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SECRET ACCORD GENERAL SUR LES TARIFS

NO. 0 7 5 SECRET/338

DOUANIERS ET LE COMMERCE 26 novembre 1992

Original: anglais

NEGOCIATIONS AU TITRE DE L'ARTICLE XXVIII

LISTE X - REPUBLIQUE FEDERATIVE TCHEQUE ET SLOVAQUE

La Mission permanente de la République federative tchèque et slovaque a fait parvenir au secrétariat la communication suivante.

J'ai l'honneur de vous transmettre ci-joint , par voie de notifi­cations formelles, les résultats des négociations menées au titre de l'article XXVIII de l'Accord général entre la République federative tchèque et slovaque et les Etats-Unis et entre la République federative tchèque et slovaque et le Canada, suite à la renégociation de la Liste X notifiée dans le document du GATT L/6911 et Add.l et 2, conformément à la Décision prise par les PARTIES CONTRACTANTES à leur session du 4 décembre 1991.

Anglais seulement

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Director-General GATT Geneva.

NEGOTIATIONS RELATING TO SCHEDULE X -THE CZECH AND SLOVAK FEDERAL REPUBLIC

The delegations of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic and of Canada concluded their negotiations under Article XXVIII for the modification or withdrawal of concessions provided for in Schedule X - the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic as set out in the report attached.

signed for the Delegation of signed for the Delegation of the Czech and Slovak Canada Federal Republic

Geneva, 10 November 1992

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RESULTS OF NEGOTIATIONS UNDER ARTICLE XXVIII FOR THE MODIFICATION OR WITHDRAWAL OF CONCESSIONS IN THE SCHEDULE X - THE CZECH AND SLOVAK FEDERAL REPUBLIC

CURRENT SCHEDULE X

TARIFF PRODUCT DESCRIPTION BOUND ITEM No. RATE

120400 Linseed, whether or 2.0 not broken

MODIFIED SCHEDULE X

TARIFF PRODUCT DESCRIPTION BOUND ITEM No. RATE

120400 Linseed, whether or not broken

10 - For sowing free 90 - Other 2.0

INITIAL NEGOTIATING RIGHTS

The Caeoh and Slowak Federal Republic grants initial negotiating rights to Canada in respect of the new concession rates set out in this report.

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Director-General GATT Geneva

NEGOTIATIONS RELATION TO SCHEDULE X -THE CZECH AND SLOVAK FEDERAL REPUBLIC

The delegations of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic and of the United States have concluded their negotiations under Article XXVIII for the modification or withdrawal of concessions provided for in Schedule X the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic as set out in the report attached.

signed for the Delegation of signed for the Delegation of the Czech and Slovak the United States of America Federal Republic

Geneva, 20 November 1992

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Results of negotiations under» Article XXVIII between the Caech and Slovak Federal Republic

and the United States of America

B. Bound rates resulting fro» the negotiations

Tariff itea

number Description of products

Rates of duty bound 1n existing schedule

Rates of duty to be bound

0802 Other nuts, fresh or dried, vhether or not she11ed or pee 1ed:

31 32

Walnuts: - In she11 -Shelled

0.5 0,5

0.5 0.5

1209 Seeds, fruit and spores, of a king used fov sowing:

11

19

Beet seed: -Sugar beet seed

•Other

1.5

1.5

3.P

3.0

1519 Industrial aonocarboxylic fatty acids: acid oils froa refining: industrial fatty alcohols:

11

- Industrial aonocarboxylic fatty acids: acid oils froa refining:

--Stearic acid 4,3 6.0

1704 Sugar confectionary (including whlti chocolate), not containing cocoa:

10 - Chewing gua, whether or not sugar-coated

90 - Other

8.5

8.5

15.0

15.0

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Tariff Rates Rates Item Description of products of duty of duty

number bound In to be existing bound schedule

2009 Fruit juices (including grape Bust) and vegetable juices, unforiented and not containing added spirit, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter:

80 - Juice of any other single fruit or vegetable 3,8 3,8

2101 Extracts, essences and concentrates, of coffee, tea or Bate and preparations with a basis of these products or with a basis of coffee, tea or sate-' roasted chicory and other roastea coffee substitutes, and extracts, essences and concentrates thereof:

10 - Extracts, essences and concentrates, of coffee, and preparations with a basis of these extracts, essences or concentrates or with a basis of coffee 3,8 3,8

