31973R3584

CELEX: 31973R3584
Datum: 1973-12-28
Källa: eur-lex.europa.eu

31 . 12 . 73 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 365 / 3

(Acts whose publication is obligatory)

REGULATION (EEC) No 3584/73 OF THE COUNCIL of 28 December 1973

on the tariff treatment of certain products intended for use in the construction, mainten ance and repair of aircraft

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES , 1973 ; whereas inasmuch as the aircraft under consideration are not of Community manufacture or, while being of Community manufacture, required in Having regard to the Treaty establishing the their construction a relatively large quantity of European Economic Community and in particular products imported from third countries , it is Article 28 thereof ; desirable, subject to account being taken of the present capacity of the Community aircraft industry, that the arrangements be continued whereby users of Having regard to the draft Regulation submitted by such aircraft may obtain supplies of the products the Commission ; concerned under total suspension of Common Customs Tariff duties ; whereas in other cases this Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2725 /72 0 ) of facility should be limited to essential requirements, in 19 December 1972 on the tariff treatment of certain order not to compromise the development of the products intended for use in the construction, Community aircraft industry and Community aircraft maintenance and repair of aircraft provides for the equipment industries ; total or partial suspension, as the case may be, of the duties laid down in the Common Customs Tariff for a certain number of products which are intended Whereas the suspension measures laid down in respect either to be incorporated in the construction of of products intended for the maintenance or repair of aeroplanes of an unladen weight exceeding 15 000 kg aeroplanes and helicopters of an unladen weight or intended to be used for the maintenance or repair exceeding 2 000 kg but not exceeding 15 000 kg also of aeroplanes of an unladen weight exceeding 15 000 expire on 31 December 1973 ; whereas it seems kg or for aeroplanes or helicopters of an unladen possible, subject to certain modifications, for these weight exceeding 2 000 kg but not exceeding 15 000 measures to be kept in force ; kg ;

Whereas the suspension measures laid down in Whereas provision should be made for adaptation, in respect of products intended for the construction of the light of advances in the technical capabilities of aeroplanes of an unladen weight exceeding 15 000 kg the Community aircraft industry and Community do not expire until 31 December 1974 ; aircraft equipment industries, of the arrangements concerning the application of the Common Customs Tariff to products imported from third countries for Whereas it appears desirable however to make certain use in the construction , maintenance or repair of amendments to the present list for technical tariff aircraft; whereas such adaptation could involve reasons ; reviews of arrangements in force at relatively short intervals ; whereas it is therefore necessary to limit the period of application of this Regulation to one year ; Whereas the suspension measures laid down in respect of products intended to be used for the maintenance or repair of aeroplanes of an unladen Whereas it is desirable for the sake of clarity to weight exceeding 15 000 kg expire on 31 December reproduce in a single text all the suspension arrangements applicable from 1 January 1974 to imports of products intended for use in the i1) OJ No L 291 , 28 . 12. 1972, p. 39 . construction, maintenance or repair of aircraft ;

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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : certificated for the first time in a Member State of the Community before 1 January 1973 .

Article 1 Article 3 1 . The Common Customs Tariff duties on the products listed in Annex I shall be suspended to the 1 . The Common Customs Tariff duties on the levels indicated in column 3 of the aforesaid Annex products listed in Annex III shall, provided such provided the said products are intended to be products are intended to be used under customs incorporated, under customs control, in the control for the maintenance or repair of aeroplanes construction of aircraft of an unladen weight or helicopters of an unladen weight exceeding 2 000 exceeding 15 000 kg and of types whose kg but not exceeding 15 000 kg, be suspended to the manufacturing programme had on 1 January 1973 levels indicated in column 3 of the said Annex . passed the initial test flight stage.

2. However, in the case of products falling within 2. This Article shall also apply to like products tariff heading Nos 85.15 and 90.14 of the Common where these are intended for use , under customs Customs Tariff, paragraph 1 shall apply only where control, in the manufacture of parts or components such products are intended for the maintenance or of the aircraft in question . repair of aeroplanes or helicopters of a type certified for the first time in a Member State of the Article 2 Community before 1 January 1973 .

