CELEX: 31974R3054
Language: en
Date: 1974-12-02
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3054/74 of the Council of 2 December 1974 opening preferential tariffs for certain products originating in developing countries

No L 329 /70                       Official Journal of the European Communities                               9 . 12. 74
                               REGULATION (EEC) No 3054/74 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                 of 2 December 1974
               opening preferential tariffs for certain products originating in developing countries
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES                       make similar efforts in this direction; whereas, more­
                                                              over, it is evident from the conclusions worked out in
                                                              UNCTAD that this offer, while being of a temporary
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­            nature, does not constitute a binding commitment
pean Economic Community ;                                     and, in particular, may be withdrawn wholly or in
                                                              part at a later date ; whereas this possibility may be
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;           adopted inter alia with a view to remedying any un­
                                                              favourable situations which might arise in the asso­
Having regard to the Opinion of the European Par­             ciated countries following the implementation of the
liament;                                                      generalized preference scheme ;
Whereas, within the context of UNCTAD, the Euro­              Whereas, moreover, the conference of the Heads of
pean Economic Community offered to grant tariff               State or of Government of the Member State and
preferences on finished and semi-finished products            the States acceding to the European Communities
coming from developing countries ; whereas the pre­           held in Paris from 19 to 21 October 1972 invited the
ferential treatment proposed in that offer covers,            Community institutions and the Member States pro­
generally speaking, all finished and semi-finished in­        gressively to adopt an overall policy of development
dustrial products covered by Chapters 25 to 99 of             cooperation on a world wide scale comprising in
the Brussels Nomenclature which originate in devel­           particular the improvement of generalized preferences
oping countries ; whereas the preference consists in          with the aim of achieving a steady increase in imports
the granting of exemption from customs duties ;               of manufactures from the developing countries ;
whereas preferential imports are effected up to the
level of ceilings calculated by value in respect of each      Whereas tariff preferences have been applied from
product on the basis of factors which are uniform             the second half of 1971 under the conditions set out
for all the products ; whereas in order that the prefer­      above and whereas these preferences should continue
ences granted to the most competitive developing              to be applied throughout 1975 ; whereas, having
country or countries should be restricted and that a          regard to the terms of the offer concerned and to the
substantial share should be reserved for the least
                                                              need to improve the generalized preferences, the
competitive, preferential imports from any one                abovementioned basic amount should normally refer
developing country in respect of a given product              to 1971 while the additional amount refers to 1972 ;
should not, as a general rule, exceed 50% of the
ceiling fixed for that product ;
                                                              Whereas, in accordance with Protocol 23 to the
                                                              Act of Accession (*), the generalized tariff preferences
Whereas, in the offer made by the Community, the              scheme will be fully applicable in the new Member
annual ceilings should normally be calculated on the          States from 1 January 1974 ;
basis of the total value for 1968 cif imports from the
countries benefiting from this scheme, excluding
those already enjoying various preferential tariff ar­        Whereas it is expedient, therefore, in respect of the
rangements granted by the Community ( basic                   products referred to in Annex A which originate in
amount), plus 5% of the value of cif imports from              the countries and territories listed in Annex B , that
the other countries and from the countries already            the Community should allow, for each category of
enjoying such arrangements (additional amount);                these products and throughout 1975, duty-free im­
whereas such additional amount is variable and is              ports within the limits of the Community ceilings
calculated each year on the basis of the latest figures        calculated in the manner set out above ; whereas the
available, provided that this entails no reduction in         benefit of such tariff exemption should be reserved
the ceiling;                                                   for products originating in the countries and terri­
                                                              tories under consideration, the concept of 'originating
                                                               products' being determined in accordance with the
Whereas the offer made by the Community includes
a clause stating that the Community, drew up the
offer on the assumption that all the main indus­
trialized countries which are members of the OECD
would participate in granting preference ; and would           H OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972 , p. 14 .
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procedure laid down in Article 14 of Council Regu­                    listed in Annex B. However, imports already enjoying
lation (EEC) No 802/68 (*) of 27 June 1968 on the                     exemption from customs duties under other preferen­
common definition of the concept of the origin of                     tial tariff arangements shall not be charged against
goods ; whereas charges against each of these ceilings                the ceilings specified in paragraph 3 . For the
must, as a general rule, come within a maximum                        purposes of the application of this Regulation, the
Community amount of 50% in respect of the                             concept of originating products shall be determined
products originating in any of the abovementioned                     in accordance with the procedure laid down in
countries ; whereas, however, in order in particular                  Article 14 of Regulation (EEC) No 802/68 .
to safeguard access by all the abovementioned coun­
tries and territories to this preferential scheme, the                3 . Subject to the provisions of Articles 2 and
maximum Community amount for certain products                         4 (2) this suspension shall be granted, in respect of
should be reduced to 20% or 30% ;                                     each category of products within a Community ceil­
                                                                      ing which shall be expressed in units of account
Whereas, under these circumstances, these objectives                  and which shall be obtained by adding together the
may be reached by applying a method of adminis­                       value of cif imports in 1971 of the products con­
tration based on the charging, at Community level,                    cerned, to the Community from the countries and
 against the abovementioned ceilings and maximum                      territories enjoying these arrangements, excluding
 amounts, of imports of the products concerned as                     those already enjoying various preferential tariff
 and when these products are entered for home use                      arrangements granted by the Community, and 5%
 and are accompanied by a certificate of origin ;                      of the value of cif imports in 1971 from other
whereas this method of administration must make                        countries and from countries and territories already
provision for the re-introduction of the levying of                    enjoying such arrangements.
 customs duties as soon as the said ceilings or maxi­
 mum amounts are reached at Community level ;                          4. Subject to the provisions of Articles 2 and
                                                                       4 (2), within each ceiling thus calculated, charges of
 Whereas such method of administration calls for                       products originating in any one of the countries listed
 very close and particularly rapid cooperation be­                     in Annex B should not exceed a Community maxi­
 tween Member States and the Commission, which                         mum amount equivalent to 50% of this ceiling with
 must, in particular, be able to observe the extent to                 the exception of certain products for which the
 which charges are made against the ceilings and                       maximum amount shall be reduced to the percentage
 maximum amounts and inform Member States there­                       or value shown in Annex A.
 of; whereas such cooperation should be particularly
 close in viewT of the need for the Commission to be
                                                                       5 . Any amendment to Annex B, in particular by the
 able to take appropriate measures to re-introduce the                 addition of new countries enjoying tariff preferences,
 levying of customs duties either generally or indi­                   may entail corresponding adjustments to the Com­
 vidually when any of the ceilings or maximum                          munity ceilings and the maximum amounts referred
 amounts are reached,                                                  to in paragraphs 3 and 4.
  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                                                 Article 2
                                                                        1 . As soon as the ceilings calculated in accordance
                             Article 1                                 with the provisions of Article 1 ( 3 ), which are laid
                                                                        down for Community imports of products originating
  1 . From 1 January to 31 December 1975, the Com­                      in all of the countries referred to in Article 1 (2), are
  mon Customs Tariff duties and the tariff duties of                    reached at Community level, the levying of customs
  the new Member States on the products listed in                       duties on imports of the products in question from
  Annex A shall be totally suspended, subject to the                    all the countries concerned may at any time be
  provisions of Articles 2 and 4 (2) of this Regulation.                re-introduced until the end of the period referred to
                                                                        in the first subparagraph of Article 1 ( 1 ).
  These arrangements shall be applied in their entirety
  by the new Member States .                                            2. As soon as the maximum amounts calculated in
                                                                        accordance with the provisions of Article 1 (4), which
  2. This suspension shall be enjoyed solely by pro­                    are laid down for Community imports of products
  ducts originating in the countries and territories                    originating in each of the countries referred to in
                                                                        Article 1 (2), are reached for any one of these coun­
                                                                        tries at Community level, the levying of customs
                                                                         duties on imports of the products in question from
   i1) OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6. 1968 , p. 1 .                               the country concerned may at any time be re-intro­
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duced until the end of the period referred to in the                                        Article 4
first subparagraph of Article 1(1 ).
                                                                1 . The Commission, in close cooperation with the
                                                               Member States, shall take all necessary measures to
                       Article 3                               ensure that the above provisions are applied.
1 . Imports of the products in question shall be               2 . The Commission shall re-introduce the levying of
actually charged against the Community ceilings and            customs duties in respect of all the countries referred
maximum amounts as and when the products are                   to in Article 1 (2) or in respect of any one of them
entered for home use, and provided that they are               by means of a regulation in the conditions laid down
accompanied by a certificate of origin pursuant to             in Article 2 ( 1 ) and (2 ).
the rules laid down in Article 1 (2).
                                                                                            Article 5
2. Goods may be charged against a ceiling or maxi­             Member States shall inform the Commission at regu­
mum amount only if the certificate of origin referred          lar intervals of imports of the products in question
to in paragraph 1 is submitted before the date on
                                                               actually charged against the Community ceilings and
which the levying of duties is re-introduced.                  maximum amounts laid down in Article 1 (3 ) and (4).
3 . The extent to which the ceilings and maximum                                            Article 6
amounts have been actually filled shall be determined
at Community level on the basis of the imports                 This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January
charged in accordance with paragraphs 1 and 2.                 1975 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 2 December 1974.
                                                                                    For the Council
                                                                                     The President
                                                                                J. SAUVAGNARGUES
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                                                                    ANNEX A
            List of products originating in developing countries and territories, enjoying generalized tariff
                   preferences, in respect of which duties under the Common Customs Tariff are totally
                                                                 suspended ( a) (b)
            CHAPTER 25
                 25.22         Quicklime, slaked lime and hydraulic lime, other than calcium oxide hydroxide
                 25.23         Portland cement, ciment fondu, slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar
                              hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured in the form of clinker
                 25.31 A      Fluorspar
            CHAPTER 27
                 27.03 B      Agglomerated peat
                 27.04         Coke and semi-coke of coal, of lignite or of peat:
                              A. Of coal :
                                    I. For the manufacture of electrodes
                              C. Other
                 27.05         Retort carbon
                  27.06        Tar distilled from coal, from lignite or from peat, and other mineral tars,
                              including partially distilled tars and blends of pitch with creosote oils or with
                              other coal tar distillation products
                 27.07        Oils and other products of the distillation of high temperature coal tar ; similar
                               products as defined in Note 2 to this Chapter.
                  27.08        Pitch and pitch coke, obtained from coal tar or from other mineral tars
                 27.10        Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, other than crude ;
                              preparations not elsewhere specified or included containing not less than 70%
                              by weight of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bitumious minerals, these
                              oils being the basic constituents of the preparations (x ):
                              A. Light oils :
                                    III. For other purposes
                              B. Medium oils :
                                   III. For other purposes
                              C. Heavy oils :
                                      I. Gas oil :
                                          c) For other purposes
                                     II . Fuel oil :
                                          c) For other purposes
            (a) Manufactured and semi-finished industrial products qualifying under the ordinary arrangements for exemption or
                total temporary suspension of the Common Customs Tariff duty are only token entries as regards the Member States
                of the Community as originally constituted , whereas the exemption or suspension is directly and fully applicable by
                the new Member States under the present arrangements .
            (b) Preferences are not to be granted in respect of the products, marked with an asterisk, originating in Romania .
            (') The Community ceiling as defined in Article 1 (3 ) is set at 57 889 000, 14 456 000 and 110 891 000 units of account
                for products falling within subheadings 27.10 A III, B III, C I c), C II c) and C III c) and d ) respectively ; the maxi­
                mum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4) of this Regulation is reduced to 20 % for these products .
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                  27.10            III. Lubricating oils ; other oils :
                 (cont'd)               c) To be mixed in accordance with the terms of Additional Note 7 to
                                            Chapter 27
                                         d) For other purposes
                  27.11        Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons
                  27.12        Petroleum jelly
                  27.13        Paraffin wax, micro-crystalline wax, slack wax, ozokerite, lignite wax, peat wax
                               and other mineral waxes, whether or not coloured
                  27.14        Petroleum bitumen, petroleum coke and other residues of petroleum oils or of
                               oils obtained from bituminous minerals
                  27.16        Bituminous mixtures based on natural asphalt, on natural bitumen, on petroleum
                              bitumen, on mineral tar or on mineral tar pitch (for example bituminous mastics,
                               cut-backs)
            CHAPTER 28
            ex 28.01           Halogens (fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine), excluding crude iodine
                  28.02        Sulphur, sublimed or precipitated ; colloidal sulphur
                  28.03        Carbon (including carbon black)
            ex 28.04           Hydrogen, rare gases and other non-metals, but not including selenium and silicon
                   28.06       Hydrochloric acid and chlorosulphuric acid
                   28.07       Sulphur dioxide
                  28.08        Sulphuric acid ; oleum
                  28.09        Nitric acid ; sulphonitric acids
                  28.10        Phosphorus pentoxide and phosphoric acids (meta-, ortho- and pyro~) (*)
                  28.11        Arsenic trioxide, arsenic pentoxide and acids of arsenic
                   28.12       Boric oxide and boric acid
                   28.13       Other inorganic acids and oxygen compounds of non-metals (excluding water)
                  28.14        Halides, oxyhalides and other halogen compounds of non-metals
                   28.15       Sulphides of non-metals ; phosphorus trisulphide
                   28.16       Ammonia, anhydrous or in aqueous solution (*)
                  28.17        Sodium hydroxide (caustic soda); potassium hydroxide (caustic potash); peroxides
                               of sodium or potassium
                   28.18       Oxides, hydroxides and peroxides of strontium, barium or magnesium
                   28.19       Zinc oxide and zinc peroxide
                   28.20 B     Artificial corundum
                   28.21        Chromium oxides and hydroxides
                   28.22       Manganese oxides
             (*) For products falling within this heading the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4) of this Regulation
                  is reduced to 30% .
