From 1 July 2017, all applications and approvals for tariff concessions can be found on the New Zealand Customs Service website.

Amendments and withdrawals are published in the Gazette. These notices can be found under the Tariff Act.

Notice Type
Customs
Notice Title

Tariff Concession Approvals, Withdrawals and Declines Notice (No. 39) 2014

I, Alan J. Masters, Chief Customs Officer, Revenue and Assurance, New Zealand Customs Service, acting pursuant to section 8 of the Tariff Act 1988 under delegated authority hereby:

  1. in accordance with Part II of the Tariff approve in respect of the entry of goods listed in the First Schedule to this notice the rates of duty or exemptions from duty specified in that Schedule with effect from the first day of the month so specified;
  2. in accordance with Part II of the Tariff approve in respect of the entry of goods listed in the Second Schedule to this notice the exemptions from duty specified in that Schedule with effect from the first day of the month so specified subject however to such purposes and conditions which I prescribe;
  3. withdraw with effect 14 days from the date of this New Zealand Gazette, or otherwise at the date so specified, the approvals granted in respect of the entry of goods listed in the Third Schedule to this notice. 


FIRST SCHEDULE
Tariff Concessions Approved

 

 

 

Rates of Duty

Part
2

Ref

Ref
No.

Effective

 

Tariff Item

Tariff Concession

Normal Pref

From

To

 X

3824.90.99)
6307.90.28)

 Flexible hot or cold pain relief packs

 Free

 Free

 99

 310228K

 1/88

 ..

 


SECOND SCHEDULE
Tariff Concessions Approvals Subject to Prescribed Purposes and Conditions

 

 

 

Rates of Duty

Part
2

Ref

Ref
No.

Effective

 

Tariff Item

Tariff Concession

Normal Pref

From

To

CE 

8419.89 

Electron Beam melting (EBM) machine, capable of delivering a beam power of 3,000W, of a kind used for the production of small to medium sized orthopaedic implants

 Free

Free 

 99

 310209C

 5/14

 6/15

CE 

 8479.89

Wadding machine, capable of simultaneously cutting and fitting two discs into two separate plastic caps, with a throughput greater than 100 units per minute

 Free

 Free

 99

 310210G

 7/14

6/15

 


THIRD SCHEDULE
Tariff Concession Approvals Withdrawn

 

 

 

Rates of Duty

Part
2

Ref

Ref
No.

Effective

 

Tariff Item

Tariff Concession

Normal Pref

From

To

 A

3824.90.90)
6307.90.28)

Flexible…packs

 ..

 ..

 ..

 602217A

 ..

 ..

Category of Approvals:

A
CE
IM
MS
RUC
S
SMI
SS
M
X











General Approval
Capital Equipment
Inputs to Manufacturing – Inability to Supply
Manufacturers’ Samples
Revocation of Unused Concession
Shortfall of Other Than Manufacturing Inputs
Shortfall of Manufacturing Inputs
Special Situation
Modification of Existing Concession
Administrative Amendment

 

The concessions approved subject to prescribed purposes and conditions as listed in the Second Schedule to this notice will not be published in the Consolidated List of Approvals.

Any request for a review of a decision must be lodged with the Ministry within one calendar month of the notification of the decision in the Customs Edition of the New Zealand Gazette.

Dated at Auckland this 13th day of November 2014.

ALAN J. MASTERS, New Zealand Customs Service.