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. 2017/19

Applications Advertised for Objection

Closing Date for Objections 27 June 2017

  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 (attention: Valuation, Origin and Classification section), PO Box 29, Shortland Street, Auckland 1140, email: voc@customs.govt.nz, before 27 June 2017. 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

6404.19

Slippers with textile upper and neoprene heel; detachable thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) outer sole (either imported with the slipper or separately)

Brittain Wynyard & Co Limited
22 Heather Street
Parnell
Auckland 1052

99

310724J

A

8419.89.09

Thermal Modification Kiln and oil boiler, imported by Donelley Sawmillers Limited

Donelley Sawmillers Limited
RD 2
Reporoa 3060

99

310725G

CE

8433.11

Lawn mower including a remote control, capable of working on a gradient (slope) up to and including 55°

Steelfort Engineering Company Limited
500 Rangitikei Street
Palmerston North 4412

99

310727C

A

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 1st day of June 2017.

SIMON van WEEGHEL, New Zealand Customs Service.