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           28.23 Iron oxides and hydroxides ; earth colours containing 70% or more by weight of
                 combined iron evaluated as Fe^Ch
           28.24 Cobalt oxides and hydroxides
           28.25 Titanium oxides
           28.26 Tin oxides ( stannous oxide and stannic oxide)
           28.28 Hydrazine and hydroxylamine and their inorganic salts ; other inorganic bases and
                 metallic oxides, hydroxides and peroxides
           28.29 Fluorides ; fluorosilicates, fluoroborates and other complex fluorine salts
           28.30 Chlorides and oxychlorides
           28.31 Chlorides and hypochlorites
           28.32  Chlorates and perchlorates
           28.33 Bromides, oxybromides, bromates and perbromates and hypobromites
           28.34 Iodides, oxiodides, iodates and periodates
           28.35  Sulphides ; polysulphides
           28.36 Dithionites, including those stabilized with organic substances ; sulphoxylates
           28.37 Sulphites and thiosulphates
           28.38 Sulphates (including alums) and persulphates
           28.39  Nitrites and nitrates
           28.40 Phosphites, hypophosphites and phosphates
           28.41  Arsenites and arsenates
           28.42 Carbonates and percarbonates ; commercial ammonium carbonate containing
                 ammonium carbamate
           28.43 Cyanides and complex cyanides
           28.44 Fulminates, cyanates and thiocyanates
           28.45  Silicates ; commercial sodium and potassium silicates
           28.46 Borates and perborates
           28.47  Salts of metallic acids (for example, chromates, permanganates, stannates)
           28.48  Other salts and peroxysalts of inorganic acids, but not including azides
           28.49 Colloidal precious metals ; amalgams of precious metals ; salts and other com­
                 pounds, inorganic or organic, of precious metals including albuminates, protein­
                 ates, tannates and similar compounds, whether or not chemically defined
           28.50 Fissile chemical elements and isotopes; other radio-active chemical elements and
                 radio-active isotopes ; compounds, inorganic or organic, of such elements or
                 isotopes, whether or not chemically defined ; alloys, dispersions and cermets,
                 containing any of these elements, isotopes or compounds :
                  B. Artificial radio-active isotopes and their compounds (EURATOM)
                 C. Others
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                   28.51        Isotopes and their compounds, inorganic or organic, whether or not chemically
                                defined, other than isotopes and compounds falling within heading No 28.50 :
                                B. Other
                   28.52        Compounds, inorganic or organic, of thorium, of uranium depleted in U 235, of
                                rare earth metals, of yttrium or of scandium, whether or not mixed together
                   28.53        Liquid air (whether or not rare gases have been removed); compressed air
                   28.54        Hydrogen peroxide (including solid hydrogen peroxide)
                   28.55        Phosphides
                   28.56        Carbides (for example, silicon carbide, boron carbide, metal carbides):
                                A. Of silicon
                                B. Of boron
                                D. Of aluminium ; of chromium ; of molybdenum ; of tungsten ; of vanadium ;
                                    of tantalum ; of titanium
                                E. Other
                   28.57        Hydrides, nitrides and azides, silicides and borides
                   28.58        Other inorganic compounds (including distilled and conductivity water and water
                                of similar purity ); amalgams, exept amalgams of precious metals
            CHAPTER 29
                   29.01        Hydrocarbons
                   29.02        Halogenated derivatives of hydrocarbons
                   29.03        Sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives of hydrocarbons
                   29.04        Acyclic alcohols and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated and nitrosated
                                derivatives :
                                A. Saturated monohydric alcohols (*) ( a )
                                B. Unsaturated monohydric alcohols
                                C. Polyhydric alcohols :
                                       I. Diols, triols and tetraols
                                     IV. Other polyhydric alcohols
                                      V. Halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives of polyhydric
                                          alcohols (*) ( a )
                   29.05        Cyclic alcohols and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated deri­
                                vatives
                   29.06        Phenols and phenol-alcohols (*) (b )
                   29.07        Halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives of phenols or pheno­
                                alcohols
                   29.08        Ethers, ether-alcohols, ether-phenols, ether-alcohol-phenols, alcohol peroxides and
                                ether peroxides and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated deri­
                                vatives
                   29.09        Epoxides, epoxyalcohols, epoxyphenols and epoxyethers, with a three or four
                                member ring, and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated deriva­
                                tives
                   29.10        Acetals and hemiacetals and single or complex oxygen-function acetals and
                                hemiacetals, and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives
            ( a ) The asterisk covers only subheadings 29.04 A I and 29.04 A ex V (2-ethylexanol ).
            ( b ) The asterisk covers only subheading 29.06 A I.
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                 29.11        Aldehydes, aldehyde-alcohols, aldehyde-ethers, aldehyde-phenols and other single
                              or complex oxygen-function aldehydes ; cyclic polymers of aldehydes ; paraformal­
                               dehyde (*) ( a)
                 29.12         Halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives of products falling
                               within heading No 29.11
                 29.13         Ketones, ketone-alcohols, ketone-phenols, ketone-aldehydes, quinones, quinone­
                               alcohols, quinone-phenols, quinone-aldehydes and other single or complex oxy­
                              gen-function ketones and quinones, and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated
                               or nitrosated derivatives (*) (b )
                 29.14         Monocarboxylic acids and their anhydrides, acid halides, acid peroxides and
                               peracids, and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives
                               (*) (c)
                 29.15        Polycarboxylic acids and their anhydrides, halides, peroxides and peracids, and
                               their halogenated , sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives (*) (d )
                 29.16        Carboxylic acids with alcohol, phenol, aldehyde or ketone function and other
                              single or complex oxygen-function carboxylic acids and their anhydrides, halides,
                              peroxides and peracids, and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated
                              derivatives
                 29.17        Sulphuric esters and their salts, and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or
                              nitrosated derivatives
                 29.18        Nitrous and nitric esters, and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitro­
                              sated derivatives
                 29.19        Phosphoric esters and their salts, including lactophosphates, and their haloge­
                              nated, sulphonated. nitrated or nitrosated derivatives
                 29.20        Carbonic esters and their salts, and their halogenated, sulphonated , nitrated or
                              nitrosated derivatives
                 29.21         Other esters of mineral acids (excluding halides) and their salts, and their
                              halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives
                 29.22        Amine-function compounds
                 29.23         Single or complex oxygen-function amino compounds
                 29.24        Quaternary ammonium salts and hydroxides ; lecithins and other phosphoamino­
                              lipins
                 29.25        Carboxyamide-function compounds ; amide-function compounds of carbonic
                              acid
                 29.26        Carbonxyimide-function compounds (including orthobenzoicsulphimide and its
                              salts) and imine-function compounds (including hexamethylenetetramine and
                              trimethylenetrinitramine)
                 29.27        Nitrile-function compounds (*) ( e )
                 29.28        Diazo -, azo - and azoxy-compounds
                 29.29        Organic derivatives of hydrazine or of hyroxylamine
                 29.30        Compounds with other nitrogen-functions
                 29.31        Organo-sulphur compounds
                 29.32        Organo-arsenic compounds
                 29.33        Organo-mercury compounds
                 29.34        Other organo-inorganic compounds
                 29.35        Heterocyclic compounds ; nucleic acids
                 29.36        Sulphonamides
                 29.37        Sultones and sultams
           (a) The asterisk covers only subheading 29.11 E ex II (4-hydroxy-3-methoxylbenzo-3-hydro) (vanillin).
           ( b) The asterisk covers only subheading 29.13 A ex I (acetone).
           (c) The asterisk covers only subheading 29.14 D I.
           (d) The asterisk covers only subheading 29.15 C I.
           (e ) The asterisk covers only subheading ex 29.17 ( acrylonitrile).
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                29.38        Provitamins and vitamins, natural or reproduced by synthesis (including natural
                             concentrates), derivatives thereof used primarily as vitamins, and intermixtures
                             of the foregoing, whether or not in any solvent (*) (a)
                29.39        Hormones, natural or reproduced by synthesis ; derivatives thereof, used primarily
                             as hormones ; other steroids used primarily as hormones
                29.40        Enzymes
                29.41        Glycosides, natural or reproduced by synthesis and their salts, ethers, esters and
                             other derivatives
                29.42        Vegetable alkaloids, natural or reproduced by synthesis, and their salts, ethers,
                             esters and other derivatives
                29.43        Sugars, chemically pure, other than sucrose, glucose and lactose ; sugar ethers
                             and sugar esters, and their salts, other than products of heading Nos 29.39,
                             29.41 and 29.42
                29.44         Antibiotics (*) (b )
                29.45         Other organic compounds
            CHAPTER 30
                30.01         Organo-therapeutic glands or other organs, dried, whether or not powdered ;
                              organo-therapeutic extracts of glands or other organs or of their secretions ;
                              other animal substances prepared for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, not
                              elsewhere specified or included
                30.02         Antisera; microbial vaccines, toxins, microbial cultures (including ferments
                              but excluding yeasts) and similar products
                30.03         Medicaments (including veterinary medicaments)
                30.04         Wadding, gauze, bandages and similar articles (for example, dressings, adhesive
                              plasters, poultices), impregnated or coated with pharmaceutical substances or
                              put up in retail packings for medical or surgical purposes, other than goods
                              specified in Note 3 of this Chapter
                30.05         Other pharmaceutical goods
            CHAPTER 31
                 31.03        Mineral or chemical fertilizers, phosphatic (*)
                 31.04 B       Mineral or chemical fertilizers, potassic, mentioned in Note 3(B) to this Chapter
                 31.05        Other fertilizers; goods of the present Chapter in tablets, lozenges and similar
                              prepared forms or in packings of a gross weight not exceeding 10 kg:
                              A. Other fertilizers :
                                  III. Containing the two fertilizing substances: nitrogen and potassium:
                                        a) Natural potassic sodium nitrate, consisting of a natural mixture of
                                            sodium nitrate and potassium nitrate (the proportion of the latter
                                            element may be as high as 44°/o), of a total nitrogen content not
                                            exceeding 16-3°/o by weight
            (a) The asterisk covers only subheading 29.38 B ex II (vitamins B 12).
            (b) The asterisk covers only subheading 29.44 ex A (penicillins) and ex C (tetracycyline).
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           CHAPTER 32
             32.02   Tannins (tannic acids), including water-extracted gall-nut tannin, and their
                     salts , ethers, esters and other derivatives
             32.03   Synthetic organic tanning substances and inorganic tanning substances ; tanning
                     preparations, whether or not containing natural tanning materials ; enzymatic
                     preparations for pre-tanning (for example, of enzymatic, pancreatic or bacterial
                     origin)
              32.04  Colouring matter of vegetable origin (including dyewood extract and other
                     vegetable dyeing extracts, but excluding indigo) or of animal origin
              32.05  Synthetic organic dyestuffs (including pigment dyestuffs); synthetic organic
                     products of a kind used as luminophores ; products of the kind known as optical
                     bleaching agents, substantive to the fibre; natural indigo
             32.06   Colour lakes
              32.07   Other colouring matter; inorganic products of a kind used as luminophores
             32.08   Prepared pigments, prepared opacifiers and prepared colours, vitrifiable enamels
                     and glazes, liquid lustres and similar products, of the kind used in the ceramic,
                     enamelling and glass industries ; engobes (slips); glass frit and other glass, in the
                     form of powder, granules or flakes
             32.09   Varnishes and lacquers ; distempers ; prepared water pigments of the kind used
                     for finishing leather; paints and enamels ; pigments in linseed oil, white spirit,
                     spirits of turpentine, varnish or other paint or enamel media ; stamping foils;
                     dyes or other colouring matter in forms or packings of a kind sold by retail
             32.10   Artists', students' and signboard painters' colours, modifying tints, amusement
                     colours and the like, in tables, tubes, jars, bottles, pans or in similar forms or
                     packings, including such colours in sets or outfits, with or without brushes,
                     palettes or other accessories
             32.11   Prepared driers
             32.12   Glaziers' putty; grafting putty ; painters' fillings; non-refractory surfacing pre­
                     parations ; stopping, sealing and similar mastics, including resin mastics and
                     cements
             32.13   Writing ink, printing ink and other inks
           CHAPTER 33    ESSENTIAL OILS AND RESINOIDS ; PERFUMERY, COSMETICS AND
                         TOILET PREPARATIONS
           CHAPTER 34    SOAP, ORGANIC SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS, WASHING PREPARATIONS,
                         LUBRICATING PREPARATIONS, ARTIFICIAL WAXES, PREPARED
                         WAXES, POLISHING AND SCOURING PREPARATIONS, CANDLES AND
                         SIMILAR ARTICLES, MODELLING PASTES AND 'DENTAL WAXES '
           CHAPTER 35
             35.02 B Albuminates and other albumin derivatives
             35.03   Gelatin (including gelatin in rectangles, whether or not coloured or surface­
                     worked) and gelatin derivatives ; glues derived from bones, hides, nerves, tendons
                     or from similar products, and fish glues; isinglass
             35.04   Peptones and other protein substances and their derivates; hide powder, whether
                     or not chromed
             j5.06   Prepared glues not elsewhere specified or including; products suitable for use as
                     glues, put up for sale by retail as glues in packages not exceeding a net weight of
                     1 kg
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            CHAPTER 36             EXPLOSIVES ; PYROTECHNIC PRODUCTS ; MATCHES ; PYROPHORIC
                                   ALLOYS ; CERTAIN COMBUSTIBLE PREPARATIONS (*) ( a )
            CHAPTER 37             PHOTOGRAPHIC AND CINEMATOGRAPHIC GOODS
            CHAPTER 38
                  38.01        Artificial graphite ; colloidal graphite, other than suspensions in oil
                   38.02       Animal black (for example, bone black and ivory black), including spent animal
                               black
                  38.03        Activated carbon (decolourizing, depolarizing or adsorbent); activited diatomite,
                               activated clay, activated bauxite and other activated natural mineral products
                  38.04        Ammoniacal gas liquors and spent oxide produced in coal gas purification
                   38.05       Tall oil
                  38.06        Concentrated sulphite lye
                   38.07        Spirits of turpentine (gum, wood and sulphate) and other terpenic solvents
                               produced by the distillation or other treatment of coniferous woods ; crude
                               dipentene; sulphite turpentine ; pine oil (excluding 'pine oils' not rich in terpineol)
                   38.08       Rosin and resin acids, and derivatives thereof other than ester gums included
                               in heading No 39.05 ; rosin spirit and rosin oils
                  38.09        Wood tar ; wood tar oils (other than the composite solvents and thinners falling
                               within heading No 38.18); wood creosote; wood naphtha ; acetone oil
                  38.10        Vegetable pitch of all kinds ; brewers' pitch and similar compounds based on
                               rosin or on vegetable pitch; foundry core binders based on natural resinous
                               products
                   38.11        Disinfectants, insecticides, fungicides, weed-killers, anti-sprouting products, rat
                               poisons and similar products, put up in forms or packings for sale by retail or as
                               preparations or as articles (for example, sulphur-treated bands, wicks and candles,
                               fly-papers )
                   38.12       Prepared glazings, prepared dressings and prepared mordants, of a kind used in
                               the textile, paper, leather or like industries :
                                A. Prepared glazings and prepared dressings :
                                    II . Other
                                B. Prepared mordants
                   38.13        Pickling preparations for metal surfaces ; fluxes and other auxiliary preparations
                                for soldering, brazing or welding; soldering, brazing or welding powders and
                               pastes consisting of metal and other materials ; preparations of a kind used as
                               cores or coatings for welding rods and electrodes
                   38.14       Anti-knock preparations, oxidation inhibitors, gum inhibitors, viscosity impro­
                                vers, anti-corrosive preparations and similar prepared additives for mineral oils
                   38.15        Prepared rubber accelerators
                   38.16       Prepared culture media for development of micro-organisms
                   38.17        Preparations and charges for fire-extinguishers ; charged fire-extinguishing grenades
                   38.18        Composite solvents and thinners for varnishes and similar products
                   38.19       Chemical products and preparations 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
            ( a ) The asterisk covers only heading No 36.06 .
