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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 conclusions worked out in UNCTAD that this offer, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, 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 Whereas, moreover, the conference of the Heads of erences on finished and semi-finished products coming State or of Government of the Member States and the from developing countries; whereas the preferential States acceding to the European Com­ treatment proposed in that offer covers, generally munities held in Paris from 19 to 21 October 1972 in­ speaking, all finished and semi-finished industrial pro­ vited the Community institutions and the Member ducts covered by Chapters 25 to 99 of the Common States progressively to adopt an overall policy of de­ Customs Tariff which originate in developing countries; velopment cooperation on a world-wide scale compris­ whereas the preference consists in the granting of ing in particular the improvement of generalized prefer­ exemption from customs duties; whereas preferential imports are effected up to the level of ceilings calculated ences with the aim of achieving a steady increase in imports of manufactures from the developing countries; by value in respect of each product on the basis of fac­ 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 able are those relating to the year 1975 ; whereas, (!) OJ No C 2 66, 7. 11 . 1977, p. 16. (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) No 802 /68 . Whereas, however, in the multilateral trade nego­ 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 Member States, shall take all necessary measures to Article 2 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 and maximum amounts laid down in Article 1 (3 ) are laid down for Community imports of products and (4 ). originating in each of the countries referred to in Article 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). t 1) 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 / 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

(') 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 Communities . ( 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