CELEX: 31975R3010
Language: en
Date: 1975-11-17 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3010/75 of the Council of 17 November 1975 opening preferential tariffs for certain products originating in developing countries

70                                     Official Journal of the European Communities                               29. 11. 75
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 3010/75 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                  of 17 November 1975
              opening preferential tariffs for certain products originating in developing countries
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          offer on the assumption that all the main indus­
                                                                  trialized countries which are members of the OECD
                                                                  would participate in granting preference ; and would
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                 make similar efforts in this direction; whereas, more­
pean Economic Community;                                          over, it is evident from the conclusions worked out in
                                                                  UNCTAD that this offer, while being of a temporary
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission;                nature, does not constitute a binding commitment
                                                                  and, in particular, may be withdrawn wholly or in
Having regard to the Opinion of the European Par­                 part at a later date; whereas this possibility may be
liament (1);                                                      adopted inter alia with a view to remedying any un­
                                                                  favourable situations which might arise in the ACP
Whereas within the context of UNCTAD , the Euro­                  States following the implementation of the
pean Economic Community offered to grant tariff                   generalized preference scheme;
preferences on finished and semi-finished products
coming from developing countries ; whereas the pre­
ferential treatment proposed in that offer covers,
generally speaking, all finished and semi-finished in­            "Whereas, moreover, the conference of the Heads of
                                                                  State or of Government of the Member State and
dustrial products covered by Chapters 25 to 99 of
the Brussels Nomenclature which originate in devel­               the States acceding to the European Communities
                                                                  held in Paris from 19 to 21 October 1972 invited the
oping countries ; whereas the preference consists in
                                                                  Community institutions and the Member States pro­
the granting of exemption from customs duties ;
                                                                  gressively to adopt an overall policy of development
whereas preferential imports are effected up to the
level of ceilings calculated by value in respect of each          cooperation on a world wide scale comprising in
product on the basis of factors which are uniform                 particular the improvement of generalized preferences
for all the products ; whereas in order that the prefer­          with the aim of achieving a steady increase in imports
ences granted to the most competitive developing                   of manufactures from the developing countries ;
country or countries should be restricted and that a
substantial share should be reserved for the least
competitive, preferential imports from any one                    Whereas tariff preferences have been applied from
developing country in respect of a given product                  the second half on 1971 under the conditions set out
should not, as a general rule, exceed 50% of the                  above and whereas these preferences should continue
ceiling fixed for that product;                                   to be applied throughout 1976; whereas, having
                                                                  regard to the terms of the offer concerned and to the
Whereas, in the offer made by the Community, the                  need to improve the generalized preferences, the
annual ceilings should normally be calculated on the              abovementioned basic amount should normally refer
basis of the total value for 1968 cif imports from the            to 1971 while the additional amount refers to 1972;
countries benefiting from this scheme, excluding                  whereas, moreover, these same reference years have
those already enjoying various preferential tariff ar­            already been used for calculating the annual ceilings
rangements granted by the Community (basic                        for the 1975 preferences year; whereas, since there
amount), plus 5% of the value of cif imports from                 are no Community reference data for more recent
the other countries and from the countries already                periods and in order to ensure none the less that
enjoying such arrangements (additional amount);                   there is an appropriate improvement in the prefer­
 whereas such additional amount is variable and is                ences in 1976, the ceilings calculated on the basis of
calculated each year on the basis of the latest figures           the abovementioned reference years are to be
available, provided that this entails no reduction in             increased by 15% for the 1976 preferences year;
the ceiling;
Whereas the offer made by the Community includes                  Whereas, in accordance with Protocol 23 to the
 a clause stating that the Community drew up the                  Act of Accession (2 ), the generalized tariff preferences
(*) OJ No C 257, 10. 11 . 1975, p. 30.                             (2) OJ No L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14.
