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Customs Duties (ECSC) (Quota and Other Reliefs) Order 1989

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JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1989/2421
Year1989

1989No. 2421

CUSTOMS AND EXCISE

The Customs Duties (ECSC) (Quota and Other Reliefs) Order

1989

20thDecember1989

21stdecember1989

1stJanuary1990

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 1 and 4 of the Customs and Excise Duties (General Reliefs) Act 1979 ( a) and all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:-

1.-(1) This Order may be cited as the Customs Duties (ECSC) (Quota and Other Reliefs) Order 1989 and shall come into force on 1st January 1990.

(2) In this Order-

references to a heading or subheading are references to a heading or subheading in the Combined Nomenclature of the European Economic Community ( b);

references to customs duty are references to duty charged by the Customs Duties (ECSC) Order 1987 ( c) in relation to the goods;

"the EEC Regulations" means Commission Regulation (EEC) No. 3749/83 ( d), Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2955/85 ( e) and Commission Regulation (EEC) No. 2466/86 ( f) on the concept of originating products.

2.-(1) Up to and including 31st December 1990, no customs duty shall be charged on goods-

(a) which fall within a heading or subheading in Part I of Schedule I hereto (certain iron and steel products) and(b) which originate in any country named in Schedule 2 hereto other than a country named in column 2 of Part III of Schedule 1 hereto in relation to that heading or subheading as specified in column 1 thereof.

This paragraph shall not apply in respect of any goods falling within any of the headings 7207, 7208, 7209, 7210, 7211, 7212, 7213, 7214, 7215 or 7228 originating in China nor in respect of any goods originating in Yugoslavia.

(2) Up to and including 31st December 1990, no customs duty shall be charged on goods-

(a) 1979 c.3.

(b) See Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2658/87 (O.J. No. L256, 7.9.87).

(c) S.I. 1987/2184, as amended by S.I. 1988/1065, 1314, 2055, 1989/1088 and 1610.

(d) O.J. No. L372, 31.12.83, amended by Commission Regulations (EEC) No. 3606/84 (O.J. L333 21.12.84), No. 1968/86 (O.J. L170, 27.6.86) and No. 1250/87 (O.J. No. L118, 6.5.87).

(e) O.J. No. L285, 25.10.85.

(f) O.J. No. L211, 1.8.86.

(a) which fall within a heading or subheading specified in Part II of Schedule 1 hereto (certain iron and steel products) and(b) which originate in a country named in Schedule 2 hereto.

(3) Up to and including 31st December 1990, no customs duty shall be charged on goods which fall within the headings 7209 or 7219 and originate in Romania.

(4) Paragraphs (1), (2) and (3) above shall only apply to goods in respect of which an importer delivers an entry thereof for home use (within the meaning of section 37 of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 ( a) and regulation 13 of the Customs Warehousing Regulations 1979 ( b)) containing an application for relief from customs duty in the United Kingdom on or after 1st January 1990 accompanied by such documents as may be required under the provisions of the EEC Regulations. This paragraph shall not apply in respect of any goods falling within the headings 7207, 7211 or 7212 originating in Yugoslavia.

3.-(1) Up to and including 31st December 1990, no customs duty shall be charged on goods falling within a heading or subheading specified in column 1 of Part III of Schedule 1 hereto (certain iron and steel products) which originate in a country named in column 2 in relation to that heading or subheading if they form part of the relevant quota.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1) of this article the "relevant quota" in relation to any heading or subheading means the amount (expressed as a value in pounds) of goods specified in column 3 of Part III of Schedule 1 hereto in relation to the heading or subheading in respect of each of the countries named in column 2 in relation to that heading or subheading.

(3) Article 4 of the Customs Duties Quota Relief (Administration) Order 1986 ( c) shall apply for the purposes of this article subject to the modification that the application for relief from customs duty shall be accompanied by such documents as may be required under the provisions of the EEC Regulations.

4. For the purpose of this Order goods shall be treated as originating in a country named in column 2 of Part III of Schedule 1 or in Schedule 2 hereto or Romania if they are to be regarded as so originating by virtue of the EEC Regulations.

Trefgarne

20th December 1989

Department of Trade and Industry

(a) 1979 c.2.

(b) S.I. 1979/207.

(c) S.I. 1986/2174.

