31972R2725

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28.12.72 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 291 /39

REGULATION (EEC) No 2725/72 OF THE COUNCIL

of 19 December 1972

on the tariff treatment of certain products intended for use in the construction, maintenance and repair of aerodynes

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNI­ Whereas the suspension measures laid down for TIES, products intended to be used for maintenance or repair of aircraft with an unladen weight Having regard to the Treaty establishing the exceeding 15 000 kg, or of aircraft or helicopters European Community, and in particular with an unladen weight from 2000 kg to Article 28 thereof; 15 000 kg inclusive, expire on 31 December 1972; whereas, in the present situation the Having regard to the draft Regulation submitted facility of continued supply retained of those by the Commission; products in total or partial suspension of the Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 950/681 customs duties laid down in the Common of the Council of 28 June 1968 , on the Common Customs Tariff for the Community users of Customs Tariff, as last amended by Council these aircraft and helicopters ; whereas it appears Regulation (EEC) No 1347/722 of 27 June 1972, desirable to extend this facility to a certain provides in Annex 1, for the total suspension of number of other products at present not the duties laid down in the tariff for a certain available within the Community or available in number of products intended to be used for insufficient quantity; maintenance or repair on aircraft with an Whereas it is difficult to give an accurate unladen weight exceeding 15 000 kg; whereas forecast of the economic trends in this industry ; Annex la also provides for the total or partial whereas the possibilities must nevertheless be suspension of the duties laid down in the tariff taken into account of the expansion of the for a certain number of products intended for Community aeronautical industry and its allied inclusion in the construction of aircraft with an industries, particularly in view of the enlarge­ unladen weight exceeding 15 000 kg belonging ment of the Community; whereas it is desirable, to the categories where the manufacturing for these reasons , that the suspension measures programme has , by 1 July 1968 , passed the applicable to products intended to be used for test-flight stage, or intended to be used for maintenance or repair of aircraft with an maintenance or repair on aircraft or helicopters unladen weight exceeding 15 000 kg or of with an unladen weight from 2000 kg to aircraft and helicopters with an unladen weight 15 000 kg; from 2000 kg to 15 000 kg inclusive should be renewed only for one year; Whereas the suspension measures laid down for products intended for the construction of Whereas it is necessary, for the sake of clarity, aircraft with an unladen weight exceeding to reproduce in a single text all of the suspension 15 000 kg do not expire until 31 December 1974; measures applicable, from 1 January 1973 , to whereas it appears desirable however to extend imports of products intended for construction, these measures to products intended for the maintenance or repair of aerodynes; construction of aircraft belonging to the categories where the manufacturing programme HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : has, by 1 January 1973 , passed the test-flight stage; whereas it seems necessary furthermore, Article 1 to make certain amendments to the present list for technical tariff reasons ; Until 31 December 1973 , the levying of duties on the Common Customs Tariff concerning the 1 OJ No L 172, 22.7.1968 , p. 1 . products listed in Annex I of this Regulation 2 OJ No L 148 , 30.6.1972, p . 4. shall be totally suspended, provided that it is

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for products intended to be used, under customs Article 5 control, for maintenance or repair on aeroplanes with an unladen weight exceeding 15 000 kg. 1 . The arrangements for total or partial suspension of the duties on the Common Customs Tariff, which apply to the products Article 2 listed in Annex II of this Regulation, shall be held to be renewed for successive periods of Until 31 December 1974, the levying of duties three years , unless one or more Member States on the Common Customs Tariff concerning the notify the Council, at least six months before products listed in Annex II of this Regulation the expiry of the initial period of validity or any shall be susperded at the level indicated in further period, of their opposition to this column 3 of this Annex provided that this is for renewal. This opposition may be in relation to products intended for inclusion, under customs the renewal of the suspension arrangements for control, in the construction of aircraft with an all the products in question or for only a unladen weight exceeding 15 000 kg belonging number thereof . to the categor.es where the manufacturing programme has, by 1 January 1973 , passed the test-flight stage. 2 . Where opposition has been registered under the conditions laid down in the first These provisiors are also applicable to the paragraph, the Council shall examine the same products ir.tended , under customs control , ensuing situation. Should, at the latest one for the manufacture of spare or attendant parts month before the expiry of the period in necessary to the construction of the aircraft in question, neither the one or more Member question. States concerned have retracted their opposition, or the Council have adopted any substitute Article 3 measures for the arrangements for total or partial suspension, the suspension shall cease at Until 31 December 1973 , the levying of duties the end of the said period. on the Common Customs Tariff concerning the In this case, the Council shall ensure that a products listed i.i Annex III of this Regulation communique is published in the Official shall be suspended at the level indicated in column 3 of this Annex, provided that it is for Journal of the European Communities noting products intended to be used , under customs the fact that the suspension arrangements are not to be renewed . control, for maintenance or repair on aircraft or helicopters with an unladen weight from However, when the opposition is in relation 2000 kg to 15 003 kg inclusive. to the renewal of the suspension arrangements only for a number of the products listed in Annex II, the suspension arrangements shall be Article 4 held to be renewed for all the other products.

Until 31 December 1973 , the levying of duties on the Common Customs Tariff concerning the products listed in Annex IV of this Regulation Article 6 is totally suspended, provided that this is for products intended to be used, under customs control, for maintenance on aircraft with an This Regulation shall enter into force on unladen weight exceeding 15 000 kg. 1 January 1973 .

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels, 19 December 1972.

For the Council

The President

T. WESTERTERP

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ANNEX I

List of products on which Common Customs Tariff duties are totally suspended for products intended for the maintenance or repair of aircraft of an unladen weight exceeding 15 000 kg

CCT Description heading No

39.07 Articles of materials of the kinds described in headings Nos 39.01 to 39.06:

E. Of other materials

ex II . Other

— Articles of a kind commonly used in machinery or plant

40.14 Other articles of unhardened vulcanised rubber :

ex B. Other

— Articles of a kind commonly used in machinery or plants

68.13 Fabricated asbestos and articles thereof (for example, asbestos board, thread and fabric; asbestos clothing, asbestos jointing), reinforced or not, other than goods falling within heading No 68.14; mixtures with a basis of asbestos and mixtures with a basis of asbestos and magnesium carbonate , and articles of such mixtures :

B. Articles of asbestos

III . Other

68.14 Friction material (segments, discs , washers , strips , sheets , plates , rolls and the like) of a kind suitable for brakes, for clutches or the like, with a basis of asbestos, other mineral substances or of cellulose, whether or not combined with textile or other materials

68.16 Articles of stone or of other mineral substances (including articles of peat), not elsewhere specified or included:

ex B. Other

— Filters, discs and other articles of agglomerated carbon or of graphite

ex 73.25 Stranded wire, cables , cordage, ropes, plaited bands , slings and the like, of iron or steel wire, but excluding insulated electric cables

— Steel cables for flight controls, ready for use

73.20 Tube and pipe fittings (for example, joints, elbows, unions and flanges), of "iron or steel

73.32 Bolts and nuts (including bolt ends and screw studs), whether or not threaded or tapped, and screws (including screw hooks and screw rings), of iron or steel; rivets, cotters, cotter-pins, washers and spring washers, of iron or steel

73.35 Springs and leaves for springs, of iron or steel

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CCT Description heading No

73.40 Other articles of iron or steel :

ex B. Other

— Stays clamps and connections — Freight stowage devices

7 6.07 Tube and pipe fittings (for example, joints , elbows , sockets and flanges), of aluminium

'7 6 . 16 Other articles of aluminium :

C. Nails , tacks, staples, hook-nails, spiked cramps , spikes and the like; bolts, nuts , screws and similar articles ; washers and spring washers

ex D. Other

— Stays , clamps, flanges, fastenings or other fixing devices of aluminium

ex 83.07 Lamps and lighting fittings , of base metal , and parts thereof, of base metal (excluding switches, electric lamp holders, electric lamps for vehicles , electric battery or magneto lamps , and other articles falling within Chapter 85 except heading No 85.22)

