Customs Amendment (ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Area Second Protocol Implementation and Other Measures) Act 2024 (116 of 2024)

Schedule 2   Other amendments

Part 2   Harmonized System and Product-Specific Rules

Customs Act 1901

16   Subsection 153ZQB(1)

Insert:

Product-Specific Rules means the following:

(a) Annex 3A to Chapter 3 of the Agreement, unless paragraph (b) applies;

(b) if:

(i) there is a transposition (as mentioned in paragraph 3 of Article 3.34 of Chapter 3 of the Agreement) of Annex 3A to Chapter 3 of the Agreement because of an updated version of the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System and the transposition is adopted as mentioned in that paragraph; and

(ii) that Annex has not been amended or replaced as a result of that transposition; and

(iii) that Annex has not been amended or replaced as a result of a further updated version of the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System;

that Annex as so transposed.