NONTARIFF BARRIERS

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March 7, 1968 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE S 2411
lion acres in 1967, compared with 23.5 mil- This is below the average of about 13 mil-
lion a year earlier. The increased area went lion tons for the '60s so far. But it is ex-
to barley and corn. The barley yield is calcu- pected to give a much larger export surplus
lated at a record 1.4 tons per acre, but the than before because of the recent lack of ex-
corn yield is expected to fall below the port demand and large carryover.
unusually high 1966 level of 1.6 tons, Paris authorities believe the exportable
The wheat harvest is estimated at 30 mil- surplus will be at least 4.7 million tons-of
lion tons, slightly below the record 30.5 mil- which all but 700,000 tons will have to be
lion in 1965. Wheat acreage in 1967 totaled sold outside the Common Market.
24.2 million acres, down about 2.5 per cent
from 1966, and yield is calculated at 1.2
metric tons per acre. During 1962-66, yields
ranged from 1.0 to 1.1 metric tons per acre.
Generally excellent weather throughout
the EEC had a very favorable impact on grain
yields this year. The effect of higher rates of
fertilizer application and other variables on
production levels cannot be assessed at this
time.
[From the Journal of Commerce, Dec. 27,
1967]
EEC GRAIN EXPoaTs, IMPORTS ESTIMATED
( By Trader)
A recent provisional estimate by the au-
thority places EEC exports of grains in the
current season at 8.5 million metric tons,
including 5.2 million tons of soft wheat, 1.7
million tons of barley and 1.2 million tons
of corn. Of the balance, hard wheat is ex-
pected to account for 110,000 tons, sorghum
80,000, oats 76,000, and rye 16,000 tons.
France will be, by far, the major contribu-
tor with that country slated to export 3.5
million tons of soft wheat, barley 1.5 mil-
lion, and corn 300,000 tons. West Germany
is expected to export 800,000 tons of soft
wheat, a combined corn and barley total of
around 100,000 tons, and small quantities of
rye, sorghum, and oats. Prospective exports
by Holland are placed at 300,000 tons of soft
wheat and corn plus 40,000 tons of oats.
Imports from countries outside the com-
munity have been projected at 17.2 million
tons. Of this corn will account for more than
one-half with 9.6 million tons; soft wheat
2.7 million; hard wheat 1.3 million; sorghum
1.5 million; barley 1.2 million; oats 627,000,
and rye 150,600 tons.
Italy will account for 5.0 million tons of
the corn imported as well as 500,000 and
400,000 tons of soft and hard wheat, respec-
tively, 900,000 barley and 200,000 tons of
oats. West Germany will import 1.5 million
tons of corn, 1.0 million tons of soft wheat,
440,000 tons of hard wheat plus approxi-
mately 1.0 million tons of other grains. Hol-
land is expected to take 2.0 million tons of
corn plus 600,000 tons of other grains.
Partly offsetting exports by France will be
imports estimated at 450,000 tons of hard
wheat, 400,000 tons of corn, 200,000 tons of
soft wheat, and small quantities of other
grains.
[From the Journal of Commerce, Jan. 9,
1968]
FRANCE To SELL WHEAT TO CHINA
[From the J.ournal.,cd_ ammerce,
Jan. 16, 1968] WILyr'0OST $10 MILLION: FRENCH-CHINESE
// DEAL HITS ITALIAN OPPOSITION
/ROME, January 15.-France's negotiations
or fsale of 600,000 tons of wheat to China is
ftaising complaints here that Italy will have
to pay out about $10 million of a $40 million
sales subsidy approved by the Common Mar-
ket to help Paris close the deal. The market's
Executive Commission plans paying French
exporters $62.95 a metric torn to fill the gap
!between high wheat prices inside the Euro-
kpean Community and the low world price
being discussed with Peking.
t Beside the normal $52 per ton In subsidy
given for grain exports by the EEC, the
Ff1&nch shippers would get another $11 a ton
that Italian agricultural agencies consider an
"extraordinary subsidy" to help France out-
bid Canada and New Zealand for the Chinese
sale.
REALIZING FULL PRICE
With' the support price inside the Com-
mon Market at about $105 a ton, an Italian
farm spokesman complained, France can
offer its wheat at little more than $40 a ton
to China, "realizing the full price while sell-
ing at less than cost.
"It is not clear whether the European
Community intends to support, with the con-
cession of the extraordinary subsidy, a po-
litical operation or an economic transaction,"
he said. "It is known to all that France al-
ready in past years turned in preference
toward China for sale of surplus wheat."
Apart from this proposed sale of wheat,
Italian farm spokesm$n are not happy gen-
erally with the working of the Common Mar-
ket's farm fund.
"What stuns us more that the European
Community did not takiD into account the
imbalance already existiltig inside FEOGA
(Farm Subsidy Fund) i etween payments
made to the fund and ubsidies received
by individual countries," a farm spokes-
For the years 1962-63 thr ugh 1966-67, he
said Italy has received $10 million, while
France got $490 million aI Holland $167
The market's subsidy fu 4d is mainly fi-
nanced by levies on food i orts from third
countries. The fund couldjbe handling up
"The situation is worn ing as Italy has
become a heavy importer f food products in
recent years,," the spo man added, "to the
PARIS, January 8.-France is to sell China extent that its totes ayments into FEOGA
possibly 660,000 tons of wheat, usual7$~ {me, ti ire held to h reached about one-third
liable grain trade sources in Paris state. Re- of P37-all contributions."
cent reports had placed this potential at at West Germany, another heavy food im-
least 500,000 tons with some projections con- porter, and Italy are the biggest payers into
siderably higher, the EEC farm fund. Emilio Colombo, Italian
Top world wheat prices are now thought treasury minister, visited Bonn recently and
to be falling from their recent peak and are proposed action on changing the system of
in any case some #5 or #6 a ton below cur- contributions.
rent French producer prices. So the ship- The talks are tied to payments into the
ments to China will be subsidized by the EEC farm fund due from member countries
Common Market authorities. during January. For the 1965-66 farm year
The deal with China, if confirmed and the Italy owes $29 million, West Germany $45,
forerunner of something bigger, is timely. Belgium $6.5 and Luxembourg $300,000,
France was a highly active wheat exporter while France will receive $50 million and
between 1963 and 1965 when Communist Holland $31 million.
countries were seeking a lot of Western grain. Beside paying out subsidies the farm fund
But in the 1966-67 season shipments were also has an "orientation" sector that finances
at only about half the previous season's rate agricultural modernization in member coun-
of some 2.8 million tons. tries.
Since then the 1967-68 wheat harvest has Italy will receive subsidy payments from
been estimated at about 10.75 million tons. succeeding farm campaigns for olive oil,
fruits and vegetables but the belief here Is
that these will not offset subsidies for French
and Dutch food production.
The farm sector here is pushing for a
change in operation of the fund so that
greater payments will be made from Brussels
for modernizing backward Italian agricul-
ture.
Journal of Commerce, Feb. 14,
1968]
FRANCE SELLS WHEAT
-..PARIS, February 13.-Prance will sell 500,-
000-1bQ s of wheat to communist China, the
governmey}t announced today after long
negotiation
The wheat be delivered under a spe-
cial formula deve oped by the Common Mar-
ket to help take what off a heavily over-
stocked European grain market. The Eu-
ropean Community will pay the French ex-
porters an extra 55 francs ($11) per ton above
the price paid by the Chinese.
