Customs Duties (ECSC) Order 1981
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1981 No. 1769
CUSTOMS AND EXCISE
The Customs Duties (ECSC) Order 19819thDecember 1981
10thDecember 1981
1stJanuary 1982
The Treasury, by virtue of the powers conferred on them by section 5(1) and (3) of the European Communities Act 1972(a) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, on the recommendation of the Secretary of State, hereby make the following Order:—
Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Customs Duties (ECSC) Order 1981 and shall come into operation on 1st January 1982.
Goods to which this Order applies
2. This Order shall apply to goods covered by the E.C.S.C. Treaty included, for information purposes, in the Schedule of Customs Duties (hereinafter referred to as "the CCT Schedule") forming part of the common customs tariff of the European Economic Community (b).
Classification of goods for customs duty purposes
3.—(1) The nomenclature for the goods to which this Order applies shall be that set out in columns 1 and 2 of the CCT Schedule where the goods are of a description followed by the letters "ECSC" in column 2 in relation to any heading or subheading of Chapter 26, 27 or 73 of the Schedule and shall with the footnotes thereto be used in classifying such goods for the purposes of duties charged under this Order.
(2) The nomenclature so set out shall be interpreted and applied in accordance with Rules 1–5 in Part A of the General Rules preceding the CCT Schedule.
(3) The Rules in Part C of the said General Rules shall be applied both to the said nomenclature and to the customs duties charged under this Order.
(a) 1972 c. 68; section 5(3) was amended by the Customs and Excise Duties (General Reliefs) Act 1979 (c. 3), section 19(1) and Schedule 2, para. 3.
(b) See the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No. 950/68 (OJ No L172, 22.7.1968, p. 1) as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No. 3300/81 (OJ No L335, 23.11.1981, p. 1).
Rates of customs duties
4.—(1) Where in relation to any goods which are of a heading or subheading of Chapter 26, 27 or 73 of the CCT Schedule and are of a description referred to in Article 3(1) hereto a rate of customs duty is shown in column 4 of the CCT Schedule and the duty does not solely relate to goods imported into another member State of the European Communities, then, on the importation into the United Kingdom of goods classified in that heading or subheading, other than goods imported from another member State which originate in or are in free circulation in that...
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