Customs Tariff
No. 4 of 1972
An Act relating to Duties of Customs.
[Assented to 24 March 1972]
BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—
Short title and citation.
1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Customs Tariff 1972.
(2.) The Customs Tariff 1966–1971 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.
(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Customs Tariff 1966–1972.
Commencement.
2. Except as otherwise provided, this Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on the twenty-fourth day of August, One thousand nine hundred and seventy-one.
Amendments having effect from 24 August. 1971.
3. The Principal Act is amended as set out in the First Schedule to this Act.
Amendments having effect from 8 September, 1971.
4.—(1.) The Principal Act, as amended in accordance with the last preceding section, is amended as set out in the Second Schedule to this Act.
(2.) This section shall be deemed to have come into operation on the eighth day of September, One thousand nine hundred and seventy-one.
Amendments having effect from 17 September, 1971.
5.—(1.) The Principal Act, as amended in accordance with the preceding sections of this Act, is amended as set out in the Third Schedule to this Act.
(2.) This section shall be deemed to have come into operation on the seventeenth day of September, One thousand nine hundred and seventy-one.
Amendments having effect from 1 October, 1971.
6.—(1.) The Principal Act, as amended in accordance with the preceding sections of this Act, is amended as set out in the Fourth Schedule to this Act.
(2.) This section shall be deemed to have come into operation on the first day of October, One thousand nine hundred and seventy-one.
Amendments having effect from 11 November, 1971.
7.—(1.) The Principal Act, as amended in accordance with the preceding sections of this Act, is amended as set out in the Fifth Schedule to this Act.
(2.) This section shall be deemed to have come into operation on the eleventh day of November, One thousand nine hundred and seventy-one.
Amendments having effect, from 1 January, 1972.
8.—(1.) The Principal Act, as amended in accordance with the preceding sections of this Act, is amended as set out in the Sixth Schedule to this Act.
(2.) This section shall be deemed to have come into operation on the first day of January, One thousand nine hundred and seventy-two.
Amendments having effect from 14 February, 1972.
9.—(1.) The Principal Act, as amended in accordance with the preceding sections of this Act, is amended as set out in the Seventh Schedule to this Act.
(2.) This section shall be deemed to have come into operation on the fourteenth day of February, One thousand nine hundred and seventy-two.
THE SCHEDULES
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FIRST SCHEDULE Section 3.
AMENDMENTS OF THE PRINCIPAL ACT
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AMENDMENTS OF PART II. OF THE FIRST SCHEDULE
1. After sub-item 03.01.1 insert the following sub-item:—
“03.01.2 | - Trout, dead, as follows:— (a) brown trout (that is to say, Salmo trutta); (b) brook trout (that is to say, Salvelinus fontinalis); (c) rainbow trout (that is to say, Salmo gairdnerii) | $0.10 per lb | $0.10 per lb”. |
2. After sub-item 35.06.1 insert the following sub-item:—
“35.06.2 | - Of artificial plastic materials and resins or of cellulosic derivatives of a kind falling within an item in Chapter 39, not being goods put up for retail sale in packs not exceeding a net weight of 1 kilogramme | 30% | 20%”. |
3. Omit sub-item 38.19.8, insert the following sub-item:—
“38.19.8 | - Diagnostic or laboratory reagents and test kits; other products that are not chemically defined and that are not mixtures: |
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38.19.81 | - Diagnostic or laboratory reagents and test kits; other products that are not chemically defined and that are not mixtures, when put up for retail sale | 22½% | 10% |
38.19.82 | - - Products that are not chemically defined and that are not mixtures, when not put up for retail sale | 7½% | Free”. |
4. Omit notes 5 and 6 to Chapter 39, insert the following notes:—
“5. In paragraphs 39.01.11, 39.02.11 and 39.03.11 and sub-item 39.05.1, ‘adhesives’ means goods that consist of a mixture of two or more ingredients where the presence of more than one of those ingredients is essential to give adhesive properties to the goods.
6. In this Chapter, ‘bulk forms’ means goods in liquid or pasty forms (including emulsions, dispersions and solutions), blocks, lumps, powders (including moulding powders), granules, flakes and similar forms.
7. In this Chapter, ‘profile shapes’ means monofil, tubes, rods, sticks and similar shapes whether or not surface worked but not otherwise worked.
8. In this Chapter, ‘planar forms’ means plates, sheets, strip, film, roll film and foil, whether or not printed or otherwise surface-worked but not cut to shape or otherwise worked, and articles of rectangular shape cut therefrom but not further worked.”.
5. Omit items 39.01, 39.02, 39.03, 39.04, 39.05, 39.06 and 39.07. insert the following items:—
“39.01 | * Condensation, polycondensation and polyaddition products, whether or not modified or polymerised, and whether por not linear (including phenoplasts, aminoplasts, alkyds, polyallyl esters and other unsaturated polyesters, silicones): |
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39.01.1 | - Bulk forms; waste and scrap: |
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39.01.11 | - - Adhesives........................ | 30% | 20% |
39.01.12 | - Goods of— (a) aminoplasts; (b) phenoplasts; (c) the alkyd type; (d) the modified resin ester type; or (e) the epoxy type, not being adhesives | 40% | 30% |
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39.01.13 | - - Goods of the silicone type, not being adhesives: |
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39.01.131 | - - - Silicone grease...................... | 40% | 32½% |
39.01.132 | - - - Silicone fluids...................... | 40% | 40%, less $0.025 per gal |
39.01.139 | - - - Other............................ | 40% | 40% |
39.01.14 | - - Goods— (a) of polyethylene glycols; (b) of the unsaturated polyester type; or (c) being brake fluids, being, or having as a basis, a substance that is an ethylene oxide derivative, not being adhesives | 25% | 15% |
39.01.15 | - - Polyols, as defined by by-law............. | Free | Free |
39.01.19 | - - Other............................. | 7½% | Free |
39.01.2 | - Laminated rigid sheets and strip, of a kind commonly used for wall panelling | 40% | 20% |
39.01.3 | - Planar forms of silicone reinforced with or containing glass fibre or glass fibre fabric, not being goods falling within sub-item 39.01.2 | 30% | 30% |
39.01.4 | - Profile shapes and planar forms— (a) of materials other than silicone, reinforced with or containing glass fibre or glass fibre fabric; or (b) of phenoplasts, not being goods falling within sub-item 39.01.2 | 30% | 20% |
39.01.5 | - Planar forms of polyester coated with an adhesive, not being goods falling within sub-item 39.01.2 or 39.01.4 | 25% | 15% |
39.01.6 | - Profile shapes of polyamides or of polyurethane, not being goods falling within sub-item 39.01.4 | 15% | 7½% |
39.01.7 | - Planar forms of polyurethane, not being goods falling within sub-item 39.01.2 or 39.01.4 | 15% | 5% |
39.01.8 | - Profile shapes and planar forms, of the silicone type, not being goods falling within sub-item 39.01.2 or 39.01.3 | Free | Free |
39.01.9 | - Profile shapes and planar forms, of other materials | 7½% | Free |
39.02 | * Polymerisation and copolymerisation products (including polyethylene, polytetrahaloethylenes, polyipsobutylene, polystyrene, polyvinyl chloride, polyvinyl acetate, polyvinyl chloroacetate and other polyvinyl derivatives, polyacrylic and polymethacrylic derivatives, coumarone-indene resins): |
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39.02.1 | - Bulk forms; waste and scrap: |
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39.02.11 | - - Adhesives.......................... | 30% | 20% |
39.02.12 | - - Goods of the ethylene type or of vinyl chloride polymers or copolymers, not being adhesives | 60% | 50% |
39.02.13 | - - Goods of— (a) the coumarone-indene type; (b) the cyclopentadiene copolymer type; | 40% | 30% |
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| (c) the petroleum resin type; (d) the propylene type; (e) the styrene type; or (f) the vinyl or vinylidene type, not being goods falling within paragraph 39.02.11 or 39.02.12 |
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39.02.14 | - - Goods of the acrylic type, not being adhesives... | 25% | 15% |
39.02.15 | - - Goods of polyisobutylene, not being adhesives... | Free | Free |
39.02.19 | - - Other.............................. | 7½ | Free |
39.02.2 | - Floor and wall coverings.................. | 45% | 35% |
39.02.3 | - Sausage casings........................ | Free | Free |
39.02.4 | - Planar forms of the vinyl type having a value for duty not exceeding $0.30 per pound, viz.:— (a) corrugated; or (b) plasticised but not coated with an adhesive, not being goods falling within sub-item 39.02.2 or 39.02.3 | $0.12 per lb | $0.12 per lb, less 10% |
39.02.5 | - Planar forms (not being goods falling within a preceding sub-item of this item) and profile shapes, of the vinyl type: |
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39.02.51 | - - Profile shapes........................ | 40% | To and including 31 December 1971–aa–37% From and including 1 January 1972—40% |
39.02.52 | - - Planar forms......................... | 40% | 30% |
39.02.6 | - Planar forms (not being goods falling within a preceding sub-item of this item) and profile shapes, of— (a) the ethylene type; (b) the propylene type; or (c) the tetrafluorethylene type: |
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39.02.61 | -- Planar forms of the ethylene type, not coated with an adhesive and having a value for duty not exceeding $0.267 per pound | $0.08 per lb | $0.08 per lb, less 10% |
39.02.62 | - - Profile shapes; planar forms of the propylene type or the tetrafluorethylene type | 30% | 22½% |
39.02.69 | - - Other.............................. | 30% | 20% |
39.02.7 | - Planar forms (not being goods falling within a preceding sub-item of this item) and profile shapes, of the styrene type: |
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39.02.71 | - - Planar forms......................... | 20% | 10% |
39.02.72 | - - Profile shapes........................ | 20% | 7½% |
39.02.8 | - Planar forms (not being goods falling within a preceding sub-item of this item) and profile shapes, of the acrylic type | 15% | 7½% |
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39.02.9 | - Other: |
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39.02.91 | - - Profile shapes and planar forms, of the polyisobutylene type; profile shapes of the vinylidene type supported by, laminated with, or containing, textile or glass fibre fabric | Free | Free |
39.02.99 | - - Other................................. | 7½% | Free |
39.03 | * Regenerated cellulose; cellulose nitrate, cellulose acetate and other cellulose esters, cellulose ethers and other chemical derivatives of cellulose, plasticised or not; vulcanised fibre: |
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39.03.1 | - Bulk forms; waste and scrap: |
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39.03.11 | - - Adhesives.............................. | 30% | 20% |
39.03.12 | - - Moulding compounds of cellulose acetate butyrate, not being adhesives | 25% | 20% |
39.03.13 | - - Goods of— (a) cellulose acetate or cellulose acetate butyrate; or (b) cellulose nitrate having a nitrogen content of not less than 12½%, for use as, or in the manufacture of, explosives, not being goods falling within paragraph 39.03.11 or 39.03.12 | 5% | Free |
39.03.14 | - - Goods of cellulose nitrate, not being adhesives, collodions or goods falling within paragraph 39.03.13 | 40% | 35% |
39.03.15 | - - Collodions; goods of— (a) carboxymethylcellulose; (b) bydroxyethylcellulose; (c) hydroxyethyl ethylcellulose; (d) hydroxyethyl methyl cellulose; (e) hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose; (f) methylcellulose; (g) methylethylcellulose, propyleneglycol methylcellulose; (h) sodium carboxymethylcellulose (i) sodium carboxymethylhydroxyethylcellulose; or (j) celluloid, not being adhesives | 7½% | Free |
39.03.19 | - - Other................................. | Free | Free |
39.03.2 | - Laminated rigid sheets and strip, of a kind commonly used for wall panelling | 40% | 20% |
39.03.3 | - Sausage casings........................... | Free | Free |
39.03.4 | - Profile shapes of cellulose acetate or of cellulose acetate butyrate | 15% | 5% |
39.03.5 | - Planar forms— (a) of cellulose acetate or cellulose acetate butyrate, coated with an adhesive; or (b) of non-cellular regenerated cellulose, being goods that— (i) are coated with an adhesive; (ii) are coated with polymers or copolymers of the ethylene type; or (iii) are printed or embossed, not being goods falling within sub-item 39.03.2 or 39.03.3 | 25% | 15% |
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39.03.6 | - Profile shapes and planar forms, of celluloid; planar forms, as follows:— (a) adhesives including adhesive tapes; (b) unsensitised prepared positive transfer media of a kind used for the photo-copying of documents by the image transfer process; and (c) of cellulose acetate or of cellulose acetate butyrate, not being goods falling within sub-item 39.03.2, 39.03.3 or 39.03.5 | 7½% | Free |
39.03.9 | - Other.............................. | Free | Free |
39.04 | * Hardened proteins, including hardened casein and hardened gelatin: |
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39.04.1 | - Sausage casings........................ | Free | Free |
39.04.9 | - Other.............................. | 7½% | Free |
39.05 | * Natural resins modified by fusion; artificial resins obtained by esterification of natural resins or of resinic acids; chemical derivatives of natural rubber, including chlorinated rubber, rubber hydrochloride, oxidised rubber, cyclised rubber: |
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39.05.1 | - Adhesives........................... | 30% | 20% |
39.05.2 | - Ester gums, not being adhesives............. | 40% | 30% |
39.05.9 | - Other.............................. | Free | Free |
39.06 | * Other high polymers, artificial resins and artificial plastic materials, including alginic acid, its salts and esters; linoxyn: |
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39.06.1 | - Starches modified by etherification or esterification | $0.025 per lb | $0.012 per lb |
39.06.2 | - Alginic acid, its salts and esters; other high polymers derived from alginic acid | 37½% | 30% |
39.06.3 | - Heparin............................. | 7½% | Free |
39.06.9 | - Other.............................. | Free | Free |
39.07 | * Goods made of materials of a kind described in an item included in items 39.01 to 39.06 (inclusive): |
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39.07.1 | - Floor coverings; wall coverings, being tiles none of which exceeds 400 square inches in area | 45% | 35% |
39.07.2 | - Sausage casings........................ | Free | Free |