SCHEDULE 1

Article 2(1)

PART I

COMBINED NOMENCLATURE HEADINGS

SCHEDULE 1: Part I

Article 2(2)

PART II

COMBINED NOMENCLATURE HEADINGS

Article 3

PART III

(1)

(2)

(3)

Combined Nomenclature headings

Country of Origin

Amount of Quotas

Brazil

Venezuela

SCHEDULE 1: Part III

(1)

(2)

(3)

Combined Nomenclature headings

Country of Origin

Amount of Quotas

Argentina

Brazil

SCHEDULE 1: Part III

(1)

(2)

(3)

Combined Nomenclature headings

Country of Origin

Amount of Quotas

Brazil

SCHEDULE 1: Part III

(1)

(2)

(3)

Combined Nomenclature headings

Country of Origin

Amount of Quotas

SCHEDULE 1: Part III

(1)

(2)

(3)

Combined Nomenclature headings

Country of Origin

Amount of Quotas

Argentina

Brazil

Venezuela

SCHEDULE 2

PART I

INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES

Afghanistan

Laos Peoples' Democratic Republic

Algeria

Lebanon

Angola

Lesotho

Antigua and Barbuda

Liberia

Argentina

Libya

Bahamas

Madagascar

Bahrain

Malawi

Bangladesh

Malaysia

Barbados

Maldives, Republic of

Belize

Mali

Benin

Marshall Islands, Republic of

Bhutan

Mauritania

Bolivia

Mauritius

Botswana

Mexico

Brazil

Micronesia, Federated States of

Brunei Darussalam

Morocco

Burkina, Peoples' Democratic Republic of

Mozambique

Burma (Myanmar)

Nauru

Burundi

Nepal

Cambodia

Nicaragua

Cameroon

Niger

Cape Verde, Republic of

Nigeria

Central African Republic

Oman

Chad

Pakistan

Chile

Palau, Republic of

China

Panama

Colombia

Papua New Guinea

Comoros

Paraguay

Congo, Peoples' Republic of

Peru

Costa Rica

Philippines

Cuba

Qatar

Cyprus

Rwanda

Djibouti

Sao Tome and Principe

Dominica

Saudi Arabia

Dominican Republic

Senegal

Ecuador

Seychelles and Dependencies

Egypt

Sierra Leone

El Salvador

Singapore

Equatorial Guinea

Solomon Islands

Ethiopia

Somalia

Fiji

Sri Lanka

Gabon

St Christopher and Nevis, Federation of

Gambia

St Lucia

Ghana

St Vincent

Grenada

Sudan

Guatemala

Surinam

Guinea

Swaziland

Guinea Bissau

Syria

Guyana

Tanzania

Haiti

Thailand

Honduras

Togo

India

Tonga

Indonesia

Trinidad and Tobago

Iran

Tunisia

Iraq

Tuvalu

Ivory Coast

Uganda

Jamaica

United Arab Emirates

Jordan

Uruguay

Kenya

Vanuatu

Kiribati

Venezuela

Kuwait

Vietnam

SCHEDULE 2: Part I

Western Samoa, Independent State of

Yemen, People's Democratic Republic of

Yemen Arab Republic

Yugoslavia

Zaire

Zambia

Zimbabwe

PART II

COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES DEPENDENT OR ADMINISTERED OR FOR WHOSE EXTERNAL RELATIONS MEMBER STATES OF THE COMMUNITY OR THIRD COUNTRIES ARE WHOLLY OR PARTLY RESPONSIBLE

American Oceania(a)

Anguilla

Aruba

Australian Antarctic Territories

Australian Oceania (Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Norfolk Island)

Bermuda

British Antarctic Territory

British Indian Ocean Territory

British Virgin Islands and Montserrat

Cayman Islands

Falkland Islands

French Polynesia

French Southern and Antarctic Territories

Gibraltar

Greenland

Hong Kong

Macao

Mayotte

Netherlands Antilles

New Caledonia and Dependencies

New Zealand Oceania (Cook Islands, Niue Islands, Tokelau Islands)

Pitcairn

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

St Helena

St Helena Dependencies

St Pierre and Miquelon

Turks and Caicos Islands

Virgin Islands of the United States

Wallis and Futuna Islands

(a) American Oceania includes: Guam, American Samoa (including Swain's Island), Midway Islands, Johnston and Sand Islands, Wake Island.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order, which comes into force on 1st January 1990, provides for reliefs from customs duty (in so far as it is charged) on certain iron and steel products originating in the developing countries named...

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