(b) printed advertising material be imported in packets that each contain no more than one copy of the material and that neither that material nor those packets form part of a larger consignment.
Article 2.8. Temporary Admission of Goods
1. Each Party shall grant duty-free temporary admission for the following goods, regardless of their origin:
(a) professional equipment, including equipment for the press or television, software, and broadcasting and cinematographic equipment, that is necessary for carrying out the business activity, trade or profession of a person who qualifies for temporary entry pursuant to the laws of the importing Party;
(b) goods intended for display or demonstration; and
(c) commercial samples and advertising films and recordings.
2. Each Party shall, at the request of the person concerned and for reasons its customs authority considers valid, extend the time limit for duty-free temporary admission beyond the period initially fixed.
3. Neither Party shall condition the duty-free temporary admission of the goods referred to in paragraph 1, other than to require that those goods:
(a) be used solely by or under the personal supervision of a national of the other Party in the exercise of the business activity, trade or profession of that national of the other Party;
(b) not be sold or leased while in its territory;
(c) be accompanied by a security in an amount no greater than the charges that would otherwise be owed on entry or final importation, releasable on exportation of the goods;
(d) be capable of identification when imported and exported;
(e) be exported on the departure of the national referred to in subparagraph (a), or within any other period reasonably related to the purpose of the temporary admission that the Party may establish, or within one year, unless extended;
(f) be admitted in no greater quantity than is reasonable for their intended use; and
(g) be otherwise admissible into the Party's territory under its laws.
4. Neither Party shall apply import duties or taxes on the temporary admission of containers, pallets or packing material used in the international transportation of goods.
5. If any condition that a Party imposes under paragraph 3 has not been fulfilled, the Party may apply the customs duty and any other charge that would normally be owed on the good in addition to any other charges or penalties provided for under its law.
6. Each Party shall adopt and maintain procedures providing for the expeditious release of goods admitted under this Article. To the extent possible, those procedures shall provide that when a good admitted under this Article accompanies a national of the other Party who is seeking temporary entry, the good shall be released simultaneously with the entry of that national.
7. Each Party shall permit a good temporarily admitted under this Article to be exported through a customs port other than the port through which it was admitted.
8. Each Party shall, in accordance with its law, provide that the importer or other person responsible for a good admitted under this Article shall not be liable for failure to export the good on presentation of satisfactory proof to the importing Party that the good was destroyed within the period fixed for temporary admission, including any lawful extension.
Article 2.9. Import and Export Restrictions
1. Unless otherwise provided in this Agreement, neither Party shall adopt or maintain any prohibition or restriction on the importation of any good of the other Party or on the exportation or sale for export of any good destined for the territory of the other Party, except in accordance with Article XI of GATT 1994 and its interpretative notes, and to this end Article XI of GATT 1994 and its interpretative notes are incorporated into and made part of this Agreement, mutatis mutandis.
2. The Parties understand that GATT 1994 rights and obligations incorporated by paragraph 1 prohibit, in any circumstances in which any other form of restriction is prohibited, a Party from adopting or maintaining:
(a) export and import price requirements, except as permitted in enforcement of countervailing and antidumping duty orders and undertakings;
(b) import licensing conditioned on the fulfilment of a performance requirement; or
(c) voluntary export restraints.
3. Paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply to the measures set out in Annex 2-A.
4. Neither Party shall, as a condition for engaging in importation or for the importation of a good, require a person of the other Party to establish or maintain a contractual or other relationship with a distributor in its territory.
5. For greater certainty, paragraph 4 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 communications between its regulatory authorities and that person.
6. For the purposes of paragraph 4: distributor means a person of a Party who is responsible for the commercial distribution, agency, concession or representation in the territory of that Party of goods of the other Party.
Article 2.10. Import Licensing
1. Neither Party shall adopt or maintain a measure that is inconsistent with the Import Licensing Agreement.
2. Promptly after this Agreement enters into force, each Party shall notify the other Party of its existing import licensing procedures, if any. The notice shall include the information specified in Article 5.2 of the Import Licensing Agreement.
