CHANGES IN THIS AND FORTHCOMING ISSUES
CHANGES IN THIS ISSUE
CHANGE TO THE COMPOSITION OF THE EURO AREA CATEGORY
From this issue, the composition of the Euro area category published in time series spreadsheet Table 2 will be updated to include Estonia. The new composition will apply to the whole time series.
NEW PREFERENCE SCHEME CODE AND AMENDMENTS TO LABELS
From this issue a new preference scheme code for the Malaysia Australia Free Trade Agreement (MAFTA) has been introduced for imports of merchandise trade data.
New preference code | Free Standing Descriptor |
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M | Goods which meet Malaysia Australia FTA rules of origin & preferential rate of duty has been claimed |
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The labels for several existing preference codes will be changed to clarify them:
Preference code | Previous label | Revised label |
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L | Leased Developed Country preferential rate of duty has been claimed | Least Developed Country preferential rate of duty has been claimed - LDC (Schedule 1, Part 2) |
T | The Developing Country preferential rate of duty has been claimed | The Developing Country preferential rate of duty has been claimed - DCS (Schedule 1, Parts 1 and 4) |
A | The Developing Country preferential rate of duty has been claimed - historical | The Developing Country preferential rate of duty has been claimed - DC (Schedule 1, Parts 1 and 3) |
R | Goods manufactured in Singapore but do not meet SAFTA rules of origin receive a Developing Country ( | The Developing Country preferential rate of duty has been claimed - DCT (Schedule 1, Part 5) |
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This change does not impact on statistics in this publication.
CHANGES IN FORTHCOMING ISSUES
AMENDMENT TO SCHEDULE 4 OF CUSTOMS TARIFF
The
Australian Customs and Border Protection Service will be introducing significant amendments to
Schedule 4 of the Customs Tariff Act. The changes will apply from 1 March 2013. More detail is available in
Australian Customs Notice 2012/55.
The ABS will be publishing information on impacts to statistical data in Information Paper:
Amendments to Schedule 4 of Customs Tariff (cat. no. 5368.0.55.019) to be released on 19 March 2013.