Bill
Customs Amendment (Singapore-Australia Free Trade Agreement Amendment Implementation) Bill 2017
passed, as at 2017-10-30. Immigration and Border Protection portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Immigration and Border Protection
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2017-09-06
- second reading — 2017-09-06
- second reading — 2017-10-17
- other — 2017-10-17
- second reading — 2017-10-17
- other — 2017-10-17
- third reading — 2017-10-17
- introduced — 2017-10-18
- second reading — 2017-10-18
- second reading — 2017-10-19
- second reading — 2017-10-19
- committee — 2017-10-19
- third reading — 2017-10-19
- other — 2017-10-19
- passed — 2017-10-19
- royal assent — 2017-10-30
Divisions
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2017-09-06.
This bill would update Australian customs law to reflect changes to the free trade agreement with Singapore.
It would create new rules for deciding which goods from Singapore qualify for lower tariffs, and set out how to claim that treatment.
The new rules would replace the existing framework after a three-year transition period, and the changes would start on the later of royal assent or the amendment agreement's entry into force.
- Introduce new rules of origin for goods imported from Singapore.
- Introduce new procedures for claiming preferential tariff treatment for Singaporean originating goods.
- Extend record keeping obligations for Australian originating goods exported to Singapore.
Importers and exporters of goods between Australia and Singapore.
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