84.07 Hydraulic engines and motors (including water wheels and water turbines)

54.08 Other engines and motors :

B. Gas turbines :

II . Other

C. Other engines and motors

D. Parts

II . Other

84.10 Pumps (including motor pumps and turbo pumps) for liquids , whether or not fitted with measuring devices ; liquid elevators of bucket, chain, screw, band and similar kinds :

B. Other pumps

84.11 Air pumps, vacuum pumps and air or gas compressors (including motor and turbo pumps and compressors, and free-piston generators for gas turbines); fans , blowers and the like:

A. Pumps and compressors :

II. Vacuum pumps creating a vacuum better than 10-2Torr; centrifugal or axial compressors giving a compression ratio of not less than 2 and a flow of more than 3000 m3 per minute; stationary reciprocating compressors of a weight exceeding 2000 kg

III. Other pumps and compressors

ex IV. Parts and components of the pumps and compressors listed in subheadings A II and A III

C. Fans, blowers and the like

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CCT Description heading No

84.15 Refrigerators and refrigerating equipment (electrical and other)

A. Evaporators and condensers , excluding those for domestic refrigerators

ex B. Other

— Compression refrigerating systems specially designed for cooling air in aircraft

84.17 Machinery, plant and similar laboratory equipment, whether or not electrically heated, for the treatment of materials by a process involving a change of temperature such as heating, cooking, roasting, distilling, rectifying, sterilising, pasteurising, steaming, drying, evaporating, vapourising, condensing or cooling, not being machinery or plant of a kind used for domestic purposes; instantaneous or storage water heaters, non-electrical:

C. Heat exchange units

84.18 Centrifuges ;' filtering and purifying machinery and apparatus (other than filter funnels, milk strainers and the like), for liquids or gases:

D. Other

II. Machinery and apparatus (other than centrifuges) for filtering or purifying liquids or gases

84.21 Mechanical appliances (whether or not hand operated) for projecting, dispersing or spraying liquids or powders; fire extinguishers (charged or not); spray guns and similar appliances; steam or sand blasting machines and similar jet projecting machines

— Extinguishes permanently installed in aircraft

84.22 Lifting, handling, loading or unloading machinery, telphers and conveyors (for example, lifts, hoists, winches, cranes , -transporters cranes, jacks, pulley tackle, belt conveyors and teleferics), not being machinery falling within heading No 84.23 :

ex D. Other

— Jacks

84.59 Machines and mechanical appliances , having individual functions , not falling within any other heading of this Chapter:

ex E. Other

— Air humidifiers or dehumidifiers

— Engine starters, propellor regulators and servo mechanisms

— Windscreen wiping mechanisms v — Parts not elsewhere specified or included of the equipment which is the subject of the present list

84.61 Taps, cocks , valves and similar appliances, for pipes, boiler shells tanks, vats and the like, including pressure reducing valves and thermostatically controlled valves

84.62 Ball, roller or needle roller bearings

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CCT Description heading No

34.63 Transmission shafts , cranks, bearing housings , plain shaft bearings , gears and gearing (including friction gears and gear-boxes and other variable speed gears), flywheels , pulleys and pulley blocks , clutches and shaft couplings

154.64 Gaskets and similar joints of metal sheeting combined with other material (for example, asbestos, felt and paperboard) or of laminated metal foil ; sets or assortments of gaskets and similar joints, dissimular in composition , for engines, pipes, tubes and the like, put up in pouches, envelopes or similar packings

£4.65 Machinery parts , not containing electrical connectors , insulators , coils , contacts or other electrical features and not falling within any other heading in this Chapter

S5.01 Electrical goods of the following, descriptions : generators, converters (rotary or static), transformers, rectifiers and rectifying apparatus, inductors

85.04 Electric accumulators :

B. Other

85.08 Electrical starting and ignition equipment for internal combustion engines (including ignition magnetos , magneto-dynamos , ignition coils, starter motors, sparking plugs, and glow plugs); generators (dynamos and alternators) and cut-outs for use in conjunction with such engines

85.14 Microphones and stands therefor; loudspeakers ; audio-frequency electric amplifiers

85.15 Radiotelegraphic and radiotelephonic transmission and reception apparatus ; radio-broadcasting and television transmission and reception apparatus (including receivers incorporating sound recorders or reproducers) and television cameras; radio navigational aid apparatus, radar apparatus and radio remote control apparatus :