1 . The Common Customs Tariff duties on the Article 4 products listed in Annex II shall, provided such products are intended to be used, under customs control, for maintenance or repair of aircraft of an For the purposes of Article 2 (2) and Article 3 (2 ), unladen weight exceeding 15 000 kg, be suspended to 'type' of aircraft shall be taken to mean the prototype the level indicated in column 3 or 4 of the said of that aircraft and versions derived directly from Annex, according to the category to which the air that prototype, except versions which differ craft under consideration belong. fundamentally from the prototype .

2. However, in the case of products falling within Article 5 tariff heading Nos 85.15 , 85.22, 90.14, 90.28 and 90.29 of the Common Customs Tariff, paragraph 1 shall apply only where such products are intended This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January for the maintenance or repair of aircraft of a type 1974 and shall apply until 31 December 1974.

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

Done at Brussels , 28 December 1973 .

For the Council

The President Ove GULDBERG

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ANNEX I

List of products in respect of which Common Customs Tariff duties are totally or partially suspended where such products are intended to be incorporated in the construction of aircraft of an unladen weight exceeding 15 000 kg

CCT heading Description Rate of duty No

1 2 3

73.20 Tube and pipe fittings ( for example, joints, elbows, unions and flanges ), of iron or steel 0 %

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 0 %

81.04 Other base metals, unwrought or wrought, and articles thereof, cermets, unwrought or wrought, and articles thereof : K. Titanium : ex II . Wrought : — Bolts, nuts screws , rivets and similar articles . . 4 %

83.07 Lamps and lighting fittings, of base metal , and parts thereof, of base metal (excluding switches , electric lamp holders, elec tric lamps for vehicles , electric battery or magneto lamps, and other articles falling within Chapter 85 except heading No 85.22 ) 0 %

ex 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, hand bags, or other textile or leather goods ; tubular rivets and bifurcated rivets, of base metal : — Tubular rivets 0%

ex 84.07 Hydraulic engines and motors (including water wheels and water turbines): — Hydraulic engines and motors (excluding water wheels 0 % and water turbines)

84.08 Other engines and motors : C. Other engines and motors 0 %

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 or pumps not specified 0% ex III . Parts and accessories of pumps referred to in B II 0%

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CCT heading Description Rate of duty No

1 2 3

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 0 % ex IV. Parts and components of pumps and compressors referred to in A III 0% C. Fans, blowers and the like 0%

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 : C. Heat exchange units 0%

84.18 Centrifuges ; filtering and purifying machinery and apparatus ( other than filter funnels, milk strainers and the like), for liquids or gases : C. Other : ex II . Machinery and apparatus (other than centrifuges) for filtering or purifying liquids or gases : — Apparatus for filtering liquids 0 %

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 0%

ex 84.63 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 : — Transmission shafts, cranks, bearing housings and plain shaft bearings for engines 0%

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CCT heading Description Rate of duty No

1 2 • 3

85.08 Electrical starting and ignition equipment for internal com bustion 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: — Starter motors for engines 0 %

85.15 Radiotelegraphic and radiotéléphonie transmission and re ception apparatus ; radio-broadcasting and television trans mission and reception apparatus ( including receivers incorpor ating sound recorders or reproducers) and television 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 tele vision cameras : II . Transmitter-receivers 8 % ex III . Receivers, whether or not combined with a sound recorder or reproducer, excluding radio-broad casting or televisions apparatus . 8 % 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 geo physical instruments ; compasses ; rangefinders ; ex B. Other : — Instruments and apparatus for air navigation 0%

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 the air crew 0 % — Parts of seats specially designed for the air crew . . 0 %

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ANNEX II

Tariff treatment applicable to certain products intended to be used for the maintenance or repair of aeroplanes of an unladen weight exceeding 15 000 kg

Note for the purpose of the following table:

( a) Category A comprises aeroplanes of an unladen weight exceeding 15 000 kg — manufactured in the Community of types certificated before 1 January 1974 or versions of those types which do not differ fundamentally from the former — manufactured in third countries

(b ) Category B comprises all other aeroplanes of an unladen weight exceeding 15 000 kg