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scheme became fully applicable in the new Member                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
States on 1 January 1974;
                                                                                           Article 1
Whereas it is expedient, therefore, in respect of the              1 . From 1 January to 31 December 1975 the Com­
products referred to in Annex A which originate in                 mon Customs Tariff duties and the tariff duties of
the countries and territories listed in Annex B, that              the new Member States on the products listed in
the Community should allow, for each category of                   Annex A shall be totally suspended, subject to the
these products and throughout 1976, duty-free im­                  provisions of Articles 2 and 4 (2) of this Regulation.
ports within the limits of the Community ceilings
calculated in the manner set out above ; whereas the
benefit of such tariff exemption should be reserved                2. This suspension shall be enjoyed solely by pro­
for products originating in the countries and terri­               ducts originating in the countries and territories
tories under consideration, the concept of 'originating            listed in Annex B. However, imports already enjoying
products' being determined in accordance with the                  exemption from customs duties under other preferen­
procedure laid down in Article 14 of Council Regu­                 tial tariff arrangements shall not be charged against
lation (EEC) No 802/68 0) of 27 June 1968 on the                   the ceilings specified in paragraph 3. For the
common definition of the concept of the origin of                  purposes of the application of this Regulation, the
goods ; whereas charges against each of these ceilings             concept of originating products shall be determined
must, as a general rule, come within a maximum                   ' in accordance with the procedure laid down in
Community amount of 50% in respect of the                          Article 14 of Regulation (EEC) No 802/68 .
products originating in any of the abovementioned
countries ; whereas, however, in order in particular
to safeguard access by all the abovementioned coun­                3 . Subject to the provisions of Articles 2 and 4 (2)
tries and territories to this preferential scheme, the             this suspension shall be granted, in respect of each
maximum Community amount for certain products                      category of products within a Community ceiling
should be reduced to 20 or 30% ;                                   which shall be expressed in units of account and
                                                                   which shall be equal to 115% of the amount obtained
                                                                   by adding together the value of cif imports in 1971
                                                                   of the products concerned, to the Community from
Whereas, under these circumstances, these objectives               the countries and territories enjoying these arrange­
 may be reached by applying a method of adminis­                   ments, excluding those already enjoying various
tration based on the charging, at Community level,                 preferential tariff arrangements granted by the
against the abovementioned ceilings and maximum                    Community, and 5% of the value of cif imports in
                                                                   1972 from other countries and from countries and
amounts, of imports of the products concerned as
and when these products are entered for home use                   territories already enjoying such arrangements.
 and are accompanied by a certificate of origin ;
whereas this method of administration must make
provision for the re-introduction of the levying of                4. Subject to the provisions of Articles 2 aind 4 (2),
 customs duties as soon as the said ceilings or maxi­              within each ceiling thus calculated, charges of
 mum amounts are reached at Community level ;                      products originating in any one of the countries listed
                                                                   in Annex B should not exceed a Community maxi­
                                                                   mum amount equivalent to 50% of this ceiling with
                                                                   the exception of certain products for which the
                                                                   maximum amount shall be reduced to the percentage
Whereas such method of administration calls for very               or value shown in Annex A.
close and particularly rapid cooperation between
Member States and the Commission, which must, in
particular, be able to observe the extent to which                 5 . Any amendment to Annex B, in particular by the
charges are made against the ceilings and maximum                  addition of new countries enjoying tariff preferences,
 amounts and inform Member States thereof; whereas
                                                                   may entail corresponding adjustments to the Corn­
 such cooperation should be particularly close in view         s' munity ceilings and the maximum amounts referred
of the need for the Commission to be able to take
                                                                   to in paragraphs 3 and 4.
 appropriate measures to re-introduce the levying of
customs duties either generally or individually when
any of the ceilings or maximum amounts are reached,
                                                                                           Article 2
                                                                    1 . As soon as the ceilings calculated in accordance
 (*) OJ No L 148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 1 .                              with the provisions of Article 1 (3), which are laid
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down for Community imports of products originating              to in paragraph 1 is submitted before the date on
in all of the countries referred to in Article 1 (2), are       which the levying of duties is re-introduced.
reached at Community level, the levying of customs
duties on imports of the products in question from              3 . The extent to which the ceilings and maximum
all the countries concerned may at any time be                  amounts have been actually filled shall be determined
re-introduced until the end of the period referred to           at Community level on the basis of the imports
in Article 1 (1 ).                                              charged in accordance with paragraphs 1 and 2.
2. As soon as the maximum amounts calculated in                                            Article 4
accordance with the provisions of Article 1 (4), which
are laid down for Community imports of products                 1 . The Commission, in close cooperation with the
originating in each of the countries referred to in             Member States, shall take all necessary measures to
Article 1 (2), are reached for any one of these coun­           ensure that the above provisions are applied.
tries at Community level, the levying of customs
duties on imports of the products in question from              2. The Commission shall re-introduce the levying of
the country concerned may at any time be re-intro­              customs duties in respect of all the countries referred
duced until the end of the period referred to in                to in Article 1 (2) or in respect of any one of them
Article 1 ( 1 ).                                                 by means of a Regulation in the conditions laid down
                                                                 in Article 2 ( 1 ) and (2).
