Customs and Excise (Tariff Changes) Amendment Regulations 2006

  • This version was replaced on 14 August 2017 to make a correction to Schedule 1 under section 25(1)(j)(i) of the Legislation Act 2012.
1 Title

These regulations are the Customs and Excise (Tariff Changes) Amendment Regulations 2006.

2 Commencement

These regulations come into force on 1 January 2007.

3 Principal regulations amended

These regulations amend the Customs and Excise Regulations 1996.

4 Interpretation

The definition of process of manufacture in Regulation 51A is amended by inserting the following paragraph before paragraph (a):

(aa)

Extract from subheading 3006.10 sterile absorbable surgical or dental yarn and sterile surgical or dental adhesion barriers, whether or not absorbable

5 New Schedule 3 substituted

Schedule 3 is revoked and the schedule set out in Schedule 1 of these regulations is substituted.

6 Schedule 4 amended

Schedule 4 is amended by omitting “and 8542.21” and substituting “8542.31, 8542.32, 8542.33, and 8542.39”.

7 Schedule 5 amended

Schedule 5 is amended in the manner set out in Schedule 2 of these regulations.

8 Schedule 6 amended

Schedule 6 is amended in the manner set out in Schedule 3 of these regulations.

Schedule 1 New Schedule 3 substituted in principal regulations

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Schedule 2 Amendments to Schedule 5 of principal regulations