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            CHAPTER 39
                39.01         Condensation, polycondensation and polyaddition products, whether or not
                              modified or polymerized, and whether or not linear (for example, phenoplasts,
                              aminoplasts, alkyds, polyallyl esters, and other unsaturated polyesters, silicones)
                39.02         Polymerization and copolymerization products (for example, polyethylene,
                             polytetrahaloethylenes, polyisobutylene, polystyrene, polyvinyl chloride, poly­
                              vinyl acetate, polyvinyl chloroacetate and other polyvinyl derivatives, poly­
                              acrylic and polymethacrylic derivatives, coumarone-indene resins) (*) (a)
                 39.03        Regenerated cellulose ; cellulose nitrate, cellulose acetate and other cellulose
                              esters, cellulose ethers and other chemical derivatives of cellulose, plasticized
                              or not (for example, collodions, celluloid); vulcanized fibre (*):
                              A. Adhesive strips of a width not exceeding 10 cm, the coating of which consists
                                  of unvulcanized natural or synthetic rubber
                              B.  Other :
                                  III. Cellulose acetates
                                  IV.  Other cellulose esters
                                   V.  Cellulose ethers and other chemical derivatives of cellulose
                                  VI .  Vulcanized fibre
                 39.04        Hardened proteins (for example, hardened casein and hardened gelatin)
                39.05         Natural resins modified by fusion (run gums); artificial resins obtained by
                              esterification of natural resins or of resinic acids (ester gums); chemical derivatives
                              of natural rubber (for example, chlorinated rubber, rubber hydrochloride, oxi­
                              dized rubber, cyclized rubber)
                39.06         Other high polymers, artificial resins and artificial plastic materials, including
                              alginic acid, its salts and esters ; linoxyn
                 39.07        Articles of materials of the kinds described in heading Nos 39.01 to 39.06 (*)
            CHAPTER 40
                 40.02        Synthetic rubber latex ; pre-vulcanized synthetic rubber latex ; synthetic rubber ;
                              factice derived from oils
                 40.03        Reclaimed rubber
                 40.05        Plates, sheets and strip, of unvulcanized natural or synthetic rubber, other than
                              smoked sheets and crepe sheets of heading No 40.01 or 40.02 ; granules of un­
                              vulcanized natural or synthetic rubber compounded ready for vulcanization ;
                              unvulcanized natural or synthetic rubber, compounded before or after coagu­
                              lation either with carbon black (with or without the addition of mineral oil )
                              or with silica (with or without the addition of mineral oil), in any form, of a
                              kind known as masterbatch
                 40.06        Unvulcanized natural or synthetic rubber, including rubber latex, in other forms
                              or states (for example, rods, tubes and profile shapes, solutions and dispersions);
                              articles of unvulcanized natural or synthetic rubber (for example, coated or
                              impregnated textile thread ; rings and discs)
                 40.07        Vulcanized rubber thread and cord, whether or not textile covered , and textile
                              thread covered or impregnated with vulcanized rubber
                 40.08        Plates, sheets, strip, rods and profile shapes, of unhardened vulcanized rubber
                 40.09        Piping and tubing, of unhardened vulcanized rubber
                 40.10        Transmission, conveyor or elevator belts or belting, of vulcanized rubber
            (a) The asterisk covers only subheadings 39.02 C I , C IV and C VII a).
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                   40.12        Hygienic and pharmaceutical articles (including teats), of unhardened vulcan­
                                ized rubber, with or without fittings of hardened rubber
                   40.13        Articles of apparel and clothing accessories (including gloves), -for all purposes,
                                of unhardened vulcanized rubber
                   40.14        Other articles of unhardened vulcanized rubber
                   40.15        Hardened rubber (ebonite and vulcanite), in bulk or blocks, in plates, sheets,
                                strip, rods, profile shapes or tubes; scrap, waste and powder,, of hardened rubber
                   40.16        Articles of hardened rubber (ebonite and vulcanite)
             CHAPTER 41
                   41.02        Bovine cattle leather (including buffalo leather) and equine leather, except
                                leather falling within heading Nos 41.06, 41.07 or 41.08 :
                                A. East India kip, whole, whether or not the heads and legs have been removed,
                                     weighing each not more than 4-5 kg net, not further prepared than vegetable
                                     tanned, whether or not having undergone further preservative treatment
                                     with oil, but obviously unsuitable for immediate use in the manufacture of
                                     leather articles
                   41.03        Sheep and lamb-skin leather, except leather falling within heading Nos 41.06,
                                41.07 or 41.08 :
                                 A. Of Indian cross-bred sheep and goats, not further prepared than vegetable
                                     tanned, whether or not having undergone further preservative treatment
                                     with oil, but obviously unsuitable for immediate use in the manufacture
                                     of leather articles
                                B. Other :
                                     II . Other
                   41.04        Goat- and kid-skin leather, except leather falling within heading Nos 41.06, 41.07
                                or 41.08
                                A. Of Indian goat or kid, not further prepared than vegetable tanned, whether
                                     or not having undergone further preservative treatment with oil, but obviously
                                     unsuitable for immediate use in the manufacture of leather articles
                                B. Other :
                                     II. Other i1 )
                   41.05        Other kinds of leather, except leather falling within heading Nos 41.06, 41.07 or
                                41.08 :
                                A. Of reptiles, not further prepared than vegetable tanned, whether or not
                                     having undergone further preservative treatment with oil, but obviously
                                     unsuitable for immediate use in the manufacture of leather articles
                                B. Other :
                                     II. Other (2 )
                   41.06        Chamois-dressed leather
                   41.07        Parchment-dressed leather
                   41.08        Patent leather and imitation patent leather; metallized leather
                   41.10        Composition leather with a basis of leather or leather fibre, in slabs, in sheets
                                or in rolls
             ( 1) For products falling within this subheading, the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4) of this Regu­
                  lation is reduced to 30% .
             (2) For products falling within this subheading, the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4) of this Regu­
                  lation is reduced to 20% .
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           CHAPTER 42
                  42.01       Saddlery and harness, of any material (for example, saddles, harness, collars,
                              traces, knee-pads and boots), for any kind of animal
                 42.04        Articles of leather or of composition leather of a kind used in machinery or
                              mechanical appliances or for industrial purposes
                 42.05        Other articles of leather or of composition leather
                 42.06        Articles made from gut (other than silk-worm gut), from goldbeater's skin, from
                              bladders or from tendons
           CHAPTER 43
                  43.02       Furskins, tanned or dressed, including furskins assembled in plates, crosses and
                              similar forms ; pieces or cuttings, of furskin, tanned or dressed, including heads,
                              paws, tails and the like (not being fabricated)
                  43.03        Articles of furskin (*) ( a)
                  43.04       Artificial fur and articles made thereof
           CHAPTER 44
                  44.05       Wood sawn lengthwise, sliced or peeled, but not further prepared, of a thickness
                              exceeding 5 mm
                  44.06       Wood paving blocks
                  44.07       Railway or tramway sleepers of wood
                  44.08       Riven staves of wood, not further prepared than sawn on one principal surface ;
                              sawn staves of wood, of which at least one principal surface has been cylindrically
                              sawn, not further prepared than sawn
                  44.09       Hoopwood ; split poles ; piles, pickets and sta'kes of wood, pointed but not sawn
                              lengthwise ; chipwood ; pulpwood in chips or particles ; wood shavings of a kind
                              suitable for use in the manufacture of vinegar or foi the clarification of liquids
                  44.10       Wooden sticks, roughly trimmed but not turned, bent or otherwise worked, suit­
                               able for the manufacture of walking-sticks, whips, golf-club shafts, umbrella
                               handles, tool handles or the like
                  44.11       Drawn wood ; match splints ; wooden pegs or pins for footwear
                  44.12        Wood wool and wood flour
                  44.13       Wood (including blocks, strips and friezes for parquet or wood block flooring,
                              not assembled), planed, tongued, grooved, rebated, chamfered, V-jointed, centre
                              V-iointed, beaded , centre-beaded or the like, but not further manufactured
                  44.14       Wood sawn lengthwise, sliced or peeled but not further prepared, of a thickness
                              not exceeding 5 mm ; veneer sheets and sheets for plywood, of a thickness not
                              exceeding 5 mm :
                              A. Small boards for the manufacture of pencils
           ( a ) The asterisk covers only subheading 43.03 ex B (gloves).
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                     44.16         Cellular wood panels, whether or not faced with base metal
                     44.17         'Improved' wood, in sheets, blocks or the like
                    44.18          Reconstituted wood, being wood shavings, wood chips, sawdust, wood flour or
                                   other ligneous waste agglomerated with natural or artificial resins or other
                                   organic binding substances, in sheets, blocks or the like (*)
                    44.19          Wooden headings and mouldings, including moulded skirting and other moulded
                                   boards
                    44.20          Wooden picture frames, photograph frames, mirror frames and the like
                    44.21          Complete wooden packing cases, boxes, crates, drums and similar packings
                    44.22          Casks, barrels, vats, tubs, buckets and other coopers' products and parts thereof,
                                   of wood, other than staves falling within heading No 44.08
                    44.23          Builders' carpentry and joinery (including prefabricated and sectional buildings
                                   and assembled parquet flooring panels)
                     44.24          Household utensils of wood (*) ( a )
                    44.25          Wooden tools, tool bodies, tool handles, broom and brush bodies and handles ;
                                   boot and shoe lasts and trees, of wood
                    44.26          Spools, cops, bobbins, sewing thread reel and the like, of turned wood
                    44.27          Standard lamps, table lamps and other lighting fittings, of wood ; articles of
                                   furniture, of wood, not falling within Chapter 94; caskets, cigarette boxes, trays,
                                   fruit bowls, ornaments and other fancy articles, of wood ; cases for cutlery, for
                                   drawing instruments or for violins, and similar receptacles, of wood ; articles of
                                   wood for personal use or adornment, of a kind normally carried in the pocket,
                                   in the handbag or on the person ; parts of the foregoing articles, of wood
                    44.28          Other articles of wood
              CHAPTER 45
                    45.02          Natural cork in blocks, plates, sheets or strips (including cubes or square slabs,
                                   cut to size for corks or stoppers)
                     45.03          Articles of natural cork
                    45.04          Agglomerated cork (being cork agglomerated with or without a binding substance)
                                   and articles of agglomerated cork
             CHAPTER 46
                    46.01          Plaits and similar products of plaiting materials, for all uses, whether or not
                                   assembled into strips
                    46.02          Plaiting materials bound together in parallel strands or woven, in sheet form,
                                   including matting, mats and screens; straw envelopes for bottles (x )
             CHAPTER 47
                    47.01          Pulp derived by mechanical or chemical means from any fibrous vegetable
                                   material
                     47.02         Waste paper and paperboard; scrap articles of paper or of paperboard, fit only
                                    for use in paper-making :
                                   A. Waste paper and paperboard
             ( a) The asterisk covers only heading No 44.24 (clothes-pegs).
              (') For products falling within this subheading, the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4) of this Regu­
                  1 ation i s reduced to 30 % .
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            CHAPTER 48
              48.01    Paper and paperboard (including cellulose wadding), machine-made, in rolls or
                      sheets :
                      A. Newsprint
                       B. Cigarette paper
                       C. Kraft paper and kraft board :
                            I. Paper for the manufacture of paper yarn
                      D. Paper weighing not more than 15 g/m2 for use in stencil making
                      E. Other
              48.02   Hand-made paper and paperboard
              48.03   Parchment or greaseproof paper and paperboard, and imitations thereof, and
                      glazed transparent paper, in rolls or sheets
              48.04    Composite paper or paperboard (made by sticking flat layers together with an
                      adhesive), not surface-coated or impregnated, whether or not internally rein­
                       forced, in rolls or sheets
              48.05   Paper and paperboard, corrugated (with or without flat surface sheets), creped,
                      crinkled, embossed or perforated, in rolls or sheets
              48.06   Paper and paperboard, ruled,' lined or squared, but not otherwise printed, in rolls
                      or sheets
              48.07   Paper and paperboard, impregnated, coated, surface-coloured, surface-decorated
                      or printed (not being merely ruled, lined or squared and not constituting printed
                      matter within Chapter 49 ), in rolls or sheets
              48.08    Filter blocks, slabs and plates, of paper pulp
              48.09   Building board of wood pulp or of vegetable fibre, whether or not bonded with
                       natural or artificial resins or with similar binders (*)
              48.10   Cigarette paper, cut to size, whether or not in the form of booklets or tubes
              48.11   Wallpaper and lincrusta; window transparencies of paper
              48.12   Floor coverings prepared on a base of paper or of paperboard, whether or not
                      cut to size, with or without a coating of linoleum compound
              48.13   Carbon and other copying papers (including duplicator stencils) and transfer
                      papers, cut to size, whether or not put up in boxes
              48.14   Writing blocks, envelopes, letter cards, plain postcards, correspondence cards ;
                      boxes, pouches, wallets and writing compendiums, of paper or paperboard,
                      containing only an assortment of paper stationery
              48.15   Other paper and paperboard, cut to size or shape
              48.16   Boxes, bags and other packing containers, of paper or paperboard
              48.17   Box files, letter trays, storage boxes and similar articles, ot paper or paperboard ,
                      of a kind commonly used in offices, shops and the like
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                 48.18         Registers, exercise books, note books, memorandum blocks, order books, receipt
                              books, diaries, blotting-pads, binders (loose-leaf or other), file covers and other
                               stationery of paper or paperboard ; sample and other albums and book covers,
                              of paper or paperboard
                 48.19         Paper or paperboard labels, whether or not printed or gummed
                 48.20        Bobbins, spools, cops and similar supports of paper pulp, paper or paperboard
                               (whether or not perforated or hardened)
                 48.21         Other articles of paper pulp, paper, paperboard or cellulose wadding
            CHAPTER 49 PRINTED BOOKS , NEWSPAPERS, PICTURES AND OTHER PRODUCTS
                                  OF THE PRINTING INDUSTRY; MANUSCRIPTS, TYPESCRIPTS AND
                                  PLANS
            CHAPTER 64
                  64.03 (*) Footwear with outer soles of wood or cork
                 64.04 (*) Footwear with outer soles of other materials
                  64.05 (*) Parts of footwear (including uppers, in-soles and screw-on heels) of any
                               material except metal
                 64.06 (*) Gaiters, spats, leggings, puttees, cricket pads, shin-guards and similar articles,
                               and parts thereof
            CHAPTER 65 HEADGEAR AND PARTS THEREOF
            CHAPTER 66
                 66.02         Walking-sticks (including climbing-sticks and seat-sticks), canes, whips, riding­
                               crops and the like
                  66.03        Parts, fittings, trimmings and accessories of articles falling within heading No
                               66.01 or 66.02
            CHAPTER 67
                  67.01        Skins and other parts of birds with their feathers or down, feathers, parts of
                               feathers, down, and articles thereof (other than goods falling within heading No
                               05.07 and worked quills and scapes)
                  67.02        Artificial flowers, foliage or fruit and parts thereof; articles made of artificial
                               flowers, foliage or fruit
                  67.03        Human hair, dressed, thinned, bleached or otherwise worked; wool or other
                                animal hair prepared for use in making wigs and the like
                 67.05         Fans and hand screens, non-mechanical, of any material; frames and handles
                               therefor and parts of such frames and handles, of any material
            CHAPTER 68             ARTICLES OF STONE, OF PLASTER, OF CEMENT, OF ASBESTOS, OF
                                   MICA AND OF SIMILAR MATERIALS (*) ( a)
            (a ) The asterisk covers only heading No 68.01 .
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            CHAPTER 69
                69.01        Heat-insulating bricks, blocks, tiles and other heat-insulating goods of siliceous
                             fossil meals or of similar siliceous earths (for example, kieselguhr, tripolite or
                             diatomite)
                69.03        Other refractory goods (for example, retorts, crucibles, muffles, nozzles, plugs,
                             supports, cupels, tubes, pipes, sheaths and rods), other than goods falling within
                             heading No 69.01
                69.04         Building bricks (including flooring blocks, support or filler tiles and the like)
                69.05        Roofing tiles ; chimney-pots, cowls, chimney-liners, cornices and other construc­
                             tional goods, including architectural ornaments
                69.06         Piping, conduits and guttering (including angles, bends and similar fittings)
                69.07         Unglazed setts, flags and paving, hearth and wall tiles (J )
                 69.08        Glazed setts, flags and paving, hearth and wall tiles (x ) (*)
                69.09        Laboratory, chemical or industrial wares ; troughs, tubs and similar receptacles
                              of a kind used in agriculture ; pots, jars and similar articles of a kind commonly
                              used for the conveyance or packing of goods
                69.10        Sinks, washbasins, bidets, water closet pans, urinals, baths and like sanitary
                              fixtures
                69.12        Tableware and other articles of a kind commonly used for domestic or toilet
                              purposes of other kinds of pottery (*) (a)
                69.13        Statuettes and other ornaments, and articles of personal adornment; articles of
                             furniture
                69.14         Other articles
            CHAPTER 70
                 70.01        Waste glass (cullet); glass in the mass (excluding optical glass)
                 70.02        Glass of the variety known as 'enamel' glass, in the mass, rods and tubes
                 70.03        Glass in balls, rods and tubes, unworked (not being optical ^lass)
                 70.04        Unworked cast or rolled glass (including flashed or wired glass), whether figured
                              or not, in rectangles
                70.06         Cast, rolled, drawn or blown glass (including flashed or wired glass), in rectangles,
                              surface ground or polished, but not further worked
            i1) For products falling within this subheading, the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4) of this
                Regulation is reduced to 20% .
            (a) The asterisk covers only subheading 69.12 C.
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                 70.07         Cast, rolled, drawn or blown glass (including flashed or wired glass) cut to shape
                               other than rectangular shape, or bent or otherwise worked (for example, edge
                               worked or engraved), whether or not surface ground or polished; multiple-walled
                                insulating glass ; leaded lights and the like
                 70.08         Safety glass consisting of toughened or laminated glass, shaped or not
                  70.09         Glass mirrors including rear-view mirrors), unframed, framed or backed
                 70.10         Carboys, bottles, jars, pots, tubular containers and similar containers of glass,
                               of a kind commonly used for the conveyance or packing of goods ; stoppers and
                                other closures, of glass (*) (a)
                 70.11         Glass envelopes (including bulbs and tubes) for electric lamps, electronic valves
                               or the like
                 70.12         Glass inners for vacuum flasks or for other vacuum vessels
                 70.14         Illuminating glassware, signalling glassware and optical elements of glass, not
                               optically worked nor of optical glass :
                               A. Articles for electrical lighting fittings :
                                     I. Facetted glass, plates, balls, pear-shaped drops, flower-shaped pieces,
                                        pendants and similar articles for trimming chandeliers
                                    II. Other (for example, diffusers, ceiling lights, bowls, cups, lampshades,
                                        globes, tulip-shaped pieces) (*)
                               B. Other (2)
                 70.15         Clock and watch glasses and similar glasses (including glass of a kind used for
                               sunglasses but excluding glass suitable for corrective lenses), curved, bent,
                               hollowed and the like ; glass spheres and segments of spheres, of a kind used for
                               the manufacture of clock and watch glasses and the like
                 70.16         Bricks, tiles, slabs, paving blocks, squares and other articles of pressed or moulded
                               glass, of a kind commonly used in buildings ; multi-cellular glass in blocks, slabs,
                               plates, panels and similar forms
                 70.17         Laboratory, hygienic and pharmaceutical glassware, whether or not graduated or
                               calibrated; glass ampoules
                 70.18         Optical glass and elements of optical glass, other than optically worked elements ;
                               blanks for corrective spectacle lenses
                70.19          Glass beads, imitation pearls, imitation precious and semi-precious stones, frag­
                               ments and chippings, and similar fancy or decorative glass smallwares, and
                               articles of glassware made therefrom ; glass cubes and small glass plates, whether
                               or not on a backing, for mosaics and similar decorative purposes ; artificial eyes
                               of glass, including those for toys but excluding those for wear by humans ; orna­
                               ments and other fancy articles of lamp-worked glass ; glass grains (ballotini)
                 70.20         Glass fibre (including wool), yarns, fabrics, and articles made therefrom
                 70.21         Other articles of glass
           (') For products falling within this subheading, the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4) of this
               Regulation is reduced to 20 % .
           (2) For products falling within this subheading, the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4) of this
               Regulation is reduced to 30% .
           (a) The asterisk covers only heading No ex 70.10 (carboys, botles and jars , of unworked glass of a capacity exceeding
               0-25 litre but not exceeding 2-5 litres).
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           CHAPTER 71
              71.01   Pearls, unworked or worked, but not mounted, set or strung (except ungraded
                      pearls temporarily strung for convenience of transport)
              71.02   Precious and semi-precious stones, unworked, cut or otherwise worked, but not
                      mounted, set or strung (except ungraded stones temporarily strung for convenience
                      of transport)
              71.03   Synthetic or reconstructed precious or semi-precious stones, unworked, cut or
                      otherwise worked, but not mounted, set or strung (except ungraded stones
                      temporarily strung for convenience of transport)
           ex 71.05   Silver, including silver gilt and platinum-plated silver, or semi-manufactured
              71.06   Rolled silver, unworked or semi-manufactured
           ex 71.07   Gold, including platinum-plated gold, or semi-manufactured
              71.08   Rolled gold on base metal or silver, unworked or semi-manufactured
           ex 71.09   Platinum and other metals of the platinum group, or semi-manufactured
              71.10   Rolled platinum or other platinum group metals, on base metal or precious metal ,
                      unworked or semi-manufactured
              71.12   Articles of jewellery and parts thereof, of precious metal or rolled precious metal
              71.13   Articles of goldsmiths' or silversmiths' wares and parts thereof, of precious metal
                      or rolled precious metal, other than goods falling within heading No 71.12
              71.14   Other articles of precious metal or rolled precious metal
              71.15   Articles consisting of, or incorporating, pearls, precious or semi-precious stones
                      ( natural, synthetic or reconstructed )
           CHAPTER 73
              73.0 4  Shot and angular grit, of iron or steel, whether or not graded ; wire pellets of iron
                      or steel
              73.05 A Iron or steel powders
              73.07   Blooms, billets, slabs and sheet bars (including tinplate bars), of iron or steel ;
                      pieces roughly shaped by forging, of iron or steel :
                      A. Blooms and billets :
                          II. Forged
                      B. Slabs and sheet bars (including tinplate bars):
                           II. Forged
                      C. Pieces roughly shaped by forging
              73.10   Bars and rods (including wire rod), of iron or steel, hot-rolled, forged, extruded,
                      cold-formed or cold-finished (including precision-made); hollow mining drill steel :
                      B. Not further worked than forged
                      C. Not further worked than cold-formed or cold-finished
                      D. Clad or surface-worked ( for example, polished , coated ):
                            I. Not further worked than clad :
                               b ) Cold-formed or cold-finished
                          II . Other
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            73.11 Angles, shapes and sections, of iron or steel, hot-rolled, forged, extruded, cold­
                  formed or cold-finished ; sheet piling of iron or steel, whether or not drilled,
                  punched or made from assembled elements :
                  A. Angles, shapes and sections:
                       II. Not further worked than forged
                      III. Not further worked than cold-formed or cold-finished
                      IV. Clad or surface-worked (for example, polished, coated):
                             a ) Not further worked than clad :
                                  2. Cold-formed or cold-finished
                             b ) Other
            73.12 Hoop and strip, of iron or steel, hot-rolled or cold-rolled :
                  B. Not further worked than cold-rolled :
                       II . Other
                  C. Clad, coated or otherwise surface-treated :
                        I. Silvered, gilded or platinum-plated
                       II. Enamelled
                      III. Tinned :
                             b) Other
                      IV. Zinc-coated or lead-coated
                       V. Other (for example, copper-plated, artificially, oxidized, lacquered, nickel­
                            plated, varnished, clad, parkerized, printed):
                             a) Not further worked than clad :
                                  2. Cold-rolled
                            b) Other
                  D. Otherwise shaped or worked (for example, perforated, chamfered, lap-jointed)
            73.13 Sheets and plates, of iron or steel, hot-rolled or cold-rolled :
                  B. Other sheets and plates :
                       II. Not further worked than cold-rolled, of a thickness of:
                            a) 3 mm or more
                      IV. Clad, coated or otherwise surface-treated :
                            a) Silvered, gilded, platinum-plated or enamelled
                       V. Otherwise shaped or worked:
                            a) Cut into shapes other than rectangular shapes, but not further worked :
                                  1 . Silvered, gilded, platinum-plated or enamelled
                            b) Other, excluding sheets and plates shaped by rolling
            73.14 Iron or steel wire, whether or not coated, but not insulated
            73.15 Alloy steel and high carbon steel in the form mentioned in heading Nos 73.06 to
                  73.14 :
                  A. High carbon steel :
                           I. Ingots, blooms, billets, slabs and sheet bars :
                               a ) Forged
                          II. Pieces roughly shaped by forging
                         V. Bars and rods (including wire rod) and hollow mining drill steel ; angles,
                               shapes and sections:
                                a) Not further worked than forged
                                c) Not further worked than cold-formed or cold-finished
                                d) Clad or surface-worked (for example, polished, coated):
                                     1 . Not further worked than clad :
                                         bb ) Cold-formed or cold-finished
                                     2 . Other
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              73.15          VI. Hoop and strip :
            (cont'd )             b ) Not further worked than cold-rolled
                                  c) Glad, coated or otherwise surface-treated :
                                       1 . Not further worked than clad :
                                           bb ) Cold-rolled
                                       2. Other
                                 d) Otherwise shaped or worked (for example, perforated, chamfered,
                                      lap-jointed)
                            VII. Sheets and plates :
                                  b ) Not further worked than cold-rolled, of a thickness of:
                                       1 . 3 mm or more
                                   d) Otherwise shaped or worked:
                                       2 . Other excluding sheets and plates shaped by rolling
                           VIII. Wire, whether or not coated, but not insulated
                      B. Alloy steel :
