EUROPEAN COMMUNITY 



EC: Import duties on chewing tobacco and snuff from nonmember countries and member countries 



Country 



Nonmember countries 



1970 



Ad valorem 

 rate 



1957 



Ad valorem 

 rate 



Member countries 



1970 



Ad valorem 

 rate 



1957 



Ad valorem 

 rate 



Belgium-Luxembourg 



Netherlands 

 France . . 

 Germany . . 

 Italy^ . . . . 



Percent 



35 

 35 

 79 

 79 

 79 



Percent 



35 



35 



(Exempt) 



540 

 (Exempt) 



Percent 

 

 

 

 

 



Percent 



35 



35 

 (Exempt) 



540 

 (Exempt) 



Belgium-Luxembourg and Netherlands were granted on an annual basis a waiver (under Article 26 of GATT) to delay putting 

 into effect the import duties on manufactured tobacco products from third countries. The current annual waiver expires June 30, 

 1971. This explains why the Benelux countries still have the same duty as they had in the base period. The ultimate duty on this 

 item for imports from third countries was negotiated down from 86 percent to an ultimate rate of 65 percent ad valorem which 

 will become effective Jan. 1, 1972, in each of the six countries. 



2 Commercial imports are under control of French Tobacco Monopoly. 



3 Commercial imports are under control of Italian Tobacco Monopoly. 



NOTE: The common external duty on tobacco powder, tobacco compressed or liquored, tobacco extracts, essences and agglom- 

 erated tobacco in 1970 is 31.6 percent and will reach the ultimate rate of 26 percent January 1, 1972. 



FINLAND 



Item 



1968 



Specific rate 

 (local currency) 



Total duty, 

 U.S. equiv.i 



1957 



Specific rate 

 (local currency) 



Total duty, 

 U.S. equiv.2,3 



Tobacco: 



Unmanufactured: 



Leaf 



Manufactured: 



Cigars 



Cigarettes 



Pipe 



Other, n.e.s 



Agglomerated into leaf form 



Markkaa per i 

 0.45 



37.00 

 37.00 

 29.00 

 29.00 

 .45 



U.S. dol. per lb. 

 0.05 



3.99 

 3.99 

 3.13 

 3.13 

 0.05 



Markkaa per kg. 

 45 



2,700 

 2,700 

 2,100 

 2,100 



U.S. dol. per lb. 

 0.06 



3.83 

 3.83 

 2.98 

 2.98 



Conversion rate, 1957: 320 markkaas (100 pennia) = US$1.00, and 1968: 4.20 markkaa = (100 pennia) US$1.00. 



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