CELEX: 51994PC0318
Language: en
Date: 1994-07-13
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) applying to South Africa some of the advantages granted by the Community to developing countries under the scheme of generalized tariff preferences

***m COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
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                                                   C0M(94) 318 final
                                                   Brussels, 13.07.1994
                                                   94/0171 (ACC)
                                      Proposal for a
                                 COUNCIL REGULATION (EC)
               applying to South Africa some of the advantages granted by
                          the Community to developing countries
                   under the scheme of generalized tariff preferences
                              (presented by the Commission)
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                          Explanatory memorandum
On 19 April, in the context of the joint action adopted in December
last year, the Council approved the basis for future relations between
the European Union and a new, democratic and multiracial South Africa.
On that occasion the Union stressed that its decisions should be seen
as sending a strong political signal to South Africa's incoming
government and to its people: the EU is South Africa's principal donor,
notably via the special programme.
The relations with South Africa mapped out by the CounciI.encompass the
short and medium terms. In the short term a package of initial
measures is planned comprising autonomous measures and an offer to come
to a swift conclusion of a simple formula agreement. In the medium
term the EU has offered to negotiate in the overall context of our
 long-term relations with South Africa if its government so requests.
As part of short-term package of measures covering aspects of trade,
development and political dialogue the Community has said it is
prepared to examine rapidly a suitable formula enabling South Africa to
benefit from the generalized system of preferences.
This proposal takes account of South Africa's special characteristics,
the interests of the other countries in the region and those of the
Member States, and the principles governing the revised GSP due to take
effect on 1 January 1995.
The Commission recently set out the basic principles for the review of
the Community scheme of generalized tariff preferences 1 , but as the
operational scheme based on those principles is still being drawn up it
considers that a scheme should be proposed for South Africa that can be
approved and put into effect as soon as possible. It is therefore
proposing for the remainder of the current preferential scheme, and
without    prejudice  to   the  future  scheme,  that   the benefit   of
preferential access defined under this scheme be accorded in respect of
 the industrial products listed in the Regulation below. In this way,
 the Commission is seeking to give effective support for the growth of
 South African exports and provide a stimulus for increased productive
 investment in that country.
 This proposal fits in with the framework established by the Union and
meets the request reiterated by the South African authorities during
 the Commission's fact-finding mission on 29 and 30 June-, it also sends
 an important political signal at this juncture to the new government
 and dovetails with the efforts to foster regional ties in southern
 Africa, a matter to be discussed at the conference in Berlin on 5 and 6
 September.
 The Council is asked to adopt the attached proposal at its meeting of
 18 and 19 July.
 Such is the purpose of this proposal for a Council Regulation.
  1 Document C0M(94) 212 final of 1.6.1994.
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                                 Proposal for a
                        Counc iI ReguI at i on No -..
        applying to South Africa some of the advantages granted by
                   the Community to developing countries
            under the scheme of generalized tariff preferences
THE COUNCIL Of THE EUROPEAN UNION,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the           European  Economic
Community, and in particular Article 113 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas South Africa's state of development and the deterioration of its
economy warrant the granting of the benefit of generalized preferences
to enable it to step up its exports in order to give a spur to its
economic development, foster its industrialization and increase its
growth rate;
Whereas, bearing in mind the progress made in reviewing the Community
scheme, the benefit of the generalized preferences arrangements should
now be extended to a number of industrial products originating in South
Africa,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
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                                Article 1
The benefit of the arrangements provided for in Article 1 of Council
Regulation (EEC) No 3831/90 shall be granted in respect of the products
originating In South Africa listed in the Annex to this Regulation.
                                Article 2
The line "388 South Africa" shall be added to Part A of Annex      III to
Council Regulation (EEC) No 3831/90.
                                Article 3
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its
publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable
 in all Member States.
Done at Brussels,
                                                   For the CounciI
                                                   The President
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                                                       Annexe
                        List of products
                  originating in South Africa
       for which the benefit of preferences is granted
CN Code                   Description of goods
2519 90 10     Magnesium oxide, other        than  calcined   natural
               magnesium carbonate
2522 00 00     Quicklime, slaked lime and hydraulic lime, other
               than calcium oxide and hydroxide of heading No 2825
2523           Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag cement,
               supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements,
               whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers
ex 2704 00     Coke and semi coke of coal, of lignite or of peat,
               whether    or   not   agglomerated;   retort   carbon,
               excluding products falling within subheadings
               2704 00 19 et 2704 00 30
2707 10 10     Benzole,    for use as a power or heating fuel
2707 20 10     Toluole,    for use as a power or heating fuel