                         Article 3                                                         Article 5
 1 . Imports of the products in question shall be               Member States shall inform the Commission at regu­
 actually charged against the Community ceilings and            lar intervals of imports of the products in question
maximum amounts as and when the products are                     actually charged against the Community ceilings and
entered for home use, and provided that they are                 maximum amounts laid down in Article 1 (3 ) and (4).
 accompanied by a certificate of origin pursuant to
 the rules laid down in Article 1 (2).                                                     Article 6
 2. Goods may be charged against a ceiling or maxi­              This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January
 mum amount only if the certificate of origin referred            1976.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                 Done at Brussels, 17 November 1975.
                                                                                          For the Council
                                                                                           The President
                                                                                           E. COLOMBO
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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 and
                               hydroxide
                 25.23         Portland cement, ciment fondu, slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar
                               hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or 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
                  2 / .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 bituminous minerals, these
                               oils being the basic constituents of the preparations (1 ):
                               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 670 000, 190 000 and 1 700 000 metric tons for products
                 falling within subheadings 27,10 A III , B III , C Ic), C II c ) and C III c) and d) respectively ; the maximum Community
                 amount referred to in Article 1 (4) 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
    r) For products falling within this heading, the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4) 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 Fe2O3
           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  Chlorites and hypochlorites
           28.32  Chlorates and perchlorates
           28.33 Bromides, oxybromides, bromates and perbromates, and hypobromites
           28.34  Iodides, oxyiodides, 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. Other
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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 (*)
         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, halides, peroxides and
                                 peracids, and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives
                                  C ) (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 (2)
                   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         Carboxyimide-function compounds (including ortho-benzoicsulphimide 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 hydroxylamine
                   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 I (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 heading No ex 29.17 (acrylonitrile).
            (*) For citric acid falling within subheading 29.16 A IV a), the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4)
                 is reduced to 30 % .
            (2) For glutamic acid and its salts, falling within subheading 29.23 D III, the Community ceiling referred to in Article 1 (3 )
                 is set at 139 250 u.a. and the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4) is set at 27 850 u.a.
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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
         31.02       Mineral or chemical fertilizers, nitrogenous :
                     B. Urea, containing more than 45% by weight of nitrogen on the dry anhydrous
                           product (*) (*)
                     C. Other (») (*)
        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%), of a total nitrogen content not
                                    exceeding 16-3% 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 (tetracycline).
   (*) For products falling within these subheadings, the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4) is reduced
       to 20% .
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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 roils ;
                      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
              35.06   Prepared glues not elsewhere specified or included ; 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); activated 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
   ex 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 , excluding sorbitol , other than that falling within subheading
                     29.04 C III
   (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, 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 No 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 lambskin leather, except leather falling within heading No 41.06,
                     41.07 or 41.08 :
                     A. Of Indian hair sheep, 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 kidskin leather, except leather falling within heading No 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 (»)
        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
   (') For products falling within this subheading, the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4) is
       reduced to 40% .
   (') For products falling within this subheading, the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4) 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
                 42.03       Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, of leather or of composition leather:
                             B. Gloves, including mittens and mitts :
                                    I. Protective, for all trades (*) (*)
                 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
           ex 44.02           Coconut charcoal
                 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 stakes 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 for 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-jointed, beaded , centre-beaded or the like , but not further manufactured (2)
                  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
                               B. Other (3 ) (*)
           ( a) The asterisk covers only subheading 43.03 ex B (gloves).
            (] ) For products falling within this subheading, the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4) is reduced
                 to 20 % .
            (2) For products falling within this heading , the Community ceiling referred to in Article 1 (3 ) is set at 4 364 850 u.a .
            (s) For products falling within this subheading, the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4) is reduced
                 to 40% .
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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 (other than products falling within heading No 46.01 ) bound
                      together in parallel strands or woven in sheet form, including matting, mats and
                      screens; straw envelopes for bottles (2)
   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 heading, the Community ceiling referred to in Article 1 (3) is set at 6 765 150 u.a.
