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24 No. GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE ACCORD GENERAL SUR LES TARIFS DOUANIERS ET LE COMMERCE ccrocT/^o/»^ ,c SECRET/279/Add.l5 ACUERDO GENERAL SOBRE ARANCELES ADUANEROS Y COMERCIO 26 Janu « r y 1990 Original: English/ anglais/ inglés ARTICLE XXVII1:5 NEGOTIATIONS Schedule 1 - Conmonwealth of Australia Addendum The following conrunication, dated 17 January 1990, has been received by the secretariat. The Delegations of Australia and the United States of America have concluded their Article XXVIII negotiations under SECRET/279 for the modification or withdrawal of concessions provided for in Schedule I - Australia specified in CCCN terms and contained in TAR/113, amended by TAR/113/Add.l, as set out in the report attached. Signed for the Delegation Signed for the Delegation of the of Australia United States of America 16 January 1990 NEGOCIATIONS AU TITRE DU PARAGRAPHE 5 DE L'ARTICLE XXVIII Liste I - Commonwealth d'Australie Addendum Le secrétariat a reçu la comnunication ci-après en date du 17 janvier 1990. Les délégations de l'Australie et des Etats-Unis d'Amérique ont terminé les négociations au titre de l'article XXVIII engagées à la suite de la comnunication portant la cote SECRET/279 en vue de la modification ou du retrait de concessions reprises dans la Liste I - Australie fondée sur la NCCD, qui avait été distribuée sous couvert du document TAR/113, modifié,par le document TAR/113/Add.l; les résultats de ces négociations sont indiqués dans le rapport ci-joint. Signé au nom de la délégation Signé au nom de la délégation des de l'Australie Etats-Unis d'Amérique 16 janvier 1990 NEGOCIACIONES EN VIRTUD DEL PARRAFO 5 DEL ARTICULO XXVIII Lista I - Comnonwealth de Australia Addendum La Secretarfa ha recibido la siguiente comunicaciôn, de fecha 17 de enero de 1990. Las delegaciones de Australia y de los Estados Unidos de America nan concluido, con los resultados que se indican en el informe adjunto, las negociaciones por ellas entabladas en virtud del articulo XXVIII para la modificaciôn o retirada -anunciada en el documento SECRET/279- de las concesiones inscritas en la Lista I - Australia expresadas conforme a la NCCA segûn constan en el documento TAR/113 modificado por el documento TAR/113/Add.l. 1 Firmado en nombre de la delegaciôn Firmado en nombre de la delegaciôn de Australia de los Estados Unidos de America 16 de enero de 1990 English only/Anglais seulement/Inglés solamente

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24 No.

GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE

ACCORD GENERAL SUR LES TARIFS DOUANIERS ET LE COMMERCE ccrocT/^o/»^ ,c SECRET/279/Add.l5

ACUERDO GENERAL SOBRE ARANCELES ADUANEROS Y COMERCIO 26 J a n u« ry 1990

Original: English/ anglais/ inglés

ARTICLE XXVII1:5 NEGOTIATIONS

Schedule 1 - Conmonwealth of Australia

Addendum

The following conrunication, dated 17 January 1990, has been received by the secretariat.

The Delegations of Australia and the United States of America have concluded their Article XXVIII negotiations under SECRET/279 for the modification or withdrawal of concessions provided for in Schedule I -Australia specified in CCCN terms and contained in TAR/113, amended by TAR/113/Add.l, as set out in the report attached.

Signed for the Delegation Signed for the Delegation of the of Australia United States of America

16 January 1990

NEGOCIATIONS AU TITRE DU PARAGRAPHE 5 DE L'ARTICLE XXVIII

Liste I - Commonwealth d'Australie

Addendum

Le secrétariat a reçu la comnunication ci-après en date du 17 janvier 1990.

Les délégations de l'Australie et des Etats-Unis d'Amérique ont terminé les négociations au titre de l'article XXVIII engagées à la suite de la comnunication portant la cote SECRET/279 en vue de la modification ou du retrait de concessions reprises dans la Liste I - Australie fondée sur la NCCD, qui avait été distribuée sous couvert du document TAR/113, modifié,par le document TAR/113/Add.l; les résultats de ces négociations sont indiqués dans le rapport ci-joint.

