Bill
Customs Tariff Amendment (Expanded Information Technology Agreement Implementation and Other Measures) Bill 2016
passed, as at 2016-11-30. Immigration and Border Protection portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Immigration and Border Protection
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2016-10-20
- second reading — 2016-10-20
- second reading — 2016-11-21
- second reading — 2016-11-21
- third reading — 2016-11-21
- introduced — 2016-11-22
- second reading — 2016-11-22
- second reading — 2016-11-24
- second reading — 2016-11-24
- third reading — 2016-11-24
- passed — 2016-11-24
- royal assent — 2016-11-30
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 2016-10-20.
The bill would cut customs duties on certain information technology products to zero over time.
It would create new tariff classifications for those products and remove outdated duty rates.
Most duty reductions would be complete by 1 July 2019, with a few extending to 1 July 2021.
- Creates new tariff subheadings for certain information technology products.
- Reduces customs duty rates for selected subheadings incrementally to Free.
- Removes obsolete customs duty rates.
Importers of information technology products covered by the Expanded Information Technology Agreement.
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