2707 30 10     Xylole,    for use as a power or heating fuel
'2707 50 10    Other aromatic hydrocarbon mixtures of which 65 %
               or more by volume,( including losses) distils at
               250 *C by the ASTM D 86 method, for use as a
               power or heating fuel
2707 60 00     Phenols
 2707 91 00    Creosot oils
 2707 99 11    Crude light oils of which 90 % or more by
 2707 99 19    volume distils at temperatures of up to 200 "C
2707 99 50     Basic products
 2707 99 99    Other
               Light oils:
 2710 00 11    - For undergoing a specific process
 2710 00 15    - F o r .undergoing chemical transformation by a
                  process other than those specified in respect of
                  subheading 2710 00 11
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                 Medium oils:
     2710-00 41  - For undergoing    a specific process
     2710 00 45  - For undergoing chemical transformation by a
                    process other than.those specified in respect of
                    subheading 2710 00 41
                 Gas olIs :
     2710 00 61  - For undergoing    a specific process
     2710 00 65  -For undergoing chemical transformation by a
                    process, other than those specified in respect of
                    subheading 2710 00 61
                 FueI o iI s ;
     2710 00 71  - For undergoing    à a specific process
     2710 00 72  - For undergoing chemical transformation by a
                    process other than those specified in respect of
                    subheading 2710 00 71
     ex 2711     Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons,
                 excluding products       falling   within  subheading
                 2711 12 19
      2712       Petroleum jelly; paraffin wax, microcrystaiIine
                 petroleum wax, slack wax, ozokerite, lignite wax,
                 peat wax, other mineral waxes, and similar products
                 obtained by synthesis or by other processes,
                 whether or not coloured
      2713 90 90 - Other
      2715 00 00 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)
      2809       Diphosphorus     pentaoxide;    phosphoric acid   and
                 poIyphosphor i c ac i ds
      2820       Manganese ox i des
      2833        Sulphates; alums; peroxosulphates (persulphates)
ex 2844 30 11      Cermets other than raw, waste and scraps
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ex 2844 30 51     Cermets other than raw, waste and scraps
      2901 10 10  Saturated acyclic hydrocarbons, for use as power or
                  heating fuel
      2926 20 00  - 1-Cyanoguanidine (dicyandiamide)
      2926 90     - Other
      2934        Other heterocyclic compounds
      ex 2936     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, excluding products falling within
                  subheadings 2936 22 00, 2936 27 00, 2936 28 00 et
                  2936 29 90
      ex 2937     Hormones, natural or reproduced by synthesis;
                  derivatives thereof, used primarily as hormones;
                  other   steroids    used   primarily    as  hormones,
                  excluding   products falling within subheadings
                  2937 21 00 and 37 29 10
      ex 2939     Vegetable alkaloids, natural or reproduced by
                  synthesis, and their salts, ethers, esters and
                  other derivatives, excluding        products falling
                  within subheading 2939 90 11
      ex 2941     Antibiotics, excluding products falling        within
                  subheadings 2941 30 00 et 2941 40 00
ex CHAPTER 30     PHARMACEUTICAL     PRODUCTS,    excluding    products
                  falling within subheadings 3001 20 10, 3001 90 10,
                  3001 90 91, 3002 10 95 et 3002 90 10
      3203 00 90  Colouring matter of animal origin and preparations
                  based thereon
       CHAPTER 33 ESSENTIAL OILS AND RESINOIDS; PERFUMERY, COSMETIC
                  OR TOILET PREPARATIONS
ex CHAPTER 34     SOAP, ORGANIC      SURFACE-ACTIVE    AGENTS, WASHING
                  PREPARATIONS, LUBRICATING PREPARATIONS, ARTIFICIAL
                  WAXES, PREPARED WAXES, POLISHING OR SCOURING
                  PREPARATIONS,    CANDLES    AND   SIMILAR   ARTICLES,
                  MODELLING PASTES,      "DENTAL WAXES" AND DENTAL
                  PREPARATIONS WITH A BASIS' OF PLASTER, excluding
                  products fa 11ing within subheadings 3402 et 3403
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           Cinematographic    film, exposed      and   developed,
           whether or not       incorporating   sound track or
           consisting only of sound track:
           - Of a width of 35 mm or more :
             — Other:
3706 10 99         Other positives
3706 90 51             Newsreels
                       Other, of a width of:
3706 90 91                  Of less than 10 mm
3706 90 99                  Of 10 mm or more
3806       Rosin and resin acids, and derivatives         therof;
           rosin spirit and rosin oils; run gums;
3808        Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides,
           anti-sprouting      products      and     plant-growth
           regulators, disinfectants and similar products, put
           up in forms or packings for retail sale or as
           preparations or articles (for example, sulphur-
           treated bands, wicks and candles, and fly-papers)
3812       Prepared rubber accelerators; compound plasticisers
           for rubber or plastics, not elsewhere specified or
            included; anti-oxidising preparations and other
           compound stabilisers for rubber or plastics
3815       Reaction    initiators, reaction accelerators and
           catalytic preparations, not elsewhere specified or
            included
3822 00 00 Composite diagnstic or laboratory reagents, other
           than those of heading No 3002 or 3006
3823       Prepared binders for foundry moulds or cores;
           chemical products and preparations of the chemical
           or allied industries (including those consisting of
           mixtures of natural products), not elsewhere
           specified or included; residual products of the
           chemical or allied        industries, not elsewhere
           specified or included
4206       Articles of gut (other than silkworm gut), of
           goldbeater's skin, of bladders or of tendons
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4302 30    Whole skins,     and  pieces  or   cuttings  thereof,
           assembled
4303       Articles of apparel, clothing accessories and other
           art ides of furskin
4404       Hoopwoocf; split poles; piles, pickets and stakes of
           wood, pointed but not sawn lengthwise; wooden
