Bill
Customs Tariff Amendment (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership Implementation) Bill 2018
passed, as at 2018-10-19. Law Enforcement and Cyber Security portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Law Enforcement and Cyber Security
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2018-08-23
- second reading — 2018-08-23
- second reading — 2018-09-13
- second reading — 2018-09-17
- second reading — 2018-09-17
- committee — 2018-09-17
- third reading — 2018-09-17
- introduced — 2018-09-18
- second reading — 2018-09-18
- second reading — 2018-10-15
- second reading — 2018-10-15
- committee — 2018-10-15
- committee — 2018-10-16
- committee — 2018-10-17
- third reading — 2018-10-17
- passed — 2018-10-17
- royal assent — 2018-10-19
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 2018-08-23.
This bill would cut customs duties on goods imported from countries that are part of the TPP-11 trade deal.
It would add new preferential duty rates and a new schedule for alcohol, tobacco and fuel products to the Customs Tariff Act 1995.
The government estimates implementing the TPP-11 would not add extra cost beyond the $195 million reduction in customs duty collections already budgeted.
- Provide preferential customs duty rates for TPP-11 originating goods.
- Insert a new schedule for excise-equivalent duties on alcohol, tobacco and fuel products.
- Amend concessional items in Schedule 4 to maintain duty rates in line with the TPP-11.
Importers of goods from TPP-11 countries.
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