French officials said the deal was con-
cluded only after the Chinese agreed to drop
efforts to tie a French purchase of pork from
China to the wheat sale. They said they re-
fused to buy 10,000 tons of meat offered by
China because of "sanitary" and "social-
economic" reasons.
THE LONG AMENDMENT IS NOT A
SUBSTITUTE FOR A GOOD FED-
ERAL GUN CONTROL LAW
Mr. CLARK. Mr. President, as a strong
and consistent supporter of Federal gun
control legislation, I should like to make
the record clear on my vote yesterday
against the Long amendment to the
pending civil rights bill dealing with the
transportation of firearms in interstate
commerce.
I much regret the Senate's hasty action
yesterday in approving this amendment
with no hearings and with very limited
debate. Our colleagues in the Committee
on the Judiciary have before them a
carefully drawn bill which has received
months, if not years, of intensive study.
I strongly support that bill; I am one of
its cosponsors. I believe that it provides
reasonable and effective regulations on
the dissemination of firearms. I also be-
lieve that it is well designed to give full
protection to the rights of the legitimate
hunter, shooter and sportsman.
Where are the guarantees of the Long
amendment? Where is the evidence of
sober and thoughtful consideration?
Mr. President, the Long amendment is
not a substitute for a good and carefully
considered Federal firearms control law.
I hope the American people will not be
misled into thinking that we do not need
to act on the gun bill because of the
Long amendment. That is one of the rea-
sons I opposed the amendment. I urge
Senators to move ahead as- swiftly as
possible to bring to the floor of the Senate
and pass the Federal gun control bill now
pending in the Committee on the Judi-
ciary.
SUPPORT NEEDED FOR COLLEGE
LEVEL "COOPERATIVE EDUCA-
TION" PROGRAMS
Mr. HARTKE. Mr. President, I invite
the attention of the Senate to some im-
portant testimony presented yesterday
to the Special Subcommittee on Educa-
tion in the House of Representatives.
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE March 7, 1968
The topic under consideration was co-
operative education, a growing concept
now in being in well over 100 institu-
tions of higher education in this coun-
try.
Because cooperative education has
proved itself as a valuable means for
combining practical and academic ex-
perience; because it affords another
avenue for those enrolled in its pro-
grams to earn a large part of their aca-
demic expenses; and because there is a
great need to expand the program to
more of our colleges, universities, and
technical institutes, I offered last May
10, with the Senator from California
[Mr. KUCHELI as the principal Repub-
lican cosponsor, an amendment to title
IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965,
to provide a spur to these college-indus-
try cooperative education programs.
That bill, S. 1736, has received attention
from the Subcommittee on Education of
the Committee on Labor and Public
Welfare, and I am hopeful that in the
final enactment of this year's higher
education bill the provisions for
strengthening cooperative education
will be a significant part of its useful-
ness. I know that the support of the 18
cosponsors now associated with me in
my bill, including that of some commit-
tee members, augurs well for its
enactment.
Witnesses at yesterday's hearing,
which was presided over for the day by
my Indiana colleague, Representative
JOHN BRADEMAS, included highly relevant
statements presented out of their expe-
rience by three presidents of institutions
which now have cooperative education
programs, in which the students alter-
nate between periods of academic work
and periods of employment for pay in a
related field through the cooperation of
employers. I might add that employers,
and in particular those who can gear to
a technical or scientific student's educa-
tion, are often most enthusiastic. In fact,
in some areas of the country, so success-
ful is the program that the institution
has a waiting list of available jobs larger
than the list of students available. A
fourth witness was John L. Cain, past
chairman of the cooperative education
division of the American Society for
Engineering Education, speaking for
himself and James Godfrey, present
president of the Cooperative Education
Association.
These two organizations concerned
with cooperative education together have
a membership of some 1,500, including
faculty members of institutions with
such a program, together with industrial,
business, and governmental agency rep-
resentatives. Some 56,000 students in
their alternate periods of full-time em-
ployment away from the classroom earn
$95 million in a year-a degree of self-
help which encourages many from lower
income families to tackle higher educa-
tion when otherwise, afraid of going into
what appears as large indebtedness, they
would not go beyond high school. More
than 3,000 American companies, Gov-
ernment agencies, and public service in-
stitutions employ work-study cooperative
education students in a wide range of
fields. The kind of encouragement which
my bill advocates, and that to which the
House testimony refers, could well lead
to a tripling of these self-help better edu-
cation programs within 5 years. I have
said "better education" deliberately, be-
cause one of the great benefits is just
that, as the student gears the experience
of the practical world to the theory of
the classroom and at the end of his
course-commonly 5 years with a sum-
mer program as a functional part of it-
his degree stands for much more of a
recommendation to future employers
than it woud without the work experi-
ence. In fact, this better education bonus
is one of the features which educators
themselves with experience in this field
continually stress.
For example, one of yesterday's wit-
nesses was Dr. Rembert E. Stokes, presi-
dent of Wilberforce University in Ohio.
Wilberforce, the Nation's oldest predom-
inantly Negro college, adopted coopera-
tive education in the fall of 1964 with
the help of the Ford Foundation and a
private donor, a considerable change for
an institution more than 100 years old.
It is now the only mainly ;Negro college
where cooperative education is the full-
scale, required program. With a present
enrollment of just under 1,000 students-
up from 415 in 1964-earnings during
this academic year will come close to $1
million. I quote the following from Dr.
Stokes' testimony:
Enough experience has been accumulated
to know the profound educational improve-
ment in the lives of our students and to
predict the following education outcome
from their Cooperative work-study experi-
ences.
1. Dispelling of doubt and disbelief that
real, new career opportunities exist.
2. Fresh motivation for the student to
pursue his education through study and re-
lated experiences.
3. Development of a new Pride and be-
lief in oneself through practical achieve-
ment.
4. Usable knowledge of the requirements,
expectations and rewards of being a produc-
tive member of society, including for many
the stimulation to preparation for higher
professional careers.
5. Greater facility for unde;standing how
to live effectively in a complex society.
6. Creation of a campus environment which
stimulates the development of the faculty
and constructive changes in the growth of
the college.
To me, Mr. President, from the presi-
dent of such an institution as Wilber-
force, these conclusions of experience
provide powerful buttressing to all the
arguments I have made in the past as I
have advocated this form of education
both here and elsewhere.
The proposal I have made, and that
which the House subcommittee is con-
sidering, provides for the expansion of
this program through Federal "startup"
funds to the many institutions which
have become interested in this educa-
tional concept but which have not found
it possible to incur the costs of change.
We cannot leave the Ford Foundation or
other private sources to be, as in the
case of Wilberforce, the burden bearers
of educational improvement by this
means.
Provisions of grants, whether limited
to $65,000 as in my bill, or $75,000 as in
the House proposal, or some even larger
sum, would actually become an invest-
ment, not a longrun cost. The reason is
that as the earnings of students in new
programs rise, with each of them becom-
ing subject to income tax on a portion
of their earnings, they will become tax-
payers rather than receivers of subsidy
as, for example, under the college loan
program in which the Government pays
all of the interest cost while they are in
school.
