INCREASE IN THE US DUTY ON DRIED FIGS (SR.7/15

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ARTICLE XIX

INCREASE IN THE UNITED STATES
DUTY ON DRIED FIGS

Decision of 8 November 1952

(SR.7/15 - 1S/28)

Taking Note of the United States Government announcement on 16 August 1952 that, pursuant to Article XIX of the General Agreement, it had modified the concession on dried figs (paragraph 740 of the Tariff Act of 1930 of the United States) negotiated with Turkey at Torquay, increasing the United States duty on dried figs to 4.5 cents per pound,

Taking Note that the United States Government notified the CONTRACTING PARTIES on 28 July 1952 of its willingness to consult on this matter,

Taking Note that the United States Government has expressed its willingness to continue its consultations on this matter and that the consultations thus far have had the following results:

Turkish tariff position	Description of products	Rate of duty (LT)
537	Iron furniture and parts thereof:
A	Desks cupboards or cabinets, boxes and drawers, also parts thereof:
1	Plain or painted ......100 kg.	77.00
2	Gilt, enamelled or other (combined or not with other material......100 kg.
622	Typewriters, calculating, registering, counting, sorting and classifying machines, and parts thereof (including electric machines):
B	Weighing 5 kg. and over......100 K. N. L	77.00
666	Machines for millers, kneading machines, machines for making and preparing pastes, macaroni, confectionery, sausages and other comestibles, ice-making machines, sterilizers, pasteurizers,refrigerating machines, machines for washing and filling bottles, cranes, roasting machines, milling machines, clothes washing and ironing machines and other machines n.e.m. (mounted or not):
A	The whole weighing up to 50 kg.:
ex	Ice-chests, ice-making machines and refrigerating machines......100 K.N.	38.50
B	The whole weighing from 50 kg. up to 150 kg.:
ex	Ice-chests, ice-making machines and refrigerating machines......100 K.N.	30.80
C	The whole weighing from 150 kg. up to 500 kg.:
ex	Ice-chests, ice-making machines and refrigerating machines......100 K.N.	25.67
D	The whole from weighing 500 kg. up to 2,000 kg.:
ex	Ice-chests, ice-making machines and refrigerating machines......100 K.N.	23.10
H	The whole weighing from 2,000 kg. up to 10,000 kg.:
ex	Ice-chests, ice-making machines and refrigerating machines......100 K.N.	20.53
V	The whole weighing 10,000 kg. or more:
ex	Ice-chests, ice-making machines and refrigerating machines......100 K.N.	17.97

Taking Note that the Government of Turkey, considering that the only satisfactory solution of the matter is the restoration of the concession rate granted at Torquay on dried figs, reserves the right to ask the CONTRACTING PARTIES, in case the review by the Government of the United States should not lead to a return to the Torquay concession rate on dried figs, to consider whether the original action of the United States in this matter is consistent with the provisions of Article XIX,

The CONTRACTING PARTIES

Decide not to disapprove the modifications proposed to be made by the Government of Turkey,

Decide to extend for Greece and for any other country having a substantial interest in the modification by the United States in the concession on dried figs until the opening of the Eighth Session the time-period provided in paragraph 3 (a), Article XIX, the time for Turkey having been extended until 25 February 1953 by decision of the CONTRACTING PARTIES on 29 October 1952,

Affirm the conviction that the most satisfactory solution of the matter is a restoration by the United States of the concession on dried figs negotiated at Torquay, and

Request the United States and the consulting countries to report at the Eighth Session of the CONTRACTING PARTIES as to further action taken in the matter.