39.07.3 | - Bags of a kind used for the packaging of goods: |
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39.07.31 | - - Of regenerated cellulose................. | 20% | 10% |
39.07.32 | - - Of polymers or copolymers, of the ethylene type, having a value for duty not exceeding $0.333 per pound | $0.10 per lb | $0.10 per lb, less 10% |
39.07.33 | - - Goods of polymers or copolymers, of the ethylene type, not being goods falling within paragraph 39.07.32 | 30% | 20% |
39.07.39 | - - Other.............................. | 40% | 30% |
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39.07.4 | - Pilches; coats, including overcoats: |
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39.07.41 | - - Pilches having a value for duty not exceeding $0.175 each | $0.07 each | $0.07 each, less 10% |
39.07.42 | - - Coats, including overcoats, having a value for duty not exceeding $1.25 each | $0.50 each | $0.50 each, less 10% |
39.07.49 | - - Other............................. | 40% | 30% |
39.07.5 | - Blinds, curtains, air mattresses, wading pools: |
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39.07.51 | - - Curtains having a value for duty not exceeding $0.25 per square yard | $0.10 per sq yd | $0.10 per sq yd, less 10% |
39.07.52 | - - Blinds having a value for duty not exceeding $0.50 per square yard | $0.20 per sq yd | $0.20 per sq yd, less 10% |
39.07.53 | - - Air mattresses having a value for duty not exceeding $0.75 each | $0.30 each | $0.30 each, less 10% |
39.07.54 | - - Wading pools having a value for duty not exceeding $1.25 each | $0.50 each | $0.50 each, less 10% |
39.07.59 | - - Other............................. | 40% | 30% |
39.07.6 | - Goods of— (a) polymers or copolymers, of the vinyl chloride type; (b) polymers or copolymers, of the styrene type; (c) phenoplasts or aminoplasts; or (d) epoxy resins, not being goods falling within a preceding sub-item of this item | 40% | 30% |
39.07.7 | - Goods of— (a) polymers or copolymers, of the ethylene type; or (b) polymers or copolymers, of the propylene type, not being goods falling within a preceding sub-item of this item | 30% | 20% |
39.07.9 | - Other.............................. | 20% | 10%”. |
6. Omit item 59.08, insert the following item:—
“59.08 | * Textile fabrics impregnated or coated with preparations of cellulose derivatives or of other artificial plastic materials: |
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59.08.1 | - Goods of cotton or in chief part by weight of cotton (not being a woven fabric containing 20% or more by weight of man-made fibres) impregnated or coated with polyurethane, with plastic addition exceeding ½ ounce per square yard | 20% | 10% |
59.08.2 | - Impregnated or coated with polymers or copolymers of the vinyl chloride type, with plastic addition exceeding 1 ounce per square yard | 40%, and, if the FOB price falls below $0.60 per sq yd, an amount per sq yd equal to three-quarters of the difference | 30%, and, if the FOB price falls below $0.60 per sq yd, an amount per sq yd equal to three-quarters of the difference |
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59.08.3 | - Impregnated or coated with materials other than polymers or copolymers, of the vinyl chloride type, with plastic addition exceeding ½ ounce per square yard, not being goods falling within sub-item 59.08.1 | 40%, or, if higher, the rate of duty set out in this column that would apply to the goods if they were uncoated, non-impregnated fabrics of the same width and weight per square yard as the goods and of the same weave and textile fibre composition as the textile fabric in the goods, or, if there are two or more textile fabrics in the goods, as the textile fabric in the goods that gives, or, in the opinion of the Minister, gives the goods their essential character | 30%, or, if higher, the rate of duty set out in this column that would apply to the goods if they were uncoated, non-impregnated fabrics of the same width and weight per square yard as the goods and of the same weave and textile fibre composition as the textile fabric in the goods, or, if there are two or more textile fabrics in the goods, as the textile fabric in the goods that gives, or, in the opinion of the Minister, gives the goods their essential character |
59.08.9 | - Other.................................. | The rate of duty set out in this column that would apply to the goods if they were uncoated, non-impregnated fabrics of the same width and weight per square yard as the goods and of the same weave and textile fibre composition as the textile fabric in the goods, or, if there are two or more textile | The rate of duty set out in this column that would apply to the goods if they were uncoated, non-impregnated fabrics of the same width and weight per square yard as the goods and of the same weave textile and fibre composition as the textile fabric in the goods, or, if there are two or more textile |
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| fabrics in the goods, as the textile fabric in the goods that gives, or, in the opinion of the Minister gives, the goods their essential character | fabrics in the goods, as the textile fabric in the goods that gives, or, in the opinion of the Minister gives, the goods their essential character”. |
7. After paragraph 84.23.51 insert the following paragraph:—
“84.23.52 | | - - Core barrel assemblies; reamer shells......... | 7½% | Free”. |
8. In sub-item 91.08.2 omit “paragraph 91.04.31”, insert “sub-item 91.04.2”.
AMENDMENT OF PART V. OF THE SECOND SCHEDULE
Omit—
“39.01.391 | ”, |
insert—
“39.01.4 | Goods other than planar forms of the unsaturated polyester type |
39.01.5 | Goods other than goods of the unsaturated polyester type”. |
AMENDMENT OF PART I. OF THE THIRD SCHEDULE
Omit—
“Paragraph 39.07.44 | ”. |
AMENDMENT OF PART II. OF THE THIRD SCHEDULE
Omit—
“Paragraph Sub-paragraph Sub-item Paragraph Sub-paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Sub-paragraph Paragraph | 39.03.11 39.03.334 39.06.1 39.07.29 39.07.329 39.07.45 39.07.46 39.07.719 39.07.72 | ”. |
AMENDMENT OF PART IV. OF THE THIRD SCHEDULE
Omit—
“Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Sub-paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Sub-paragraph Sub-item Sub-paragraph Paragraph Sub-paragraph Sub-paragraph | 39.01.11 39.01.31 39.02.11 39.02.421 39.03.12 39.03.32 39.03.331 39.05.1 39.07.211 39.07.56 39.07.791 39.07.799 | ”. |
First Schedule—continued
AMENDMENT OF THE FOURTH SCHEDULE
Omit items 29 to 35 (inclusive), insert the following items:—
“29 | Paragraph 39.01.14 | Polyethylene glycols having an average molecular weight of 1,500 or less | $550 per ton | .. | 90% of SVD |
30 | Paragraph 39.01.14 | Polyethylene glycols having an average molecular weight of more than 1,500 | $700 per ton | .. | 90% of SVD |
31 | Paragraph 39.02.12 | Polyethylene having a density at 23°C of not less than 0.941 gramme per millilitre | $630 per ton | .. | 90% of SVD |
32 | Paragraph 39.02.12 | Polyethylene having a density at 23°C of less than 0.941 gramme per millilitre | $450 per ton | .. | 90% of SVD |
33 | Paragraph 39.02.12 | Goods of vinyl chloride polymers and copolymers | $400 per ton | .. | 90% of SVD |
34 | Paragraph 39.02.13 | Styrene-rubber copolymers; mixtures of polystyrene and rubber | $550 per ton | .. | 90% of SVD |
35 | Paragraph 39.02.13 | Polymerisation and copolymerisation products of the styrene type, other than styrene-rubber copolymers or mixtures of polystyrene and rubber | $415 per ton | .. | 90% of SVD” |
AMENDMENT OF PART I. OF THE FIFTH SCHEDULE
Omit items 3 to 6 (inclusive).
AMENDMENT OF PART IV. OF THE FIFTH SCHEDULE
Omit items 1 and 2.