Dr. Dewey Barich, president of Detroit
Institute of Technology, testified yester-
day that the proposed amendments to
the Higher Education Act involved in
this support of cooperative education
would enable 400 additional institutions
to move vigorously into cooperative edu-
cation and to offer opportunity under it
to 250,000 more students. In 6 to 8 years
their earnings while in school would
amount to more than $500 million per
year. With the average tax running at 10
percent of the student's gross pay, this
means a new $50 million per year in-
come-far and away more than the pro-
gram's startup costs to the Federal Gov-
ernment would be.
Earlier I cited some figures, taken from
my statement on the introduction of S.
1736 less than a year ago. I note, how-
ever, that even. without Government as-
sistance they are already out of date.
Where I cited then 112 institutions with
such programs, the number is now 119,
according to Dr. Barich. Where I then
said 56,000 students were earning $95
million annually, Dr. Barich updates this
to 61,000 earning $104 million this year.
The idea is spreading, most deservedly.
We in Congress can and should help it
to spread by giving full backing to my
bill or whatever variant may be recom-
mended by the committees of both House
and Senate as part of the Higher Educa-
tion Act revisions of 1968.
NONTARIFF BARRIERS
Mr. MUSKIE. Mr. President, the offi-
cial trade policy of the United States, as
embodied in the Trade Expansion Act, is
directed toward the reduction of tariff
barriers and the encouragement of free
trade between nations. The administra-
tion applied that policy in the negotia-
tions leading to the trade concessions
under the Kennedy round in Geneva.
I have mixed feelings about the appli-
cation of our trade policy. In a number
of instances I do not think our policy-
makers and trade negotiators have given
sufficient weight to the problems con-
fronting our industries which face floods
of low-wage imports. In addition, I have
wondered about the impact of nontariff
barriers on our capacity to sell our goods
overseas. Negotiations have tended to
focus on the visible tariff barriers and to
ignore invisible barriers which may be
much more formidable.
To assist me in making a judgment on
tariff laws and their effects on our econ-
omy, I requested from Mr. William Roth,
special representative for trade negotia-
tion in the Executive Office of the Presi-
dent, an inventory of the nontariff bar-
riers imposed by the various countries of
the world. I believe this information will
be of interest to my colleagues. Although
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the data are not complete, these listings
reflect the nontariff barriers on indus-
trial products imposed by 52 of the 79
countries that adhere to the General
Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
Mr. Roth has advised me that his of-
fice is revising the inventory and is "en-
deavoring to obtain information on non-
tariff barriers for all the GATT
countries." He has promised to forward
that information as soon as possible.
On March 25, 1968, Mr. Roth will begin
a public hearing on the future of U.S.
trade policy. He has noted:
One of the topics on which we are en-
couraging interested parties to submit their
views is measures that may constitute non-
tariff barriers to trade. There is much to be
done in this area and we are very concerned
about this serious problem.
I am gratified by Mr. Roth's interest
and concern with this facet of trade
policy.
I ask unanimous consent that the pre-
liminary inventory of the nontariff bar-
riers be printed in the RECORD.
There being no objection, the material
was ordered to be printed in the RECORD,
as follows:
PRELIMINARY INVENTORY OF NONTARIFF TRADE
BARRIERS BY COUNTRY
The attached Tables 1 through 52 are an
initial attempt to list the. more important
non-tariff trade barriers on industrial pro-
ducts imposed by the 52 countries listed
below. They were compiled on the basis of
reports and complaints received by Govern-
ment agencies from the business commu-
nity and other information relating to non-
tariff trade barriers. This preliminary in-
ventory does not purport to be either com-
prehensive or accurate in all respects.
As indicated above, this preliminary in-
ventory is limited to industrial products.
With the exception of certain processed
goods, such as alcoholic beverages and to-
bacco products, agricultural products are
not included. The information presented
is divided into three general classifications
for each of the countries covered: "Non-
Agricultural Quantitative Restrictions",
"Health, Sanitary and Safety Restrictions",
and "Other Restrictions".
The tabulations are included in Tables 1
through 52, as follows:
20. Haiti
21. Nicaragua
22. Peru
23. Trinidad and
Tobago
24. Uruguay
25. Australia
26. Indonesia
27. Japan
28. Korea
29. Malaysia
30. New Zealand
NEAR EAST-SOUTH ASIA
31. Burma
32. Ceylon
33. Cyprus
34. India
35. Israel
36. Kuwait
37. Pakistan
38. Turkey
1. Austria
2. Belgium-
Luxembourg
3. Denmark
4. Finland
5. France
6. Germany
7. Greece
8. Italy
9. Netherlands
10. Norway
11. Portugal
12. Spain
13. Sweden
14. United Kingdom
WESTERN HEMISPHERE
15. Argentina
16. Brazil
17. Canada
18. Chile
19. Dominican
Republic
TABLE 1.-AUSTRIA
Type of restriction
Nonagricultural quantitative restrictions:
Controlled goods include such products as:
a. Antibiotica and medicaments containing Quantitative import restrictions.
antibiotics.
b. Penicilin, tyrothrium_________________ Do.
Valuation and taxes: All imports_________________ 1. Turnover equalization tax:
(a) Certain foodstuffs, 1.8 percent.
(b) Certain semifinished products,
5.25 percent.
(c) Certain finished products, 6.75
percent.
(d) Certain other finished products,
8.25 percent.
2. "Organschaft" principle of turn over
tax system.
Health, sanitary, and safety restrictions: Many in. Industrial standards, marking and labeling
dustrial, canned, and packaged goods, requirements.
Nonagricultural quantitative restrictions: Coking Quota, imports are licensed. 1967 quota for
coal. U.S. 807,000 metric tons.
Valuation and taxes:
All imported goods _______________ Transmission tax or lump-sum tax-gen-
erally 7 percent but may vary on certain
commodities from 1 to 15 percent.
Automobiles------------------------------- Road tax based on fiscal horsepower.
Health and sanitary restrictions: Pharmaceutical Health and sanitary regulations.
products.
Other restrictions:
Motion picture films________________________ Subsidy (Belgium).
Anthracite________________________________ Quota, imports are licensed. 1967 overall
Penicillin, its salts and compounds, and prod-
ucts thereof (BLEU).
Lignite; coke; somicoke; petroleum and prod-
ucts; certain chemicals; basketwork; a num-
ber of textile fibers, yarns, and fabrics;
women's synthetic hose; jute sacks; natural
and synthetic precious and semiprecious
stones and dust; tube, pipe, and hollow bars
of gold; zinc plate, sheet, and strip; X-ray
apparatus; firearms, other arms and parts;
ammunition and military ordnance (BLEU).
quota for 3d-country imports, 200,000
maximum. Anticipated 1967 total quota
allotments, 185,000 metric tons. Estimated
1967 U.S. quota, 20,000 metric tons. (1966
U.S. quota, 20,000 metric tons.)
Benelux global quota. (1966 quota, 2,550,-
000,000,000 Oxford units, some as in 1965.
1967 quota presumed to be same as 1966.)
Import licensing.
39. Cameroon
40. Central African
Republic
41. Chad
42. Congo
(Brazzaville)
43. Gabon
44. Ghana
45. Kenyia, Tanzania,
Uganda
46. Malawi
47. Nigeria
48. Sierra Leone
49. South Africa
50. Southern Rhodesia
51. Upper Volta
52. Zambia
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Product Type of restriction
Health, sanitary, and safety restrictions: Electrical Rigid technical standards.
equipment, e.g., coffeemakers, toasters, socket-
powered radios, TV's, phonographs, etc.
Other restrictions:
Pharmaceutical products---- __ Price-fixing provision of Dispensing Chemist
Act,
Approximately 24 products including electrical Marking regulations.
machinery, certain publications, cleaning
powders, furniture, pencils, brushes, build-
ing fittings, handtools; wire, nails, and tacks.
All products purchased for the public account - Government procurement practices.
Valuation and taxes:
Nearly all manufactured goods _-__--- 10 percent value-added tax.
Motor vehicles ______________ Excise tax.
Nonagricultural quantitative restrictions: -
Certain gasolines; some chemicals; certain Global quotas.
textile fabrics; some clothing, headgear and
footwear; certain articles for household use;
certain precious metals; and jewelry; pas-
senger cars, trucks, toys, games.
Mineral fuels, oils, waxes; coal, briquettes, Import licensing.
ovoids; coke, semicoke of coal, lignite; petro-
leum and shale oils, crude oil, predistilled
motor gasoline, heating and lighting fuel.
Valuation and taxes:
Nearly all manufactured goads ____ Turnover tax-12,4 percent.
Automobiles and motorcycles_______________ Excise tax-!55 percent of c.i.f. duty-paid
value minus Fmk 2,250 ($703).
Alcoholic beverages, confectionery, matches, Excise tax.
automobile tires, tobacco products, mineral
waters, liquid fuels, sugar, and certain fats
for foods.
Health, sanitary, and safety restrictions:
Electrical equipment, applicances____..------- Safety and technical standards.
Pharmaceuticals, drugs, poisons______________ Safety standards.
Other restrictions:
Alcoholic beverages, fertilizers, grains, crude State trading.
petroleum, radioactive materials.
Consumer goods; e.g., washing machines, TV Credit restrictions.
sets, passenger cars, household articles,
textiles, footwear, clocks and watches,
furniture, tractors, tires. Also a few capital
goods; e.g., vending machines.
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Type of restriction
Non-agricultural quantitative restrictions:
Assemblies of parts of radioelectric apparatus Quotas, import licensing.
containing crystal diodes, triodes, including
transistors; crystal diodes, triodes, including
transistors and parts.
Airplanes and parts ------------------------- Quotas for airplanes 2,000 kilograms or less,
import licensing.
Valuation and taxes:
Cigarettes --------------------------------- Monopoly operation.
Automobiles ---------------- -------------- Annual usage tax.
Most imports_______________.-_______----__ ''Value added tax" (TVA) standard rate:
25 percent of duty paid value. Rate will
become 20 percent as of Jan. 1, 1968,
following Government reform of TVA.
Ail imports --------- ..___------------------ Customs stamp tax, 2 percent of customs
charges.
Health, sanitary, and safety restrictions: Pharma- Approval of French Ministry of Public
ceutical products. Health required on both domestic and
imported items.
Other restrictions:
Coal, briquetes, ovids, and similar solid fuels State traded.
of coal manufacture.
Petroleum and shale oils other than crude; Do.
preparations.
Paper, paperboard, and newsprint ------------ Do.
Airplanes and parts __________________ _ Do.
Spirits distilled from grain; i.e., whisky, Advertising restriction.
vodka, etc.
All products purchased for public account-___- Government procurement practices.
Motion picture films________________________ (a) Subsidy.
(b) Screen-time quota 41.5 percent.
TABLE 6.-FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
Nonagricultural quantitative restrictions: Hard Subject to tariff quotas; overquota rate is
coat, not briquetted; briquets and similar solid prohibitive.
fuels and coke, except for the manufacture of
electrodes.
Valuation and taxes: All manufactured products---- Turnover equalization tax (4 to 9.5 percent).
Other restrictions: Motion picture films ----------- Subsidy.
Nonagricultural quantitative restrictions:
list A : Products such as cosmetics; textiles, Import licensing.
including used clothing; TV receivers; auto-
mobiies, trucks, buses, jeeps, special pur-
pose vehicles, and truck and passenger
trailers.
List B: Products such as agricultural, mining, Do.
food processing and electrical machinery and
spares: used machinery and spares except
used earthmoving and roadbuilding equip-
ment.
All imports________________________________ Advance deposit requirement and other
credit controls.
Valuation and taxes:
All industrial products---------------------- Turnover tax on imports 2.25 to 8.75 percent.
Most imports ------------------------------ Luxury and consumption taxes ranging from
10 to 7(1 percent of c.i.f. duty-paid value.
Other restrictions:
Passenger cars used as taxis________________ Permissible length for taxis in Athens-
Piraeus area is 5 meters.
Cigarette paper, kerosene ------------------- State trading.
^Jlotion picture films------------------------ Screen-time quota, subsidy.
Plastic contaliners used in the packing of food Ban on the use of coloring materials.
products.
Nonagricultural quantitative restrictions:
Alcohol and certain other industrial chemicals; Import licensing.
penicillin; coal and coke; certain cotton fab-
rics; artificial textile fibers and certain
fabrics thereof; wool and fine hair; flax;
hemp; zinc sheets and strips.
Pencillin, its salts and compounds, and Benelux global quota.
products thereof.
Valuation and taxes:
All items whether imported or produced Turnover tax. Rates vary from 1 to 18 per-
domestically, except "necessities of life"- cent, the majority being at 5 percent.
food, fuel, medicine, clothing, etc.
Manufactured tobacco products; ethyl, propyl Excise tax.
and isopropyl alcohol; beer; sugar; petro-
leum products; and wine.
Motor vehicles---------------------------- Annual road tax.
Health and sanitary restrictions: Upholstery fabrics, Certificates of inspection, advertising re-
shoe dyes, various pharmaceuticals and cos- strictions, labeling regulations.
metics, and oils and fats.
Valuation and taxes:
Nearly all manufactured goods- --------------- Turnover tax, 11.11 percent.
Motor vehicles ------ .---------------------- Excise tax on motor vehicles: 35 percent on
1st $840, 60 percent of amount over $840.
Health, sanitary, and safety restrictions: Electricity- Rigid electrical standards.
consuming apparatus including electrical appli-
ances.
Other restrictions:
Alcohol, alcoholic beverages, medicines and State trading.
pharmaceuticals, risking gear.
All products purchased for the public account- Government procurement practices.
Nonagricultural quantitative restrictions:
Certain natural or processed raw materials,
Global or bilateral quotas.
some textile fibers, automotive vehicles and
apparatus, miscellaneous manufactured
goods.
All other goods ----- ._____________________
Import license.
Valuation and taxes: Automobiles---------------
Sales. tax.
sanitary, and safety restrictions:
Health
,
Pharmaceutical preparations________________
Marking and labeling regulations.
Food aid ether products containing saccharine-
Impcrts prohibited.
Other restrictions: All p irchases for the public
Government procurement practices.
accou nt.
Nonagricultural quantitative restrictions:
All liberalized goods (includes raw materials, Import declaration.
capital goods and equipment, manufactured
and consumer goods).
All used machinery and equipment------------ Import license.
Arms: Sporting weal:ons____________________ Bilateral import regime.
Motion pictures--- - _ ..____-- "Baremo system" screen-time quota.
All imports other than those listed above------- Global quota or bilateral import regime.