                               I. Ingots, blooms, billets, slabs and sheet bars :
                                   a) Forged
                              II. Pieces roughly by forging
                              V. Bars and rods (including wire rod) and hollow mining drill steel ; angles
                                  shapes and sections :
                                   a) Not further worked than forged
                                   c) Not further worked than cold-formed or cold-finished
                                  d) Clad or surface-worked (for example, polished, coated):
                                       1 . Not further worked than clad :
                                           bb ) Cold-formed or cold-finished
                                      2 . Other
                             VI. Hoop and strip :
                                  b) Not further worked than cold-rolled
                                  c ) Clad, coated or otherwise surface-treated :
                                       1 . Not further worked than clad :
                                           bb ) Cold-rolled
                                      2. Other
                                  d) Otherwise shaped or worked (for example, perforated, chamfered,
                                      lap-jointed)
                          VII. Sheets and plates :
                                  b) Other sheets and plates :
                                      2 . Not further worked than cold-rolled , of a thickness of :
                                           aa) 3 mm or more
                                       4. Otherwise shaped or worked :
                                           bb) Other, excluding sheets and plates shaped by rolling
                          VIII. Wire, whether or not coated, but not insulated
              73.16   Railway and tramway track construction material of iron or steel, the following :
                      rails, check-rails, switch blades, crossings (or frogs), crossing pieces, point rods,
                      rack rails, sleepers, fish-plates, chairs, chair wedges, sole plates, (base plates),
                      rail clips, bedplates, ties and other material specialized for joining or fixing rails :
                      A. Rails :
                           I. Current-conducting, with parts of non-ferrous metal
                      D. Fish-plates and sole plates :
                          II . Other
                      E. Other
               73.17   Tubes and pipes, of cast iron (*)
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            73.19  High-pressure hydro-electric conduits of steel, whether or not reinforced
            73.20  Tube and pipe fittings (for example, joints, elbows, unions and flanges), of iron
                   or steel (*)
            73.21  Structures and parts of structures (for example, hangers and other buildings,
                    bridges and bridge-sections, lock-gates, towers, lattice masts, roofs, roofing frame­
                   works, door and window frames, shutters, balustrades, pillars and columns), of
                   iron or steel ; plates, strip, rods, angles, shapes, sections, tubes and the like, pre­
                    pared for use in structures, of iron or steel
            73.22  Reservoirs, tanks, vats and similar containers, for any material (other than com­
                   pressed or liquefied gas), of iron or steel, of a capacity exceeding 300 litres,
                   whether or not lined or head-insulated, but not fitted with mechanical or thermal
                   equipment
            73.23   Casks, drums, cans, boxes and similar containers, or sheet or plate iron or steel ,
                   of a description commonly used for the conveyance or packing of goods
             73.24  Containers, of iron or steel, for compressed or liquefied gas
            73.25  Stranded wire, cables, cordage, ropes, plaited bands, slings and the like, of iron
                   or steel wire, but excluding insulated electric cables
            73.26  Barbed iron or steel wire ; twisted hoop or single flat wire, barbed or not, and
                   loosely twisted double wire, of kinds used for fencing, of iron or steel
            73.27  Gauze, cloth, grill, netting, fencing, reinforcing fabric and similar materials, of
                   iron or steel wire
            73.28  Expanded metal, of iron or steel
            73.29  Chain and parts thereof, of iron or steel
            73.30  Anchors and grapnels and parts thereof, of iron or steel
            73.31  Nails, tacks, staples, hook-nails, corrugated nails, spiked cramps, studs, spikes
                   and drawing pins, of iron or steel, whether or not with heads of other materials,
                   but not including such articles with heads of copper
            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
            73.33  Needles for hand sewing (including embroidery), hand carpet needles and hand
                   knitting needles, bodkins, crochet hooks, and the like, and embroidery stilettos,
                   of iron or steel
            73.34  Pins (excluding hatpins and other ornamental pins and drawing pins), hairpins
                   and curling grips, of iron or steel
            73.35  Springs and leaves for springs, of iron or steel
            73.36  Stoves (including stoves with subsidiary boilers for central heating), ranges,
                   cookers, grates, fires other space heaters, gas-rings, plate warmers with burners,
                   wash boilers with grates or other heating elements, and similar equipment, of a
                   kind used for domestic purposes, not electrically operated, and parts thereof, of
                   iron or steel
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                73.37        Boilers (excluding boilers of heading No          84.01 ) and radiators, for central heating,
                             not electically heated, and parts thereof,        of iron or steel ; air heaters and hot air
                             distributors ( including those which can          also distribute cool or conditioned air),
                             not electrically heated, incorporating a          motor-driven fan or blower, and parts
                             thereof, of iron or steel
                73.38        Articles of a kind commonly used for domestic purposes, sanitary ware for indoor
                             use, and parts of such articles and ware, of iron or steel
                73.39       Iron or steel wool; pot scourers and scouring and polishing pads, gloves and the
                             like, of iron or steel
                73.40        Other articles of iron or steel (*) (*)
           CHAPTER 74
                74.02        Master alloys
                74.04        Wrought plates, sheets and strip, of copper
                74.05        Copper foil (whether or not embossed, cut to shape, perforated, coated, printed,
                             or backed with paper or other reinforcing material), of a thickness (excluding
                              any backing) not exceeding 0-15 mm
                74.06        Copper powders and flakes
                 74.07        Tubes and pipes and blanks therefor, of copper; hollow bars of copper (*)
                74.08        Tube and pipe fittings (for example, joints, elbows, sockets and flanges), of copper
                 74.09        Reservoirs, tanks, vats and similar containers, for any material (other than
                              compressed or liquefied gas), of copper, of a capacity exceeding 300 litres,
                             whether or not lined or heat-insulated, but not fitted with mechanical or thermal
                             equipment
                74.10        Stranded wire, cables, cordage, ropes, plaited bands and the like, of copper wire,
                             but excluding insulated electric wires and cables
                74.11        Gauze, cloth, grill, netting, fencing, reinforcing fabric and similar materials
                              ( including endless bands), of copper wire
                 74.12       Expanded metal, of copper
                 74.13        Chain and parts thereof, of copper
                74.14        Nails, tacks, staples, hook-nails, spiked cramps, studs, spikes and drawing pins,
                             of copper, or of iron or steel with heads of copper
                 74.15       Bolts and nuts (including bolt ends and screw studs), whether or not threaded
                             or tapped, and screws (including screws hooks and screw rings), of copper ; rivets,
                              cotters, cotter-pins, washers and spring washers, of copper
           (*) For products falling within this heading, the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4) of this Regulation
               is reduced to 30% .
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                  74.16        Springs, of copper
                  74.17        Cooking and heating apparatus of a kind used for domestic purposes, not electri­
                               cally operated, and parts thereof, of copper
                  74.18        Other articles of a kind commonly used for domestic purposes, sanitary ware for
                               indoor use, and parts of such articles and ware, of copper
                  74.19        Other articles of copper
            CHAPTER 75
                  75.02         Wrought bars, rods, angles, shapes and sections, of nickel; nickel wire
                 75.03       » Wrought plates, sheets and strip, of nickel; nickel foil; nickel powders and flakes
                  75.04        Tubes and pipes and blanks therefor, of nickel; hollow bars, and tube and pipe
                               fittings (for example, joints, elbows, sockets and flanges), of nickel
                  75.05        Electro-plating anodes, of nickel, wrought or unwrought, including those pro­
                               duced by electrolysis
                 75.06         Other articles of nickel
             CHAPTER 76
                  76.02        Wrought bars, rods, angles, shapes and sections of aluminium; aluminum wire
                               I1) (*)
                  76.03        Wrought plates, sheets and strip, of aluminium (*) (*)
                  76.04        Aluminium foil (whether or not embossed, cut to shape, perforated, coated,
                               printed, or backed with paper or other reinforcing material), of a thickness
                               (excluding any backing) not exceeding 0-20 mm
                  76.05        Aluminium powders and flakes
                 76.06         Tubes and pipes and blanks therefor, of aluminium; hollow bars of aluminium
                  76.07        Tube and pipe fittings (for example, joints, elbows, sockets and flanges), of
                               aluminium
                  76.08        Structures, and parts of structures (for example, hangars and other buildings,
                               bridges and bridge-sections, towers, lattice masts, roofs, roofing frameworks,
                               door and window frames, balustrades, pillars and columns), of aluminium;
                               plates, rods, angles, shapes, sections, tubes and the like, prepared for use in
                               structures, of aluminium
                  76.09        Reservoirs, tanks, vats and similar containers, for any material (other than com­
                               pressed or liquefied gas), of aluminium of a capacity exceeding 300 litres whether
                               or not lined or heat-insulated, but not fitted with mechanical or thermal equip­
                               ment
            (*) For products falling within this heading, the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4) of this Regu­
                lation is reduced to 20% .
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             76.10   Casks, drums, cans, boxes and similar containers (including rigid and collapsible
                     tubular containers), of aluminium, of a description commonly used for the con­
                     veyance or packing of goods
             76.11   Containers, of aluminium, for compressed or liquefied gas
             76.12 , Stranded wire, cables, cordage, ropes, plaited bands and the like, of aluminium
                     wire but excluding insulated electric wires and cables
             76.13   Gauze, cloth, grill, netting, reinforcing fabric and similar materials of aluminium
                     wire
             76.14   Expanded metal, of aluminium
             76.15   Articles of a kind commonly used for domestic purposes, sanitary ware for
                     indoor use, and parts of such articles and ware, of aluminium
             76.16   Other articles of aluminium
           CHAPTER 77
             77.02   Wrought bars, rods, angles, shapes and sections, of magnesium ; magnesium wire;
                     wrought plates, sheets and strip, of magnesium ; magnesium foil; raspings and
                     shavings of uniform size, powders and flakes, of magnesium; tubes and pipes and
                     blanks therefor, of magnesium ; hollow bars of magnesium
             77.03   Other articles of magnesium
             77.04   Beryllium, unwrought or wrought, and articles of beryllium
           CHAPTER 78
             78.02   Wrought bars, rods, angles, shapes and sections, of lead; lead wire
             78.03   Wrought plates, sheets and strip, of lead
             78.04   Lead foil (whether or not embossed, cut to shape, perforated, coated, printed, or
                     backed with paper or other reinforcing material), of a weight (excluding any
                      backing) not exceeding 1-7 kg/m2; lead powders and flakes
             78.05    Tubes and pipes and blanks, therefor, of lead ; hollow bars, and tube and pipe
                     fittings (for example, joints, elbows, sockets, flanges and S-bends), of lead
             78.06    Other articles of lead
           CHAPTER 79
             79.02   Wrought bars, rods, angles, shapes and sections, of zinc; zinc wire
             79.04    Tubes and pipes and blanks therefor, of zinc; hollow bars, and tube and pipe
                      fittings (for example, joints, elbows, sockets and flanges), of zinc
             79.05    Gutters, roof capping, skylight frames, and other fabricated building components
                     of zinc
             79.06    Other articles of zinc
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            CHAPTER 80
              80.02   Wrought bars, rods, angles, shapes and sections, of tin ; tin wire
              80.03   "Wrought plates, sheets and strip, of tin
              80.04   Tin foil (whether or not embossed, cut to shape, perforated, coated, printed or
                      backed with paper or other reinforcing material), of a weight (excluding any
                       backing) not exceeding 1 kg/m2 ; tin powders and flakes
              80.05   Tubes and pipes and blanks therefor, of tin, hollow bars, and tube and pipe
                      fittings (for example, joints, elbows, sockets and flanges, of tin
              80.06    Other articles of tin
            CHAPTER 81
              81.01    Tungsten (wolfram), unwrought or wrought, and articles thereof:
                      B. Hammered bars ; angles, shapes and sections, wire, filaments, plates, sheets,
                           strip and foil
                       C. Other
              81.02    Molybdenum, unwrought or wrought, and articles thereof:
                      B. Hammered bars ; angles, shapes and sections, wire filaments, plates, sheets,
                           strip and foil
                       C. Other
              81.03    Tantalum, unwrought or wrought, and articles thereof:
                       B. Hammered bars ; angles, shapes and sections, wire filaments, plates, sheets,
                           strip and foil
                       C. Other
              81.04    Other base metals, unwrought or wrought, and articles thereof; cerments, un­
                       wrought or wrought, and articles thereof:
                       A. Bismuth :
                           II. Wrought
                       B. Cadmium :
                           II. Wrought
                       C. Cobalt :
                           II. Wrought
                       D. Chromium :
                           II . Wrought
                       E. Germanium :
                           II. Wrought
                       F. Hafnium (celtium):
                           II . Wrought
                       G. Manganese :
                           II . Wrought
                       H. Niobium ( columbium ):
                           II. Wrought
                       IJ Antimony :
                           II . Wrought
                       K. Titanium :
                           II. Wrought
                       L. Vanadium :
                           II . Wrought
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                81.04        N.' Thorium :
               (cont'd)           II. Wrought
                             O. Zirconium :
                                  II. Wrought
                             P. Rhenium :
                                   II. Wrought
                             Q. Gallium ; indium ; thallium :
                                   II. Wrought
                              R. Cerments :
                                  II . Wrought
            CHAPTER 82
                82.01         Hand tools, the following: spades, shovels, picks, hoes, forks and rakes ; axes,
                              bill hooks and similar hewing tools ; scythes, sickles, hay knives, grass shears,
                              timber wedges and other tools of a kind used in agriculture, horticulture or
                             forestry
                82.02         Saws (non-mechanical) and blades for hand or machine saws (including tooth­
                              less saw blades)
                82.03         Hand tools, the following : pliers (including cutting pliers), pincers, tweezers,
                              tinmen's snips, bolt croppers and the like ; perforating punches ; pipe cutters ;
                              spanners and wrenches (but not including tap wrenches); files and rasps
                 82.04        Hand tools, including glaziers' diamonds, not falling within any other heading
                              of this Chapter; blow lamps, anvils ; vices and clamps, other than accessories for,
                              and parts of, machine tools ; portable forges ; grinding wheels with frameworks
                              (hand or pedal operated)
                 82.05        Interchangeable tools for hand tools, for machine tools or for power-operated
                              hand tools (for example, for pressing, stamping, drilling, tapping, threading,
                             boring, broaching, milling, cutting, turning, dressing, morticing or screw driving),
                              including dies for wire drawing, extrusion dies for metal, and rock drilling bits
                 82.06        Knives and cutting blades, for machines or for mechanical appliances
                 82.07        Tool-tips and plates, sticks and the like for tool-tips, unmounted, of sintered
                              metal carbides (for example, carbides of tungsten, molybdenum or vanadium)
                 82.08        Coffee-mills, mincers, juice-extractors and other mechanical appliances, of a
                              weight not exceeding 10 kg and of a kind used for domestic purposes in the
                              preparation, serving or conditioning of food or drink
                 82.09        Knives with cutting blades, serrated or not (including pruning knives), other than
                               knives falling within heading No 82.06 (*)
                 82.10        Knife blades
                 82.11        Razors and razor blades (including razor blade blanks, whether or not in strips)
                 82.12        Scissors (including tailors' shears ), and blades therefor
            (x) For products falling within this subheading , the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4) of this
                Regulation is reduced to 30% .
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                 82.13        Other articles of cutlery (for example, secateurs, hair clippers, butchers' cleavers,
                             paper knives); manicure and chiropody sets and appliances (including , nail files)
                 82.14       Spoons, forks, fish-eaters, butter-knives, ladles and similar kitchen or tableware (x )
                 82.15        Handles of base metal for articles falling within heading No 82.09, 82.13 or 82.14
            CHAPTER 83
                 83.01       Locks and padlocks (key, combination or electically operated), and parts thereof,
                             of base metal ; frames incorporating locks, for handbags, trunks or the like, and
                             part of such frames, of base metal ; keys for any of the foregoing articles of base
                              metal (2 )
                 83.02        Base metal fittings and mountings of a kind suitable for furniture, doors, stair­
                              cases, windows, blinds, coachwork, saddlery, trunks, caskets and the like (in­
                              cluding automatic door closers); base metal hat-racks, hat-pegs, brackets and
                              the like
                 83.03        Safes, strong-boxes, armoured or reinforced strong-rooms, strong-room linings
                              and strong-room doors, and cash and deed boxes and the like, of base metal
                 83.04        Filing cabinets, racks, sorting boxes, paper trays, paper rests and similar office
                              equipment, of base metal, other than office furniture falling within heading
                              No 94.03
                 83.05        Fittings for loose-leaf binders, for files or for stationery books, of base metal ;
                              letter clips, paper clips, staples, indexing tags, and similar stationery goods, of
                              base metal
                 83.06        Statuettes and other ornaments of a kind used indoors, of base metal
                 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)
                 83.08       Flexible tubing and piping, of base metal
                 83.09        Clasps, frames with clasps for handbags and the like, buckles, buckle-clasps,
                              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
                  83.10       Beads and spangles, of base metal
                  83.11       Bells and gongs, non-electric, of base metal, and parts thereof of base metal
                  83.12       Photograph, picture and similar frames, of base metal ; mirrors of base metal
                 83.13        Stoppers, crown corks, bottle caps, capsules, bung covers, seals and plombs, case
                              corner protectors and other packing accessoires, of base metal
            (*) For products falling within subheading 82.14 A, the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4)
                of this Regulation is reduced to 30% .
            (*) For products falling within this heading, the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4) of this Regulation
                is reduced to 20% .
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                   83.14         Sign-plates, name-plates, numbers, letters and other signs, of base metal
                   83.15        Wire, rods, tubes, plates, electrodes and similar products, of base metal or of
                                metal carbides, coated or cored with flux material, of a kind used for soldering,
                                brazing, welding or deposition of metal or of metal carbides ; wire and rods, of
                                agglomerated base metal powder, used for metal spraying
            CHAPTER 84
                   84.01        Steam and other vapour generating boilers (excluding central heating hot water
                                boilers capable also of producing low pressure steam); super-heated water boilers
                   84.02        Auxiliary plant for use with boilers falling within heading No 84.01 (for example,
                                economizers, superheaters, soot removers, gas recoverers and the like); condensers
                                for vapour engines and power units
                   84.03        Producer gas and water gas generators, with or without purifiers ; acetylene gas
                                generators (water process) and similar gas generators ; with or without purifiers
                   84.04        Steam engines (including mobile engines, but not steam tractors falling within
                                heading No 87.01 or mechanically propelled road rollers) with self-contained
                                boilers
                   84.05        Steam and other vapour power units, not incorporating boilers
                   84.06        Internal combustion piston engines
                   84.07        Hydraulic engines and motors (including water wheels and water turbines)
                   84.08        Other engines and motors
                   84.09        Mechanically propelled road rollers
                   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 (*) ( a )
                   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
                   84.12        Air conditioning machines, self-contained, comprising a motor-driven fan and
                                elements for changing the temperature and humidity of air
                   84.13        Furnace burners for liquid fuel ( atomizers), for pulverized solid fuel or for gas ;
                                mechanical stokers, mechanical grates, mechanical ash dischargers and similar
                                appliances
                   84.14        Industrial and laboratory furnaces and ovens, non-electric
                   84.15        Refrigerators and refrigerating equipment (electrical and other)
                   84.16        Calendering and similar rolling machines (other than metal-working and metal­
                                rolling machines and glass-working machines) and cylinders therefor
            ( a ) The asterisk covers only subheading 84.10 B II .
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              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 tempera­
                    ture such as heating, cooking, roasting, distilling, rectifying, sterilizing, pasteuri­
                    zing, steaming, drying, evaporating, vapourizing, condensing or cooling, not being
                    machinery or plant of a kind used for domestic purposes ; instantaneous or storage
                     water heaters, non-electrical
              84.18  Centrifuges ; filtering and purifying machinery and apparatus (other than filter
                     funnels, milk strainers and the like), for liquids or gases
              84.19  Machinery for cleaning or drying bottles or other containers ; machinery for
                    filling, closing, sealing, capsuling or labelling bottles, cans, boxes, bags or other
                    containers ; other packing or wrapping machinery ; machinery for aerating
                    beverages ; dish washing machines
              84.20  Weighing machinery (excluding balances of a sensitivity of 5 eg or better), in­
                     cluding weight-operated counting and checking machines ; weighing machine
                     weights of all kinds
              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
              84.22 Lifting, handling, loading or unloading machinery, telphers and conveyors (for
                    example, lifts, hoists, winches, cranes, transporter cranes, jacks, pulley tackle, belt
                    conveyors and teleferics), not being machinery falling within heading No 84.23
              84.23 Excavating, levelling, tamping, boring and extracting machinery, stationary or
                    mobile, for earth, minerals or ores (for example, mechanical shovels, coal-cutters,
                    excavators, scrapers, levellers and bulldozers ); pile-drivers ; snow-ploughs, not
                    self-propelled (including snow-plough attachments)
              84.24  Agricultural and horticultural machinery for soil preparation or cultivation (for
                     example, ploughs, harrows, cultivators, seed and fertilizer distributors); lawn and
                     sports ground rollers
              84.25 Harvesting and threshing machinery ; straw and fodder presses ; hay or grass
                    mowers ; winnowing and similar cleaning machines for seed, grain or leguminous
                    vegetables and egg-grading and other grading machines for agricultural produce
                     (other than those of a kind used in the bread grain milling industry falling within
                    heading No 84.29 )
              84.26 Dairy machinery (including milking machines)
              84.27  Presses, crushers and other machinery, of a kind used in wine-making, cider­
                     making, fruit juice preparation or the like
              84.28 Other agricultural, horticultural, poultry-keeping and bee-keeping machinery ;
                    germination plant fitted with mechanicial or thermal equipment; poultry incu­
                    bators and brooders
              84.29  Machinery of a kind used in the bread grain milling industry, and other machinery
                     (other than farm type machinery) for the working of cereals or dried leguminous
                     vegetables
              84.30 Machinery, not falling within any other heading of this Chapter, of a kind used
                     in the following food or drink industries : bakery, confectionery, chocolate
                    manufacture, macaroni, ravioli or similar cereal food manufacture, the prepara­
                    tion of meat, fish, fruit or vegetables (including mincing or slicing machines),
                     sugar manufacture or brewing
              84.31 Machinery for making or finishing cellulosic pulp, paper or paperboard
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            84.32 Book-binding machinery, including book-sewing machines
            84.33 Paper or paperboard cutting machines of all kinds; other machinery for making
                  up paper pulp, paper or paperboard
            84.34 Machinery, apparatus and accessories for type-founding or type-setting; machin­
                  ery, other than the machine-tools of heading No 84.45, 84,46 or 84.47, for
                  preparing or working printing blocks, plates, or cylinders ; printing type, impressed
                  flongs and matrices, printing blocks, plates and cylinders ; blocks, plates, cylinders
                  and lithographic stones, prepared for printing purposes (for example, planed,
                  grained or polished)
            84.35 Other printing machinery; machines for use ancillary to printing
            84.36 Machines for extruding man-made textiles; machines of a kind used for pro­
                  cessing natural or man-made textile fibres ; textile spinning and twisting machines ;
                  textile doubling, throwing and reeling (including weft-winding) machines
            84.37 Weaving machines, knitting machines and machines for making gimped yarn,
                  tulle, lace, embroidery, trimmings, braid or net; machines for preparing yarns
                  for use on such machines, including warping and warp sizing machines
            84.38 Auxiliary machinery for use with machines of heading No 84.37 (for example,
                  dobbies, jacquards, automatic stop motions and shuttle changing mechanisms);
                  parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the machines of
                  the present heading or with machines falling within heading No 84.36 or 84.37
                  (for example, spindles and spindle flyers, card clothing, combs, extruding nipples,
                  shuttels, healds and heald-lifters and hosiery needles)
            84.39 Machinery for the manufacture or finishing of felt in the piece or in shapes,
                  including felt-hat making machines and hat-making blocks
            84.40 Machinery for washing, cleaning, drying, bleaching, dyeing, dressing, finishing or
                  coating textile yarns, fabrics or made-up textile articles (including laundry and
                  dry-cleaning machinery); fabric folding, reeling or cutting machines, machines of
                  a kind used in the manufacture of linoleum or other floor covering for applying
                  the paste to the base fabric or other support ; machines of a type used for printing
                  a repetitive design, repetitive words or overall colour on textiles, leather, wall­
                  paper, wrapping paper, linoleum or other materials, and engraved or etched
                  plates, blocks or rollers therefor
            84.41 Sewing machines ; furniture specially designed for sewing machines ; sewing
                  machine needles :
                  A. Sewing machines ; furniture specially designed for sewing machines :
                       I. Sewing machines (lock-stitch only), with heads of a weight not exceeding
                           16 kg without motor or 17 kg including the motor ; sewing machine heads
                           (lock-stitch only), of a weight not exceeding 16 kg without motor or 17 kg
                           including the motor :
                           a ) Sewing machines having a value (not including frames, tables or
                               furniture) of more than 65 u.a . each
                       II. Other sewing machines and other sewing machine heads
                  B. Sewing machine needles
            84.42 Machinery (other than sewing machines) for preparing, tanning or working hides,
                  skins or leather (including boot and shoe machinery)
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               84.43 Converters, ladles, ingot moulds and casting machines, of a kind used in metal­
                     lurgy and in metal foundries
               84.44 Rolling mills and rolls therefor
               84.45  Machine-tools for working metal or metal carbides, not being machines falling
                     within heading No 84.49 or 84.50
               84.46 Machine-tools for working stone, ceramics, concrete, asbestos-cement and like
                     mineral materials or for working glass in the cold, other than machines falling
                     within heading No 84.49
               84.47 Machine-tools for working wood, cork, bone, ebonite (vulcanite), hard artificial
                     plastic materials or other hard carving materials, other than machines falling
                     within heading No 84.49
               84.48 Accessories and parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machines
                     falling within heading Nos 84.45 to 84.47, including work and tool holders, self­
                      opening dieheads, dividing heads and other appliances for machine-tools ; tool
                     holders for any type of tool or machine-tool for working in the hand
               84.49 Tools for working in the hand, pneumatic or with self-contained non-electric
                      motor
               84.50 Gas-operated welding, brazing, cutting and surface tempering appliances
               84.51 Typewriters, other than typewriters incorporating calculating mechanisms ;
                     cheque-writing machines
               84.52 Calculating machines ; accounting machines, cash registers, postage-franking
                     machines, ticket-issuing machines and similar machines, incorporating a calcula­
                     ting device
               84.53 Automatic data-processing machines and units thereof; magnetic or optical
                     readers, machines for transcribing dato onto data media in coded form and
                      machines for processing such data, not elsewhere specified or included
               84.54  Other office machines (for example, hectograph or stencil duplicating machines,
                      addressing machines, coin-sorting machines , coin-counting and wrapping
                     machines, pencil-sharpening machines, perforating and stapling machines)
               84.55  Parts and accessories (other than covers, carrying cases and the like) suitable
                     for use solely or principally with machines of a kind falling within heading
                     No 84.51 , 84.52, 84.53 or 84.54
               84.56  Machinery for sorting, screening, separating, washing, crushing, grinding or
                     mixing earth, stone, ores or other mineral substances, in solid (including powder
                     and paste) form ; machinery for agglomerating, moulding or shaping solid mineral
                     fuels, ceramic paste, unhardened cements, plastering materials or other mineral
                     products in powder or paste form ; machines for forming foundry moulds of
                      sand
               84.57  Glass-working machines (other than machines for working glass in the cold);
                     machines for assembling electric filament and discharge lamps and electronic
                      and similar tubes and valves
               84.58  Automatic vending machines (for example, stamp, cigarette, chocolate and food
                      machines), not being games of skill or chance
               84.59  Machines and mechanical appliances, having individual functions, not falling
                     within any other heading of this Chapter :
                     A. For the manufacture of the products mentioned in subheading 28.51 A
                          (EURATOM)
                     B. Nuclear reactors
                     C. Specially designed for the recycling of irradiated nuclear fuels (for example,
                          sintering of radio-active metal oxides , sheathing (EURATOM)
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                 84.59          D. Rope- or cable-making machinery, including electric wire and cable-making
               (cont'd)             machines
                               E. Other
                 84.60         Moulding boxes for metal foundry ; moulds of a type used for metal (other than
                                ingot moulds), for metal carbides, for glass, for mineral materials (for example,
                               ceramic pastes, concrete or cement) or for rubber or artificial plastic materials
                 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 )
                 84.62         Ball , roller or needle roller bearings (*)
            ex 84.63            Transmission shafts, cranks, bearing housings, plain shaft bearings, gears and
                                gearing (including friction gears and gearboxes and other variable-speed gears),
                               flywheels, pulleys and pulley blocks, clutches and shaft couplings, but not in­
                               cluding forged or roughly shaped shafts, of a weight exceeding 150 metric tons,
                               for generators or turbines
                 84 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 assort­
                               ments of gaskets and similar joints, dissimilar in composition, for engines, pipes
                               tubes and the like, put up in pouches, envelopes or similar packings
                 84.65         Machinery parts, not containing electrical connectors, insulators, coils, contacts
                               or other electrical features and not falling within any other heading in this
                               Chapter
            CHAPTER 85
                 85.01         Electrical goods of the following descriptions : generators, motors, converters
                               (rotary or static), transformers, rectifiers and rectifying apparatus ; inductors :
                              A. Generators, motors (whether or not equipped with speed reducing, changing
                                    or step-up gear) and rotary converters :
                                    I. Synchronous motors of an output of not more than 18 watts (1)
                              B. Transformers, static converters, rectifiers and rectifying apparatus ; inductors
                               C. Parts (2)
                85.02         Electro-magnets ; permanent magnets and articles of special materials for perma­
                              nent magnets, being blanks of such magnets ; electro-magnetic and permanent
                              magnet chucks, clamps, vices and similar work holders ; electro-magnetic clutches
                              and couplings ; electro-magnetic brakes; electro-magnetic lifting heads
                 85.04        Electric accumulators (3 )
                85.05         Tools for working in the hand, with self-contained electric motor
                85.06         Electro-mechanical domestic appliances, with self-contained electric motor
           t1) For products falling within subheading 85.01 A I, the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4) of this
               Regulation is reduced to 20% .
           (2) For products falling within subheading 85.01 C, the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4) of this
               Regulation is reduced to 30 % .
           (*) For products falling within subheading 85.04 A (lead-acid accumulators), the maximum Community amount referred
               to in Article 1 (4) of this Regulation is reduced to 20 % .
           (a) The asterisk covers only subheading 84.61 ex B (taps, cocks, valves and similar appliances of pig iron or cast iron).
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                      85.07        Shavers and hair clippers, with self-contained electric motor
                      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
                     85.09        Electrical lighting and signalling equipment and electrical windscreen wipers,
                                   defrosters and demisters, for cycles or motor vehicles
                      85.10        Portable electric battery and magneto lamps, other than lamps falling within
                                   heading No 85.09 :
                                   A. Miners' safety lamps
                      85.11        Industrial and laboratory electric furnaces, ovens and inductions and dielectric
                                   heating equipment ; electric welding, brazing and soldering machines and appara­
                                   tus and similar electric machines and apparatus for cutting
                      85.12        Electric instantaneous or storage water heaters and immersion heaters ; electric
                                    soil heating apparatus and electric space heating apparatus ; electric hair dressing
                                   appliances (for example, hair dryers, hair curlers, curling tong heaters) and
                                   electric smoothing irons ; electro-thermic domestic appliances ; electric heating
                                   resistors, other than those of carbon
                      85.13        Electrical line telephonic and telegraphic apparatus (including such apparatus
                                   for carrier-current line systems)
                      85.14        Microphones         and      stands   therefor ; loudspeakers ;    audio-frequency           electric
                      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 tele­
                                        vision cameras :
                                          I.  Transmitters
                                         II . Transmitter- receivers
                                        IV.    Television cameras
                                   B. Other apparatus
                                    C. Parts of the goods of subheadings A and B above :
                                          I.  Cabinets and cases
                                         II.  Parts of base metal, obtained by turning bars, angles, shapes, sections
                                              or wire, of solid section, the greatest diamater of which does not exceed
                                              25 mm
                      85.16         Electric traffic control equipment for railways, roads or inland waterways and
                                    equipment used for similar purposes in port installations or upon airfields
                      85.17         Electric sound or visual signalling apparatus (such as bells, sirens, indicator panels,
                                    burglar and fire alarms), other than those of heading No 85.09 or 85.16
                       85.18        Electrical capacitors, fixed or variable ( J )
              f 1 ) For products falling within this heading , the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4) of this Regula­
                    tion is reduced to 30% .
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                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, lightning arresters, surge suppressors, plugs,
                              lampholders and junction boxes); resistors, fixed or variable (including potentio­
                              meters), 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-lamp ; electrically ignited photographic flashbulbs (*)
                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 are rectifying valves and tubes); photocells ; mounted piezo-electric
                              crystals ; diodes, transistors and similar semi-conductor devices ; electronic micro­
                              circuits :
                              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
                85.24         Carbon brushes, arc-lamp carbons, battery carbons, carbon electrodes and other
                              carbon articles of a kind used for electrical purposes
                85.25         Insulators of any material
                85.26         Insulating fittings for electrical machines, appliances or equipment, being fittings
                              wholly of insulating material apart from any minor components of metal incorpo­
                              rated during moulding solely for purposes of assembly, but not including insulators
                              falling within heading No 85.25
                85.27         Electrical conduit tubing and joints therefor, of base metal lined with insulating
                              material
                85.28         Electrical parts of machinery and apparatus, not being goods falling within any
                              of the preceding headings of this Chapter
            CHAPTER 86               RAILWAY AND TRAMWAY LOCOMOTIVES , ROLLING-STOCK AND
                                    PARTS      THEREOF :        RAILWAY   AND     TRAMWAY       TRACK FIXTURES
                                    AND FITTINGS ; TRAFFIC SIGNALLING EQUIPMENT OF ALL KINDS
                                     ( NOT ELECTRICALLY POWERED )
           CHAPTER 87
                87.01         Tractors (other than those falling within heading No 87.07), whether or not
                              fitted with power take-offs, winches or pulleys
                87.02         Motor vehicles for the transport of persons, goods or materials (including
                              sports motor vehicles, other than those of heading No 87.09)
                87.03         Special purpose motor lorries and vans (such as breakdown lorries, fire-engines,
                              fire-escapes, road sweeper lorries, snow-ploughs, spraying lorries, crane lorries,
                              searchlight lorries, mobile workshops and mobile radiological units), but not
                              including the motor vehicles of heading No 87.02
                87.04         Chassis fitted with engines, for the motor vehicles falling within heading No
                              87.01 , 87.02 or 87.03
           (*) For products falling within subheadings 85.19 A and 85.20 A , the maximum Community amount referred to in
               Article 1 (4) of this Regulation is reduced to 30% .
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                 87.05        Bodies (including cabs) for the motor vehicles falling within heading No 87.01 ,
                              87.02 or 87.03
                 87.06        Parts and accessories of the motor vehicles falling within heading No 87.01 ,
                              87.02 or 87.03
                 87.07        Works trucks, mechanically propelled, of the type used in factories, warehouses,
                              dock areas or airports for short distance transport or handling of goods (for
                              example, platform trucks, fork-lift trucks and straddle carriers) ; tractors of the
                              type used on railway station platforms ; parts of the foregoing vehicles
                 87.08        Tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, motorized, whether or not fitted
                              with weapons, and parts of such vehicles
                 87.09        Motor-cycles, auto-cycles and cycles fitted with an auxiliary motor, with or
                              without side-cars ; side-cars of all kinds
                  87.10        Cycles (including delivery tricycles), not motorized (*) (*)
                 87.11        Invalid carriages, fitted with means of mechanical propulsion (motorized or not)
                 87.12        Parts and accessories of articles falling within heading No 87.09, 87.10 or 87.11 (2)
                              (*) ( a )
                 87.13        Baby carriages and invalid carriages (other than motorized or otherwise mechani­
                              cally propelled) and parts thereof
                 87.14        Other vehicles (including trailers), not mechanically propelled, and parts thereof:
                              A. Animal-drawn vehicles
                              B. Trailers and semi-trailers :
                                    I. Specially designed for the transport of highly radio-active materials
                                        (EURATOM)
                              C. Other vehicles
                              D. Parts
            CHAPTER 88            AIRCRAFT AND PARTS THEREOF; PARACHUTES ; CATAPULTS AND
                                   SIMILAR AIRCRAFT LAUNCHING GEAR ; GROUND FLYING TRAINERS
            CHAPTER 89            SHIPS, BOATS AND FLOATING STRUCTURES
            CHAPTER 90
                 90.01        Lenses, prisms, mirrors and other optical elements, of any material, unmounted,
                              other than such elements of glass not optically worked; sheets or plates, of
                              polarizing material
                 90.02        Lenses, prisms, mirrors and other optical elements of any material, mounted,
                              being parts of or fittings for instruments or apparatus, other than such elements
                              of glass not optically worked
                 90.03        Frames and mountings, and parts thereof, for spectacles, pince-nez, lorgnettes,
                              goggles and the like
            (') For products falling within this subheading, the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4) of this Regu­
                lation is reduced to 20% .
            (2) For products falling within subheading 87.12 B, the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4) of
                this Regulation is reduced to 20 % .
            (a) The asterisk covers only subheading 87.12 B.
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                 90.04        Spectacles, pince-nez, lorgnettes, goggles and the like, corrective, protective or
                              other
                 90.06        Astronomical instruments (for example, reflecting telescopes, transit instruments
                              and equatorial telescopes), and mountings therefor, but not including instruments
                              for radio-astronomy
                 90.07        Photographic cameras ; photographic flashlight apparatus :
                              A. Photographic cameras
                              B. Photographic flashlight apparatus
                 90.08        Cinematographic cameras, projectors, sound recorders and sound reproducers;
                              any combination of these articles :
                              A. Cameras and sound recorders, combined or not (J )
                              B. Projectors and sound reproducers, combined or not
                 90.09       Image projectors (other than cinematographic projectors); photographic (except
                              cinematographic) enlargers and reducers
                 90.10        Apparatus and equipment of a kind used in photographic or cinematographic
                              laboratories, not falling within any other heading in this Chapter; photocopying
                              apparatus (whether incorporating an optical system or of the contact type) and
                              thermo-copying apparatus ; screens for projectors
                  90.11        Microscopes and diffraction apparatus, electron and proton
                 90.12        Compound optical microscopes, whether or not provided with means for photo­
                 90.13        Optical appliances and instruments (but not including lighting appliances other
                              than searchlights or spotlights), not falling within any other heading of this
                              Chapter
                 90.14        Surveying ( including, photogrammetrical surveying), hydrographic, navigational
                              meteorological, hydrological and geophysical instruments; compasses ; rangefinders
                 90.15        Balances of a sensitivity of 5 eg or better, with or without their weights
                 90.16        Drawing, marking-out and mathematical calculating instruments, drafting
                              machines, pantographs, slide rules, dise calculators and the like; measuring or
                              checking instruments, appliances and machines, not falling within any other
                              heading of this Chapter (for example, micrometers, callipers, gauges, measuring
                              rods, balancing machines); profile projectors
                 90.17        Medical, dental, surgical and veterinary instruments and appliances (including
                              electro-medical apparatus and ophthalmic instruments)
                 90.18        Mechano-therapy appliances; massage apparatus ; psychological aptitude-testing
                              apparatus; artificial respiration, ozone therapy, oxygen therapy, aerosol therapy
                              or similar apparatus ; breathing appliances (including gas masks and similar
                              respirators)
                 90.19        Orthopaedic appliances, surgical belts, trusses and the like, splints and other frac­
                              ture appliances ; artificial limbs, eyes, teeth and other artificial parts of the body;
                              deaf-aids and other appliances which are worn or carried, or implanted in the
                              body, to compensate for a defect or disability
            (*) For products falling within this heading, the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4) of this Regulation
                is reduced to 20 % .