A. Radiotelegraphic and radiotelephonic transmission and reception apparatus ; radio-broadcasting and television transmission and reception apparatus (including receivers incorporating sound recorders or reproducers) and television cameras :

I. Transmitters

II . Transmitter-receivers

ex III. Receivers , whether or not combined with a sound recorder or reproducer

B. Other apparatus

ex C. Parts of the goods of subheadings A and B above

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CCT Description heading No

85.17 Electric sound or visual signalling apparatus (such as bells , sirens , indicator panels , burglar and fire alarms), other than those of heáding No 85.09 or 85.16

85.18 Electrical capacitors, fixed or variable

85.19 Electrical apparatus for making and breaking electrical circuits, for the protection of electrical circuits , or for making connections to or in electrical circuits (for example, switches , relays, fuses , lighting arresters , surge sup­ pressors , plugs, lamp holders and junction boxes); resistors, fixed or variable (including potentiometers), other than heating resistors ; printed circuits ; switchboards (other than telephone switchboards ) and control panels

85.20 Electric filament lamps and electric discharge lamps (including infra-red and ultra-violet lamps); arc-lamps ; electrically ignited photographic flashbulbs :

A. Filament lamps for lighting

ex B. Other

— Discharge lamps for lighting including gas filled dual lamps

85.21 Thermionic, cold cathode and photo-cathode valves and tubes (including vapour or gas filled valves and tubes, cathode-ray tubes , television camera tubes and mercury arc rectifying valves and tubes); photocells ; mounted piezo-electric crystals ; diodes , transistors and similar semi-conductor devices ; electronic microcircuits :

A. Valves and tubes

B. Photocells, including photo-transistors

C. Mounted piezo-electric crystals

85.22 Electrical appliances and apparatus , having individual functions , not falling within any other heading of this Chapter

C. Other

ex 85.23 Insulated (including enamelled or anodised) electric wire, cable, bars, strip and the like (including co-axial cable), whether or not fitted with connectors

— Electrical cables of the 'octopus' or 'harness' type ready for use

85.28 Electrical parts of machinery and apparatus, not being goods falling within any of the preceding headings of this Chapter

90.14 Surveying (including photogrammetrical surveying), hydrographie, naviga­ tional , meteorological , hydrological and geophysical instruments; compasses, rangefinders:

A. Compasses

ex B. Other

— Air navigation and meteorological instruments: rangefinders

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CCT Description he.uiing No

90.23 Hydrometers and similar instruments ; thermometers , pyrometers, barometers , hygrometers , psychrometers , recording or not; any combination of these instruments :

C. Hydrometers and similar instruments, with or without thermometers ; optical pyrometers

D. Other

90.24 Instruments and apparatus for measuring, checking or automatically controlling the flow, depth, pressure or other variables of liquids or gases, or for automatically controlling temperature, (for example, pressure gauges , thermostats, level gauges, flow meters, heat meters, automatic ovendraught regulators), not being articles falling within heading No 90.14

90.28 Electrical measuring, checking, analysing or automatically controlling instruments and apparatus

90.29 Parts or accessories suitable for use solely or principally with one or more of the articles falling within heading No 90.23 , 90.24, 90.26, 90.27 or 90.28

91.06 Time switches with clock or watch movement (including secondary move­ ment) or with synchronous motor

92.11 Gramophones, dictating machines and other sound recorders and reproducers, including record-players and tape decks , with or without soundheads ; television image and sound recorders and reproducers, magnetic:

A. Sound recorders and reproducers :

I. Sound recorders

94.01 Chairs and other seats (other than those falling within heading No 94.02), whether or not convertible into beds , and parts thereof:

ex A. Specially designed for aircraft

— Specially designed seats for aircrew

— Passenger seats fitted with oxygen supply apparatus

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ANNEX II

List of products on which Common Customs Tariff duties are totally or partially suspended when the products are intended for incorporation in the construction of aircraft of an unladen weight not exceeding 15 000 kg