           sticks, roughly trimmed but not turned, bent or
           otherwise worked, suitable for the manufacture of
           walking-sticks, umbrellas, tool handles or the
            like; chipwood and the like
4405 00 00 Wood wool; wood flour
4406       Railway or tramway sleepers (cross-ties) of wood
ex 4407    Wood sawn or chipped lengthwise, si iced or peeled,
           whether or not planed, sanded or finger-jointed, of
           a thickness exceeding 6 mm, excluding products
           falling within subheadings 4407 10 71, 4407 10 91,
           4407 10 93, 4407 10 99, 4407 21 60, 4407 21 70,
           4407 21 80, 4407 22 60, 4407 22 80, 4407 23 90,
           4407 91 90, 4407 92 90, 4407 99 91, 4407 99 93,
           4407 99 99,
ex 4408    Veneer sheets and sheets for plywood (whether or
           not spliced)and other wood sawn lengthwise, sliced
           or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or finger-
           jointed, of a thickness not exceeding 6 mm,
           excluding    products falling    within   subheadings
           4408 10 91 and 4408 90 91
4409       Wood (including strips and friezes for parquet
           fIoori ng   not   asssembIed) cont i nuousI y shaped
           (tongued, grooved, rebated, chamfered, V-jointed,
           beaded, moulded, rounded or thelike) along any of
           its edges or faces, whether or not planed, sanded
           or finger-jointed
4414 00    Wooden frames for paintings, photographs, mirrors
           or similar objects
4416 00 00 Casks, barrels, vats, tubs and other coopers'
           products and parts thereof, of wood, including
           staves
4417 00    Tools, tool bodies, tool handles, broom or brush
           bodies and handles, of wood; boot or shoe lasts and
           trees, of wood
4418 50 00 Shingles and shakes
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     ex 4419     Tableware and kitchenware, of wood, excluding
                 products falling within subheading 4419 00 10
     ex 4420     Wood marquetry and inlaid wood; caskets and cases
                 for jewellery or cutlery, and similar articles, of
                 wood; statuettes and other ornaments, of wood;
                 wooden articles of furniture not falling in Chapter
                 94, excluding products falling within subheadings
                 4420 90 11 and 4420 90 19
                 Other articles of wood:
     4421 10 00  - Clothes hangers
                 - Other:
                  — Other:
     4421 90 91          Of fibreboard
     4502 00 00 Natural cork, debacked or roughly squared, or in
                rectangular    (including square) blocks, plates,
                sheets or strip (including sharp-edged blanks for
                corks or stoppers)
     4503        Articles of natural cork
     ex 4504     Agglomerated cork (with or       without a binding
                 substance) and articles of       agglomerated cork,
                 excluding    products falling    within   subheading
                 4504 90 10
ex CHAPTER 48    PAPER AND PAPERB0ARD; ARTICLES OF PAPER PULP, OF
                 PAPER OR OF PAPERBOARD, excluding products falling
                 within subheading 4823 90 10)
     4903 00 00  Children's picture, drawing or colouring books
     4905 10 00  Globes
     4907 00 10  Postage, revenue and similar stamps
                 - Other:
     4907 00 99   —  Other
     4908        Transfers (decalcomanias)
     4909 00     Printed or illustrated postcards; printed cards
                 bearing     personal    greetings,    messages    or
                 announcements, whether or not illustated, with or
                 without envelopes or trimmings
     4910 00 00  Calendars of any kind, printed, including calendar
                 blocks
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      ex 4911     Other printed matter, including . printed pictures
                  and photographs, excluding products falling within
                  subheading 4911 91 10
ex CHAPTER 65      Headgear and parts thereof, excluding products
                   falling        within   subheadings    6502 00 00   and
                   6504 00 00
      CHAPTER 67 PREPARED FEATHERS AND DOWN AND ARTICLES MADE OF
                 FEATHERS OR OF DOWN; ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS; ARTICLES OF
                 HUMAN HAIR
      CHAPTER 68 ARTICLES OF STONE, PLASTER, CEMENT, ASBESTOS» MICA
                 OR SIMILAR MATERIALS
      7202 99 19  Ferro-phosphorus containing by weight 15 % or more
                  of phosphorus
      7205        Granules and powders, of pig         iron, spiegeleisen,
                  iron or steel
                  Semi-finished products of iron or of non-alloy
                  steel:
                  - Containing by weight, less than 0,25 % of
                    carbon:
                   —Of         rectangular   (including    square) cross-
                       section, the width measuring less than twice
                       the thickness
      7207 11 90            Forged
                   — O t h e r , of rectangular     (other    than square)
                       cross-section:
      7207 12 90      -—• Forged
                   —   Other:
                              Of circular or polygonal cross-section:
      7207 19 T9                 Forged
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     7207 19 90           Other
                 - Containing by weight 0,25 % or more of carbon:
                   —Of      rectangular   (including  square) cross-
                      section, the width of which measuring less than
                      twice the thickness:
     7207 20 19          Forged
                   —    Of circular or polygonal cross-section:
     7207 20 59      • — Forged
ex 7207 20 90*90    — Other
                 Flat-rolled products of iron or non-alloy steel, of
                 a width of 600 mm or more , hot-rolled, not clad,
                 plated or coated:
                 - Other:
     7208 90 90    — Other
                  Flat-rolled products of iron or non-alloy steel, of
                  a width of 600 mm or more, cold-rolled (cold-
                  reduced), not clad, plated or coated:
                 - Other:
     7209 90 90    — Other
                  Flat-rolled products of iron or non-alloy steel, of
                  a width of 600 mm or more, clad, plated or coated:
                  - Plated or coated with tin:
                   — Of a thickness of 0,5 mm or more :
     7210 11 90           Other
                   — Of a thickness of less than 0,5 mm:
     7210 12 90           Other
                 - Plated or coated with lead, including terne-plate:
     7210 20 90    — Other
                  - Electrolytically plated or coated with zinc:
