Suspension for the year 2023 of certain tariff preferences granted to certain GSP beneficiary countries
As from 1 January 2023, a list of products originating in the GSP beneficiary countries referred to in Regulation (EU) 2022/1039, will be suspended from tariff preferences until 31 December 2023.
The list of GSP sections and beneficiary countries for which the tariff preferences will be suspended from 1 January 2023 is the following:
Country | GSP Section | Section description | Chapters |
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India | S-6a | Inorganic and organic chemicals | 28 and 29 |
India | S-7a | Plastics and articles thereof | 39 |
India | S-8b | Articles of leather; fur skins and artificial fur | 42 and 43 |
India | S-11a | Textiles | 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60 |
India | S-13 | Articles of stone, plaster, cement, asbestos, mica or similar materials; ceramic products; glass and glassware | 68, 69 and 70 |
India | S-14 | Pearls and precious metals | 71 |
India | S-15a | Iron, steel and articles of iron and steel | 72 and 73 |
India | S-15b | Base metals (excl. iron and steel), articles of base metals (excl. articles of iron and steel) | 74, 75, 76, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82 and 83 |
India | S-16 | Machinery and mechanical appliances; electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof | 84 and 85 |
India | S-17a | Railway or tramway locomotives, rolling-stock | 86 |
Indonesia | S-1a | Live animals and animal products excluding fish | 1, 2, 4 and 5 |
Indonesia | S-3 | Animal or vegetable oils, fats and waxes | 15 |
Indonesia | S-5 | Mineral products | 25, 26 and 27 |
Indonesia | S-9a | Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal | 44 |
Kenya | S-2a | Live plants and floricultural products | 6 |
Such exclusions are due to the fact that the average value of imports of these products into the Union have been higher for three consecutive years than the maximum limits set out in Annex VI of Regulation (EU) 978/2012.
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