• CCT Description Rate of duty heading No

1 2 3

73.20 Tube and pipe fittings (for example, joints , elbows , unions and flanges), of iron or steel Total Suspension

73.32 Bolts and nuts (including bolt ends and screw studs), whether or not threaded or tapped , and screws (including screw hooks and screw rings), of iron or steel ; rivets , cotters, cotter-pins , washers and spring washers , of iron or steel :

A. Not threaded or tapped:

I. Screws, nuts , rivets and washers , obtained by turning bars, angles, shapes, sections or wire, of solid section, of a shank thickness or hole diameter not exceeding 6 mm Total Suspension

II . Other Total Suspension

B. Threaded or tapped :

I. Screws and nuts , obtained by turning bars , angles , shapes , sections or wire, of solid section , of a shank thickness or hole diameter not exceeding 6 mm .... Total Suspension II . Other Total Suspension

81.04 Other base metals , unwrought or wrought, and articles thereof; cermets , unwrought or wrought, and articles thereof :

K. Titanium :

ex II . Rolled titanium :

— Bolts , nuts , screws , rivets and similar articles . . 4%

ex 83.07 Lamps and light fittings , of base metal, and parts thereof, of base metal excluding miners safety lamps and parts Total Suspension

cx 83.09 Clasps , frames with clasps for handbags and the like, buckles , buckleclasps, hooks, eyes, eyelets , and the like, of base metal, of a kind commonly used for clothing, travel goods , handbags , or other textile or leather goods ; tubular rivets and bifurcated rivets, of base metal

— Tabular rivets Total Suspension

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CCT Description Rate of duty heiding No

1 2 3

84.07 Hydraulic engines and motors (including water wheels and water turbines) Total Suspension

84.08 Other engines and motors

C. Other engines and motors Total Suspension

84.10 Pumps (including motor pumps and turbo pumps) for liquids, whether or not fitted with measuring devices; liquid elevators of bucket, chain, screw, band and similar kinds:

B. Other pumps

II. Other pumps Total Suspension

ex III. Parts of pumps falling within subheading B II Total Suspension

84.11 Air pumps , vacuum pumps and air or gas compressors (in­ cluding motor and turbo pumps and compressors, and free­ piston generators for gas turbines); fans, blowers and the like:

A. Pumps and compressors :

III. Other pumps and compressors Total Suspension ex IV. Parts of pumps and compressors falling within subheading A III Total Suspension

C. Fans , blowers and the like Total Suspension

1.17 Machinery, plant and similar laboratory equipment, whether or not electrically heated, for the treatment of materials by a process involving a change of temperature such as heating, cooking, roasting, distilling, rectifying, sterilising, pasteuris­ ing, steaming, drying, evaporating, vapourising, condensing or cooling, not being machinery or plant of a kind used for domestic purposes; instantaneous or storage water heaters, non-electrical :

C. Heat exchange units Total Suspension

84.18 Centrifuges; filtering and purifying machinery and apparatus (other than filter funnels , milk strainers and the like), for liquids or gases:

D. Other

ex II . Machinery and apparatus (other than centrifuges) for filtering or purifying liquids or gases

— Machinery and apparatus for filtering liquids Total Suspension

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CCT Description Rate of duty heading No

1 2 3

84.59 Machines and mechanical appliances , having individual functions , not falling within any other heading of this Chapter:

ex E. Other

— Air liquidifiers or dehumidifiers Total Suspension — Engine starters , propellor regulators and servo mechanisms Total Suspension

— Windscreen wiping mechanisms Total Suspension — Parts not elsewhere specified or included of the equipment which is to be subject of the present list Total Suspension

84.61 Taps , cocks , valves and similar appliances , for pipes , boiler shells , tanks , vats and the like, including pressure reducing valves and thermostatically controlled valves :

A. Pressure reducing valves Total Suspension

84.63 Transmission shafts , cranks , bearing housings , plain shaft bearing gears and gearing (including friction gears and gear-boxes and other variable speed gears), flywheels , pulleys and pulley blocks, clutches and shaft couplings

