GENERAL AGREEMENT ONCt^U TARIFFS AND TRADE

A" ^rT* $-,?*** T No 168

SEOEET/156/Md. 7 * 27 August 1966

ARTICLE XXVIII NEGOTIATIONS ~ 1963

Schedule I - Commonwealth of. Australia

The Delegations of the Commonwealth of Australia and of the United States of

America have concluded their negotiations for the modification or withdrawal

of concessions provided for in Schedule I, as set out in the report attached.

Signed for the Delegation of the United States of America

26 July 1966

Signed for the Delegation of the Commonwealth o€ Australia

18 May 1966

English only Anglais seulement

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RESULTS OF NEGOTIATIONS .AND/OR CONSULTATIONS WITH TES UNITED STATES OF A.ERICA UNDER ARTICLE XXVIII FOR THE MODIFICATION OR WITHDRAWAL OF CONCESSIONS

IN THE SCHEDULE1 OF THE COMhONwEALTB OF AUSTRALIA

CHANGES IN SCHEDULE I - AUSTRALIA

A. CONCESSIONS TO BE WITHDRAWN

Tariff Item

Number

Description of Products Rates of Duty-bound in

Existing Schedule

180(E)(2) Condensers, fixed mica

360(D) Vehicles n.e.i., with self-contained power, including assembled incomplete vehicles n.e.i. with self-contained power, which the Minister directs shall be deemed to be complete -

(2) Other

B. CONCESSIONS TO BE MODIFIED

4d. each or 45 per cent (whichever higher)

35 per cent

175(C)

176(K) (2)

Farts of refrigerating appliances, viz:-Cabinets, metal pressings for cabinets, compressors, evaporators and sealed or semi-sealed units, including mechanical driving units and apparatus for transmitting power from such driving units to the driven units, combined or separate; parts n.e.i.

The above-mentioned concession is modified by the exclusion of compressors not exceeding 5 H.P. an'd parts therefor.

Meters n.e.i., mechanically or electrically operated, for measuring gas, air, steam, oil, water or other fluids, including panels imported with such meters and including parts of such meters imported separately or otherwise (but not including (i) meters or parts of meters suitable for use in the retailing of petrol (ii) positive type water meters up to and including 3 inches in size and parts thereof excepting meters constructed for measuring hot water in a hoiler house or engine house (iii) inferential water

47^ per cent

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Tariff Item

Number Description of Products

Rates of Duty bound in

Existing Schedule

176(K)(2) meters of the turbine and disc types and parts (contd.) thereof and (iv) inferential water meters of the

compound or combination type and parts thereof); gauges and controllers for water filtration plant and mechanisms for transmitting loss of head or rate of flow to such gauges; gauges (other than those of a type used on motor vehicles for indicating the amount of petrol in the tank of the motor vehicle) for indicating or recording liquid level in reservoirs, canals, rivers or tanks; GO and CO indicators and recorders including"aspirâtors and filters for use there­with; regulating and controlling devices, automatic (other than those used in refrigerating) for regulating temperature, humidity pressure vacuum or rate of flow; temperature measuring instruments whether indicating or recording or combinations of both, apparatus for remote indi­cation or recording of temperature measurements and parts thereof imported seperately or other­wise, using any of the following basic principles, viz:- mercury in steel bulb type, gas filled bulb type, vapour bulb type, potentiometer thermo­couple type, thermoelectric pyrometer type, electrical resistance thermometer type, and bi­metallic strip type -

(a) As prescribed by Departmental By-laws

(b) Other than those prescribed by Departmental By-laws under sub-paragraph (a)

The foregoing concession is to be regarded as applying only to such meters which may fall to the following classifications:

90.23.110 90.24.190 90.24.290

Ex 90.24.910 (Automatic type) 90.24.920 90.24.939 90.24.940

Ex 90.25.900 (CO and C02 i n d i c a t o r s ) 90.26.190 90.26.290

Ex 90.28.259 (thermometers and pyrometers)

I7J5 p e r cent

17^ per cent

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Tariff Item

Number Description of Products Rates of Duty

bound in Existing: Schedule

176(K)(2) (contd. )

Ex 359(F)

C,

Ex 90.28.264 (automatic type) 90.28.265 90.28.268

Ex 90.28.279 (CO and Co2 indicators)

Replacement parts for vehicles of the types covered by item 360(D)

The above-mentioned concession is modified by the exclusion of high tension ignition coils.