20 - Extracts, essences and concentrates, of tea or sate, and preparations with a basis of these extracts, essences or concentrates or with a basis of tea or sate 3,8 3,8

2104 Soups and broths and preparations thereof: hoaogenlsed composite food préparât 1 ons •'

20 - Homogenised composite food preparations 5,2 8,0

2106 Food preparations not elsewhere specified or i nc1uded:

90 - Other 8,2 8.2

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Tariff item

number Description of products

Rates of duty bound 1n existing schedule

Rates of duty to be bound

2208

30

Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an acloholic strength by volume of less than 80 X vol : spirits, liquers and other spirituous beverages: coapound alcoholic preparations of a kind used for the Manufacture of beverages:

Whiskii 10,0 10.0

2401

30

Unmanufactured tobacco: tobacco refuse:

- Tobacco refuse 2,5 4.0

8413

50

60

70

91

Pumps for liquids, whether or not fitted with a measuring device: liquid elevators:

- Other reciprocating positive displacement pumps 4,3

- Other rotary positive displaceaent pumps

- Other centrifugal pumps

- Parts •-Of pumps

4.3

4.3

4.3

4.4

4.4

4.4

4.4

8438 Machinery, not specified or Included elsewhere in this Chapter, for the industrial preparation or Manufacture of food or drink, other than machinery for the extraction or preparation of animal or fixed vegetable fats or oils:

80 Other machinery 2.3 4.5

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Tariff Item

number Description of products

Rates of duty bound in existing schedule

Rates of duty to be bound

8458

11

Lathes for removing metal

- Horizontal lathes-' --Numerically controlled 2,5 3.5

8462

49

Machine-tools (including presses) for working metal by forging, hammering or die-stamping: machine-tools (including presses) for working metal by bending, folding, straightening, flattening, shearing, punching or notching: presses for working aetal or aetal carbides, not specified above:

- Punching or notching Machines (Including presses). including combined punching and shearing Machines:

--Other 3.0

- Other

4.5

99 3,0 4.5

8471

10

20

Automatic data processing machines and units thereof: Magnetic or optical readers, machines for transcribing data onto data media in coded fors and Machines for processing such data, not elsewhere specified or included:

Analogue-or hybrid automatic data processing machines 1,5 1.5

Digital automatic data processing machines, containing in the same housing at least a central processing unit and an input and output unit, whether or not combined 1.5 1,5

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Tariff Rates Ratas itea Description of products of duty of duty

number bound in to be ex i st1ng bound schedule

- Other 91 --Digital processing units, whether or

not presented with the rest of a systea, V which aay contain in the saie housing

one or two of the following types of unit: storage units, input units, output units 1,5 1,5

92 --Input or output units, whether or not presented with the rest of a systea and whether or not containing storage units i n the sale housi ng 1,5 1,5

93 --Storage units, whether or not presented with the rest of a systea 1,5 1,5

99 --Other 1.5 1.5

8504 Electric transformers, static converters (for exaaple, rectifiers) and inductors:

* 40 Static converters 4,3 8,0

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C. Reduction of rates bound in the existing schedule

Tariff lie»

number Description of products

Rates of duty bound i n existing schedule

Rates of duty to be bound

0713

33

39

Dried leguminous vegetables, shelled, whether or not skinned or split:

- Beans:

--Kidney beans, Including white pea beans (Phasedus vulgar is)

--Other

0,3

0.3

Free

Free

0802 Other nuts, fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled:

- A1Bonds : 11 --In shell

12 --Shelled

10O6 Rice:

10 -Rice in the husk (paddy or rough)

20 - Husked (brown) rice

30 - Seal-mi lied or wholly milled rice, whether or not polished or glazed

40 - Broken rice

0,5

0,5

1.8

1.8

1.8

1,8

Free

Free y

Free

Free

Free

Free

1007 00 Grain sorghum 2.5 Free

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Tariff Rates of Rates itea Description of products duty of

number bound in duty existing to be schedu1e bound

1507 Soya-bean oil and its fractions, vhether or not refined, but not chesically Modified:

90 -Other 1.7 0.5

2501 00 Salt (including table salt and denatured salt) and pure sodium chloride, vhether or not in aqueous solution or containing added anti-caking or free-flowing agents, sea vater 8,8 1,0

2833 Sulphates: alues: Peroxosulphates (persulphates):

- Sodiua sulphate: 11 --Disodius sulphates 5,8 3,0

2915 Saturated acycyllc aonocarboxylic acids and their anhydrides, ha1 ides, peroxides and peroxyaclds: their halogenated, sul-phonated, nitrated or nitrosated dérivâtes-'

