
Customs Tariff Amendment Act (No. 2) 1995
An Act to amend the Customs Tariff Act 1987, and for related purposes
[Assented to 12 October 1995]
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1.(1) This Act may be cited as the Customs Tariff Amendment Act (No. 2) 1995.
(2) In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Customs Tariff Act 19871.
Commencement
2.(1) Sections 1 and 2 commence on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.
(2) Section 3 is taken to have commenced on 1 January 1995.
(3) Section 4 is taken to have commenced on 7 July 1994.
(4) Section 5 is taken to have commenced on 18 November 1994.
(5) Section 6 is taken to have commenced on 1 January 1995.
(6) Section 7 commences on 1 January 1996.
Indexation of rates of duty
3. Section 26 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the Table from subsection (1) and substituting the following Table:
"TABLE
Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 1 | Column 2 | |
Customs | Excise item | Customs | Excise item | |
subheading |
| subheading |
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2203.00.10 | 1(C) | 2403.10.00 | 8 |
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2206.00.11 | 2(O) | 2403.99.20 | 9 |
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2206.00.12 | 2(H)(1) | 2403.99.90 | 6 |
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2207.10.00 | 2(O) | 2707.50.11 | 11(C)(2)(a) |
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2208.20.10 | 2(A) | 2707.50.19 | 11(C)(2)(b) |
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2208.20.90 | 2(H)(1) | 2710.00.19 | It (G)(2) |
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2208.30.00 | 2(D) | 2710.00.20 | 11(E)(2) |
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2208.40.00 | 2(F) | 2710.00.30 | 11(E)(3) |
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2208.50.00 | 2(H)(1) | 2710.00.40 | 11(D) |
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2208.90.00 | 2(H)(1) | 2710.00.51 | 11(A)(3)(a) |
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2402.10.00 | 7 | 2710.00.52 | 11(A)(3)(b) |
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2402.20.00 | 8 | 2710.00.53 | 11(A)(3)(c) | " |
Amendment of Part III of Schedule 4
4. Schedule 4 to the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end the description of goods covered by item 63 in Part III of that Schedule:
“; or
specimens used for the comparison and assessment of laboratory practices; or
specimens of materials or substances which are to be examined as part of a program of developing a reference material”.
Amendments of Schedule 3 having effect from 18 November 1994
5. The Principal Act is amended as set out in Schedule 1.
Amendments of Schedules 3 and 4 having effect from 1 January 1995
6. The Principal Act is amended as set out in Schedule 2.
Amendment of Schedule 3 having effect from 1 January 1996
7. The Principal Act is amended as set out in Schedule 3.
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AMENDMENTS HAVING EFFECT FROM 18 NOVEMBER 1994
1. | Omit 5702.39.20, substitute: |
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| "5702.39.20 | ---Goods, NSA, as follows: | Free”. |
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| (a) of sisal or jute; |
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| (b) of 100% cotton, or in which the pile is of 100% cotton |
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2. | Omit 5702.49.20, substitute: |
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| “5702.49.20 | ---Goods, NSA, as follows: | Free”. |
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| (a) of sisal or jute; |
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| (b) of 100% cotton, or in which the pile is of 100% cotton; |
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| (c) handmade |
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3. | Omit 5702.59.10, substitute: |
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| “5702.59.10 | ---Goods, as follows: | Free". |
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| (a) of sisal or jute; |
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| (b) of 100% cotton |
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4. | Omit 5702.99.10, substitute: |
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| “5702.99.10 | ---Goods, as follows: | Free”. |
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| (a) of sisal or jute; |
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| (b) of 100% cotton; |
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| (c) handmade |
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5. | Omit 5703.90.10, substitute: |
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| “5703.90.10 | ---Goods, as follows: | Free”. |
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| (a) of coir, sisal or jute; |
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| (b) of 100% cotton, or in which the pile is of 100% cotton |
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6. | Omit 5705.00.20, substitute: |
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| "5705.00.20 | ---Goods, as follows: | Free”. |
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| (a) of coir, sisal or jute; |
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| (b) of 100% cotton, or in which the pile is of 100% cotton; |
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| (c) handmade |
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7. | Omit 5806.39.10, substitute: |
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| “5806.39.10 | ---Of 100% hemp, of 100% jute or of 100% | Free”. |
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| hemp and jute |
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8. | Omit 6301.30.10, substitute: |
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| “6301.30.10 | ---Goods, weighing 339 g/m2 or more, | Free”. |
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| of 100% cotton |
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9. | Omit 6301.90). 10, substitute |
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| "6301.90.10 | ---Goods, weighing 3.39 g/m2 or more. of 100% viscose fibre | Free”. |
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AMENDMENTS HAVING EFFECT FROM 1 JANUARY 1995
1. Omit 2401 to 2403, substitute: |
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‘‘2401 | UNMANUFACTURED TOBACCO; TOBACCO REFUSE; |
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2401.10.00 | - Tobacco, not stemmed/stripped | Free |
2401.20.00 | - Tobacco, partly or wholly stemmed/stripped | Free |
2401.30.00 | - Tobacco refuse | Free |
2402 | CIGARS, CHEROOTS, CIGARILLOS AND CIGARETTES, OF TOBACCO OR OF TOBACCO SUBSTITUTES: |
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2402.10.00 | - Cigars, cheroots and cigarillos, containing tobacco | $67.47/kg |
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2402.20.00 | - Cigarettes containing tobacco | $67.47/kg |
2402.90.00 | - Other | Free |
2403 | OTHER MANUFACTURED TOBACCO AND MANUFACTURED TOBACCO SUBSTITUTES; "HOMOGENISED” OR “RECONSTITUTED” TOBACCO; TOBACCO EXTRACTS AND ESSENCES: |
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2403.10.00 | - Smoking tobacco, whether or not containing tobacco substitutes in any proportion | $67.47/kg |
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2403.9 | - Other: |
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2403.91.00 | -- “Homogenised" or “reconstituted” tobacco | Free |
2403.99 | -- Other: |
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2403.99.10 | --- Not containing tobacco | Free |
2403.99.20 | --- Snuff | $1.59/kg |
| 2403.99.90 - | --- Other | $67.47/kg |
2. | Omit 9032.90.90, substitute: |
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| “9032.90.9 - | --- Other: |
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| 9032.90.91 - | ---- Of a kind used as replacement components in passenger motor vehicles | 11% |
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| From 1 January 1996 | 9% |
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| From 1 January 1997 | 8% |
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| From 1 January 1998 | 6% |
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| From 1 January 1999 | 5% |
| 9032.90.99 - | ---- Other | 10% |
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| From 1 July 1995 | 8% |
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| From 1 July 1996 | 5% |
Amendments of Part III of Schedule 4
3. Omit items 35B and 35C.
4. Omit the Table to item 53A, substitute:
“TABLE
3917.22.00 | 4012.10.00 |
3917.23.00 | 4012.20.00 |
3917.29.00 | 4016.91.00 |
4010.10.00 | 4016.93.00 |
4011.10.00 | 4016.99.00 |
4011.20.00 | 5911.9010”. |
AMENDMENT HAVING EFFECT FROM 1 JANUARY 1996
Amendment of Schedule 3
Omit 8531.10.10, substitute: |
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“8531.10.1 | - - - Burglar alarms: |
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8531.10.11 | - - - - Of a kind used as replacement components in passenger motor vehicles | 14% |
| DC:9% | |
DCS: 10% | ||
| From 1 January 1997 | 13% |
| From 1 January 1998 | 11% |
| From 1 January 1999 | 10% |
8531.10.19 | - - - - Other | 8% |
| From 1 July 1996 | 5% |
NOTE
1. No. 82, 1987, as amended. For previous amendments, see Nos. 43 and 147, 1987; Nos. 60 and 68, 1988; Nos. 27, 67, 74 and 176, 1989; No. 127, 1990; Nos. 81 and 187, 1991; Nos. 96 and 236, 1992; Nos. 45, 47 and 99, 1993; and Nos. 87 and 152, 1994.
[Minister's second reading speech made in—
House of Representatives on 21 June 1995 Senate on 22 June 1995]