                   — Of steel of a thickness of less than 3 mm and
                      having a minimum yield point of 275 MPa or of a
                       thickness of 3 mm or more and having a minimum
                       yield point of 355 MPa:
     7210 31 90           Other
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             —   Other:
7210 39 90          Other
            - Otherwise plated or coated with zinc:
             —   corrugated:
7210 41 90          Other
             —   Other:
7210 49 90          Other
            - Plated or coated with chromium     oxides or  with
               chromium and chromium oxides:
7210 50 90   —   Other
             — Plated or coated with aluminium:
7210 60 90   —   Other
            - Painted, varnished or coated with plastics:
7210 70 90  —   Other
            - Other:
7210 90 10   —   Sivered, gilded, platinum-plated or enamelled:
              —  Other:
7210 90 90          Other
           Flat-rolled products of iron or non-alloy steel, of
           a width of less than 600 mm, not clad, plated or
           coated:
           - Not    further    worked than   cold-rolled  (cold-
           - reduced), of a thickness of less than 3 mm and
              having a minimum yield point of 275 MPa or of a
              thickness of 3 mm or more and having a minimum
              yield point of 355 MPa:
              — Of a width not exceeding 500 mm:
                - — containing by weight less than 0,25 X of
                    carbon:
7211 30 31         — ~   "Electrical"
7211 30 39              Other
7211 30 50          containing by weight 0,25 X or more but less
                    than 0,6 X of carbon
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           - Other, not further worked than cold-rolled (cold-
             reduced:
            — containing by weight less than 0,25 % of
               carbon:
                  Of a width not exceeding 500 mm:
                       Other:
7211 41 95                   "Electrical"
7211 41 99                  Other
            —  Other:
              — — Of a width not exceeding    500 mm:
7211 49 91             Containing by weight 0,25 X or more, but
                       less than 0,6 X of carbon
           - Other:
            —  Of a width exceeding    500 mm:
7211 90 19        Other
7211 90 90  — Of a width not exceeding 500 mm: .
           Flat-rolled products of iron or non-alloy steel, of
           a width of less than 600 mm, clad, plated or
           coated:
           - Plated or coated with tin:
            — Other:
                  Of a width exceeding 500 mm :
7212 10 93             Other
7212 10 99        Of a width not exceeding 500 mm
           - Electrolytical.ly plated or coated with zinc:
            — Of steel of a thickness of less than 3 mm and
               having a minimum yield point of 275 MPa or of
               a thickness of 3 mm or more and having a
               minimum yield point of 355 MPa:
                  Of a width exceeding 500 mm:
7212 21 19             Other
            —  Other:
7212 21 90         Of a width not exceeding 500 mm
           -  Other:
                   Of a width exceeding 500 mm:
7212 29 19             Other
7212 29 90         Of a width not exceeding 500 mm
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              - Otherwise plated or coated with zinc:
               — Of a width exceeding 500 mm:
   7212 30 19        Other
   7212 30 90  —  Of a width not exceeding 500 mm
              - Painted, varnished or coated with plastics:
               — Other:
                     Of a width exceeding 500 mm:
   7212 40 93       —-   Other
                     Of a width not exceeding 500 mm:
   7212 40 95            Plated or coated with chromium oxides or
                         with chromium and chromium oxides,
                         varnished
   7212 40 98            Other
              - Otherwise plated or coated:
               — Of a width exceeding 500 mm:
   7212 50 10        Silvered,    gilded,    platinum-plated,    or
                     enamelied
                     Lead-coated:
   7212 50 39            Other
                     Other:
   7212 50 59            Other
               —  Of a width not exceeding 500 mm:
   7212 50 71        Tinned and printed
   7212 50 73        Plated or coated with chromium oxides or
                     with chromium and chromium oxides
   72T2 50 75    — - Plated or coated with copper
   7212 50 85    — - Lead-coated
   7212 50 91        Plated or coated with chromium or nickel
                     Plated or coated with aluminium:
   7212 50 93       ——   Plated   or  coated  with   aluminium-zinc
                         alloys
   7212 50 97            Other
   7212 50 98        Other
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             - Clad:
              — Of a width exceeding 500 mm
7212 60 19           Other
              —    Of a width not exceeding 500 mm :
                     Not further worked than surface-treated:
7212 60 93               Other
7212 60 99           Other
            Other bars and rods of iron or non-alloy steel, not
            further worked than forged, hot-rolled, hot-drawn or
            hot-extruded, but including those twisted after
            rolling:
7214 10 00   - Forged
             Other bars and rods of iron or non-alloy steel:
7215 20      - Other, not further worked than cold-formed or
                cold-finished, containing by weight less than
                0,25 X of carbon
7215 30 00   - Other, not further worked than cold-formed or
                cold-finished, containing by weight 0,25 X or
                more but less than de 0,6 X of carbon
             - Other:
7215 90 90     —  Other
             Wire of iron or non-alloy steel:
             - containing by weight 0,6 X or more of carbon:
7217 31 00     —  Not plated or coated, whether or not polished
7217 32 00     —  Plated or coated with zinc
7217 33 00     —  Plated or coated with other base metals
7217 39 00     — Other
             Flat-rolled products of stainless steel, of a width
              less than 600 mm:
             - Other.:
               — Of a width not exceeding 500 mm:
                     Not further worked than surface-treated,
                      including cladding:
 7220 90 39               Other
 8402         Steam or other vapour generating boilers (other
              than central heating hot water boilers capable also
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            of producing       low   pressure    steam);    super-heated
            water boilers
8403       Central    heating       boilers   other    than    those   of
           heading No 8402
8404       Auxiliary plant for use with boilers of heading No
           8402 or 8403 (for example, economizers, super-