Valuation sod taxes:
All imports -------- ....---------------------- Compensatory import tax range: 3 to 15
percent; average 5 to 10 percent; as-
sessed on duty-paid value.
Motion pictures --------------------------- Dubbing tax.
Health, sanitary, and sataty restrictions: Pharma- Registration with Public Health Department
ceutical and cosmetic preparations.
Other restrictions:
Certain types of coal, petroleum, and deriva- State trading.
lives, cotton.
All products------- ----------------------- Use of imported goods prohibited in proj-
ects involving State or other local gov-
ernment funds; includes national or quasi-
national firms.
Nonagricultural quantitative restrictions:
Citric acid and crude calcium citrate ---------- Import licensing.
Tetraethyl lead and antiknock preparations--_- Quota, 240 metric tons (United States-
United Kingdom only), import licensing.
Essential oils of lemons--------------------- Import licensing-
Elemental sulfur ---------------------------- Quantitative import restrictions.
Valuation and taxes:
Practically all products---------------------- Turnover tax on import sale of 4 percent.
Majority of items imported------------------ Compensatory import tax of up to 7.8 per-
cent.
Automobiles------------------------------- Road tax.
Other restrictions:
Motion picture films------------------------ Screen-time quota, 38 percent.
Do------------------------------------ Law which passed in 1965 grants tax rebates
to exhibitors of national feature films,
qualifying under the national film quota
amounting to 18 or 35 percent of the ad-
mission tax, depending on the admission
price of the theater.
Nonagricultural quantitative restrictions: Auto- Import license.
mobiles, including special vehicles.
Valuation and taxes:
All imports ------- . ----------------------- Turnover tax, 11.1 percent.
Gasoline, motor spirits, coal, coke, fuel oil----- Energy tax:
(a) Coal--$1.14 to $2.66 per metric tour
(b) Gasoline-0.57 crowns per lite.
(about 65 percent of retail price).
(c) Electricity-10 percent on industrial
consumption: 7 percent on other
use.
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Type of restriction
Valuation and taxes:
Certain rugs, articles of gold and silver, pre- Sales tax. Rate varies according to product.
cious stones, phonograph mechanisms, and Jewelry, 20 percent.
records.
Passenger automobiles, trucks_______________ Automobile sales tax. 155 percent of service
weight expressed in Swedish crowns plus
195 crowns for each 50 kilograms over
1,600 kilograms.
Certain furs________________________________ Fur tax: 2 to 10 percent.
Toilet articles, cosmetics, and similar prepara- Commodity tax: 20 to 65 percent.
tions.
Playing cards______________________________ Stamp tax: $0.19 per pack.
Health, sanitary, and safety restrictions:
Electrical equipment and appliances ---------- Rigid application of electrical standards.
Pharmaceuticals, drugs, and poisons---------- Pharmaceutical.
Lawnmowers (motor driven, rotary blade)----- Safety regulation.
Other restrictions:
Spirits and wines___________________________ State trading.
Articles of precious metals___________________ Hallmarking.
Imports in general__________________________ Marks of origin.
Nonagricultural quantitative restrictions:
Coal and solid fuels manufactures of coal----- State trading (de facto). Import license
required. No licenses issued-virtual pro-
hibition of imports.
Cigars____________________________________ Quota #50,000 for 1966-67 from dollar area
of which not more than #30,000 for hand-
made cigars.
Bottled and canned grapefruit----- Dollar area quota of #450,000 for period
Oct. 1, 1966, to Sept. 30, 1967.
Orange and grapefruit juice---- Dollar area quota of 1;300,000 for 12-month
period beginning Oct. 1, 1966.
Rum______________________________________ Dollar area quota of #90,000 for calendar
year.
Other restrictions:
Motion picture films________________________ (a) Subsidy.
(b) Screentime.
TV films___________________________________ Screen time quota: 14 percent for imported
films.
Telephone apparatus (exchange equipment, Government procurement practices.
cables, and loading carts).
Timber (Douglas-fir) ------------------------ Government procurement.
Aircraft weighing more than 4,500 lbs________ Import license required.
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Valuation and taxes:
All imports-------------------------------- Customs clearance 5 percent of c.i.f. value.
Port improvement tax: 1 percent of c.i.f.
value.
Merchant marine improvement tax: 10 per-
cent of freight charges.
Wide variety of processed or manufactured Industrialized products tax: 4 percent to
goods; e.g., industrial chemicals and chem- 30 percent; majority of rates under 10
ical products; machinery and mechanical percent.
applicances; electric and electronic equip-
ment; automotive and other vehicles;
cigarettes.
About 200 items------------- ______ Minimum valuation.
Other restrictions:
All imported items declared to be "similar" System of "similares" requiring formal
to goods produced domestically, registration of specific products.
All imports_______________________________ Documentation and procedural require-
ments.
Motion picture films____________ Screen-time quota, 12 percent.
Nonagricultural quantitative restrictions:
Aircraft, used______________________________ Import prohibition.
Automobiles, used--------- Do.
Valuation and taxes:
All products--- -___ Automatic antidumping provisions.
Manufactured goods________________________ Arbitrary valuation.
Health, sanitation, and safety restrictions:
Forest products, drugs, insecticides, cosmetics, Sanitary regulation.
fertilizers, upholstery.
Electrical equipment________________________ Safety regulations.
Other restrictions:
Alcoholic beverages------------------------- Monopoly operated by Canadian Provinces--
QR's licensing.
Contractor's machinery and equipment-------- Uncertain valuation.
All imports_______________________________ Tourist duty-free allowance.
Coal Transport subsidy on domestic coal.
Containers Canned goods are permitted import only if in
cans of sizes established by the Canadian
Government.
Nonagricultural quantitative restrictions:
Many imports (permitted list) Advance deposit, 5 to 10,000 percent.
Many imports (prohibited list)_______________ Prohibited list, embargo.
Many imports (not on either list)_____________ Conditionally prohibited.
All imports --------------------------------- Shipping restriction.
Imports of items included on Chile's LAFTA Preferential treatment.
concession list.
Nonagricultural quantitative restrictions:
All imports_______________________________ Exchan`ep control.
Passenger cars valued at over $2,000_________ Import prohibition.
Passengercars valued at less than $2,000; most Exchange quotas limiting importers to 25
electric household a
liances (incl
din
pp
g
u
used stoves, refrigerators, and freezers), air
conditioners, clothing, footwear, and leather
goods, cosmetics, alcoholic beverages, fresh
and canned fruits and vegetables, paints and
granted during the previous
period; effective until Dec. 31,
12-month
1967.
enamels, varnishes, soaps and detergents,
and most plastic products.
A wide range of luxury goods, including pre-
pared cereals, smoked or dried fish, evapo-
rated and condensed milk, alcoholic bever-
Importable only under prepaid letter of
credit.
ages, crystal and glassware.
Wide range of luxury goods, such as household
electrical appliances, clothing, footwear,
furniture, bedding, jewelry, toilet prepara-
tions, alcoholic beverages, confectionery,
Prior import deposit of 40 percent of f.o.b,
value for 6-month period.
fruit juices and preserves, cigars and ciga-
Type of restriction
Nonagricultural quantitative restrictions:
Automotive products---- Prohibited.
Nearly all imports except raw materials and Prior deposit 40 percent c.i.f.
capital goods.
