GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE 10 March 1959

Tariff Negotiations Committee

TARIFE NEGOTIATIONS WITH BRAZIL

Proces-Verbal containing a Schedule to be annexed to the Protocol Relating to Negotiations for the Establishment

of New Schedule III - Brazil

(Brazil - Benelux)

There is attached hereto the text of a Proces-Verbal containing the schedule of Brazil which is to be annexed to the Protocol Relating to Negotiations for the Establishment of New Schedule III - Brazil, in accordance with paragraph 8 of that Protocol. As indicated in circulating the bilateral lists of concessions (Spec(59)29) on 3 March 1959, the Proces-Verbal was opened for signature by the parties concerned on 10 March 1959. The contents of the bilateral lists of concessions were released to the public by the governments concerned on 7 March 1959.

The printed editions of the Proces-Verbal will be distributed in the same manner as those of the Protocol itself.

MGT(59)25

ACCORD SSratàL SUR LBS TARIFS DOUANIERS 10 mars 1959 ET L5 COMMERCE

Comité des négociations tarifaires

NSG0CIATI0N3 TARIFAIRES. AVEC IB BRESIL

Procès-verbal relatif à une Liste à annexer au Protocole concernant les négociations en vue de l'établissement de

la nouvelle Liste III - Brésil

(Brésil - Benelux)

On trouvera oi-Joint le texte d'un procès-verbal relatif à la Liste du Brésil qui doit être annexée au Protocole concernant les négociations en vue de l'établissement de la nouvelle Liste III - Brésil, conformément au para­graphe 8 dudit Protocole. Ainsi qu'il a été indiqué lors de la diffusion des listes bilatérales de concessions (Spec(59)29) le 3 mars 1959, le Procès-verbal a été ouvert le 10 mars 1959 à la signature des parties en cause. La teneur des listes bilatérales de concessions avait été rendue publique par les gouvernements intéressés le 7 mars 1959.

Les éditions imprimées du Prccès-verbal seront diffusées de la même manière que le Protocole lui-même.

MGT(59)25

THE CONTRACTING PARTIES TO THE

GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS Ajffl TRADE

LES PARTIES CONTRACTANTES A L'ACCORD GENERAL

SUR LES TARIFS DOUANIERS ET IE COMMERCE

P R O C E S - V E R B A L

CONTAINING SCHEDULES TO BE ANNEXED TO THE PROTOCOL RELATING TO NEGOTIATIONS FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF NEW SCHEDULE I I I - BRAZIL

TO THE GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE ( B r a z i l and B e n e l u x )

P R O C E S - V E R B A L

REIATIF AUX LISTES A ANNEXER AU PROTOCOLE CONCERNANT LES NEGOTIATIONS EN VUE DE L'ETABLISSEMENT DE LA. NOUVELLE LISTE I I I - BRESIL - ANNEXEE

A L'ACCORD GENERAL SUR LES TARIFS DOUANIERS ET LE COMMERCE ( B r é s i l e t B e n e l u x )

10 Maroh 1959

Geneva

P R O C E S - V E R B A L

CONTAINING A SCHEDULE TO HE ANNEXED TO THE PROTOCOL RELATING TO NEGOTIATIONS FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF NEW SCHEDULE I I I - BRAZIL -

TO THE GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE

(Brazil and Benelux)

The Government of the United S ta tes of Brazil and the Governments of the

Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand-Duchy of Luxemburg, and the Kingdom of the

Netherlands, having completed, a f ter the opening for signature on 31 Deoember

1958 of the Protocol Relat ing to Negotiations for the Establishment of New

Schedule I I I - Brazi l - to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the

negotiations provided for in the Decision of the CONTRACTING PARTIES

of 16 November 1956,

AGREE tha t the annexed schedule of concessions r e l a t ing to Brazil sha l l be

incorporated in Schedule I I I - Braz i l , contained in Annex A to the afore­

mentioned Protocol in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 8 of tha t

Protocol.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF the respective representa t ives , duly authorized, have

signed the present Proces-Verbal.

DONE at Geneva on t h i s tenth day of March one thousand nine hundred and

fifty-nine.

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P R O C E S - V E R B A L

RELATIF A UNE LISTS A ANNEXER AU PROTOCOLE CONCERNANT LES NEGOCIATIONS EN VUE DE L'ETABLISSEMENT DE IA NOUVELLE LISTE I I I - BRESIL - ANNEXEE

A L'ACCORD GENERAL SUR LS3 TARIFS DOUANIERS ET LE COMMERCE

(Brésil et Benelux)

Le gouvernement des Etats-Unis du Brésil et las gouvernements du Royaume

de Belgique, du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg et du Royaume des Pays-Bas,

ayant terminé, après l'ouverture à la signature le 31 décembre 1958 du

Protocole concernant les négociations en vue de l'établissement de la

nouvelle Liste III - Brésil - annexée à l'Accord général sur les tarifs

douaniers et le commerce, les négociations prévues par la Décision des

PARTIES CONTRACTANTES en date du 16 novembre 1956,

SONT CONVENUS DE CE QUI SUIT: La liste de concessions ci-annexée

concernant le Brésil sera incorporée à la Liste III - Brésil, reprise à

l'annexe A du Protocole susmentionné, conformément aux disprsiti^ns du

paragraphe 8) iudit Protocole.

EN FOI DE QU©I les représentants respectifs desdits gouvernements,

dûment autorisés, ont signé le présent Procès-verbal,

FAIT à Genève, le dix mars mil neuf cent cinquante-neuf.

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For the United States of Brazils Pour l e s Etats-Unis du Brés i l :

For the Kingdom of Belgium: Pour l e Royaume de Belgique:

For the Grand-Duchy of Luxemburg t Pour l e Grand-Duché de Luxembourg:

For the Kingdom of the Netherlands: Pour l e Royaume des Pays-Bas:

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SCHEDULE III - BRAZIL

* Thi» schedule^is authentic in the English Language

PART I

Mest-Favoured-Nation Tariff

Tariff number

01-03

001

06-01

ExI

ExII

07-01

007Ex

12-01

OlOEx

12-03

002

003

Description of products Rate of duty

Live animals of the bovine species, including buffaloes:

For breeding

Bulbs, crowns, rhizomes and tubers of ornamental foliage or flowering plants:

Begonia, gladiolus and gloxinia bulbs

Other flowers bulbs

Vegetables, plants, roots and tubers whole or in pieces, fresh, chilled •r frozen, excluding those falling within heading N£ 07-05:

Certified seed potatoes

.Oil seeds and oleaginous fruit, whol-e or broken:

Flax, certified seed

Seeds and fruit of a kind used far sewing:

Ornamental garden, vegetable garden er orchard

Alfalfa, "capim", grass, lucerne and other fodder seeds

Free

15%

Free

Free

Free

Free

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SCHEDULE III - BRAZIL

PART I (Continued)

Tariff number

20-24

002

003

004

2Ô-3Ô

014

2*i£

005

Description of products

IV. Inorganic metallic oxides, hydroxides and" peroxides.

Oxides and hydroxides of cobalt:

Cobaltic oxide (cobalt (III) oxide, cobalt sesçuioxide)

Cobaltous oxide (grey oxide)

Cobalt saline oxide

V. Metallic salts and peroxv-salts, of inorganic acids.

Sulphates (including alums and persulphates:

Cupric sulphate

Note:- Cupric sulphate ( CuSO/^HgO)

By-product of electrolytic copper re­fining; also obtained by treating copper waste or scrap with a weak solution of sulphuric acid. Blue crystals or crystalline powder, soluble in water. It turns into a white an­hydrous sulphate when calcined, which absorbs water with avidity. Used as a fungicide in agriculture; for pre­paring spraying mixtures; to prepare cuprous oxide and inorganic copper colours; in dyeworks (for dyeing silk of wool black, purple or lilac); in electrolytic copper refining and copper-plating as a flotation regulator (for restoring the natural buoyancy of ores); as an antiseptic, etc.

XIII. Other jorganic compounds.

Sugars, chemically pure, other than sucrose:

Lactose

Rate «f duty

10$

Free

15*

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Tariff number

37-01

001

002

40-02

007

54-01

001

002

54-03

002ÉXII

SCHEDULE III - BRAZIL

PART I tContinued)

Description of products Rate of duty

,, Flax, raw or processed; waste:

002ï>xïïï

Sensitized plates, unexposed (blank), of glass, plastics or other materials:

Sensitized on both sides, for radiography-Sensitized on one side, for black and white prints

Paper weighing more than 35 but not more than 1#0 grams per square metre and paperboard in reels, sheets or rolls, of natural colour, white or dyed throughout the mass:

Standard paper, rough, glazed, calendered, coated or offset, for printing, books having over the whole width or length water -marks from 4 to 6 centimetres apart

tow and

Flax, raw, tow and waste

Flax, processed

Flax yarn, not put up for sale by retail?

Single, single ply, unbleached or bleached, more than 20 lea and up to 33 lea

ffote:- The rate of duty of 30$ ad «•valorem shall be raised to 40/£~ad -valorem if and when raw coffee im­ported from Brazil into the Benelux Countries should no longer be exempt from customs duty.

Single, single ply, unbleached or •bleached, more than 33 lea

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SCHEDULE III - BRAZIL '

PART I (Continued)

Tariff number

54-03 004&XI

004ExII

70-03

001

002

003

004

CX15

rni£

£clE3

04-29

002Ex

Description of products

Single» single pi1:.. rented or dyed, more than 20 lea and up to 33 lea

Note:- The rate of duty of 30% ad-valorem shall be raised to 40% ad-valorem if and when raw cffee im­ported from Brazil into the Benelux Countries should no longer be exempt from custcms duty.

Single, single ply, pointed or dyed, more than 33 lea

Plane glass in sheets or plates, unworked:

Plain, unwrought, up to,l milli­metre in thickness «

Plain, unwrought, more than 1 millimetre, but n§t moje than 10 millimetres in thickness

Plain, unwrought,;grnore than 10 millimetres in thickness

Ribbed, corrugated, hammered, grooved,printed and similar giass

Wired with metal cloth

Glass envelopes, open, unfinished, without fittings, for lamps.,^elec­tronic valves and tho like:

For t«ievision (picture tubes) "

Winches, cranes, transporter cranes** and tackles, with or without shifting or supporting structure, excluding hydraulic jaoks falling v/ithin head­ing N* 84-32:

Cranes, with a capacity of up to 100 tons

Rate of duty

30%

30%

60%

60%

15%

30%

Tariff number

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SCHEDULE III - BRAZIL

PART I (Continued)

Rate of duty

Cranes, with a capacity exceed­ing 100 tons

Generators, rotary converters and condensers, electric, including motor generator sets with or with­out electric or other reducer, step -up or variable-speed gears, except those of the high-frequency type:

Frequency converters

X-Ray apparatus for medical, re­search or industrial purposes, in­cluding diffraction apparatus (for radiospectrography):

Other, for diagnosing purposes, with radiological table, with­out fluoroscopic support, weighing more than 300 but not more than 600 kilograms

Firearms not falling within the foregoing heading:

Carbines, rifles and the like, sporting

Parts and pieces of arms

30%

20$

Free

30$

35*

i