CELEX: 31977R2705
Language: en
Date: 1977-11-28 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 2705/77 of 28 November 1977 opening preferential tariffs for certain products originating in developing countries

19 . 12 . 77                           Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 324/23
                                       COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 2705/77
                                                      of 28 November 1977
                      opening preferential tariffs for certain products originating in developing countries
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                             Whereas the offer made by the Community includes a
                                                                     clause stating that the Community drew up the offer on
                                                                     the assumption that all the main industrialized countries
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               which are members of the OECD would participate in
 Economic Community,                                                 granting preferences and would make similar efforts in
                                                                     this direction; whereas, moreover, it is evident from the
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                   conclusions worked out in UNCTAD that this offer,
                                                                     while being of a temporary nature, does not constitute a
                                                                     binding commitment and, in particular, may be with­
 Having regard to the opinion of the European Parlia­                drawn wholly or in part at a later date ; whereas this
 ment ( 1),                                                          possibility may be adopted inter alia with a view to
                                                                     remedying any unfavourable situations which might
 Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and                    arise in the ACP States following the implementation of
 Social Committee (2),                                               the generalized preference scheme;
Whereas, within the context of UNCTAD, the Euro­
pean Economic Community offered to grant tariff pref­
erences on finished and semi-finished products coming                Whereas, moreover, the conference of the Heads of
                                                                     State or of Government of the Member States and the
from developing countries; whereas the preferential
treatment proposed in that offer covers, generally                   States     acceding     to    the    European       Com­
                                                                     munities held in Paris from 19 to 21 October 1972 in­
speaking, all finished and semi-finished industrial pro­
ducts covered by Chapters 25 to 99 of the Common                     vited the Community institutions and the Member
Customs Tariff which originate in developing countries;              States progressively to adopt an overall policy of de­
whereas the preference consists in the granting of                   velopment cooperation on a world-wide scale compris­
exemption from customs duties; whereas preferential                  ing in particular the improvement of generalized prefer­
imports are effected up to the level of ceilings calculated          ences with the aim of achieving a steady increase in
by value in respect of each product on the basis of fac­             imports of manufactures from the developing countries;
tors which are uniform for all the products; whereas in
order that the preferences granted to the most competi­
tive developing country or countries should be restricted
and that a substantial share should be reserved for the             Whereas tariff preferences have been applied from the
least competitive, preferential imports from any one                second half of 1971 under the conditions set out above;
developing country in respect of a given product should             whereas these preferences should continue to be applied
not, as a general rule, exceed 50% of the ceiling fixed             throughout 1978 ; whereas, having regard to the terms
for that product;                                                   of the offer concerned and to the need to improve the
                                                                    generalized preferences, the abovementioned basic
                                                                    amount refers to 1974 , while the additional amount
Whereas, in the offer made by the Community, the
                                                                    generally refers to 1975 ; whereas, however, the appli­
annual ceilings should normally be calculated on the                catidn of this method of calculation should remain
basis of the total value for 1968 cif imports from the
                                                                    compatible with the progressive nature of the preference
countries benefiting from this scheme, excluding those              scheme in such a way as to provide a period of adap­
already enjoying various preferential tariff arrangements           tation for the industrial sectors affected in the Com­
granted by the Community (basic amount), plus 5% of                 munity; whereas for this purpose it would appear ade­
the value of cif imports from the other countries and
                                                                    quate to limit for each product the considerable im­
from the countries already enjoying such arrangements
                                                                   provement resulting from the said method to a level
(additional amount); whereas such additional amount is
                                                                    which does not exceed 150% of each of the preferential
variable and is calculated each year on the basis of the
                                                                    amounts open in 1977, which represents a 225% im­
latest figures available, provided that this entails no            provement compared with 1976 ;
reduction in the ceiling;
                                                                   Whereas in practice the latest complete statistics avail­
(!) OJ No C 2 66, 7. 11 . 1977, p. 16.                             able are those relating to the year 1975 ; whereas,
(2) Opinion delivered on 26/27 October 1977 (not yet pub­          however, since 1974, the statistics in question and par­
    lished in the Official Journal).                               ticularly those relating to the value of the Community's
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 external trade have been expressed in a statistical unit               Whereas, under these circumstances, these objectives
  (EUR) which is no longer defined in the same way as                   may be reached by applying a method of administration
  the unit of account (u.a.) prescribed for the Common                  based on the charging, at Community level, against the
  Customs Tariff; whereas therefore it is necessary to                  abovementioned ceilings and maximum amounts, of
  define a conversion rate between these two units;                     imports of the products concerned as and when these
  whereas in 1975 one EUR unit was equivalent in prac­                  products are entered for home use and are accompanied
  tice to one European unit of account and the same value               by a certificate of origin ; whereas this method of
  should be ascribed to the latter as to the unit of account            administration must make provision for the re-introduc­
  (u.a.); whereas it seems appropriate therefore in these               tion of the levying of customs duties as soon as the said
  circumstances and for the particular ends of the calcula­             ceilings or maximum amounts are reached at Commun­
  tions required under this Regulation, to consider the                 ity level;
  statistics expressed in EUR in this Regulation as if ex­
  pressed in units of account of the Common Customs
  Tariff; whereas the unit of account should remain the                  Whereas such method of administration calls for very
   only unit to be used within the preference system, along              close and particularly rapid cooperation between
   with its rates for conversion into national currencies                Member States and the Commission, which must, in
   based on gold parities;                                               particular, be able to observe the extent to which
                                                                         charges are made against the ceilings and maximum
                                                                         amounts and inform Member States thereof; whereas
  Whereas, in accordance with Protocol 23 to the Act of                  such cooperation should be particularly close in view of
  Accession (1), the generalized tariff preference scheme                the need for the Commission to be able to take appro­
  became fully applicable in the new Member States on                    priate measures to re-introduce the levying of customs
   1 January 1974 ;                                                      duties either generally or individually when any of the
                                                                         ceilings or maximum amounts are reached,
   Whereas it is expedient, therefore, in respect of the
   products referred to in Annex A which originate in the
   countries and territories listed in Annex B, that the
   Community should allow, for each category of these                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
   products and throughout 1978 , duty-free imports
   within the limits of the Community ceilings calculated
   in the manner set out above ; whereas the benefit of such                                       Article 1
   tariff exemption should be reserved for products
! originating in the countries and territories under                     1 . From 1 January to 31 December 1978 , the Com­
. consideration, the concept of ' originating products'                  mon Customs Tariff duties on the products listed in
' being determined in accordance with the procedure laid                 Annex A shall be totally suspended, subject to the pro­
   down in Article 14 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                     visions of Articles 2 and 4 (2) of this Regulation.
