Bill
Customs Tariff Amendment (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership Expansion) Bill 2024
passed, as at 2024-10-24. Home Affairs portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Home Affairs
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2024-09-11
- second reading — 2024-09-11
- other — 2024-10-08
- second reading — 2024-10-08
- other — 2024-10-09
- second reading — 2024-10-09
- second reading — 2024-10-09
- third reading — 2024-10-09
- introduced — 2024-10-10
- second reading — 2024-10-10
- third reading — 2024-10-10
- passed — 2024-10-10
- royal assent — 2024-10-24
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 2024-09-11.
This bill would change Australia's customs duties to reflect the United Kingdom joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Goods from the United Kingdom that meet the agreement's origin rules would generally enter Australia duty-free, with some exceptions listed in a schedule.
For certain products, the tariff would be phased down gradually, reaching zero by no later than 1 January 2033, and a safeguard could temporarily restore the previous rate if the United Kingdom keeps its equivalent measure.
- Sets a zero customs duty for most goods originating in the United Kingdom.
- Creates a phased reduction schedule for some goods, with the final zero rate due by 1 January 2033.
- Adds a safeguard clause that can reinstate the pre-Protocol duty rate on certain products while the United Kingdom maintains its own safeguard.
Importers of goods from the United Kingdom and Australian businesses that compete with those imports.
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