Sections I to XXI

Revoke the words “heading No” and “heading Nos” wherever they appear in these sections and substitute the words “heading” and “headings” respectively.

Sections I to XXI

Revoke the words “subheading No” and “subheading Nos” wherever they appear in these sections and substitute the words “subheading” and “subheadings” respectively.

Chapter 3

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Renumber existing paragraphs (b) to (c) of note 1 as paragraphs (c) to (d) respectively.

Chapter 5

Revoke note 3 from the beginning of this chapter and substitute:

Chapter 11

Revoke paragraph (b) from note 1 at the beginning of this chapter and substitute:

Chapter 12

Insert, after note 5 at the beginning of this chapter:

Chapter 13

Insert, after paragraph (e) of note 1 at the beginning of this chapter:

Renumber existing paragraphs (f) to (ij) of note 1 as paragraphs (g) to (k) respectively.

Chapter 15

Insert, after note 4 at the beginning of this chapter:

Chapter 17

Revoke from subheading 1702.90 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“– Other, including invert sugar and other sugar and sugar syrup blends containing in the dry state 50% by weight of fructose:”.

Chapter 19

Revoke note 2 from the beginning of this chapter and substitute:

Revoke from heading 19.01 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“Malt extract; food preparations of flour, groats, meal, starch or malt extract, not containing cocoa or containing less than 40% by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included; food preparations of goods of headings 04.01 to 04.04, not containing cocoa or containing less than 5% by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included:”.

Revoke from heading 19.04 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products (for example, corn flakes); cereals (other than maize (corn)) in grain form or in the form of flakes or other worked grains (except flour, groats and meal), pre-cooked or otherwise prepared, not elsewhere specified or included:”.

Chapter 20

Insert, after note 4 at the beginning of this chapter:

Renumber existing note 5 as note 6.

Insert, after subheading note 2 at the beginning of this chapter:

Revoke from heading 20.07 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“Jams, fruit jellies, marmalades, fruit or nut puree and fruit or nut pastes, obtained by cooking, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter:”.

Revoke from subheading 2008.70 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“– Peaches, including nectarines:”.

Chapter 23

Insert, after note 1 at the beginning of this chapter:

Chapter 25

Revoke note 4 from the beginning of this chapter and substitute:

Revoke from heading 25.18 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“Dolomite, whether or not calcined or sintered, including dolomite roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape; dolomite ramming mix:”.

Chapter 26

Insert, after paragraph (b) of note 1 at the beginning of this chapter:

Renumber existing paragraphs (c) to (f) of Note 1 as paragraphs (d) to (g) respectively.

Revoke note 3 from the beginning of this chapter and substitute:

Insert, after note 3 at the beginning of this chapter:

Revoke from heading 26.20 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“Ash and residues (other than from the manufacture of iron or steel), containing arsenic, metals or their compounds:”.

Revoke from heading 26.21 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“Other slag and ash, including seaweed ash (kelp); ash and residues from the incineration of municipal waste:”.

Chapter 27

Insert, after note 2 at the beginning of this chapter:

Revoke subheading note 3 from the beginning of this chapter and substitute:

Insert, in heading 27.10 the description in the column headed Goods:

“Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, other than crude; preparations not elsewhere specified or included, containing by weight 70% or more of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals, these oils being the basic constituents of the preparations; waste oils:”.

Omit subheading 2710.00 and the description from the column headed Goods.

Chapter 28

Revoke paragraph (d) from note 3 at the beginning of this chapter and substitute:

Revoke from heading 28.09 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“Diphosphorus pentaoxide; phosphoric acid; polyphosphoric acids, whether or not chemically defined:”.

Revoke from heading 28.30 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“Sulphides; polysulphides, whether or not chemically defined:”.

Revoke from heading 28.35 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“Phosphinates (hypophosphites), phosphonates (phosphites) and phosphates; polyphosphates, whether or not chemically defined:”.

Revoke from heading 28.42 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“Other salts of inorganic acids or peroxoacids (including aluminosilicates whether or not chemically defined), other than azides:”.

Chapter 29

Revoke paragraph (c) from note 1 at the beginning of this chapter and substitute:

Insert, after note 7 at the beginning of this chapter:

Revoke from subheading 2907.2 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“– Polyphenols; phenol-alcohols:”.

Revoke the sub-chapter VIII heading from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“ESTERS OF INORGANIC ACIDS OF NON-METALS AND THEIR SALTS, AND THEIR HALOGENATED, SULPHONATED, NITRATED OR NITROSATED DERIVATIVES”.