Signé au nom de la délégation Signé au nom de la délégation des de l'Australie Etats-Unis d'Amérique

16 janvier 1990

NEGOCIACIONES EN VIRTUD DEL PARRAFO 5 DEL ARTICULO XXVIII

Lista I - Comnonwealth de Australia

Addendum

La Secretarfa ha recibido la siguiente comunicaciôn, de fecha 17 de enero de 1990.

Las delegaciones de Australia y de los Estados Unidos de America nan concluido, con los resultados que se indican en el informe adjunto, las negociaciones por ellas entabladas en virtud del articulo XXVIII para la modificaciôn o retirada -anunciada en el documento SECRET/279- de las concesiones inscritas en la Lista I - Australia expresadas conforme a la NCCA segûn constan en el documento TAR/113 modificado por el documento TAR/113/Add.l.1

Firmado en nombre de la delegaciôn Firmado en nombre de la delegaciôn de Australia de los Estados Unidos de America

16 de enero de 1990

English only/Anglais seulement/Inglés solamente

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Results of Negot Modification or

Schedule of Negotiated

: the

with

:iations under Withdrawal of

Commonwealth i

the United

Article XXVIII Concessions

of Australia

in for the

Initia]

States of America

the

iy

Changes in Schedule I - Commonwealth of Australia

A. Concessions to be withdrawn

All previous concessions in Schedule I.

D. New concessions on items not in existing schedule

MARGIN OF PREFERENCE:

For purposes of Article I and Article II of

this Agreement, the margin of preference under

a tariff classification properly applicable to

any product shall not be increased above the

level actually in existence on 1 January 1973,

or as subsequently negotiated;

provided that in certain circumstances the

introduction of a 10% margin in lieu of a

previously existing 7.5% margin shall be

permissible, and

provided further that this concession shall not

preclude adjustments of a minor order necessary

to achieve simplified or reasonable tariff

drafting, when such adjustments shall result

in a margin no higher than 10%.

es

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0 . New c o n c e s s i o n s on i t ems n o t jr. e x i s t i n g schedv.le ( c o n t i n u e d )

PART I - MOST FAVOURED NATION TARIFF

Tariff Iten Number

05.04

24.02

ex

27.10

-

ex

28.03

ex

30.05

ex

38.07

ex

40.09

Description of Products

Guts, bladders and stomachs of animals (other than fish), whole and pieces thereof

Manufactured .tobacco: tobacco extracts and essences

Cigarettes

Petroleum oils, other than crude, and oils, other than crude, obtained from bituminous minerals; prepara­tions that do not fall within any other item and that contain not less than 70% by weight of petroleum oil, or of oil obtained from bituminous minerals, where the oil is the basic constituent of such a preparation

In bulk or in packs exceeding 4.6 litres

- Mineral turpentine - except for use as fuel

- Liquid paraffin of pharmaceu­tical quality

- Lubricating oils containing 2% or less by weight of additives

Carbon (including carbon black)

Gas carbon black

Other pharmaceutical goods

Dental alloys

Spirits of turpentine and other terpenic solvents produced by the distillation or other treatment of coniferous woods; crude dipentene; sulphite turpentine; pine oil, other than oil not rich in terpineol

Spirits of turpentine

Tubes and pipes of unhardened vulcanised rubber

Rate of Duty

Free

$6.83Ag

Free

Free

$0,012/1

Free

22.5%

Free

40%

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SECRET/279/Add.l5

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PART I - MOST FAVOURED NATION TARIFF

T a r i f f I t e n Number

4 0 . 1 0

ex

55.03

5 8 . 0 9

70.08

7 0 . 0 9

ex

7 3 . 2 0

ex

7 3 . 3 3

7 3 . 3 5

ex

7 3 . 4 0

ex

Description of Products Rate of Duty

Transmission, conveyor or elevator belts or belting, of vulcanised rubber

Transmission belts and belting - except reinforced solely

with metal

Cotton waste (including pulled or garnetted rags), not carded or combed

Tulle and other net fabrics (other than woven, knitted or crocheted fabrics), figured; hand or mechanic­ally made lace, (other than knitted fabrics} in the piece, in strips or in motifs

Safety glass consisting of toughened or laminated glass, whether shaped or not

Glass mirrors (including rear-view mirrors), whether or not framed or backed

Rear-view mirrors for motor vehicles

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

Of steel - except; . bends:

. elbows;

