Bill
Customs Tariff Amendment (Incorporation of Proposals) Bill 2023
passed, as at 2023-06-28. Home Affairs portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Home Affairs
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2023-03-22
- second reading — 2023-03-22
- other — 2023-03-28
- second reading — 2023-03-28
- second reading — 2023-03-28
- other — 2023-03-29
- third reading — 2023-03-29
- introduced — 2023-03-30
- second reading — 2023-03-30
- second reading — 2023-06-22
- third reading — 2023-06-22
- passed — 2023-06-22
- royal assent — 2023-06-28
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 2023-03-22.
The bill would amend the Customs Tariff Act 1995 to incorporate several customs tariff proposals from 2022.
It would create temporary duty increases on Russian and Belarusian goods and a free rate for Ukrainian goods, extend medical product concessions, and adjust vehicle classifications.
The changes would apply from dates between 25 April 2022 and 24 October 2023, with financial impacts ranging from -55 million to 6 million dollars across 2021-22 to 2025-26.
- Insert a new section to impose a 35% additional duty on goods from Russia and Belarus imported between 25 April 2022 and 24 October 2023.
- Insert a new section to provide a free rate of duty for goods from Ukraine imported during the 12 months starting 4 July 2022.
- Permanently extend the free rate of duty for medical and hygiene products used against COVID-19 and expand it to other contexts from 1 July 2022.
- Amend vehicle tariff classifications to separately cover certain electric and low emission vehicles imported from 1 July 2022.
- Correct tariff references for blood-grouping reagents and herbicides following earlier reclassification.
Importers of goods from Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine, as well as importers of medical products, hygiene products, and certain electric or low emission vehicles.
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