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Ref : EIC 230/3

2 July 2013

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 519/2013

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

Further to the Commercial Information Circular No. 1080/2012 of 21 December 2012, the Council of the EU has adopted a regulation to amend the list of agricultural, fishery and industrial products of which import tariffs will be partially or totally suspended.  The amending regulation can be accessed through the following link:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2013:179:0022:0042:EN:PDF.

DETAILS

2.Temporary tariff suspension applies to products of which production is inadequate or non-existent and thus, the needs of user industries in the Union cannot be met.  Products for which tariff duties are temporarily suspended can be imported into the Union at reduced or zero rate.

3.              The Council has amended the existing regulation on temporary suspension of tariff duties on certain industrial, agricultural and fishery products to insert and to delete a number of products to reflect the Union's interest.  Descriptions of some products are modified in order to take account of technical product developments and economic trends on the market as well as linguistic adaptations, while other amendments are necessitated by changes of TARIC classification, etc.  It is also considered in the interest of the Union to amend the date for mandatory review in respect of three products.  Details of the amendments are set out in the amending regulation and its annexes which shall apply from 1 July 2013.

ENQUIRIES

4.For enquiries concerning the contents of this circular, please contact the undersigned at telephone number 2398 5684.

Yours faithfully,
 

(Miss Stella CHAN)
for Director-General of Trade and Industry

* The EU includes Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, 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.