CCT Aircraft Aircraft heading Description No category A category B

1 2 3 4

ex 38.17 Preparations and charges for fire-extinguishers mentioned at No 84.21 of this list 0%

ex 39.02 Polymerization and copolymerization products (for example, polyethylene, polyethyaloethylenes, polyisobutylene, polystyrene, polyvinyl chloride, polyvinyl acetate, polyvinyl chloroacetate and other polyvinyl derivatives, polyacrylic and polymethacrylic derivatives, coumarone-indene resins etc.): C. Other : I. Polyethylene : b) In other forms 0% ex IV. Polypropylene, in one of the forms mentioned in Notes 3 ( c) 0% — and 3 (d) of Chapter 39 VII. Polyvinyl chloride : b ) In other forms 0 % XIV. Other polymerization or copolymerization products : b ) In other forms 0 %

39.07 Articles of materials of the kinds described in heading Nos 39.01 to 39.06 inclusive : E. Of other materials : ex II . Other : 0 % _ — Articles for technical use and structural components 40.09 Piping and tubing of unhardened vulcanized rubber 0%

40.11 Rubber tyres, tyre cases, inter-changeable tyre treads, inner tubes and tyre flaps, for wheels of all kinds : ex B. Other : — Tyres, for aircraft, of the following types : 15-00 X 16-14 ply 0 % 56-00 X 16-7-32 ply 0%

40.14 Other articles of unhardened vulcanized rubber : ex B. Other : — Articles for technical use 0 % —

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CCT Aircraft Aircraft heading Description No category A category B

1 2 3 4

62.05 Other made up textile articles (including dress patterns): ex C. Other : — Life-jackets 0 % — Passenger escape chutes 0% —

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 0%

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 0%

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

ex B. Other : — Filters, washers and other articles of agglomerated coal or of graphite 0%

ex 73.18 Tubes and pipes and blanks therefor, of iron (other than of cast iron ), or steel, excluding articles under No 73.19 :

— Tubes and pipes, ready for fitting, usable as hydraulic conduits for fuel-oil or lubricants 0%

73.20 Tube and pipe fittings ( for example, joints elbows, unions and flanges), of iron or steel 0% 0%

ex 73.24 Containers of iron and steel for compressed or liquified gas : — Containers intended for pressurization 0 % —

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 fitting 0 %

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 0 % 0%

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CCT Aircraft Aircraft heading Description No category A category B

1 2 3 4

73.35 0% — Springs and leaves for springs, of iron or steel

73.40 Other articles of iron or steel : ex B. Other : — Collars, flanges and other devices for fixing, jointing, clamping 0 % — or spacing 0 % — — Apparatus for cargo stowage

ex 76.02 Wrought baras, rods, angles, shapes and sections, of aluminium ; aluminium wire : 0% — — Shapes bearing a specific manufacture number

ex 76.03 Wrought plates, sheets and strip , of aluminium of a thickness exceeding 0-20 mm : 0 % — — Plates bearing a specific manufacture number

ex 76.06 Tubes and pipes and blanks therefor, of aluminium ; hollow bars of aluminium : — Tubes and pipes, ready for fitting, usable as hydraulic conduits or as conduits for fuel-oil or lubricants 0 % —

76.07 Tube and pipe fittings ( for example, joints, elbows, sockets and flanges), of aluminium 0 % —

76.16 Other articles of aluminium : C. Nails, tacks, staples, hook-nails, spiked cramps, spikes and the like ; 0 % — bolts, nuts, screws and similar articles ; washers and spring washers . . ex D. Other : — Collars, flanges and other devices for fixing, jointing, clamping 0 % — or spacing

81.04 Other base metals, unwrought or wrought, and articles thereof; cermets, unwrought or wrought, and articles thereof : K. Titanium : ex II . Wrought: — Bolts, nuts, screws, rivets and similar articles, complying with US standards 0 % 4%

ex 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 : — Automatic door-closing devices and fittings and hinges of all kinds .... 0%

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CCT Aircraft Aircraft heading Description No category A category B

1 2 3 4

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 ) 0% 0 %

ex 83.09 Clasps, frames with clasps for handbags and the like, buckles, buckle clasps, hooks, eyes, eylets, 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 : — Tubular rivets 0 % 0% — Bifurcated rivets 0% —

ex 84.07 Hydraulic engines and motors (including water wheels and water turbines): — Hydraulic engines and motors (excluding water wheels and water turbines ) 0 % 0%

84.08 Other engines and motors : B. Gas turbines : II . Other 0 % C. Other engines and motors 0 % 0% D. Parts : II . Other : 0% — — Of gas turbines under reference B II 0 % — — Of other engines and motors under reference C

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 : I. Pumps having a pressure capacity of 20 bars or more 0% II . Other pumps or pumps not specified 0% 0 % III . Parts : — Of pumps referred to in I 0% — — Of pumps referred to in II 0% 0%

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 10-2 torr, centrifu gal or axial compressors giving a compression ratio of not less than 2 and a flow of more than 3 000 m3 per minute ; stationary reciprocating compressors of a weight exceeding 2 000 kg 0% III . Other pumps and compressors 0% 0% ex IV . Parts : 0% — — Of pumps and compressors referred to in II — Of pumps and compressors referred to in III 0 % 0% C. Fans, blowers and the like 0 % 0%

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CCT Aircraft Aircraft heading Description category A No category B

1 2 3 4

84.15 Refrigerators and refrigerating equipment (electrical and other): A. Evaporators and condensers, excluding those for domestic refriger 0 % — ators ex B. Other : — Compression refrigerating equipment, specially designed for 0 % — cooling air inside 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, 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 : C. Heat exchange units 0% 0 %

84.18 Centrifuges, filtering and purifying machinery and apparatus ( other then filter funnels, milk strainers and the like ), for liquids or gase§:

C. Other : II . Machinery and apparatus (other than centrifuges) for filtering or purifying liquids or gases : — For liquids 0% 0 % — For gases 0 % —

ex 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 : — Fire extinguishers for jet engines for fixing permanently in aeroplanes . . 0% — Their parts 0 % —

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

ex D. Other : — Jacks 0 % — Parts of jacks 0% - — Lifting; loading and unloading machinery for fixing permanently in aeroplanes 0% —

ex 84.53 Automatic data processing machines and units thereof; magnetic or optical readers, machines for transcribing data on to data media in coded form and machines for processing such data, not elsewhere specified or included :

— Computers forming part of the navigation instruments or apparatus of No 90.28 , used exclusively to carry out the calculations appropriate to 0% — those instruments or apparatus

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CCT Aircraft Aircraft heading Description No category A category B

1 2 3 4

84.55 Parts and accessories (other than covers, carrying cases and the like) suitable for use solely or principally with machines of a kind falling within heading No 84.51 , 84.52, 84.53 or 84.54 : ex C. Other : — Parts and accessories for computers falling within No ex 84.53 of this list 0%

84.59 Machines and mechanical appliances, having individual functions, not falling within any other heading of this Chapter : ex E. Other : — Air humidifiers and dehumidifiers 0% 0 % — Starter motors, propeller regulators (valves) and servo-mech anisms 0 % — Windscreen wipers 0% 0% — Parts : 0 % — — Of starter motors, propeller regulators and servo-mechanisms — Of the other apparatus referred to above 0 % 0 %

84.62 Ball, roller or needle roller bearings 0% —

84.64 Gaskets and similar joints of metal sheeting combined with other materials (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 0%

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 0% —

85.01 Electrical goods of the following descriptions : generators, motors, con vertors (rotary or static), transformers, rectifiers and rectifying apparatus, inductors 0 % —

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CCT heading Aircraft Aircraft No Description category A category B

1 2 3 4

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 ; electro-magnetic brakes ; electro-magnetic lifting heads 0 %

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 altern ators) and cut-outs for use in conjunction with such engines : A. Starter motors, generators and cut-outs : — Starter motors for aircraft 0 % 0% — Other 0 % — 0 % — B. Ignition magnetos, including magneto-dynamos and magnetic flywheels 0 % — C. Glow plugs D. Other 0 % —

85.12 Electric instantaneous or storage water heaters and immersion heaters ; electric soil heating apparatus and electric space heating apparatus ; electric hair dressing appliances (for example, hair dryers, hair curlers, curling tong heaters ) and electric smoothing irons ; electro-thermic domestic appliances ; electric heating resistors, other than those of carbon : ex B. Electrical apparatus for heating aeroplanes and wing surfaces, 0% — mounted on propeller aeroplanes

85.14 Microphones and stands therefor, loudspeakers ; audio-frequency electrical 0 % — amplifiers

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 television 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 re ception apparatus (including receivers incorporating sound recorders or reproducers) and television cameras : I. Transmitters 0 % (!) II . Transmitter- receivers 0 % i1 ) 8% ex III . Receivers, whether or not combined with a sound recorder or reproducer, excluding radio-broadcasting or television apparatus 0 % (J ) 8 % B. Other apparatus o % n 8 %

(x) To be eligible for suspension, the products in question must be intended for the maintenance or repair of aircraft of types certificated for the first time in a Member State of the Community before 1 January 1973 and which have either been constructed in the Community or imported and used at that date on regular routes by Community airlines.

