Bill
Customs Amendment (India-Australia Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement Implementation) Bill 2022
passed, as at 2022-11-23. Home Affairs portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Home Affairs
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2022-10-27
- second reading — 2022-10-27
- second reading — 2022-11-21
- second reading — 2022-11-21
- third reading — 2022-11-21
- introduced — 2022-11-21
- second reading — 2022-11-21
- second reading — 2022-11-22
- second reading — 2022-11-22
- third reading — 2022-11-22
- passed — 2022-11-22
- royal assent — 2022-11-23
Divisions
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2022-10-27.
This bill would change the Customs Act 1901 to allow goods from India to enter Australia at lower customs duty rates under a trade deal signed on 2 April 2022.
It would set new rules for deciding which goods count as Indian, require record-keeping rules for Australian exporters to India, and let officials ask for and share information with Indian customs to check goods' origin.
The changes would start on the later of the day the bill becomes law and the day the trade agreement takes effect for Australia.
- Introduces new rules to determine if imported goods are Indian originating goods.
- Allows regulations for record-keeping by Australian exporters and producers shipping to India.
- Lets authorised officers request and share information with Indian customs to verify origin claims.
Australian businesses importing from India and Australian exporters to India are affected.
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