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Tarriff Rate Quotas under SADC-EU EPA

Type Class Valid From Valid To
Permit Requirement Goods 30/10/2016
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ARTICLE 34

General bilateral safeguards

 

 

3.         Safeguard measures referred to in this Article shall take the form of one or more of the following:

(a)     suspension of the further reduction of the rate of import duty for the product concerned, as provided for under this Agreement; or

increase in the customs duty on the product concerned up to a level which does not exceed the MFN applied rate at the time of taking the measure; or

( introduction of tariff quotas on the product concerned.

ARTICLE 37

BLNS transitional safeguards

1.              The Parties acknowledge the sensitivity of the liberalised products listed in Annex V for the BLNS States.

2.              Notwithstanding Article 34, in the event that one of the products listed in Annex V and originating in the EU being imported into the territory of a BLNS State in such increased quantities as to cause or threaten to cause serious injury in any BLNS State, that BLNS State may apply a transitional safeguard measure.

3.              Safeguard measures referred to in paragraph 2 shall take the form of a duty on the product concerned listed in Annex V up to a level which does not exceed the MFN applied rate at the time of taking the measure or introduce a zero duty tariff rate quota (TRQ), provided that the level of the duty outside the quota does not exceed the MFN applied rate at the time of taking the measure.

 

Commodities Affected by the Measure

# HS Code Description
1 1001 Wheat Grain
2 0203 Meat of swine, fresh, chilled or frozen:
3 1601 Sausages and similar products, of meat, meat offal, blood or insects; food preparations based on these products
4 0402 Milk and cream, concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter:
5 0405 Butter and other fats and oils derived from milk; dairy spreads:
6 0406 Cheese and curd:
7 1003 Barley
8 1904 Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products(for example or corn flakes); cereals(excluding maize(corn)) in grain form or in the form of flakes or other worked grains(except flour, groats and meal), pre-cooked or otherwise prepared, not elsewhere specified or included
9 0209 Pig fat, free of lean meat, and poultry fat, not rendered or otherwise extracted, fresh, chilled, frozen, salted, in brine, dried or smoked:
10 2105 Ice cream and other edible ice, whether or not containing cocoa

Procedures Implementing the Measure

1 Application for allocation of Tariff Rate Quotas under SADC-EU EPA
Activity Outcome Valid For Single Use
Export permit 1 Years No

Legal Documents Related to the Measure

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