Capital goods______________________________ Payment schedule prescribed by Central
Valuation and taxes:
Affecting imported goods:
Bank for shipments exceeding $10,000;
minimum payment terms range from 2
years for goods valued up to $30,000 to 5
years for goods valued up to $1,000,000.
All goods______________________________ Statistical tax: 1.5 percent c.i.f.
Do -------------------------------- Surcharge: 4-percent ocean freight charges.
Do____ Consular fee: 1.5 percent of f.o.b.
Products made of iron and steel---------- Iron and steel tax: 0.20 to 2.00 pesos/NN.
Forest products________________________ 4 to 10 percent of c.i.f. value.
Incandescent bulbs__________________ Minimum official valuation in determining
Affecting national and imported goods: import duty.
Sales tax:
Electric shavers____________________
Air conditioners
Televisions ------------------------
Radios ----------------------------
Phonographs___ ____ 20 percent duty paid value.
Sound recorders--------------------
Phonographic equipment____________
Binocular and similar apparatus------
Pleasure boats_____________________
Most automotive products ___________1l
Houshold electrical goods ----------- __15 percent duty paid value.
Watches---------------------------
All other commodities_______________ to percent duty paid value.
Additional excise taxes:
Alcoholic beverages_________________
Cards---------------------------
Matches__________________________These excise taxes range widely and are
Tobacco and its products ------------ based on the quantity or strength of the
Cosmetics_________________________ goods sold.
Various toys_______________________
Petroleum products_________________
Health, sanitary, and safety restrictions:
Animals, plants, and their products___________ Notarized sanitary certificate.
Pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, foods--- Subject to prior registration in Argentina.
Used machinery____________________________ Notarized certicate of safety.
rettes, and passenger cars.
Most other imports, except essential foodstuffs,
medicinal and pharmaceutical goods, agri-
cultural machinery and equipment, most raw
materials, and related goods.
Prior import deposit of 20 percent of f.o.b.
value for 6-month period.
Wide range of food products----------------- Prior import deposit of 10 percent of f.o.b.
value for 6-month period.
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Product Type of restriction
Nonagricultural quantitative restrictions:
Butter and margarine, rice, shoe polish, cotton Import licensing.
cloth and manufactures of cotton cloth, old
newspapers and other old papers.
Christmas trees, used clothing, rags, hats, Importation prohibited.
shoes, household linens and furnishings.
tobacco, matches, soap, detergents, cosmetics, State trading; such imports are controlled
various foodstuffs, textiles, tires and tubes, by the Government tobacco monopoly.
cement, various agricultural chemicals, and
household appliances.
Television sets__________________ ___________ Private monopoly.
TABLE 21.-NICARAGUA
Type of restriction
Nonagricultural quantitative restrictions:
Many imports____________
Cotton ginning plants; industrial plants for
pasteurizing and sterilizing milk: equipment
for the slaughter of cattle and hogs, and
Advance deposit.
Approval for importation by Ministry of
Economy required.
other slaughterhouse equipment.
Valuation and taxes:
Gasoline----------------------------------
Excise tax-C$0.05 per gallon!
Alcoholic beverages of 40 percent or ever_____
Excise tax-U.S. $0.62 per liter.
Beer------' ---------------
Excise tax-C$0.60 per liter.
Bottle caps and crown caps_________________
Excise tax, 2 centavos.
I_iquod--------------------------------
Stamp tax:
(A) Containers over 500 grams: C$2.
(B) Containers, 240 to 500 grams:
C$0.75.
(C) Containers, less than 240 grams
All imports___________
Health, sanitary, and safety restrictions: Propellent
powders, prepared explosives, and hunting or
sporting ammunition and fuses, primers and
detonators (nonordnance) except pyrotechnical
articles; caffein, quinine, and other alkaloids;
coloring materials used in beverages and food-
stuffs; pharmaceutical specialities and biological
products.
C$0.40.
Consular fee, 7 percent
Prior authorization.
TABLE 25.-AUSTRALIA
Product Type of restriction
Nonagricultural quantitative restrictions:
Roller and ball bearings__.------------------ Import licensing.
Secondhand or disposals machinery or equip- On.
meat and parts for earthmoving or construc-
tion purposes.
Aluminum____________________ _ Do.
Valuation and taxes: Wide range (several hundred) Sales tax, 12.5 percent.
of industrial and consumer items.
Other restrictions:
Cellulose acetate flake______________________ Subsidy, 10d, per pound.
Sulfuric acid______________ Subsidy.
Tractors------------------------------------ Do.
Ail packaged goods------------------------- Weights and measures regulations.
Motion picture films________________________ Screen-time quota.
Nonagricultural quantitative restrictions:
No quota restrictions on imports.
Licenses to- individual imports no longer re- Imports handled through exchange certifi-
qui red. cate system.
Indonesia has a prohibited list of domestically Special permit issued by Minister of Trade.
produced items and some luxury products
including:
Plaiting and carving materials; other raw
vegetable materials and products.
Ethyl alcohol and certain liquids contain-
ing ethyl alcohol.
Black printing ink.
Prepared paints, other than ship and spray
paints.
Shoe polish.
Old leather and leather waste.
Scouring and polishing paper.
Silk and artificial silk waste; silk and arti.
ficial silk shoddy.
Various textile items such as sarongs,
kains, and scarves made of silk, wool,
cotton, or other materials.
Knitted and crocheted cotton articles
(vests, pants, shirts).
Rags aid cloth waste.
Writinr; and drawing slates.
Rubber-tapping cups of earthenware and
whit procelain.
Drinking glasses, various other glass
bottles, cups, containers.
Hoes, stickles, picks of iron or steel.
Certain kitchen utensils of iron or steel
(other than enameled ware) or of
aluminum including cooking pots,
kettles, and casseroles.
Aluminum tubes used as packing or as
bottle stoppers.
School slates and various writing and
drawing equipment.
Dry batteries (sized about 60 mm. in
leng:h; 33 mm. in diameter).
Radio-television receiving sets not in
knocked-down condition.
6- or 12-volt accumulators, with highest
amperage of 150.
Passenger cars, United States, $2,000 or
more.
Valuation and taxes:
All items on GATT schedule_________________ Special levy (BLLD contribution).
Allimports --------------------------------- 1-percent BLLD levy.
Wide range of nonessential items and domes- Surcharge (50 and 100 percent based on
tically produced goods. import duty). Excess profit levy ranging
Nonagricultural quantitative restrictions: Textile Import license.
machinery.
Valuation and taxes:
Approximately 50 tariff classifications, with Minimum valuations.
future lists expected soon.
All goods______________ ___________ Statistical tax: 1.5 percentc.i.f.
Do ---------------------------------------- Surcharge:4percentoceanfreightcharges.
Health, sanitary, and safety restrictions: Pharma- Prior authorization required.
ceuticals, firearms, explosives and similar items.
Other restrictions: Products produced for public Government procurement practices.
account.
-- --- -- ------
Nonagricultural quantitative restrictions: A large Specific import license.
and growing number of home and other consumer
products, particularly in textiles, leather and
plastic goods and automobile accessories.
Nonagricultural quantitative restrictions: Most im- Advance deposit requirement
ports; e.g., automobiles and parts, gas ranges,
clocks and watches, gas refrigerators, electric
shavers, TV sets, slide projectors, apparel.
