Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EU) No 1387/2013 suspending the autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties on certain agricultural and industrial products

In order to ensure sufficient and uninterrupted supplies of certain goods inadequate or non-existent in the Union and to avoid any disturbances on the market for certain agricultural and industrial products, some autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties have been partially or totally suspended by Council Regulation (EU) No 1387/2013.

The Regulation is updated every semester with the objective of accommodating the needs of the EU industry. 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.

Following this review, the Commission considers that the suspension of duties is justified for some new products, currently not listed in the Annex of Regulation (EU) No 1387/2013. In relation to some other products the wording of their description has to be changed or new CN or TARIC codes should be assigned. Products for which a tariff suspension is no longer in the Union's economic interest are proposed to be withdrawn.

EUR-Lex: COM(2016)301: Follow the progress of this proposal through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2016:301:FIN

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