    (*) For products falling within this subheading, the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4) is
        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. For the manufacture of paper yarn of heading No 57.08 or of paper yarn
                               reinforced with metal of heading No_ 59.04
                       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, removable in-soles, hose protectors and heel cushions, 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 (*)
                   69.08       Glazed setts, flags and paving, hearth and wall tiles (*) (*)
                  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 glass)
                  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
             (') For products falling within this heading, the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4) 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 (1 )
         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) (2)
                       B. Other (3 )
         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
   (a) The asterisk covers only heading No ex 70.10 (carboys, bottles and jars, of unworked glass of a capacity exceeding
       0-25 litre but not exceeding 2-5 litres).
   (1) For products falling within this heading, the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4) is reduced to 40% .
   (2) For products falling within this subheading, the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4) is
       reduced to 20%.
   (3) For products falling within this subheading, the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4) is
       reduced to 30 % .
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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, semi-manufactured
               71.06   Rolled silver, unworked or semi-manufactured
            ex 71.07   Gold, including platinum-plated gold, 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, 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
               73.04   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) 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) 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 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
                            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, hangars 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 and 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 electrically 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 (2)
                 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 Community ceiling referred to in Article 1 (3 ) is set at 6 850 200 u.a. and
                the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4 ) is set at 30 % .
            (2) For products falling within this heading, the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4) 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
                    H (•)
        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
   (x) For products falling within this subheading, the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4) 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. Other
             B. Cadmium :
                  II. Other
             C. Cobalt:
                  II . Other
             D. Chromium :
                  II . Other
             E. Germanium :
                  II. Other
             F. Hafnium (celtium ):
                  II. Other
             G. Manganese :
                  II . Other
             H. Niobium (columbium ):
                  II . Other
              IJ Antimony :
                  II . Other
             K. Titanium :
                  II. Other
             L. Vanadium :
                  II . Other
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                81.04       N. Thorium :
               (cont'd)         II. Other
                            O. Zirconium :
                                 II . Other
                            P. Rhenium :
                                  II . Other
                            Q. Gallium ; indium ; thallium:
                                  II. Other
                            R. Cerments :
                                  II. Other
           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
            (*) For products falling within this subheading, the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4) 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 (J )
         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 electrically 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 accessories, of base metal
   (') For products falling within subheading 82.14 A, the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4)
       is reduced to 20% .
   (!) For products falling within this heading, the maximum Community amount referred ta in Article 1 (4) ' is
       reduced to 2Wo .
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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 cg 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 mechanical 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
                                       b ) Other (1)
                                   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)
            ( ) For products falling within this subheading* the Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4) is reduced to 30% .
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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 data on to 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 (EURATOM)
             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, out 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 (*)
                               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 (s)
                  85.05        Tools for working in the hand, with self-contained electric motor
                  85.06        Electro-mechanical domestic appliances, with self-contained electric motor
            (a) The asterisk covers only subheading 84.61 ex B {taps, cocks, valves and similar appliances of pig iron or cast iron).
            (l) For products falling within subheading 85.01 A I , the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4)
                is reduced to 20°/o .
            (') For products falling within subheading 85.01 C , the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4)
                 is reduced to 30°/o .
            (*) For products falling within subheading 85.04 A (lead-acid accumulators), the maximum Community amount referred
                to in Article 1 (4) is reduced to 20°/«.
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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
                       amplifiers
          85.15        Radiotelegraphic and radiotelephonic transmission and reception apparatus;
                       radio-broadcasting and television transmission and reception apparatus (including
                       receivers incorporating sound recorders or reproducers) and television cameras;
                       radio navigational aid apparatus, radar apparatus and radio remote control
                       apparatus (1) :
                       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 diameter 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 ^r 85.16
          85.18         Electrical capacitors, fixed or variable (2)
    (') For products falling within subheadings 85.15 A I, II, IV; B ;' C I, II, the maximum Community amount referred
        to in Article 1 (4) is reduced to 30°/o .
    (*) For products falling within this heading, the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4) 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-lamps; 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 arc 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 falling within 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 falling within 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) 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
    (a) The asterisk covers only subheading 87.12 B.
    (') For products falling within this subheading, the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4) is
        reduced to 20%>.
    (*) For products falling within subheading 87.12 B , the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4)
        is reduced to 20% .