3. Neither Party shall apply an import licensing procedure to a good of the other Party unless it has, with respect to that procedure, met the requirements of paragraph 2.
Article 2.11. Administrative Fees and Formalities
1. Each Party shall ensure, in accordance with Article VII:1 of GATT 1994 and its interpretative notes, that all fees and charges of whatever character (other than export taxes, customs duties, charges equivalent to an internal tax or other internal charge applied consistently with Article I:2 of GATT 1994, and antidumping and countervailing duties) imposed on or in connection with importation or exportation are limited in amount to the approximate cost of services rendered and do not represent an indirect protection to domestic goods or a taxation of imports or exports for fiscal purposes.
2. Neither Party shall require consular transactions, including related fees and charges, in connection with the importation of a good of the other Party.
3. Each Party shall make publicly available online a current list of the fees and charges it imposes in connection with importation or exportation.
4. Each Party shall periodically review its fees and charges, with a view to reducing their number and diversity, if practicable.
Article 2.12. Export Duties, Taxes or other Charges
Neither Party shall adopt or maintain any duty, tax or other charge on the export of any good to the territory of the other Party, unless such duty, tax or charge is adopted or maintained on that good when destined for domestic consumption.
Article 2.13. Treatment of Certain Spirits
1. Australia confirms that the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code ("the Code") allows recognition of Pisco Peru as a product exclusively produced in Peru and that no variation of the Code is necessary for such recognition.
2. To the extent contemplated in the Code, Australia shall not permit the sale of any product as Pisco Peru unless such product has been produced in Peru according to the laws and regulations of Peru governing the production of Pisco Peru and complies with all applicable Peruvian laws and regulations for the consumption, sale or export as Pisco Peru.
3. Australia shall only permit the sale of a product that uses the term Pisco in the identification of a product in accordance with its domestic laws, including the Code, and its international obligations, including this Agreement.
Article 2.14. Committee on Goods
1. The Parties hereby establish a Committee on Goods (Committee), comprised of government representatives of each Party.
2. The Committee's functions shall include:
(a) promoting trade in goods between the Parties, including through consultations on accelerating tariff elimination under this Agreement and other issues as appropriate;
(b) monitoring the implementation, and administration of this Chapter, Chapter 3 (Rules of Origin and Origin Procedures) and Chapter 7 (Technical Barriers to Trade);
(c) as it considers appropriate, reporting to the Joint Commission on the implementation and administration of these Chapters;
(d) addressing barriers to trade in goods between the Parties, especially those related to the application of non-tariff measures and, if appropriate, refer these matters to the Joint Commission for its consideration;
(e) reviewing future amendments to the Harmonized System to ensure that each Party's commitments under this Chapter are not altered, and consulting to resolve any conflicts between:
(i) amendments to the Harmonized System and Annex 2-B or Annex 3-B (Product Specific Rules); or
(ii) Annex 2-B and national nomenclatures;
(f) consulting on and endeavouring to resolve any differences that may arise between the Parties on matters related to the classification of goods under the Harmonized System and Annex 2-B;
(g) considering solutions to address issues related to the interpretation, application and administration of Chapter 3 (Rules of Origin and Origin Procedures) or amendments to take into account developments in technology, production processes or other related matters;
(h) referring for the consideration of the Joint Commission any possible amendments or modifications to Chapter 3 (Rules of Origin and Origin Procedures); and
(i) promptly addressing any issue that either Party raises related to the development, adoption, application, or enforcement of standards, technical regulations, or conformity assessment procedures.
3. The Committee shall undertake any additional work that the Joint Commission may assign to it.
4. The Committee shall meet when the Parties consider it appropriate.
Section C. Agriculture
Article 2.15. Definitions
For the purposes of this Section:
agricultural goods means those goods referred to in Article 2 of the Agreement on Agriculture;
export subsidies shall have the meaning assigned to that term in Article 1(e) of the Agreement on Agriculture;
modern biotechnology means the application of:
(a) in vitro nucleic acid techniques, including recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid (rDNA) and direct injection of nucleic acid into cells or organelles; or
(b) fusion of cells beyond the taxonomic family,
that overcome natural physiological reproductive or recombinant barriers and that are not techniques used in traditional breeding and selection; and
products of modern biotechnology means agricultural goods, as well as fish and fish products (1), developed using modern biotechnology, but does not include medicines and medical products.
