CELEX: 31972R2725
Language: en
Date: 1972-12-19 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2725/72 of the Council of 19 December 1972 on the tariff treatment of certain products intended for use in the construction, maintenance and repair of aerodynes

40                                 Official Journal of the European Communities
 28.12.72                           Official Journal of the European Communities                     No L 291 /39
                        REGULATION (EEC) No 2725/72 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                 of 19 December 1972
            on the tariff treatment of certain products intended for use in the construction,
                                         maintenance and repair of aerodynes
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNI­                          Whereas the suspension measures laid down for
TIES,                                                         products intended to be used for maintenance
                                                              or repair of aircraft with an unladen weight
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                  exceeding 15 000 kg, or of aircraft or helicopters
European Community, and in particular                         with an unladen weight from 2000 kg to
Article 28 thereof;                                           15 000 kg inclusive, expire on 31 December
Having regard to the draft Regulation submitted               1972; whereas, in the present situation the
 by the Commission;                                           facility of continued supply retained of those
                                                              products in total or partial suspension of the
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 950/681                   customs duties laid down in the Common
of the Council of 28 June 1968 , on the Common                Customs Tariff for the Community users of
Customs Tariff, as last amended by Council                    these aircraft and helicopters ; whereas it appears
Regulation (EEC) No 1347/722 of 27 June 1972,                 desirable to extend this facility to a certain
provides in Annex 1, for the total suspension of              number of other products at present not
the duties laid down in the tariff for a certain              available within the Community or available in
number of products intended to be used for                    insufficient quantity;
maintenance or repair on aircraft with an                     Whereas it is difficult to give an accurate
unladen weight exceeding 15 000 kg; whereas                   forecast of the economic trends in this industry;
Annex la also provides for the total or partial               whereas the possibilities must nevertheless be
suspension of the duties laid down in the tariff              taken into account of the expansion of the
for a certain number of products intended for                 Community aeronautical industry and its allied
inclusion in the construction of aircraft with an
                                                              industries, particularly in view of the enlarge­
unladen weight exceeding 15 000 kg belonging                  ment of the Community; whereas it is desirable,
to the categories where the manufacturing                     for these reasons, that the suspension measures
programme has, by 1 July 1968 , passed the                    applicable to products intended to be used for
test-flight stage, or intended to be used for                 maintenance or repair of aircraft with an
maintenance or repair on aircraft or helicopters              unladen weight exceeding 15 000 kg or of
with an unladen weight from 2000 kg to                        aircraft and helicopters with an unladen weight
15 000 kg;                                                    from 2000 kg to 15 000 kg inclusive should be
Whereas the suspension measures laid down                     renewed only for one year;
for products intended for the construction of                 Whereas it is necessary, for the sake of clarity,
aircraft with an unladen weight exceeding                     to reproduce in a single text all of the suspension
15 000 kg do not expire until 31 December 1974;               measures applicable, from 1 January 1973 , to
whereas it appears desirable however to extend                imports of products intended for construction,
these measures to products intended for the                   maintenance or repair of aerodynes;
construction of aircraft belonging to the
categories where the manufacturing programme                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
has, by 1 January 1973 , passed the test-flight
stage; whereas it seems necessary furthermore,                                     Article 1
to make certain amendments to the present list
for technical tariff reasons ;
                                                              Until 31 December 1973, the levying of duties on
                                                              the Common Customs Tariff concerning the
1   OJ No L 172, 22.7.1968 , p. 1 .                           products listed in Annex I of this Regulation
2   OJ No L 148 , 30.6.1972, p . 4.                           shall be totally suspended, provided that it is
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for products intended to be used, under customs                             Article 5
control, for maintenance or repair on aeroplanes
with an unladen weight exceeding 15 000 kg.