Revoke from heading 29.20 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“Esters of other inorganic acids of non-metals (excluding esters of hydrogen halides) and their salts; their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives:”.

Revoke from subheading 2922.2 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“– Amino-naphthols and other amino-phenols, other than those containing more than one kind of oxygen function, their ethers and esters; salts thereof:”.

Revoke from heading 29.23 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“Quaternary ammonium salts and hydroxides; lecithins and phosphoaminolipids, whether or not chemically defined:”.

Revoke from heading 29.34 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“Nucleic acids and their salts, whether or not chemically defined; other heterocyclic compounds:”.

Revoke from heading 29.37 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“Hormones, prostaglandins, thromboxanes and leukotrienes, natural or reproduced by synthesis; derivatives and structural analogues thereof, including chain modified polypeptides, used primarily as hormones:”.

Chapter 30

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Revoke paragraph (g) from note 4 at the beginning of this chapter and substitute:

Revoke paragraph (h) from note 4 at the beginning of this chapter and substitute:

Insert, after paragraph (h) of note 4 at the beginning of this chapter:

Revoke from heading 30.04 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“Medicaments (excluding goods of headings 30.02, 30.05 or 30.06) consisting of mixed or unmixed products for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, put up in measured doses (including those in the form of transdermal administration systems) or in forms or packings for retail sale:”.

Revoke from subheading 3004.32 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“– – Containing corticosteroid hormones, their derivatives and structural analogues:”.

Chapter 34

Revoke from heading 34.01 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“Soap; organic surface-active products and preparations for use as soap, in the form of bars, cakes, moulded pieces or shapes, whether or not containing soap; organic surface-active products and preparations for washing the skin, in the form of liquid or cream and put up for retail sale, whether or not containing soap; paper, wadding, felt and nonwovens, impregnated, coated or covered with soap or detergent:”.

Chapter 38

Revoke paragraph (a) (4) from note 1 at the beginning of this chapter and substitute:

Insert, after paragraph (b) of note 1 at the beginning of this chapter:

Renumber existing paragraphs (c) to (d) of note 1 as paragraphs (d) to (e) respectively.

Insert, after note 1 at the beginning of this chapter:

Renumber existing note 2 as note 3.

Insert, after note 3 at the beginning of this chapter:

Insert, after note 6 at the beginning of this chapter:

Revoke from subheading 3822.00 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“Diagnostic or laboratory reagents on a backing, prepared diagnostic or laboratory reagents whether or not on a backing, other than those of heading 30.02 or 30.06; certified reference materials:”.

Revoke from heading 38.24 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“Prepared binders for foundry moulds or cores; chemical products and preparations of the chemical or allied industries (including those consisting of mixtures of natural products), not elsewhere specified or included:”.

Add heading 38.25 and the description in the column headed Goods:

“Residual products of the chemical or allied industries, not elsewhere specified or included; municipal waste; sewage sludge; other wastes specified in note 6 to this Chapter:”.

Chapter 39

Insert, after subheading note 1 at the beginning of this chapter:

Revoke from subheading 3904.2 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“– Other poly(vinyl chloride):”.

Revoke from subheading 3905.1 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“– Poly(vinyl acetate):”.

Revoke from subheading 3906.10 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“– Poly(methyl methacrylate):”.

Revoke from subheading 3907.60 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“– Poly(ethylene terephthalate):”.

Revoke from subheading 3920.51 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“– – Of poly(methyl methacrylate):”.

Revoke from subheading 3920.62 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“– – Of poly(ethylene terephthalate):”.

Revoke from subheading 3920.91 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“– – Of poly(vinyl butyral):”.

Revoke from heading 39.22 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“Baths, shower-baths, sinks, wash-basins, bidets, lavatory pans, seats and covers, flushing cisterns and similar sanitary ware, of plastics:”.

Revoke from subheading 3926.20 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“– Articles of apparel and clothing accessories (including gloves, mittens and mitts):”.

Chapter 40

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Revoke from heading 40.12 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“Retreaded or used pneumatic tyres of rubber; solid or cushion tyres, tyre treads and tyre flaps, of rubber:”.

Revoke from heading 40.15 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“Articles of apparel and clothing accessories (including gloves, mittens and mitts), for all purposes, of vulcanised rubber other than hard rubber:”.

Revoke from subheading 4015.1 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“– Gloves, mittens and mitts:”.

Chapter 41

Insert, after note 1 at the beginning of this chapter:

Renumber existing note 2 as note 3.

Revoke note 3 from the beginning of this chapter and substitute:

Revoke from heading 41.01 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“Raw hides and skins of bovine (including buffalo) or equine animals (fresh, or salted, dried, limed, pickled or otherwise preserved, but not tanned, parchment-dressed or further prepared), whether or not dehaired or split:”.

Revoke from heading 41.04 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“Tanned or crust hides and skins of bovine (including buffalo) or equine animals, without hair on, whether or not split, but not further prepared:”.

Revoke from heading 41.05 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“Tanned or crust skins of sheep or lambs, without wool on, whether or not split, but not further prepared:”.

Revoke from heading 41.06 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“Tanned or crust hides and skins of other animals, without wool or hair on, whether or not split, but not further prepared:”.

Revoke from heading 41.07 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“Leather further prepared after tanning or crusting, including parchment-dressed leather, of bovine (including buffalo) or equine animals, without hair on, whether or not split, other than leather of heading 41.14:”.

Add heading 41.13 and the description in the column headed Goods:

“Leather further prepared after tanning or crusting, including parchment-dressed leather, of other animals, without wool or hair on, whether or not split, other than leather of heading 41.14:”.

Add heading 41.14 and the description in the column headed Goods:

“Chamois (including combination chamois) leather; patent leather and patent laminated leather; metallised leather:”.

Add heading 41.15 and the description in the column headed Goods:

“Composition leather with a basis of leather or leather fibre, in slabs, sheets or strip, whether or not in rolls; parings and other waste of leather or of composition leather, not suitable for the manufacture of leather articles; leather dust, powder and flour:”.

Chapter 42

Revoke paragraph (b) from note 1 at the beginning of this chapter and substitute:

Revoke note 3 from the beginning of this chapter and substitute:

Revoke from heading 42.02 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“Trunks, suit-cases, vanity-cases, executive-cases, brief-cases, school satchels, spectacle cases, binocular cases, camera cases, musical instrument cases, gun cases, holsters and similar containers; travelling-bags, insulated food or beverages bags, toilet bags, rucksacks, handbags, shopping-bags, wallets, purses, map-cases, cigarette-cases, tobacco-pouches, tool bags, sports bags, bottle-cases, jewellery boxes, powder-boxes, cutlery cases and similar containers, of leather or of composition leather, of sheeting of plastics, of textile materials, of vulcanised fibre or of paperboard, or wholly or mainly covered with such materials or with paper:”.

Chapter 43

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Chapter 44

Revoke subheading note 1 from the beginning of this chapter and substitute:

Revoke from heading 44.07 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“Wood sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or end-jointed, of a thickness exceeding 6 mm:”.

Revoke from heading 44.08 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“Sheets for veneering (including those obtained by slicing laminated wood), for plywood or for other similar laminated wood and other wood, sawn lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded, spliced or end-jointed, of a thickness not exceeding 6 mm:”.

Revoke from heading 44.09 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“Wood (including strips and friezes for parquet flooring, not assembled) continuously shaped (tongued, grooved, rebated, chamfered, v-jointed, beaded, moulded, rounded or the like) along any of its edges, ends or faces, whether or not planed, sanded or end-jointed:”.

Revoke from heading 44.10 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“Particle board and similar board (for example, oriented strand board and waferboard) of wood or other ligneous materials, whether or not agglomerated with resins or other organic binding substances:”.

Chapter 49

Revoke note 2 from the beginning of this chapter and substitute:

Revoke from heading 49.07 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“Unused postage, revenue or similar stamps of current or new issue in the country in which they have, or will have, a recognised face value; stamp-impressed paper; banknotes; cheque forms; stock, share or bond certificates and similar documents of title:”.

Section XI

Insert, before paragraph (k) of subheading note 1 at the beginning of this section:

“The definitions at (e) to (ij) above apply, mutatis mutandis, to knitted or crocheted fabrics.”

Revoke note 2 (A) from subheading note 1 at the beginning of this section and substitute:

Chapter 58

Revoke from heading 58.04 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“Tulles and other net fabrics, not including woven, knitted or crocheted fabrics; lace in the piece, in strips or in motifs, other than fabrics of headings 60.02 to 60.06:”.

Chapter 59

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Revoke paragraph (b) from note 4 at the beginning of this chapter and substitute:

Chapter 60

Revoke from heading 60.02 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“Knitted or crocheted fabrics of a width not exceeding 30 cm, containing by weight 5% or more of elastomeric yarn or rubber thread, other than those of heading 60.01:”.