           heaters, soot removers, gas recoverers); condensers
           for steam or other vapour power units
8405       Producer gas or water gas generators, with or
           without their purifiers; acetylene gas generators
           and similar water process gas generators, with or
           without their purifiers
ex 8412    Other   engines       and   motors, excluding        products
           falling within subheadings 8412 10 10, 8412 21 10,
           8412 29 10, 8412 31 10, 8412 39 10, 8412 80 91 and
           8412 90 10
ex 8413    Pumps for liquids, whether or not fitted with a
           measuring     device;      liquid   elevators,      excluding
           products falling within subheadings 8413 19 10,
           8413 20 10, 8413 30 10, 8413 50 10, 8413 60 10,
           8413 70 10, 8413 81 10 and 8413 91 10
  i
ex 8414 51 Table, floor, wall, window, ceiling or roof fans,
ex 8414 59 with a self-contained electric motor of an output
           not exceeding 125 W, excluding products falling
           within subheading 8414 51 10 et 8414 59 10
8414 60 00 Hoods   having       a   maximum    horizontal     side   not
           exceeding 120 cm
ex 8414 90 Parts, excluding products falIing within subheading
           8414 90 10
ex 8415    Air conditioning machines, comprising a motor-
           driven    fan      and    elements     for    changing    the
           temperature and humidity, including those machines
           in which       the     humidity   cannot     be   separately
           regulated,      excluding      products    falling     within
           subheadings 8415 81 10, 8415 82 10, 8415 83 10 and
           8415 90 10
8416       Furnace burners for liquid fuel, for pulverized
           solid    fuel     or    for   gas;    mechanical     stokers,
            including their mechanical grates, mechanical ash
           dischargers and similar appliances
8417        Industrial     or     laboratory    furnaces    and   ovens,
            including incinerators, non electric
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ex 8419    Machinery, plant or laboratory equipment, whether
           or not electrically heated, for the treatment of
           materials by a process involving a change of
           temperature such as heating, cooking, roasting,
           distilling, rectifying, sterilizing, pasteurizing,
           steaming,       drying,    evaporating,       vaporizing,
           condensing or cooling, other than machinery and
           plant of     a kind used for domestic purposes;
           instantaneous     or   storage    water    heaters,   non-
           electric,     excluding    products      falling    within
           subheadings 8419 50 10, 8419 81 10 and 8419 90 10
8420       Calendering or other rolling machines, other          than
           for metals or glass, and cylinders therefor
8421 11 00 Cream separators
8421 12 00 Clothes-dryers
ex 8421 21 Filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for
ex 8421 23  liquids,     excluding     products     falling    within
ex 8421 29 subheadings 8421 21 10, 8421 23 10 and 8421 29 10
ex 8421 31 Filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for
ex 8421 39 gases, excluding products falling within suheadings
           8421 31 10 and 8421 39 10
8421 91 00 Parts
8421 99 00
8422       Dish-washing machines; machinery for cleaning or
           drying bottles or other containers; machinery for
           filling, closing, sealing, capsuling or labelling
           bottles, cans, boxes, bags or other coontainers;
           other packing or wrapping machinery; machinery for
           aerating beverages
 8423      Weighing    machinery     (excluding     balances   of   a
            sensitivity of 5 eg or better), including weight
           operated counting or checking machines-, weighing
            machines weights of all kinds
 ex 8424    Mechanical     appliances    (whether    or   not   hand-
            operated) for projecting, dispersing or spraying
            liquids or powders; fire extinguishers, whether or
            not charged; spray guns and similar appliances;
            steam or sand blasting machines and similar jet
            projecting machines, excluding products fallaing
            within subheading 8424 10 10
 ex 8425    Pulley tackle and hoists other        than skip hoists;
            winches and capstans; jacks,         excluding products
            falling within subheadings 8425       11 10, 8425 19 10,
            8425 31 10, 8425 39 10, 8425 42      10 and 8425 49 10
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ex 8426 Ships'  derricks; cranes, including cable cranes;
        mobile  lifting frames, staddle carriers and work
        trucks  fitted with a crane, excluding products
        falling within subheading 8426 99 10
ex 8428 Other lifting, handling, loading or unloading
        machinery    (for    example,    lifts,   escalators,
        conveyors, teleferics), excluding products falling
        within     subheadings     8428 10 10,    8428 20 10,
        8428 33 10, 8428 39 10 and 8428 90 10
8429    Self-propelled bulldozers, angledozers, graders,
        levellers,      scrapers,     mechanical     shovels,
        excavators, shovel loaders, tamping machines and
        road rol1ers
8430    Other   moving,    grading,    levelling,   scraping,
        excavating, tamping, compacting, extracting or
        boring machinery, for earth, minerals or ores; pile
        drivers and pile-extractors; snow-ploughs and
        snowblowers
8431    Parts suitable for use solely or principally with
        the machinery of heading Nos 8425 to 8430
8432    Agricultural, horticultural or forestry machinery
        for soil preparation or cultivation; lawn or
        sports-ground rollers
8433    Harvesting or threshing machinery, including straw
        or fodder balers; grass or hay mowers; machines for
        cleaning, sorting or grading eggs, fruit or other
        agricultural produce, other than machinery of
        heading No 8437
8434    Milking machines and dairy machinery
8435    Presses, crushers and similar machinery used in the
        manufacture of wine, cider, fruit juices or similar
        beverages
8436    Other     agricultural, horticultural,      forestry,
        poultry-keeping or bee-keeping machinery, including
        germination plant fitted with mechanical or thermal
        equipment; poultry incubators and brooders
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8437    Machines for cleaning, sorting or grading seed,
        grain or dried leguminous vegetables; machinery
        used in the milling industry or for the working of
        cereals or dried leguminous vegetables, other than
        farm-type machinery
