Customs (ASEAN Common Effective Preferential Tariff) Order, 2005

This Order may be cited as the Customs (ASEAN Common Effective

Preferential Tariff) Order, 2005 and shall be deemed to have commenced on the 1st. January, 2004.

Prescription of prescribed countries.

For the purpose of subsection (2) of section 8 of the Customs Act, all member countries of the Association of South East Asian Nations are hereby specified as prescribed countries.

Preferential rates of customs duties.

1973 (S 34/73), there shall be levied in respect of the imported goods specified in the Schedule which are shown to the satisfaction of the Controller to have originated from and to have been consigned direct from a member country of the

Association of South East Asian Nations customs duties at the rates and in respect of the years specified in the Schedule.

Deemed country of origin of goods.

For the purpose of paragraph 3, goods shall be deemed to have originated from and to have been consigned direct from such a member country where they conform to the Rules of Origin annexed to the Agreement on ASEAN Common

Effective Preferential Tariff (CEPT) Scheme for the ASEAN Free Trade Area

(AFTA).

Repeal of S 74/00.

The Customs (ASEAN Common Effective Preferential Tariff) Order, 1999 is repealed.

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