AMENDMENTS OF PART V. OF THE FIFTH SCHEDULE
1. After item 11 insert the following item:—
“11A | 03.01.2 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | Free”. |
2. Omit items 210b and 210c, insert the following item:—
“210b | 22.03.1 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | $1.1375 per gal”. |
3. Omit item 497a, insert the following items:—
“497a | 35.06.2 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | 17½% |
497b | 35.06.9 | Dextrin glues........................ | 10%” |
4. Omit items 587 to 599e (inclusive), insert the following items:—
“587 | 39.01.11 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | 17½% |
588 | 39.01.12 | Goods of the epoxy type................. | 12½% |
589 | 39.01.139 | Goods of a kind used solely or principally for water repellent treatment of walls of buildings | 17½% |
590 | 39.01.14 | Brake fluids being, or having as a basis, a substance that is an ethylene oxide derivative | Free |
591 | 39.01.3 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | Free |
592 | 39.01.4 | Profile shapes of materials reinforced with or containing glass or glass fibre fabric | (A): 10% |
593 | 39.01.4 | Planar forms of materials reinforced with or containing glass fibre or glass fibre fabric; planar forms of phenoplasts | Free |
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594 | 39.01.5 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | Free |
595 | 39.01.6 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | Free |
596 | 39.01.7 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | Free |
597 | 39.02.11 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | 174% |
597a | 39.02.12 | Blocks, lumps, powders (including moulding powders), granules, flakes or similar forms, being goods of polyethylene | (F): 40% |
598 | 39.02.13 | Blocks, lumps, powders (including moulding powders), granules, flakes or similar forms, being goods of polystyrene | (F): 24% |
599 | 39.02.2 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | 25% |
599a | 39.02.4 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | 25% |
599b | 39.02.51 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | 5% |
599c | 39.02.52 | Goods coated with an adhesive.................. | 17½% |
599d | 39.02.52 | Goods, not being goods falling within the preceding item | 25% |
599e | 39.02.62 | Profile shapes of the ethylene type | 20% |
599f | 39.02.62 | Goods of the propylene type or the tetrafluorethylene type | Free |
599g | 39.02.69 | Planar forms of the ethylene type coated with an adhesive | 17½% |
599h | 39.02.71 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | Free |
599j | 39.02.72 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | 5% |
599k | 39.02.8 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | Free |
599l | 39.03.11 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | 17½% |
599m | 39.03.5 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | Free |
599n | 39.05.1 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | 17½% |
599p | 39.06.1 | Powders, granules, flakes, blocks, lumps and similar bulk forms; monofil, rods and sticks | Free |
599q | 39.06.2 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | Free |
599r | 39.07.1 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | 25% |
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599s | 39.07.31 | Disposable ileo-colostomy drainage bags.............. | Free |
599t | 39.07.32 | Disposable ileo-colostomy drainage bags.............. | Free |
599u | 39.07.33 | Disposable ileo-colostomy drainage bags.............. | Free |
599v | 39.07.39 | Disposable ileo-colostomy drainage bags.............. | Free |
599w | 39.07.39 | Goods other than disposable ileo-colostomy drainage bags | 12½% |
599x | 39.07.41 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | 22½% |
599y | 39.07.42 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | 22½% |
599z | 39.07.49 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | 22½% |
599za | 39.07.51 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | 12½% |
599zb | 39.07.52 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | 17½% |
599zc | 39.07.53 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | 17½% |
599zd | 39.07.54 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | 20% |
599zb | 39.07.59 | Blinds and air mattresses......................... | 17½% |
599zf | 39.07.59 | Curtains.................................... | 12½% |
599zg | 39.07.59 | Wading pools................................ | 20% |
599zh | 39.07.6 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | Free |
599zj | 39.07.7 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | Free |
599zk | 39.07.9 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | Free |
599zl | 40.01.1 | Goods, not being— (a) creped or smoked; (b) latex; or (c) compounded, with or without the addition of mineral oil, before coagulation otherwise than with carbon black or silica | Free |
599zm | 40.01.29 | Natural rubber, not creped or smoked | Free |
599zn | 40.01.3 | Goods, for use in the manufacture of chewing gum and chewing gum confectionery, not being— (a) creped or smoked; or (b) compounded, with or without the addition of mineral oil, before coagulation otherwise than with carbon black or silica | Free”. |
First Schedule—continued
5. Omit items 904 and 906a, insert the following items:—
903 | 59.04.9 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | 17½% |
904 | 59.06 | Goods other than of cotton....................... | 17½% |
905 | 59.08.1 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | Free |
906 | 59.08.2 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | 25% |
906a | 59.08.3 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | Free |
906b | 59.08.9 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | Free |
SECOND SCHEDULE Section 4.
AMENDMENT OF THE PRINCIPAL ACT AS AMENDED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 3 OF THIS ACT
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AMENDMENT OF PART II. OF THE FIRST SCHEDULE
Omit paragraph 61.03.11, insert the following paragraph:—
“61.03.11 | - - Shirts that— (a) are made from fabrics consisting of a mixture of cotton fibres and 20% or more by weight of man-made fibres; and (b) have a value less than 825.22 per dozen | $14.50 per doz; or, if higher, $16.07 per doz, less 57½% | $14.50 per doz, less 35%”. |
THIRD SCHEDULE Section 5.
AMENDMENTS OF THE PRINCIPAL ACT AS AMENDED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTIONS 3 AND 4 OF THIS ACT
AMENDMENTS OF PART II. OF THE FIRST SCHEDULE
1. Omit sub-item 39.03.6, insert the following sub-item:—
“39.03.6 | - Profile shapes of celluloid; planar forms, as follows:— (a) coated with an adhesive; (b) unsensitised prepared positive transfer media of a kind used for the photo-copying of documents by the image transfer process; (c) of celluloid; (d) of cellulose acetate; (e) of cellulose acetate butyrate; or (f) of non-cellular regenerated cellulose, not being goods falling within sub-item 39.03.2, 39.03.3 or 39.03.5 | 7½% | Free”. |
2. Omit item 39.07, insert the following item:—
“39.07 | * Goods made of materials of a kind described in an item included in items 39.01 to 39.06 (inclusive): |
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39.07.1 | - Goods, not being goods falling within a succeeding sub-item in this item: |
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Third Schedule—continued
2.—continued
39.07.11 | - - Goods, viz.:— (a) of polymers or copolymers, of the vinyl chloride type; (b) of polymers or copolymers, of the styrene type; (c) of phenoplasts or aminoplasts; (d) of epoxy resins; (e) pilches; (f) coats, including overcoats; (g) blinds; (h) curtains; (i) air mattresses; (j) wading pools; or (k) bags other than of ethylene polymers or copolymers or of regenerated cellulose | 40% | 30% |
39.07.12 | - - Goods, viz.:— (a) of polymers or copolymers, of the ethylene type; or (b) of polymers or copolymers, of the propylene type | 30% | 20% |
39.07.19 | - - Of other materials..................... | 20% | 10% |
39.07.2 | - Goods specified in paragraphs 39.07.21 to 39.07.29 (inclusive): |
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39.07.21 | - - Bags of polymers or copolymers, of the ethylene type, having a value not exceeding $0,333 per pound | $0.10 per lb | $0.10 per lb, less 10% |
39.07.22 | - - Pilches having a value not exceeding $0.175 each | $0.07 each | $0.07 each, less 10% |
39.07.23 | - - Coats, including overcoats, having a value not exceeding $1.25 each | $0.50 each | $0.50 each, less 10% |
39.07.24 | - - Curtains having a value not exceeding $0.25 per square yard | $0.10 per sq yd | $0.10 per sq yd, less 10% |
39.07.25 | - - Blinds having a value not exceeding $0.50 per square yard | $0.20 per sq yd | $0.20 per sq yd, less 10% |
39.07.26 | - - Air mattresses having a value not exceeding $0.75 each | $0.30 each | $0.30 each, less 10% |
39.07.27 | - - Wading pools having a value not exceeding $1.25 each | $0.50 each | $0.50 each, less 10% |
39.07.28 | - - Sausage casings....................... | Free | Free |
39.07.29 | - - Floor coverings; wall coverings, being tiles none of which exceeds 400 square inches in area | 45% | 35%”. |
3. Insert the following note to Chapter 50:—
“The following goods are specified for the purposes of sub-items 50.09.3 and 50.10.2, that is to say, goods that—
(a) were in transit to Australia on 9 August 1971; and
(b) are entered for home consumption within 21 days after importation.”.