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CCT Aircraft Aircraft heading Description No category A category B

1 2 3 4

85.15 ex C. Parts : (cont'd) 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 : — Of transmitters under AI 0 % ( J ) 8 % — Of other apparatus referred to above 0 % (!) 8 % III . Other : — Of transmitters under AI 0 % i 1 ) 8 % — Of other apparatus referred to above 0 % i 1) 8 %

85.17 Electric sound or visual signalling apparatus ( such as bells, sirens, indicator panels, burglar and fire alarms ), other than those of heading No 85.09 or 85.16 0 % —

85.18 Electrical capacitors, fixed or variable 0% —

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 heating resistors ; printed circuits ; switchboards ( other than telepone switchboards) and control panels 0 %

85.20 Electric filament lamps and electric discharge lamps (including infra-red and ultra-violet lamps ); arc-lamps ; electrically ignited photographic flash bulbs : 0% — A. Filament lamps for lighting ex B. Other : — Discharge lamps and tubes for lighting including combined 0% — filament and discharge lamps and tubes

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 de vices ; electronic microcircuits : A. Valves and tubes 0 % — 0 % — B. Photocells, including phototransistors 0 % — C. Mounted piezo-electric crystals

85.22 Electrical appliances and apparatus, having individual functions, not falling within any other heading of this Chapter: ex C. Other : — Engine pressure indicators 0 % H —

(x) To be eligible for suspension , the products in question must be intended for the maintenance or repair of aircraft of types certificated for the first time in a Member State of the Community before 1 January 1973 and which have either been constructed in the Community or imported and used at that date on regular routes by Community airlines .

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CCT Aircraft Aircraft heading Description No category A category B

1 2 3 4

ex 85.23 Insulated (including enamelled or anodised) electric wire, cable, bars, strip and the like (including coaxial cable); whether or not fitted with connectors :

— Electric cables in the form of a harness, ready for fitting 0% —

85.28 Electrical parts of machinery and apparatus, not being goods falling within 0% — any of the preceding headings of this Chapter

90.08 Cinematographic cameras, projectors, sound recorders and sound re producers ; any combination on these articles : B. Projectors and sound reproducers, combined or not 0 % —

90.14 Surveying ( including photogrammetrical surveying), hydrographie, navi gational, meteorological, hydrologicai and geophysical instruments ; com passes ; rangefinders :

— A. Compasses 0 % (!)

ex B. Other : — Instruments and apparatus for air navigation 0 % (!) 0 %

— — Meteorological instruments and range-finders 0 % H

ex 90.18 Mechano-therapy appliances ; massage apparatus ; psychological aptitude testing apparatus ; artificial respiration ; ozone therapy, oxygen therapy, aerosol therapy or similar apparatus ; breathing appliances (including gas masks and similar respirators ): — Oxygen masks ; respiratory apparatus for the crew and passengers of 0 % — aeroplanes

90.24 Instruments and apparatus for measuring, checking or automatically con trolling 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 overdraught regulators ), not being articles falling within heading No 90.14 0 %

90.28 Electrical measuring, checking, analysing, or automatically controlling instruments and apparatus — 0 % C )

ex 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 0 % (!) —

ex 91.06 Time switches with clock or watch movement (including secondary move ment) or with synchronous motor : — Clock movements used in automatic systems 0%

(x) To be eligible for suspension , the products in question must be intended for the maintenance or repair of aircraft of types certificated for the first time in a Member State of the Community before 1 January 1973 and which have either been constructed in the Community or imported and used at that date on regular routes by Community airlines .

