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A. CONCESSIONS TO BE WITHDRAWN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
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