DAHOMEY (Member of WACU) 



Item 



1968' 



Customs 

 Duty 3 



Total duty 

 U.S. equivalent 



1957' 



Customs 

 Duty 



Total duty 

 U.S. equivalent 



Tobacco: 



Unmanufactured: 



Leaf or stalks. . . . 

 Manufactured: 



Cigars 



Cigarettes 



Smoking 



Chewing and snuff. 



Percent 

 56 



98 

 80 

 98 

 98 



per pound 



Percent 



20 



^75 

 ^75 

 ^75 

 ^75 



U.S. dollars 

 per pound 



^ Customs or import duties assessed on goods of non-franc zone origin. 

 ^ France paid only the fiscal tax and no customs duty, while other countries paid both. 



^ Includes fiscal taxes but does not include a statistical tax 1 percent CIF, a standard tax 21 percent duty paid value and a 

 turnover tax of 1.8 percent. 



■* Add a transaction tax of $0.17, and a fiscal duty of $1.34. 

 ^ Add a transaction tax of $0.10, and a fiscal duty of $1.34. 

 ^ Add a transaction tax of $0.04, and a fiscal duty of $1.13. 



Conversion rate, 1957 and 1968: 246.8 CFA francs ■■ 

 CFA francs = US$1.00. 



US$1.00, and on August 11, 1969 a new currency exchange rate: 277.7 



DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO (KINSHASA) (Member of UEAC) 







1968^ 



1957 



Item 



Ad valorem 

 rate 



Total duty, 

 U.S. equiv. 



Ad valorem 

 rate 



Total duty, 

 U.S. equiv. 



Tobacco: 



Unmanufactured: 



Leaf 



Other 



Manufactured: 



Cigars & cheroots 



Percent 

 53 

 53 



100 

 100 

 100 

 100 



U.S. dollar 

 per pound 



Percent 

 50 



80 

 80 

 80 



U.S. dollar 

 per pound 



Cigarettes 



Pipe tobacco 



- 



Other 



- 



NOTE: 



The Union of Central African States (UEAC) comprised of The Congo and Chad. (Central African Republic was formerly a 

 member). It is planned that tariff barriers among the two countries will be eliminated and a non-preferential common external 

 tariff set up. 



An additional statistical tax of 3 percent and a sales tax of IVz percent ad valorem are levied on all imports. 



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