GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE

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1 GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TARIFFS AND TRADE RESTRICTED L/ vember 1986 Limited Distribution Original: English NOTIFICATION UNDER PARAGRAPH 3 OF THE UNDERSTANDING REGARDING NOTIFICATION, CONSULTATION, DISPUTE SETTLEMENT AND SURVEILLANCE AND PARAGRAPH 3 OF THE DECLARATION ON TRADE MEASURES TAKEN FOR BALANCE-OF-PAYMENTS PURPOSES Communication from Yugoslavia The Permanent Mission of Yugoslavia has notified the attached information concerning the special charge payable on imports of certain agricultural and foodstuff products

2 Page 2 In June 1986, Yugoslavia introduced a change in mechanism for fixing the amount of special charge payable on imports of certain agricultural and foodstuff products and in the same time shortened the list of products covered by this charge. The Decision on criteria and methods for setting special charge payable on imports of certain agricultural and foodstuff products was published in the "Official Gazette of the SFRY, 35/86. The legal basis for this measure is contained in the Low on Special Charge payable on imports of agricultural and foodstuff products ("Official Gazette of the SFRY, 15/68). Previous Yugoslav notification of special charge. payable on imports of certain agricultural and foodstuff products is contained in the Basic Document for the Balance of Payments Consultations of Yugoslavia in 1984 (BOP/242). The reason for changing the mechanism of setting the amount of special charge lied in fact that, according to previous provisions, the amount of charge was fixed in domestic currency and was applied for several years without changing, so in the meantime due to inflation it totaly lost importance. Under the new mechanism the amount of special charge represents the difference between the normal domestic price and the import price. The import price represents customs value plus customs duties and other import charges, cept special charge. rmal domestic price for products for which protective (guarantied) prices are administred is protective price, which is established once a year, and for the products falling under direct price control - the price so fixed. Special charge is applied of following products:

3 Page 3 ol. o2 ol. o3 Live animals of the bovine species: 2.Other: d) Bullocks and heifers: 1. For fattening, of a weight of more than 200 kg but not more than 280 kg 2. Fattened, of a weight of more than 280 kg but not more than 450 kg 3. Other Live swine: 2. For slaughtering: a) Lean 01. o4 o2.ol Live sheep and goats: 1. Sheep: a) For slaughtering Meat and edible offals of the animals falling within heading ol.ol., ol.o2, ol.o3 or ol.o4, fresh, chilled or frozen: 1. Meat of bovine animals, with bone-in a) Beef 3. Meat of sheep or goats: a) Meat of sheep: a. Other 4. Meat of swine: b) With fatty parts c) Without fatty parts d) Bacon

4 Page 4 o2. o2 lo.ol lo. o ol Dead poultry (that is to say fowls, ducks, geese, turkeys and guinea fouls) and edible offals there of (cept liver), fresh chilled or frozen: 2. Dead pullets and meat thereof Wheat and meslin (mixed wheat and rye) 1. Durum wheat: b) Other 2. Other c) Other wheat Maize: 2. Other: a) White b) Yellow c) Other Rice: 1. In the husk (paddy or rough rice): b) Other 2. Husked but not further prepared (cargo rice or brown rice) 3. Semi-milled or wholly milled, whether or not polished or glazed: a) Semi-milled or wholly milled b) Polished or not polished, 4. Broken glazed or not glazed Oil seeds and oleaginous fruit, whole or broken: 4. Soya beans 8. Sunflower seeds 10. Rape or colza seeds

5 Page 5 12.o4 Sugar beet, whole or sliced, fresh, dried or powdered; sugar cane: 1.Sugar beet 15. o7 Fixed vegetable cils, fluid or solid, crude, refined or purified: 1. Soya bean oil: a) Crude b) Refined 5. Sunflower seed oil: a) Crude b) Refined 6. Rape, colza or mustard oil: a) Rape and colza oil: 1. Crude.2. Refined Beet sugar and cane sugar, soild form: 1. Raw sugar: a) Beet sugar 2.Other: a) Refined: 1.Beet sugar in 24. ol Unmanufactured refuse: tobacco; tobacco 1.Tobacco, not stripped, of the Virginia type flue cured 2.Tobacco, not stripped, other 3.Tobacco, wholly or partly stripped, flue cured, of the Virginia type 4. Tobacco, wholly or partly stripped, other 5. Tobacco refuse

6 Page 6 53.ol Sheep's or lamb's wool, carded or combed not 1. Greasy on fleece-washed 2. Other: a) Washed wool b) Slipe wool c) Other Cotton, not carded or combed: 1. Short - staple length 2. Medium-staple length 3. Long staple length