A Party may at any time accelerate the elimination of customs duties as set out in its Schedule to Annex 2-D (Tariff Commitments) on originating goods of one or more of the other Parties. The requested Party shall promptly forward the request and its notification to the overall contact points of the requesting and requested Parties designated pursuant to Article 27.5 (Contact Points) for appropriate action.
Remanufactured Goods
No Party shall, as a condition of engaging in importation or for the importation of a good, require a person of another Party to establish a contractual or other relationship with a distributor in its territory or to maintain.4. For greater certainty, paragraph 8 does not prevent a Party from requiring a person referred to in that paragraph to designate a point of contact for the purpose of facilitating communication between its regulatory authorities and that person.
Import Licensing
Each Party must comply with Section 1.4(a) of the Import Licensing Agreement with respect to any new or amended import licensing procedure. Each Party shall also publish on an official government website any information it is required to publish pursuant to Article 1.4(a) of the Import License Agreement.
Administrative Fees and Formalities
Each Party shall post publicly on the Internet a current list of the tariffs and charges it imposes in connection with importation or exportation. Neither Party shall impose duties and charges on or in connection with importation or exportation on an ad valorem basis.8.
Export Duties, Taxes or Other Charges
No Party shall require consular transactions, including related fees and charges, in connection with the importation of an item from another Party. Each Party shall periodically review its fees and charges with a view to reducing their number and diversity if practicable.
Publication
Each Party shall periodically review its fees and charges, with a view to reducing their number and diversity if possible. e) restrictions or bans on import, export or transit; f) fees and charges imposed on or in connection with importation, exportation or transit; g) punitive provisions for violations of import, export or transit formalities; i) agreements or parts of agreements with any country relating to importation, exportation or transit; j) administrative procedures related to the establishment of tariff quotas; and. k) correlation tables showing the correspondence between each new national nomenclature and the previous national nomenclature.
Trade in Information Technology Products
Committee on Trade in Goods
The Committee shall, as appropriate, consult with other Committees established pursuant to this Agreement when considering matters relevant to those Committees. The Committee shall submit to the Commission an initial report on its work in accordance with paragraphs 3(a) and 3(b) within two years of the date of entry into force of this Agreement.
Scope
Agricultural Export Subsidies
Export Credits, Export Credit Guarantees or Insurance Programmes
Agricultural Export State Trading Enterprises
Export Restrictions – Food Security
A Party required to notify a measure under paragraph 2(a) shall: a) consult, upon request, with any other Party that has a substantial interest as an importer of food products subject to the measure, in relation to any issue related to the measure;. If the matter is not satisfactorily resolved immediately thereafter, the Party which considers that the measure should have been notified may itself bring the measure to the attention of the other Parties.
Committee on Agricultural Trade
A Party that intends to continue a measure beyond six months from the date of its imposition shall notify the other Parties no later than five months after the date of imposition of the measure and shall provide the information specified in paragraph 2(b). Unless the Party has consulted with other Parties that are net importers of any food whose export is prohibited or restricted under the measure, the Party shall not continue the measure beyond 12 months from the date of its imposition. The Party shall terminate the measure immediately when the critical deficiency or the threat thereof ceases to exist.
Agricultural Safeguards
During the first five years after the entry into force of this Agreement, the Agricultural Trade Committee shall meet not less than once a year.
Trade of Products of Modern Biotechnology
To address an LLP occurrence, and for the purpose of preventing a future LLP occurrence, an Exporting Party shall, at the request of an Importing Party, where available and subject to its laws, regulations and policies: a) provide a summary of any risk or safety assessment(s) carried out by the exporting party in connection with the authorization of a specific plant product based on modern biotechnology; The Parties hereby establish a Working Group on Modern Biotechnology Products (Working Group) under the Committee on Agricultural Trade for information exchange and cooperation on trade-related matters related to Modern Biotechnology Products. The Working Group will provide a forum to:. (a) exchanging, subject to the laws, regulations and policies of a Party, information on issues, including actual and proposed laws, regulations and policies, related to trade in products of modern biotechnology; And.