— Transmission shafts and cranks for engines Total Suspension

85.08 Electrical starting and ignition equipment for internal combustion engines (including ignition magnetos , magneto­ dynamos, ignition coils , starter motors , sparking plugs , and glow plugs); generators (dynamos and alternators) and cut­ outs for use in conjunction with such engines :

ex A. Starter motors , generators and cut-outs

— Starters for engines Total Suspension

85.15 Radiotelegraphic and radiotéléphonie transmission and reception apparatus; radio-broadcasting and television transmission and reception apparatus (including receivers incorporating sound recorders or reproducers) and tele­ vision cameras ; radio navigational aid apparatus, radar apparatus and radio remote control apparatus :

A. Radiotelegraphic and radiotéléphonie transmission and reception apparatus; radio-broadcasting and television transmission and reception apparatus (including receivers incorporating sound recorders or reproducers) and television cameras :

II . Transmitter-receivers 8%

ex III . Receivers, whether or not combined with a sound recorder or reproducer 8%

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CCT Description Rate of duty hiading No

1 2 3

B. Other apparatus 8%

C. Parts of the goods of subheadings A and B above

II . Parts of base metal, obtained by turning bars , angles , shapes, sections or wire, of solid section , the greatest diameter of which does not exceed 25 mm 8%

III . Other 8%

90.14 Surveying , (including photogrammetrical surveying), hydro­ graphic, navigational, meteorological, hydrological and geophysical instruments; compasses; rangefinders :

ex B. Other :

Air navigation instruments and meteorological instruments : rangefinders Total Suspension

94.01 Chairs and other seats (other than those falling within heading No 94.02), whether or not convertible into beds , and parts thereof:

ex A. Specially designed for aircraft

— Specially designed seats for aircrew Total Suspension

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ANNEX 111

List of products on which Common Customs Tariff duties are totally or partially suspended when the products are intended for the maintenance or repair of aircraft or helicopters of an unladen weight exceeding 2000 kg but not exceeding 15 000 kg

CCT Description Rate of duty heading No

1 2 3

73.20 Tube and pipe fittings (for example, joints, elbows, unions and flanges), of iron or steel .. Total Suspension

73.32 Bolts and nuts (including bolt ends and screw studs), whether or not threaded or tapped, and screws (including screw hooks and screw rings), of iron or steel; rivets, cotters, cotter-pins, washers and spring washers, of iron or steel:

A. Not threaded or tapped:

I. Screws, nuts, rivets and washers, obtained by turning bars, angles, shapes, sections or wire, of solid section, of a shank thickness or hole diameter not exceeding 6 mm Total Suspension

II . Other Total Suspension

B. Threaded or tapped:

I. Screws and nuts , obtained by turning bars, angles, shapes, sections or wire, of solid section, of a shank thickness or hole diameter not exceeding 6 mm .... Total Suspension

II. Other Total Suspension

81.04 Other base metals , unwrought or wrought, and articles thereof; cermets, unwrought or wrought, and articles thereof:

K. Titanium:

ex II . Rolled titanium :

— Bolts, nuts, screws, rivets and similar articles . . 4%

ex 83.07 Lamps and light fittings , of base metal, and parts thereof, of base metal excluding miners safety lamps and parts Total Suspension

ex 83.09 Clasps, frames with clasps for handbags and the like, buckles, buckleclasps, hooks, eyes, eyelets, and the like, of base metal, of a kind commonly used for clothing, travel goods, handbags, or other textile or leather goods; tubular rivets and bifurcated rivets, of base metal

— Tabular rivets Total Suspension

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CCT heading No Description Rate of duty

1 2 3

84.07 Hydraulic engines and motors (including water wheels and water turbines) Total Suspension

84.08 Other engines and motors

C. Other engines and motors Total Suspension

84.10 Pumps (including motor pumps and turbo pumps) for liquids , whether or not fitted with measuring devices; liquid elevators of bucket, chain, screw, band and similar kinds :

B. Other pumps

II . Other pumps Total Suspension

ex III. Parts of pumps falling within subheading B II Total Suspension

84.11 Air pumps , vacuum pumps and air or gas compressors (in­ cluding motor and turbo pumps and compressors, and free­ piston generators for gas turbines); fans, blowers and the like :

A. Pumps and compressors :

III. Other pumps and compressors Total Suspension ex IV . Parts of pumps and compressors falling within subheading A III Total Suspension