8438    Machinery, not specified or included elsewhere in
        this chapter, for the industrial preparation or
        manufacture of food or drink, other than machinery
        for the extraction or preparation of animal or
        fixed vegetable fats or oils
8439    Machinery for making pulp of fibrous cellulosic
        material or for making or finishing paper or
        paperboard
8440    Book-b i nd i ng machinery,    including    book-sewing
        machines
8441    Other machinery for making up paper pulp, paper or
        paperboard, including cutting machines of all kinds
8442    Machinery, apparatus and equipment (other than the
        machines-tools of heading Nos 8456 to 8465), for
         type-founding,    type-setting,   for   preparing   or
        making printing blocks, plates, cylinders or other
        printing components; printing type, blocks, plates,
        cylinders and other printing components; blocks,
        plates, cylinders and lithographic stones, prepared
        for printing purposes (for example, planed, grained
        or polished)
8444 00 Machines     for extruding,    drawing,   texturing  or
        cutting man-made textile materials
8445    Machines for preparing textile fibres; spinning,
        doubling or twisting machines and other machinery
         for producing textile yarns; textile reeling or
        winding     (including   weft-winding) machines     and
        machines for preparing textile yarns for use on the
        machines of heading No 8446 or 8447
 8446   Weaving machines (looms)
8447    Knitting machines, stitch-bonding machines and
        machines for making gimped yarn, tulle, lace,
        embroidery, trimmings, braid or net and machines
         for tufting
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8448    Auxiliary machinery for use with machines of
        heading No 8444, 8445, 8446 or 8447 (for example,
        dobbies, Jacquards, automatic stop motions, shuttle
        changing    mechanisms);    parts   and   accessories
        suitable 'for use solely or principally with
        the machines of this heading or of heading No 8444,
        8445, 8446 or 8447 (for example, spindles and
        spindle flyers, card clothing, combs, extruding
        nipples, shuttles, healds and heaid-frames, hosiery
        needles)
8449    Machinery for the manufacture or finishing of felt
        or nonwovens in the piece or in shapes, including
        machinery for making felt hats; blocks for making
        hats
8453    Machinery for preparing, tanning or working hides,
        skins or     leather or for making or repairing
        footwear or other articles of hides, skins or
        leather, other than sewing machines
8454    Converters,    ladles,   ingot moulds and casting
        machines, of a kind used in metallurgy or in metal
        foundr ies
8464    Machine-tools     for   working    stone,   ceramics,
        concrete, asbestos-cement or like mineral materials
        or for cold working glass
8465    Machine-tools (including machines for nailing,
        stapling, glueing or otherwise assembling) for
        working wood, cork, bone, hard rubber, hard
        plastics or similar hard materials
8466    Parts and accessories suitable for use solely or
        principally with the machines of heading Nos 8456
        to 8465, including work or tool holders, self-
        opening dieheads, dividing heads and other special
        attachments for machine-tools; tool holders for any
        type of tool for working in the hand
ex 8471 Automatic    data-processing    machines  and   units
        thereof; magnetic or optical readers, machines for
        transcribing data onto data media in coded form and
        machines for processing such data, not elsewhere
        specified or included, excluding products falling
        within     subheadings     8471 10 10,    8471 20 10,
        8471 91 10, 8471 92 10 and 8471 93 10
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ex 8473  Parts and accessories (other than covers, carrying
         cases and the like) suitable for use solely or
         principally with machines of heading Nos 8469 to
         8472, excluding products falling within subheading
         8473 10
8474     Machinery    for   sorting,    screening,     separating,
         washing, crushing, grinding, mixing or kneading
         earth, stone, ores or other.mineral substances, in
         solid (including powder or paste) form; machinery
         for   agglomerating,     shaping   or    moulding    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
8475     Machines for assembling electric or electronic
          lamps, tubes or valves or flashbulbs, in glass
         envelopes;    machines    for   manufacturing     or   hot
         working glass or glassware
8476     Automatic    goods-vending machines       (for   example,
         postage-stamp,      cigarette,     food    or    beverage
         machines), including money-changing machines
8477     Machinery for working rubber or plastics or for the
         manufacture of products from these materials, not
         specified or included elsewhere in this chapter
 8478    Machinery for preparing or making up tobacco, not
          specified or included elsewhere in this chapter
 ex 8479 Machines     and     mechanical     appliances      having
          individual functions, not specified or included
          elsewhere   in this chapter, excluding          products
          falling    within     subheadings      8479 89 10     and
         8479 90 10
 8480    Moulding boxes for metal foundry; mould bases;
         moulding patterns; moulds for metal (other than
          ingot moulds), metal       carbides, glass, mineral
          materials, rubber or plastics
 8481     Taps, cocks, valves and similar appliances for
          pipes, boiler shells, tanks, vats or the like,
          including       pressure-reducing        valves       and
          thermostatically controlled valves
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8484          Gaskets and similar        joints of metal      sheeting
              combined with other material or of two or more
              layers of metal; sets or assortments of gaskets and
              similar joints, dissimilar in composition, put up
              in pouches, envelopes or similar packings
8485          Machinery     parts,    not     containing    electrical
              connectors, insulators, coils, contacts or other
              electrical   features, not specified or         included
              elsewhere in this chapter
8503          Parts and accessories suitable for use solely or
              principally with the machines of heading No 8501
              or 8502
ex 8507       Electric     accumulators,       including    separators
              therefor, whether or not rectangular (including
              square),     excluding     products     falling   within
              subheadings    8507 10 10, 8507 20 10, 8507 30 10,
              8507 40 10, 8507 80 10 and 8507 90 10
8509          Electro-mechanical domestic appliances, with self-
              contained electric motor
8510          Shavers and hair      clippers,    with   self-contained
              electr ic motor
ex 8511       Electrical ign ition or starting equipment of a kind
              used for spark-ignition or compress ion-ignition
               internal combustion engines (for example, ignition
              magnetos, magneto-dynamos, ignition coils, sparking
              plugs and glow plugs, starter motors); generators
              (for example, dynamos, alternators) and cut-outs of
              a kind used      in conjunction with such engines,
              excluding    products    falling    within   subheadings
              8511 10 10, 8511 20 10, 8511 30 10, 8511 40 10,
              8511 50 10 and 8511 80 10
8515          Electric (including electrically heated gas), laser
              or other light or photon beam, ultrasonic, electron
              beam, magnetic pulse or plasma arc soldering,
              brazing or welding machines and apparatus, whether
              or not capable of cuting; electric machines and
              apparatus for hot spraying of metals or sintered
              metal carbides
8517          Electrical apparatus for line telephony or line
              telegraphy, including such apparataus for carrier-
              current Iine systems
              Magnetic tape recorders and other sound recording
              apparatus, whether or not incorporating a sound
              reproducing device:
              - Other:
ex 8520 90 90   —  Other,     excluding      cinematographic     sound
                   recorders
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ex 8522    Parts and accessories of apparatus of heading
           Nos 8 5 1 9 to 8 5 2 1 , excluding products falling within
           subheading 8522 9 0 10
8530       Electrical signalling, safety or traffic control
           equipment for railways, tramways, roads, inland
           waterways parking facilities, port installations or
           airfields (other than those of heading No 8 6 0 8 )
8536       Electrical apparatus for switching or protecting
           electrical circuits,or for making connections to or
           in electrical         circuits (for example, s w i t c h e s ,
           relays, fuses, surge suppressors, plugs, sockets,
           lamp-holders,        junction b o x e s ) ,   for a voltage not
           exceeding       1 000 V
8538       Parts suitable for use solely or principally with
           the machinery of heading Nos 8535, 8 5 3 6 or 8537
8539       Electric filament or discharge lamps, including
           sealed-beam lamp units and ultraviolet or infra-red
           lamps-, arc-1 amps
ex 8543    Electr ical        machines      and       apparatus,     having
            i nd i v i duaI functions, not specified or included
           elsewhere        in this chapter, excluding             products
           falling         within      subheadings 8543 80 10           and
           8543 90 10
ex 8544     Insulated (including enamelled or anodised) wire,
           cable (including coaxial cable) and other insulated
           electric conductors, whether or not fitted with
           connectors-,opt ical        fibre    cables,      made   up   of
            individually       sheated     fibres,      whether    or   not
           assembled with electric conductors or fitted with
           connectors,        excluding     products       falling   within
           subheading 8544 30 10
8545       Carbon electrodes, carbon brushes, lamp carbons,
           battery carbons and other articles of graphite or
           other carbon, with or without metal, of a kind used
           for electrical purposes
CHAPTER 86 RAILWAY OR TRAMWAY LOCOMOTIVES, ROLLING-STOCK AND
           PARTS THEREOF; RAILWAY OR TRAMWAY TRACK FIXTURES
           AND      FITTINGS      AND    PARTS      THEREOF;     MECHANICAL
           (INCLUDING ELECTRO-MECHANICAL) TRAFFIC SIGNALLING
           EQUIPEMENT OF ALL KINDS
8701       Tractors (other than tractors of heading No 8709)
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      8713       Invalid carriages, whether or not           motorized   or
                 otherwise mechanical I y propel led
ex CHAPTER 88    AIRCRAFT, SPACECRAFT, AND PARTS THEREOF, excluding
                 products falling within subheadings           8801 10 10,
                 8801 90 10, 8802 11 10, 8802 12 10,           8802 20 10,
                 8802 30 10, 8802 40 10, 8803 10 10, 8803 20 10,
                 8803 30 10, 8803 90 91 and 8805 20 10
      9001       Optical fibres and optical fibre bundles; optical
                 fibre cables other than those of heading No 8544;
                 sheets and plates of polarizing material; lenses
                 (including contact lenses), prisms, mirrors and
                 other optical elements, of any material, unmounted,
                 other than such elements of glass not optically
                 worked
      9003       Frames and mountings for spectacles, goggles or the
                 like, and parts thereof
      9004       Spectacles, goggles      and   the    like,   corrective,
                 protective or other
      9010       Apparatus and equipment for photographic (including
                 cinematographic) laboratories (including apparatus
                 for    the   projection    of   circuit     patterns on
                 sensitized semi-conductor materials), not specified
                 or     included     elsewhere     in     this     chapter;
                 negatoscopes; projection screens
      9017       Drawing, marking-out or mathematical calculating
                  instruments    (for   example,    drafting      machines,
                 pantographs, protractors, drawing sets, slide
                 rules, disc calculators); instruments for measuring
                  length, for use in the hand (for example, measuring
                 rods and tapes, micrometers, callipers), not
                 specified or included elsewhere in this chapter
      9018        Instruments and      appliances used        in medical,
                 surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including
                 scintigraphic     apparatus, other        electro-medical
                 apparatus and sight-testing instruments
      9019       Mecano-therapy     appliances;     massage      apparatus;
                 psychological aptitude-testing apparatus; ozone