Add heading 60.03 and the description in the column headed Goods:

“Knitted or crocheted fabrics of a width not exceeding 30 cm, other than those of heading 60.01 or 60.02:”.

Add heading 60.04 and the description in the column headed Goods:

“Knitted or crocheted fabrics of a width exceeding 30 cm, containing by weight 5% or more of elastomeric yarn or rubber thread, other than those of heading 60.01:”.

Add heading 60.05 and the description in the column headed Goods:

“Warp knit fabrics (including those made on galloon knitting machines), other than those of headings 60.01 to 60.04:”.

Add heading 60.06 the description in the column headed Goods:

“Other knitted or crocheted fabrics:”.

Chapter 64

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Chapter 68

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Section XVI

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Revoke paragraph (o) from note 1 at the beginning of this section and substitute:

Revoke paragraph (p) from note 1 at the beginning of this section and substitute:

Insert, after paragraph (p) of note 1 at the beginning of this section:

Revoke paragraph (a) from note 2 at the beginning of this section and substitute:

Revoke note 3 from the beginning of this section and substitute:

Chapter 84

Revoke paragraph (e) from note 1 at the beginning of this chapter and substitute:

Revoke from heading 84.19 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“Machinery, plant or laboratory equipment, whether or not electrically heated (excluding furnaces, ovens and other equipment of heading 85.14), for the treatment of materials by a process involving a change of temperature such as heating, cooking, roasting, distilling, rectifying, sterilising, pasteurising, steaming, drying, evaporating, vaporising, condensing or cooling, other than machinery or plant of a kind used for domestic purposes; instantaneous or storage water heaters, non-electric:”.

Revoke from heading 84.43 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“Printing machinery used for printing by means of the printing type, blocks, plates, cylinders and other printing components of heading 84.42; ink-jet printing machines, other than those of heading 84.71; machines for uses ancillary to printing:”.

Revoke from heading 84.67 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“Tools for working in the hand, pneumatic, hydraulic or with self-contained electric or non-electric motor:”.

Revoke from subheading 8483.90 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“– Toothed wheels, chain sprockets and other transmission elements presented separately; parts:”.

Chapter 85

Revoke paragraph (a) from note 3 at the beginning of this chapter and substitute:

Revoke note 6 from the beginning of this chapter and substitute:

Insert, after subheading note 1 at the beginning of this chapter:

Revoke from heading 85.08 the description from the column headed Goods.

Revoke from subheading 8509.10 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“– Vacuum cleaners, including dry and wet vacuum cleaners:”.

Revoke from heading 85.14 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“Industrial or laboratory electric furnaces and ovens (including those functioning by induction or dielectric loss); other industrial or laboratory equipment for the heat treatment of materials by induction or dielectric loss:”.

Revoke from heading 85.18 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“Microphones and stands therefor; loudspeakers, whether or not mounted in their enclosures; headphones and earphones, whether or not combined with a microphone, and sets consisting of a microphone and one or more loudspeakers; audio frequency electric amplifiers; electric sound amplifier sets:”.

Revoke from subheading 8518.30 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“– Headphones and earphones, whether or not combined with a microphone, and sets consisting of a microphone and one or more loudspeakers:”.

Revoke from heading 85.25 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“Transmission apparatus for radio-telephony, radio-telegraphy, radio-broadcasting or television, whether or not incorporating reception apparatus or sound recording or reproducing apparatus; television cameras; still image video cameras and other video camera recorders; digital cameras:”.

Chapter 87

Revoke from heading 87.13 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“Carriages for disabled persons, whether or not motorised or otherwise mechanically propelled:”.

Chapter 90

Revoke paragraph (h) from note 1 at the beginning of this chapter and substitute:

Revoke note 6 from the beginning of this chapter and substitute:

Insert, after note 6 at the beginning of this chapter:

Revoke from heading 90.09 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“Photocopying apparatus incorporating an optical system or of the contact type and thermo-copying apparatus:”.

Revoke from subheading 9009.1 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“– Electrostatic photocopying apparatus:”.

Revoke from subheading 9009.2 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“– Other photocopying apparatus:”.

Chapter 95

Revoke paragraph (u) from note 1 at the beginning of this chapter and substitute:

Insert, after note 3 at the beginning of this chapter:

Revoke from heading 95.08 the description from the column headed Goods and substitute:

“Roundabouts, swings, shooting galleries and other fairground amusements; travelling circuses and travelling menageries; travelling theatres:”.

Chapter 97

Revoke paragraph (a) from note 1 at the beginning of this chapter and substitute: