Home | Databases | WorldLII | Search | Feedback Niue Consolidated Subsidiary Legislation

Customs Tariff (Reduction and Elimination of Tariffs) Regulations 2006

NIUE LAWS
LEGISLATION AS AT DECEMBER 2006

CUSTOMS TARIFF (REDUCTION AND ELIMINATION OF TARIFFS) REGULATIONS 2006

2006/1 – 1 January 2005

1 Title

These are the Customs Tariff (Reduction and Elimination of Tariffs) Regulations 2006, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Niue Customs Tariff (General Amendments) Regulations 1997.

2 [Spent]

3 Interpretation

In these Regulations –

"Least Developed Country" means a Party to the PICTA that is for the time being designated as a Least Developed Country by the United Nations;

"Small Island States" means the Cook Islands, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Republic of Marshall Islands, Tuvalu, and any other State, Territory or Self-Governing entity that becomes a Party to the PICTA;

"PICTA" means the Pacific Islands Countries Trade Agreement;

"Tariff Schedule" means the Pacific Harmonized Customs Tariff Schedule for Niue referred to in the Niue Customs Tariff (General Amendments) Regulations 1997.

4 Objectives

The objectives of these Regulations is to implement the PICTA by eliminating trade barriers with –

(i) tariff reduction with retrospective effect as of 1 January 2005; and

(ii) elimination of tariffs for excepted imports from Small Island States and Least Developed Countries.

5 Third Schedule inserted

The Tariff Schedule is hereby amended by inserting after the Second Schedule the following Schedule –

SCHEDULE 3

Table 1 Elimination and reduction of tariff

Ad valorem tariffs on originating goods which are imported shall be reduced and eliminated according to the following timetable –

Table 2 Elimination on tariffs for excepted imports

Ad valorem tariffs on goods listed by Small Island Countries and Least Developed Countries as excepted imports shall be eliminated according to the following timetable:

Maximum ad valorem tariffs on goods from: