90 90

– – Other

3505

Dextrins and other modified starches (for example, pregelatinised or esterified
starches); glues based on starches, or on dextrins or other modified starches:

3505 10

– Dextrins and other modified starches:

3505 10 10

– – Dextrins

– – Other modified starches:

3505 10 90

– – – Other

3505 20

– Glues

3823

3824

Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids; acid oils from refining; industrial fatty
alcohols

Prepared binders for foundry moulds or cores; chemical products and prepara-
tions of the chemical or allied industries (including those consisting of mixtures
of natural products), not elsewhere specified or included; residual products of
the chemical or allied industries, not elsewhere specified or included:

3824 60

– Sorbitol other than that of subheading 2905 44

Bulgaria may increase the rate of duty to max 52 %.

(*)
(**) Bulgaria may increase the rate of duty to max 52 % min 10 EUR / 1 000 pce.
(***) Duties and minimum must not exceed the duties applicable at the entry into force of the Europe Agreement.
(1)
(2)

31,5 from 1.1.2003 onwards.
22,5 from 1.1.2003 onwards.

0

3

0

0

0

0

0