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Document 21969A0206(01)

/* Agreement with the Republic of South Africa negotiated under Article XXVIII (1) of GATT, signed in Geneva on 6 February 1969 */

OJ L 206, 15.8.1969, p. 27–29 (DE, FR, IT, NL)

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ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/agree_internation/1969/263/oj

Related Council decision

21969A0206(01)

Accord avec la République d'Afrique du Sud négocié au titre de l'article XXVIII paragraphe 1 du G.A.T.T., signé à Genève le 6 février 1969

Journal officiel n° L 206 du 15/08/1969 p. 0027 - 0029


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ANNEXE

Négociations relatives à la liste XVIII - Afrique du Sud

Les délégations de l'Afrique du Sud et de la Commission des Communautés européennes ont achevé leurs négociations au titre de l'article XXVIII en vue de la modification ou du retrait de concessions visées à la liste XVIII comme il résulte du tableau ci-joint .

... Pour la délégation de l'Afrique du Sud

... Pour la délégation de la Commission des Communautés européennes

6 février 1969

Results of Negotiations and Consultations with the Commission of the European Communities under Article XXVIII for the Modification or Withdrawal of Concessions in the Schedule of South Africa

CHANGES IN SCHEDULE XVIII - SOUTH AFRICA

A . Concessions to be withdrawn

Tariff Item Number * Description of Products * Rates of Duty bound in Existing Schedule *

ex 17.02 * Other sugars ; sugar syrups ; artificial honey ( whether or not mixed with natural honey ) ; caramel : * *

* Golden syrup * 45c per 100 Ib . *

ex 20.04 * Fruit , fruit-peel and parts of plants , preserved by sugar ( drained , glacé or crystallised ) : * *

* Drained glacé cherries * Free *

ex 28.47 * Salts of metallic acids ( for example , chromates , permanganates , stannates ) : * *

* Potassium permanganate in containers of not less than 10 Ib . each * Free *

ex 29.16 * Alcohol-acids , aldehyde-acids , ketone-acids , phenol-acids and other single or complex oxygen-function acids , and their anhydrides , acid halides , acid peroxides and peracids , and their halogenated , sulphonated , nitrated or nitrosated derivatives : * *

Tariff Item Number * Description of Products * Rates of Duty bound in Existing Schedule *

* Acids : * *

* Citric acid : * *

* In containers of less than 10 Ib . each * 15 % *

* In containers of not less than 10 Ib . each * 15 % *

* Salicylic acid : * 15 % *

ex 29.31 * Organo-sulphur compounds : * *

* Potassium xanthates in containers of not less than 10 Ib . each * Free *

ex 32.13 * Writing ink , printing ink and other inks : * *

* Printing ink , not put up for use on office machines * Free *

* Machine ruling ink , in powder form * Free *

ex 73.27 * Gauze , cloth , grill , netting , fencing , reinforcing fabric and similar materials , of iron or steel wire : * *

* Gauze , sieving and screening , of metal , for use in connection with machinery ; woven wire screening for mining purposes ; rubber-coated metal screening in sheets for industrial or mining purposes * Free *

ex 82.02 * Saws ( non-mechanical ) and blades for hand or machine saws ( including toothless saw blades ) : * *

* Serrated saw banding * 3 % *

ex 82.05 * Interchangeable tools for hand tools , for machine tools or for power-operated hand tools ( for example , for pressing , stamping , drilling , tapping , threading , boring , broaching , milling , cutting , turning , dressing , morticing or screw driving ) , including dies for wire drawing , extrusion dies for metal , and rock drilling bits : * *

* Taps and dies * 3 % *

ex 84.11 * Air pumps , vacuum pumps and air or gas compressors ( including motor and turbo pumps and compressors , and free-piston generators for gas turbines ) ; fans , blowers and the like : * *

* Air compressors * 3 % *

ex 84.23 * Excavating , levelling , tamping , boring and extracting machinery , stationary or mobile , for earth , minerals or ores ( for example , mechanical shovels , coalcutters , excavators , scrapers , levellers and bulldozers ) ; pile-drivers ; snow-ploughs , not self-propelled ( including snow-plough attachments ) : * *

* Mechanical excavators and loaders , identifiable for use solely or principally for earth-moving purposes ( excluding machinery identifiable for use solely or principally for mining purposes ) * 10 % *

* Note : There shall be no preference on this item * *

ex 85.15 * Radiotelegraphic and radiotelephonic transmission and reception apparatus ; radio-broadcasting and television transmission and reception apparatus ( including those incorporating gramophones ) and television cameras ; radio navigational aid apparatus , radar apparatus and radio remote control apparatus : * *

* Radio receiving sets incorporating gramophones * 25 % *

ex 93.07 * Cartridges ( blank ) suitable for use in captive-bolt humane killers or stunners * Free *

B . Concessions to be modified

C . New Concessions on Items in the Existing Schedule

Tariff Item Number * Description of Products * Rates of Duty bound in Existing Schedule * Rates of Duty to be bound *

ex 24.02 * Manufactured tobacco ; tobacco extracts and essences : * * *

* Cigars and cigarillos * 80c per Ib . * 60c per Ib . *

ex 84.23 * Excavating , levelling , tamping , boring and extracting machinery , stationary or mobile , for earth , minerals or ores ( for example , mechanical shovels , coal-cutters , excavators , scrapers , levellers , and bulldozers ) ; pile-drivers ; snow-ploughs , not self-propelled ( including snow-plough attachments ) : * * *

* Mechanical excavators and loaders identifiable for use solely or principally for earth-moving purposes ( excluding machinery identifiable for use solely or principally for mining purposes ) * 10 % * - *

* Note : There shall be no preference on this item * * *

ex 84.53 * Statistical machines of a kind operated in conjunction with punched cards ( for example , sorting , calculating and tabulating machines ) ; accounting machines operated in conjunction with similar punched cards ; auxiliary machines for use with such machines ( for example , puching and checking machines ) : * * *

* Electronic digital computers * 2 % * Free *

D . New Concessions on Items not in Existing Schedule

Tariff Item Number * Description of Products * Rates of Duty at present in force * Rates of Duty to be bound *

ex 28.23 * Iron oxides and hydroxides ; earth colours containing 70 per cent or more by weight of combined iron evaluated as Fe2O3 : * * *

* Iron oxides * 15 % * 10 % *

ex 73.26 * Barbed wire , of iron or steel ; twisted hoop or single flat wire , barbed or not , and loosely twisted double wire , of kinds used for fencing , of iron or steel : * * *

* Barbed wire : * * *

* Having a breaking strength of less than 168,000 Ib . per sq . hl . * 83 1/3c per 2000 Ib . * 10 % plus 83 1/3c per 2000 Ib . *

ex 74.15 * Bolts and nuts ( including bolt ends and screw studs ) , whether or not threaded or tapped , and screws ( including screws hooks and screw rings ) , of copper ; rivets , cotters , cotter-pins , washers and spring washers , of copper : * * *

* Woodscrews * 3 % plus 5c per Ib . * 3 % plus 5c per Ib .

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