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                   90.20         Apparatus based on the use of X-rays or of the radiations from radioactive
                                 substances (including radiography and radiotherapy apparatus); X-ray generators ;
                                X-ray tubes ; X-ray screens; X-ray high tension generators; X-ray control panels
                                and desks ; X-ray examination or treatment tables, chairs and the like
                   90.21         Instruments, apparatus or models, designed solely for demonstrational purposes
                                 (for example, in education or exhibition,) unsuitable for other uses
                   90.22         Machines and appliances for testing mechanically the hardness, strenght, compres­
                                sibility, elasticity and the like properties of industrial materials (for example,
                                metals, wood, textiles, paper or plastics)
                   90.23        Hydrometers and similar instruments ; thermometers, pyrometers, barometers,
                                hygrometers, psychrometers, recording or not; any combination of these instru­
                                ments
                   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, beat meters, automatic oven-draught regulators), not being articles
                                falling within heading No 90.14
                   90.25        Instruments and apparatus for physical or chemical analysis (such as polarimeters,
                                refractometers, spectrometers, gas analysis apparatus); instruments and apparatus
                                for measuring or checking viscositz, porositz, expansion , surface tension or the
                                like (such as viscometers, porosimeters, expansion meters); instruments and
                                apparatus for measuring or checking quantities of heat, light or sound (such
                                as photometers (including exposure meters), calorimeters); microtomes
                   90.26        Gas, liquid and electricity supply or production meters; calibrating meters therefor
                   90.27        Revolution counters, production counters, taximeters, mileometers, pedometers,
                                and the like, speed indicators (including magnetic speed indicators) and tacho­
                                meters (other than articles falling within heading No 90.14); stroboscopes
                   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
            CHAPTER 91
                   91.01        Pocket-watches, wrist-watches, and other watches, including stop-watches
                   91.02        Clocks with wath movements (excluding clocks of heading No 91.03 )
                   91.03        Instrument panel clocks and clocks of a similar type, for vehicles, aircraft or
                               vessels
                  91.04         Other clocks
                  91.05        Time of day recording apparatus; apparatus with clocks or watch movement
                                (including secondary movement) or with synchronous motor, for measuring,
                                recording or otherwise indicating intervals of time
                  91.06        Time switches with clock or watch movement (including secondary movement)
                               or with synchronous motor
                  91.07        Watch movements (including stop-watch movements), assembled
                  91.08        Clock movements, assembled
                  91.09        Watch cases and parts of watch cases (*)
                  91.10        Clock cases and cases of a similar type for other goods of this Chapter, and
                               part thereof
                  91.11        Other clock and watch parts
            ( l) For products falling within this heading , the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4) of this Regulation
                 is referred to 20% .
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             CHAPTER 92
                   92.01        Pianos (including automatic pianos, whether or not with keyboards); harpsichords
                                and other keyboard stringed instruments ; harps but not including aeolian harps
                   92.02        Other string musical instruments
                   92.03        Pipe and reed organs, including harmoniums and the like
                    92.04       Accordions, concertinas and similar musical instruments ; mouth-organs
                   92.05        Other wind musical instruments
                    92.06       Percussion musical instruments (for example, drums, xylophones, cymbals,
                                castanets )
                   92.07        Electro-magnetic, electrostatic, electronic and similar musical instruments (for
                                example, pianos, organs, accordions)
                   92.08        Musical instruments not falling within any other heading of this Chapter (for
                                example, fairground organs, mechanical street organs, musical boxes, musical
                               saws); mechanical singing birds ; decoy calls and effects of all kinds ; mouthblown
                                sound-signalling instruments ( for example, whistles and boatswains' pipes)
                   92.09       Musical instrument strings
                   92.10       Parts and accessories of musical instruments (other than strings), including
                               perforated music rolls and mechanisms for musical boxes ; metronomes, tuning
                               forks and pitch pipes of all kinds
                   92.11        Gramophones, dictating machines and other sound recorders and reproducers,
                               including record-players and tape decks, with or without sound-heads; television
                               image and sound recorders and reproducers, magnetic :
                               B. Television image and sound recorders and reproducers, magnetic
                   92.12       Gramophone records and other sound or similar recordings ; matrices for the
                               production of records, prepared record blanks, film for mechanical sound
                               recording, prepared tapes, wires, strips and like articles of a kind commonly
                                used for sound or similar recording ( J )
                   92.13       Other parts and accessories of apparatus falling within heading No 92.11
             CHAPTER 93            ARMS AND AMMUNITIONS ; PARTS THEREOF (*) ( a )
             CHAPTER 94
                   94.01       Chairs and other seats (other than those falling within heading No 94.02),
                               whether or not convertible into beds, and parts thereof:
                               A. Specially designed for aircraft
                  94.02        Medical, dental, surgical or veterinary furniture (for example, operating tables,
                               hospital beds with mechanical fittings); dentists' and similar chairs with mechanical
                               elevating, rotating or reclining movements ; parts of the foregoing articles
            (') For products falling within this heading , the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4 ) of this Regulation
                 is reduced to 30 % .
            (a ) The asterisk covers only subheading 93.07 B.
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                    94.04         Mattress supports ; articles of bedding or similar furnishing fitted with springs
                                  or stuffed or internally fitted with any material, or of expanded foam or sponge
                                 rubber or expanded foam or sponge artificial plastic material, whether or not
                                 covered (for example, mattresses, quilts, eiderdowns, cushions, pouffes and
                                 pillows)
              CHAPTER 95              ARTICLES AND               MANUFACTURES          OF CARVING          OR    MOULDING
                                      MATERIAL
               CHAPTER 96             BROOMS, BRUSHES, FEATHER DUSTERS, POWDER-PUFFS AND SIEVES
                                      (*) (a)
              CHAPTER 97
                   97.01         Wheeled toys designed to be ridden by children (for example, toy bicycles and
                                  tricycles and pedal motorcars); dolls' prams and dolls' pushchairs
                   97.04         Equipment for parlour, table and funfair games for adults or children (including
                                 billiard tables and pintables and table-tennis requisites (*) (*) (b)
                   97.06         Appliances, apparatus, accessories and requisites for gymnastics or athletics,
                                 or for sports and outdoor games (other than articles falling within heading
                                 No 97.04 (^
                   97.07         Fish-hooks, line fishing rods and tackle ; fish landing nets and butterfly nets;
                                 decoy 'birds', lark mirrors and similar hunting or shooting requisites
                   97.08         Roundabouts, swings, shooting galleries and other fairground amusements ;
                                 travelling circuses, travelling menageries and travelling theatres
              CHAPTER 98
                   98.01         Buttons and button moulds, studs, cuff-links, and press-fasteners, including
                                 snap-fasteners and press-studs ; blanks and parts of such articles
                   98.02         Slide fasteners and parts thereof
                   98.03         Fountain pens, stylograph pens and pencils (including ballpoints pens and pencils
                                 and other pens, pen-holders, pencil-holders and similar holders, propelling
                                pencils and sliding pencils); parts and fittings thereof, other than those falling
                                within heading No 98.04 or 98.05
                  98.04          Pen nibs and nib points
                  98.05          Pencils (other than pencils of heading No 98.03 ), pencil leads, slate pencils,
                                 crayons and pastels, drawing charcoals and writing and drawing chalks ; tailors'
                                 and billiard chalks
                   98.06         Slates and boards, with writing or drawing surfaces, whether framed or not
                  98.07          Date, sealing or numbering stamps, and the like (including devices for printing
                                 or embossing labels), designed for operating in the hand; hand-operated compos­
                                ing sticks and hand printing sets incorporating such composing sticks
                  98.08         Typewriter and similar ribbons, whether or not on spools, ink-pads with or
                                without boxes
            i 1) For products falling within heading No 97.04 and subheading 97.06 B or C , the maximum Community amount referred
                 to in Article 1 (4) of this Regulation is reduced to 30 % .
            (a) The asterisk covers only subheading 96.02 A and C.
            ( b) The asterisk covers only subheading 97.04 A.
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              98.09   Sealing wax (including bottle-sealing wax) in sticks, cakes or similar forms ;
                     copying pastes with a basis of gelatin, whether or not a paper or textile
                     backing
              98.10   Mechanical lighters and similar lighters, including chemical and electrical lighters,
                     and parts thereof, excluding flints and wicks
              98.11   Smoking pipes, pipe bowls, stems and other parts of smoking pipes (including
                      roughly shaped blocks of wood or root); cigar and cigarette holders and parts
                      thereof
              98.12   Combs, hair-slides and the like
              98.13   Corset busks and similar supports for articles of apparel or clothing accessories
              98.14  Scent and similar sprays of a kind used for toilet purposes, and mounts and
                      heads therefor
              98.16  Tailors' dummies and other lay figures ; automata and other animated displays of
                      a kind used for shop window dressing
            CHAPTER 99   WORKS OF ART, COLLECTORS ' PIECES, AND ANTIQUES
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                                                      ANNEX B
                   List of developing countries and territories enjoying generalized tariff preferences
                                             INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES
Afghanistan                               India                                     Rwanda
Algeria                                   Indonesia                                 Saudi Arabia
Argentina                                 Iran                                      Senegal
Bahamas                                   Iraq                                      Sierra Leone
Bahrain                                   Ivory Coast                               Singapore
Bangladesh                                Jamaica                                   Somalia
Barbados                                  Jordan                                    Sri Lanka
Bhutan                                    Kenya                                     Sudan
Bolivia                                   Khmer Republic                            Swaziland
Botswana                                  Korea ( South )                           Syria
Brazil                                    Kuwait                                    Tanzania
Burma                                     Laos                                      Thailand
Burundi                                   Lebanon                                   Togo
Cameroon                                  Lesotho                                   Tonga
Central African Republic                  Liberia                                   Trinidad and Tobago
Chad                                      Libya                                     Tunisia
Chile                                     Malagasy Republic                         Uganda
Colombia                                  Malawi                                    United Arab Emirates :
Congo, People's Republic of               Malaysia                                       Abu Dhabi
Costa Rica                                Maldive Islands                                Dubai
Cuba                                      Mali                                           Ras al Khaimah
Cyprus                                    Mauritania                                     Fujairah
Dahomey                                   Mauritius                                      Ajman
Dominican Republic                        Mexico                                         Sharjah
Ecuador                                   Morocco                                        Ummal Qaiwain
Egypt, Arab Republic of                   Nauru
                                                                                    Upper Volta
El Salvador                               Nepal                                     Uruguay
Equatorial Guinea                         Nicaragua                                 Venezuela
Ethiopia                                  Niger                                     Vietnam, Republic of
Fiji                                      Nigeria                                   Western Samoa
Gabon                                     Oman                                      Yemen , People's Democratic
Gambia                                    Pakistan                                  Republic of
Ghana                                     Panama                                    Yemen Arab Republic
Guatemala                                 Paraguay                                  Yugoslavia
Guinea                                    Peru                                      Zaïre
                                                                                    Zambia
Guyana                                    Philippines
Haiti                                     Qatar
Honduras                                  Romania
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                                                   COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES
            dependent or administered, or for whose external relations Member States of the Community
                                         or third countries are wholly or partly responsible
            Afars and Issas (Territory of the)
            Angola (including Cabinda)
            Australian Antarctic Territory
            Belize
            Bermuda
            British Antarctic Territory
            British Indian Ocean Territory (Aldabra , Farquhar, Chagos Archipelago, Des Roches)
            British Pacific Ocean (*)
            Brunei
            Cape Verde Islands
            Cayman Islands and Dependencies
            Christmas Island
            Cocos ( Keeling) Islands
            Comoro Archipelago
            Corn Islands and Swan Islands
            Falkland Islands and Dependencies
            French Polynesia
            French Southern and Antarctic Territories
            Gibraltar
            Heard Island and MacDonald Islands
            Hong Kong
            Leeward Islands (2)
            Macao
            Mozambique
            Netherlands Antilles
            New Caledonia and Dependencies
            Norfolk Islands
            Pacific Islands administered by the United States of America or under United States trusteeship (3)
            Papua-New Guinea
            Portuguese Guinea
            Portuguese Timor
            St Helena (including Ascension, Gough Island, and Tristan da Cunha)
            Saint Pierre and Miquelon
            Sao Tome and Principe
            Seychelles (including Amirantes)
            Sikkim
            Spanish territories in Africa
            Surinam
            Territories for which New Zealand is responsible (Cook Islands, Niuwe Island , Tokelau Islands
                  and Ross Dependency)
            Turks and Caocos Islands
            Virgin Islands of the United States (St Croix, St Thomas, St John, etc.)
            Wallis and Futuna Islands
            Windward Islands (4)
            Note : The above lists may be amended subsequently to take account of changes in the inter­
                         national status of countries or territories.
            (') Gilbert and Ellice Islands, British Solomon Islands , New Hebrides Condominium, and Pitcairn Islands.
            (2) Antigua , Montserrat , St Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla , British Virgin Islands .
            (3) The Pacific Islands administered by the United States of America include : Guam, American Samoa 'including Swain 's
                 Island ), Midway Islands, Johnston and Sand Islands, Wake Island and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (the
                 Caroline, Marianas and Marshall Islands).
            (4 ) Dominica , Grenada, St Lucia, St Vincent.