- Esters of acetic acid: 32 --Vinyl acetate 9,0 Free

2941 Antibiotics:

90 - Other 3.8 2.0

4804 Uncoated kraft paper and paperboard, in rolls or sheets, other than that of heading No. 48.02 or 48.03:

- Kraftliner: 11 --Unbleached 13,7 7.0

19 --Other 13,7 7.0

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Tariff l i e»

number Description of products

Rates of duty bound in existing schedule

Rates of duty to be bound

4901

99

Printed books, brochures, leaflets and slailar printed matte, whether or not in single sheets:

- Other: --Other 2,8 Free

8411

22

91

Turbo-jets, turbo-prope1lers and other gas turbines:

- Turbo-prope11ers: --Of a power exceeding 1 100 kW

- Parts --Of turbo-jets or torbo-propellers

3,8

3,8

2,0

2.0

8421

21

Centrifuges, Including centrifugal dryers: filtering or purifying Machinery and apparatus, for liquids or gases:

Filtering or purifying Machinery and apparatus for liquids: •For filtering or purifying water 3.5 2,0

8431

39

49

Parts sutable for use solely or princi­pally with the Machinery of headings No. 84.25 to 84.30:

- Of Machinery of heading No. 84.28 --Other 7.5

- Of Machinery of heading No. 84.26, 84.29 or 84.30

--Other 7,3

5.0

5.0

8441 Other Machinery for Making up paper pulp, paper or paperboard, including cutting Machines of all kinds:

90 - Parts 5.4 3,0

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Tariff ite» Description of products

number

Rates of duty bound 1n existing schedule

Rates of duty to be bound

8451 Machinery (other than machines of heading No. 84.50) for washing, cleaning, ironing, pressing (including fusing presses), bleaching, dyeing, dressing, finishing, coating or impregnating textile yearns, fabrics or made up textile articles and machines for applying the paste to the base fabric or other support used in the manufacture of floor coverings such as linoleum: machines for reeling, unreeling, folding, cutting or pinking textile fabrics:

40 - Washing bleaching or deying machines 9,0 5,0

8472 Other office machines (for example, hectograph or stncil duplicating machines, addressing machines, automatic banknote dispensers, coin-counting or -wrapping machines, penci1 sharpening machines, perforating or stapling machines:

90 - Other 6,2 4.5

8473 Parts and accessories (other than covers, carrying cases and the like) suitable for use solely or principally vith machines of headings Nos. 84.69 to 84.72:

10 - Parts and accessories of the machines of heading No. 84.69 6.5 4.0

30 - Parts and accessories of the machines of heading No. 84.71 4,5 2.5

8479 Machines and mechanical appliances having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter:

90 - Parts 6.5 3,0

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Tariff Rates of Rates item Description of products duty of

number bound in duty existing to be schedule bound

8524 Records, tapes and other recorded aedia for sound or other similarly recorded phenomena, including matrices and masters for the production of records, but excluding products of Chapter 37:

90 - Other 2,5 1.5

8525 Transmission apparatus for radio-telephony, radio-telegraphy, radio-broadcasting or television, vhether or not Incorporating reception apparatus or sound recording or reproducing apparatus: television cameras:

10 - Transmission apparatus: 10 --Radio-telegraphic or radio-telephonic

apparatus, for use in civil aircraft 3,0 Free

20 - Transmission apparatus incorporating recept1on apparatus:

10 --Radio-telegraphic or radio-telephonic apparatus, for use in civil aircraft 3,0 Free

8527 Reception apparatus for radio-telephony, radio-telegraphy or radio-broadcasting, vhether or not combined, in the same housing, vith sound recording apparatus or a clock:

- Radio broadcast receivers not capable of operating without an external source of power, of a kind used in motor vehicles, including apparatus capable of receiving also radio-telephony or radio-telegraphy:

21 --Combined with sound recording or reproduc­ing apparatus 2 » 8 2,0

90 - Other apparatus

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Tariff Rates of Rates item Description of products duty of

number bound in duty existing to be schedule bound

8542 Electronic integrated circuits and • 1croassemb11es :

- Monolithic integrated circuits 11 --Digital 2.8 Free

8803 Parts of goods of heading No. 8801 or 88. 02 ••

30 - Other parts of aeroplanes or helicopters 9,0 2,0

9006 Photographic (other than cinematographic) caseras: photographic flashlight apparatus and flashbulbs other than discharge lamps of heading No. 85.39:

- Other caseras 52 --Other, for roll fils of a width less

than 35 sa 3.8 2,0

59 --Other 3,8 2.0

9022 Apparatus based on the use of X-rays or alpha, beta or gasaa radiations, whether or not for medical, surgical, dental or veterinary uses, including readlography or radiotherapy apparatus, X-ray tubes and other X-ray generators, high tension generators, control panels and desks, screens, examination or treatment tables, cha i rs and the like:

90 - Other, Including parts and accessories 4,3 2,0

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Tariff Rates of Rates ltea Description of products duty of

number bound in duty existing to be schedule bound

9027 Instruments and apparatus for physical or cheatcal analysis (for example, polarimeters, refractoaeters, spectroaeters, gas or saoke analysis apparatus): Instruments and apparatus for Measuring or checking viscosity, porosity, expansion, surface tension or the like: instru- ( aents and apparatus for Measuring or checking quantities of heat, sound or light (including exposure aeters): Micrometers:

30 - Spectroaeters, spectrophotoaeters and spectrographs using optical radiations (UV, visible. IR) 3,4 2.0

80 - Other lnstruaents and apparatus 3,8 2,0

9030 Osci1loschopes, spectrum analysers and other instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking electrical quantities, excluding aeters of heading No. 90.28: instruments and apparatus for measuring or detecting alpha, beta, gamma, X-ray, cosmic or other ionising radiations:

* -10 - Instruments and apparatus for measuring or

detecting ionising radiations 2.5 1,5

90 - Parts and accessories 6,5 2,0

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D. Wev concessions on !*.«»« not In existing schedule

1

Tariff item

number Description of products

Rates of duty be­fore valver

Rates of duty to be bound

1806

20

90

Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa:

- Other preparations In blocks, slabs or bars velghlng lore than 2 kg or In liquid, paste, povder, granular or other bulk fora In containers or iMediate packing, of a content exceeding 2 kg 38,0

Other 90,0

15,0

15,0

2105 00 Ice créai and other edible Ice, vhether or not containing cocoa 54,0 6.0

4407

10

Wood savn or chipped lengthvlse, sliced or peeled, vhether or not planed, sanded or finger-jointed, of a thickness exceed­ing 6 ••:

- Con i ferous 3.8 3.8

5503 Synthetic staple fibres, not carded, combed or othervise processed for spinning:

20 - Of polyesters

30 - Acrylic or modacryllc

45.0

67.0

9.0

9.0

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Tariff Rates of Rates itea Description of products duty be- of

number fore duty valvar to be

bound

8445 Machines for preparing textile fibres: spinning, doubling or tvlstlng aachlnes and other Machinery for producing textile yarns: textile reeling or vlnding (includ­ing veft-vlnding) aachlnes and Machines for preparing textile yarns for use on the aachlnes of heading No. 84.46 or 84.47-

- Machines for preparing textile fibres: 11 --Carding aachlnes 0,5 0,5

8520 Magnetic tape recorders and other sound recording apparatus, vhether or not 1ncorporat1ng a sound reproduc1ng dev1ce:

20 - Telephone answering aachlnes 3,0 3,0

- Other Magnetic tape recorders Incorporat­ing sound reproducing apparatus:

39 --Other 3.0 3.0

8521 Video recording or reproducing apparatus, vhether or not incorporating a video tuner:

10 - Magnetic tape-type 3,0 3.0

8522 Parts and accessories of apparatus of hedlngs Nos. 85.19 to 85.21:

90 - Other 15.0 15.0

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Tariff ltee

number Description of products

Rates of duty be­fore vaiver

Rates of duty to be bound

8527 Reception apparatus for radio-telephony, radio-telegraphy or radio-broadcasting, vhether or not combined, in the sale housing, vith sound recording apparatus or a clock:

11

19

29

31

32

39

Radio broadcast reclevers capable of operating vlthout an external source of power, including apparatus capable of receiving also radio-telephony or rad i o-te1egraphy: -Combined vith sound recording or reproducing apparatus 21,0

--Other 10,0

Radio-broadcast receivers not capable of operating without an external source of power, of a kind used in lotor vehicles, including apparatus capable of receiving also radio-telephony or radio-telegraphy: -Other 10,0