. flanges

Needles for hand sewing (including =mbroidery), hand carpet needles and land knitting needles, bodkins, rrochet hooks, and the like, and =mbroidery stilettos, of iron or teel

Springs and leaves for springs, of iron or steel

For vehicles

Other goods made of iron or steel

Parts or fittings of a kind used solely or principally in ships, boats or other vessels

37 .5%

$0.026Ag

10%

37 .5%

37 .5%

30%

35%

37 .5%

45%

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PART I - MOST FAVOURED NATION TARIFF

Tariff Item Number

82.03

ex

82.05

ex

82.06

82.11

ex

Description of Products

Hand tools, as follows: Pliers (including cutting pliers), pincers, tweezers, tinmen's snips, bolt croppers and the like; perforating punches; pipe cutters; spanners; wrenches (not including tap wrenches); files; rasps

- except: . bolt croppers; . files ; . pipe cutters; . rasps

Interchangeable tools for hand tools, for machine tools or for power-operated hand tools (including such tools 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

Screwing tools, being dies, taps or chasers

Sockets of a kind used for fastening nuts

Knives and cutting blades, for machines or for mechanical appliances

Razors and razor blades (including razor blade blanks, whether or not in strips); blades and heads for electric shavers

Safety razors

Rate of Duty

35%

40%

35%

45%

12.5%

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PART I - MOST FAVOURED NATION TARIFF

Tariff Item Number

83.02

ex

84.05

ex

84.06

ex

84.10

ex

Description of Products

Base metal fittings and mountings suitable for furniture, doors, staircases, windows, blinds, coach-work, saddlery, trunks, caskets and the like (including automatic door closers); base metal hat-racks, hat-pegs , brackets and the like

Specially designed for coachwork

Steam and other vapour power units, whether or not incorporating boilers

- except steam turbines for use with turbo­generators or turbo-alternators

Internal combustion piston engines

Engines for highway motor vehicles of items 87.01, 87.02 or 87.03 and parts therefor

- except . carburettors; . fuel injection equipment for compression ignition engines;

. piston pins;

. piston rings;

. valves Carburettors

- except for use with motor­cycles

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

Pumps specially designed for the mining cr metallurgical industries

- except pulp pumps used in conjunction with ore dressing machines

Rate of Duty

37.5%

35%

45%

40%

15%

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PART I - MOST FAVOURED NATION TARIFF

Tariff Iten Number

84.11

ex

84.15

ex

84.17

ex

Description of Products

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

Compressors for refrigerating equipment - over 3.75kW

Other - except: . fans, blowers and

the like; . inflators of the hand or foot operated types;

. pumps and compressors for liquefaction of gases

Refrigerators and refrigerating equipment (whether electrical or other)

Airconditioning equipment; Condensers; Evaporators; Domestic refrigerators and freezers (and combinations thereof)

- except parts for domestic electrical refrigerators and electrical freezers

Machinery, plant and similar laboratory equipment, whether or not electrically 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-electric

Electric heating and cooking apparatus - stoves, ranges and cookers of a kind commonly used for preparing food

Rate of Duty

47.5%

27.5%

47. 5%

35%

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SECRET/279/Add.l5 Page 8 D. New concessions on items not in e x i s t i n g schedule (cont inued)

PART I - MOST FAVOURED NATION TARIFF

Tariff Iten Number

84.18

ex

84.21

ex

84.22

ex

84. 24

ex

Description of Products

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

Filters and purifiers - for engines of highway motor vehicles of item 87.01, 87.02 or 87.03

- except for fuel injection equipment for compression ignition engines

- for refrigerant gases

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

Hydraulic guns for dislodging minerals

Windscreen washers

Spray guns for spraying paints, enamels, lacquers, varnishes and the like - Imported separately

Lifting, handling, loading or unloading machinery, telphers and conveyors, not being machinery falling within 84.23

Lifting devices being tipping mechanisms for incorporation in lorries

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

Disc cultivators; Disc harrows - except discs imported

separately j Planting and seeding machines

Rate of Duty

45%

47.5%

15%

37. 5%

45%

37.5%

25% 25%

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D.