Valuation and taxes:
Most goods except essential items of an in- Balance-of-payments surcharge: 30 to 300
dustrial, agricultural, or medicinal nature. percent
All imports ---- --------------- _-------- Port handling fee: $0.25 per 100 kg. of gross
weight or $0.33 per 100 pesos of valuation.
Other restrictions: Most 180 day prohibition.
Other restrictions: Many essential items, including
rice, cloves, cambrics, fertilizers, raw cotton,
weaving yarn and thread, textiles and dyes, tin-
plate, paper cement, reinforcing rods, and other
capital goods.
from rupiah 10 to rupiah 200 per U.S.
dollar.
State trading.
TABLE 27.-JAPAN
Nonagricultural quantitative restrictions: As of
March 1967, coal; gas oils, heavy fuel and raw
oils, and other petroleum oils; some chemicals
and pharmaceutical products; leathers (ex-
cluding raw) and leather products, especially
footwear; alcoholic beverages; color film; some
alloy tool steels; large steam boilers and turbines,
some types cif diesel engines, and certain large
electric generators; internal combustion engines
and parts, and certain large electric generators;
aircraft and aircraft motors and parts; office
machinery including digital type computers
and parts; among other items, still remain under
the import quota (IQ) licensing system.
Type of restriction
Quota-import (licensing).
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Valuation and taxes:
Whiskey----------------------------------- Internal tax of 150 percent an high-priced
whiskies and brandies and tax.
Automobiles------------------------------- Commodity (sales) tax of 15, 30, or 40
percent.
Other restrictions:
Cigarettes--------------------------------- State trading.
Ethyl alcohol------------------------------- Do.
Salt--------------------------------------- Do.
Nonagricultural quantitative restrictions:
Since July 25, 1967, Korea has had an import (1) Quota, import (licensing).
plan based on a negative list of items which
require licenses under a quota requiring
approval of the competent ministry for im-
portation.
In addition, there is also a list of items that are (2) Prohibition.
prohibited importation. Textiles and textile
fire ducts, among others, are on the prohibited
st.
Nonagricultural quantitative restrictions: Amuse- Import licensing.
ment machines, arms and ammunition.
Other restrictions:
Motion picture films---------------- ------- Screen-time quota.
Goods purchased for the public account------- "Buy national" policy.
Automobiles------------------------------- Ad valorem registration fee:
(a) 15 percent for United Kingdom
origin.
(b) 25 percent for other Commonwealth
origin and other country.
Trucks and buses used for business or public Ad valorem registration fee:
purposes. (a) None for Commonwealth origin.
(b) 15 percent for non-Commonwealth
origin.
Other restrictions:
Various items------------------------- --- Bilateral agreements.
Cereals, flour, pulses, sugar, fish, certain other Government monopoly imports.
foodstuffs, cement, textiles, newsprint,
paper and paperboard, petroleum products,
caustic soda, animal feedstuffs.
TABLE 33.-CYPRUS
Product
Nonagricultural quantitative restrictions: Meat and Import licensing.
poultry; certain dairy products; wheat and flour;
fruits and vegetables, fresh or dried preserved;
prepared animal foods; common soap and deter-
gents; certain chemicals; wood creosote, pitch,
and tar; wooden boxes and cases; builders' wood-
work; cardboard and paper containers; certain
textiles; iron wire, wire netting, and wire nails;
portland cement; mosaic floor tiles; iron and
steel buckets for household use; crown corks;
steam generating boilers and engines; metal- and
wood-working machinery; centrifugal pumps;
papermill and pulpmill machinery and machinery
far paper manufactures; printing machinery; tex-
tile machinery; industrial sewing machines; cer-
tain other nonelectrical machinery; electric am-
lifiers; wood furniture and fixtures; table, house-
hold, and decorative articles of plastics, except
flooring tiles; artificial teeth.
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Nonagricultural quantitative restrictions:
All imports except Government orders, imports Import license, import fees, exchange
under open general license, and passenger control quotas.
baggage.
Capital goods, heavy electrical plant, and Special licensing terms.
machine tools valued at $100,000 or more.'
Valuation and taxes:
Imports in general.
Tobacco and tobacco products; salt; petroleum Excise tax.
products; vegetable oils and fats; pigments,
colors, paints, enamels, varnishes, flacks,
and cellulose lacquers; soda ash; caustic
soda; sodium silicate and glycerin; synthetic
organic dyestuffs; organic luminophores;
patent medicines; cosmetics and toilet prep-
arations not containing alcohol or narcotics;
nitric, hydrochloric, and sulfuric acids; com-
pressed, liquefied, or solidified gases; soap;
plastics; organic surface-acting agents; cello-
phane; tires and certain other rubber
products; plywood and paperboard; paper;
cotton twist, yarn, and thread; rayon and
synthetic fibers and yarn; woolen yarn;
cotton, woolen, silk, and synthetic fabrics;
jute manufactures; cement; glass and glass-
ware; asbestos cement products; silver; iron
in crude form; steel ingots; copper and
copper alloys; iron and steel products; zinc;
aluminum and products; lead; tin plate and
tinned sheets; internal combustion engines;
refrigerating euipment; electric motors;
batteries; lightiqng bulbs and tubes; electric
fans; wireless receiving sets; motor vehicles;
cycles and parts; footwear; cinematograph
films; record players, matches; and mechan-
ical lighters.
Health, sanitary, and safety restrictions: Pharma- Health regulations.
ceuticals, medicines.
Other restrictions:
Artificial silk yarn and thread, caustic soda, State trading.
soda ash, newsprint, cement, fertilizer,
petroleum products, other items as might be
determined from time to time such as capital
goods and industrial raw materials.
Products purchased for public account-------- Government procurement practices:
(a) Price differential.
(b) Erratic bidding practices.
Engineering goods; chemicals, drugs, and Export subsidies:
pharmaceuticals; tires and tubes; paper, paper (a) Import entitlements.
products; leather and leather goods, plastics; (b) 25 percent rebate on domestic rail
fish and fish products; sports goods; woolen charges.
carpets and rugs; woolen textiles and hosiery,
and mixed fabrics and ready-made garments
thereof; unmanufactured tobacco and ciga-
rettes; processed foods; cotton textiles and
apparel; cashew kernels; gem and jewelry
items; cinematograph films.
Imports in general-------------------------- Bilateral agreements.
Motion picture films------------------------- Restrii4ion on transfer of film earnings.
Ammonium nitrate fertilizer__________________ Dock uploading restrictions.
Engineering goods, iron and steel, china clay, Cash subsidies.
plywood products, absorbent cotton, woolen
carpets, cotton textiles.
Flameproof mining machinery________________ Specifications.
Type of restriction
Nonagricultural quantitative restrictions: Most im- Import licensing; quotas.
ports, including the following which have been
subject of complaint by U.S. exporters: flavored
drinking straws, pumps, industrial sewing
machines, commercial refrigerators textile
products, photographic equipment, reel-bar side
rakes, beer, musical instruments.
Nonagricultural quantitative restrictions: All Government monopoly of imports.
imports.
Valuation and taxes: All goods imported for sale-- Sales tax: (a) Luxury goods, 18.75 percent
(b) standard goods, 12.50 percent; (c)
privileged goods, 6.25 percent.
Other restrictions:
Imports, general --------------------------- Bilateral reparations agreement.