                 therapy,     oxygen     therapy,      aerosol     therapy,
                 artificial     respiration    or     other     therapeutic
                 respiration apparatus
      ex 9020 00 Other breathing appliances and gas masks, excluding
                 protective masks having neither mechanical parts
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        nor    replaceable     filters,    excluding     products
        falling within subheading 9020 00 10
9021    Orthopaedic      appliances,      including    crutches,
        surgical belts and trusses; splints and other
        fracture appliances; arficial 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
9022    Apparatus based on the use of X-rays or of alpha,
        beta or gamma radiations, whether or not for
        medical, surgical, dental or veterinary uses,
        including radiography or radiotherapy apparatus, X-
        rays tubes and other X-rays generators, high
        tension generators, control panels and desks,
        screens, examination or treatment tables, chairs
        and the I ike
9023 00 Instruments, apparatus and models, designed for
        demonstrationaI purposes (for example, in education
        or exhibitions), unsuitable for other uses
9024    Machines and appliances for testing hardness,
        strength, compressibility, elasticity or other
        mechanical properties of materials (for example,
        metals, wood, textiles, paper, plastics)
ex 9025 Hydrometers    and    similar    floating   instruments,
        thermometers, pyrometers, barometers, hygrometers
        and psychrometers, recording or not, and any
        combination     of    these    instruments,    excluding
        products    falling within suheadings 9025 11 10,
        9025 19 10, 9025 20 10, 9025 80 10 and 9025 90 10
ex 9026  Instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking
        the flow, level, pressure or other variables of
         liquids or gases (for example, flow meters, level
        gauges,    manometers,      heat   meters),    excluding
         instruments and apparatus of heading No 9014, 9015,
        9028 or 9032, excluding products falling within
        suheadings 9026 10 10, 9026 20 10, 9026 80 10 and
        9026 90 10
9027     Instruments and apparatus for physical or chemical
        analysis        (for       example,        polar«meters,
        ref Tactometers,     spectrometers,     gas   or    smoke
        analysis apparatus); instruments and apparatus for
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         measuring or      checking    viscosity    , porosity,
         expansion, surface tension or the like; instruments
         and apparatus for measuring or checking quantities
         of   heat, sound or       light   (including    exposure
         meters); microtomes
9028     Gas, liquid or electricity supply or production
         meters, including calibrating meters thereof
 ex 9029 Revolution      counters,      production      counters,
         taximeters, milometers, pedometers and the like;
         speed indicators and tachometers, other than those
         of heading No 9014 or 9015; stroboscopes, excluding
         products falling within suheadings 9029 10 10,
         9029 20 10 and 9029 90 10
ex 9030  Oscilloscopes,     spectrum    analysers    and    other
         instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking
         electrical quantities, excluding meters of heading
         No 9028; instruments and apparatus for measuring or
         detecting alpha, beta, gamma, X-ray, cosmic or
         other    ionizing   radiations, m excluding     products
         falling within subheadings 9030 10 10, 9030 20 10,
         9030 31 10, 9030 39 10, 9030 40 10, 9030 81 10,
         9030 89 10 and 9030 90 10
ex 9031  Measuring or checking instruments, appliances and
         machines, not specified or included elsewhere in
         this    chapter;    profile    projectors,     excluding
         products falling within suheadings 9031 80 10 and
         9031 90 10
ex 9032  Automatic regulating or controlling instruments and
         apparatus,     excluding products      falling    within
         suheadings 9032 10 10,       9032 20 10,    9032 81 10,
         9032 89 10 and 9032 90 10
9401     Seats (other than those of heading No 9402),
         whether ot not convertible into beds, and parts
         thereof
9402     Medical, surgical, dental or veterinary furniture
         (for example, operating tables, examination tables,
         hospital beds with mechanical fittings, dentists'
         chairs); barbers' chairs and similar chairs, having
         rotating as well as both reclining and elevating
         movements; parts of the foregoing articles
9403     Other furniture and parts thereof
9406 00  Prefabricated buildings
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      9501 00 Wheeled toys designed to be ridden by children (for
              example, tricycles, scooters, pedal cars); dolls'
              carriages
      9502    Dolls representing only human beings
      9504    Articles for funfair; table or parlour games,
              including pintables, billiards, special tables for
              casino games and automatic bowling alley equipment
      ex 9506 Articles   and   equipment    for general    physical
              exercise, gymnastics, athletics, other sports
              (including table-tennis) or outdoor games, not
              specified or included elsewhere in this chapter;
              swimming pools and paddling pools, excluding
              products falling within suheadings 9506 69 10 and
              9506 99 10
      9507    Fishing rods, fish-hooks and other line fishing
              tackle; fish landing nets, butterfly nets and
              similar nets; decoy "birds" (other than those of
              heading No 9208 or 9705) and similar hunting or
              shooting requisites
ex CHAPTER 96 MISCELLANEOUS   MANUFACTURED     ARTICLES, excluding
              products    falling    within     suheadings 9601 90,
              9603 29, 9603 30, 9603 40 10 and 9603 90 91
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                           Financial statement
On the basis of imports from South Africa in 1992 of the industrial
products covered by the proposal, the GSP offer for that country will be
around ECU 400 million over twelve months.
As the average of the customs duties applicable under the common customs
tariff is 5.5%, and assuming that the average rate of utilization is
70%, it is estimated that customs revenue not collected will amount to
ECU 6.4 million over five months. This figure may be adjusted pro rata
temporis in light of the preferential advantages actually accorded to
South Africa.
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