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Ref : EIC 230/20/1

21 December 2009

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 640/2009

European Union (EU)* : Amendment to Annex I to Council Regulation Applying a Scheme of Generalised Tariff Preferences

Further to Commercial Information Circular No. 414/2008 of 11 August 2008, the European Commission (the Commission) has published a regulation on 17 December 2009 amending Annex I to Council Regulation No. 732/2008 of 22 July 2008 applying a scheme of generalised tariff preferences (GSP) from 1 January 2009 to 31 December 2011. The regulation can be accessed through the following link :
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:332:0038:0045:EN:PDF

DETAILS

  1. Under the GSP scheme, the EU accords tariff preferences to a range of agricultural and industrial products originating in 171 developing economies. For details of the GSP scheme, please refer to Commercial Information Circular No. 414/2008. Annex I to Council Regulation (EC) No. 732/2008, which lists out the beneficiary economies of the Community's scheme of generalise tariff preferences, is now amended and replaced by the Annex to the regulation of 17 December 2009.

ENQUIRIES

  1. For enquiries concerning the contents of this circular, please contact the undersigned at telephone number 2398 5350.

Yours faithfully,



(Miss Karen CHAN)
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.



Note ：

  • (1) While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the above information, the Department cannot guarantee this to be so and will not be held liable for any reliance placed on the same.
  • (2) The biweekly newsletter "Business Alert - EU" of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council provides up-to-date information on the latest developments in EU trade policy and trade regulations. The newsletter is available for free e-subscription and can be accessed through
    http://www.tdctrade.com/alert/eualert.htm.