Industrial plants and related equipment--____- Bilateral loan agreement.
All products purchased for the public account-- Government procurement practices, short
bid-deadlines.
Nonagricultural quantitative restrictions:
All imports________________________________ Individual import licensing, exchange quota.
Nonessential items, including sunglasses, Prohibition.
cigarette lighters, cigarette lighter flints,
perfumery, bangles and beads, wallpaper,
waste paper and oil paper, floor tiles, do-
mestic ware, ballpoint pens, plastic sheets
with floral designs, floor covering, chilled
and frozen fruits, bicycle parts, electric
lamps, photographic and cinematographic
apparatus, watches and clocks, footwear,
and automobiles.
Textile products____________________________ Requirement that domestic product must be
purchased in specified ratio to imported
product.
Cotton rugs, used clothing------------------- Sanitary.
Drugs and pharmaceutical preparations------- Health.
1 Many of these items are imported under tied procurement aid agreements with the United
States and other foreign countries. Considerable amounts of U.S. exports of these items are supplied
under AID loans.
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Nonagricultural quantitative restrictions: Imports Import licensing.
in general.
Valuation and taxes:
Most imported goods ______________ Purchase tax: 5 percent to 100 percent;
few items over 1D0 percent.
Numerous items, including many foodstuffs; Import surcharge.
edible oils and fats; alcoholic beverages;
tobacco; crude petroleum; fuel oils and
gases; certain chemicals and plastics; hides,
skins, and leather; certain wood products;
certain paper products; many textile prod-
ucts; certain glass products; a few products
of base metals; electric refrigerators;
transformers up to 2,500 V.A.; certain
electric apparatus; musical instruments.
Health, sanitary and safety restrictions: Medicines Health restrictions.
and pharmaceutical preparations; cosmetics.
Other restrictions: Motion picture films _ (a) Subsidy.
Nonagricultural quantitative restrictions: Firearms, Import licensing.
munitions, poisons, pork and alcoholic beverages.
Other restrictions: All imports___________________ Arab boycott of Israel.
All imports ------------------------------------- Agency requirements.
Nonagricultural quantitative restrictions: All com- Import and exchange licensing.
rnercial imports except a few items on free list
(composition of free list varies in successive
licensing policies) and imports by government
departments.
Valuation and taxes:
Most products imported for sale -Sales tax-I5 percent in most instances.
All imports except for exempted items of Customs surcharge-25 percent of customs
machinery and parts, components and ap- duty.
paratus for use with machinery.
Health, sanitary and safety restrictions: Pharma- Health regulation.
ceutical preparations, medicines.
Other restrictions:
Motion picture films ------ _------------------ (a) Remittance restriction.
(b) Import restriction.
Automobiles______________________________ Value imitation.
Nonagricultural quantitative restrictions:
All permissible imports_____________________
Some chemicals, paints, and pharmaceuticals;
explosives; some photographic equipment;
plastics and certain rubber goods; some
wood, paper, and textile products; some
glass products and most manufactures of
copper, aluminum, and zinc; certain tools;
some tractors and trucks, -railers, and motor-
cycles; planes far spraying; clacks and
watches; musical instruments; tape record-
ers and tape; certain scientific and technical
instruments; many types of industrial, agri-
cultural, and electrical machinery and appa-
ratus; office machines, certain iron and steel
products; certain, vegetable oils; asbestos;
and certain petroleum products.
Valuation and taxes:
Type of restriction
Import licensing.
Quotas.
All imports---- ___ Surtax, 15 percent of the assessed duty.
All goods imported by sea -------------------- Port tax. 5 percent of cost, insurance, and
freight plus duty, surtax, and customs
clearance costs.
All imports________________________________ Stamp tax, 10 percentofcost, insurance, and
freight value.
Most imports- ----------------------------- Production tax ranging from 10 to 75 percent
of sum of cost, insurance, and freight
value, customs duty, customs surtax, port
tax, and customs clearing expenses.
All imports------ _____________ Consular invoice fee ranging from 0.3 to
0.5 percent of free on board value.
Motion picture films ____ Film tax:
(a) Foreign films, 70 percent.
(b) Domestic films, 25 percent.
Methyl alcohol -------- . ___.---------------- Monopoly tax.
Automobiles ._.__________----------------- Surtax.
Health, sanitary, and safety restrictions: Medicines, Special administrative controls requiring
pharmaceuticals; baby foods; medical equip- approval of certain Government agencies
ment; some chemicals, insecticides, weed killers; for importation.
magazines, books, newspapers.
Other restrictions:
Tobacco and tobacco products; cigarette paper; State trading.
various alcoholic beverages.
All imports________________________________ Advance deposit.
Do------------------------------------ Guarantee deposit
Nonagricultural quantitative restrictions: All im- Import licensing and exchange quotas.
ports.
Valuation and taxes:
All dutiable imports________________________ Turnover tax 10 percent.
Mary items_______________________ ________ Additional tax 5 to 35 percent.
Other restrictions:
Various items______________________________ Bilateral trade agreements.
All ,mports_______________________________ Discriminatory tariffs.
Nonagricultural quantitative restrictions: All im- Import licensing and exchange quotas.
ports.
Valuation and taxes:
All dutiable imports---- ________________ Turnover tax, 10 percent.
Selected items____________________________ Additional tax: 5 to 25 percent.
Other restrictions: All imports__________________ Discriminatory tariff.
Type of restriction
Nonagricultural quantitative restrictions: All im- Import licensing and exchange quotas.
ports.
Valuation and taxes:
All imports -------------------------------- Turnover tax-10 percent.
Selected items_____________________________ Additional tax 5 percent to 45 percent.
Other restrictions: All imports___________________ Discriminatory tariff.
Product Type of restriction
Nonagricultural quantitative restrictions: All Import license and exchange quota.
import,:.
Valuation and taxes:
All imports____.__.------------------------ Turnover tax-10 percent.
Selected items- ___ Additional tax 5 percent to 15 percent.
Other restrictions: All imports___________________ Discriminatory tariff.
Nonagricultural quantitative restrictions: All im- Import licensing and exchange quota.
ports.
Valuation and taxes: All imports_________________ Turnover tax-10 percent.
Other restrictions: All imports _____ Discriminatory tariff.
Nonagricultural quantitative restrictions: Most im- Import licensing.
ports.
Valuation and taxes:
Vehic.les--------- ---------------- ------- Purchase tax 5 to 100 percent.
Most imports______________________________ Sales tax, 11% percent.
Selected items _____.------------------------ Excise tax, 2j to 75 percent ad valorem.
Product
Nonagricultural quantitative restrictions:
Certain dairy products, cereals, fruits, and Import licensing.
vegetables, foodstuffs, fertilizers, animal
anc vegetable oils, bags and sacks, cement,
jewelry, matches, and gold.
Although Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda are
separate political areas, they have a common
customs union. All goods other than those
listed enter under open general license, ex-
cept those which are excluded, such as
counterfeit money, obscene literature, etc.
Nonagricultural quantitative restrictions: Some
textile products; secondhand clothing; jute
bags; geld; matches; certain knives; secondhand
accountng machines; radioactive elements; ex-
plosives; arms and ammunition; game traps;
trophies.
Valuation and taxes: Cigarettes, alcohol and alco-
holic beverages, soaps and soap substitutes.
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