Other radio-broadcast receivers, including apparatus capable of receiving also radio-telephony or radio-telegraphy: •Combined vith sound recording or reproducing apparatus 10,0 •Not combined vith sound recording or reproducing apparatus but combined with a clock

-Other

10,0

10,0

2,0

2,0

2.0

2.0

2.0

2.0

8528 Television receivers (including video monitors and video projectors), vhether or not radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus:

10 Colour 16,5 16.5

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Tariff itea

number Description of products

Rates of duty be­fore va i ver

Rates of duty to be bound

9023 00 Instruments, apparatus and aodel, designed for deaonstrational purposes (for example, in education or exhibitions), unsuitable for other purposes 27,0 27.0 f

9024

80

90

Machines and appliances for text in? the hardness, strength, coapressibi1ity, elasticity or other aechanical properties of aaterials (for exaaple, aetals, wood, textiles, paper, plastics):

- Other aachines and appliances

- Parts and accessories

26,0

22,0

15.0

5.0

9205

90

Other vind ausical instruments (for exaaple, clarinets, truapets, cymbals, castanets, aaraccas):

Other 0.4 0.4

9209 Parts (for exaaple, aechanisas for ausical boxes) and accessories (for exaaple, cards, discs and rolls for aechanical instruments) of ausical instruments: aetronoaes, tuning forks and pitch pipes of all kinds:

30 Musical instrument strings 5.0 5.0

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INITIAL NEGOTIATING RIGHTS

The Czech and Slovak Federal Republic grants an "Initial negotiating right" to the United States in respect of the above •entloned and the fol loving items:

Tariff IHR item Description of products on the

number rate ^ of duty

1005 Maize (corn):

90 - Other 20,0

1806 Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa:

- Other, in blocks, slabs or bars: 32 --Not filled 15,0

2009 Fruit juices (including grape must) and vegetable juices, unferaented and not containing added sugar or other sveetening matter:

90 - Mixtures of juices: 20,0

2402 Cigars, cheroots, cigarillos and cigarettes, of tobacco or of tobacco substitutes:

20 - Cigarettes containing tobacco 65,0

5402 Synthetic filament yars (other than saving thread), not put up for retail sale, including synthetic monofilament of less than 67 dec it ex: -.

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Tariff INR itea Description of products on the

number rate of duty

- Other yarn, single, untwisted or with a tvist not exceeding 50 turns per metre-

49 --Other 9,Q

8424 Mechanical appliances (whether or not hand-operated) for projecting, dispersing or spraying liquids or powders*' fire extinguishers, whether or not charged-' spray guns and stallar appliances- steas or sand blasting aachines and siailar jet projecting machines:

10 - Fire extinguishers, whether or not charged 7,5

8517 Electrical apparatus for line telephony or line telegraphy, including such apparatus for carrier-current line systems:'

40 - Other apparatus, for carrier-current line systems 9,5

8525 Transmission apparatus for radio-telephony, radio telegraphy, radio-broadcasting or tele­vision, whether or not incorporating reception apparatus or sound recording or reproducing apparatus: television caaeras:

20 - Transmission apparatus incorporating reception apparatus:

90 --Other 9.5

8802 Other aircraft (for exaaple, helicopters. aeroplanes): spacecraft (including satellites) and spacecraft launch vehicles:

30 - Aeroplanes and other aircraft, of an unladen weight exceeding 2 000 kg but not exceeding 15 000 kg- - 7- 5

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Tariff IHR item Description of products on the

number rate of duty

9014 Direction finding coapasses: other navigational instruments and appliances:

20 - Instruments and appliances for aeronautical or space navigation (other then compasses) 4. 1

9022 Apparatus based on the use of X-rays or of alhpa, beta or gamma radiations, whether or not for medical, surgical, dental or veterinary uses, including radiography or radioteraphy apparatus, X-ray tubes and other X-ray generators, high tension generators, control panels and desks, screens, examination or treatment tables, chairs and the like:

- Apparatus based on the use of X-rays, whether or not for medical, surgical, dental or veterinary uses, Including radiography or radiotherapy apparatus:

11 --For medical, surgical, dental or veterinary uses 10,0

9030 Oscilloscopes, spectrum analysers and other instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking electrical quantities, excluding meters of heading No. 90.28: instruments and apparatus for measuring or detecting alpha, beta, gamma, X-ray, cosmic or othe ionising radions:

- Other instruments and apparatus, for measuring or checking voltage, current, resistance or power, without a record1ng dev i ce :

39 --Other 10.0