                                                       1.     The arrangements for total or partial
                                                       suspension of the duties on the Common
                    Article 2
                                                       Customs Tariff, which apply to the products
                                                       listed in Annex II of this Regulation, shall be
                                                       held to be renewed for successive periods of
Until 31 December 1974, the levying of duties          three years, unless one or more Member States
on the Common Customs Tariff concerning the            notify the Council, at least six months before
products listed in Annex II of this Regulation         the expiry of the initial period of validity or any
shall be susperded at the level indicated in           further period, of their opposition to this
column 3 of this Annex provided that this is for       renewal. This opposition may be in relation to
products intended for inclusion, under customs         the renewal of the suspension arrangements for
control, in the construction of aircraft with an       all the products in question or for only a
unladen weight exceeding 15 000 kg belonging           number thereof.
to the categor.es where the manufacturing
programme has, by 1 January 1973, passed the
test-flight stage.                                     2.     Where opposition has been registered
                                                       under the conditions laid down in the first
These provisiors are also applicable to the            paragraph, the Council shall examine the
same products ir.tended, under customs control,        ensuing situation. Should, at the latest one
for the manufacture of spare or attendant parts        month before the expiry of the period in
necessary to the construction of the aircraft in       question, neither the one or more Member
question.                                              States concerned have retracted their opposition,
                                                       or the Council have adopted any substitute
                     Article 3                         measures for the arrangements for total or
                                                       partial suspension, the suspension shall cease at
Until 31 December 1973, the levying of duties          the end of the said period.
on the Common Customs Tariff concerning the
products listed i.i Annex III of this Regulation       In this case, the Council shall ensure that a
shall be suspended at the level indicated in           communique is published in the Official
column 3 of this Annex, provided that it is for        Journal of the European Communities noting
products intended to be used, under customs            the fact that the suspension arrangements are
control, for maintenance or repair on aircraft or      not to be renewed .
helicopters with an unladen weight from
2000 kg to 15 003 kg inclusive.                        However, when the opposition is in relation
                                                       to the renewal of the suspension arrangements
                                                       only for a number of the products listed in
                     Article 4
                                                       Annex II, the suspension arrangements shall be
                                                       held to be renewed for all the other products.
Until 31 December 1973 , the levying of duties
on the Common Customs Tariff concerning the
products listed in Annex IV of this Regulation                              Article 6
is totally suspended, provided that this is for
products intended to be used, under customs
control, for maintenance on aircraft with an           This Regulation shall enter into force on
unladen weight exceeding 15 000 kg.                    1 January 1973 .
            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all
            Member States .
            Done at Brussels, 19 December 1972.
                                                                       For the Council
                                                                        The President
                                                                      T. WESTERTERP
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                                                 ANNEX I
   List of products on which Common Customs Tariff duties are totally suspended for products
   intended for the maintenance or repair of aircraft of an unladen weight exceeding 15 000 kg
           CCT
                                                            Description
        heading No
           39.07      Articles of materials of the kinds described in headings Nos 39.01 to 39.06:
                      E. Of other materials
                           ex II. Other
                                   — Articles of a kind commonly used in machinery or plant
           40.14      Other articles of unhardened vulcanised rubber:
                      ex B. Other
                                — Articles of a kind commonly used in machinery or plants
           68.13      Fabricated asbestos and articles thereof (for example, asbestos board,
                      thread and fabric; asbestos clothing, asbestos jointing), reinforced or not,
                      other than goods falling within heading No 68.14; mixtures with a basis of
                      asbestos and mixtures with a basis of asbestos and magnesium carbonate ,
                      and articles of such mixtures :
                      B. Articles of asbestos
                           III . Other
           68.14      Friction material (segments, discs, washers, strips, sheets, plates, rolls and
                      the like) of a kind suitable for brakes, for clutches or the like, with a basis of
                       asbestos, other mineral substances or of cellulose, whether or not combined
                      with textile or other materials
           68.16       Articles of stone or of other mineral substances (including articles of peat),
                       not elsewhere specified or included:
                       ex B. Other
                                — Filters, discs and other articles of agglomerated carbon or of
                                   graphite
       ex 73.25        Stranded wire, cables , cordage, ropes, plaited bands , slings and the like, of