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CCT Aircraft Aircraft heading Description No category A category B

1 2 3 4

91.11 Other block and watch parts: ex F. Other: . — Of apparatus included in No ex 91.06 of this list 0%

92.11 Gramophones, dictating machines and other sound recorders and reproducers, including record-players and tape decks, with or without sound-heads; television image and sound recorders and reproducers, magnetic: A. Sound recorders and reproducers: ex I. Cockpit recording apparatus 0%

ex 92.13 Other parts and accessories of apparatus falling within heading No 92.11 ex A I of this list 0% —

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 the crew 0% 0% — Parts of seats specially designed for the crew 0% 0%

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ANNEX 111

List of goods admitted under partial or total suspension of Common Customs Tariff duty when they are intended to be used for purposes of maintenance or repair of aeroplanes or helicopters of an unladen weight exceeding 2 000 kg but exceeding 15 000 kg

CCT heading Description Rate of duty No

1 2 3

62.05 Other made up textile articles (including dress patterns):

ex C. Other : — Life-jackets 0% — Passenger escape chutes 0%

73.20 Tube and pipe fittings (for example, joints, elbows, unions and flanges), of iron or steel 0%

ex 73.24 Containers, of iron or steel, for compressed or liquefied gas:

— Containers intended for pressurization 0%

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 0%

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

K. Titanium : ex II. Other wrought : — Bolts, nuts, screws, rivets and similar articles, complying with US standards 4%

83.07 Lamps and lighting fittings, of base metal, and parts thereof, of base metal (excluding switches, electrical lamp holders, electric lamps for vehicles, electric battery or magneto lamps, and other articles falling within Chapter 85 except heading No 85.22) 0%

ex 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 :

— Tubular rivets 0%

ex 84.07 Hydraulic engines and motors (including water wheels and water turbines): — Hydraulic engines and motors (excluding water wheels and water turbines) 0%

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84.08 Other engines and motors: C. Other engines and motors 0%

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. Pumps not specified 0% ex III. Parts of the pumps of subheading B II 0%

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 : III. Other pumps and compressors 0% ex IV. Parts of pumps and compressors mentioned under subheading A III 0% C. Fans, blowers and the like 0%

84.17 Machinery, plant and similar laboratory equipment, whether or not electrically heated, for the treatment or 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 : C. Heat exchange units 0%

84.18 Centrifuges; filtering and purifying machinery and apparatus (other than filter funnels, milk strainers and the like), for liquids or gases: C. Other : ex II. Machinery and apparatus (other than centrifuges) for filtering or purifying liquids or gases: — Apparatus for filtering liquids 0 %

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 telepherics), not being machinery falling within heading No 84.23 : ex D. Other : — Lifting: loading and unloading machinery for fixing permanently in aeroplanes 0%

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84.59 Machines and mechanical appliances, having individual functions, not falling within any other heading of this Chapter: ex E. Other: — Air humidifiers and dehumidifiers 0% — Starter motors, propeller regulators (valves) and auxiliary mechanisms 0% — Windscreen wipers 0% — Parts, not elsewhere specified or included, of the equipment listed herein 0%

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 0%

, ex 84.63 Transmission shafts, cranks, bearing housings, plain shaft bearings, gears and gearing (including friction gears and gear boxes ana other variable speed gears), flywheels, pulleys and pulley blocks, clutches and shaft couplings: — Transmission shafts, cranks and crank shafts, bearing housings and plain shaft bearings, for engines 0%

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: - — Starter motors 0%

(l) To be eligible for suspension, the products in question must be intended for the maintenance or repair of aircraft of types certificated for the first time in a Member State of the Community before 1 January 1973 and which have been either constructed in the Community or imported and used at that date on regular routes by Community airlines .

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85.15 ex ΠΙ. Receivers, whether or not combined with a sound (confd) recorder or reproducer, excluding radio broadcasting or television apparatus 8 % (*) B. Other apparatus 8 % i1) C. Parts : 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 % i1 )

90.14 Surveying (including photogrammetrical surveying) hydro graphic, navigational, meteorological, hydrologicai and geophysical instruments; compasses; rangefinders : ex B. Other : — Instruments and apparatus for air navigation 0 % i1)

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 the air crew 0 % — Parts of seats specially designed for the air crew . . 0 %

(') To be eligible for suspension, the products in question must be intended for the maintenance or repair of aircraft of types certificated for the first time in a Member State of the Community before 1 January 1973 and which have been either constructed in the Community or imported and used at that date on regular routes by Community airlines .