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Import Duties (Consolidation) (Amendment) Act 2021 - No. 36 of 2021


REPUBLIC OF VANUATU


IMPORT DUTIES (CONSOLIDATION) (AMENDMENT) ACT NO. 36 OF 2021

Arrangement of Sections


1 Amendment
2 Commencement



REPUBLIC OF VANUATU

Assent: 10/12/2021
Commencement: 01/01/2022

IMPORT DUTIES (CONSOLIDATION) (AMENDMENT) ACT NO. 36 OF 2021

An Act to amend the Import Duties (Consolidation) Act [CAP 91].

Be it enacted by the President and Parliament as follows-

  1. Amendment

The Import Duties (Consolidation) Act [CAP 91] is amended as set out in the Schedule.

  1. Commencement

This Act commences on the day on which it is published in the Gazette.

SCHEDULE

AMENDMENTS OF IMPORT DUTIES (CONSOLIDATION) ACT [CAP 91]

  1. Subsection 1(1)

Delete “Parts 2A, 2B and 3 of Schedule 1”, substitute “Schedule 3”

  1. Schedule 1

(a) After tariff item 1902.30.00, insert

Tariff Item
Description
Import Duty Rate
1902.30.10
- - Instant noodle
20%

(b) After tarrif item 1904.10.00, insert

Tarrif Item
Description
Import Duty Rate
1904.10.10
- Snacks
20%
1904.10.90
- Other
5%

(ba) After tarrif item 1904.20.00, insert

Tarrif Item
Description
Import Duty Rate
1904.20.10
- Snacks
20%
1904.20.90
- Other
5%

(c) After tariff item 2201.90.00, insert

Tariff Item
Description
Import Duty Rate
2201.90.10
- - - Kava (Piper Methysticum) Beverage
65%
2201.90.90
- - - Others
40%

(d) After tariff item 2403.99.00, insert

Tariff Item
Description
Import Duty Rate
24.04
Products containing tobacco, reconstituted tobacco, nicotine, or tobacco or nicotine substitutes, intended for inhalation without combustion; other nicotine containing products intended for the intake of nicotine into the human body.


- Products intended for inhalation without combustion.

2404.12.00
- - Other, containing nicotine
40%
2404.19.00
- - Other
40%
2404.91.00
- - For oral application
40%
2404.92.00
- - For transdermal application
40%
2404.99.00
- - Other
40%

(e) After tariff item 8543.30.00, insert

Tariff Item
Description
Import Duty Rate
8543.40.00
- Electronic cigarettes and similar personal electric vaporizing devices
40%

(f) After tariff item 8548.90.00, insert

Tariff Item
Description
Import Duty Rate
85.49
Electrical and electronic waste and scrap


- Waste and scrap of primary cells, primary batteries and electric accumulators; spent primary batteries and spent electric accumulators;

8549.11.00
- - Waste and scrap of lead- acid accumulators; spent lead-acid accumulators
30%
8549.12.00
- - Other, containing lead, cadmium or mercury
30%
8549.13.00
- - Sorted by chemical type and not containing lead, cadmium or mercury
30%
8549.14.00
- - Unsorted and not containing lead, cadmium or mercury
30%
8549.19.00
- - Other
30%
8549.21.00
- - Containing primary cells, primary batteries, electric accumulators, mercury- switches, glass from cathode ray tubes or other activated glass, or electrical or electronic components containing cadmium, mercury, lead or polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)
30%
8549.29.00
- - Other
30%
8549.31.00
- - Containing primary cells, primary batteries, electric accumulators, mercury- switches, glass from cathode ray tubes or other activated glass, or electrical or electronic components containing cadmium, mercury, lead or polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)
30%
8549.39.00
- - Other
30%
8549.91.00
- - Containing primary cells, primary batteries, electric accumulators, mercury- switches, glass from cathode ray tubes or other activated glass, or electrical or electronic components containing cadmium, mercury, lead or polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)
30%
8549.99.00
- - Other
30%



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