REDUCTION/ABOLITION OF CUSTOMS DUTIES Duties and Taxes on the following items have been reduced effective 4.00pm., October 17, 1997 TARIFF CODE DESCRIPTION NEW RATE % IMPORT DUTY 30.05 Wadding, gauze, bandages and similiar articles (e.g. dressings, adhesive plasters, poultices), impregnated or coated with pharmaceutical substances or put up in forms or packings for retail sale for medical, surgical, dental or veterinary purposes.   3005.10 3005.10 900 -Adhesive dressings and other articles having and adhesive layer : Other than system base plate Nil 3005.90 3005.90 100 3005.90 200 3005.90 300 3005.90 900 -Other Cotton wool Absorbent gauze Bandages (including gauze bandages and triangular bandages) Other Nil Nil Nil Nil 33.06 Preparation for oral dental hygine, including denture fixative pastes & powders; yarn used to clean between the teeth (dental floss) individual retail packages. Nil 3306.20 000 Yarn used to clean between the teeth (dental floss) Nil 84.76 8476.21 000 Automatic goods-vending machines -Automatic beverage-vending machines: -Incorp heating or refrigerating devices Nil 8476.29 000 -Other Nil 8476.81 000 8476.89 000 Incorporating heating or refrigerating devices Other Nil Nil 85.10 8510.10 000 Shavers, hair clippers and hair removing appliances, with self-contained electric motor : Shavers Nil 8609.00 000 Containers (including containers for the transport of fluids) specially designed and equiped for carriage by one more modes of transport. Nil 9704.00 000 Postage or revenue stamps, stamps-postmarks, first-day covers, postal stationery (stamp paper), and the like, used or if unused not of current or new issue in the country which they are destined. Nil 9705.00 000 Collections and collectors' pieces of zoological, botanical, mineralogical, anatomical, historical, archaeological, palaeontological, enthographic, or numismatic interest. Nil 9706.00 000 Antiques of an age exceeding one hundred years Nil SALES TAX 16.02 1602.32 Other prepared or preserved meat, meat offal or blood -Of poultry of heading No. 01.05 -Of fowls of the species Gallus domesticus:   1602.32.900 Chicken balls Nil 1602.49 1602.49 900 -Other including mixtures Other Nil 1602.50 -Of bovine animals Beaf balls Nil 1602.90 1602.90 900 -Other, including preparations of blood of any animals Others meat balls Nil 16.04 Prepared or preserved fish; caviar and caviar subsitutes prepared from fish eggs.   1604.11 000 1604.12 000 -Fish, whole or in pieces, but not minced: -Salmon: in airtight containers -Herrings: in airtight containers Nil Nil 1604.20 -Other prepared or preserved fish:   1604.90 920 Other: Fish balls, paste and cake Nil 3822.00 000 Diagonostic or laboratory reagents on a backing and prepared dignostic or laboratory reagents whether or not on a backing, other than those of heading No.30.20 or 30.06 Nil 84.70 Calculating machines and pocket-size data recording, reproducing and displaying machines with calculating function ;...   8470.10 -Electronic calculators capable of operation without an external source of electric power and pocket size data recording, reproducing and displaying machines with calculating functions :   8470.10 900 Other Nil 8470.21 900 8470.29 900 8470.30 900 -Other electronic calculating machines Other Other Other Nil Nil Nil 84.76 8476.21 000 8476.29 000 Automatic goods-vending machines -Automatic beverage-vending machines: -Incorp heating or refrigerating devices -Other Nil Nil 8609.00 000 Containers (including containers for the transport of fluids) specially designed and equiped for carriage by one or more modes of transport Nil EXPORT DUTY 2709.00 Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude.   2709.00 100 Petroleum oils, crude 10% 2709.00 900 Other 10% TARIFF CODE DESCRIPTION 85.16 Electric instantaneours or storage water heaters and immersion heaters; electric space heating apparatus and soil-heating apparatus; electrothermic hair-dressing apparatus (for example, hair dryers, hair curlers, curling tong heaters) and hand dryers; electric smoothing irons; other electro-thermic appliances of a kind used for domestic purposes; electric heating resistors, other than those of heating No.84.45 8516.10 Electric instrument or storage water heaters and immersion heaters: 8516.10 100 Radio-frequency types Electric space heating apparatus and electric soil heating apparatus: 8516.21 8516.21 100 Storage heating radiators : Radio frequency types 8516.29 8516.29 100 Other : Radio frequency types Electro-themic hair dressing or hand-drying apparatus: 8516.31 8516.31 100 Hair-dryers: Radio frequency types 8516.32 8516.32 100 Other hair dressing apparatus : Radio frequency types 8516.33 8516.33 100 Hair drying apparatus : Radio frequency types 8516.40 8516.40 100 Electric smoothing iron : Radio frequency types 8516.60 8516.60 100 Other ovens; cookers, cooking plates, boiling, rings, grillers and roasters : Radio frequency types 8516.71 8516.71 100 8516.72 8516.72 100 8516.79 8516.79 100 8516.80 8516.80 100 8516.90 8516.90 100 Other electro-thermic appliances : Coffee or tea makers : Radio frequency types Toasters : Radio frequency types Other : Radio frequency types Electric heating resistors : Radio frequency types Parts : For subheadings Nos. 8516.10 100, 8516.21 10, 8516.29 100, 8516.31 100, 8516.32 100, 8516.33 100, 8516.40 100, 8516.50 100, 8516.60 100, 8516.71 100, 8516.72 100, 8516.79 100 and 8516.80 100 87.11 Motorcycles (including mopeds) and cycles fitted with an auxilliary motor, with or without side-cars. 8711.30 8711.30 100 With reciprocating internasl combustion piston engine of a cyclinder capacity exceeding 250cc but not exceeding 500cc : Autocycle (equipped with both built-in engine and a pedal system) 8711.40 8711.40 100 With reciprocating internal combustion piston engine of a cyclinder capacity exceeding 500cc but not exceeding 800cc : Autocycle (equipped with both built-in engine and a pedal system) 8711.50 8711.50 100 With reciprocating internal combustion piston engine of a cyclinder capacity exceeding 800cc Autocycle (equipped with both built-in engine and a pedal system).

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