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New concessions on items not in existing schedvle (continued)

PART I - MOST FAVOURED NATION TARIFF

Tariff Item Number

Description of Products Rate of Duty

84.25

ex

84.34

ex

84.35

ex

84.38

ex

Harvesting and threshing machinery; straw and fodder presses; hay or grass mowers; winnowing and similar cleaning machines for seed, grain or leguminous vegetable and egg-grading and other grading machines for agricultural produce (other than machinery of a kind used in the bread grain milling industry falling within 84.29)

Metal parts for strippers, strippei harvesters, reaper threshers or other harvesters for seeds, grain or leguminous vegetables

Machinery, apparatus and accessories for type-founding or type-setting; machinery (other than the machine-tools falling within 84.45, 84.46 or 84.47) for preparing or working printing blocks, plates or cylinders; printing type, impressed flongs and matrices, printing blocks, plates and cylinders; blocks, plates, cylinders and lithographic stones, planed, grained, polished or otherwise prepared for printing purposes

Type-composing machines

Other printing machinery; machines for uses ancillary to printing

Printing machinery - web printing presses — 25.4 tonnes or less in weight

Auxiliary machinery for use with machines of a kind falling within 84.37; parts and accessories of a kind used solely or principally with machines falling within this item or 84.36 or 84.37

Shuttles

20%

12.5%

27.5%

12.5%

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PART I - MOST FAVOURED NATION TARIFF

Tariff Item Nurr.be r

84.40

ex

84.51

ex

84.52

ex

Description of Products

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 coverings for applying the paste to the base fabric or other supports; machines of a kind 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

Domestic type laundry machines - except washing machines

Typewriters, other than typewriters incorporating calculating mechanisms; cheque-writing machines

Electric

Calculating machines; accounting machines, cash registers, postage-franking machines, ticket-issuing machines and similar machines, incorporating a calculating device

Rate of Duty

Other - except : cash registers;

postage franking machines

- electric

45%

7.5%

7.5%

10%

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0* Ne'v c o n c e s s i o n s on i t ems r o t i n e x i s t i n g schedv.le ( c o n t i n u e d )

PART I - MOST FAVOURED NATION TARIFF

Tariff Item Number

84.54

ex

84.55

ex

Description of Products

Other office machines (including hectograph or stencil-duplicating machines, addressing machines, coin-sorting machines, coin-counting and wrapping machines, pencil-sharpening machines, perforating and stapling machines)

Coin-counting machines

Parts and accessories (other than covers, carrying cases and the like) of a kind used solely or principally with machines of a kind falling within 84.51, 84.52, 84.53 or 84.54

For machines falling within item 84.51 - electric

For machines falling within item 84.52 - cash registers

- other - except postaqe frankinq

machines - - electric

- - non-electric

For machines falling within item 84.53

Rate of Duty

10%

15%

10%

7.5%

10%

7.5%

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PART I - MOST FAVOURED NATION TARIFF

Tariff Iten Number

Description of Products Rate of Duty

84.59

ex

84.60

84.61

ex

84.63

ex

Machines and mechanical appliances having individual functions, not falling within any other item in this Chapter

Parts or fittings of a kind used solely or principally in ships, boats or other vessels

- except : . sound signalling apparatus;

. windscreen wipers

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

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

For refrigerators or refrigerating equipment

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

For engines of highway motor vehicles of items 87.01, 87.02 or 87.03

- except for fuel injection equipment for compression ignition engines

45%

45%

47. 5%

45%

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PART I - MOST FAVOURED NATION TARIFF

Tariff Iten Number

Description of Products Rate of Duty

85.01

ex

85.08

ex

85.09

ex

85.11

ex

Electrical goods as follows: generators, motors, converters (whether rotary or static), transformers, rectifiers (includinq metal tank -mercury arc rectifiers) and rectifying apparatus, inductors

Transformers for radio, television or audio amplifiers

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 of a kind used in conjunction with such engines

Glow plugs; Heating coils

Electrical lighting and signalling equipment and electrical windscreen wipers, defrosters and demisters, foi cycles or motor vehicles

Lighting and signalling equipment for highway motor vehicles of items 87.01, 87.02 or 87.03

- except: . lampware for interior lighting;

. sealed beam lamps;

. spot lamps

Windscreen wipers

Industrial and laboratory electric furnaces, ovens and induction and dielectric heating equipment; electric or laser operated welding, brazing, soldering or cutting machines and apparatus

Industrial and laboratory electric furnaces, ovens and induction and dielectric heating equipment

45%

45%

37.5%

37.5%

45%

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PART I - MOST FAVOURED NATION TARIFF

Tariff Item Number

85.12

ex

85.19

ex

Description of Products

Electric instantaneous or storage water heaters and immersion heaters: electric soil heating apparatus and electric space heating apparatus: electric hair dressing appliances (including hair dryers, hair curlers curling tong heaters) and electric smoothing irons: electro-thermic domestic appliances: electric heating resistors, other than those of carbon

Stoves, ranges, ovens, cookers, grillers, boiling plates, boiling rings and the like, including heating resistors therefor

Other - except: . smoothing irons;

. hair dryers as used on human beings;

. heating cable;

. parts for kettles, space-heating apparatus, toasters

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

Valve sockets for radio, television or audio-amplifiers

Rate of Duty

40%

45%

45%

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PART I - MOST FAVOURED NATION TARIFF

Tariff Item Number

85.21

ex

87. Ol

ex

87.02

ex

Description of Products

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; diodes, transistors and similar semi-conductor devices; light emitting diodes; electronic microcircuits; mounted piezo­electric crystals

Deflection coils (yokes), being parts for cathode-ray tubes, imported separately

Tractors (other than those falling within 87.07), whether or not fitted with power take-off, winches or pulleys

Tractors designed for operation solely or principally on the highway

- Assembled, for articulated vehicles, having a gross vehicle weight rating of 10.16 tonnes or more

Motor vehicles for the transport of persons, goods or materials (including sports motor vehicles, other than those falling within 87.09)

Assembled vehicles, operated by self-contained power, having a gross vehicle weight rating of iO.ie tonnes or more

- except: . air-cushion vehicles;

. rock buggies, dumpers, shuttle dumpers, tailgate dumpers and the like

Rate of Duty

45%

22.5%

22.5%

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PART I - MOST FAVOURED NATION TARIFF

Tariff Iten Number

87.03

ex

87.06

ex

87.07

ex

Description of Products

Special purpose motor lorries and vans (including 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 motor vehicles falling within 87.02

Assembled vehicles having a gross vehicle weight rating of 10.16 tonnes or more

- except: . air-cushion vehicles;

. cranes;

. dredging or excavating machines;

. fire engines

Parts and accessories for motor vehicles of a kind falling within 87.01, 87.02 or 87.03

- except: . for fire enqines; . for tractors designee fcr operation off the highway

Works trucks, mechanically propelled, of a kind used in factories, ware­houses, dock areas or airports for short distance transport or handling of goods (including platform trucks, fork-lift trucks and straddle carriers); tractors of a kind used on railway station platforms; parts for such trucks and tractors

Parts for works trucks

Rate of Duty

22.5%

37.5%

45%

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PART I - MOST FAVOURED NATION TARIFF

Tariff Iten Number

87.14

ex

88.01

88.02

88.04

90.07

ex

Description of Products

Other vehicles (including trailers), not mechanically propelled, and parts therefor

Semi-trailers of assembled articulated highway motor vehicles

Rate of Duty

having a gross vehicle weight rating of 10.16 tonnes or more (imported with and for use with their prime movers)

Parts

Balloons and airships

Flying machines, gliders and kites: rotochutes

Parachutes and parts therefor and accessories thereto

Photographic cameras: photographic flashlight apparatus and flashbulbs other than discharge lamps falling within 85.20

Cameras

- except: . of the type used within the graphic arts industries for the productior of line, conti­nuous tone and half-tone images:

. parts and accessories

Tripods

22.5%

45%

10%

10%

10%

Free

30c/c

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PART I - MOST FAVOURED NATION TARIFF

Tariff Iten Number

90.08

ex

90.09

ex

90.19

ex

Description of Products

Cinematographic cameras, projectors, sound recorders and sound reproducers: any combination of these articles

Cameras with or without sound recorders

- except: . parts and accessories:

. surveillance (security system) cameras

Image projectors (other than cinema­tographic projectors): photographic, but not cinematographic, enlargers and reducers

Image projectors:

- except: . desiqned for the projection of slide film or film strip transparen­cies:

. microfilm readers:

. microfilm reader-printers:

. parts

- Overhead projectors

- Other

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

Hearing aids

Rate of Duty

Free

15%

10%

15%

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PART I - MOST FAVOURED NATION TARIFF

Tariff Iten Number

90.23

90.24

ex

90.26

ex

(cont'd)

Description of Products

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

Temperature gauges of a kind used with internal combustion engines

Other

Instruments and apparatus for measuring, checking or automatically controlling the flow, depth, pressure or other variables of liquids or gases, or for automatic­ally controlling temperature (inclu­ding pressure gauges, thermostats, level gauges, flow meters, heat meters and automatic oven draught regulators), not falling within 90.14

Gauges of a kind used solely or principally in motor vehicles

Other - except: . pressure qauqes:

. thermostats:

. pneumatic regu­lating and con­trolling devices:

. vacuum regulators for hospital re­ticulated suction systems

Gas, liquid and electricity supply or production meters: calibrating meters therefor

Gas meters

- except of the household supply kind

Rate of Duty

37.5%

17.5%

37.5%

17.5%

17.5%

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X). Nev? c o n c e s s i o n ? on i t ems n o t I?, e x i s t i n g s c h e ^ v l e ( c o n t i n u e d )

PART I - MOST FAVOURED NATION TARIFF

T a r i f f I tem Number

D e s c r i p t i o n of P r o d u c t s Rate of Duty

(90.26) Liquid meters

- except;

92.07

ex

24.01

inferential water meters; water meters of the positive kind up to and inclu­ding lOO mm dia­meter in size (other than meter! constructed for measuring hot water in boiler houses or engine houses); of a kind common­ly used in pumps installed for retailing petrol­eum oils

Electro-magnetic, electrostatic, electronic and similar musical instruments

Organs; Synthesizers

INITIAL NEGOTIATOR STATUS RETAINED IN COLUMN 7

Unmanufactured tobacco; tobacco refuse

Unmanufactured tobacco as follows: for cigars, cigarillos cheroots

unstemmed stemmed

For cigarettes, for fine cut tobacco suitable for the manufactur of cigarettes

unstemmed stemmed

For use in the manufacture of cigarettes or of fine cut tobacco

17.5%

7.5%

$0.55/kg SO.66/kg

$1.89/kg $2.00/kg

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PART I - MOST FAVOURED NATION TARIFF

Tariff Item Number

Description of Products Rate of Duty

tes,

55.01

84.52

ex

Suitable for the manufacture of cigaret being cigarettes or fine cut tobacco that will contain

Australian - grown tobacco leaf (the prescri bed -minimum requirement of Australian - grown tobacco leaf being not more than 50% by weight), as prescribed by by-law.

unstemmed stemmed

:or other smoking tobacco; tobacco refuse

unstemmed stemmed

- For use in the manufacture of

tobacco (not being tobacco for us|s in the manufacture of cigarettes) being tobacco that will contain

Australian - grown tobacco leaf (the prescribed minimum requiremeht of Australian - grown tobacco leaf being not more than 50% by weight), as prescribed by by-law.

unstemmed stemmed

Cotton, not carded or combed

Calculating machines; accounting machiijes, cash registers, postage-franking machines, ticet issuing machines and similar machines, incorporating a calculating device

Postage-franking machines

$1.575/kg $1.685/kg

$1 $1

43/kg 54/kg

$1.10/kg $1.21/kg

$0.026/kg

17.-5%

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PART I - MOST FAVOURED NATION TARIFF

Tariff Iten Number

Description of Products Rate of Duty

84.53

ex

84.55

ex

90.28

ex

Automatic data processing machines and units therefor; magnetic or optical readers, machines for transcribing data onto data, media in coded form and machines for processing such data, not falling within any other item

Other 7.5%

except . cathode-ray display terntnals, imported separately or otherwise

. power-supply units, imported separately, for automatic data processing machines

Parts and accessories (other than cove carrying cases and the like) of a kind used solely or principally with machin of a kind falling within 84.51, 84.52, 84.53 or 84.54

For postage-franking machines

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

s ,

s

17.5%

Counterparts of which 90.24, as follows:

fall within

Gauges of a kind used with internal combustion engines for indicating the amount of fuel in the fuel tank;

Other gauges of a kind used solely or principally in vehicles ;

Thermostats of a kind used witt electrically operated domestic appliances 37.5%

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SCHEDULE I - C0;j,;0N.7SALTH OF AUSTRALIA.

REFERENCE TABLE

U . S . A .