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Specific Rules of Origin
14.02–14.04Omit and substitute:
14.04 A change to heading 14.04 from any other chapter.
2826.11–2828.90Omit and substitute:
2826.12–2828.90 A change to subheading 2826.12 through 2828.90 from any other subheading, including another subheading within that group.
2834.10–2837.20Omit and substitute:
2834.10–2836.92 A change to subheading 2834.10 through 2836.92 from any other subheading, including another subheading within that group
2836.99 A change to bismuth carbonate of subheading 2836.99 from any other subheading; or a change to ammonium carbonates of subheading 2836.99 from any other of subheading; or a change to lead carbonates of subheading 2836.99 from any other subheading; or, change to subheading 2836.99, other than to bismuth carbonate, ammonium carbonates or lead carbonates, from any other subheading provided that the good is the product of a chemical reaction as defined in the Headnotes.
2837.11–2837.20 A change to subheading 2837.11 through to 2837.20 from any other subheading, including another subheading within that group.
28.38Omit.
28.50–28.51Omit and substitute:
28.50 A change to heading 28.50 from any other heading.
28.52 A change to heading 28.52 from any other heading, or a change to any goods of heading 28.52 from any other goods of heading 28.52.
28.53 A change to heading 28.53 from any other heading.
2912.11–2912.60Omit and substitute:
2912.11 A change to subheading 2912.11 from any other subheading.
2912.12 A change to subheading 2912.12 from any other subheading.
2912.19 A change to butanal (butraldehyde, normal isomer) of subheading 2912.19 from any other goods of subheading 2912.19; or change to other goods of subheading 2912.19 from butanal (butraldehyde, normal isomer) of subheading 291219; or change to any goods of subheading 2912.19 from any other subheading.
2912.21–2912.60 A change to subheading 2912.21 through 2912.60 from any other subheading, including another subheading within that group.
2916.11–2918.90Omit and substitute:
2916.11–2918.30 A change to subheading 2916.11 through 2918.30 from any other subheading, including another subheading within that group.
2918.91–2918.99 A change to subheading 2918.91 through 2918.99 from any other subheading, including another subheading within that group.
2920.10–2926.90Omit and substitute:
2920.11–2926.90 A change to subheading 2920.11 through 2926.90 from any other subheading, including another subheading within that group.
3001.10–3003.90Omit and substitute:
3001.20–3003.90 A change to subheading 3001.20 through 3003.90 from any other subheading, including another subheading within that group.
3005.10–3006.80Omit and substitute:
3005.10–3005.90 A change to subheading 3005.10 through 3005.90 from any other subheading, including another subheading within that group.
3006.10Omit and substitute:
Sterile surgical catgut, similar sterile suture materials (including sterile absorbable surgical or dental yarns) and sterile tissue adhesives for surgical wound closure; sterile laminaria and sterile laminaria tents; sterile absorbable surgical or dental haemostatics; sterile surgical or dental adhesion barriers, whether or not absorbable.
Rule to read:
Change to sterile absorbable surgical or dental yarns or sterile surgical or dental adhesion barriers, whether or not absorbable, from any other chapter apart from Chapter 60, provided that there is a regional value content of not less than 50 percent; or
Change to any other goods of subheading 3006.10 from any other subheading.
3006.20–3006.92 A change to subheading 3006.20 through 3006.92 from any other subheading, including another subheading within that group.
3301.11–3301.90Omit and substitute:
3301.12–3301.90 A change to subheading 3301.12 through 3301.90 from any other subheading; or
A change of subheading is not required provided there is a regional value content of not less than 45 percent.
3403.11–3405.90Omit and substitute:
3403.11–3404.20 Change to subheading 3403.11 through 3404.20 from any other subheading including another subheading within that group; or
A change of subheading is not required provided there is a regional value content of not less than 45 percent.
3404.90 A change to artificial waxes and prepared waxes of chemically modified lignite of subheading 3404.90 from any other goods of subheading 3404.90; or change to any good of subheading 3404.90 from any other subheading; or
A change of subheading is not required for any good of subheading 3404.90 provided there is a regional value content of not less than 45 percent.
3405.10–3405.90 A change to subheading 3405.10 through 3405.90 from any other subheading, including another subheading within that group; or
A change of subheading is not required provided there is a regional value content of not less than 45 percent.
4823.12–4823.90Omit and substitute:
4823.20–4823.90 A change to subheading 4823.20 through 4823.90 from any other subheading, including another subheading within that group.
Chapter 54Omit chapter heading and substitute:
Man-made filaments; strip and the like of man-made textile materials.
6402.30–6402.99Omit and substitute:
6402.91–6402.99 A change to subheading 6402.91 through 6402.99, except from heading 64.01 to 64.05 or from formed uppers of subheading 6406.10, provided there is a regional value content of not less than 50 percent.
65.03–65.06Omit and substitute:
65.04–65.06 A change to heading 65.04 through 65.06 from any other heading, including another heading within that group.
7321.11–7321.83Omit and substitute 7321.11–7321.89.
78.01–78.06Omit and substitute:
78.01–78.04 A change to heading 78.01 through 78.04 from any other heading, including another heading within that group.
78.06 A change to lead bars, rods, profiles, wire, tubes, pipes and tube or pipe fittings of heading 78.06 from any goods of heading 78.06; or change to other goods of heading 78.06 from lead bars, rods, profiles, wire, tubes, pipes and tube or pipe fittings of heading 78.06; or change to heading 78.06 from any other heading.
79.01–79.07Omit and substitute:
79.01–79.05 A change to heading 79.01 through 79.05 from any other heading, including another heading within that group.
79.07 A change to zinc tubes, pipes and tube or pipe fittings of heading 79.07 from other goods of heading 79.07; or change to other goods of heading 79.07 from zinc tubes, pipes and tube or pipe fittings of heading 79.07; or change to heading 79.07 from any other heading.
80.01–80.07Omit and substitute:
80.01–80.03 A change to heading 80.01 through 80.03 from any other heading, including another heading within that group.
80.07 A change to tin plate, sheet, strip, foil, tubes, pipes and tube or pipe fittings of heading 80.07 from any other goods of heading 80.07; or change to other goods of heading 80.07 from tin plate, sheet, strip, foil, tubes, pipes and tube or pipe fittings of heading 80.07; or change to any goods of heading 80.07 from any other heading.
8101.95–8101.99Omit and substitute:
8101.96–8101.97 A change to subheading 8101.96 through 8101.97 from any other subheading, including another subheading within that group.
8101.99 A change to tungsten bars and rods, other than those obtained simply by sintering, profiles, plates, sheets and strip of subheading 8101.99 from any other goods of subheading 8101.99; or change to any goods of subheading 8101.99 from tungsten bars and rods, other than those obtained simply by sintering, profiles, plates, sheets and strip of subheading 8101.99; or change to any goods of subheading 8101.99 from any other subheading.
8112.30–8112.40Omit both subheadings (numbers and rules).
8112.92Change rule to—
A change to germanium and vanadium of subheading 8112.92 from any other chapter, or a change of chapter is not required provided there is a regional value content of not less than 45 percent; or change to any goods of subheading 8112.92, other than germanium and vanadium, from any other subheading; or, for any goods other than germanium and vanadium, a change of subheading is not required provided there is a regional value content of not less than 45 percent.
8112.99Change rule to—
A change to germanium and vanadium of subheading 8112.99 from any other chapter, or a change of chapter is not required provided there is a regional value content of not less than 45 percent; or change to any goods of subheading 8112.99, other than germanium and vanadium, from any other subheading.
8442.10–8442.30Omit and substitute:
8442.30 A change to subheading 8442.30 from any other subheading.
8443.11–8443.60Omit and substitute:
8443.11–8443.39 A change to subheading 8443.11 through 8443.39 from any other subheading, including another subheading within that group.
8443.90Omit and substitute:
8443.91–8443.99 A change to subheading 8443.91 through 8443.99 from any other heading.
84.85Substitute:
84.87 A change to heading 84.87 from any other heading.
New heading 84.86–8486.10–8486.90 A change to subheadings 8486.10 through 8486.90 from any other subheading, including another subheading within that group.
8505.11–8505.30Omit and substitute:
8505.11–8505.20 A change to subheading 8505.11 through 8505.20 from any other subheading, including another subheading within that group.
8505.90Change rule to read—
A change to electro-magnetic lifting heads of subheading 8505.90 from any other goods of subheading 8505.90; or a change to electro-magnetic lifting heads of subheading 8505.90 from any other subheading; or a change to any goods of subheading 8505.90, apart from electro-magnetic lifting heads, from any other heading.
New heading 85.08–8508.11–8508.60 A change to subheadings 8508.11 through 8508.60 from any other heading; or
A change of heading is not required provided there is a regional value content of not less than 45 percent.
8508.70 A change to subheading 8508.70 from any other heading.
8509.10–8509.20Omit.
8509.30–8509.80Omit and substitute:
8509.40–8509.80 A change to subheading 8509.40 through 8509.80 from any other subheading, including another subheading within that group.
8517.11–8517.80Omit and substitute:
8517.11–8517.69 A change to subheading 8517.11 through 8517.69 from any other subheading, including another subheading within that group.
8517.90Omit and substitute:
8517.70 A change to subheading 8517.70 from any other heading.
85.19–85.29Omit and substitute:
85.19–85.22 A change to heading 85.19 through to 85.22 from any other heading, including another heading within that group.
85.23 A change to heading 85.23 from any other heading; or
Recording sound or other similarly recorded phenomena onto blank or unrecorded media or cards incorporating an electronic integrated circuit (“smart cards”) or other machinery and apparatus of heading 85.23 shall confer origin, whether or not there has been a change of tariff classification.
85.25–85.29 A change to heading 85.25 through 85.29 from any other heading, including another heading within that group.
8542.10–8542.70Omit and substitute:
8542.31–8542.39 A change to subheading 8542.31 through 8542.39 from any other subheading, including another subheading within that group.
8543.11–8543.89Omit and substitute:
8543.10–8543.70 A change to subheading 8543.10 through 8543.70 from any other subheading, including another subheading within that group.
9009.11–9009.30Omit.
9009.91–9009.99Omit.
9403.10–9403.80Omit and substitute:
9403.10–9403.89 A change to subheading 9403.10 through 9403.89 from any other heading; or
A change of heading is not required provided there is a regional value content of not less than 45 percent.
95.01Omit.
9502.10Omit.
9502.91–9502.99Omit.
95.03–95.08Omit and substitute:
95.03 A change to wheeled toys designed to be ridden by children and dolls’ carriages of heading 95.03 from any other chapter, or a change of chapter is not required provided there is a regional value content of not less than 45 percent; or a change to dolls representing human beings of heading 95.03 from any other heading, or a change of heading is not required provided there is a regional value content of not less than 45 percent; or a change to parts and accessories of dolls representing human beings of heading 95.03 from any other heading; or, for all goods of heading 95.03 apart from wheeled toys designed to be ridden by children and dolls’ carriages and dolls representing human beings and parts and accessories for dolls representing human beings, a change to heading 95.03 from any other chapter.
95.04–95.08 A change to heading 95.04 through 95.08 from any other chapter.

Schedule 3 Amendments to Schedule 6 of principal regulations

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Goods to which Regulation 51U applies
8443.90Omit and substitute 8443.91 and 8443.99.
8509.20Omit and substitute 8509.80 (floor polishers only).
8520.32 / 8520.33 / 8520.39Omit and substitute 8519.81 (magnetic tape recorders incorporating sound reproducing apparatus only).
8520.90Omit and substitute 8519.81 and 8519.89 (sound recording apparatus other than dictating machines, telephone answering machines, and other magnetic tape recorders incorporating sound reproducing apparatus only).
8523.30 / 8524.60Omit and substitute 8523.21.
8525.10Omit and substitute 8517.61, 8525.50, and 8517.62 (transmission apparatus for radio-telephony, radio-telegraphy, radio-broad-casting or television broadcasting only).
8525.30Omit and substitute 8525.80 (television cameras only).
8542.21 / 8542.29Omit and substitute 8542.31 / 8542.32 / 8542.33 / 8543.39.
8544.41Omit and substitute 8544.42 (only for other electrical conductors, for voltage not exceeding 80 V: fitted with connectors).
9403.80Omit and substitute 9403.81 / 9403.89.

Diane Morcom,

Clerk of the Executive Council.

Explanatory note

This note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general effect.

These regulations, which come into force on 1 January 2007, update the Customs and Excise Regulations 1996 to incorporate changes necessary to make the terminology used in these regulations to describe rules of origin, consistent with the International Convention on the Harmonised Commodity Description and Coding System.

Issued under the authority of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989.

Date of notification in Gazette: 2 November 2006.