Customs (ASEAN - Hong Kong, China Free Trade Agreement) (Preferential Tariff), 2019

This Order may be cited as the Customs (ASEAN - Hong Kong, China Free

Trade Agreement) (Preferential Tariff) Order, 2019 and shall be deemed to have commenced on 1st January 2019.

In this Order -

"Agreement" means the ASEAN - Hong Kong, China Free Trade Agreement signed between the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative

Region of the People's Republic of China and the Member States of the

Association of Southeast Asian Nations on 12th November 2017 in Manila,

Philippines;

"prescribed countries" means the countries specified in paragraph 3.

For the purposes of section 9(5], the countries which are parties to the

Agreement as set out in Schedule 1 are hereby specified as prescribed countries.

Notwithstanding anything contained in the Customs Import Duties Order,

2007 (S 45/2007], there shall be levied import duties at such rates, and in respect of such years and goods, as specified in Schedule 2, which are shown to the satisfaction of the Controller to have been consigned from one of the prescribed countries, and either to be the produce of one of the prescribed countries or to have been manufactured in one of the prescribed countries.

For the purposes of paragraph 4, goods shall be deemed to have been consigned from one of the prescribed countries where they conform to the Rules of Origin specified in Chapter 3 of, and annexed to, the Agreement.

"SCHEDULE 1

(paragraph 3)

The Governments of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the

People's Republic of China