EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Statutory Rules 1986 No 364
Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations (Amendment)
Issued by the Authority of the Minister of State for Industry, Technology and Commerce.
When tin was subject to quotas imposed by the International Tin Conference, export controls via the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations were also maintained on tungsten in order to ensure that the tin content of exports of composite tungsten and tin ores and concentrates were covered by tin quotas. With the termination of tin quotas imposed by the International Tin Conference, and the subsequent removal of tin from the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations by Statutory Rules 1986 No.177, there is no longer a requirement to keep tungsten as an item of the Seventh Schedule to the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations.
The regulation repeals item 16 (“tungsten ore and concentrates”) from the Seventh Schedule to the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations.