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 agricultural and industrial products which are inadequately produced or not produced at all in the Union, and to avoid any disturbances on the market for these 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), reviews all requests for temporary suspension of autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties sent 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 the Regulation. In relation to some other products it is necessary to modify the conditions in terms of product description, classification, duty rates or end-use requirement. The end dates of the measures have been amended according to the rules governing prolongation. Products for which a tariff suspension is no longer in the Union's economic interest are proposed to be withdrawn.

EUR-Lex: COM(2016)783: Follow the progress of this proposal through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2016:783:FIN

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