Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EU) No 1344/2011 suspending the autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties on certain agricultural, fishery and industrial products

The Commission, assisted by the Economic Tariff Questions Group (ETQG), has reviewed all requests for temporary suspension of autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties forwarded by the Member States. This proposal concerns a number of agricultural and industrial products. The suspension requests were examined in the light of the criteria set out in the Communication from the Commission concerning autonomous tariff suspensions and quotas (OJ C 363, 13.12.2011, p.6).

Following this review, the Commission considers that the suspension of duties is justified for the products listed in Annex I of this proposal. Also, Annex I lists i) products for which the wording of their description had to be changed and ii) products for which a new CN or TARIC code became necessary, with their new description and/or CN – TARIC code.

Products for which tariff suspension is no longer in the Union's economic interests have to be withdrawn. Acordingly, Annex II lists the products removed from the Annex to Regulation (EU) No 1344/2011 and products for which the wording of their description had to be changed, or products for which a new CN or TARIC code became necessary, which are replaced by new description and/or codes in Annex I.

The proposal is in line with the trade, entreprise, development and external relations policies. Particularly, this proposal is not at the expense of countries enjoying a preferential trading agreement with the EU (e.g. GSP, ACP regime, candidate countries and potential candidates).

EUR-Lex: COM(2013)237: Follow the progress of this proposal through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2013:237:FIN

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