                       iron or steel wire, but excluding insulated electric cables
                       — Steel cables for flight controls, ready for use
           73.20       Tube and pipe fittings (for example, joints, elbows, unions and flanges), of
                      "iron or steel
           73.32       Bolts and nuts (including bolt ends and screw studs), whether or not threaded
                       or tapped, and screws (including screw hooks and screw rings), of iron or
                       steel; rivets, cotters, cotter-pins, washers and spring washers, of iron or steel
           73.35       Springs and leaves for springs, of iron or steel
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    CCT
                                                    Description
 heading No
     73.40     Other articles of iron or steel :
               ex B. Other
                        — Stays clamps and connections
                         — Freight stowage devices
    76.07     Tube and pipe fittings (for example, joints, elbows, sockets and flanges), of
               aluminium
    '7 6 . 16  Other articles of aluminium :
                   C. Nails, tacks, staples, hook-nails, spiked cramps, spikes and the like;
                         bolts, nuts, screws and similar articles; washers and spring washers
              ex D. Other
                        — Stays, clamps, flanges, fastenings or other fixing devices of
                             aluminium
ex 83.07      Lamps and lighting fittings, of base metal , and parts thereof, of base metal
               (excluding switches, electric lamp holders, electric lamps for vehicles,
              electric battery or magneto lamps, and other articles falling within Chapter 85
              except heading No 85.22)
    84.07     Hydraulic engines and motors (including water wheels and water turbines)
    54.08     Other engines and motors :
              B. Gas turbines:
                   II . Other
              C. Other engines and motors
              D. Parts
                   II. Other
    84.10     Pumps (including motor pumps and turbo pumps) for liquids, whether or not
              fitted with measuring devices; liquid elevators of bucket, chain, screw, band
              and similar kinds :
              B. Other pumps
    84.11     Air pumps, vacuum pumps and air or gas compressors (including motor and
              turbo pumps and compressors, and free-piston generators for gas turbines);
              fans , blowers and the like:
              A. Pumps and compressors :
                         II. Vacuum pumps creating a vacuum better than 10-2Torr;
                              centrifugal or axial compressors giving a compression ratio of
                              not less than 2 and a flow of more than 3000 m3 per minute;
                              stationary reciprocating compressors of a weight exceeding
                              2000 kg
                        III. Other pumps and compressors
                  ex IV. Parts and components of the pumps and compressors listed in
                              subheadings A II and A III
              C. Fans, blowers and the like
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      CCT
                                                   Description
   heading No
      84.15   Refrigerators and refrigerating equipment (electrical and other)
                   A. Evaporators and condensers, excluding those for domestic refrigerators
              ex B. Other
                       — Compression refrigerating systems specially designed for cooling
                           air in aircraft
      84.17   Machinery, plant and similar laboratory equipment, whether or not electrically
              heated, for the treatment of materials by a process involving a change of
              temperature such as heating, cooking, roasting, distilling, rectifying, sterilising,
              pasteurising, steaming, drying, evaporating, vapourising, condensing or
              cooling, not being machinery or plant of a kind used for domestic purposes;
              instantaneous or storage water heaters, non-electrical:
              C. Heat exchange units
      84.18   Centrifuges;' filtering and purifying machinery and apparatus (other than
              filter funnels, milk strainers and the like), for liquids or gases:
              D. Other
                   II. Machinery and apparatus (other than centrifuges) for filtering or
                       purifying liquids or gases
      84.21   Mechanical appliances (whether or not hand operated) for projecting,
              dispersing or spraying liquids or powders; fire extinguishers (charged or not);
              spray guns and similar appliances; steam or sand blasting machines and
              similar jet projecting machines
              — Extinguishes permanently installed in aircraft
      84.22   Lifting, handling, loading or unloading machinery, telphers and conveyors
              (for example, lifts, hoists, winches, cranes, -transporters cranes, jacks, pulley
              tackle, belt conveyors and teleferics), not being machinery falling within
              heading No 84.23:
              ex D. Other
                       — Jacks
      84.59   Machines and mechanical appliances, having individual functions, not
              falling within any other heading of this Chapter:
              ex E. Other
                       — Air humidifiers or dehumidifiers
                       — Engine starters, propellor regulators and servo mechanisms
                       — Windscreen wiping mechanisms
        v
                       — Parts not elsewhere specified or included of the equipment which
                          is the subject of the present list
      84.61   Taps, cocks, valves and similar appliances, for pipes, boiler shells tanks,
              vats and the like, including pressure reducing valves and thermostatically
              controlled valves
      84.62   Ball, roller or needle roller bearings
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   CCT
                                                Description
heading No
   34.63   Transmission shafts, cranks, bearing housings, plain shaft bearings, gears
           and gearing (including friction gears and gear-boxes and other variable
           speed gears), flywheels, pulleys and pulley blocks, clutches and shaft couplings
   154.64  Gaskets and similar joints of metal sheeting combined with other material
            (for example, asbestos, felt and paperboard) or of laminated metal foil; sets
           or assortments of gaskets and similar joints, dissimular in composition, for
           engines, pipes, tubes and the like, put up in pouches, envelopes or similar
           packings
   £4.65   Machinery parts, not containing electrical connectors, insulators, coils,
           contacts or other electrical features and not falling within any other heading
           in this Chapter
   S5.01   Electrical goods of the following, descriptions: generators, converters (rotary
           or static), transformers, rectifiers and rectifying apparatus, inductors
   85.04   Electric accumulators :
           B. Other
   85.08   Electrical starting and ignition equipment for internal combustion engines
           (including ignition magnetos, magneto-dynamos, ignition coils, starter
           motors, sparking plugs, and glow plugs); generators (dynamos and alternators)
           and cut-outs for use in conjunction with such engines
   85.14   Microphones and stands therefor; loudspeakers ; audio-frequency electric
           amplifiers
  85.15    Radiotelegraphic and radiotelephonic transmission and reception apparatus;
           radio-broadcasting and television transmission and reception apparatus
           (including receivers incorporating sound recorders or reproducers) and
           television cameras; radio navigational aid apparatus, radar apparatus and
           radio remote control apparatus:
                A. Radiotelegraphic and radiotelephonic transmission and reception
                   apparatus; radio-broadcasting and television transmission and
                   reception apparatus (including receivers incorporating sound recorders
                   or reproducers) and television cameras:
                         I. Transmitters
                        II . Transmitter-receivers
                   ex III. Receivers , whether or not combined with a sound recorder or
                             reproducer
                B. Other apparatus
           ex C. Parts of the goods of subheadings A and B above
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       CCT
                                                   Description
    heading No
       85.17   Electric sound or visual signalling apparatus (such as bells, sirens, indicator
               panels, burglar and fire alarms), other than those of heáding No 85.09 or 85.16
       85.18   Electrical capacitors, fixed or variable
       85.19   Electrical apparatus for making and breaking electrical circuits, for the
               protection of electrical circuits, or for making connections to or in electrical
               circuits (for example, switches, relays, fuses, lighting arresters, surge sup­
               pressors, plugs, lamp holders and junction boxes); resistors, fixed or variable
               (including potentiometers), other than heating resistors; printed circuits;
               switchboards (other than telephone switchboards) and control panels
       85.20   Electric filament lamps and electric discharge lamps (including infra-red and
               ultra-violet lamps); arc-lamps; electrically ignited photographic flashbulbs:
                   A. Filament lamps for lighting
               ex B. Other
                       — Discharge lamps for lighting including gas filled dual lamps
       85.21   Thermionic, cold cathode and photo-cathode valves and tubes (including
               vapour or gas filled valves and tubes, cathode-ray tubes , television camera
               tubes and mercury arc rectifying valves and tubes); photocells ; mounted
               piezo-electric crystals; diodes, transistors and similar semi-conductor devices;
               electronic microcircuits :
               A. Valves and tubes
               B. Photocells, including photo-transistors
               C. Mounted piezo-electric crystals
       85.22   Electrical appliances and apparatus, having individual functions, not falling
               within any other heading of this Chapter
               C. Other
   ex 85.23    Insulated (including enamelled or anodised) electric wire, cable, bars, strip
               and the like (including co-axial cable), whether or not fitted with connectors
               — Electrical cables of the 'octopus' or 'harness' type ready for use
       85.28   Electrical parts of machinery and apparatus, not being goods falling within
               any of the preceding headings of this Chapter
       90.14   Surveying (including photogrammetrical surveying), hydrographie, naviga­
               tional, meteorological, hydrological and geophysical instruments; compasses,
               rangefinders:
                   A. Compasses
               ex B. Other
                       — Air navigation and meteorological instruments: rangefinders
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    CCT
                                                Description
he.uiing No
    90.23   Hydrometers and similar instruments ; thermometers , pyrometers, barometers ,
            hygrometers , psychrometers , recording or not; any combination of these
            instruments :
            C. Hydrometers and similar instruments, with or without thermometers;
                optical pyrometers
            D. Other
    90.24   Instruments and apparatus for measuring, checking or automatically
            controlling the flow, depth, pressure or other variables of liquids or gases,
            or for automatically controlling temperature, (for example, pressure gauges ,
            thermostats, level gauges, flow meters, heat meters, automatic ovendraught
            regulators), not being articles falling within heading No 90.14
    90.28   Electrical measuring, checking, analysing or automatically controlling
            instruments and apparatus
    90.29   Parts or accessories suitable for use solely or principally with one or more of
            the articles falling within heading No 90.23 , 90.24, 90.26, 90.27 or 90.28
    91.06   Time switches with clock or watch movement (including secondary move­
            ment) or with synchronous motor
    92.11   Gramophones, dictating machines and other sound recorders and reproducers,
            including record-players and tape decks, with or without soundheads;
            television image and sound recorders and reproducers, magnetic:
            A. Sound recorders and reproducers:
                I.  Sound recorders
    94.01   Chairs and other seats (other than those falling within heading No 94.02),