ITEM

INITIAL

0 5 . 0 4

2 4 . 0 2

2 7 . 1 0

2 8 . 0 3

3 0 . 0 5

3 8 . 0 7

4 0 . 0 9

4 0 . 1 0

5 5 . 0 3

5 8 . 0 9

7 0 . 0 8

7 0 . 0 9

7 3 . 2 0

7 3 . 3 3

7 3 . 3 5

7 3 . 4 0

8 2 . 0 3

8 2 . 0 5

8 2 . 0 6

8 2 . 1 1

8 3 . 0 2

SCHEDULE

RATE

NEGOTIATOR ST;

F r e e

$ 6 . 8 3 / k g

F r e e

F r e e

$ 0 , 0 1 2 / 1

F r e e

2 2 . 5 %

F r e e

40%

3 7 . 5 %

$ 0 . 0 2 6 / k g

10%

3 7.5%

3 7 . 5 %

30%

35%

3 7 .5%

4 5%

35% .

40%

35%

45%

1 2 . 5 %

3 7 . 5 %

—i

COUNTRY

TUS RE

US

US

us us us

us us us us us us

us, CE-6 JP

us us us us us

us us us us us us us

NEGOTIATION

ITEM

TAINED

90A

22B1

229D1

229K1

229E 229K2

231E1

419B2

228E

4 0 . 0 9

326

432B

432C

5 8 . 0 9

359F

359F

7 3 . 2 0

219B

359F 359F

359F

219B

219A

219B

8 2 . 0 6 . 9 9 C

8 2 . 1 1

359F 359F

RATE

F r e e

$ 6 . 8 3 / k g

$ 0 . 0 0 2 / 1

F r e e

$ 0 . 0 1 2 / 1 $ 0 . 0 1 1 / 1

F r e e

22 .5%

F r e e

40%

37 .5% |

$ 0 . 0 2 6 / k g

F r e e

10%

3 7.5%

3 7.5%

30%

3 5% .

3 7 . 5 % 4 5%

4 5%

35%

40%

35%

45%

1 2 - 5 %

3 7 - 5 % 45%

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SCHEDULE I - COUîONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA.

REFERENCE TABLE

U . S . A .

SCHEDULE

ITEM

8 4 . 0 5

8 4 . 0 6

8 4 . 1 0

8 4 . 1 1

8 4 . 1 5

8 4 . 1 7

8 4 . 1 8

8 4 . 2 1

8 4 . 2 2

8 4 . 2 4

8 4 . 2 5

8 4 . 3 4

8 4 . 3 5

8 4 . 3 8

8 4 . 4 0

8 4 . 5 1

8 4 . 5 2

RATE

35%

45%

40%

15%

4 7 . 5 %

2 7 . 5 %

4 7 . 5 %

35%

45%

4 7 . 5 %

15%

3 7 . 5 %

45%

3 7 . 5 %

25%

20%

1 2 . 5 %

2 7 . 5 %

1 2 . 5 %

4 5%

7 . 5 %

7 . 5 %

10%

COUNTRY

US

us us us us us us

us us us us us

us us us us us

us

us us us

us us

NEGOTIATION

ITEM

8 4 . 0 5

1 7 8 J

1 7 8 J

170B3

175C

176N

175B1.B2 175C

8 4 . 1 7

1 7 8 J

175C

170B3

359F 359F

8 4 . 2 1

359F

84 .24

165A

169A1

169A2

169D 1 6 9 C l b

174V55

179A5

8 4 . 5 1 169A4

1169A3

169A3

RATE

35%

45%

40%

15%

4 7 . 5 %

2 7 . 5 %

4 7 . 5 %

35%

45%

4 7 . 5 %

15%

3 7 . 5 % 45%

4 5%

3 7 . 5 %

25%

20%

F r e e

1 2 . 5 %

2 7.5% 1 7 . 5 %

1 2 . 5 %

4 5%

7.5% 15%

7.5%

10%

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SCHEDULE I - CCUIONiTEALTH OF AUSTRALIA.

REFERENCE TABLE

U . S . A .

SCHEDULE

ITEM

8 4 . 5 4

8 4 . 5 5

8 4 . 5 9

8 4 . 6 0

8 4 . 6 1

8 4 . 6 3

8 5 . 0 1

8 5 . 0 8

8 5 . 0 9

8 5 . 1 1

8 5 . 1 2

8 5 . 1 9

8 5 . 2 1

8 7 . 0 1

8 7 . 0 2

8 7 . 0 3

8 7 . 0 6

RATE

10%

15%

10%

7 . 5 %

10%

7 . 5 %

45%

45%

4 7 . 5 %

45%

45%

45%

3 7 . 5 %

4 5%

40%

45%

4 5%

4 5%

2 2 . 5 %

2 2 . 5 %

2 2 . 5 %

3 7 . 5 %

COUNTRY

US

US

US

US

US

US

US

US

US

US

US

US

US

US

US

us

us

US AT

us us us us

NEGOTIATION

ITEM

1 6 9 A 3

169A4

1 6 9 B

1 6 9 A 3

1 6 9 A 3

1 6 9 A 3

3 5 9 F

84 . 6 0

1 7 5 C

1 7 8 J

1 8 0 E 7

1 8 0 E 1 3

1 7 9 A 5

3 5 9 F

1 7 9 A 5

1 7 9 A 1

1 7 9 A 2 , 3

1 7 9 A 5

3 5 9 F

1 8 0 E 6

1 8 0 E7

3 6 0 D 1

3 6 0 D 1

3 6 0 D 1

3 5 9 F

3 5 9 F

RATE

10%

15%

10%

7 . 5 %

10%

7 . 5 %

45%

45%

4 7 . 5 %

45%

45% o r $ 0 . 2 5 e a

45% o r $ 1 . 2 5 e a

45%

3 7 . 5 %

45% j

40%

45% o r $ 0 . 4 0 e a

45%

3 7 . 5 %

45% o r $ 0 , 0 2 9 e a

45% o r $ 0 . 2 5 e a

2 2 . 5 %

2 2 . 5 %

2 2 . 5 %

3 7 . 5 %

45%

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SCHEDULE I - COJJj.ION.VEALTK OF AUSTRALIA.

REFERENCE TABLE

U . S . A .

SCHEDULE

ITEM

8 7 . 0 7

8 7 . 1 4

8 8 . 0 1

8 8 . 0 2

8 8 . 0 4

9 0 . 0 7

9 0 . 0 8

9 0 . 0 9

9 0 . 1 9

9 0 . 2 3

9 0 . 2 4

9 0 . 2 6

9 2 . 0 7

INITIAL

2 4 . 0 1

1

RATE

45%

2 2 . 5 %

45%

10%

10%

10%

F r e e

30%

F r e e

15%

10%

15%

3 7.5%

1 7 . 5 %

37 .5%

1 7 . 5 %

17 .5%

7.5%

NEGOTIATOR STi

COUNTRY

US

us us us us us us us us us us us us us us us us us

^TUS RE

us

us

us

us

NEGOTIATION

ITELÏ

359F

360D1

359F

358A

358A

358A

9 0 . 0 7

9 0 . 0 7

9 0 . 0 8

9 0 . 0 9

9 0 . 0 9

180Alb

359F

176K2a ,b

359F

1 7 6 K 2 a , b

1 7 6 K 2 a , b

9 2 . 0 7

TAINED IN

23A

23B

19B1

19B2

19B3a

19B3b

19A1

19A2

RATE

45%

2 2 . 5 %

45%

10%

10%

10%

F r e e

30%

F r e e

15%

10%

15%

37 .5%

17 .5%

37 .5%

17 .5%

17 .5%

7.5%

COLUMN 7

$ 0 . 5 5 / k g

$ 0 . 6 6 / k g

$ 1 . 8 9 / k g

$ 2 . 0 0 / k g

$ 1 . 5 7 5 / k g

$ 1 . 6 8 5 / k g

$ 1 . 4 3 / k g

$ 1 . 5 4 / k g

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SCHEDULE I - COîaiONiTEALTS OF AUSTRALIA.

REFERENCE TABLE

U,S , / \ ,

SCHEDULE

ITEM RATE COUNTRY

NEGOTIATION

ITEM RATE

5 5 . 0 1

8 4 . 5 2

8 4 . 5 3

8 4 . 5 5

9 0 . 2 8

US

US

US

US

US

US

19A3a

19A3b

432B 432C

169B 16901b

169A3

169A4 169C1b

359F

$1.10/kg

$1.21/kg

$0.026/kg $0.026/kg

1 7 . 5% 1 7 . 5 %

7.5%

17.5% 17.5%

37.5%

££>