Bill
Import Processing Charges Amendment Bill 2013
passed, as at 2013-12-13. Immigration and Border Protection portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Immigration and Border Protection
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2013-11-21
- second reading — 2013-11-21
- second reading — 2013-12-03
- second reading — 2013-12-03
- third reading — 2013-12-03
- introduced — 2013-12-04
- second reading — 2013-12-04
- second reading — 2013-12-12
- second reading — 2013-12-12
- third reading — 2013-12-12
- passed — 2013-12-12
- royal assent — 2013-12-13
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2013-11-21.
The bill raises customs processing fees for freight shipments worth $10,000 or more starting 1 January 2014.
It creates two fee levels and expands the range of costs recovered by the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service to include community protection expenses.
The charge for sea consignments filed electronically rises from $50.00 to $152.60 and for manual lodgment from $65.75 to $152.60.
- Increase import processing charges on air, sea and post consignments valued at $10,000 or more.
- Introduce a two-tiered charging structure to keep increases small relative to the value of higher-valued goods.
- Broaden the cost base of import processing charges to recover all of the ACBPS's cargo and trade related costs, including community protection costs.
Importers of commercial freight shipments arriving by air, sea or post whose customs value reaches $10,000 or more.
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