            whether or not convertible into beds , and parts thereof:
            ex A. Specially designed for aircraft
                    — Specially designed seats for aircrew
                    — Passenger seats fitted with oxygen supply apparatus
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                                               ANNEX II
   List of products on which Common Customs Tariff duties are totally or partially suspended
   when the products are intended for incorporation in the construction of aircraft of an unladen
                                     weight not exceeding 15 000 kg
           • CCT
                                                    Description                               Rate of duty
        heading No
              1                                         2                                          3
             73.20    Tube and pipe fittings (for example, joints, elbows, unions
                       and flanges), of iron or steel                                           Total
                                                                                             Suspension
             73.32     Bolts and nuts (including bolt ends and screw studs), whether
                      or not threaded or tapped, and screws (including screw hooks
                       and screw rings), of iron or steel; rivets, cotters, cotter-pins,
                      washers and spring washers, of iron or steel:
                      A. Not threaded or tapped:
                           I. Screws, nuts , rivets and washers, obtained by turning
                               bars, angles, shapes, sections or wire, of solid section,
                               of a shank thickness or hole diameter not exceeding
                               6 mm                                                             Total
                                                                                             Suspension
                          II . Other                                                            Total
                                                                                             Suspension
                      B. Threaded or tapped:
                           I. Screws and nuts, obtained by turning bars, angles,
                               shapes, sections or wire, of solid section, of a shank
                               thickness or hole diameter not exceeding 6 mm ....               Total
                                                                                             Suspension
                          II . Other                                                            Total
                                                                                             Suspension
             81.04    Other base metals, unwrought or wrought, and articles
                      thereof; cermets , unwrought or wrought, and articles
                      thereof:
                      K. Titanium :
                          ex II . Rolled titanium :
                                   — Bolts , nuts , screws , rivets and similar articles . .     4%
        ex 83.07      Lamps and light fittings, of base metal, and parts thereof,
                      of base metal excluding miners safety lamps and parts
                                                                                                Total
                                                                                             Suspension
        cx 83.09      Clasps, frames with clasps for handbags and the like,
                      buckles , buckleclasps, hooks, eyes, eyelets , and the like, of
                      base metal, of a kind commonly used for clothing, travel
                      goods, handbags, or other textile or leather goods; tubular
                      rivets and bifurcated rivets, of base metal
                      — Tabular rivets                                                          Total
                                                                                             Suspension
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    CCT
                                         Description                           Rate of duty
heiding No
     1                                       2                                      3
    84.07   Hydraulic engines and motors (including water wheels and
            water turbines)                                                       Total
                                                                               Suspension
    84.08    Other engines and motors
             C. Other engines and motors                                          Total
                                                                               Suspension
    84.10   Pumps (including motor pumps and turbo pumps) for
            liquids, whether or not fitted with measuring devices; liquid
            elevators of bucket, chain, screw, band and similar kinds:
            B. Other pumps
                     II. Other pumps                                             Total
                                                                               Suspension
                ex III. Parts of pumps falling within subheading B II            Total
                                                                               Suspension
    84.11   Air pumps , vacuum pumps and air or gas compressors (in­
            cluding motor and turbo pumps and compressors, and free­
            piston generators for gas turbines); fans, blowers and the
            like:
            A. Pumps and compressors :
                    III. Other pumps and compressors                             Total
                                                                               Suspension
                ex IV. Parts of pumps and compressors falling within
                         subheading A III                                        Total
                                                                               Suspension
            C. Fans , blowers and the like                                       Total
                                                                               Suspension
       1.17 Machinery, plant and similar laboratory equipment, whether
            or not electrically heated, for the treatment of materials by a
            process involving a change of temperature such as heating,
            cooking, roasting, distilling, rectifying, sterilising, pasteuris­
            ing, steaming, drying, evaporating, vapourising, condensing
            or cooling, not being machinery or plant of a kind used for
            domestic purposes; instantaneous or storage water heaters,
            non-electrical :
            C. Heat exchange units                                               Total
                                                                               Suspension
    84.18   Centrifuges; filtering and purifying machinery and apparatus
            (other than filter funnels, milk strainers and the like), for
            liquids or gases:
            D. Other
                ex II. Machinery and apparatus (other than centrifuges)
                        for filtering or purifying liquids or gases
                        — Machinery and apparatus for filtering liquids          Total
                                                                               Suspension
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      CCT
                                         Description                           Rate of duty
   heading No
        1                                    2                                      3
       84.59  Machines and mechanical appliances , having individual
              functions, not falling within any other heading of this
              Chapter:
              ex E. Other
                      — Air liquidifiers or dehumidifiers                        Total
                                                                               Suspension
                      — Engine starters , propellor regulators and servo
                          mechanisms                                             Total
                                                                               Suspension
                      — Windscreen wiping mechanisms                             Total
                                                                               Suspension
                      — Parts not elsewhere specified or included of the
                          equipment which is to be subject of the present list   Total
                                                                               Suspension
       84.61  Taps, cocks, valves and similar appliances, for pipes, boiler
              shells, tanks, vats and the like, including pressure reducing
              valves and thermostatically controlled valves:
              A. Pressure reducing valves                                        Total
                                                                               Suspension
       84.63  Transmission shafts , cranks , bearing housings , plain shaft
              bearing gears and gearing (including friction gears and
              gear-boxes and other variable speed gears), flywheels, pulleys
              and pulley blocks, clutches and shaft couplings
              — Transmission shafts and cranks for engines                       Total
                                                                               Suspension
       85.08  Electrical starting and ignition equipment for internal
              combustion engines (including ignition magnetos, magneto­
              dynamos, ignition coils, starter motors, sparking plugs, and
              glow plugs); generators (dynamos and alternators) and cut­
              outs for use in conjunction with such engines:
              ex A. Starter motors , generators and cut-outs
                      — Starters for engines                                     Total
                                                                               Suspension
       85.15  Radiotelegraphic and radiotéléphonie transmission and
              reception apparatus; radio-broadcasting and television
              transmission and reception apparatus (including receivers
              incorporating sound recorders or reproducers) and tele­
              vision cameras; radio navigational aid apparatus, radar
              apparatus and radio remote control apparatus:
              A. Radiotelegraphic and radiotéléphonie transmission and
                  reception apparatus; radio-broadcasting and television
                  transmission and reception apparatus (including receivers
                  incorporating sound recorders or reproducers) and
                  television cameras :
                       II. Transmitter-receivers                                   8%
                  ex III . Receivers, whether or not combined with a sound
                           recorder or reproducer                                  8%
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   CCT
hiading No                           Description                        Rate of duty
      1                                  2                                   3
           B. Other apparatus                                               8%
           C. Parts of the goods of subheadings A and B above
               II. Parts of base metal, obtained by turning bars,
                   angles, shapes, sections or wire, of solid section,
                   the greatest diameter of which does not exceed
                   25 mm                                                    8%
              III. Other                                                    8%
     90.14 Surveying, (including photogrammetrical surveying), hydro­
           graphic, navigational, meteorological, hydrological and
           geophysical instruments; compasses; rangefinders :
           ex B. Other :
                      Air navigation instruments and meteorological
                      instruments: rangefinders                           Total
                                                                        Suspension
     94.01 Chairs and other seats (other than those falling within
           heading No 94.02), whether or not convertible into beds, and
           parts thereof:
           ex A. Specially designed for aircraft
                  — Specially designed seats for aircrew                  Total
                                                                        Suspension
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                                                ANNEX 111
   List of products on which Common Customs Tariff duties are totally or partially suspended
   when the products are intended for the maintenance or repair of aircraft or helicopters of an
                   unladen weight exceeding 2000 kg but not exceeding 15 000 kg
           CCT
                                                   Description                             Rate of duty
        heading No
             1                                          2                                       3
            73.20      Tube and pipe fittings (for example, joints, elbows, unions
                       and flanges), of iron or steel                         ..             Total
                                                                                           Suspension
            73.32      Bolts and nuts (including bolt ends and screw studs), whether
                       or not threaded or tapped, and screws (including screw hooks
                       and screw rings), of iron or steel; rivets, cotters, cotter-pins,
                       washers and spring washers, of iron or steel:
                       A. Not threaded or tapped:
                            I. Screws, nuts, rivets and washers, obtained by turning
                                bars, angles, shapes, sections or wire, of solid section,
                                of a shank thickness or hole diameter not exceeding
                                6 mm                                                         Total
                                                                                           Suspension
                           II . Other                                                        Total
                                                                                           Suspension
                       B. Threaded or tapped:
                            I. Screws and nuts, obtained by turning bars, angles,
                                shapes, sections or wire, of solid section, of a shank
                                thickness or hole diameter not exceeding 6 mm ....           Total
                                                                                           Suspension
                           II. Other                                                         Total
                                                                                           Suspension
            81.04      Other base metals, unwrought or wrought, and articles
                       thereof; cermets, unwrought or wrought, and articles
                       thereof:
                       K. Titanium:
                           ex II. Rolled titanium :
                                    — Bolts, nuts, screws, rivets and similar articles . .     4%
        ex 83.07       Lamps and light fittings, of base metal, and parts thereof,
                       of base metal excluding miners safety lamps and parts
                                                                                             Total
                                                                                           Suspension
        ex 83.09       Clasps, frames with clasps for handbags and the like,
                       buckles, buckleclasps, hooks, eyes, eyelets, and the like, of
                       base metal, of a kind commonly used for clothing, travel
                       goods, handbags, or other textile or leather goods; tubular
                       rivets and bifurcated rivets, of base metal
                       — Tabular rivets                                                      Total
                                                                                           Suspension
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heading No                              Description                           Rate of duty
     1                                       2                                     3
    84.07  Hydraulic engines and motors (including water wheels and
           water turbines)                                                      Total
                                                                              Suspension
    84.08  Other engines and motors
           C. Other engines and motors                                          Total
                                                                              Suspension
    84.10  Pumps (including motor pumps and turbo pumps) for
           liquids, whether or not fitted with measuring devices; liquid
           elevators of bucket, chain, screw, band and similar kinds :
           B. Other pumps
                    II . Other pumps                                            Total
                                                                              Suspension
               ex III. Parts of pumps falling within subheading B II            Total
                                                                              Suspension
    84.11  Air pumps , vacuum pumps and air or gas compressors (in­
           cluding motor and turbo pumps and compressors, and free­
           piston generators for gas turbines); fans, blowers and the
           like :
           A. Pumps and compressors:
                   III. Other pumps and compressors                             Total
                                                                              Suspension
               ex IV. Parts of pumps and compressors falling within
                         subheading A III                                       Total
                                                                              Suspension
           C. Fans, blowers and the like                                        Total
                                                                              Suspension
    84.17  Machinery, plant and similar laboratory equipment, whether
           or not electrically heated, for the treatment of materials by a
           process involving a change of temperature such as heating,
           cooking, roasting, distilling, rectifying, sterilising, pasteuris­
           ing, steaming, drying, evaporating, vapourising, condensing
           or cooling, not being machinery or plant of a kind used for
           domestic purposes; instantaneous or storage water heaters,
           non-electrical :
           C. Heat exchange units                                               Total
                                                                              Suspension
    84.18  Centrifuges; filtering and purifying machinery and apparatus
           (other than filter funnels, milk strainers and the like), for
           liquids or gases:
           D. Other
               ex II. Machinery and apparatus (other than centrifuges)
                        for filtering or purifying liquids or gases
                        — Machinery and apparatus for filtering liquids         Total
                                                                              Suspension
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                                         Description                            Rate of duty
   heading No
        1                                    2                                       3
       84.59  Machines and mechanical appliances, having individual
              functions, not falling within any other heading of this
              Chapter:
              ex E. Other
                      — Air liquidifiers or dehumidifiers                         Total
                                                                               Suspension
                      — Engine starters, propellor regulators and servo
                          mechanisms                                              Total
                                                                               Suspension
                      — Windscreen wiping mechanisms                              Total
                                                                               Suspension
                      — Parts not elsewhere specified or included of the
                          equipment which is to be subject of the present list    Total
                                                                               Suspension
       84.61  Taps, cocks, valves and similar appliances, for pipes, boiler
              shells, tanks, vats and the like, including pressure reducing
              valves and thermostatically controlled valves :
              A. Pressure reducing valves                                         Total
                                                                               Suspension
       84.63  Transmission shafts, cranks, bearing housings, plain shaft
              bearing gears and gearing (including friction gears and
              gear-boxes and other variable speed gears), flywheels, pulleys
              and pulley blocks, clutches and shaft couplings
              — Transmission shafts and cranks for engines                        Total
                                                                               Suspension
       85.08  Electrical starting and ignition equipment for internal
              combustion engines (including ignition magnetos, magneto­
              dynamos, ignition coils, starter motors, sparking plugs, and
              glow plugs); generators (dynamos and alternators) and cut­
              outs for use in conjunction with such engines:
              ex A. Starter motors, generators and cut-outs
                      — Starters for engines                                      Total
                                                                               Suspension
       85.15  Radiotelegraphic and radiotelephonic transmission and
              reception apparatus; radio-broadcasting and television
              transmission and reception apparatus (including receivers
              incorporating sound recorders or reproducers) and tele­
              vision cameras; radio navigational aid apparatus, radar
              apparatus and radio remote control apparatus:
              A. Radiotelegraphic and radiotelephonic transmission and
                  reception apparatus; radio-broadcasting and television
                  transmission and reception apparatus (including receivers
                  incorporating sound recorders or reproducers) and
                  television cameras:
                       II. Transmitter-receivers                                    8%
                  ex III. Receivers, whether or not combined with a sound
                           recorder or reproducer                                   8%
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                                       Description                       Race of duty
heading No
     1                                     2                                  3
           B. Other apparatus                                                8%
           C. Parts of the goods of subheadings A and B above
               II. Parts of base metal, obtained by turning bars,
                     angles, shapes, sections or wire, of solid section,
                     the greatest diameter of which does not exceed
                     25 mm                                                   8%
              III .  Other                                                   8%
    90.14  Surveying, (including photogrammetrical surveying), hydro­
           graphic, navigational, meteorological, hydrologicai and
           geophysical instruments ; compasses ; rangefinders :
           ex B. Other :
                    — Air navigation instruments and meteorological
                       instruments : rangefinders                          Total
                                                                         Suspension
    94.01  Chairs and other seats (other than those falling within
           heading No 94.02), whether or not convertible into beds, and
           parts thereof:
           ex A. Specially designed for aircraft
                    — Specially designed seats for aircrew                 Total
                                                                         Suspension
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                                              ANNEX IV
   List of products on which Common Customs Tariff duties are totally or partially suspended
   when the products are intended for the maintenance of aircraft of an unladen weight not exceeding
                                               15 000 kg
          CCT
                                                        Description
       heading No
          40.11      Rubber tyres, tyre cases, interchangeable tyre treads, inner tubes and tyre
                     flaps, for wheels of all hands:
                     ex B. Tyre cases, flaps and bladders:
                             — Tyre cases for aircraft of the following types:
                                44" — 12 ply
                                15.00 — 16 — 14 ply
                                36 x 10-75 — 16-5 — 16 ply
                                24 x 7-25 — 12 — 10 ply
                                39 x 13 — 7 — 16 ply
                                56 x 16 — 7 — 32 ply