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 (Advertisement) Notice No. 2015/14

Applications Advertised for Objection

Closing Date for Objections 19 May 2015

  1. Notice is hereby given that the following applications have been made in respect of the goods advertised in the Schedule to this notice. Any person wishing to lodge an objection should do so in writing, to the New Zealand Customs Service, Attn: Valuation, Origin and Classification section, PO Box 29, Shortland Street, Auckland 1140, Email: voc@customs.govt.nz, before 19 May 2015. All submissions should include:
    1. the Tariff Concession (Advertisement) Notice number;
    2. the Tariff item; and
    3. reference number.
  2. All submissions from local New Zealand manufacturers should include:
    1. the range of suitable alternative goods made locally in New Zealand;
    2. the grounds on which objection is made (including reasons why the locally produced or manufactured good is a suitable alternative);
    3. present and potential output;
    4. details of factory cost in terms of materials, labour, overheads, including the proportion of domestic and imported content.
  3. Where further information is required in order to make a submission an objector should contact the applicant in writing and refer a copy of the enquiry to the New Zealand Customs Service quoting the details in paragraph 1 above.

 

SCHEDULE

Tariff
Item

Proposed Tariff Concession

Name and Address
of Applicant

Part
2
Ref.

Appn
Ref.
No.

*Category
of
Appn

8419.31

One (1) only, dryer – dehydrator for hay bales, on production of purchase orders by PMR Grain Systems, for the period 1 October 2014 to 31 January 2015

PMR Grain Systems
2 John Street
RD 3, Hinds
Ashburton 7773

99

310261A

CE

8705.90

Furnace tending vehicle, capable of furnace stirring, skimming, cleaning and charging, skimming dross waste by-product, control of all operations by a multifunctional joystick, and having the following: telescopic arm, built in safety controls, emergency electric retraction, swivelling upper carriage, and short down length, on production of purchase orders by New Zealand Aluminium Smelters Limited, for the period 1 April 2015 to 31 December 2015

New Zealand Aluminium Smelters Limited
Private Bag 90110
Invercargill 9840

99

310260C

CE

Category of Application:

A
CE
IM
MS
RUC
S
SMI
SS
M
W
+











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
Withdrawal of Concession
Denotes amendment or addition

 

Dated at Auckland this 23rd day of April 2015.

ALAN J. MASTERS, New Zealand Customs Service.