Customs Tariff Act 1995

PART 2 - DUTIES OF CUSTOMS  

SECTION 16B   SUSPENSION OF PREFERENTIAL TARIFF FOR TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP ORIGINATING GOODS - SAFEGUARD GOODS IMPORTED FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM  
Duty rates

16B(1)    
Despite subsection 16(4ABA) , the duty in respect of goods that are:

(a)    safeguard goods specified in a notice made by the Minister under this section; and

(b)    imported into Australia from the United Kingdom during the period specified in the notice;

must be worked out by reference to the general rate set out in the third column of the tariff classification under which the goods are classified.

Notice

16B(2)    
The Minister may, by legislative instrument, make a notice specifying one or more safeguard goods, and a period, for the purposes of subsection (1) .

16B(3)    
The Minister may do so only if the Minister is satisfied that goods equivalent to those safeguard goods will, under a law of the United Kingdom, be subject to a safeguard measure covered by paragraph 5(b) of Article 6.2 of Chapter 6 of the Agreement if imported into the United Kingdom from Australia during the period.

16B(4)    
The Minister must not specify a period starting before the commencement of the notice.

Definitions

16B(5)    
In this section:

Agreement
has the same meaning as in subsection 153ZKU(1) of the Customs Act 1901 .

safeguard goods
means Trans-Pacific Partnership originating goods that are classified to a heading or subheading in Schedule 3 that is specified in column 2 of any of items 396A to 408, 410 to 419, 421 to 423, 424A to 432ZC, 446 or 448 to 451 in the table in Schedule 8B .