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Ref : EIC 230/3

25 June 2008

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 338/2008

European Union (EU)* : Temporary Tariff Suspension for Certain Industrial, Agricultural and Fishery Products

Further to Commercial Information Circular No. 538/2007 of 31 December 2007, the Council of the EU (the Council) has adopted a regulation amending the list of products of which import tariffs will be partially or totally suspended. The regulation can be accessed through the following link:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2008:164:0001:0009:EN:PDF.

DETAILS

2. Temporary tariff suspension applies to products which the Community does not have sufficient supply to meet the needs. Products for which tariff duties are temporarily suspended can be imported into the Community at reduced or zero rate automatically, regardless of origin and quantity. 
3. The Council has extended tariff suspension to a number of new products. At the same time, certain previously listed products have been removed from the list due to technical product developments and economic trends on the market. Details of the amendments to the product coverage are set out in the regulation and its annex. The regulation shall apply from 1 July 2008.

ENQUIRIES

4. For enquiries about the content of this circular, please contact the undersigned at telephone number 2398 5351.

Yours faithfully,

(TANG Yu Him)

for Director-General of Trade and Industry

* The EU includes Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.