Article 2.16. Scope
This Section shall apply to measures adopted or maintained by a Party relating to trade in agricultural goods.
Article 2.17. Agricultural Export Subsidies
Neither Party shall adopt or maintain any export subsidy on any agricultural good destined for the territory of the other Party.
Article 2.18. Trade of Products of Modern Biotechnology
1. The Parties confirm the importance of transparency, cooperation and exchanging information related to the trade of products of modern biotechnology.
2. Nothing in this Article shall prevent a Party from adopting measures in accordance with its rights and obligations under the WTO Agreement or other provisions of this Agreement.
3. Nothing in this Article shall require a Party to adopt or modify its laws, regulations and policies for the control of products of modern biotechnology within its territory.
4. Each Party shall, when available and subject to its laws, regulations and policies, make available publicly:
(a) any documentation requirements for completing an application for the authorisation of a product of modern biotechnology;
(b) asummary of any risk or safety assessment that has led to the authorisation of a product of modern biotechnology; and
(c) a list or lists of the products of modern biotechnology that have been authorised in its territory.
5. Each Party shall designate and notify a contact point or contact points for the sharing of information on issues related to low level presence (LLP)(2) occurrences, in accordance with Article 26.5 (Contact Points).
6. To reduce the likelihood of trade disruptions from LLP occurrences:
(a) the exporting Party shall, consistent with its laws, regulations and policies, endeavour to encourage technology developers to submit applications to the importing Party for authorisation of plants and plant products of modern biotechnology; and
(b) a Party authorising plant and plant products derived from modem biotechnology shall endeavour to:
(i) allow year-round submission and review of applications for authorisation of plants and plant products of modern biotechnology; and
(ii) increase communications between the Parties regarding new
authorisations of plants and plant products of modern biotechnology so as to improve global information exchange.
ANNEX 2-A. National treatment and import and export restrictions
For Peru, Article 2.3.1, Article 2.9.1 and Article 2.9.2 shall not apply to:
(a) used clothing and footwear pursuant to Law No. 28514 of 23 May 2005;
(b) used vehicles and used automotive engines, parts and replacements pursuant to Legislative Decree No. 843 of 30 August 1996, Urgent Decree No. 079- 2000 of 20 September 2000, Urgent Decree No. 050-2008 of 18 December 2008;
(c) used tyres pursuant to Supreme Decree No. 003-97-SA of 7 June 1997; and,
(d) used goods, machinery and equipment which utilise radioactive energy sources pursuant to Law No. 27757 of 19 June 2002.
ANNEX 2-B. Tariff commitments
1. The base rate of customs duty and staging category for determining the interim rate of customs duty at each stage of reduction for an item are indicated for that item in each Party's Schedule.
2. Interim staged rates shall be rounded down at least to the nearest tenth of a percentage point or, if the rate of duty is expressed in monetary units, as specified in each Party's Schedule.
3. The rates of customs duties provided for in any tariff line in a Party's Schedule in any staging category other than "EIF" shall be initially reduced on the date of entry into force of this Agreement.
4. The second stage of tariff reduction shall take effect on 1 January of the following year, and each subsequent annual stage of tariff reduction for that Party shall take effect on 1 January of each subsequent year.
5. In the event of a discrepancy in a Party's Schedule to this Annex between the staging category specified for an item and any tariff rate specified for that item for a particular year, that Party shall apply the rate required in accordance with the staging category specified for the item.
6. For the purposes of a Party's Schedule:
(a) year 1 means the year of entry into force of this Agreement in accordance with Article 29.4 (Entry into Force);
(b) year 2 means the year after year 1; year 3 means the year after year 2, year 4 means the year after year 3, and so on; and
(c) year means a calendar year beginning on 1 January and ending on 31 December, except as otherwise provided in a Party's Schedule.
ANNEX 2-B. Schedule of australia
GENERAL NOTES
1. The provisions of this Schedule are generally expressed in terms of the corresponding items in Schedule 3 to the Customs Tariff Act 1995 (Cth) (Tariff Act), and the interpretation of the provisions of this Schedule, including the product coverage of subheadings of this Schedule, shall be governed by the Tariff Act. To the extent that provisions of this Schedule are identical to the corresponding provisions of the Tariff Act, the provisions of this Schedule shall have the same meaning as the corresponding provisions of the Tariff Act.
2. The base rates of duty set out in this Schedule reflect Australia's Most-Favoured-Nation (MEN) rates of duty in effect on 1 January 2017.
3. The following staging categories shall apply to the elimination or reduction of customs duties by Australia pursuant to Article 2.4.2:
(a) customs duties on originating goods provided for in the items in staging category EIF shall be eliminated entirely, and these goods shall be duty-free on the date of entry into force of this Agreement;
(b) customs duties on originating goods provided for in the items in staging category B3 shall be eliminated in three annual stages and these goods shall be duty-free from 1 January of year 3;
(c) customs duties on originating goods provided for in the items in staging category B4 shall be eliminated in four annual stages and these goods shall be duty-free from 1 January of year 4;
(d) the ad valorem component of the customs duties on originating goods provided for in the items in staging category AU-R1 shall be eliminated on the date of entry into force of this Agreement. The non-ad valorem component of the customs duty on these goods shall be maintained.
4. The annual stages referred to in paragraph 3 for the elimination or reduction of customs duties shall be equal, annual stages.
ANNEX 2-B. Schedule of peru
GENERAL NOTES
1. The provisions of this Schedule are generally expressed in terms of the Customs Tariff Schedule of Peru (Arancel de Aduanas de la Republica del Pera (AAPERU)), and the interpretation of the provisions of this Schedule, including the product coverage of subheadings of this Schedule, shall be governed by the General Notes, Section Notes and Chapter Notes of the AAPERU. To the extent that provisions of this Schedule are identical to the corresponding provisions of the AAPERU, the provisions of this Schedule shall have the same meaning as the corresponding provisions of the AAPERU.
2. The following staging categories shall apply to the elimination of customs duties by Peru pursuant to Article 2-4:
(a) customs duties on originating goods provided for in the items in staging category "EIF" shall be eliminated entirely, and these goods shall be duty- free on the date of entry into force of this Agreement for Peru;
(b) customs duties on originating goods provided for in the items in staging category "BS" shall be eliminated in five annual stages, and these goods shall be duty-free effective January 1 of year 5;
(c) customs duties on originating goods provided for in the items in staging category "B10" shall be eliminated in 10 annual stages, and these goods shall be duty-free effective January 1 of year 10;
(d) customs duties on originating goods provided for in the items in staging category "TRQ DR" (Dairy Products) are exempt from tariff elimination. Notwithstanding the above, Peru shall allow duty-free imports (ad valorem duties and the specific duties derived from the application of the Peruvian Price Band System established in the Supreme Decree N° 115-2001-EF and its amendments will not be applied) for an aggregate quota in any calendar year specified herein, and shall not exceed the quantity specified below for Peru in each such year:
Year | Quantity (Metric Tons) |
1 | 7,200 |
2 | 7,300 |
3 | 7,700 |
4 | 8,000 |
5 | 8,300 |
6 | 8,700 |
7 | 9,000 |
8 | 9,300 |
9 | 9,700 |
10 and subsequent years | 10,000 |
The quantities shall enter on a first-come, first-served basis.
This paragraph applies to the following tariff items: 0401100000, 0401200000, 0402101000, 0402109000, 0402211100, 0402211900, 0402219100, 0402219900, 0402291100, 0402291900, 0402299100, 0402299900, 0402991000, 0404109000, 0405100000, 0405902000, 0405909000, 0406300000, 0406904000, 0406905000, 0406906000, 0406909000, 1901902000, 1901909000, 2106907900 and 2106909000.
(e) customs duties on originating goods provided for in the items in staging category "TRQ SG" (Sugar) are exempt from tariff elimination. Notwithstanding the above, Peru shall allow duty-free imports (ad valorem duties and the specific duties derived from the application of the Peruvian Price Band System established in the Supreme Decree N° 115-2001-EF and its amendments will not be applied) for an aggregate quota in any calendar year specified herein, and shall not exceed the quantity specified below for Peru in each such year:
Year | Quantity (Metric Tons) |
1 | 30,000 |
2 | 37,500 |
3 | 45,000 |
4 | 52,000 |
5 | 60,000 |
6 | 62,400 |
7 | 64,700 |
8 | 67,000 |
9 | 69,300 |
10 | 71,600 |
11 | 73,900 |
12 | 76,200 |
13 | 78,500 |
14 | 80,800 |
15 | 83,100 |
16 | 85,400 |
17 | 87,700 |
18 and subsequent years | 90,000 |
The quantities shall enter on a first-come, first-served basis.
This paragraph applies to the following tariff items: 1701120000, 1701140000, 1701999000, 1702600000, 1702902000, 1702903000 and 1702904000.
(f) customs duties on originating goods provided for in the items in staging category "TRQ RC" (Rice) are exempt from tariff elimination. Notwithstanding the above, Peru shall allow duty-free imports (ad valorem duties and the specific duties derived from the application of the Peruvian Price Band System established in the Supreme Decree N° 115-2001-EF and its amendments will not be applied) for an aggregate quota in any calendar year specified herein, and shall not exceed the quantity specified below for Peru in each such year:
Year | Quantity (Metric Tons) |
1 | 9,000 |
2 | 10,250 |
3 | 11,500 |
4 | 12,750 |
5 and subsequent years | 14,000 |
The quantities shall enter on a first-come, first-served basis.
This paragraph applies to the following tariff items: 1006109000, 1006200000, 1006300000 and 1006400000.
(g) customs duties on originating goods provided for in the items in staging category "TRQ SH" (Sorghum) are exempt from tariff elimination. Notwithstanding the above, Peru shall allow duty-free imports (ad valorem duties and the specific duties derived from the application of the Peruvian Price Band System established in the Supreme Decree N° 115-2001-EF and its amendments will not be applied) for an aggregate quota in any calendar year specified herein, and shall not exceed the quantity specified below for Peru in each such year:
Year | Quantity (Metric Tons) |
1 | 15,000 |
2 | 16,250 |
3 | 17,500 |
4 | 18,750 |
5 and subsequent years | 20,000 |
The quantities shall enter on a first-come, first-served basis. This paragraph applies to the following tariff item: 1007900000.
(h) customs duties on originating goods provided for in the items in staging category "X" are exempt from tariff elimination.
Chapter 3. Rules of Origin and Origin Procedures
Section A. Rules of Origin
Article 3.1. Definitions
For the purposes of this Chapter:
aquaculture means the farming of aquatic organisms, including fish, molluscs, crustaceans, other aquatic invertebrates and aquatic plants from seed stock such as eggs, fry, fingerlings or larvae, by intervention in the rearing or growth processes to enhance production such as regular stocking, feeding or protection from predators;
fungible goods or materials means goods or materials that are interchangeable for commercial purposes and whose properties are essentially identical;
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles means those principles recognised by consensus or with substantial authoritative support in the territory of a Party with respect to the recording of revenues, expenses, costs, assets and liabilities; the disclosure of information; and the preparation of financial statements. These principles may encompass broad guidelines for general application, as well as detailed standards, practices and procedures;
good means any merchandise, product, article or material;
indirect material means a material used in the production, testing or inspection of a good but not physically incorporated into the good; or a material used in the maintenance of buildings or the operation of equipment, associated with the production of a good, including: