Customs (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) (Preferential Tariff) Order, 2023

This Order may be cited as the Customs (Comprehensive and Progressive

Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) (Preferential Tariff) Order, 2023 and shall commence on 1st July 2023.

In this Order -

"Agreement" means the Free Trade Agreement signed between the

Governments of Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan,

Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, New Zealand, The Republic of Singapore and The

Socialist Republic of VietNam on 8th March 2018 in Santiago, Chile;

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

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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, annexed and appendix to, the Agreement.

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BRUNEI DARUSSALAM GOVERNMENT GAZETTE

Australia 2.

Canada 3.

Chile 4.

Japan 5.

New Zealand