Scope and General Provisions
Administration and Eligibility
Any Party with a demonstrable commercial interest in the supply of goods may submit a written request for consultation to a Party seeking to impose a new or additional condition, restriction or eligibility requirement. Upon receipt of such a request for consultations, the Party seeking to impose a new or additional condition, limitation or eligibility requirement shall promptly consult with the requesting Party in accordance with Article 2.32.6 (Transparency). A Party shall make available to quota applicants the entire quantity of quota specified in its Schedule to Annex 2-D (Tariff Commitments) as of the first day of each tariff quota year following when the quota is in effect.
Return and Reallocation of TRQs
Transparency
Vietnam will not apply any export duties, taxes or other charges to such goods from January 1 of year 11. d) export duties, taxes or other charges on goods covered by the items in the category. Vietnam will not apply any export duties, taxes or other charges to such goods from January 1 of year 11. e) export duties, taxes and other charges on goods covered by category E articles are eliminated in 13 equal annual steps. Vietnam will not apply any export duties, taxes or other charges to such goods from January 1 of year 13. g) export duties, taxes and other charges on goods falling under category G articles shall be abolished in 16 equal annual steps.
Malaysia
4403.10 Wood in the rough, with or without bark or sapwood, or in the rough. 4407.10 Wood, sawn or sawn lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or end-jointed, of a thickness exceeding 6 mm. 4409.10 Wood (including strips and friezes for parquet flooring, not assembled) continuously shaped (toned, grooved, grooved, chamfered, V-jointed, rounded, rounded or the like) along any edge, end or face, whether or not planed, sanded or joined at the ends.
Viet Nam
EIF" shall be initially reduced on the date of entry into force of this Agreement for that Party; and. ii) unless otherwise provided in that Party's Schedule, the second stage of the tariff reduction shall take effect on 1 January of the following year, and each subsequent annual stage of the tariff reduction for that Party shall take effect on January 1 of each subsequent year.If the original Party applies its schedule as if this Agreement had entered into force for both Parties on the date of entry into force of this Agreement for the new Party pursuant to subsection ( a)(i), the new party may elect to apply its Schedule with respect to the original party, either: i) as if this Agreement had entered into force for both parties on the effective date of this Agreement for the new party; or .ii) as if this Agreement had entered into force for both Parties on the date of entry into force of this Agreement for the original Party.This Signatory shall, no later than 24 days after the date of the Commission's affirmative decision, as referred to in Article 30.5.5 (Entry into Force) for the such signatory, notify the parties of its election under subparagraph (b) with respect to each original party that communicated its election to use its list under subparagraph (a)(i) for that signatory. (d) If an original Party does not provide notice of an election under subsection (a) as provided in subsection (c), the original Party shall, on the effective date of this Agreement for the new Party, apply its list to the new party as provided in .
If a new Party does not notify an election under subparagraph (b) as provided in subparagraph (c), the new Party shall, on the date of entry into force of this Agreement for that new Party, apply its schedule to that original Party . as provided in subparagraph (b)(ii). (i) an original Party applying its schedule to a new Party as provided in subparagraph (a) (i) may unilaterally expedite the elimination of customs duties on an originating good specified in its schedule of this Annex to connection with the new Party in accordance with Article 2.4.5 (Elimination of customs duties); and. ii) a new Party applying its schedule to an original Party as provided in subparagraph (b)(i) may unilaterally expedite the elimination of customs duties on an originating good specified in its schedule of this Annex to relation to the original Party in accordance with Article 2.4.5 (Removal of customs duties). f) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, if, on the date of entry into force of this Agreement for a new Party, to which an original Party has elected to apply its schedule as provided in subparagraph (a) (i ):. i) that original Party unilaterally accelerates the elimination of customs duties on an originating good of the new Party, that original Party shall not reverse this acceleration thereafter; and. ii) The new Party unilaterally accelerates the elimination of customs duties on a good originating from that original Party, the new Party shall not reverse this acceleration thereafter. In the event of a discrepancy in a Party's schedule to this Annex between the rate category specified for an item and any tariff rate specified for that item for a given year, that Party shall apply the rate required in accordance with the category of the scene specified for the item.
