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Ref. : EIC 230/3
20 January 2025
Dear Sirs,
Further to the Commercial Information Circular No. 527/2024 of 2 July 2024, the Council of the EU has adopted Regulation (EU) 2024/3213 published on 19 December 2024 to amend Regulation (EU) 2021/2283 opening and providing for the management of autonomous tariff quotas of the EU for certain agricultural and industrial products.
2.Autonomous tariff quotas at preferential duty rates apply to products of which the production in the EU is insufficient to meet the specific requirements of the user industries in the EU. Those products can be imported into the EU at reduced or zero duty rates within a specified quota period and volume.
3.Details of the amendment including CN and TARIC codes, product descriptions, quota periods, volumes and duty rates are set out in Article 1 and the Annex of Regulation (EU) 2024/3213 which shall apply from 1 January 2025 and is available at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:L_202403213.
4.For enquiries concerning the content of this circular, please contact the undersigned at 2398 5684.
Yours faithfully,
(Miss Jenny MOK)
for Director-General of Trade and Industry
* The EU comprises 27 member countries, namely, 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 and Sweden.
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