Third Schedule—continued
4. After sub-item 50.09.2 insert the following sub-item:—
“50.09.3 | - Fabrics containing less than 50% by weight of silk or waste silk and not less than 20% by weight of man-made fibres, not being goods falling within a preceding sub-item in this item or goods specified in the note to this Chapter | $0.038 per sq yd, and a temporary duty of $0.15 per sq yd | A temporary duty of $0.15 per sq yd; From and including the date after the date on which the temporary rate ceases to operate— Free”. |
5. After sub-item 50.10.1 insert the following sub-item:—
“50.10.2 | - Fabrics containing less than 50% by weight of noil silk and not less than 20 % by weight of man-made fibres, not printed, not being goods specified in the note to this Chapter | $0.038 per sq yd, and a temporary duty of $0.15 per sq yd | A temporary duty of $0.15 per sq yd; From and including the date after the date on which the temporary rate ceases to operate— Free”. |
6. After note 4 to Chapter 51 insert the following note:—
“5. The following goods are specified for the purposes of sub-item 51.04.9, that is to say, goods that—
(a) were in transit to Australia on 9 August 1971; and
(b) are entered for home consumption within 21 days after importation.”.
7. Omit sub-item 51.04.9, insert the following sub-item:—
“51.04.9 | - Other................................ | 55%, or, if higher, $0.20 per sq yd; or, as an alternative, if lower, $0.50 per sq yd: and, except in respect of goods specified in note 5 to this Chapter, a temporary duty of $0.10 per sq yd | 52½%, or, if higher, $0.18 per sq yd; or, as an alternative, if lower, $0.48 per sq yd: and, except in respect of goods specified in note 5 to this Chapter, a temporary duty of $0.10 per sq yd”. |
8. Omit paragraph 55.09.52, insert the following paragraph:—
“55.09.52 | - - Fabrics of a kind suitable for use as bed sheeting, pillow casing or bolster casing or for use in the making up of bed sheets, pillow cases or bolster cases, not being goods that are printed, have a raised nap, or fall within paragraph 55.09.51: |
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55.09.521 | - - - As prescribed by by-law.................. | To and including 31 December 1971—½% From and including 1 January 1972—Free | Free |
Third Schedule—continued
8.—continued
55.09.522 | - - - Weighing less than 3.5 ounces per square yard | 30% | To and including 31 December, 1971—29½% From and including 1 January, 1972—30% |
55.09.529 | - - - Other................................. | 55%, or, if lower, $0.25 per sq yd | 52½%; or, if lower, $0.25 per sq yd, less 2½%”. |
9. After note 2 to Chapter 56 insert the following note:—
“3. The following goods are specified for the purposes of paragraph 56.07.99, that is to say, goods that—
(a) were in transit to Australia on 9 August 1971; and
(b) are entered for home consumption within 21 days after importation.”.
10. Omit paragraph 56.07.99, insert the following paragraphs:—
“56.07.93 | - - Fabrics that— (a) weigh less than 3.8 ounces per square yard; and (b) consist of a mixture of fibres of discontinuous or waste polyester and cotton | 55%, or, if higher, $0.20 per sq yd; or, as an alternative, if lower, $0.50 per sq yd | 52½%, or, if higher, $0.18 per sq yd; or, as an alternative, if lower, $0.48 per sq yd |
56.07.99 | - - Other............................... | 55%, or, if higher, $0.20 per sq yd; or, as an alternative, if lower, $0.50 per sq yd: and, except in respect of goods specified in note 3 to this Chapter, a temporary duty of $0.10 per sq yd | 52½%, or, if higher, $0.18 per sq yd; or, as an alternative, if lower, $0.48 per sq yd: and, except in respect of goods specified in note 3 to this Chapter, a temporary duty of $0.10 per sq yd”. |
11. Omit item 73.29, insert the following item:—
“73.29 | * Chain and parts therefor, of iron or steel: |
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73.29.1 | - Sprocket chain or conveyor chain, and parts therefor | 35% | 25% |
73.29.9 | - Other............................... | 25% | 17½% |
AMENDMENT OF PART II. OF THE SECOND SCHEDULE
Omit—
“55.09.59 | Percale sheeting, that is to say, sheeting of a construction such that the sum of the number of ends (warp) per inch and the number of picks (weft) per inch is 150 or exceeds 150, when weighing less than 3} ounces per square yard and for use in the making up of bed sheets, pillow cases or bolster cases”, |
insert—
“55.09.59 | ”. |
AMENDMENT OF PART II. OF THE THIRD SCHEDULE
Omit—
“Sub-paragraph 73.29.191 | ”. |
Third Schedule—continued
AMENDMENTS OF PART V. OF THE FIFTH SCHEDULE
1. Omit item 594.
2. Omit items 599 to 600 (inclusive), insert the following items:—
598a | 39.02.2 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | 25% |
599 | 39.02.4 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | 25% |
599a | 39.02.51 | Piping, being upholstery or trimming material..... | 5% |
599aa | 39.02.51 | Goods, not being goods falling within the previous item | 25% |
599b | 39.02.52 | Goods coated with an adhesive............... | 17½% |
599ba | 39.02.52 | Goods, not being goods falling within a preceding item | 25% |
599c | 39.02.62 | Profile shapes of the ethylene type............. | 20% |
599ca | 39.02.62 | Goods of the propylene type or the tetrafluorethylene type | Free |
599d | 39.02.69 | Planar forms of the ethylene type coated with an adhesive | 17½% |
599b | 39.02.71 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | Free |
599ba | 39.02.72 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | 5% |
599f | 39.02.8 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | Free |
599g | 39.03.11 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | 17½% |
599h | 39.03.5 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | Free |
599j | 39.05.1 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | 17½% |
599k | 39.06.1 | Powders, granules, flakes, blocks, lumps and similar bulk forms; monofil, rods and sticks | Free |
599l | 39.06.2 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | Free |
599m | 39.07.11 | Seat covers for vehicles.................... | 27½% |
599ma | 39.07.11 | Smoking requisites; wading pools............. | 20% |
599mb | 39.07.11 | Goods, as follows:— (a) blinds; (b) air mattresses; (c) table cloths, table covers and the like, textile supported, other than of vinyl chloride polymers and copolymers; (d) stationery and parts therefor; (e) furniture and parts therefor; or (f) travel goods, handbags, wallets, vanity compacts and similar goods and parts therefor | 17½% |
599mc | 39.07.11 | Gloves, mittens and mitts, not being gloves, mittens or mitts that are of a kind worn solely or principally by industrial workers or by members of the medical, nursing and veterinary professions or are of the dress type | 17½%, or, if higher, $0.15 per doz pairs |
Third Schedule—continued
2.—continued
599md | 39.07.11 | Goods, as follows:— (a) bags, not being disposable ileo-colostomy drainage bags; or (b) figures of a kind ordinarily used as ornaments in the household | 12½% |
599mb | 39.07.11 | Goods, as follows:— (a) knives, forks and spoons; (b) lighting fittings and parts therefor; or (c) piping, being upholstery or trimming material | 5% |
599mf | 39.07.11 | Artificial eyes.......................... | (A): 24% |
599mo | 39.07.11 | X-ray protective aprons, lead impregnated | (A): 18% |
599mh | 39.07.11 | Clothes pegs........................... | $0.125 per gross |
599mi | 39.07.11 | Goods, as follows:— (a) disposable ileo-colostomy drainage bags; (b) curtain clips; (c) curtain bands; (d) curtain loops; (e) curtain holders; (f) floats for fishing nets; (g) artificial flowers, foliage, or fruit; (h) imitation precious stones and pearls, not being beads; (i) discs and other shapes suitable for use as watch glasses; (j) gloves, mittens or mitts that are of a kind worn solely or principally by industrial workers or by members of the medical, nursing and veterinary professions or are of the dress type; or (k) clips, tags, rings and the like, for the identification of animals, birds or fish | Free |
599mj | 39.07.11 | Goods, as follows:— (a) apparel, not being apparel falling within a preceding item; (b) table cloths, table covers and the like, textile supported, of vinyl chloride polymers and copolymers; (c) flat shapes for use in the manufacture of buttons; (d) buckles, clasps and slides for attire; or (e) stoppers and other closures for bottles, jars and the like | 22½% |
599mk | 39.07.12 | Goods, as follows:— (a) table cloths, table covers and the like, of polymers or copolymers, of the propylene type, textile supported; (b) stationery and parts therefor; (c) furniture and parts therefor; or (d) travel goods, handbags, wallets, vanity compacts and similar goods and parts therefor | 17½% |
599ml | 39.07.12 | Figures of a kind ordinarily used as ornaments in the household | 12½% |
599mn | 39.07.12 | Gloves, mittens and mitts, not being gloves, mittens or mitts that are of a kind worn solely or principally by industrial workers or by members of the medical, nursing and veterinary professions or are of the dress type | 17½%, or, if higher, $0.15 per doz pairs |
Third Schedule—continued
2.—continued
599mo | 39.07.12 | Goods, as follows:— (a) knives, forks and spoons; (b) lighting fittings and parts therefor; or (c) piping, being upholstery or trimming material | 5% |
599mp | 39.07.12 | Clothes pegs........................ | $0.125 per gross |
599mq | 39.07.12 | Artificial eyes....................... | (A): 24% |
599mr | 39.07.12 | X-ray protective aprons, lead impregnated..... | (A): 18% |
599ms | 39.07.12 | Goods, as follows:— (a) disposable ileo-colostomy drainage bags; (b) curtain clips; (c) curtain bands; (d) curtain loops; (e) curtain holders; (f) floats for fishing nets; (g) artificial flowers, foliage or fruit; (h) imitation precious stones and pearls, not being beads; (i) discs and other shapes suitable for use as watch glasses; (j) gloves, mittens or mitts that are of a kind worn solely or principally by industrial workers or by members of the medical, nursing and veterinary professions or are of the dress type; or (k) clips, tags, rings and the like, for the identification of animals, birds or fish | Free |
599mt | 39.07.19 | Goods, as follows:— (a) knives, forks and spoons; (b) lighting fittings and parts therefor; or (c) piping, being upholstery or trimming material | 5% |
599mu | 39.07.19 | Artificial eyes....................... | (A): 24% |
599mv | 39.07.19 | X-ray protective aprons, lead impregnated | (A): 18% |
599mw | 39.07.19 | Flat shapes of hardened casein, cut from rod or sheet but not further worked | (M): 18% |
599mx | 39.07.19 | Cones and parallel spinning tubes wholly or essentially of vulcanised fibre, of a kind used in the production or further processing of nylon and acetate yarns | $0.042 per lb |
599my | 39.07.19 | Goods, as follows:— (a) disposable ileo-colostomy drainage bags; (b) curtain clips; (c) curtain bands; (d) curtain loops; (e) curtain holders; (f) floats for fishing nets; (g) artificial flowers, foliage or fruit; (h) imitation precious stones and pearls, not being beads; (i) discs and other shapes suitable for use as watch glasses; (j) gloves, mittens or mitts that are of a kind worn solely or principally by industrial workers or by members of the medical, nursing and veterinary professions or are of the dress type; | Free |
Third Schedule—continued
2.—continued
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| (k) bobbins, spools, cops and similar supports wholly or essentially of vulcanised fibre, not being goods falling within the preceding item; or (l) clips, tags, rings and the like, for the identification of animals, birds or fish |
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599N | 39.07.21 | Disposable ileo-colostomy drainage bags............. | Free |
599NA | 39.07.22 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | 22½% |
599nb | 39.07.23 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | 22½% |
599nc | 39.07.24 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | 30% |
599nd | 39.07.25 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | 17½% |
599ne | 39.07.26 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | 17½% |
599nf | 39.07.27 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | 20% |
599ng | 39.07.29 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | 25% |
600 | 40.01.1 | Goods, not being— (a) creped or smoked; (b) latex; or (c) compounded, with or without the addition of mineral oil, before coagulation otherwise than with carbon black or silica | Free |
600a | 40.01.29 | Natural rubber, not creped or smoked............... | Free |
600b | 40.01.3 | Goods for use in the manufacture of chewing gum and chewing gum confectionery, not being— (a) creped or smoked; or (b) compounded, with or without the addition of mineral oil, before coagulation otherwise than with carbon black or silica | Free |
600c | 40.02.1 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | Free |
3. Omit item 792a, insert the following items:—
“792a | 50.09.3 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | Free |
792b | 50.09.9 | Goods wholly of silk, other than laminated or multi-plied fabrics | Free” |
4. Omit item 797, insert the following items:—
“796a | 50.10.1 | Goods wholly of noil silk, not being goods falling within a preceding item | Free |
797 | 50.10.2 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | Free”. |
Third Schedule—continued
5. Omit item 810a, insert the following items:—
“810a | 51.04.9 | Goods, not being goods falling within a preceding item | 52½%, or, if higher, $0.18 per sq yd; or, as an alternative, if lower, $0.48 per sq yd |
810b | 52.01 | Metallised yarn other than— (a) yarn containing sheep’s or lambs’ wool or fine animal hair; or (b) sewing, knitting, darning, embroidery or crochet yarn | Free”. |
6. After item 853 insert the following item:—
“853a | 55.09.522 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | Free”. |
7. After item 863c insert the following item:—
“863d | 56.07.99 | Goods, not being goods falling within the preceding item | 52½%, or, if higher, $0.18 per sq yd; or, as an alternative, if lower, $0.48 per sq yd”. |
8. Omit items 1090 to 1094 (inclusive), insert the following items:—
“1090 | 73.29.1 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | Free |
1091 | 73.29.9 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | Free”. |
FOURTH SCHEDULE Section 6.
AMENDMENTS OF THE PRINCIPAL ACT AS AMENDED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTIONS 3 TO 5 (INCLUSIVE) OF THIS ACT
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AMENDMENTS OF PART II. OF THE FIRST SCHEDULE
1. Omit sub-item 73.20.2, insert the following sub-item:—
“73.20.2 | - Malleable cast iron fittings............. | To and including 31 December 1972—60% | To and including 31 December 1972—60% |
| From and including 1 January 1973 to and including 31 December 1975—50% | From and including 1 January 1973 to and including 31 December 1975—50% | |
| From and including 1 January 1976—40% | From and including 1 January 1976—40%”. |
2. Omit note 13 to Chapter 84.
3. Omit sub-item 84.02.2, insert the following sub-item:—
“84.02.2 | - Other flue-heated economizers............... | 25% | 15%”. |
Fourth Schedule—continued
AMENDMENT OF PART V. OF THE FIFTH SCHEDULE
Omit item 1081r, insert the following item:—
“1081r | 73.20.2 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | To and including 31 December, 1972—45% |
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| From and including 1 January, 1973 to and including 31 December, 1975—35% | |
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| From and including 1 January, 1976—25%”. |
FIFTH SCHEDULE Section 7.
AMENDMENTS OF THE PRINCIPAL ACT AS AMENDED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTIONS 3 TO 6 (INCLUSIVE) OF THIS ACT
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AMENDMENTS OF PART II. OF THE FIRST SCHEDULE
1. Omit sub-item 87.06.3.
2. Omit sub-item 87.06.4, insert the following sub-items:—
87.06.4 | - Track shoe assemblies, assembled or unassembled, for track laying tractors; parts, other than shoes, therefor; parts and accessories for goods of a kind falling within sub-item 87.01.9, not being goods falling within a preceding sub-item of this item | 20% | 10% |
87.06.5 | - Parts and accessories for goods of a kind falling within sub-item 87.01.2 or 87.01.3, not being goods falling within a preceding sub-item of this item; parts and accessories for fire-engines of a kind falling within sub-item 87.03.1 | 7½% | Free”. |
AMENDMENT OF PART V. OF THE FIFTH SCHEDULE
After item 1560a insert the following item:—
“1560b | 87.06.4 | Track shoe assemblies and parts therefor | Free”. |
SIXTH SCHEDULE Section 8.
AMENDMENTS OF THE PRINCIPAL ACT AS AMENDED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTIONS 3 TO 7 (INCLUSIVE) OF THIS ACT
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AMENDMENTS OF PART II. OF THE FIRST SCHEDULE
1. Omit item 22.01, insert the following item:—
“22.01 | * Waters, including spa waters and aerated waters; ice and snow: |
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22.01.1 | - Spa waters and aerated waters; other goods put up in packs for retail sale | 12½% | 5% |
22.01.9 | - Other................................ | Free | Free”. |
2. Omit sub-item 92.07.9, insert the following sub-item:—
“92.07.9 | - Other................................ | 7½% | Free”. |
Sixth Schedule—continued
AMENDMENTS OF PART V. OF THE FIFTH SCHEDULE
1. Omit item 210a.
2. Omit item 670, insert the following item:—
“670 | 44.06 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | Free”. |
3. Omit items 690b to 691e (inclusive), insert the following items:—
“691 | 44.22 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | Free |
691a | 44.23.1 | Doors not incorporating locks, hinges or similar fittings | $0.60 each, or, if higher, $0.025 per superficial foot |
691b | 44.23.2 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | 22½% |
691c | 44.24.9 | Spoons and forks............................. | Free |
691d | 44.24.9 | Goods other than spoons and forks.................. | 22½%”. |
4. Omit items 692a to 692f (inclusive), insert the following items:—
“692a | 44.26 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | Free |
692b | 44.27.1 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | Free |
692c | 44.27.9 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | Free |
692d | 44.28.9 | Oars and sculls; beehives and frames therefor | Free |
692e | 44.28.9 | Burial and cremation caskets, unassembled or disassembled | (L): 16%”. |
5. Omit items 707 and 708, insert the following items:—
“707 | 48.01.91 | Wrapping, waxing or serviette tissue................ | Free |
707a | 48.01.91 | Goods, not being goods falling within a preceding item | (A): $41.60 per ton |
708 | 48.01.92 | Bleached kraft paper for use in the manufacture of milk cartons of tetrahedral shape; goods for use in wrapping fruit | Free”. |
6. Omit item 775c, insert the following item:—
“775c | 48.21.9 | Solid rods or sticks, of circular cross-section | Free”. |
7. Omit item 1579, insert the following item:—
“1579 | 90.04 | Goods, as follows:— (a) spectacles; (b) pince-nez; (c) lorgnettes; or (d) sunglasses, non-powered | Free”. |
8. Omit items 1718 to 1718b (inclusive), insert the following items:—
1718 | 97.04.9 | Parts of rubber................................ | 12½% | |
1718a | 97.04.9 | Parts of leather................................ | 22½% | |
1718b | 97.04.9 | Billiard tables................................ | To and including 31 December, 1973—14% | |
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| From and including 1 January, 1974, to and including 31 December, 1975—10½% | |
Sixth Schedule—continued
8.—continued
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| From and including 1 January, 1976, to and including 31 December, 1977—7% From and including 1 January, 1978, to and including 31 December, 1979—3½% From and including 1 January. 1980—Free |
1718c | 97.05 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | Free”. |
SEVENTH SCHEDULE Section 9.
AMENDMENTS OF THE PRINCIPAL ACT AS AMENDED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTIONS 3 TO 8 (INCLUSIVE) OF THIS ACT
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AMENDMENTS OF PART II. OF THE FIRST SCHEDULE
1. Omit item 29.34, insert the following item:—
“29.34 | * Other organo-inorganic compounds: |
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29.34.1 | - Tetraethyl-lead; tetramethyl-lead.............. | 17½% | 10% |
29.34.9 | - Other................................ | 7½% | Free”. |
2. After sub-item 38.14.1 insert the following sub-item:—
“38.14.2 | - Anti-knock preparations based on tetraethyl-lead or tetramethyl-lead | 17½% | 10%”. |
