Supplementary Order Papers (SOPs) are proposed amendments to Bills
Clause 6
New section 7(1): to omit this subsection (lines 24 to 31 on page 3) and substitute the following subsection:
“(1) The Tariff applies to goods in a Tariff item that are the product or manufacture of a preferential country at the rate—
“(a) specified after the preferential abbreviation (if any) in the column of the Tariff headed Preferential Tariff; or
“(b) specified in some other way (for example, in a footnote or other indicator) in the Tariff by reference to the preferential country or the preferential abbreviation.
New section 7(3): to omit this subsection (line 36 on page 3 to line 4 on page 4) and substitute the following subsection:
“(3) In this section, unless the context otherwise requires,—
“preferential abbreviation, in relation to a preferential country listed or described in the first column of note 3 of Schedule 1, means the abbreviation specified opposite that country in the second column of that note
“preferential country means a country listed or described in the first column of note 3 of Schedule 1.