Commercial Information Circular

24-hour hotline : 23 922 922

e-mail address : enquiry@tid.gov.hk

Ref. : EIC 230/3

30 December 2022

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 995/2022

European Union (EU)* : Tariff quotas for certain agricultural and industrial products

Further to the Commercial Information Circular No. 532/2022 of 29 June 2022, the Council of the EU (the Council) has adopted a Regulation (EU) 2022/2563 published on 23 December 2022 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) 2022/2563 which shall apply from 1 January 2023 and is available at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32022R2563&from=EN.

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

Yours faithfully,

(Miss Tracy MAK)
for Director-General of Trade and Industry

* The EU comprises of 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.