Bill
Customs Tariff Amendment (China-Australia Free Trade Agreement Implementation) Bill 2015
passed, as at 2015-11-11. Immigration and Border Protection portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Immigration and Border Protection
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2015-09-16
- second reading — 2015-09-16
- second reading — 2015-10-21
- second reading — 2015-10-22
- second reading — 2015-10-22
- third reading — 2015-10-22
- introduced — 2015-11-09
- second reading — 2015-11-09
- second reading — 2015-11-09
- second reading — 2015-11-09
- committee — 2015-11-09
- third reading — 2015-11-09
- passed — 2015-11-09
- royal assent — 2015-11-11
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 2015-09-16.
This bill would change the Customs Tariff Act 1995 to put the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement into effect.
Most Chinese-origin goods would enter Australia duty-free once the agreement starts, with some goods getting phased tariff cuts to zero by the fifth year.
A new Schedule 12 in the Customs Tariff would hold the preferential, phasing and excise-equivalent rates for alcohol, tobacco and petroleum products.
- Provides free customs duty rates for most Chinese-origin goods on the agreement's entry into force.
- Phases preferential customs duty rates for certain Chinese-origin goods to Free by the fifth year.
- Inserts a new Schedule 12 into the Customs Tariff for preferential, phasing and excise-equivalent rates.
- Amends Schedule 4 to maintain customs duty rates for certain Chinese-origin goods in line with the applicable concessional item.
Importers of Chinese-origin goods and Australian businesses that trade with China.
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