C. Fans, blowers and the like Total Suspension

84.17 Machinery, plant and similar laboratory equipment, whether or not electrically heated , for the treatment of materials by a process involving a change of temperature such as heating, cooking, roasting, distilling, rectifying, sterilising, pasteuris­ ing, steaming, drying, evaporating, vapourising, condensing or cooling, not being machinery or plant of a kind used for domestic purposes; instantaneous or storage water heaters, non-electrical :

C. Heat exchange units Total Suspension

84.18 Centrifuges; filtering and purifying machinery and apparatus (other than filter funnels, milk strainers and the like), for liquids or gases:

D. Other

ex II. Machinery and apparatus (other than centrifuges) for filtering or purifying liquids or gases

— Machinery and apparatus for filtering liquids Total Suspension

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CCT Description Rate of duty heading No

1 2 3

84.59 Machines and mechanical appliances , having individual functions , not falling within any other heading of this Chapter:

ex E. Other

— Air liquidifiers or dehumidifiers Total Suspension — Engine starters , propellor regulators and servo mechanisms Total Suspension

— Windscreen wiping mechanisms Total Suspension — Parts not elsewhere specified or included of the equipment which is to be subject of the present list Total Suspension

84.61 Taps , cocks, valves and similar appliances , for pipes, boiler shells, tanks , vats and the like, including pressure reducing valves and thermostatically controlled valves :

A. Pressure reducing valves Total Suspension

84.63 Transmission shafts , cranks , bearing housings, plain shaft bearing gears and gearing (including friction gears and gear-boxes and other variable speed gears), flywheels, pulleys and pulley blocks, clutches and shaft couplings

— Transmission shafts and cranks for engines Total Suspension

85.08 Electrical starting and ignition equipment for internal combustion engines (including ignition magnetos, magneto­ dynamos , ignition coils, starter motors , sparking plugs, and glow plugs); generators (dynamos and alternators) and cut­ outs for use in conjunction with such engines :

ex A. Starter motors, generators and cut-outs

— Starters for engines Total Suspension

85.15 Radiotelegraphic and radiotelephonic transmission and reception apparatus ; radio-broadcasting and television transmission and reception apparatus (including receivers incorporating sound recorders or reproducers) and tele­ vision cameras; radio navigational aid apparatus, radar apparatus and radio remote control apparatus :

A. Radiotelegraphic and radiotelephonic transmission and reception apparatus ; radio-broadcasting and television transmission and reception apparatus (including receivers incorporating sound recorders or reproducers) and television cameras :

II. Transmitter-receivers 8%

ex III . Receivers, whether or not combined with a sound recorder or reproducer 8%

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CCT Description Race of duty heading No

1 2 3

B. Other apparatus 8%

C. Parts of the goods of subheadings A and B above

II . Parts of base metal, obtained by turning bars , angles , shapes , sections or wire , of solid section , the greatest diameter of which does not exceed 25 mm 8%

III . Other 8%

90.14 Surveying, (including photogrammetrical surveying), hydro­ graphic, navigational , meteorological, hydrologicai and geophysical instruments ; compasses ; rangefinders :

ex B. Other :

— Air navigation instruments and meteorological instruments : rangefinders Total Suspension

94.01 Chairs and other seats (other than those falling within heading No 94.02), whether or not convertible into beds, and parts thereof:

ex A. Specially designed for aircraft

— Specially designed seats for aircrew Total Suspension

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ANNEX IV

List of products on which Common Customs Tariff duties are totally or partially suspended when the products are intended for the maintenance of aircraft of an unladen weight not exceeding 15 000 kg

CCT Description heading No

40.11 Rubber tyres , tyre cases , interchangeable tyre treads , inner tubes and tyre flaps , for wheels of all hands :

ex B. Tyre cases, flaps and bladders :

— Tyre cases for aircraft of the following types :

44" — 12 ply

15.00 — 16 — 14 ply

36 x 10-75 — 16-5 — 16 ply

24 x 7-25 — 12 — 10 ply

39 x 13 — 7 — 16 ply

56 x 16 — 7 — 32 ply