NEW CONCESSIONS ON ITEMS IN THE EXISTING SCHEDULE

37g per cent

Tariff Item

Number Description of Products

Rates of Duty bound in

Existing Schedule

Rates of Duty to be bound

82.05

.5

82.06

Interchangeable tools for hand tools, for machine tools or for power -operated hand tools (including such tools for pressing, stamping, d'rilling, 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:

- Of a kind used solely or princi­pally for working materials other than meials or metallic carbides, not being tools falling within sub-item 82.05.4 and not of a kind used solely or principally with non-mechanical hand tools

.59 Other

.599 Other B/- 45 per cent

Knives and cutting blades, for machines or for mechanical appliances:

.9 - Other

.990 Other B/- 45 per cent

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Tariff Item

Number Description of Products

Rates of Duty-bound in

Existing Schedule

Rates-of Duty to be bound

82.11 Razors and razor blades (including razor blade blanks, whether or not in s t r i p s ) ; blades and heads for e l ec t r i c shavers:

.200 - Safety razors (Max M/P 10%) 12^ per cent

84.17 Machinery, plant and similar laboratory equipment, whether or not e l e c t r i c a l l y heated, for the treatment of materials by a process involving a change of temperature, not being machinery or plant of a . kind used for domestic purposes; instantaneous or storage water heaters ; non-e lec t r ica l

.5 - Elec t r ic heating and cooking apparatus, not fa l l ing within sub-item 84.17.4:

.510 Stoves, ranges and cookers of a kind commonly used for preparing food 40 per cent 35 per cent

84.51 Typewriters, other than type ­wri ters incorporating calculat ing mechanisms; cheque wri t ing machines :

.100 - Electrically operated 15 per cent 7g per cent

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Table of negotiated maximum permissible margins of preference on the above-mentioned goods:

7£ per cent - 82.11.200 84.51.100

12£ per cent - 84.17.510 17£ per cent - 82.05.599

82.06.990

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D. NEW CONCESSIONS ON ITEMS NOT IN THE EXISTING SCHEDULE

Tariff Item

Number Description of Products

Rate of Duty at present in force

Rate of Duty to be bound

ex 40.09 Piping and tubing of unhardened vulcanised rubber of a v . f . d . • greater than 25 cents per l b ,

.910 Not greater than one inch • in te rna l diameter

,990 Other

45 per cent 40 per cent Primage 10 per cent

45 per cent 40 per cent Primage 10 per cent

73.20

ex 900

Tube and pipe fittings (including joints, elbows, unions and flanges) ; of iron or steel

- Other (excluding elbows and bends, non-malleable cast iron fittings and wrought iron fittings) 30 per cent 30 per cent

84,06

84.21

,210

.910

84.24

.220

35 rer cent

Internal combustion piston engines

- Outboard engines 25 per cent

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

- - Specially designed for spraying paints, enamels, lacquers, 47g per cent 45 per cent Tarnishes-'and the like ot for Primage 10 per spraying powders cent

Agricultural and horticultural machinery for soil preparation or cultivation; lawn and gx>rts ground rollers

Disc cultivators and disc harrows 30 per cent 25 per cent

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Tariff Item

Number Description of Products

Rate of Duty at present in force

Race of Duty t o be bound

84.24

.390

Agricultural and horticultural machinery for soil preparation or cultivation; lawn and sports ground rollers

- - Other (i.e. drills and sowers excluding hand worked seed drills) 30 per cent 25 per cent

84,60

.100

,900

Moulding boxes for metal foundry; moulds of a kind used for metal (other than ingot moulds), for metallic carbides, for glass, for ceramic pastes, concrete, cement or other mineral materials, for rubber or for artificial plastic materials

- "Wholly of brass, bronze or gun-metal

- Other

50 per cent

55 per cent Primage 5 per cent

45 per cent

45 per cent

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Table of negotiated maximum permissible margins of preference on the above-mentioned goods:

10 per cent 15 per cent

17i per cent

20 per cent

22 A per cent

84.06.210 73.20.900 40.09.910 40.09.990 84.60.100 84.60.900 84.24.220 84.24.390 R4.21.910