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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
                            but not including re-recorders or film editing apparatus; any combination of these
                            articles :
                            A. Cameras and sound recorders, combined or not (*)
                            B. Projectors and sound reproducers, combined or not
                90.09       Image projectors (other than cinematographic projectors); photographic (except
                            cinematographic) enlargers and reducers (2)
                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
                             graphing or projecting the image
                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 cg or better, with or without their weights
                90.16        Drawing, marking-out and mathematical calculating instruments, drafting
                             machines, pantographs, slide rules, disc 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;
                             hearing-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 subheading, the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4)
               is reduced to 20% .
           (l) For products falling within this heading , the Community ceiling referred to in Article 1 (3) is set at 1 329 600 u.a.
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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, strength, 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, heat 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 viscosity, porosity, 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 watch 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
    (') For products falling within this heading, the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4) is
        reduced to 20°/o .
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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 (')
                   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 tailing 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
            ( a ) The asterisk covers only subheading 93.07 B.
             (') For products falling within this heading, the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4) is
                  reduced to 30% .
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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
                              C ) ( 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 (1) (*) (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) ( 2)
           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 ballpoint 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 compo­
                        sing 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
    ( a) The asterisk covers only subheadings 96.02 A and C.
    ( b ) The asterisk covers only subheading 97.04 A.
     (') For products falling within heading No 97.04, the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4)
          is reduced to 30°/o .
    (2) For products falling within subheadings 97.06 B and C , the Community ceiling referred to in Article 1 (3) is set
          at 11 938 320 u.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 or developing countries and territories enjoying generalized tariff preferences
                                              INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES
 Afghanistan                               Haiti                                        Qatar
 Algeria                                   Honduras                                     Romania
 Argentina                                 India                                        Rwanda
 Bahamas                                   Indonesia                                    Saudi Arabia
 Bahrain                                   Iran                                         Senegal
 Bangladesh                                Iraq                                         Sierra Leone
 Barbados         (                        Ivory Coast                                  Singapore
Bhutan                                     Jamaica                                      Somalia
 Bolivia                                   Jordan                                       Sri Lanka
Botswana                                   Kenya                                        Sudan
Brazil                                     Khmer Republic                               Surinam
Burma                                      Korea (South)                                Swaziland
Burundi                                    Kuwait                                       Syria
Cameroon                                   Laos                                         Tanzania
 Cape Verde Islands                        Lebanon                                      Thailand
Central African Republic                   Lesotho                                      Togo
Chad                                       Liberia                                      Tonga
Chile                                      Libya                                        Trinidad and Tobago
Colombia                                   Malagasy Republic                           Tunisia
Congo, People's Republic of                Malawi                                      Uganda
Costa Rica                                 Malaysia                                    United Arab Emirates :
Cuba                                       Maldive Islands                                   Abu Dhabi
Cyprus                                     Mali                                              Dubai
Dahomey                                    Mauritania                                        Ras al Khaimah
Dominican Republic                         Mauritius                                         Fujairah
Ecuador                                    Mexico                                            Ajman
Egypt, Arab Republic of                    Morocco                                           Sharjah
El Salvador                                Nauru                                             Ummal Qaiwain
Equatorial Guinea                         Nepal                                        Upper Volta
Ethiopia                                  Nicaragua                                    Uruguay
Fiji                                      Niger                                        Venezuela
Gabon                                     Nigeria                                      Vietnam, Republic of
Gambia                                    Oman                                         Western Samoa
Ghana                                     Pakistan                                     Yemen, People's Democratic
Grenada                                   Panama                                       Republic of
Guatemala                                                                              Yemen Arab Republic
                                          Papua New Guinea
Guinea                                                                                 Yugoslavia
                                          Paraguay
                                                                                       Zaire
Guinea Bissau                             Peru
                                                                                       Zambia
Guyana                                    Philippines
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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, Desroches)
           British Pacific Ocean (*)
           Brunei
           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 McDonald Islands
           Hong Kong
           Leeward Islands (2)
           Macao
           Mozambique
           Netherlands Antilles
           New Caledonia and Dependencies
           Norfolk Island
           Pacific Islands administered by the United States of America or under United States trusteeship (3)
           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
           Territories for which New Zealand is responsible (Cook Islands, Niue Island, Tokelau Islands
                 and Ross Dependency)
           Turks and Caicos 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 .
            (x) Gilbert Islands, Tuvalu , 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 , St Lucia , St Vincent .