3. Omit note 5 to Chapter 84.
4. Omit items 84.01 to 84.05 (inclusive), insert the following items:—
“84.01 | * Steam and other vapour generating boilers (excluding central heating hot water boilers capable also of producing low pressure steam) | 25% | 15% |
84.02 | * Auxiliary plant for use with steam and other vapour generating boilers (including economisers, superheaters, soot removers, gas recoverers and the like); condensers for vapour engines and power units | 25% | 15% |
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 | 30% | 20% |
84.04 | * Steam engines (including mobile engines, but not including steam tractors falling within item 87.01 or mechanically propelled road rollers) with self-contained boilers | 7½% | Free |
84.05 | * Steam and other vapour power units, not incorporating boilers | 7½% | Free”. |
5. Omit items 84.13 and 84.14, insert the following items:—
“84.13 | * Furnace burners for liquid fuel (that is to say, atomisers), and furnace burners for pulverised solid fuel or for gas; mechanical stokers, mechanical grates, mechanical ash dischargers and similar appliances: |
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84.13.1 | - Mechanical stokers, mechanical grates, mechanical ash dischargers and similar appliances | 20% | 10% |
84.13.9 | - Other.................................... | 30% | 20% |
84.14 | * Industrial and laboratory furnaces and ovens, nonelectric | 20% | 10%”. |
6. Omit sub-items 84.22.5 and 84.22.6, insert the following sub-item:—
“84.22.5 | - Coal conveyors, ore conveyors and ore belt distributors; teleferics and aerial cableways | In respect of the conveyor or elevator belting, if any, for coal conveyors, ore conveyors and ore belt distributors—35%; in respect of the remainder of the goods—20% | In respect of the conveyor or elevator belting, if any, for coal conveyors, ore conveyors and ore belt distributors—25%; in respect of the remainder of the goods—10%”. |
7. Omit sub-items 84.23.5 and 84.23.9, insert the following sub-item:—
“84.23.9 | - Other: |
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84.23.91 | - - Diamond drilling machines and parts and accessories therefor other than core barrel assemblies, reamer shells and drill rods or pipes; augering machines; rock boring machines; rock cutting machines other than coal cutting machines | 30% | 20% |
84.23.92 | - - Drill rods or pipes for diamond drilling machines | 20% | 10% |
84.23.99 | - - Other................................... | 7½% | Free”. |
8. Omit item 84.43, insert the following item:—
“84.43 | * Converters, ladles, ingot moulds and casting machines, of a kind used in metallurgy and in metal foundries: |
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84.43.1 | - Pressure casting machines....................... | 30% | 20% |
84.43.9 | - Other.................................... | 20% | 10%”. |
9. Omit item 84.56, insert the following item:—
“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: |
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84.56.1 | - Runner mills being pestles and mortars | 7½% | Free |
84.56.2 | - Asphalt plants; brick presses; concrete mixers; jaw crushing or grinding machines having a working weight less than 50 tons; vertical rotary crushing or grinding machines having a working weight less than 50 tons | 30% | 20% |
84.56.9 | - Other.................................... | 20% | 10%”. |
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10. Omit from sub-item 84.59.1:—
“(l) runner mills;”.
11. Omit sub-items 90.01.1 and 90.01.2, insert the following sub-items:—
“90.01.1 | - Ophthalmic powered lenses; shaped eyepieces, not powered and other than of glass, for spectacles, goggles and the like | 37½% | 17½% |
90.01.2 | - Powered glass lenses, not being goods falling within sub-item 90.01.1 | 7½% | Free”. |
12. After sub-item 97.03.2 insert the following sub-item:—
“97.03.3 | - Goods of a kind that— (a) have a counterpart falling within an item outside the items in Chapter 97; and (b) perform, albeit in an inferior manner, similar work or functions to that counterpart, viz.:— Microscopes | The rate of duty set out in this column in the tariff classification that would apply to the goods if they were their counterpart | The rate of duty set out in this column in the tariff classification that would apply to the goods if they were their counterpart”. |
AMENDMENT OF PART II. OF THE SECOND SCHEDULE
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AMENDMENTS OF PART II. OF THE THIRD SCHEDULE
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“Item | 21.06 | Goods not put up for retail sale”. | ||
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“Item | 21.06 | Yeasts”. | ||
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“Paragraph | 84.01.23 | ”. | ||
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“Paragraph | 84.13.92 | ”. | ||
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“Sub-item | 84.14.2 | Goods for use in the mining industry”. | ||
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“Paragraph | 84.23.92 | ”. | ||
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“Sub-item | 84.43.2 | ”. | ||
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“Paragraph | 84.56.11 | Goods for use in the mining industry”. |
AMENDMENTS OF PART IV. OF THE THIRD SCHEDULE
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“Sub-item Paragraph Sub-item Item Item Sub-item Sub-item | 84.01.1 84.01.29 84.02.9 84.03 84.04 84.05.2 84.05.9 | ”. | |
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“Sub-item Sub-item Paragraph Sub-item | 84.13.1 84.14.3 84.14.99 84.43.4 | ”. | |
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“Paragraph | 84.56.91 | ”. |
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AMENDMENTS OF PART V. OF THE FIFTH SCHEDULE
1. Omit item 401, insert the following item:—
“401 | 29.34.1 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | Free”. |
2. Omit items 571b to 571d (inclusive), insert the following items:—
“571b | 38.14.2 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | Free |
571c | 38.15.1 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | (D): 24% |
57ld | 38.15.2 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | (D): 12%”. |
3. Omit items 1308 to 1312 (inclusive), insert the following items:—
“1308 | 84.01 | Forged seamless steel headers, staggered or stepped or staggered and stepped; forged seamless steel mud drums; forged steel cross boxes for rivetting to drums; forged steel rear cross pipes for double or triple drum boilers; forged steel impressed (that is to say, stepped) tube plates for drums; forged seamless steel boxes for water walls | Free |
1309 | 84.01 | Tubes................................ | 10% |
1310 | 84.02 | Economisers, flue-heated................... | Free”. |
4. Omit items 1325 to 1327 (inclusive), insert the following items:—
“1325 | 84.13.9 | Atomising nozzles for furnace burners using liquid fuel | 10% |
1325a | 84.13.9 | Furnace burners for gas.................... | 17½% |
1326 | 84.14 | Rotary furnaces and quenching tanks combined, for annealing and hardening; assay furnaces | Free |
1327 | 84.14 | Roasters, sintering machines, blast furnaces, bullion kettles, desilverising kettles, cupelling furnaces, retorting furnaces and refining furnaces | 7½%”. |
5. Omit item 1342, insert the following items:—
“1342 | 84.22.5 | Coal conveyors, ore conveyors and ore belt distributors | In respect of conveyor or elevator belting of leather or greenhide—12½%; in respect of conveyor or elevator belting of other material—25%; in respect of the remainder of the goods—7½% |
1342a | 84.22.5 | Teleferics and aerial cableways............... | In respect of cable and structural steelwork—10%; in respect of the remainder of the goods—Free”. |
6. Omit items 1349b to 1350c (inclusive), insert the following items:—
“1350 | 84.23.91 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | Free |
1350a | 84.24.11 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | In respect of a component specified in note 7 to Chapter 84 in the First Schedule—the rate of duty set out in column 4 in the tariff classification in the First Schedule that would apply to the |
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1350b | 84.24.19 | Goods to which the tariff classification specified in column 2 of this item applies | Free”. |
7. After item 1414 insert the following items:—
“1414a | 84.43.1 | Pressure casting machines, having a clamping capacity of not less than 70 tons and not more than 1,200 tons | 17½% |
1414b | 84.43.1 | Goods, not being goods falling within the preceding item | Free |
1414c | 84.43.9 | Centrifugal casting machines............... | Free |
1414d | 84.43.9 | Goods, as follows:— (a) converters; (b) ladles | 7½%”. |
8. Omit items 1458 to 1461 (inclusive), insert the following items:—
“1458 | 84.56.2 | Machinery specially designed for use in the mining and metallurgical industries | 7½% |
1459 | 84.56.2 | Goods, as follows:— (a) concrete mixers; (b) crushing machines | 17½% |
1460 | 84.56.9 | Goods, as follows:— (a) core blowing machines, air operated; (b) foundry moulding machines; (c) sand slinger machines of a kind commonly used in foundries | Free |
1461 | 84.56.9 | Goods, as follows:— (a) machinery specially designed for use in the mining and metallurgical industries; (b) wedged wire screens and sieves | 7½%”. |