   802/68 of 27 June 1968 on the common definition of
   the concept of the origin of goods (2); whereas charges
   against each of these ceilings must, as a general rule,               2 . This suspension shall be enjoyed solely by products
   come within a maximum Community amount of 50%                         originating in the countries and territories listed in
   in respect of the products originating in any of the                  Annex B. However, imports already enjoying exemption
   abovementioned countries; whereas, however, in order                   from customs duties under other preferential tariff ar­
    in particular to safeguard access by all the abovemen­                rangements shall not be charged against the ceilings
   tioned countries and territories to this preferential                  specified in paragraph 3 . For the purposes of the appli­
    scheme, the maximum Community amount for certain                      cation of this Regulation, the concept of originating
   products should be reduced to a lower percentage;                     products shall be determined in accordance with the
                                                                         procedure laid down in Article 14 of Regulation (EEC)
   Whereas, however, in the multilateral trade nego­                      No 802/68 .
   tiations, in accordance with paragraph 6 of the Tokyo
   declaration, the Community reaffirmed that special
   treatment should be granted to the least developed                     3 . Subject to the provisions of Articles 2 and 4 (2 ) and
    among the developing countries whenever this is poss­                with the exception of certain products the value of the
    ible; whereas, therefore, charges of products originating             ceilings for which is given in Annex A, this suspension
    in the least developed developing countries appearing                 shall be granted, in respect of each category of products
    on the list drawn up under United Nations resolution                  within a Community ceiling which shall be expressed in
    3487 (XXX) of 12 December 1975 should not be sub­                     units of account and which shall be equal to the amount
    ject to the Community ceiling or maximum amount;                      obtained by adding together the value of cif imports in
                                                                          1974 of the products concerned, to the Community
                                                                          from the countries and territories enjoying arrange­
                                                                          ments, excluding those already enjoying various pre­
    (!) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14 .                                ferential tariff arrangements granted by the Community,
    (2) OJ No L 148 , 28 . 6 . 1968 , p. 1 .                              and 5% of the value of cif imports in 1975 from other
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countries and from countries and territories already             3 . However, paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply to the
enjoying such arrangements. However the ceiling result­          imports in question originating in the countries listed in
ing from the sum of this addition may in no case ex­             Annex C.
ceed 225% of the preferential ceilings open for 1976.
                                                                                          Article 3
For the particular purpose of the abovementioned cal­
culations, the statistics referring to the year 1975 ex­          1 . Imports of the products in question shall be charged
pressed in EUR, are to be considered as being expressed          against the Community ceilings and maximum amounts
in units of account of the Common Customs Tariff.                as and when the products are entered for home use, and
                                                                 provided that they are accompanied by a certificate of
4. Subject to the provisions of Articles 2 and 4 (2 ),           origin pursuant to the rules laid down in Article 1 (2 ).
within each ceiling thus calculated, charges of products
originating in any one of the countries listed in Annex B        2. Goods may be charged against a ceiling or maxi­
should not exceed a Community maximum amount                     mum amount only if the certificate of origin referred to
equivalent to 50% of this ceiling with the exception             in paragraph 1 is submitted before the date on which
of certain products for which the maximum amount                 the levying of duties is re-introduced.
shall be reduced to the percentage or value shown in
Annex A.
                                                                 3 . The extent to which the ceilings and maximum
                                                                 amounts have been filled shall be determined at Com­
5 . Any amendment to Annex B, in particular by the               munity level on the basis of the imports charged in
addition of new countries enjoying tariff preferences,           accordance with paragrphs 1 and 2.
may entail corresponding adjustments to the Commun­
ity ceilings and the maximum amounts referred to in                                       Article 4
paragraphs 3 and 4.
                                                                  1 . The Commission, in close cooperation with the
                         Article 2
                                                                 Member States, shall take all necessary measures to
                                                                 ensure that the above provisions are applied.
 1 . As soon as the ceilings fixed or calculated in accord­      2 . The Commission shall re-introduce the levying of
ance with the provisions of Article 1 (3 ), which are laid       customs duties in respect of all the countries referred to
down for Community imports of products originating               in Article 1 (2 ) or in respect of any one of them by
in all of the countries referred to in Article 1 (2 ), are
                                                                 means of a Regulation in accordance with the condi­
reached at Community level, the levying of customs               tions laid down in Article 2 ( 1 ) and (2 ).
duties on imports of the products in question from all
the countries concerned may at any time be re-intro­
                                                                                          Article 5
duced until the end of the period referred to in Arti­
cle 1 ( 1 ).
                                                                 Member States shall inform the Commission, on request
2 . As soon as the maximum amounts calculated in                 or at least monthly, of imports of the products in ques­
accordance with the provisions of Article 1 (4), which           tion actually charged against the Community ceilings
are laid down for Community imports of products                   and maximum amounts laid down in Article 1 (3 )
originating in each of the countries referred to in Article       and (4 ).
 1 (2), are reached for any one of these countries at
Community level, the levying of customs duties on                                         Article 6
imports of the products in question from the country
concerned may at any time be re-introduced until the             This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January
end of the period referred to in Article 1 ( 1 ).                 1978 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
              Done at Brussels, 28 November 1977 .
                                                                                      For the Council
                                                                                       The President
                                                                                          L. OUTERS
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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
                   25.19 A Magnesium oxide other than calcined natural magnesium carbonate
                  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       ^ Fluorspar
             CHAPTER 27
                  27.03 B         Agglomerated peat
                  27.04           Coke and semi-coke of coal, of lignite or of peat; whether or not agglomerated; retort
                                  carbon :
                                 A. Coke and semi-coke of coal :
                                       I. For the manufacture of electrodes
                                  C. Other
                  27.06           Tar distilled from coal, from lignite or from peat, and other mineral tars, including par­
                                  tially distilled tars and blends of pitch with creosote oils or with other coal tar distillation
                                 products
                  27.07           Oils and other products of the distillation of high temperature coal tar; similar products
                                  as defined in Note 2 to this Chapter.
                  27.08           Pitch and pitch coke, obtained from coal tar or from other mineral tars
                  27.10           Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, other than crude; prepara­
                                 tions 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 (*):
                                  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.
             (b) Preferences are not to begranted in respect of the products, marked with an asterisk, originating in Romania.
             (') The Community ceiling as defined in Article 1 ( 3 ) is set at 703 5 00, 275 000 and 1 700 000 tonnes for products falling within
                 subheadings 27.10 A III, B III, C I c), C II c) and C III c) and d) respectively; the 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 ob­
                                tained from bituminous minerals
                 27.16          Bituminous mixtures based on natural asphalt, on natural bitumen, on petroleum bitu­
                                men, 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
                28.08          Sulphuric acid; oleum
                28.09          Nitric acid; sulphonitric acids
                28.10           Phosphorus pentoxide and phosphoric acids (meta-, ortho- and pyro-) (*)
                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 (*) (2)
                28.17           Sodium hydroxide (caustic soda); potassium hydroxide (caustic potash); peroxides of
                                sodium or potassium
                28.18          Hydroxide and peroxide of magnesium; oxides, hydroxides and peroxides, of strontium
                                or barium
                28.19          Zinc oxide and zinc peroxide (3)
                28.20 B        Artificial corundum
                28.21          Chronium oxides and hydroxides
                28.22          Manganese oxides
           C) For products falling within this heading, the Community ceiling and maximum amount referred to in Article 1 (3 ) and (4) are set at
               6 958 500 u.a. and 30 % respectively.
           (2) For products falling within this heading, the Community ceiling referred to in Article 1 (3) is set at 7 914 000 u.a.
           (3) For products falling within this heading, the Community ceiling referred to in Article 1 (3 ) is set at 536 000 u.a.
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                28.23            Iron oxides and hydroxides; earth colours containing 70% or more by weight of com­
                                 bined iron evaluated as Fe203
                28.24            Cobalt oxides and hydroxides; commercial cobalt oxides
                28.25            Titanium oxides
                28.28            Hydrazine and hydroxylamine and their inorganic salts; other inorganic bases and metal­
                                 lic oxides, hydroxides and peroxides
                28.29            Fluorides; fluorosilicates, fluoroborates and other complex fluorine salts
                28.30            Chlorides, oxychlorides and hydroxychlorides; bromides and oxybromides; iodides and
                                 oxyiodides
                28.31            Hypochlorites; commercial calcium hypochlorite; chlorites; hypobromites
                28.32            Chlorates and perchlorates; bromates and perbromates; 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
                28.42            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 compounds,
                                inorganic or organic, of precious metals including albuminates, proteinates, 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 ele­
                                ments, isotopes or compounds :
                                B. Other (a)
           (a) Ex B: Artificial radio-active isotopes and their compounds (EURATOM).
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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
                 28.54          Hydrogen peroxide (including solid hydrogen peroxide)
                 28.55          Phosphides, whether or not chemically defined
                 28.56          Carbides, whether or not chemically defined:
                                A. Of silicon
                                B. Of boron
                                D. Of aluminium; of chromium; of molybdenum; of tungsten; of vanadium; of tan­
                                     talum ; of titanium
                                E. Other
                 28.57          Hydrides, nitrides and azides, silicides and borides, whether or not chemically defined
                 28.58          Other inorganic compounds (including distilled and conductivity water and water of
                                similar purity); liquid air (whether or not rare gases have been removed); compressed air;
                                amalgams, other than 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
                                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 derivatives
                 29.06          Phenols and phenol-alcohols (*) (a)
                 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 derivatives
                 29.09          Epoxides, epoxyalcohols, epoxyphenols and epoxyethers, with a three or four member
                                ring, and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives
            (a) The asterisk covers only subheading 29.06 A I.
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                 29.10           Acetals and hemiacetals and single or complex oxygen-function acetals and hemiacetals,
                                 and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives
                 29.11 v         Aldehydes, aldehyde-alcohols, aldehyde-ethers, aldehyde-phenols and other single or
                                 complex oxygen-function aldehydes; cyclic polymers of aldehydes; paraformalde­
                                 hyde (*) (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 oxygen-function
                                 ketones and quinones, and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated deriva­
                                 tives (*) (b)
                 29.14           Monocarboxylic acids and their anhydrides, halides, peroxides and peracids, and their
                                 halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives (*) ( c)
                 29.15            Polycarboxylic acids and their anhydrides, halides, peroxides and peracids, and their
                                  halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives (*) (d)
                 29.16            Carboxylic acids with alcohol, phenol, aldehyde or ketone function and other single or
                                  complex oxygen-function carboxylic acids and their anhydrides, halides, peroxides and
                                  peracids, and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives ( 1)(2)
                 29.19            Phosphoric esters and their salts, including lactophosphates, and their halogenated, sul­
                                  phonated, 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
             ex 29.23             Single or complex oxygen-function amino-compounds, excluding glutamic acid and its
                                  salts
                  29.24           Quaternary ammonium salts and hydroxides; lecithins and other phosphoaminolipins
                  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 trimethylenetrinit­
                                  ramine)
                  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
            (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 29.27 (acrylonitrile).
            t1) For citric acid falling within subheading 29.16 A IV a), the Community ceiling and maximum amount referred to in Article 1 (3) and
                (4) are set at 413 600 u.a. and 30% repectively.
            (2) For salicylic acid falling within subheading 29.16 B I a), the Community ceiling referred to in Article 1 (3) is set at 205 200 u.a.
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                  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
                  29.38            Provitamins and vitamins, natural or reproduced by synthesis (including natural concen­
                                   trates), 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
                  29.41            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 sub­
                                   stances 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
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                  31.02           Mineral or chemical fertilizers, nitrogenous :
                                  B. Urea, containing more than 45% by weight of nitrogen on the dry anhydrous pro­
                                        duct *(2) (*)
                                  C. Other (3 )(*)
             (a) The asterisk covers only subheading 29.38 B ex II (vitamins B. 12 ).
             (b) The asterisk covers only subheading 29.44 A ( penicillins) and ex C (tetracycline).
             (') For mel .inline falling within subheading 29.35 ex Q, the Community ceiling referred to in Article 1 (3 ) is 486 000 u.a.
             p)  For products falling within this subheading, the Community ceiling and maximum amount referred to in Article 1 (3 ) and (4) are set at
                 274 050 u.a. and 20% respectively.
             (3) For products falling within this subheading, the Community ceiling and maximum amount referred to in Article 1 (3 ) and (4) are set at
                 3 108 000 u.a. and 20% respectively.
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                  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
            CHAPTER 32
                 32.01          Tanning extracts of vegetable origin; tannins (tannic acids), including water-extracted
                                gall-nut tannin, and their salts, ethers, esters and other derivatives:
                                B. Other
                 32.03          Synthetic organic tanning substances and inorganic tanning substances; tanning pre­
                                parations, 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 finish­
                                ing leather; paints and enamels; pigments in linseed oil, white spirit, spirits of turpentine,
                                varnish or other paint or enamel media ; stamping foils; dyes or other colouring matter in
                                forms or packings of a kind sold by retail; solutions as defined in Note 4 to this chapter
                 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 preparations;
                                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 (M
            ( 1) For products falling within subheading 33.01 A II a ), the Community ceiling referred to in Article 1 (3 ) is set at 4 140 000 u.a.
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               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 (excluding enzymes of heading No 35.07) 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
                   35.07              Enzymes; prepared enzymes not elsewhere specified or included
               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
                   38.03              Activated carbon ; activated natural mineral products; animal black, including spent
                                      animal black
                   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 turpen­
                                     tine; 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 compositve solvents and thinners falling within
                                     heading No 38.18 ); wood creosote; wood naphtha; acetone oil ; 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, rat poisons, herbicides, anti-sprouting products,
                                     plant-growth regulators and similar products, put up in forms or packings for sale by
                                     retail or as preparations or articles (for example, sulphur-treated bands, wicks and
                                     candles, flypapers)
                   38.12             Prepared glazings, prepared dressings and prepared mordants, of a kind used in the tex­
                                     tile, paper, leather or like industries:
                                    A. Prepared glazings and prepared dressings:
                                           II. Other
                                    B. Prepared mordants
             ( a) The asterisk covers only heading No 36.06.
             (') For gelatin and gelatin derivatives falling within subheading 35.03 ex B, the Community ceiling and maximum amount referred to in
                  Article 1 ( 3 ) and (4) are set at 747 600 u.a. and 30% respectively.
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                38.13          Pickling preparations for metal surfaces; fluxes and other auxiliary preparations for sol­
                               dering, 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 improvers, 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, exclud­
                               ing sorbitol, other than that falling within subheading 29.04 C III
             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, polytet­
                                rahaloethylenes, polyisobutylene, polystyrene, polyvinyl chloride, polyvinyl acetate,
                                polyvinyl chloroacetate and other polyvinyl derivatives, polyacrylic and polymethacrylic
                                derivatives, coumarone-indene resins) (*) (a)
                 39.03          Regenerated cellulose; cellulose nitrate, cellulose acetate and other cellulose esters, cel­
                                lulose 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, oxidized 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
            (a) The asterisk covers only subheadings 39.02 C I, C IV and C VII a).
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                  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 unvulcanized natural
                                  or synthetic rubber compounded ready for vulcanization; unvulcanized natural or syn­
                                  thetic rubber, compounded before or after coagulation either with carbon black (with or
                                  without the addition of mineral oil) or with silica (with or without the addition of min­
                                  eral 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 unvul­
                                  canized 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
                  40.11           Rubber tyres, tyre cases, interchangeable tyre treads, inner tubes and tyre flaps, for
                                  wheels of all kinds (*):
                                  — Inner tubes and tyre cases (new or used) of the kind used on bicycles,- cycles with
                                       an auxiliary motor, motor-cycles or motor-scooters ( x)
                                  — Other (including tyre cases with sewn-in inner tubes, for racing bicycles, and tyre
                                       flaps) (2)
                  40.12           Hygienic and pharmaceutical articles (including teats), of unhardened vulcanized 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
                  41.03           Sheep and lambskin leather, except leather falling within heading No 41.06 or 41.08 :
                                  B. Other :
                                       II. Other ( 3)
                  41.04           Goat and kidskin leather, except leather falling within heading No 41.06 or 41.08 :
                                  B. Other :
                                        II. Other (4)
                  41.05           Other kinds of leather, except leather falling within heading No 41.06 or 41.08 .
                                  B. Other :
                                        II. Other ( s)
            (*) For these products, the Community ceiling and maximum amount referred to in Article 1 (3 ) and (4) are set at 4 579 000 u.a. and
                25% respectively.
            (2) For these products, the Community ceiling and maximum amount referred to in Article 1 (3 ) and (4) are set at 11 901 000 u.a. and
                25% respectively.
            (3) For products falling within this subheading, the Community ceiling referred to in Article 1 (3 ) is set at 2 813 800 u.a.
            (4) For products falling within this subheading, the Community ceiling referred to in Article 1 (3 ) is set at 4 544 800 u.a.
            (5) For products falling within this subheading, the Community ceiling and maximum amount referred to in Article 1 (3 ) and (4) are set
                respectively at 9 540 000 u.a. and 20% .
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                  41.06          Chamois-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
             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 (2) (*)
                   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 ex­
                                   ceeding 5 mm
                   44.07           Railway or tramway sleepers of wood
              ex 44.09             Hoopwood; split poles; piles, pickets and stakes of wood, pointed but not sawn
                                   lengthwise; chipwood; drawn wood; wood shavings of a kind suitable for use in the
                                   manufacture of vinegar or for the clarification of liquids; wooden sticks, roughly trim­
                                   med but not turned, bent or otherwise worked, suitable for the manufacture of walking­
                                   sticks, umbrella handles, tool handles or the like
                   44.11           Fibre building board of wood or other vegetable material, whether or not bonded with
                                   natural or artificial resins or with other organic binders (3) (*)
                   44.12           Wood wool and wood flour
                   44.13           Wood (including blocks, strips and friezes for parquet or wood block flooring, not as­
                                   sembled), planed, tongued, grooved, rebated, chamfered, V-jointed, centre V-jointed,
                                   beaded, centre-beaded or the like, but not further manufactured (4)
             (a) The asterisk covers only subheading 43.03 ex B (gloves).
             (1) For products falling within this heading, the Community ceiling referred to in Article 1 (3 ) is set at 41 8 000 u.a.
             (2 ) For products falling within this subheading, the Community ceiling and maximum amount referred to in Article 1 (3 ) and (4) are set at
                  17 369 000 u.a . and 15% respectively.
             (3 ) For products falling within this heading, the Community ceiling and maximum amount referred to in Article 1 (3 ) and (4) are set at
                  10 363 500 u.a . and 30% respectively .
             (4) For products falling within this heading, the Community ceiling referred to in Article 1 ( 3 ) is set at 8 839 800 u.a.
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                  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 (») (*)
                   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 (2) (*)
                   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
                                  wpod, including staves
                   44.23          Builders' carpentry and joinery (including prefabricated and sectional buildings and
                                  assembled parquet flooring panels)
                   44.24          Household utensils of wood (*) ( a) ( 3 )
                   44.25          Wooden tools, tool bodies, tool handles, broom and brush bodies and handles; boot and
                                  shoe lasts and trees, of wood ( 4)
                   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, orna­
                                  ments 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 ( 5)
                   45.04          Agglomerated cork (being cork agglomerated with or without a binding substance) and
                                  articles of agglomerated cork (6)
             (а) The asterisk covers only heading No 44.24 (clothes-pegs).
             ('' For products falling within this subheading, the Community ceiling and maximum amount referred to in Article 1 (3 ) and (4 ) are set at
                  27 506 000 u.a . and 40% respectively .
             ( 2) For products failing within this heading, the Community ceiling referred to in Article 1 (3 ) is set at 5 937 000 u.a .
             C ) For products falling within this heading, the Community ceiling referred to in Article 1 (3 ) is set at 3 220 000 u.a .
             (4) For products falling within subheading 44.25 ex B (broom and brush bodies and handles), the Community ceiling and maximum
                  amount referred to in Article 1 (3) and (4) are set at 1 164 000 u.a. and 30% respectively.
             (5j For products falling within this heading, the Community ceiling referred to in Article 1 (3 ) is set at 2 094 000 u.a.
             (б) For products falling within this heading, the Community ceiling referred to in Article 1 (3 ) is set at 1 651 000 u.a.
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          CHAPTER 46
          ex 46.02              Plaits and similar products of plaiting materials, for all uses, whether or not assembled
                                into strips, other than those of unspun vegetable materials; plaiting materials bound
                                together in parallel strands or woven in sheet form, including matting, mats and screens;
                                straw envelopes for bottles ( 1)
                 46.03          Basketwork, wickerwork and other articles of playing materials, made directly to shape;
                                articles made up from goods falling within heading No 46.02; articles of loofah (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
           CHAPTER 48
                 48.01           Paper and paperboard (including cellulose wadding), 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 57.07 or of paper yarn rein­
                                            forced with metal of heading No 59.04
                                 D. Paper weighing not more than 15 g/m2 for use in stencil making
                                 E. Hand-made paper and paperboard
                                 F.    Other
                 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 reinforced, 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
                  48.07          Paper and paperboard, impregnated, coated, surface-coloured, surface-decorated or
                                 printed (not constituting printed matter within Chapter 49), in rolls or sheets
                  48.08          Filter blocks, slabs and plates, of paper pulp
                  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
            ( 1) For plaiting materials bound together in parallel strands or woven in sheet form, including matting, mats and screens, and straw en­
                 velopes for bottles, falling within this heading, the Community ceiling and maximum amount referred to in Article 1 (3 ) and (4) are set
                 at 6 511 000 u.a. and 30% respectively.
            (2) For products falling within this heading, the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4) is reduced to 20% .
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                  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 size or shape
                   48.16          Boxes, bags and other packing containers, of paper or paperboard; box files, letter trays
                                  and similar articles, of paper or paperboard, of a kind commonly used in offices, shops
                                  and the like
                   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
                   66.01          Umbrellas and sunshades (including walking-stick umbrellas, umbrella tents, and garden
                                   and similar umbrellas) (*) (*)
                   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)
             f 1) For products falling within this heading, the Community ceiling and maximum amount referred to in Article 1 (3 ) and (4) are set at
                  9 027 000 u.a . and 15% respectively.
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                  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, other animal hair
                                 and other textile materials prepared for use in making wigs and the like
           CHAPTER 68 ARTICLES OF STONE, OF PLASTER, OF CEMENT, OF ASBESTOS, OF MICA
                                    AND OF SIMILAR MATERIALS f 1) (2) (3 ) (*) ( a)
           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 constructional
                                  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 (4)
                   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 con­
                                  veyance or packing of goods
                   69.10          Sinks, washbasins, bidets, water closet pans, urinals, baths and like sanitary fixtures
                    69.11         Tableware and other articles of a kind commonly used for domestic or toilet pur­
                                  poses (5) (*)
                    69.12         Tableware and other articles of a kind commonly used for domestic or toilet purposes, of
                                   other kinds of pottery (*) (b)
                    69.13          Statuettes and other ornaments, and articles of personal adornment; articles of furniture
                    69.14          Other articles
            CHAPTER 70
                   70.01 B        Glass in the mass (excluding optical glass)
                   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
            ( a ) The asterisk covers only heading No 68.01 .
            (b) The asterisk covers only subheading 69.12 C.
            ( ') For products falling within heading No 68.12, the Community cciling referred to in Article 1 (3 ) is set at 1 254 000 u.a.
            ( 2) For products falling within subheading 68.13 B I, the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4) is reduced to 40% .
            (3 ) For products falling within subheadings 68.13 B II and III, the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (4) is reduced to
                  40% .
            (4) For products falling within this heading, the Community ceiling and maximum amount referred to in Article 1 (3 ) and (4) are set at
                  342 000 u.a. and 20% respectively.
            (5) For products falling within this heading, the Community ceiling and maximum amount referred to in Article 1 (3 ) and (4) are set at
                  1 549 200 u.a. and 30% respectively.
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                   70.06          Cast, rolled, drawn or blown glass (including flashed or wired glass), in rectangles, sur­
                                  face ground or polished, but not further worked
                    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 en­
                                   graved), whether or not surface ground or polished; multiple-walled insulating glass ;
                                   leaded lights and the like
                    70.08          Safety glass consisting of toughened or laminated glass, shaped or not
                    70.09          Glass mirrors (including rear-view mirrors), unframed, framed or backed
                    70.10          Carboys, bottles, jars, pots, tubular containers and similar containers, of glass, of a kind
                                   commonly used for the conveyance or packing of goods; stoppers and other closures, of
                                   glass (*) ( a)
                    70.11          Glass envelopes (including bulbs and tubes) for electric lamps, electronic valves or the
                                   like
                    70.12          Glass inners for vacuum flasks or for other vacuum vessels (*)
                    70.14          Illuminating glassware, signalling glassware and optical elements of glass, not optically
                                   worked nor of optical glass:
                                   A. Articles for electrical lighting fittings:
                                          I. Facetted glass, plates, balls, pear-shaped drops, flower-shaped pieces, pendants
                                             and similar articles for trimming chandeliers
                                         II. Other (for example, diffusers, ceiling lights, bowls, cups, lampshades, globes,
                                             tulip-shaped pieces) (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 glaasware, whether or not graduated or calib­
                                    rated; 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, fragments 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 ; ornaments and other fancy articles of lamp­
                                    worked glass; grains (ballotini)
                    70.20           Glass fibre (including wool), yarns, fabrics, and articles made therefrom
                    70.21           Other articles of glass
              CHAPTER 71
                    71.01           Pearls, unworked or worked, but not mounted, set or strung (except ungraded pearls
                                   temporarily strung for convenience of transport)
             (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 tailing within this heading, the ceiling and the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (3 ) and (4) are set at
                  289 000 u.a . and 40% respectively .
             (2) For products falling within uiis sunheauing, the Community ceiling and maximum amount referred to in Article 1 (3 ) and (4) are set at
                  3 971 000 u.a. and 20% respectively.
             (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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              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 rol­
                       led 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 toughly 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
              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 :
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             73.11   A. Angles, shapes and sections:
            (cont d)         JJ 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, artifically 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
                           VI. Hoop and strip :
                                  b) Not further worked than cold-rolled
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             73.15               c) Clad, coated or otherwise surface-treated:
            (cont'd)                 1 . Not further worked than clad:
                                         bb) Cold-rolled
                                     2.   Other
                                 d) Otherwise shaped or worked (for example, perforated, chamfered,
                                     lapjointed)
                          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 (*)
            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 (*)
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                 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, prepared for use in structures, of iron or
                                steel
                 73.22         Reservoirs, tanks, vats and similar containers, for any material (other than compressed 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; 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 draw­
                                 ing 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, cot­
                                 ter-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 heatings), 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
                 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
             (*) For screws for wood falling within subheading 73.32 ex B, the Community ceiling referred to in Article 1 (3 ) is set at 2 993 000 u.a.
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                 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; 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 (2)
                 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 015 mm
                 74.06            Copper powders and flakes
                 74.07            Tubes and pipes and blanks therefor, of copper; hollow bars of copper (3)
                 74.08            Tube and pipe fittings (for example, joints, elbows, sockets and flanges), of copper
                 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; expanded metal, of copper
                  74.15           Nails, tacks, staples, hook-nails, spiked cramps, studs, spikes and drawing pins, of cop­
                                  per, or of iron or steel with heads of copper; bolts and nuts (including bolt ends and
                                  screw studs), whether or not threaded or tapped, and screws (including screw hooks and
                                  screw rings), of copper; rivets, cotters, cotter-pins, washers and spring washers, of copper
                  74.16            Springs, of copper
                  74.17            Cooking and heating apparatus of a kind used for domestic purposes, not electrically
                                  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 produced by
                                  electrolysis
                  75.06            Other articles of nickel
            (') For products falling within this heading, the Community ceiling and maximum amount referred to in Article 1 (3 ) and (4) are set at
                 6 850 200 u.a. ana30% respectively.
            (2) For products falling within this heading, the Community ceiling and maximum amount referred to in Article 1 (3) and (4) are set at
                 2 963 000 u.a . and 30% respectively.
            (3 ) For products falling within this heading, the Community ceiling and maximum amount referred to in Article 1 (3 ) and (4) are set at
                  7 1 32 000 u.a . and 30% respectively .
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           CHAPTER 76
                 76.02          Wrought bars, rods, angles, shapes and sections of aluminium; aluminium wire ( 1) (*)
                 76.03          Wrought plates, sheets and strip, of aluminium (2) (*)
                  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 compressed 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 equipment
                  76.10         Casks, drums, cans, boxes and similar containers (including rigid and collapsible tubular
                                containers), of aluminium, of a description commonly used for the conveyance or pack­
                                ing 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
                  76.15         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; 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 ex­
                                ceeding 1-7 kg/m2; lead powders and flakes
           ( 1) For products falling within this heading, the Community ceiling and maximum amount referred to in Article 1 (3 ) and (4) are set at
                3 516 000 u.a, and 20% respectively .
           (2) For products falling within this heading, the Community ceiling and maximum amount referred to in Article 1 (3 ) and (4) are set at
                8 304 000 u.a. and 20% respectively .
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              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 (foi1
                      example, joints, elbows, sockets and flanges), of zinc
              79.06    Other articles of zinc
            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. Bars (other than bars not further prepared than sintered), rods, angles, shapes, sec­
                           tions, wire, filaments, plates, sheets, strip and foil
                       C. Other
              81.02    Molybdenum, unwrought or wrought, and articles thereof:
                       B. Bars (other than bars not further prepared than sintered), rods, angles, shapes, sec­
                           tions, wire, filaments, plates, sheets, strip and foil
                       C. Other
              81.03    Tantalum, unwrought or wrought, and articles thereof:
                       B. Bars (other than bars not further prepared than sintered), rods, angles, shapes, sec­
                           tions, wire, filaments, plates, sheets, strip and foil
                       C. Other
               81.04   Other base metals, unwrought or wrought, and articles thereof; cerments, unwrought 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
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              81.04    F. Hafnium (celtium):
             (cotii'd)       n Qther
                       G. Manganese :
                             II . Other
                       H. Niobium (columbium):
                             II. Other
                       IJ. Antimony :
                             II. Other
                       K. Titanium :
                             II. Other
                       L. Vanadium :
                             II. Other
                       N. Thorium :
                             II. Other :
                                  b) Other (EURATOM)
                       O. Zirconium :
                             II. Other
                       P.    Rhenium :
                             II. Other
                       Q. Gallium; indium; thallium :
                             II. Other
                       R. Cermets :
                             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 toothless 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 car­
                          bides (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
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                 82.09           Knives with cutting blades, serrated or not (including pruning knives), other than knives
                                 falling within heading No 82.06, and blades therefor (1)
                 82.11           Razors and razor blades (including razor blade blanks, whether or not in strips)
                 82.12           Scissors (including tailors' shears), and blades therefor
                 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 (2)
                 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 (3)
                  83.02           Base metal fittings and mountings of a kind suitable for furniture, doors, staircases,
                                  windows, blinds, coachwork, saddlery, trunks, caskets and the like (including 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 equip­
                                  ment, 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; photograph, pic­
                                  ture and similar frames, of base metal ; mirrors 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) (4)
                  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; beads and spangles, of base metal
                  83.11           Bells and gongs, non-electric, of base metal, and parts thereof of base metal
            (!) For products falling within this heading, excluding blades therefor, the Community ceiling and maximum amount referred to in Article
                1 (3 ) and (4) are set at 3 473 000 u.a. and 1 5% respectively.
            (J) For products falling within subheading 82.14 A, the Community ceiling and maximum amount referred to in Article 1 (3 ) and (4) are
                set at 4 437 000 u.a . and 15% respectively .
            (') For products falling within this heading, the Community ceiling and maximum amount referred to in Article 1 (3 ) and (4) are set at
                3 011 000 u.a . and 15% "respectively.
            {*) For products falling within' this heading, the Community ceiling and maximum amount referred to in Article 1 (3 ) and (4) are set at
                4 295 000 u.a . and 40 "!» respectively.
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                  83.13          Stoppers, crown corks, bottle caps, capsules, bung covers, seals and plombs, case corner
                                 protectors and other packing accessories, of base metal
                  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 car­
                                 bides, 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
                  84.05          Steam or other vapour power units, whether or 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; mechan­
                                 ical 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 temperature such as
                  heating, cooking, roasting, distilling, rectifying, sterilizing, pasteurizing, 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, clos­
                  ing, sealing, capsuling or labelling bottles, cans, boxes, bags or other containers; other
                  packing or wrapping machinery; machinery for aerating beverages; dish washing
                  machines
            84.20 Weighing machinery (excluding balances of a sensitivity of 5 eg or better), including
                  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 (includ­
                  ing 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; germina­
                  tion plant fitted with mechanical or thermal equipment; poultry incubators 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 preparation 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
            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
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                  84.34         Machinery, apparatus and accessories for type-founding or type-setting; machinery,
                                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 ma­
                                trices 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 processing
                                 natural or man-made textile fibres; textile spinning and twisting machines; textile doub­
                                 ling, 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 acces­
                                 sories 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, shuttles, 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, wallpaper, 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 (4ock-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) or
                                                 more than 65 u.a . each
                                           b ) Other (*)
                                       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)
                  84.43          Converters, ladles, ingot moulds and casting machines, of a kind used in metallurgy and
                                 in metal foundries
                  84.44          Rolling mills and rolls therefor
             (*) For products falling within this subheading, the Community ceiling and maximum amount referred to in Article 1 (3 ) and (4) are set at
                 3 983 000 u.a. and 25% respectively.
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                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 motoi
                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 calculating device ( x)
                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 proces­
                                 sing such data, not elsewhere specified or included
                84.54            Other office machines (for example, hectograph or stencil duplicating machines, addres­
                                 sing 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 sole­
                                 ly 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 radioactive metal oxides, sheathing) (EURATOM)
           ( ) For machines with a print-out falling within subheading 84.52 A, the Community ceiling referred to in Article 1 (3 ) is set at 3 204 000
               u.a.; for otha: machines falling within this subheading, the Community ceiling and maximum amount referred to in Article 1 (3 ) and
               (4) are set at 28 840 000 u.a. and 25% respectively.
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                 84.59            D. Rope or cable-making machinery, including electric wire and cable-making machines
                 (cont'd)
                                  E. Other
                 84.60            Moulding boxes for metal foundry; moulds of a type used for metal (other than ingot
                                  moulds), for metal carbides, for glass, for mineral materials (for example, ceramic pastes,
                                  concrete or cement) or for rubber or artificial plastic materials
                  84.61           Taps, cocks, valves and similar appliances, for pipes, boiler shells, tanks, vats and the
                                  like, including pressure-reducing valves and thermostatically controlled valves (*) (a)
                  84.62           Ball, roller or needle roller bearings (*)
             ex 84.63             Transmission shafts, cranks, bearing housings, plain shaft bearings, gears and gearing
                                  (including friction gears and gearboxes and other variable speed gears), flywheels, pulleys
                                  and pulley blocks, clutches and shaft couplings, but not including forged or roughly
                                  shaped shafts, of a weight exceeding 150 tonnes, forgenerators 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 assortments 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 permanent
                                  magnets, being blanks of such magnets; electro-magnetic and permanent magnet chucks,
                                  clamps, vices and similar work holders; electro-magnetic clutches and couplings; elec­
                                  tro-magnetic brakes; electro-magnetic lifting heads
                 85.03            Primary cells and primary batteries (3) (*)
                 85.04            Electric accumulators (4)
                 85.05            Tools for working in the hand, 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).
             ') For products falling within subheading 85.01 A I, the Community ceiling and maximum amount referred to in Article 1 (3 ) and (4) are
                set at 2 344 000 u.a. and 20% respectively.
             2) For products falling within subheading 85.01 C, the Community ceiling and maximum amount referred to in Article 1 (3 ) and (4) are
                set at 8 068 750 u.a . and 25% respectively.
             3) For products falling within this heading, the Community ceiling and maximum amount referred to in Article 1 (3 ) and (4) are set at
                4 441 000 u.a. and 307" respectively .
             4) For products falling within subheading 85.04 A (lead-acid accumulators), the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1
                (3 ) and (4) is reduced to 20% .
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                  >5.06           Electro-mechanical domestic appliances, with self-contained electric motor
                  55.07           Shavers and hair clippers, with self-contained electric motor
                  35.08           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
                  35.09           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 or laser-operated welding, brazing, soldering or cutting machines and
                                  apparatus
                  85.12            Electric instantaneous or storage water heaters and immersion heaters; electric soil heat­
                                   ing apparatus and electric space heating apparatus; electric hairdressing 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 ( x):
                                  A. Radiotelegraphic and radiotelephonic transmission and reception apparatus ; radio­
                                        broadcasting and television transmission and reception apparatus (including receivers
                                        incorporating sound recorders or reproducers) and television cameras:
                                          I. Transmitters
                                         II . Transmitter-receivers
                                        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, burg­
                                   lar and fire alarms), other than those of heading No 85.09 or 85.16
            I 1) For products falling within subheadings 85.15 A I, II, IV ; B ; C I, II, the Community ceiling and maximum amount referred to in
                 Article 1 (3 ) and (4) are set respectively at 18 423 000 u.a. and 25% .
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                  85.18          Electrical capacitors, fixed or variable (*)
                  85.19          Electrical apparatus for making and breaking electrical circuits, for the protection of
                                 electrical circuits, or for making connections to or in electrical circuits (for example,
                                 switches, relays, fuses, lightning arresters, surge suppressors, plugs, lampholders and
                                 junction boxes); resistors, fixed or variable (including potentiometers), other than heat­
                                 ing resistors; printed circuits; switchboards (other than telephone switchboards) and
                                 control panels (2) (3)
                  85.20          Electric filament lamps and electric discharge lamps (including infra-red and ultra-violet
                                 lamps); arc-lamps (4)
                   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, transis­
                                 tors and similar semi-conductor devices; light-emitting diodes; electronic micro­
                                 circuits (5):
                                 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 incorporated 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)
            (') For products falling within this heading, the Community ceiling and maximum amount referred to in Article 1 (3 ) and (4) are set at
                 9 130 800 u.a. and 20% respectively.
            (2) For products falling within subheading 85.19 A, the Community ceiling and maximum amount referred to in Article 1 ( 3 ) and (4) are
                 set at 29 654 000 u.a. and 25% respectively.
             (J) For products falling within subheading 85.19 B , the Community ceiling and maximum amount referred to in Article 1 (3 ) and (4 ) are
                 set at 7 673 750 u.a . and 40% respectively.
            (4) For products falling within subheading 85.20 A, the Community ceiling and maximum amount referred to in Article 1 (3 ) and (4 ) are
                 set at 3 835 000 u.a. and,25% respectively.
            (5) For products falling within subheadings 85.21 A, B and C, the Community ceiling referred to in Article 1 (3 ) is set at 10 667 000 u.a .
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                   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
                   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 (x) (*)
                   87.11          Invalid carriages, whether or not motorized or otherwise mechanically propelled
                   87.12          Parts and accessories of articles falling within heading No 87.09, 87.10 or
                                  87.11 (*) (*) (a)
                   87.13         Baby carriages 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
           (a) The asterisk covers only subheading 87.12 B.
          (') For products falling within this heading, the Community ceiling and maximum amount referred to in Article 1 (3) and (4) are set at
               1 300 000 u.a. and 20% respectively.
           (') For products falling within subheading 87. 12 B, the Community ceiling and maximum amount referred to in Article 1 (3) and (4) are
               set at 3 901 000 u.a. and 30% respectively.
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                  90.03          Frames and mountings, and parts thereof, for spectacles, pince-nez, lorgnettes, goggles
                                 and the like
                  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 and flashbulbs other than
                                  discharge lamps of heading No 85.20
                   90.08          Cinematographic cameras, projectors, sound recorders and sound reproducers but not
                                  including re-recorders or film editing apparatus; any combination of these articles
                   90.09          Image projectors (other than cinematographic projectors); photographic (except
                                  cinematographic) enlargers and reducers ( x)
                   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 photographing
                                  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; lasers,
                                  other than laser diodes
                   90.14          Surveying (including photogrammetrical surveying), hydrographic, navigational
                                  meteorological, hydrological and geophysical instruments; compasses; rangefinders
                   90.15          Balances of a sensitivity of 5 eg or better, with or without their weights
                   90.16          Drawing, marking-out and mathematical calculating instruments, drafting machines,
                                  pantographs, slide rules, disc calculators and the like; measuring or checking instru­
                                  ments, 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) (2)
                   90.18          Mechano-therapy appliances; massage apparatus; psychological aptitude-testing ap­
                                  paratus; 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 fracture
                                   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
            P) For products falling within this heading, the Community ceiling and maximum amount referred to in Article 1 (3) and (4) are set at
                2 493 750 u.a. and 45% respectively.
            (2) For products falling within this heading, the Community ceiling and maximum amount referred to in Article 1 (3 ) and (4) are set at
                12 567 600 u.a. and 40% respectively.
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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, compressibility,
                               elasticity and the like properties of industrial materials (for example, metals, wood, tex­
                               tiles, paper or plastics)
                 90.23         Hydrometers and similar instruments; thermometers, pyrometers, barometers, hy­
                               grometers, psychrometers, recording or not; any combination of these instruments
                 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 control­
                               ling 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, refrac­
                               tometers, spectrometers, gas analysis apparatus), instruments and apparatus for measur­
                               ing or checking viscosity, porosity, expansion, surface tension or the like (such as vis­
                               cometers, 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 tachometers (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 clock 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 (*)
            (*) Forproduets falling within this heading, the ceiling and the maximum Community amount referred to in Article 1 (3 ) and (4) are set at
                2 492 400 u.a. and       respectively.
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                 91.10          Clock cases and cases of a similar type for other goods of this Chapter, and parts thereof
                 91.11          Other clock and watch parts
             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 instru­
                                 ments (for example, whistles and boatswains' pipes)
                  92.10          Parts and accessories of musical instruments, 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 or reproducers, including
                                 record-players and tape decks, with or without sound-heads; television image and sound
                                 recorders or reproducers :
                                 B. Television image and sound recorders or reproducers
                  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 ( a)
                   92.13          Other parts and accessories of apparatus falling within heading No 92.11
              CHAPTER 93             ARMS AND AMMUNITIONS ; PARTS THEREOF (») (a)
             CHAPTER 94
                  94.01          Chairs and other seats (other than those falling within heading No 94.02), whether or
                                 not convertible into beds, and parts thereof:
                                 A. Specially designed for aircraft
                  94.02          Medical, dental, surgical or veterinary furniture (for example, operating tables, hospital
                                 beds with mechanical fittings); dentists' and similar chairs with mechanical elevating,
                                 rotating or reclining movements; parts of the foregoing articles
             (a) The asterisk covers only subheading 93.07 B.
             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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                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 ex­
                                panded, 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 , POWDER-PUFFS AND SIEVES (*) (a)
            CHAPTER 97
                 97.01          Wheeled toys designed to be ridden by children (for example, toy bicycles and tricycles
                                and pedal motorcars); dolls' prams and dolls' pushchairs
                 97.04          Equipment for parlour, table and funfair games for adults or children (including billiard
                                tables and pintables and table-tennis requisites ( x) (*) (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 slid­
                                ing 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 embos­
                                sing labels), designed for operating in the hand; hand-operated composing 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
                 98.09          Sealing wax (including bottle-sealing wax) in sticks, cakes or similar forms; copying
                                pastes with a basis of gelatin, whether or not with a paper or textile backing
           (a) The asterisk covers only subheadings 96.01 B I and III.
           (b) The asterisk covers only subheading 97.04 A.
           (*) For products falling within heading No 97.04, the Community ceiling and maximum amount referred to in Article 1 (3 ) and (4) are set
               at 8 1 73 050 u.a. and 25% respectively.
           (2) For products falling within subheadings 97.06 B and C, the Community ceiling referred to in Article 1 (3 ) is set at 16 078 000 u.a.
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             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
             98.14 Scent and similar sprays of a kind used for toilet purposes, and mounts and heads there­
                   for
             98.16 Tailors' dummies and other lay figures; automata and other animated displays of a kind
                   used for shop window dressing
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                                                                                   ANNEX B
                                    List of developing countries and territories enjoying generalized tariff preferences ( L)
                                                                    I. INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES
 660     Afghanistan (2) .                             260     Guinea ( 2 )                                                    801 Papua New Guinea
 208     Algeria                                        257 Guinea Bissau                                                      520 Paraguay
 330     Angola                                        488     Guyana                                                           504 Peru
 528     Argentina                                     452     Haiti ( 2 )                                                      708 Philippines
 453 Bahamas                                           424 Honduras                                                             644 Qatar
 640 Bahrain                                           664 India                                                                066 Romania
 666 Bangladesh ( 2)                                   700 Indonesia                                                            324 Rwanda ( 2)
 469 Barbados                                          616 Iran                                                                 819 Samoa ( 2 )
 284 Benin ( 2)                                        612     Iraq                                                             311 Sao Tome and Principe
 675 Bhutan ( 2 )                                      272     Ivory Coast                                                      632 Saudi Arabia
 516 Bolivia                                           464     Jamaica                                                          248 Senegal
 391 Botswana ( 2)                                     628     Jordan                                                           355 Seychelles and Dependencies
 508 Brazil                                            696     Kampuchea , Democratic                                           264 Sierra Leone
 676 Burma                                             346     Kenya                                                            706 Singapore
 328 Burundi ( 2)                                      728     Korea , Republic of                                              342 Somalia ( 2 )
 302 Cameroon                                          636 Kuwait                                                               669 Sri Lanka
 247 Cape Verde Islands                                684     Laos (2)                                                         224 Sudan ( 2)
 306 Central African Empire (2)                        604 Lebanon                                                              492 Surinam
 244 Chad ( 2 )                                        395     Lesotho ( 2 )                                                    393 Swaziland
 512 Chile                                             268 Liberia                                                              608 Syria
480 Colombia                                           216     Libya                                                            352 Tanzania ( 2)
375 Comoros                                            370     Madagascar                                                       680 Thailand
3 1 8 Congo, People's Republic of                      386     Malawi ( 2 )                                                    280 Togo
436 Costa Rica                                         701     Malaysia                                                         817 Tonga
448 Cuba                                               667     Maldive Islands ( 2)                                            472 Trinidad and Tobago
 600 Cyprus                                            232     Mali ( 2 )                                                      212 Tunisia
 338 Djibouti                                          228 Mauritania                                                          350 Uganda ( 2 )
456 Dominican Republic                                 373 Mauritius                                                           647 United Arab Emirates
 500 Ecuador                                           412 Mexico                                                              236 Upper Volta ( 2)
220 Egypt                                              204 Morocco                                                             524 Uruguay
428 El Salvador                                        366     Mozambique                                                      484 Venezuela
310 Equatorial Guinea                                   803 Nauru                                                              690 Vietnam
334 Ethiopia ( 2 )                                   ■ 672     Nepal ( 2 )                                                     652 Yemen ( 2 )
815 Fiji                                                432    Nicaragua                                                       656 Yemen , Democratic ( 2 )
314 Gabon                                               240    Niger ( 2 )                                                     048 Yugoslavia
252 Gambia ( 2)                                         288    Nigeria                                                         322 Zaire
276 Ghana                                               649 Oman                                                               378 Zambia
473 Grenada                                            662 Pakistan
 416 Guatemala                                         440 Panama
(') Communities
      The code number
                   .
                         preceding the name of each beneficiary country or territory is that given in 'C.eonomenclature 1977? published by the Statistical Office of the European
( 2 ) This country is also included in Annex C.
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                                                        II. COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES
             dependent or administered, or for whose external relations Member States of the Community or third
                                                      countries are wholly or partly responsible
             890 Australian Antarctic Territory
             421 Belize
             413 Bermuda
             890 British Antarctic Territory
             357 British Indian Ocean Territory
             812 British Pacific Ocean
             703 Brunei
             202 Canary Islands
             463 Cayman Islands and Dependencies
             205 Ceuta and Melilla
             802 Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Norfolk Island
             529 Falkland Islands and Dependencies
             822 French Polynesia
             890 French Southern and Antarctic Territories
             044 Gibraltar
             740 Hong Kong
             743 Macao
             377 Mayotte
             476 Netherlands Antilles
             809 New Caledonia and Dependencies
             808 Pacific Islands administered by the United States of America or under United States trusteeship ( x)
             329 St Helena and Dependencies
             814 Territories for which New Zealand is responsible ( Cook Islands, Niue Island, Tokelau Islands)
             454 Turks and Caicos Islands
             457 Virgin Islands of the United States
             811 Wallis and Futuna Islands
             471 West Indies
             Note: The above lists may be amended subsequently to take account of changes in the international
                       status of countries or territories.
             (*) 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).
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                                                  ANNEX C
            List of least developed developing countries to which Article 2 ( 1 ) and (2) does not apply
                       660 Afghanistan                        386 Malawi
                       666 Bangladesh                         667 Maldive Islands
                       284 Benin                              232 Mali
                       675 Bhutan                             672 Nepal
                       391 Botswana                           240 Niger
                       328 Burundi                            324 Rwanda
                       306 Central African Empire             819 Samoa
                       244 Chad                               342 Somalia
                       334 Ethiopia                           224 Sudan
                       252 Gambia                             352 Tanzania
                       260 Guinea                             350 Uganda
                       452 Haiti                               236 Upper Volta
                       684 Laos                                652 Yemen
                       395 Lesotho                             656 Yemen, Democratic