The Customs Duties (ECSC) (Quota and other Reliefs) (Amendment) Order 1992

Statutory Instruments

1992 No. 283

CUSTOMS AND EXCISE

The Customs Duties (ECSC) (Quota and other Reliefs) (Amendment) Order 1992

Made

17th February 1992

Laid before the House of Commons

19th February 1992

Coming into force

20th February 1992

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 1 and 4 of the Customs and Excise Duties (General Reliefs) Act 1979(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Customs Duties (ECSC) (Quota and other Reliefs) (Amendment) Order 1992 and shall come into force on 20th February 1992.

2.  The Customs Duties (ECSC) (Quota and other Reliefs) Order 1991(2) shall be amended as follows:

(a) in article 4, the words “Schedule 1 or in” shall be inserted after the words “Part III of”;

(b) in Schedule 1, the words “Republic of Korea” shall be inserted after the word “Brazil” in column 2 of the first, third and fourth sections of Part III; and

(c) in Schedule 2, the words “Republic of Korea” shall be inserted after the word “Qatar” in Part 1.

Tim Sainsbury

Minister for Trade,

Department of Trade and Industry

17th February 1992

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Customs Duties (ECSC) (Quota and other Reliefs) Order 1991 following a Decision of the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community meeting within the Council, of 10th February 1992(3). It admits the Republic of Korea to the list of countries who are granted reliefs from customs duty on certain iron and steel products under the Community’s Generalised Tariff Preference Scheme for Developing Countries. The Order also corrects an omission from article 4 of the 1991 Order.

(1)

1979 c. 3.

(2)

S.I. 1991/2925.

(3)

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